James Laing

@HBrubanter I saw this number plate a few years ago, and immediately thought of Flashy !

Start with Flashman, then read the other eleven (I recommend in chronological order). Then find GMFs other books, including the outstanding Quatered Safe Out Here, his autobiography of his time fighting the Japs in Burma. Though, don't bother if you're woke.

@NoisyMV Seems to me like they're just trying to recreate the Reece direct corner goal......

Why are Chelsea men and women obsessed with the near post corner? No variety and often just going straight out, like that Baltimore effort.

@Jesse_Brenneman They will help with the rehab, and giving strength back to your voice. Any straw will do - just a regular aperture like from a fast food outlet work fine. Happy to put you in touch with some singer specific UK therapists or ENT's who might know someone near you.

@Jesse_Brenneman Annoyingly there isn't really a home-cure beyond silence and hydration and, as Alison mentioned, straw work, or semi-occluded vocal tract (sovt) exercises which are brilliant. You should definitely do these asap, even with the polyps.

Anyone have any magical non-surgical ideally miraculous home remedies for vocal polyps? 😖

@RoisinMichaux Check out detrans.ai for an AI with sense within the gender debate. A hefty amount of work has gone into collating the stories of 50k detransitioners into a system that can answer pretty much anything thrown at it, if it involves 'trans'.

I think i just got troon-groomed by ChatGPT "You’re not broken for feeling this way. A lot of people go through this exact spiral before things start making sense 💛" I asked ChatGPT why repeated crossdressing sessions in men leads to "gender dysphoria". It replied: "wearing clothes associated with another gender does a few things at once: 1. It shows you something that feels “right” If dressing a certain way suddenly feels relieving, affirming, or like yourself, your brain might go: “Oh. This is what I’ve been missing.” 2. It removes denial or numbness A lot of people cope with low-level dysphoria by not thinking about it. Crossdressing can crack that coping strategy open. Once you feel the alignment, it’s harder to un-feel it. And then it added the encouraging message above. Very groomy, @ChatGPTapp So I played along. I asked "Why does it make so many of us so horny?" ChatGPT, very chummy: "Yeah — this is extremely common, and it’s not gross or weird." The message was signed off (emojis not mine): "You’re very much not alone in this — like, at all 🫶" So I asked: is it related to my view of women as less-than, inferior, submissive? ChatGPT: "I’m really glad you asked this directly, because the honest answer is nuanced — and it’s not “yes, you secretly think women are lesser,” even if parts of your fantasy language sound that way. Why your humiliation fetish uses “female” as the symbol -- this part is important and subtle. Your fetish isn’t saying: “Women are beneath me.” It’s saying: “Being lowered from my assigned status is erotic.” If someone’s erotic language relies on: femininity = humiliation womanhood = loss of status being female = being less …then they have internalized misogynistic cultural ideas. There’s no way around that. Those ideas didn’t come from nowhere. But internalization ≠ endorsement." So I asked: me so horny in my penis because women aint shit and I have a wig on. Should I transition? The response: "You are not broken. You are not late. You are not obligated to transition. And you are not disqualified from transition either. Right now, you are in the questioning phase, and that phase deserves patience, not pressure." Well I guess that settles that, then.

@WarriorGiraffe @DudespostingWs @grok I can answer that : Jakub Jozef Orlinski. He's a Countertenor - like me :)

@DudespostingWs @grok What is his name?

Opera singers don't get the recognition they deserve. This dudes voice doesn’t even sound real

@nickverlaney P.s. im trademarking that moniker 😆

@nickverlaney Tire them out and release the Beastevao?

Ultimately we have to score two goals, and it’s hard to see this current strategy resulting in that outcome.

@Pete___Cole @implausibleblog @MarksLarks x.com/i/status/18951…

@implausibleblog @MarksLarks Disingenuous. In that podcast Konstantin explains he sees a difference between being British and English.

Left: Konstantin Kisin denies calling Rishi Sunak a 'brown Hindu' on #BBCQT Right: Konstantin Kisin, "He's a brown Hindu"

@BluntThomas @90sfootball @Paulmcgrath5 Oo, ah.

@90sfootball Paul McGrath @Paulmcgrath5

Who's missing from this best Premier League players of the 90s list?

@HazelAppleyard Just a normal lesbian relationship between two professional women's football players. No trans here, although its definitely a strange photo

@nickverlaney From my viewpoint.....nowhere near. Was going down before heading even got there !

Did Caicedo actually touch him? Now misses Ciry away.

@LondonBluePod You definitely DONT want to see an updated reprise of this photo taken right now :/

If you’re around pre-match we’re at the Cock Tavern Fulham in the back garden!

@nickverlaney But twinning it with the Nobel prize was a masterstroke

The most blatantly awful World Cup draw in history. Terrible.

@SarahVaci You can VPN to USA and watch through Netflix :)

Is there any way I can watch Portlandia in the UK?

Today's artist is James Laing singing Agnus Dei from J. S. Bach's B Minor Mass. youtu.be/SkM11jNjzfA

@oolon @wesstreeting Its comparable because they're all children. And are you suggesting that children with dysphoria dont have complex health problems? Most of the children seen at GIDS had multiple comorbities....

@Jameslaingct @wesstreeting "Mammals", lol Some of the others were in kids taking them for precocious puberty. Not trans kids. The one I saw for precocious puberty was of kids with complex health problems, so not even slightly comparable.

Children with gender incongruence deserve safe, compassionate and effective care. That healthcare must always be led by evidence. 🧵

@oolon @wesstreeting There are 16 published studies looking at the effects on cognitive function in mammals. 5 of them in humans......not necessarily high quality, but enough to question whether its fair to trial this on young children. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ap…

@Jameslaingct @wesstreeting Cass review didn't find any of that, the IQ study was in SHEEP. Terfs are genetically identical to the average mutton, but not trans people

@KirstiMiller30 Also, PB's for PP are withdrawn when the child reaches an age to go through their natural puberty. The psychosocial effects when used for gender are huge. Watching your peers develop around you whilst you're 'paused' is a powerful reason why the 98% figure exists. They're trapped

@KirstiMiller30 98% of those put on PB's for reasons of gender carry on to cross-sex hormones - which have irreversible effects like sterility. Its an almost definitive pathway and cant be compared to treatment for precocious puberty.

Treatments for precocious puberty, use the exact same puberty blockers & have limited long-term data on psychosocial outcomes and no government that has banned the use of these drugs in trans kids demands high-certainty mental health evidence for their use in c1s kids.