I hate it that the left has gone all-in on fantasy so we have to turn to The Telegraph for reality.

The Science Secretary will on Tuesday unveil a review into the “utter nonsense” of public bodies being urged to collect data on self-identified gender rather than biological sex. 

Speaking at the Conservative Party Conference, Michelle Donelan will sound the alarm at what she calls the “denial of biology and the steady creep of political correctness”.

It’s not even political correctness though. It’s not correct and it’s not political. It’s some other brand of bullshit – a noxious mix of idenniny and fannasy and narcissism. What in hell is “left” about any of that?

Ms Donelan has been moved

The Times informs us:

Former President Donald J. Trump said undocumented immigrants were “poisoning the blood of our country” in a recent interview, language with echoes of white supremacy and the racial hatreds of Adolf Hitler.

That’s quite breathtaking.

In the interview, Mr. Trump was asked about immigration and the Southern border.

He replied: “Nobody has any idea where these people are coming from, and we know they come from prisons. We know they come from mental institutions and insane asylums. We know they’re terrorists. Nobody has ever seen anything like we’re witnessing right now. It is a very sad thing for our country. It’s poisoning the blood of our country. It’s so bad, and people are coming

More more more men.

Gymnastics Australia changes guidelines to allow Transgender athletes to compete in the women’s category and for biological males to undress in girls locker rooms and showers.

93% of 800,000 Australians involved in gymnastics are under the age of 12.

Under the new rules,… pic.twitter.com/iy8xdxl6no

— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) October 4, 2023

That is some baaaaaaaaaaaad gymnastics in that photo.

The full tweet:

Gymnastics Australia changes guidelines to allow Transgender athletes to compete in the women’s category and for biological males to undress in girls locker rooms and showers. 93% of 800,000 Australians involved in gymnastics are under the age of 12. Under the new rules, biological males will be allowed to compete in whichever category matches

Trudeau says he never said parents who dissent from trans dogma are hateful, he just…

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday he never suggested that individuals concerned about their rights as parents were hateful when he issued a statement in response to the thousands who attended recent protests about “gender ideology” in schools.

Speaking to reporters at a housing announcement in Vaughan, Ont., Trudeau said the post he issued Sept. 20 on [Twitter] was about taking a stand for the LGBTQ+ community.

There is no such community. Trans people are not part of a big jolly group that includes lesbians and gay men; they’re a separate group that focuses on fantasies about being the sex one is not.

Trudeau said

Aha! Appearances are never deceiving! Actors who play characters are the characters they play! You are what you say you are!

Made this to show how ridiculous Rishi Sunak looks at the #ToryPartyConference among Real People, hope you don't mind pic.twitter.com/teSfnqr4dP

— kevinjwoods (@kevinjwoods1) October 4, 2023

Yes indeed and Helen Mirren is Elizabeth Windsor, Gillian Anderson is Margaret Thatcher, Tom Hanks is Ben Bradlee, Robert Redford is Bob Woodward, Helena Bonham Carter was on the Titanic when it broke apart and sank.

Also, by the way, we can see the color difference between Willoughby’s heavily made-up face and his chest. Oops.… Read the rest

Why do we have to have Steve Bannon running things?

On Wednesday morning, two Republicans who hours earlier had toppled Kevin McCarthy as speaker of the House made a well-worn trek to a 19th-century brick townhouse a few blocks away from the Capitol and entered the cluttered sanctuary of Stephen K. Bannon’s recording studio.

Representatives Matt Gaetz of Florida, the instigator of the rebellion, and Nancy Mace of South Carolina, one of seven other Republican defectors, huddled with Mr. Bannon for a morning meeting ahead of a joint appearance on his “War Room” podcast.

Steve Bannon ffs. Why don’t the Republicans just go scour all the psych wards for their gurus, it would be cheaper.

From this cavelike studio

Good grief. The journalist asks the minister if refusing to use luxury pronouns is unlawful discrimination, and the minister refuses to answer that question, saying it’s an individual case and it’s for the court to decide. The journalist keeps repeating that that’s not what he’s asking, he’s not asking about the individual case, he’s asking what the law is. Minister persists in changing the subject. Dude. What is the law? Does the law make it a crime to use ordinary pronouns?

"That's not an answer to the question": Ben Scallan accuses Irish Equality Minister Roderic O'Gorman of "evasion" for refusing to say whether or not "misgendering" someone at work could constitute unlawful discrimination or harassment.#gript pic.twitter.com/MDONaRHfTs

— gript

Wo, dude, that’s a mirror you’re looking at.

Donald Trump called his former chief of staff John Kelly a “lowlife with a very small brain and a very big mouth” after the former marine general confirmed reports about the ex-president’s derogatory attitude to members of the US armed forces.

Trump is a lowlife.

Trump is extremely stupid.

Trump never shuts up and never says anything that’s not stupid.

In posts to his Truth Social platform, days after Kelly spoke to CNN, Trump said his former aide was “by far the dumbest of my military people … incapable of doing a good job” as chief of staff or, before that, homeland security secretary.

There’s that stupid. He hired Kelly for … Read the rest

Exciting.

Data from the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service found that September was the most anomalously warm month in recorded history.

Last month shattered the record for the hottest September on record by such a wide margin that climate scientists say it was almost beyond belief.

The September milestone, reported in new data released late Wednesday by the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service, added to an alarming stretch of record-breaking global temperatures. During June, July and August, the planet had its hottest summer on record “by a large margin.”

September’s temperatures have climate scientists even more stunned.

“This month was, in my professional opinion as a climate scientist — absolutely gobsmackingly bananas,” Zeke Hausfather, the climate research

Lots of people know lots of things “in their heart of hearts.” That’s the problem.

I know in my heart of hearts that what I'm doing is right.

And that's enough for me. #transgender #nonbinary #ftm #healthcare #mtf #pronouns #gender #genderreassignment pic.twitter.com/1QNlsDdaLI

— Dr Helen Webberley she/her (@HelenWebberley) October 5, 2023

… Read the rest

How does that work?

I as Head of EDI and my colleagues .@CUH_NHS will be continuing to encourage sharing of our pronouns to ensure Trans & non binary people we provide care for and who are our employees are respected and not misgendered – we stand with you @drmbrady https://t.co/LhlA4pyMkZ

— Monica Jacot (@MonicaHelenJ) October 4, 2023

But there’s no such thing as “our pronouns”. Pronouns don’t belong to the person referred to; they’re not property. Talking about “our pronouns” is the opposite of “inclusion” (the I in DEI), because it excludes the vast majority of people. It insults them, it alienates them, it pisses them off. Is that a good thing to do in a healthcare setting? Make … Read the rest

Trump won himself a gag order the other day.

The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial issued a gag order Tuesday barring Trump from making comments about court staff after the former president posted a social media attack on the judge’s principal law clerk that included her photo.

“This morning one of the defendants posted to his social media account a disparaging, untrue and personally identifying post about a member of my staff,” said Justice Arthur Engoron, addressing Trump as he sat in the courtroom, about 15 feet from the clerk, Allison Greenfield.

“Personal attacks on members of my court staff are unacceptable, inappropriate and I will not tolerate them in any circumstances,” Engoron continued.

The judge said he

You mean…this isn’t satire? Really?

This is how Canadian universities are now evaluating PhD candidates https://t.co/QjweHXD3g1

— Jonathan Kay (@jonkay) October 4, 2023

… Read the rest

Oh no oh no, says Philip Ball: government is messing with science!

The science secretary, Michelle Donelan, told the Conservative party conference this week that the Tories are “depoliticising science”. Or as a Conservative party announcement later put it, in case you didn’t get the culture-war reference, they are “kicking woke ideology out of science”, thereby “safeguarding scientific research from the denial of biology and the steady creep of political correctness”.

I wish we could skip the stale “political correctness” bit along with the stale “woke” bit, but denial of biology is not something to laugh off as if it were imaginary.

What exactly does Donelan think science needs protecting from? What is this woke threat? At

Willoughby bullying women as usual.

Take a moment to acknowledge the vileness of this man…specifically the way he says Baroness as Barren-Ness. Its a word used to demean a womans value if she's not given birth.

He is grotesque. We see see the misogyny that seeps out of his every pore. https://t.co/I2dbHYOG8U

— Ms H (@Ms_H_Survivor) October 4, 2023

Note: He hasn’t given birth himself, because he couldn’t, because he’s a man. Barren yerself boyo.… Read the rest

Gee I wonder why.

What’s stopping them? The fact that they won’t win, of course. The whole point of invading women’s sports was the guaranteed win. William Thomas was a middle of the pack swimmer; Lia Thomas won first prize. It really is that simple.… Read the rest

Why we can’t have nice climate:

On Friday, Dr Gianluca Grimalda, an environmental campaigner who refuses to fly on principle, was told by his employer, Germany’s Kiel Institute for World Economy, that if he was not at his desk on Monday he would no longer have a job to return to.

Trouble is he’s 14 thousand miles away.

Instead this week he was still waiting in Buka Town, Bougainville, to embark on a cargo ship to begin his journey back to Europe, after six months studying the impact of climate change and globalisation on communities in Papua New Guinea.

Grimalda said he intends to make the 22,000km (14,000-mile) return trip to Europe entirely without flying, instead travelling on cargo

Oxford vice-chancellor gives her annual speech, which includes thoughts on the free kind.

Free speech has been centre stage this year. I have been clear about our role in the university sector to protect free speech: it is core to how we teach subjects and expose students to different views; and it also goes hand in hand with our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion. I have publicly acknowledged that this means some legal free speech will be hard for some individuals to hear. However, I am also disturbed by what I witness as an amplification of discourteous, intolerant and hateful rhetoric on social media platforms under the guise of free speech. I was deeply saddened to learn of

Oh golly gee now who could have seen that coming?

Men Overran a Job Fair for Women in Tech

IT WAS MEANT to be a week for women in tech—but this year’s Grace Hopper Celebration was swamped by men who gate-crashed the event in search of lucrative tech jobs.

The annual conference and career fair aimed at women and non-binary tech workers, which takes its name from a pioneering computer scientist, took place last week in Orlando, Florida. 

Wait. Why women and non-binary? Why not just women? Include women who call themselves non-binary and there you go, the conference is still for women. But if you say women and non-binary you’re going to get men who call themselves non-binary…which, of … Read the rest

Originally a comment by Mike Haubrich on Desk job.

It does put us Democrats in a quandary the way that the party has embraced gender ideology. I see on Twitter how many Democrats plan to vote Republican even though they’ve always been Democrats; over gender and the roles that men like Richard Levine and the guy here in Minnesota who said that detransitioners should be dismissed because they are very low in number, Leigh Finke. But in the meantime:

1. The Republicans voted to oust their leader in the House because he refused to let the government shutdown, after previously refusing to let the country default on its loans.

2. The Republicans cut heating assistance for those unable to … Read the rest