@liamcsc Well no, because you never will achieve finishing 3rd at a world Cup.
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Magic Pudding
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Say what you want about Scotland, but we will never celebrate finishing 3rd at a World Cup.
Absolutely pathetic mentality.
England@England
Our #ThreeLions’ best finish at a @FIFAWorldCup since 1966 🥉
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@JohnWight1 Tell me again why the language of Argentina is Spanish?
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The Falkland Islanders constitute an artificially imposed population.
You can't place a cactus in the North Pole then make the argument that it belongs there.
It doesn't make any sense.
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@JohnWight1 Colonialism is the subjugation of a native population by a foreign power. If the native population of the Falkland Islands wish to remain British, then the colonial act would be Argentina taking control of the islands, particularly so if they took them by force.
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@Melissa_S_Ryan @jamesmurray_ldn Is it reasonable to assume that a PA with 10 years of supervised clinical experience is inherently less safe or knowledgeable in every scenario than a newly qualified GP?
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The Leng review was a long overdue look into the safety of new roles that should have occurred prior to their role out.
Sadly it took deaths and patient harm before it happened.
@jamesmurray_ldn must now uphold the review and ensure that PAs cannot see undifferentiated patients
The BMA@TheBMA
One year after the Leng Review, the High Court has dismissed a legal challenge to its implementation on all grounds. With patient safety at stake, the Government and the NHS must now act quickly to stop PAs from seeing undifferentiated patients. We will be pushing for all the necessary safeguards to protect patient safety. Read our full response: bma.org.uk/bma-media-cent…
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@bbcpress Why?
Low viewing figures, poor critical response, dropping tv licence revenue, why this obsession with drag?
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Smoggie Queens is coming back for a third series 🎬
The Middlesbrough lot are set to bring even more chaos, heart and mischief than ever before.
Find out more ➡️ bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/20…
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@virrals Let me just remind any men in wigs that are thinking of taking this idiots advice:
Go into women's single sex spaces and we will report you to the police and we will, of necessary, take it private prosecutions for sexual harassment.
I mean, your choice, but there it is.
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Let me just remind everyone that the EHRC Code of Practice is for service providers, not for you as a member of the public.
It’s not illegal to use whatever toilet you please.
Sky News@SkyNews
From 5 August, thousands of single-sex toilets will need to change to be birth sex only news.sky.com/story/from-5-a…
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@LGBTQPrideUK It's OK, I'll sort it out for a fiver with a small pot of paint.
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So TERFs are costing the taxpayer and business £700 million pounds for their vanity campaign to exclude trans people from facilities.
Is jk going to fund that or just fund any anti trans org wanting to sue a human rights charity?
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@PTElephant He's basically Michael Jackson, but instead of the face, he's taken on the whole body
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For anyone who wants to know, the surgeries that "widen the pelvis"
Are basically smashing it into pieces and then reconstructing it with metal pieces in different places to force it into healing into a new shape
It can severely impact your ability to walk, spinal health, posture, etc
Doctors who do this should be prosecuted for violating their oaths
catsies@catsiesxx
chasing the dragon
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@Seatradelawyer @SVPhillimore Well I'm clearly acting in good faith if I declare you an idiot.
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@SVPhillimore Not sure. Like it or not, Amnesty acted in misguided good faith when it produced this report. This is exactly the area where defamation law needs to butt out .
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Free speech absolutists are just as dangerous as totalitarians who wish to shut down all speech. No one has a right to incite violence, target individuals for harassment or tell harmful lies that damage others.
This was not ‘ideological difference’. Amnesty told a series of damaging lies. Where it bizarrely and unaccountably shot itself in the foot - or rather blew both its legs off with an assault rifle - was making a target out of someone who has the resources to fight back.
Jacob Mchangama@JMchangama
It never ceases to amaze me how shallow the commitment to free speech is. For years, groups and individuals have - rightly - warned that debate arounds LGBT+ issues were being shut down through inflated hate speech laws and punitive cancel culture. Yet now, these same groups use the language of offense and harm to threaten Amnesty with legal action due to a shoddy and ideological report that called certain groups "anti-rights". I can't count how many times I have been accused of being anti-rights due to my opposition to hate speech laws which some view as protecting the rights of minorities. Groups like @TheFIREorg and @ACLU have been likened to "Neo-confederates" running interference for "white supremacists" for the same reason. I think these critics are deeply misguided, but it would never in a million years occur to me to threaten such critics with legal action. Not only do I think that you should be free to label me "anti-rights" (or worse if you think such labels are warranted), tactically, the idea of using libel laws to shut down opponents in a contested ideological debate is so short sighted and will almost inevitably come back to bite these organizations the next time they use hyperbole to advance their cause. Thank God for the First Amendment and the American culture of free speech. I love Europe, but the Old World is so utterly lost when it comes to free speech.
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@SkyNews No. They won't.
Because sex is sex. You're born with it, you live with it, you die with it.
So single sex is, by definition, your birth sex.
Come off it, this is pathetic clickbait
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From 5 August, thousands of single-sex toilets will need to change to be birth sex only
news.sky.com/story/from-5-a…
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@redrumlisa I'm a retired teacher, and I felt the worst possible policy was to keep young people in school to 18. Absolutely no benefit for the majority of them. Sure, if they can't find a job, or want to stay in school, but so many who were ready and desperate to grow up have been prevented
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In 1984 when I left school I was an adult, treated as an adult and expected to behave as an adult - I went to work paid tax & paid for my bed & board, my clothes ect. Why are infantilising young adults. You are not a child at 17 0r 18 on top of that we are now going into our 60s as another decade of work.
Lucy Easthope@LucyGoBag
Not without some merit but also hard not to see it as another step towards the total infantilisation of our young people…..
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@jk_rowling Ah! I see the quill sharpening was successful
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Another letter to add to @AmnestyUK's overflowing mail box, this one from women-only rape support service, Beira's Place. 1/3
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@QcWynter Freeze them, and in the autumn add some apples and make bramble jelly.
Nectar of the gods and in my family a high value tradeable commodity.
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With today's government suggestion that we should stockpile food, it was pleasing to see that blackberries have sprouted in a number of unusual new places on the "domaine".
Last year, this bush was not where it is now.
I ate around 10 of its berries.
In a week, I will be overrun.
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@MacgregorWestie Like Shetland ponies are in fact big horses, Westies are big dogs, but both are compressed to small size.
And things that are compressed tend to be explosive.
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@Heccles94 As long as these chaps live their lives away from women's single sex spaces, services and sport, we're golden.
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My Trans friends are all wonderful people who simply want to live their lives.
The hate spread against them by despicable individuals on here is shameful.
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@Sheehuurthem No.
It's not.
And even your dumb as rocks mates know that.
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This is actionable, and I have more time, resources and energy than she knows.
J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling
No, this is not how slut-shaming works. Fred is a man, a man who has a kink that he flaunts publicly, including on stage while being filmed. He dresses that way because he gets an erotic charge out of it. He enjoys performing a sexualised parody of what a woman is. If a woman sat on stage during a serious debate, flashing her crotch at the audience while getting steadily drunker and shouting about having sex in nightclubs, that would also be worthy of public comment. The difference is that nobody would feel intimidated by the woman, because she wouldn't be indulging in the obvious power play of a large male fetishist.
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@Heccles94 Wow, your homophobia goes both ways!
Can't be lesbian, can't be gay, can't be a woman.
Seems like the the only people you support are straight blokes including those who wear wigs.
You're really reducing your options there fella.
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So JK Rowling who maintained for years it’s not about being anti trans, it’s about being pro women, is now offering to fund anti trans groups run by men?
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@finngalkn Untrue.
You've never "transitioned" to anything, so we don't need you to reverse something you haven't done.
A little less abuse, hatred and violence towards women would be nice.
And crystallised fruits- they make anyone happy.
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It would be a lot easier for me to believe the GCs/TERFs/ATAs in general if they practiced ANY form of moderation when talking about trans people.
There is literally nothing a trans person can do short of detransition that will make these people happy with us. 🤷♂️
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The best thing that could happen now would be for @GoodLawProject to step up and offer to defend @AmnestyUK
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