Toxicity_Rater

6 little mice sat down to spin. Pussy passed by & she peeped in. "What are you doing, my little men?" "Making coats for gentlemen." "Shall I come in & cut off the threads?" "Oh no, Miss Pussy, you'll bite off our heads." "Oh no, I'll not, I'll help you spin!" That may be so, but-

@elonmusk Who is this guy?

Grok will never go to therapy. Never.

Julian Jaynes thought that humans up to about 1000 BC lacked consciousness and that the right brain hemisphere issued auditory hallucinations that the left hemisphere obeyed as orders from the gods. He was an eccentric and interesting thinker, but I will take this thing about consciousness arising from language with a grain of salt. My dog has consciousness, but he doesn't chat with me.

@elonmusk Abandoning the assumption that consciousness is innate, Jaynes explains it instead as a learned behavior that "arises ... from language, and specifically from metaphor." Julian Jaynes says that consciousness is built on language.

@MiddleRights @TBC_on_X @SpaceWoot Agreed. Missing and murdered women are a serious matter, and throwing a handful of letters into the soup just makes the issue seem like nonsense.

@TBC_on_X @SpaceWoot Adding missing and murdered indigenous women to the alphabet soup is so disrespectful to the missing and murdered indigenous women

MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+ is officially the Word of the Year.

@wesyang @Vanessa73877327 You can't compel them to “believe it” but in British Columbia you can fine them $750,000 if they don't comply.

UPDATE ON IMPORTANT NEW FINLAND STUDY | Professor Kaltiala has responded to criticism of the Finnish study, which found that mental health may get worse after young people undergo medical gender transition. One critique of the study argues that psychiatric appointments are part and parcel of the gender-transition process in Finland and therefore may not point to serious psychiatric morbidity. In their paper, Professor Kaltiala and her colleagues acknowledged the limitation that their study could not analyse in detail why these patients needed psychiatric services. Asked about this issue, she told me that the healthcare register data used for the study included diagnoses and in-patient periods but not treatment nor information about a patient’s problems related to family life, romantic relationships or work. However, Professor Kaltiala said the young people seen by specialised psychiatric services in her country would have “severe disorders”. These services were focused on “those really in need”, consistent with national criteria for health equity. “In Finland, you do not get admitted to specialist-level services if you don’t have mental disorders at all or [have only] mild disorders and problems,” she said. “Primary-level services are available for needs related to milder disorders and psychosocial difficulties.” She said the gender-referred youth in the new study were much more likely than matched controls to have a history of severe mental disorders, often dating back some years before they reached the gender clinic. “Thus, many developed feelings of gender dysphoria in the context of severe disorders,” she said. “Severe mental disorders during adolescence generally have potential to complicate identity development. It rather seems that feelings of gender dysphoria are sometimes secondary to severe mental disorders.” If it were the other way around, and the mental disorders were secondary to the dysphoria, those disorders would be “expected to subside with medical gender reassignment”, according to the Dutch treatment protocol adopted internationally, she said. But this did not happen in the new Finnish study. Instead, the need for specialist psychiatric services—and therefore the scale of serious mental disorders—increased after medical transition, as the study by Professor Kaltiala and her colleagues reported. Updated news report ⬇️ open.substack.com/pub/genderclin…

@DevaN590294 @CouceIgnacio @newstart_2024 Men rob banks and then catch the bank robbers and punish them. Delusional! Because all men are one man and all women are one woman. Time to follow that b*tch around and blame her for everything.

@CouceIgnacio @newstart_2024 Women made a shirt objectifying themselves, made a man wear it. Then gets mad at him for wearing it. Delusional special species, not gonna lie

The guy just landed a spacecraft on a comet — one of the most impressive scientific achievements in years. His reward? A public struggle session because his bowling shirt had scantily clad women on it. Helen Andrews points out the quiet cost of institutional feminization: HR departments now hunt down any maverick personality and stamp it out. We’re losing innovators we’ll never even know about, all because someone focused on the shirt instead of the comet. This is how wokeness actually works. Have you seen real excellence get punished for something trivial like this?

@PriscillaDraus @CrytzerFry Really? Here I was feeling sorry for the guy.

@CrytzerFry Those bastards dangle that lizard over her head as he mounts her..most of the time he doesn’t even let her have it..let that be a lesson. Get yer dinner first..then footsie around…

This is the mating call of a male greater #roadrunner. He has caught a #lizard as a 'gift' to offer to his partner before mating. But she is nowhere to be seen. 🔊 up.

I googled the Oxford English Dictionary definition and got this: Definition: An institutionalized system of segregation that forced separation in schools, housing, and public facilities. [I.e., Afghanistan, etc.] Etymology: The word comes from Afrikaans, combining apart ("apart") and -heid ("-hood" or state of being). Context: While primarily referring to the South African regime, the term is also used to describe any systemic, legally enforced segregation based on race, gender, or religion. We are two random people on the internet, and really it doesn't matter, but I don't find women's degradation better because it happens throughout a city or country, rather than in separate territories. Gender is different from race in that men of such places must live beside that for which they have contempt.

@Toxicity_Rater @JohnCleese Show me a single country in the world where races (or genders) are divided up into segregated areas like this?? Literal meaning of APARTHEID ie. separation of races. Clearest example ANYWHERE.

When the BBC interviews someone as well-informed and intelligent as Douglas Murray, they should find someone well-informed and intelligent to do it Not some clown like this He is very stupid But perhaps the BBC hadn't noticed

Finland tracked every gender-referred adolescent in the country for up to 25 years. Their psychiatric needs didn't improve after 'gender reassignment'. They surged. A landmark peer-reviewed study just dropped. Here's what it found. 🧵

@AazQ_ @JohnCleese Perhaps because, unlike you, Murray doesn't hurl insults at people instead of arguing with their ideas. Perhaps because he's capable of arguing with their ideas?

@JohnCleese Douglas Murray is one of the most deranged and sickest people around. Wonder what it is about him that you like so much?🤔🤢

@bryce9a @JohnCleese Was Douglas Murray against apartheid in South Africa? I didn't know. Are you against the gender apartheid in Muslim countries? I'll assume you are, to be charitable.

@JohnCleese An awful apologist for the genocidal, apartheid regime known as Israel. You were against apartheid South Africa, were you John? Thought I’d better check, given you’re clearly a big fan of this guy.

@hoshizorarock I like it. It reminds me of craftsman style or art deco.

アメリカ人の皆さんに質問です。 日本には「大正ロマン」と呼ばれる、西洋と日本の伝統が融合した芸術様式があります。アメリカ人の方々には、このスタイルはどのように映るのでしょうか？ 個人的にはこのスタイルがとても好きです。😊

@JebraFaushay Wonder if this is related to ASMR. Amazing that such widespread responses have not been studied.

I thought everyone got chills from music, but only about 50% of the population experiences this phenomenon, called Frisson. Those of us who feel it "have more neural fibers linking our hearing center to our emotion center." These brains are wired for intense musical highs and are often creative and curious. Have you experienced this? This is one song (Sailing by Christopher Cross) that always gives me chills. Do you have others?

@waronweakness Write what you want, people. There are guidelines; there are no rules.

Writing gurus : "Write short sentences and don't use big words" Charles Dickens in the first sentence of Oliver Twist: "Among other public buildings in a certain town, which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign no fictitious name, there is one anciently common to most towns, great or small: to wit, a workhouse; and in this workhouse was born - on a day and date which I need not trouble myself to repeat, inasmuch as it can be of no possible consequence to the reader, in this stage of the business at all events - the item of mortality whose name is prefixed to the head of this chapter.

@waronweakness Yes.

@JimMusilPainter Gorgeous!

My painting TOWERING STORM

@womengrom If you're one of the most beautiful women in the world, you should feel free to be sparing with makeup.

Small lips, undefined eyebrows, no exaggerated cheekbones, a smile without veneers or teeth that look like they've been washed with dish soap, no false eyelashes, natural hair color. Let's go back to basics.

@muku_mukumo So beautiful! You have captured a feeling as well as a view.

#今月描いた絵を晒そう 今月は京都の風景でした！

@jurassic_parrot What bird is this?

Thanks to many requests, I’m starting daily 1–2 minute bird videos—just birds eating, preening, and going about their day, which you can watch to unwind and de-stress after a long day. What should I call this series? E.g. Relax with Birds Let me know in the comments 😁

@jurassic_parrot Birdshare! It's like Rideshare, but quieter and more sane. Maybe in time you can create an app for it, and people all over the world can get a minute of sharing the life of birds in the midst of their frantic day.