Bless those Salisbury Beach people, they plaster photos of their damaged expensive houses that are a few feet from the ocean all over their Facebook group so that the whole world can see how entitled they are. Check it out:

The fucking ocean is right fucking there you fucking fools what did you think would happen?… Read the rest

How dumb can you get?

A group of wealthy US homeowners spent $565,000 (£441,000) to build protective sand dunes near their properties – only to have the barriers wash away in days.

Where were these properties? Why, on a beach. Hello: beaches have been disappearing from under beach houses for decades, far longer than anyone’s been talking about climate change. I have vivid memories of dangling halves of houses on the New Jersey shore back in the 60s. Why in hell would anyone think for a second that bringing in more sand to be washed away would be useful?

I mean even without the last few decades of experience, are people not aware of what sand is? Do they … Read the rest

This guy should be booted off Twitter for constantly lying about gender skeptics.

Gender Criticals fit neatly into points 1 & 3.
These anti-trans activists are actively working to remove trans people’s rights, and their ideology of hate is directly responsible for creating an environment where transphobia is thriving.
They are Gender Critical Extremists. https://t.co/1wJDLZXFPM

— Thomas Willett (@ThomasWillett9) March 14, 2024

That’s just a lie. People who don’t believe in magic gender are not “working to remove” anyone’s rights, we’re working to protect women’s rights. Trans people don’t have a right to shove women aside and replace them with men in lipstick. Pinheads like Thomas Willett need to stop burbling about “trans rights” without ever defining them or explaining … Read the rest

Or maybe it was a matter of influencers.

What is a “transfeminine jurist”?

What does it mean to “move through academia using a profoundly transdisciplinary approach”?

What is a “transfeminine law clerk”?

If Florence is a trans woman why does he call himself “they”?… Read the rest

You have GOT to be kidding.

The National Post [Canada]:

The Supreme Court of Canada ruled in a recent sexual assault case that it was “problematic” for a lower court judge to refer to the alleged victim as a “woman,” implying that the more appropriate term should have been “person with a vagina.”

In other words it’s “more appropriate” to call victims of sexual assault cunts.

In a decision published Friday, Justice Sheilah Martin wrote that a trial judge’s use of the word “a woman” may “have been unfortunate and engendered confusion.”

While “person with a vagina” would engender no confusion?

Martin does not specify why the word “woman” is confusing, but the next passage in her decision

Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on They simply memorized a rule.

when faced with a “gut” common-sense feeling that something’s amiss with transgender ideology, the “rote lesson” they’ve absorbed is to distrust their own “gut” sense that something’s wrong because there must be some kind of higher, intellectual, rational justification out there somewhere that they fear they just haven’t worked out yet.

Kind of like, All these other important people have figured it out already; why haven’t I?

On occasion, I’ve wondered how it is that this exact kind of argument never worked with regards to religious belief. There’ve been lots of important and brilliant people who’ve held devout religious belief, yet their own faith made … Read the rest

You’ll not believe me but this is a real thing.

The hate monster? Seriously? Are we, and police Scotland, being run by a fucking primary one class? Or are they just allowing the lowest IQ idiots to dictate to them? Frankly, it doesn’t even matter. It’s offensive to any half intelligent adult. pic.twitter.com/tXNjBzpoiD

— Fergie (@Fergie_CJ) March 13, 2024

Here it is right here at Police Scotland here. The police, talking baby talk to the citizenry.

Have you met the Hate Monster?

The Hate Monster, represents that feeling some people get when they are frustrated and angry and take it out on others, because they feel like they need to show they are better than them. In other words,

Cool, the Royal College of Midwives has invented a new way to gestate and push out babies.

Oh thank god, Amnesty International has found the way to fix everything.

There is no place for white supremacy. Anywhere. Ever. pic.twitter.com/f69NZwFpZi

— Amnesty International (@amnesty) March 13, 2024

… Read the rest

I started re-reading Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland last night (for the 5th time? 10th? 20th? I don’t know). Kept shrieking with laughter at the language jokes.

Suddenly she came upon a little three-legged table, all made of solid glass; there was nothing on it except a tiny golden key, and Alice’s first thought was that it might belong to one of the doors of the hall; but, alas! either the locks were too large, or the key was too small, but at any rate it would not open any of them.

…

How she longed to get out of that dark hall, and wander about among those beds of bright flowers and those cool fountains, but she could not even

What a bizarre choice.

On Debate Night tomorrow, Stephen will be joined by @StuMcMillanSNP, @CMochan, @MGallacherMSP, @agcolehamilton and @OwenJones84

Join us and an audience from Dumfries on@BBCScotland 10.30pm #bbcdn pic.twitter.com/ZoUYCOzkAu

— BBC Debate Night (@bbcdebatenight) March 12, 2024

BBC Debate Night then gives a short bio for each debater, concluding with

And Columnist @OwenJones84 will be on the panel #bbcdn pic.twitter.com/gRhTVLBvVx

— BBC Debate Night (@bbcdebatenight) March 12, 2024

It looks like one of Moley’s jokes but it isn’t, that’s the actual BBC tweet.… Read the rest

Originally a comment by Artymorty on Oh look a sharp rise in referrals.

Wouldn’t you think that would alarm the people in charge? Wouldn’t you think they would pause to try to figure out why referrals skyrocketed like that? Wouldn’t you think they would not just assume it’s because a real need is at long last being met? Wouldn’t you think they would want to make sure they hadn’t simply created a market just as advertisers create markets for particular movies or shoes or cars? If you build it they will come along to get their bits cut off.

It never ceases to amaze me the rationalizing people do. People want moral certainty and simplicity, and that means they … Read the rest

More on the no more puberty blockers news:

Children will no longer be prescribed puberty blockers at gender identity clinics, NHS England has confirmed. The government said it welcomed the “landmark decision”, adding it would help ensure care is based on evidence and is in the “best interests of the child”.

Makes you wonder why care wasn’t already based on evidence and in the best interests of the child.

It used to be widely understood that “in the best interests of the child” very very often meant “not what the child wants in the moment.” It used to be widely and well understood that children don’t always know what’s best for them. I still wonder how that understanding vanished … Read the rest

No longer:

Children will no longer be prescribed puberty blockers at gender identity clinics, NHS England has confirmed.

Puberty blockers, which pause the physical changes of puberty such as breast development or facial hair, will now only be available to children as part of clinical research trials.

Fewer than 100 young people are currently on puberty blockers and they will be able to continue their treatment, it has been confirmed.

But is it “treatment” or is it something else? That’s rather the issue, isn’t it?… Read the rest

Stock on Butler part 2.

There isn’t a single objection lodged against opponents that does not come freighted with the implication of moral taint and/or stupidity. Of course, painting one’s intellectual enemies as cartoon characters is a known tactic of modern transactivism; still, it is shocking to see it done so crudely by someone who retains a high reputation in many quarters.

The many quarters are the more easily fooled ones, as of course Stock knows and expects us to understand.

It is also striking how hackneyed some of the thought is. Butler’s writing in her heyday at least displayed a bit of panache and originality, assuming you could parse it successfully. In contrast, here she comes over as in

Reading Kathleen Stock’s heartwarming review of Judith Butler’s new book on Y R terfs so evil. I’ll say one thing for JB: she’s a brilliant catalyst for jokes.

Not for her the pedestrian business of going through critics’ arguments, providing non-partisan evidence, and patiently exposing internal contradictions and gaps in an understated but cumulatively devastating manner. 

She could do that, she says, but she goes on to not do it.

Instead, she wants to give the people what nobody was really asking for: a deconstruction of the “syntactical elements” of the “anti-gender movement”, understood as a “phantasmic scene” according to the “theoretical formulation of Jean Laplanche”.

Oh well then. If we’re bringing in Jean Laplanche then it’s game over. (New … Read the rest

Is that true?

I assume that by ” those who have whipped up Britain’s unhinged transphobic moral panic” Jones means those who have pointed out that people can’t change sex and that men who claim to be women are displacing and bullying women.

Is it likely that four teenagers would stab a man who claims to be a woman because gender critical feminists point out that men can’t be women? I don’t think it’s likely at all. I don’t think stabby teenagers spend much time considering the arguments of gender critical feminists. To be fair I don’t think they spend any time doing that.… Read the rest

What was their first clue?

To Donald Trump, Hungarian strongman Viktor Orbán is “fantastic,” Chinese leader Xi Jinping is “brilliant,” North Korea’s Kim Jong Un is “an OK guy,” and, most alarmingly, he allegedly said Adolf Hitler “did some good things,” a worldview that would reverse decades-old US foreign policy in a second term should he win November’s presidential election, multiple former senior advisers told CNN.

“He thought Putin was an OK guy and Kim was an OK guy — that we had pushed North Korea into a corner,” retired Gen. John Kelly, who served as Trump’s chief of staff, told me. “To him, it was like we were goading these guys. ‘If we didn’t have NATO, then Putin

Trump and Orban agree to murder Ukraine.

Donald Trump “will not give a penny” to Ukraine if he is re-elected US president, the far-right Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orbán, said after a controversial meeting with Trump in Florida.

“He will not give a penny in the Ukraine-Russia war,” Orbán told state media in Hungary on Sunday. “Therefore, the war will end, because it is obvious that Ukraine can not stand on its own feet.” According to Orbán, Trump has a “detailed plan” to end the Ukraine war, which began two years ago when Russia invaded.

Oh please. Trump has no detailed anything. It doesn’t take a detailed plan, all it takes is a Toddler No, and that’s all Trump … Read the rest

Wait, you mean Hamas aren’t the good guys? Are you sure? Did you check with them?

Arresting the victim part 3:

During the protest some activists were heard chanting “Zionist scum, off our streets” and several placards showed support for the Houthi militias in Yemen targeting ships going through the Red Sea.

One pro-Palestine activist on the march could be seen wearing a protective helmet and carrying a riot shield. The man, whose helmet was similar to those used by reporters in combat zones, paraded holding the riot shield with the slogan: “Resistance is justified when your land is occupied.”

One young woman held a placard that read: “One holocaust does not justify another,” in defiance of