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Rainbow autism

Jun 27th, 2023 6:46 am | By

Yet another idenniny we have to affirm and respect and fight for:

https://twitter.com/NeurodIreland/status/1670688196290658305

So autism is somehow linked to LGB now? Also TQ+?

How? Why? What is the link?

I started out thinking there was no link, apart from the sweeping “different,” which applies to everyone in some way, but it occurs to me that maybe the link is literalism. Trans ideology is pathologically literal about the fictitious gendered soul, and autism tends toward literalism in general. Could that be the link?… Read the rest



Documented lived experiences of Canadian rugby trans participants

Jun 26th, 2023 5:34 pm | By

Canada is out of its tiny little mind.

From September 2020:

RUGBY CANADA PROVIDES UPDATE ON FEEDBACK TO PROPOSED TRANSGENDER GUIDELINES [pdf]

Rugby Canada has completed their feedback submission to World Rugby as part of the consultative process regarding circulated draft transgender guidelines. The submission included the full version of Rugby Canada’s Trans Inclusion Policy, as well as documented lived experiences of Canadian rugby trans participants that were consulted as part of the feedback process.

What about the documented lived experiences of Canadian rugby female participants? And what about biology and physics and what we know happens when a huge muscular man crashes into a woman?

The criterion that matters here is Trans Inclusion and not Women’s Safety.

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Stay out of the oven

Jun 26th, 2023 3:55 pm | By

Helpful tip: if it’s 119F / 48C, outside it’s not a good time to go for a strenuous hike on a trail with no shade or water.

A Florida man and his teenage stepson died after hiking during extreme heat at Big Bend National Park in Texas, officials said.

The boy fell ill along the trail and lost consciousness, and his stepfather was killed in a car accident as he tried to find help, authorities said.

Bad stepfather. Don’t take your kids out hiking in extreme heat.

The man, 31, and his two stepsons were hiking along the Marufo Vega Trail on Friday in 119F (48C) heat when the 14-year-old fell ill. While the stepfather hiked back to his

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#rugbyforall #brokennecksforwomen

Jun 26th, 2023 3:06 pm | By
#rugbyforall #brokennecksforwomen

There it is.

Link

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All very hush-hush

Jun 26th, 2023 9:30 am | By
All very hush-hush

Stoney Creek Camels Rugby Club is on Facebook.

Their most recent post is June 23, announcing the game the next day.

There is one comment on the post, but it’s “not visible” – which I surmise means it has been hidden, which I further surmise means it was a question about the man who played in the match, and perhaps about why the video of the match was made private yesterday.

It’s not the crime, it’s the coverup.… Read the rest



Guest post: Confusion, analogy, and platitudes

Jun 26th, 2023 8:37 am | By

Originally a comment by Sastra on She stands by the vulnerable i.e. men.

But the platitudes about “standing by the downtrodden” only make sense from a feminist perspective if you genuinely believe that men who sincerely believe they’re women really are women. How did we get there?

Confusion, analogy, and platitudes. Such as:

1.) Women have historically been “defined by” their sex, limited by patriarchal assumptions about how having a womb means you must have babies and being physically appealing to men means they can own you as a commodity.

2.) If only people would consider women as people in their own right, regardless of what’s under their skirts! Let women make their own choices!

3.) So let’s … Read the rest



Celebrate celebrate celebrate

Jun 26th, 2023 5:45 am | By

The BBC is excited about London Pride.

Some of London’s buses and trains are being wrapped in rainbow colours as part of this year Pride celebrations. Transport for London (TfL) is launching a campaign celebrating the city’s LGBTQ community ahead of Saturday’s parade.

Those featuring on posters include Gok Wan, Bimini from RuPaul’s Drag Race, Nick Grimshaw and Queen MoJo. “We are proud to continue to support Pride by sharing Pride messages across our network,” Patricia Obinna, TfL’s director of diversity & inclusion said.

That’s nice but…has London Transport ever wrapped some of its trains and buses in feminist colors? Or celebrated the city’s female community in any way?

It seems not. If you do a Google image search … Read the rest



She stands by the vulnerable i.e. men

Jun 26th, 2023 5:10 am | By

This is thinking deeply? I’d hate to see what shallow looks like.

By “the vulnerable” she of course means men who say they are women, as opposed to the women who say they are not.

How did we get here? How did we get to a place where adults solemnly insist that men who claim to be women are vulnerable while the women who say no they’re not are … Read the rest



Kicked, hit, pushed, mobbed

Jun 25th, 2023 4:18 pm | By

“Pride”

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Fizzle

Jun 25th, 2023 10:44 am | By

Where we are now:

Ok. Got it. There was a man playing. Not even a “trans woman” – just a man. How did that happen? Did he just say “My name is Susie” and that was all it took? Or what? I’d love to know more.

But. We still have no indication that three women were dropped on their heads, apart from one person on Twitter saying so. Arty seems to have watched the damn thing and didn’t see any serious injuries.

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This guy?

Jun 25th, 2023 9:41 am | By

Inching toward progress maybe?

I googled NRU Stoney Creek v Fergus and found a video of a match, which I shared, but she replied to say that’s the wrong match. Why not link to the right match then? I don’t know. I can’t tell if she’s playing games or just unfamiliar with how to share information on Twitter.

A first-time commenter called “anon” provided this link, which does seem to fit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZUl7Br9LeM… Read the rest


Let them cook

Jun 25th, 2023 6:26 am | By

Greg Abbot condemns construction workers to death:

In a week when parts of the state are getting triple-digit temperatures and weather officials urge Texans to stay cool and hydrated, Gov. Greg Abbott gave final approval to a law that will eliminate local rules mandating water breaks for construction workers.

Abbott and the Texas legislators who wrote and passed this law are knowingly, deliberately increasing the risk of heat stroke and death for construction workers in a very hot state. The deaths will happen.

The law will nullify ordinances enacted by Austin in 2010 and Dallas in 2015 that established 10-minute breaks every four hours so that construction workers can drink water and protect themselves from the sun. It

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Guest post: Issues that can’t be fixed by dialing up the AC

Jun 25th, 2023 6:15 am | By

Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on Week 3.

Welcome to the new normal.

One of the things that gets brushed aside in the right’s politicization of climate change is that things don’t just get warmer; they get destabilized. Not only do weather patterns change, they become chaotic. It’s not just a different set of new temperatures and amounts of precipitation to be adapted to, but a constantly changing kaleidoscope of conditions, without enough stability for things like growing crops, which rely on particular, reliable combinations of conditions. The further our excursion from previous conditions, the more unstable things get. And this is just the agricultural realm. What happens to all of the current biomes when the … Read the rest



It’s soul-nourishing to push women aside

Jun 25th, 2023 6:02 am | By

Another man takes another place that was supposed to be for a woman.

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Dig

Jun 24th, 2023 6:21 pm | By

Ok this is going well.

So this is a quiz now? Or a treasure hunt? Dig where? With what kind of tools?

Then why announce it on Twitter at all? Why tell the world it happened, and then get offended when people ask for the specifics? Who are “they”? If there’s a spokesperson why not just say who and … Read the rest



How do you know?

Jun 24th, 2023 11:36 am | By

Sigh. This isn’t how to go about it.

1,126 shares so far, and 3,582 likes, but – no source. The tweet author says it happened in Hamilton, Ontario, but also that it has not hit the news yet. She doesn’t say how she knows it happened. So – useless. Worse than useless, because being shared.

Come on now. Don’t be reporting stuff like this if you have absolutely nothing besides your own word. … Read the rest



Flat caps are caps

Jun 24th, 2023 11:02 am | By

How did we not know this until now???

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Week 3

Jun 24th, 2023 10:50 am | By

Don’t visit Texas right now.

A record-breaking heat wave is entering its third week in Texas, as temperatures reach triple digits in the broader US south and tens of thousands of people in affected states are without power and lack air conditioning.

More than 40 million people in the US are under a heat alert.

Texas cities have reached an unprecedented heat index – which combines temperature and humidity. Corpus Christi has hit 125F (51C), while Rio Grande Village notched 118F (47C) and Del Rio marked 115F (46C). States including New Mexico, Louisiana, Arkansas, Kansas and Missouri are also experiencing scorching heat, with the National Weather Service predicting the temperatures to rise further and last into the week

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Past its shelf life

Jun 24th, 2023 9:55 am | By

When you’re going to do an extremely dangerous thing, the key is to find cheap parts that are cheap because they’re inferior. Yep, that’s the ticket.

Arnie Weissman, the editor in chief of Travel Weekly, nearly went on that fatal trip on the Titan. He had a chat with Stockton Rush the night before the dive.

Weissmann said Rush told him how he had gotten the carbon fiber used to make the Titan “at a big discount from Boeing.” Weissmann wrote in Travel Weekly that Rush said he was able to get the carbon fiber at a good rate “because it was past its shelf life for use in airplanes.”

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…

Rush had hailed the lighter carbon fiber as

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Shameless

Jun 24th, 2023 9:22 am | By
Shameless

The header for Dublin Pride’s Twitter:

Fake. That sign just above the rainbow flag – that’s fake.

Thanks to clamboy for the tip.… Read the rest