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25.91 inches of rain

Apr 14th, 2023 9:46 am | By

Approximately 88 billion gallons:

A complex of slow-moving thunderstorms dropped tornadoes and extreme rainfall across Broward County in Florida this week, causing historic flooding that forced residents to abandon vehicles and scramble to higher ground.

The excessive rainfall, which fell at rates briefly topping six inches per hour, was a product of slow-moving thunderstorms anchored atop a stalled frontal boundary. The initially unanticipated deluge stemmed from the natural randomness of the atmosphere, but it fits into a pattern of a warmer, wetter world with higher rainfall rates.

Statistically, the episode easily qualifies as a thousand-year rain event — or one that would have a 0.1 percent chance or less of occurring in any given year.

Approximately a third

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Whither the indoor fountains of yesteryear?

Apr 14th, 2023 6:44 am | By

The rich get richer and the poor get…drought.

Swimming pools, flower gardens, indoor fountains — and the urbanites who can afford them — are big factors behind the increasingly dire water crises plaguing cities, an international research team says.

Published in the journal Nature Sustainability, a new study found socioeconomic disparity to be just as influential as climate change and population growth when it comes to explaining why the water supply in so many cities is shrinking.

Rich people can afford to waste water; poor people can’t.

Even 25 years after South Africa’s apartheid ended, Cape Town is still segregated in distinct geographic lines, making it easier to track water usage among income groups, Savelli said. The

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Contrasts

Apr 14th, 2023 5:58 am | By

A tale of two convicted criminals in Texas.

First, Larry Pearson.

A Texas man was sentenced to 70 years in prison Wednesday after he was found guilty of harassing a public servant for spitting at Lubbock police officers.

Larry Pearson, 36, was arrested in May 2022 for domestic violence after a victim flagged down an officer in northeast Lubbock, prosecutor Jessica Gorman said. The victim told police that Pearson had hit her several times and that he had a gun. Gorman said that firearm turned out to be an airsoft gun.

A police report at the time stated the victim had “multiple visible injuries” on her face. Gorman said after Pearson was taken into custody, he was upset the

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Decent human being v bigot

Apr 13th, 2023 4:21 pm | By

Well that was a fun chat.

Kristjan used to comment here, though not very often. I liked him, so I asked him a question in all seriousness.

Oh well then, there’s no more to be said.… Read the rest



Absolute pine cone

Apr 13th, 2023 3:27 pm | By

Hey if you ever want to collect a sample of STOOOOPID replies to a gender critical tweet, just retort to a snotty tweet by justice correspondent at The Nation Elie Mystal. His admirers will arrive in their multitudes to tell you to shut the fuck up terf.

How very dare I?

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One of the motht perthecuted

Apr 13th, 2023 11:11 am | By

Who says they’re “one of the most persecuted minorities in society”? Are they really? Persecuted in what sense? Why do grown-up people with serious jobs keep repeating this childish claim?

https://twitter.com/LabourRichard/status/1646124729445523456

Or as la scap puts it…

Updating to add:

And don’t you dare question this claim of “most persecuted.” In fact don’t question anything; just shut up and get on with your knitting.

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The less joy there seems to be

Apr 13th, 2023 10:42 am | By

Malcolm Clark on the horrific mess.

She’s not so much admitted it as boasted about it.

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Susie Green changes her story

Apr 13th, 2023 9:56 am | By

A couple of weeks ago Dr Helen Webberley won her appeal.

A GP offering treatment for transgender patients online has won a High Court appeal against her suspension as a doctor and can now work again.

Note the word “treatment.”

Dr Helen Webberley has been unable to practise medicine since last year after a Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service panel found she committed serious misconduct.

But on Friday, a High Court judge said the panel’s determination was “wrong”.

Dr Webberley said she was celebrating a return to her “life saving work”.

Mr Justice Jay said he had “concerns” about “certain aspects” of Dr Webberley’s “practice” in relation to Patient C – including a “failure to have a face-to-face

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Due to safety concerns

Apr 13th, 2023 4:35 am | By

Callow misogynist reporter Tom Harwood tells us Labour is afraid of Pride.

LGBT Labour is a highly visible and notable wing of the Labour Party, with dozens of official patrons in Parliament, and a string of campaigning successes under the last Labour government.

Yet today GB News can reveal that the official Labour group are considering withdrawing from marching from all LGBT pride events this year due to safety concerns for their members, fearing backlash from the community.

In other words Harwood is revealing that the official Labour group is afraid of people involved in LGBT pride events. Which ones? The L? Probably not. The G? The B? Come on. No, they’re afraid of the T, because the T and … Read the rest



In response to the maniacal violent scenes

Apr 12th, 2023 5:07 pm | By

This is interesting. Women were not permitted to speak, with the result that more women are speaking, and so are men. The bullies scored an own goal.

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Meanwhile in Florida

Apr 12th, 2023 9:22 am | By

DeSantis is evil, and not as stupid as Trump.

Al Lawson felt the weight of his victory the night he was elected to Congress in 2016.

He was born in Midway, a small town that’s part of a stretch of land in northern Florida dotted with tobacco fields once home to plantations. A former basketball star, he was once reprimanded for drinking out of a whites-only water fountain. In some of his early campaigns for the state legislature, he ran into the Ku Klux Klan.

There was jubilation when he was elected.

“Everywhere I would go, it was like a celebration,” Lawson said one morning last month in his office in downtown Tallahassee. “People saying: ‘Boy, I wish my

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Pub decor

Apr 12th, 2023 9:10 am | By
Pub decor

Ugh. I don’t think the police should have been involved, but at the same time I really don’t think pub owners or restaurant havers or food truck users should have racist caricatures on display. Not every “should” or “should not” is a police matter, to put it mildly.

The landlady of a pub whose collection of golliwog dolls was confiscated by police has assembled replacements, which she plans to display in defiance of a continuing investigation.

Last week four Essex police officers and a trainee seized all the dolls on show in the White Hart Inn in Grays as part of an investigation into an alleged hate crime.

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Pakistan Willoughby

Apr 12th, 2023 8:14 am | By
Pakistan Willoughby

Saying men are not women is exactly the same as the Nazis says Willoughby.

We want trans people – people like Willoughby himself – to stop demonizing and trying to erase women. We want trans people, especially men who claim to be trans, to stop taking everything that belongs to women, and talking over us, and calling us Karens and cunts, and accusing us of hate crimes, and calling us Nazis. That’s what we want.… Read the rest



Is the what the same as the what?

Apr 12th, 2023 7:58 am | By

Watchdog to examine ‘implausible’ UK census trans figures

The statistics regulator is examining concerns that the data behind landmark census figures on the UK’s transgender population may be flawed.

Academics have queried findings by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) that 262,000 people identify as transgender in England and Wales.

Next look into how many people identify as a different species.

Michael Biggs, a professor of sociology at the University of Oxford, believes the question posed to record the gender identity of respondents may have confused those whose first language is not English.

He claimed it may be why the London boroughs of Newham and Brent, which have a significant percentage of residents who speak English as a second language,

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To keep congressional Republicans from interfering

Apr 12th, 2023 6:56 am | By

This is what you get when you elect a hardened criminal chief executive.

The Manhattan district attorney on Tuesday sued Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio in an extraordinary step intended to keep congressional Republicans from interfering in the office’s criminal case against former President Donald J. Trump.

The 50-page suit, filed in federal court in the Southern District of New York, accuses Mr. Jordan of a “brazen and unconstitutional attack” on the prosecution of Mr. Trump and a “transparent campaign to intimidate and attack” the district attorney, Alvin L. Bragg. Mr. Bragg last week unveiled 34 felony charges against Mr. Trump that stem from the former president’s attempts to cover up a potential sex scandal during and after

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What is a figure of speech?

Apr 11th, 2023 5:30 pm | By

Remember: always distort, re-word, ignore distinctions, exaggerate, lie, distort distort distort.

https://twitter.com/UnicornsRockUK/status/1645893364179410945

That’s how it’s done! McGovern said “We need to stop the virus of trans ideology” and Bozo says she “called trans people a virus.” Calling an ideology a virus is not calling the people infected by it a virus, just as calling Covid a virus is not calling the people infected by it a virus. The ideology is the virus, and it’s very very harmful to people, especially their brains and their critical faculties.

Willoughby has finally blocked me. I was surprised he hadn’t done it long ago; I’ve been a vocal non-admirer for a long time.… Read the rest



UN Men in Womanface

Apr 11th, 2023 4:31 pm | By

UN Women is infuriating. Goddam quislings.… Read the rest



Self-made woman

Apr 11th, 2023 11:37 am | By

There it is, there’s the saying it out loud. He’s a better woman than women are because he had to fight for it. Women are like the children of millionaires while he is like the children of the scullery maid at Chatsworth.

https://twitter.com/IndiaWilloughby/status/1645479538749472789… Read the rest


Inanely grinning

Apr 11th, 2023 10:26 am | By
Inanely grinning

Jean Hatchet points out that Dylan Mulvaney is mocking us and we don’t like it.

Shortly before this year-long, very public “transition”, Mulvaney performed a pilot video for his current lucrative act. In it he told the viewer that he “had trouble finding roles” so a friend had invented one for him, a “femme character”. His character wears a pink dress and pearls, white gloves and ankle socks. At this point Mulvaney must have been delighted to glimpse a potential new career path. It was a very savvy move for him to extend and develop this caricature of a 1950s woman. Now, just over a year later, Dylan Mulvaney has highly paid “partnerships” with a number of companies including Budweiser,

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Guest post: Locked into chasing the dragon

Apr 11th, 2023 10:02 am | By

Originally a comment by Nullius in Verba on They don’t even get the initial euphoria.

Not that this hasn’t been discussed all along, of course, but still, learning that estrogen likely makes them more depressed than they already were…well, it can’t help the discourse much.

And so they get locked into chasing the dragon with ever increasing medical interventions.

That’s gotta cause some major dissonance. When I finally started getting real help for my social anxiety, the hope that my life would improve by itself gave me a sense of hope and elevated my view of myself, the world, and my place in it. I’m trying to imagine what kind of state I’d be in if the thing I … Read the rest