mehall posted:

Some of you may wish to know that Twitter no longer has need of a certain engaging and high-impact poster

https://twitter.com/psflaps


Banned for being a loving TERF.

OwlFancier posted:

Do you go doublegay if you're already gay before the jab? Like gay squared? Gay 2: hypergay?

What about if you inject a frog, does it become extra froggy?

Guavanaut posted:

Ok which of you did this?

JeremoudCorbynejad posted:

My issue with multigeneration households is that living with my parents hosed me right off and i was glad to be out of there

Gort posted:

Do you have to be registered with a medical practice to get the corona vaccine? I ask 'cause I honestly can't remember where I'm registered (last place I was sure about was about 15 years ago) and my local medical practice is pretty terrible about getting in touch for registration matters - it's basically just, "Call us during business hours" which is the least convenient way I could imagine to sort something like this out.

goddamnedtwisto posted:

Besides the absolute specifics of this one case are irrelevant and I'm arguing the general principle that SIR SIR SIR SIR SIR HE BROKE THE RULES SIR SIR SIR SIR SIR is the reaction of a Daily Mail reader.

Strom Cuzewon posted:

All those quotes have people saying that he's putting people at risk, which is a very different motivation than "omg he broke the rules".

They might be right, they might be wrong, but i think you're misrepresenting what are earnestly held beliefs

NotJustANumber99 posted:

Don't worry I'll get him.

therattle posted:

Peanut butter filled pretzels are loving amazing


I don’t really buy that. One activity places people at real risk; the ones you’ve posted don’t. As someone has said, it’s about the motivation. To punish someone or protect property isn’t the same as protecting people’s lives.

Mebh posted:

Plus he pisses a lot of my colleagues off.

Vitamin P posted:

I realise you're an ethnonationalist idiot but a genuine Galaxy Brain Meme moment most politically aware people have at some point in their lives is that Britain is actually pretty good.

If your soul was floating down to earth and you were gonna be gay or trans then the UK would be a good spot to aim for. If you were gonna be a woman it would be a good spot to aim for. If you were gonna be disabled it would be a good spot to aim for. This is objectively true if measured against almost any other place a soul might happen to land.

Vitamin P posted:

If you were gonna be disabled it would be a good spot to aim for.

Jose posted:

i think grant morrison inflicts all his sexual fantasies on his fans who read his stuff

edit: was thinking of garth ennis

fridge corn posted:

It's good to correct people when they use the incorrect pronouns but please dont be a dick about it

Necrothatcher posted:

I've been a massive Grant Morrison fan for like 20 years and had absolutely no idea that they preferred they/them pronouns.

Necrothatcher posted:

Well I know now and will use them in future. Bit poo poo to be so needlessly hostile about it though.

JeremoudCorbynejad posted:

It wasn't even hostile


Unless an implied "I disagree with your opinion" is hostile now

Jakabite posted:

Mods!!!!

It was a needlessly hostile way to deal with it by Rumda when it’s clear Jose didn’t even know but let’s cut Rumda some slack - trans people get a poo poo deal so let’s not pile on.

Jakabite posted:

Mods!!!!

It was a needlessly hostile way to deal with it by Rumda when it’s clear Jose didn’t even know but let’s cut Rumda some slack - trans people get a poo poo deal so let’s not pile on.

E: do you consider accidental misgendering, when the person literally didn’t know that the person had recently switched pronouns, to be a micro aggression? I feel that’s a little harsh.

Jakabite posted:

Yeah, but I assumed that required it being literally possible for the person to do otherwise. Sorry I’m not calling for people to have psychic knowledge/an hourly updated ledger of every famous person they might talk about’s pronouns.

Communist Thoughts posted:

Does changing your pronouns to they them make you trans?

Genuine question I wouldn't have thought of someone who just asks to be called that as trans
Are all NB people considered trans not cis?

Guavanaut posted:

I'm fine if someone wants to use they/them pronouns for me, but then again I'm fine if someone wants to use Mx. on a form for me, because my hot take is that's half the idea of having a neutral, it's neither right nor wrong unless stated otherwise (the other half being NB or agender/neutral people who use those identifiers as a positive identifier rather than a lack of explicit identifier.)

People getting performatively outraged over the existence of a singular they makes even less sense than most of the pyrographic gender takes factory we've had over the last few years. Like if someone says "where's Guavanaut?" and someone else says "they're at the bar" then everyone gets what is meant, my gender isn't changed, and my chromosomes and or gonads don't magically turn into a Judith Butler anthology and scurry across the floor to start switching all the bathroom signs, it's just a less gendered way of using English.

Guavanaut posted:

I was fortunate and just had a sore arm for a couple of days and a bit of a sore throat/nose/ear tubes but nothing more, I guess it's variable, but I'm glad you're starting to feel better. I'm slightly more anxious about the second dose in April.

Guavanaut posted:

Jose posted:

Terfs appear to be having some sort of meltdown about the census

bump_fn posted:

when people back home ask me how brexit and covid etc are going i’m just gonna send them this

https://twitter.com/bumpfn/status/1363133887866617856

TACD posted:

Dogatron posted:

You do realise Greece is a republic?

therattle posted:

I’m surprised this thread isn’t going to dismiss such data as being irrevocably tainted by ethnonationalism and immediately call for a boycott until another more acceptable country reproduces the results.

therattle posted:

In hindsight, I am getting the sense that what was intended as a joke about how reflexively hostile this thread was to Israel (such that even data from there would be rejected) was perhaps a tad ill-judged.

therattle posted:

Oh, I will say it plainly: I think in some quarters the intense criticism Israel draws is due in part (large, small or otherwise) due to anti-semitism. In other quarters (and I'd class this thread as that) it's not. That's why I said that this thread probably wasn't a fair recipient for my comment.

therattle posted:

I don't think that's really true. I genuinely don't believe that most criticism of Israel is based on antisemitism. It's all pretty much warranted. What I am not sure is warranted is what I have observed which is Israel being used as the epitome of an evil regime, and the sheer vitriol which other, equally deserving (at least in my view) states don't really seem to get. Like I said, I had a lot of Zionist indoctrination growing up, so perhaps I am seeing something that isn't there (but I don't think so) . And maybe I don't see that same vitriol applied to other states like Saudi as much because I don't move in those circles, or because Saudi isn't thought to be controversial in the same way so there isn't something to be reacted against. But that I am not convinced. Maybe I don't want to be.

therattle posted:

It is also a very macho culture. It felt like there were only two ways to be a man in South Africa (only one of which was acceptable), and neither of them were me. I was uncomfortable in my masculinity there (and for many years alter as a result). I didn't think I was gay but I wasn't a "real man" either, and those were really the only two options.

Of course, growing up it all felt pretty normal...

ItohRespectArmy posted:

https://twitter.com/FreeNorthNow/status/1364229790673338371