"Your skin is pale white and ice cold... you never eat or drink anything, you don't go out in the sunlight... how old are you?"
"I'm 45."
"How long have you been 45?"
@WelshSocialism
This makes me deeply uncomfortable tbh. Intruding on grieving/mourning to get attention either in real life or on social media. Deeply weird behaviour and total lack of consideration for people around them. Just weird as hell.
@plsitsnotme
Your salary goes up by £15k and you pay £6.6k extra in tax, a marginal rate on that extra income of 44%, which is just below the top rate of tax, yes. £65k is a good salary, and £46,750 take-home (effective rate 22%) is also good. I fail to see what is unreasonable here?
@lethal_heroine
If you are the one-timer in this situation and you are *aware* of the other person's hope and don't correct it then yes you're kinda shitty, but if the other person consents to the sex then there is sex. Sex is not a transaction in exchange for a future relationship.
@EllieCumbo
@s8mb
Ben can vent his anger however he likes, although I don't think it's helpful. But transphobia dressed up in a veneer of civility and rationality from a rich white woman is still transphobia, and is arguably more insidious and dangerous. Certainly more harmful than a sweary rant.
@hemakhemak
@HousingOC
Reminds me of the comments when someone post that image of forty cars on a road versus forty people in a bus: "They better not even try to ban cars, people need to have a choice" like lmao that's not the point.
@EdibleTom
If you had been born 40 odd years earlier than you were, you would be on the receiving end of exactly the same demonisation, marginalisation, abuse, and violence from politicians, the media, and the general public that trans people are subjected to today.
@h4rmeer
@james_e_baldwin
This explainer from a scholar of the Middle East and Sharia law is no more a "perspective" than the Law of Gravity was Newton's "perspective" on physics. Learn to learn from people who know more than you. Their experience is worth more than your gut feeling.
In news that will shock precisely nobody, TERFs lied yet again about the reasons for police action against them.
Time after time they release carefully trimmed or edited footage making themselves out as victims of homophobia. Time after time they are shown to have lied.
@CaelanConrad
Possibly the worst thing about this is that if they just did this without the ulterior motive of tricking their child into coming home with god knows what in mind, if they just treated them like their child and had a normal relationship in the first place there'd be no issue.
@beeeeeeaan
Wasn't there like a whole specific plot line about Donna just being clueless about the world around her and missing a bunch of other stuff before she was a companion?
@DrewBearsItAll
@joeylorich
It is a truth universally acknowledged that no two people cannot have the same idea about a common shared experience 6 months apart.
@jordanbpeterson
So you're mad that a politician isn't just protecting their own interests and instead is promoting policies that will improve equality even if they're at her own expense? Seems like a weird thing to be mad about.
@Tullibardine
@arthur_affect
If you're implying that he faked his assault, you'll be surprised to learn that a court recently convicted a man of the assault.
@jessesingal
Sorry, are we reading something completely different? Where's the celebration? The first tweet is straight factual, the second is discussing the bizarre (it really is bizarre) comments made in response to being arrested for apparently doxxing someone.
The precise problem here is that groups like Transgender Trend are invited to uncritically spread their bigotry and propaganda, while trans people are constantly forced to defend their very existence in "debates". It's absurd.
@ncaipics
@roseveniceallan
@Serena_Partrick
Trans people don't need laws passed granting them access. Those laws were passed years ago. What they need it for legislators to stop trying to pass laws to *ban* them from those spaces.
@Moorhenwalking
@KatyMontgomerie
This is a totally absurd rationalisation and I really think you should have a think about if you would make the same excuse if the protester had been from the other side of the argument.
@FoxNews
Your coverage of Melania Trump's *multiple* instances of plagiarism could not have been more sympathetic, so forgive me if I don't buy the hypocritical faux-outrage here.
@TomoLUFC94
@Alex_Cameron
@DailyMailUK
Lol. "You mean Netflix just puts up their films on their platform with millions of subscribers and people can't just reproduce the work however they want to make money themselves?! Incredible!"
@lethal_heroine
Or any future behaviour for that matter. What if the other person wants marriage and kids but you don't? What if the other person wants monogamy and you later cheat? Is consent for earlier sex nullified retroactively? Consent is for sexual relations in the present.
@Transgendertrd
"Social transition is a strong predictor of persistence of gender dysphoria, the first step on the path towards blockers" - you're literally arguing that blockers are provided to children who are actually gender dysphoric and have been consistent in their gender expression...
@DMReporter
Yeah if it had been flipped the story would have been about Meghan making unreasonable demands and how dare she be so insensitive towards the bride so close to her wedding day etc
@bbclaurak
Will they demand sanctions against Tory Philip Davies who has done more harm to women with his votes and filibusters against women's rights?
@teddering
@sahilkapur
Two of the most annoying tropes in politics are "Why can't the government stick to a budget like working class people do?" and "The government should be run like a good business." Neither are correct of course: the government should be run like a government.
@brw21605
@MaraWilson
It seems unfair to put energy policy on the Justices. They rule on points of law, here a matter of who has the authority to authorise it. That's not a progressive/conservative issue, it's a legal one. To stop energy policy like this, you have to get the GOP out of government.
Sorry but what exactly does actor Brian Cox have to contribute to the (endless, tedious, infantilising) debate about whether trans people should be able to live their lives in peace, besides the same nonsensical complaints JKR and her crowd repeatedly trot out?
Here’s yet another BBC panel discussing trans, and particularly about the right to how someone’s body is talked about and regarded in law. CAN ANYONE SPOT WHAT’s MISSING IN THIS IMPORTANT DEBATE ABOUT TRANS?
@BBCLauraK1
@bbclaurak
@GreenPastelRed
@SbCarbolic
@EluraNanos
@AnthonyMKreis
It's quite simple. White student can be entitled to legacy admission because ancestors were admitted. Black student is generally not entitled to legacy admission because ancestors were not admitted, because they were not allowed to be due to racist laws. That's the point.
@BronteSchiltz
@chrisclive55
@PrestonMitchum
But GSAs are *specifically* about including allies. Whereas LGBTQIA+ is a descriptor for the group of people who identify with/belong to the community of people who are non-heterosexual-cisgender.
@dustinwaine
@captainiberia
@callmefaggg
So... writing someone a letter, and hand-delivering rather than posting because they live in the same building? Not to mention the person said they wanted to get together again. Like feel free to not be into that, but I think we can set a slightly higher bar for "creepy as fuck".
"Annexing part of the UK to the EU", "repudiate the awful Withdrawal Agreement [that he agreed in the first place]" ... this is the language and attitudes that made Brexit such a mess in the first place. The responsibility can only lie with the two successive governments that...
If you voted Conservative to end the Brexit chaos...
How did it make you feel watching Brandon Lewis admit that their Brexit plans will involve breaking international law over Northern Ireland?
@cittymike
@rhyswilliams367
@redrum57
@labour_always
With respect, you're the one missing the point. An LLP does not make corporate profits per se - all the profifs go to the partners, think of it like their salary, which they then pay income tax on. So none of the net money earned is untaxed (assuming private income tax is paid).
@RozKaveney
Ugh I've been drawn into an argument on this before ("Marsha was just a drag queen/cross-dresser!"), when it's patently obvious from any description of how she lived or from any recording of her that she was a trans woman in all but the vocabulary used back in those times.
@robbysoave
@thomaschattwill
It's interesting how you manage to completely evade Ratajkowski herself's complaint about the article, which is that TCW manages to imply that because she's beautiful and because of how she's dressed, it is somehow surprising that she reads and is capable of intelligent thoughts.
@EPM106
@firagawalkwthme
I think even that's beside the point - how does it invalidate his life's work? Was this style a viral trend before he did it? Was anyone else doing it? Doesn't the trend literally include his name in the prompt? Is this not, in a certain way, a culmination of his life's work?
@jimmybibby55
@SwampCommunist
And you don't particularly care about the people who struggle to find employment or get loans or rent a home because they have a federal record who will be helped by this? Or the pressure it will put on states to take similar actions?
@bigblackjacobin
If underpopulation is the biggest danger then why is the richest man in the world pushing Tesla and SpaceX and trying to buy Twitter instead of putting his energy into building housing and funding public amenities and other things that make having a family easier?
@GBNEWS
I mean, you could literally watch the video of the whole encounter and there is zero assault or tearing apart. It's all over Twitter right now, including on that hate group's feed. Reality distortion and gaslighting nicely in progress. Martyr successfully made, news cycles got.
@AdamWeinstein
@BeijingPalmer
I feel like everyone at Twitter probably had the exact same thought and then the phone call came from you know who explicitly requiring it for the lols or whatever
@IlCapocuocco
@kaitlancollins
@JMOCNN
Raffensperger as Secretary of State was literally in charge of conducting the election in Georgia. I think it's highly likely, actually, that he has better intel (and understanding!) of what happened in his wheelhouse.
@brain_puppet
@Timcast
Dude this is horrible data analysis and you should delete out of embarrassment. Axis intervals are 200,000 which makes it very difficult to see differences in each small dump which is much less. Though some differences are clearly visible on the larger dumps. The initial ...
Part of a full thread. The notion that the government of "people are sick of listening to experts" could ever "follow the science" was never realistic.
Not to mention how much ignoring the experts has weakened the NHS, from the warning about lack of PPE in the 2016 Cygnus report, to pursuing Brexit when every medical body said it would hurt the NHS.
Now England has the highest excess death rate in Europe, with a
#2ndWave
coming.
@GreenPastelRed
@SbCarbolic
@EluraNanos
@AnthonyMKreis
Sure it's not common for white applicants, but for equivalent Black applicants, it's even less common. Because of racism. Segregation ended within human memory. Never mind 5th generation, there are third generation descendants who feasibly be impacted by it.
@emmakennytv
@GovJersey
I don't know if you realised this, but "assigned fenale at birth and with a cervix" includes women. Women are not excluded from this medical post that affects them.
@brynismyname
It makes more sense when you realise that what GC people appear to want isn't just "no self-ID", or even specifically a "natal sex ID" requirement; what they actually want is the right to ID other people and restrict their behaviour based on that.
@wfdelong
@Heronymus
The moral failure is in leaving those billions sitting in a bank account or tied up in enormous mansions or expensive cars or *whatever* when there are people dying of hunger, not even in third world countries, in the West, today, right now.
@indepdubnrth
It is obvious that a) there is a difference between airborne and non-airborne diseases, and b) a person found to have Ebola would trigger quarantine and contact-tracing.
It would seem that an odd antipathy to public health measures during a pandemic can cause wilful ignorance?
@Peyj6
@MattZeitlin
Especially as your average viewer will probably be thinking "what the f does the director of a movie about the Titanic have to say about this that could possibly be useful?"
@Transgendertrd
for a long time. In what world does that correspond to your (and others') nonsense claims of "rapid-onset gender dysphoria" or "suddenly declaring themselves the opposite sex" or "these children don't understand and many turn out to not be trans"?
@cittymike
@rhyswilliams367
@redrum57
@labour_always
FWIW, I agree that MPs and particularly government ministers should be highly restricted on how they can make money outside of their official salary, and should avoid anything that even appears untoward even if it's technically legal and fine.
@samclawrence
@JimMFelton
I think you need to go learn what the word "communist" means and then return, delete this tweet, and rewrite it with something that makes sense.
@guardian
Tiresome as always. Unclear why these people, who get so upset at the idea of other people policing their identity, simultaneously think it's okay for them to police other people's identity, regardless of the particular arguments for or against "queer" versus "gay".
@j0s3fk
@Joannechocolat
When people say that, they don't mean "omit the fact that this was an act of murder", they mean "don't tell the murderer's life story, bring out sympathetic people who can't possibly understand how that nice boy could do that awful thing, or publish their manifestos."
@firagawalkwthme
This is so bad lmao, the way it nearly drives into that truck and somehow it's impressive that it has to stop and turn away? Embarrassing
@joburglawyer
Is it? To accuse someone of genocide, even with much evidence, one must oneself be "morally impeccable"? Do the courts now factor the accuser's moral standing into their judgment instead of just the evidence before them?
@nypost
If you're angry about this then all you're really saying is you're comfortable with women being statistically more likely to be injured in crashes involving vehicles that aren't designed to protect them. So which is the real anti-woman position?
@Transgendertrd
The case rested partly on the fact that the vast majority of children who take blockers go on to continue to be trans and have other treatments, which literally shows that they're correctly only prescribed to those who are persistent and not just hopping on a trend.
@m11ker
@AdamMaidment
@_poplay
If you manage accommodation it is your job to... manage that accommodation. That includes dealing with thieves living in the building and disagreements between residents where it is related to the common usage of the building. It's not complicated.