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@1impossible_grl @LanaMWiggins1 @Acyn We love the sentence fragments, don't we folks, we love 'em - a sentence fragment came up to me - a big, strong, declarative sentence fragment, tears in his i's, and he said to me, sir...

@LanaMWiggins1 @Acyn I like best when a fragment just drifts off into mispronunciation and ceases to exist, like mist...

Uhhh… English professor here. There is nothing brilliant about Trump’s rambling bullshit. He’s stupid. No thesis. No context. No connective tissue from paragraph to paragraph, or even from one sentence to another. No conclusion. No research citations that can be verified. Not even a single goddamn punctuation mark! I’d send him straight to the remedial class. Trump gets an F from this professor 👩‍🏫

@mrhenrymorris @GoodwinMJ It's terrible when loads of new people move in and the character of an area changes. People who've lived there all their lives feel pushed out. It's called gentrification and it's nothing to do with immigrants. Weirdly, Matt doesn't seem bothered about that "loss of the familiar"

@GoodwinMJ What does 'loss of the familiar' mean? Because it sounds a bit like a euphemistic copout that wouldn't survive any sort of sustained scrutiny.

Hi Ash, I think you can be British and English in terms of nationality but not English in terms of ethnicity. And I think for many people in the country recent events including Southport symbolise their concern about the decline of the majority group (a concern shared by minorities, too). While I've rejected violence from the start, this deeper concern about loss of the familiar is entirely legitimate (and is shared by minorities, too). It is not racism as you implied at the end of the show when I was not around to defend myself, which I think was a low blow. And if you want to keep reframing this concern about majority decline as racism while allowing minorities to celebrate and defend their identity but berating and suppressing the majority when they do the same then things will only get worse. Best wishes, Matt

@Saint_Gerrard @somefingoruvver @mrhenrymorris @GoodwinMJ So you're saying the people to worry about are the bilingual ones with brown skin, not the ones rioting violently and looting sausage rolls from Greggs.

@somefingoruvver @mrhenrymorris @GoodwinMJ Happy for you, genuinely. Just be aware that when the numbers grow even further, your welfare will not be their concern. BTW not all immigrants are a problem. Some bring more problems than others.

@TheJasonNichols @Esqueer_ If you're actually interested in the science of sex, I suggest this thread: x.com/RebeccaRHelm/s…

@Esqueer_ That is a man, b/c he has a Y chromosome. That is what makes men, biologically. Learn science.

@ashtonforbes @michaelianblack Models are the heart of science. The Standard Model in particle physics, the electron orbital model in chemistry, Newtonian physics - these are all models. A model is just a way of simplifying the world until you can describe it mathematically.

Where in the scientific method does it mention making models? Oh that’s right, it doesn’t. Where in the scientific method does it talk about consensus? Also doesn’t say that. Where in the scientific method does it say you need to be an ‘expert’ to form an opinion? Strike three, you’re out.

I would argue you've been lied to about being lied to about everything. When you say, "do your own research," what does that mean? Are you conducting double or triple blind studies to test vaccine efficacy? Are you modeling the climate? No, you're not. You're relying on other people, probably most of whom do not have a background in these fields, to tell you THEIR conclusions, at which point you are NOT doing your own research. You're googling until you find somebody who agrees with your viewpoint. That's biased thinking and we're all guilty of it. How does one escape one's own biases? Easy. The scientific method, which is testable, repeatable, and verifiable. Which is what scientists do. You can actually go back and look at the literature and test their theories yourself if you have the proper training and knowledge. But you don't. Neither do I. So you hear a result you don't like and you go, "Nah-uh," but you have no actual basis to back it up. And, more importantly, very little actual science that would support your claims. Because YOU are being lied to. If we've been lied to about everything, then how do you explain that our science works?

@imJohn5k @michaelianblack @ashtonforbes If a doctor tells me I need antibiotics, I accept that because they're an expert. That's not appeal to authority. It *would* be if that doctor then told me "I'm a doctor, so you should vote the way I say," because that's no longer relying on the doctor's expertise.

@imJohn5k @michaelianblack @ashtonforbes That's not what appeal to authority is. If I say "I'm going to listen to these experts because they've spent years studying this area of science," that's humility. I don't have the time or the expertise to evaluate all the evidence myself, so I listen to experts. Everyone does.

@ITVNewsPolitics @harry_horton Leader of the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party to candidates: "Please stop eating people's faces until after the election"

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@tonysullybooks @TabitaSurge There are species of fungi that have 100s of sexes. There are species that change sex, asexual vertebrates, hermaphrodites, intersex individuals, species where the female has a phallus... Evolution shows us that sex is far more complex and beautiful than a simple binary.

@TabitaSurge It is very difficult to vote for a party that denies 1 billion years of evolution of binary sex and pretends one particular mammal is somehow not gonochoric and that mammalian sex is no longer binary and immutable It’s like denying gravity and insisting the world is flat

@PeterJStockwell I still remember the mnemonic for the reactivity of metals I was taught almost 30 years ago - "please send Lord Charles MacLean a zebra if the lame horse cannot munch sweet grass politely." If I'd been taught "PoSLICaMZICSG" I don't think I'd have remembered it for 30 minutes.

How not to write a students book. This is from my daughter’s chemistry textbook. Altogether now: “PoSLICaMZICSG!”

@ChrisBalchin4 @Djon_Ma @HHoguera @EnbyScot @Steven_Swinford @breeallegretti So your propositions are "there has to be a binary to be outside it" and "you can't be outside the binary". Logically one of these, or both, must be false (it's both, BTW). Gender and sex aren't the same thing, and they're both a lot more complicated than a simple binary.

@Djon_Ma @HHoguera @EnbyScot @Steven_Swinford @breeallegretti There has to be a binary in order to live outside it, but as it is impossible to live outside of the binary, they are part of it. There is no third sex.

New schools guidance in full with @breeallegretti * Schools must not teach children about gender identity * No ‘explicit’ conversations about sex until children are 13 - including contraception, STIs and abortion * No sex education for children until age of 9 in primary school - must be restricted to basic facts of conception and birth. Children also taught how to stay safe * Children aged 11 taught that sending naked or sexual images of someone U18 is criminal offence * Children aged 11 will also be taught about sexual harassment, revenge porn, grooming, stalking and forced marriage * Schools must provide parents with samples of material their children will be taught

@MiroslavMcG @RevDaniel @oldsoulchef Show me where Jesus mentions homosexuality (hint - He doesn't). Now imagine a young person discovering they're attracted to people of the same gender, and how they feel to be told their God-given nature is sinful. Jesus said stuff about that. It involved millstones and the sea.

@speakoutsister "Constantly disappointed by the bad breath of the face-eating leopards. I get why they want to eat people's faces, but why with such endless halitosis, and increasingly in the company of other predatory animals that want to eat other parts of our bodies?"

Gosh this is a puzzle.

@FJScott3 @zachrobert15 @MissHavispam @KatyMontgomerie What does "develop around producing" a particular gamete mean? In a real biological sense?

@zachrobert15 @MissHavispam @KatyMontgomerie Sex is gamete physiology. The human body will develop around producing one of two gametes. It doesn’t matter if, for a number of reasons, you can’t produce gametes. You can’t undo your development. Just insane to even consider this as an argument.

I think this is one of my favourite things that transphobes post at me 😂 "You can't change your sex 😤 but also here's a list of different aspects of sex, many of which you can change, and they're all different!" Very binary and immutable mate, good one

@Daderp1242389 @KatyMontgomerie Not sure what "brain sex" is though. The idea there's a "male brain" and a "female brain" is total bollocks. Maybe he means gender. Which is different from sex.

@Daderp1242389 @KatyMontgomerie Yes, because they are. Chromosomal sex (whether you have a Y chromosome) is different from genetic sex (whether the SRY gene is expressed) and hormonal sex (relative levels of estrogen, testosterone, etc). It's a lot more complicated than what you get taught in school.

@MitchBenn This new series of Giles Wemmbley-Hogg took a weird turn

Marcus…?

@SpiderCatNZ @ScotCuthbertson Misgendering someone once or even several times has never been a hate crime. Repeatedly misgendering someone as part of a sustained pattern of harassment (a crime) is a hate crime.

LGBT ppl: Misgendering isn’t a hate crime Scot Gov: Misgendering isn’t a hate crime Anti-trans ppl: Arrest us for misgendering! Police Scotland: No. Misgendering isn’t a hate crime Anti-trans ppl: Victory! Also anti-trans ppl: They should have told us this.

@Justdavenow1989 Don't blame mental illness. They're not ill, they're just cunts. Racist cunts.

I see the mentally ill people on x again Are making up wild conspiracies about a ship that crashed It’s just pure deranged people speaking shit that gullible people accept as truth Can’t have any accidents in the world now, has to be a bigger picture ffs Cunts

@MichaelRosenYes If there were dark clouds on the horizon, threatening rain, my Nan (from Sheffield) used to say "It's a bit black over Bill's mother's." No idea if there ever was a real Bill, but his mother always seemed to be where the dark clouds were, poor woman!

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