Guavanaut posted:

OwlFancier posted:

Like yes, pronoun declarations are a ritual, in the sense that... every time you say hello to someone you don't know it's a ritual, rituals are a normal part of life, we have them to make difficult social things easier.

Some weird Twitter rando posted:

DONKEY WRONG

Answers Me posted:

From what I’ve seen about Linehan it’s not his views that have gotten him ‘cancelled’, it’s being a whiny dickhead who’s harassed everyone he once had a relationship with.

That and he’s basically joined a cult, but hasn’t realised it. Oh, and torched his entire life almost entirely due to a crippling Twitter addiction, which I find morbidly fascinating to watch for some reason

fuctifino posted:

Oh wow

https://twitter.com/Mike_Fabricant/status/1577061641392226304

Nilbop posted:

I admittedly haven't followed this for a long, long time, but what "do we now know" about Mermaids that makes Linehan sound so vindicated?

Vagabong posted:

Comrade Fakename posted:

Oh, he hasn’t forgotten:

https://twitter.com/destroyed4com4t/status/1576914963264077825

Tesseraction posted:

Absolutely incredible. No notes.

smellmycheese posted:

In brighter news for the Tories - they’ve single-handedly managed to invent workable nuclear fusion.

https://twitter.com/BBradley_Mans/status/1576982525485801472

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

https://twitter.com/TanyaGold1/status/1576978235694333954

https://twitter.com/matt_dathan/status/1576970126276104194

Bobby Deluxe posted:

Nothing. It's a circular, self-referential lie, namely that they found out how many kids mermaids have been helped by. In their heads, this has been combined with the thoroughly insane ideas they have about what mermaids do.

Sooilered for repeating transphobic claims: Essentially they say they've discovered that 250+ 'kids' were 'mutilated,' but the fact is that 250+ kids in Ireland have used the service, and they've just imagined that all 250+ have had surgery / hormones 'forced on them.'

So 'what [they] now know' is almost entirely poo poo they made up, just loosely combined with unrelated, fairly commonly available usage statistics.

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

https://twitter.com/TanyaGold1/status/1576978235694333954

https://twitter.com/matt_dathan/status/1576970126276104194

a pipe smoking dog posted:

The Tories have complained about the quality of the policing at the conference and the chief of West Midlands police has basically said "you cut out budget by half a million pounds, what the gently caress did you expect?"

Never great for the Tories when even the filth think they are poo poo.

His Divine Shadow posted:

I'm all for compressing tories until they undergo nuclear fusion.

quote:

The former Newsnight presenter said the diagnosis came when he was in hospital after collapsing while walking his dog.

...

"And when I was in A&E, a doctor walked in and said: ‘I think you’ve got Parkinson’s.’"

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

I'd be all for them sitting at the event horizon of a black hole being stretched out to infinite length falling infinitely slowly into its matter-mushing heart. Not so sure about having them ejected out as a beam of particles into a neighbouring universe though to inflict upon some poor aliens somewhere.

Rarity posted:

Also they've been giving out chest binders and this is Female Genital Mutilation

When even the cops think you're too fash

quote:

Away from the Tory Party conference, the chair of the Covid-19 public inquiry has said that bereaved families and those who suffered will be at the heart of its inquiries, as she promised to be “fair” and “thorough”.

Former court of appeal judge Lady Heather Hallett opened the inquiry in London saying she planned to investigate the UK’s preparedness for a pandemic, the government’s response, and its impact on patients, NHS and social care staff and the public.

A minute’s silence was held for those who lost their lives, with Hallett saying:

quote:

There’s one word that sums up the pandemic for so many, and that is the word ‘loss’.

Although there were positive aspects of the pandemic, for example, the way in which communities banded together to help each other and the vulnerable, millions of people suffered loss, including the loss of friends and family members; the loss of good health - both mental and physical; economic loss; the loss of educational opportunities and the loss of social interaction.

Those who are bereaved lost the most. They lost loved ones and the ability to mourn properly.

Hallett said the inquiry would analyse how the Covid pandemic unfolded and would determine whether the “level of loss was inevitable or whether things could have been done better”.

Guavanaut posted:

Maya Forstater has finally found a new thing to be mad about. Mermaids is hiring pro-pedophile activists, according to well known anti-pedophile group the... oh



terf fight!

Tesseraction posted:

Hallett said the inquiry would analyse how the Covid pandemic unfolded and would determine whether the “level of loss was inevitable or whether things could have been done better”.

OwlFancier posted:

Unfortunately as a red green colourblind that is not enormously helpful

Red Oktober posted:

It’s good when all the red names fight.

bump_fn posted:

they dont pop out into another universe they get scrambled up with everything else in the black hole and eventually some incoherent remnant of them will come out as hawking radiation

Stephen Hawking posted:

“The message of this lecture is that black holes ain’t as black as they are painted. They are not the eternal prisons they were once thought,” he said. “Things can get out of a black hole both on the outside and possibly come out in another universe.”

keep punching joe posted:

Lmao

https://twitter.com/guardiannews/status/1577255911130791936?t=Nuw91ERFC68DksIx9-Xw4Q

lilljonas posted:

UK prime ministers the last couple of years has been like a Summoning Salt speedrun history video, with each subsequent contender finding new ways to go from appointed to ousted fastest or in the most spectacular fashion.