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Jess O'Thomson@jessothomson.co.uk · 12h ago🚨 BREAKING We are supporting a legal challenge to the Code of Practice. And we need your help. Join us in fighting back 👇
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Jess O'Thomson@jessothomson.co.uk · 12h ago
In 2011, the UK government response to antitrans provocations was "Don't be so bloody stupid".
Mallory Moore@sexabolition.blog · 9h agoweb.archive.org/web/20260108... Here's an archive link of the original business guidance in case the original goes missing. In pretty clear terms the original guidance used to say stuff like "obviously, so long as the changing rooms allow privacy, trans women should be permitted to use the womens"
meanwhile, the anti-trans lobby has gone straight from "we won't need toilet police" to "the toilet police will need much more funding" without missing a beat bsky.app/profile/hlee...
Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 13h agoAbsolute state of Falkner and Reindorf in the Times today
Fuss over @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social lively Odyssey review is as revealing as the response to her translation. Struck me then her use of “complicated” — a word typically used to denigrate a woman — had many reacting as though Odysseus were being described as a “slut.” Which, if we’re being honest….
Good piece. We’re not talking enough about the opportunity cost here. The bottom line is, the best case against the island airport expansion is a business case.
Josh Matlow@joshmatlow.bsky.social · 2d agoPlease read my latest in today’s Toronto Star about why we must prepare for what comes next for Billy Bishop Airport and our city’s waterfront. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
“I don’t ask to be taken at my word; the commitments are in writing, and the work will be on screens where anyone can judge it” but comments aren’t allowed on this cringe-fest because we’re not ready for the judging to start yet, okay?
Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · yesterdayWeird for NY Times to give David Ellison space to lie about Paramount-Warner. News "requires independence" and must "answer to the facts...not any party or cause"? He's done the literal opposite with CBS. Nonpartisan with a mix of views? Larry Ellison spent over $45M helping elect Trump in 2024.
Oh, so they’re saying that recruiting your top government jobs from the school shooter sections of 4chan is actually a BAD thing. Huh.
Nahal Toosi@nahaltoosi.bsky.social · 4d agoYeesh. Amazing quote in this story by Kathy Gilsinan: www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Good column from @shawnmicallef.bsky.social and there’s a lesson in the No Jets TO victory. It’s — stay mad, Toronto.
Shawn Micallef: The Billy Bishop expansion pause was a real win for the people. But don’t put away those No Jets signs just yet
The federal government’s decision to pause the Billy Bishop expansion means that people who often win lost for once — are taking it badly.
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Everyone will have a random number of eyes—and fingers! But of course Musk questions the veracity of a film where a wife and child want the dad to come back. Also, to be fair, Helen of Troy needs to periodically lower her head, honk & dive into the water head first to reflect the historical record.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w agoElon Musk says Grok Imagine will make ‘historically accurate’ AI adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey
Not a single network aired this on their nightly news broadcasts yesterday. They described Trump overseeing a "somber ceremony" and called it a "moving moment." The only way to know what trump actually said about the soldiers he killed is to follow aaron rupar which no offense to aaron is insane
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoTrump on fallen US troops: "All of them said very strongly, 'We cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon.'"
Trying to fill out this survey without accidentally appearing to endorse the expansion is a genuine challenge. There's push polling and then there's weird public opinion puzzle games.
Shawn Micallef@shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 2w agoThe flakey sketchy anon survey monkey (!) the federal government put out on the Island Airport, their "consultation," ends Friday. If you haven't yet be sure to still fill it out. There are places you can add your own thoughts like "this survey is faulty and skews towards done deal" and etc.
Return Of The King wrapped things up quicker. #WorldCup
Massive bike party rolling thru w Toronto. Gets go.
Has this creep been shopping in the children's section?
blippy@blippy.bsky.social · 3w agothose pants are insane wtf
Forced to grapple with the fact that there is nothing funnier to me than a sad Frenchman. #FRAENG
Happy National Tattoo Day! To celebrate, we asked MTA employees to share their transit-themed tattoos 🚇🚌🚆
These images of First Nations community members evacuating Collins, Ontario on motorboats are absolutely surreal www.facebook.com/reel/1548244...
Luke LeBrun@lukelebrun.ca · 3w agoThese photos of FNs community members fleeing their homes by boat are genuinely apocalyptic (Photo via Wayne Wastaken of Collins, Ontario, who says his “hometown is gone”) www.facebook.com/share/r/1ArN...
So they’re allowed to do that, then? Just kick the ball into the net? #EngArg
Nice to see Argentina has embraced rugby but this is neither the time nor the place to display those skills. #engarg
They will not stop until it's illegal to be trans. They will have to be stopped.
Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 3w agoJK Rowling through her TERF organization, Beira's Place have sent Amnesty International a demand letter seeking a full retraction of their report, a public apology, and a bar to future criticism of gender critical groups as anti rights orgs. If they don't comply, they'll commence legal action.
Feels like it can’t be a good thing that the air in Toronto is currently that very particular colour—popularized in the mid-70s—that my mother used to call “baby-shit yellow.”
Embarrassing my kids by standing up in the pub and belting out Wonderwall. #Bestlife.
My random Sam Neil story. An actor friend of mine was cast in a small role on Peaky Blinders. Never receives his script pages. Discovers his role has been pushed to non speaking background, which is less fun/less money. Sam Neil spots him looking dejected on set and finds out.
Just recommended Stroll to someone new to town last night. It’s a Toronto book, but you’ll never walk around any city quite the same way.
Alex Usher@alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 3w agoJust finished @shawnmicallef.bsky.social's Stroll. It's a wonderful book. Makes me want to go on some Toronto adventures.