I've just had a little chat with someone and here's a ๐งต in response about the age of consent, why Peter Tatchell is wrong about it and the likes of Lachlan Stuart and the lady I chatted with are right. /1
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โFor contemporary variants I know most about the history of poltical Islam. I studied medieval Sufi philosophy at grad school, and I liked that a great deal.โ
I am trying to book that trip to Rome I've been talking about and for the first time in 20 years @ExpediaUK has let me down. I've set the booking up twice and it just won't go through.
I've always been happy to use you @ExpediaUK but today I am not impressed.
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Peterson is pointing at something most parents miss.
A 1990 study by Shedler and Block followed kids from age 3 to 18. The teens who experimented a little turned out the best adjusted. The total abstainers were anxious and socially withdrawn. The heavy users were alienated and impulsive.
Both extremes struggled, for opposite reasons.
Fewer teens drinking looks like a win on paper. But if itโs because theyโre alone in their room on a screen, the risk didnโt disappear. It just changed shape.
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Today is Cyrus the Great Day, which honours perhaps the greatest Iranian monarch in all our history.
Did you know?
The demonic islamic regime, which now pretends to be "nationalist", for years has blocked access to his grave on this day, because massive anti-regime crowds always form.
Long Live Iran and our millennia old monarchy. May the islamic republic rot.
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I am worried about this as I don't have a driving licence or a passport and I'm sure you'll agree my youthful features will maybe not show me as old enough on a facial check
BBC News- Ofcom outlines age verification for under-16s ahead of social media ban
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6lyโฆ
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The real horror of Halloween.
Artificial cobweb: a bit of fake fun for you, but a very real and terrifying death for them.
If you see your neighbours using it, it's possible they don't know the danger so please print out this simple leaflet and pop it through their door:
tinyurl.com/HalloweenHedgehoโฆ
The fine, strong synthetic fibres of this lethal 'web' are difficult for animals to see at dusk and can quickly wrap around their legs, wings, and neck, trapping and killing birds, insects and mammals.
When Eden the hedgehog struggled to free herself the web tightened, cutting off circulation and causing deep wounds.
Can you imagine the pain and sheer terror?
And then seeing dawn approach, while hanging there, tightly bound and helpless, only an inch above the ground but suffering slow strangulation.
Aside from being stressed, dehydrated, starving and exhausted, she also had horrific bite/peck wounds to her face, where she had been held there, helpless, unable to curl and defend herself, while a predator tried to eat her alive.
Tragically her constriction injuries were too severe to survive, and poor Eden had to be put to sleep.
If you have used this deadly cruel trap to 'decorate' your garden, I beg you - take it down now.
Please spread this vital information, and help save lives.
Oh Good Lord!! I mean... Good Lord!!!!
Replying to @Oceanbreeze473
I wish I didnโt ask so Iโm sharing groks explanation so you can as well.
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Hey @grok explain what Ozempic vagina is like you are Mike Tyson
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Iโm on the bus to town. Just saw this near Old Trafford at the road into Salford Quaysโฆ
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Iโve now been contacted by numerous people about the โBoob Man of Oxfordโ.
Those who work or study at Oxford have asked for anonymity, so I canโt share identifying details. But some common themes have emerged:
- Unsurprisingly, women describe feeling uncomfortable about a male lecturer wearing what appear to be oversized prosthetic breasts in their place of work or study
- Some question whether there is a sexual element or whether it is a โpower playโ. These are their concerns, rather than established explanations for his behaviour - but are legitimate concerns nonetheless
- They say theyโre afraid to raise concerns because he is surrounded by โalliesโ, including staff, who defend his appearance as 'self-expression'
One source has even wondered whether this is an elaborate stunt to embarrass the university - along the lines of Josh Seiter, who pretended to be a trans woman as an 'experiment'. Another source says this has been going on for three years - which does seem a long time to keep up the act.
There is interest in covering this in the mainstream press. What would help now is more documentary evidence: complaint letters, responses or correspondence showing how concerns have been handled.
My inbox is open: [email protected]. Happy to have a confidential chat about any aspect of this. All messages treated in confidence.
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Fidel Castro wooed and married the most beautiful, richest girl at Uni Havana: Mirta Diaz-Balart (aunt of the Florida congressmen).
The family thought sheโd married beneath her station because Castroโs father was well-off, but a country bumpkin married to his maid.
While the Diaz-Balarts were much more wealthy and very cosmopolitan with apts & siblings in Paris, visiting London (Waldo Diaz-Balart, whose paintings are at Moma, hung out with Picasso crowd, etc).
The Diaz-Balarts treated Castro as another average member of the family at Sunday luncheons, when he was used to being the pampered child, orating to his cleaning lady mom & country dad over meals.
He hated not being the center of attention, nor as rich nor as cosmopolitan as the Diaz-Balarts.
And as with all communists, envy propelled him towards revolution.
He kicked out the whole Diaz Balart family, kept their homes, their art, their jewels and their grandson, Mirtaโs only child.
All out of envy, greed, hatred of his own inferiority, his lack of cosmopolitanism (had never even traveled, spoke no foreign languages, hick parents).
Enviousness & a sense of entitlement caused Castro to murder, plunder, rob and leave his son without a mother.
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I really really highly recommend this interview. For anyone trying to understand why so many people have glommed on to unfathomable beliefs: perhaps they are not insane, but the people they look up to may be.
And that means there is a way back for the normies.
๐จThe Psychology of Evil: Why Ordinary People Embrace Dangerous Ideologies
Episode premieres 7pm UK/11am PST/2pm EST
@DrBretAlderman is joined by Harrison Koehli, Canadian journalist, podcaster and editor of the second edition of Andrzej ลobaczewskiโs Political Ponerology: The Science of Evil, Psychopathy, and the Origins of Totalitarianism.
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Woman of the Day physicist and academic Laura Bassi born OTD 1711 in Bologna, the first woman to have a doctorate in science and the first woman to be a salaried professor in a university. There was a restriction though. Of course there was. She wasnโt allowed to teach male students. At no stage of her stellar career was she treated in the same way as her male peers.
Laura was a child prodigy. From the age of five, she was taught Latin, French and maths by her cousin. Latin was considered an unusual subject for her to learn. Of course it was. It was the key to knowledge as well a career in science so it was clearly wasted on a mere girl, but she subsequently put it to good use by lecturing and publishing in Latin. From the age of thirteen, the professor of medicine at the University of Bologna tutored her in philosophy, metaphysics, logic, and natural philosophy.
On 17 April 1732, 20 year old Laura took part in a public debate at the Palazzo Pubblico (the seat of the local government) with four professors in which she defended no fewer than 49 philosophical theses; providing written answers in Latin to questions posed by the panel and defending them verbally. It was a very unusual kind of exam, far more intensive than the kind experienced by male students. Of course it was.
She impressed them. Less than four weeks later, the University of Bologna awarded her a doctorate in philosophy, making the second woman in the world to earn one after Elena Cornaro Piscopia 54 years before.
On 27 June that year, Laura went through the same intense and very public grilling and was awarded an honorary post at the University of Bologna as a professor in physics. The same year, she became the first woman to be admitted to any scientific establishment when she was elected to the Academy of Sciences of the Institute of Bologna.
Lauraโs rapid progress through the world of academia hit a snag when she married in 1738 aged 26. Her husband might have been a university lecturer in science with a degree in medicine in his own right but she was undoubtedly the better scientist and worse, as a married woman, she came in for a great deal of criticism. Of course she did. Women couldnโt possibly expect to marry AND continue to hold their fellowships. It went against every expectation and many in Bologna said so. Laura was only allowed to lecture on special occasions if the event was held in public so that women might conceivably attend. She could not lecture regular classes at the University because that meant her being alone with male students. Of course not, etc etc.
Ironically, marriage meant she could conduct lectures without such restrictions as long as she did it in her own home.
โIt is six years since I began giving private physics classes in my house daily, for eight months of the year. I support these myself, paying for all the necessary equipment apart from that which my husband had made when he was lecturing in philosophy. The classes have gathered such momentum that they are now attended by people of considerable education, including foreigners, rather than by youths.โ
The Academy of Sciences was reorganised by Pope Benedict XIV in 1745 to create a group of 25 Benedettini (leading scientists) who would be expected to present their research regularly. He was a great admirer of Lauraโs ability and she was an obvious choice for the 25th post but to confer such an honour on a woman was highly controversial. His compromise? Laura became a Benedettini but without the same voting privileges as the 24 men. Of courseโฆoh, you know the script.
Somehow, Laura found the time to combine academic studies and caring for her and her husbandโs children: at least eight of them (there may have been more) of whom only five survived to adulthood.
She was appointed to the Chair of Experimental Physics at Bologna in 1776 but obviously, it demanded a lengthy debate quite unlike the process applied to male candidates (I feel another โof courseโ comment coming onโฆ) but it was approved as long as Lauraโs husband officially became her assistant. (Add as many โof coursesโ here as you like).
Laura didnโt have long in the prestigious post though. She died just over a year later in 1778 quite suddenly as the result of โan attack in the chestโ. Silver laurels were placed on her head and the Benedettini paid tribute to her at her funeral.
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There are many things I find maddeningly stupid about the discourse surrounding Nazis vs. Communists is the ways in which almost everyone simply ignores what the Communists actually did while pretending they're radically different ideologies.
For instance, there's this myth that Nazis were nationalists and imperialists who tried to take over Europe to expand Germany while the communists don't do things like that. Meanwhile, Stalin expanded Russia by forcibly annexing 14 neighboring countries and the Soviet military occupied ~10 more in Europe and Asia for varying lengths of time.
"Fatherland" and "Motherland" are the same thing.
"National Socialism" and "International Socialism" are the same in practice as well.
You can go down the list and almost every single thing you can think of that people claim was a substantial differentiator simply isn't.
Yesterday, on one of my posts where I was inundated with communist losers, I had to explain for the millionth time that the Nazis were -- in fact -- socialists.
When you say that to communists, and frankly to most people, they get confused and/or get very mad at you for saying this, but there's simply no sane universe where you can argue that this wasn't the case and it becomes wildly apparent when you spend time actually reading primary sources.
Some of the objections I got were like "Well why did Hitler bust the labor unions?" and "Why did he privatize everything?"
To the first question, the answer is: Because he explicitly wanted to roll all unionized labor organizing into a single entity (the German Labor Front) which was controlled by the Nazi Party. He said he wanted to do this in Mein Kampf and then did do it once he was in power. His argument was that the state should be built around protecting the German worker, so there was no need for separate unions outside the party.
But what I didn't say yesterday was that Stalin did exactly the same thing in the USSR. His tactic was slightly different, in that he allowed the continuation of existing labor unions... but in practice all of the unions that were allowed had to be subservient to the Communist Party.
Quoting Stalin:
โFormally, the Party cannot give instructions to the trade unions, but the Party gives instructions to the Communists who work in the trade unions.โ
Of course, you might claim that the Nazi's GLF union wasn't a real labor union because it didn't actually improve the conditions of the German worker and the state simply dictated all the wages, work hours, prices, etc., but.......... guess what.... Same thing happened in the USSR where purchasing power dropped massively over Stalin's rule and wages did not go up to compensate, workers ended up being forced into a 6+ day work week, all wages, prices, and even job opportunities themselves were controlled by the state.
Anybody who tried to unionize or go on strike against the wishes of the Communist Party would find themselves in the Gulag.
The same issue applies to "privatization". Hitler NATIONALIZED what would probably be billions or maybe trillions of modern dollars worth of land and capital. He took entire businesses from his political enemies, from Jewish owners, from Jewish sympathizers, from wealthy land owners who -- according to the Nazis -- weren't using it for the benefit of "the people" (read: the state/Nazi Party).
And while Stalin handed key state appointments to his friends and political allies where they got control and cash rights over entire industries while the "companies" they got to manage were still legally owned by the state, Hitler, Mussolini, and the fascists did the same thing in a slightly different way. On paper, one of Hitler's cronies might be given a "private business" by the Nazi Party, but they were only allowed to do what the Party demanded of them and if the Nazis felt that the owner wasn't being obedient enough, they'd send that guy to jail and put someone else in his place.
These are just two flavors of the same authoritarian shit sandwich, and almost nothing about their ideological missions were substantially different, no matter what insane whitewashing you'll find online or even in most history books.
On a related note, this is a real political cartoon from 1947.
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Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya lights up his face in purple tonight to mark Female Testicular Cancer Awareness Month.
Would you be in ally & show the world your purple head?
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Replying to @soulfoodie @hatpinwoman
You do you Jennifer. I actually have not supported KJK because I donโt agree with her politics but nor have I called her a Nazi and empowered people to physically attack her. I supported Filia until they made it very clear that there were some issues they are deeply partisan about. Their โbig tentโ is only so big. Their actions at Brighton were not above criticism and consequently they investigated themselves.
I donโt spend my time constantly instituting purity tests, and I rarely publicly criticize others whose politics I disagree with. I sometimes criticize their politics, however my style is to put out my perspective, rather than criticize other peopleโs perspective. Freedom expression being one of my core values.
Here I was commenting on a dynamic that I see constantly emerging - you have chosen to understand it in one specific way, that seems to fit with your priors. Though I was making reference to one example.
IMO Only Nazis should be called Nazis. We demean ourselves and trivialize the holocaust by using Nazi as a shorthand for โpeople I donโt agree withโ. Similarly by throwing around the term racist without good evidence of actual racism we trivialize the deep harms that racism has and continues to do in the world.
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This apology from disability charity Scope, for cancelling my choirโs London Marathon performance because of my gender-critical views, is required to stay on its website for seven days.
Today is Day 6.
Women donโt always get the apologies they deserve. So Iโd be grateful if you could help make sure this one is seen by sharing it over the next 24 hours (link below). ๐
Thanks again to @SpeechUnion for supporting my legal case and helping secure this apology.
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Mel Brooks on how Alfred Hitchcock reacted after seeing the premiere of โHigh Anxietyโ (1977): โโHigh Anxiety' premiered on December 25, 1977. At that premiere screening, Hitch sat right next to me. I had my own high anxiety awaiting his reaction. He didnโt laugh. He just sat and he watched. He only broke up once. When the birds let go and plastered me with their droppings, then I could see his shoulders shaking. When the film was over, he got up and walked out. He didnโt say he liked the picture. He didnโt say he hated the picture. He didnโt say anything. He just left. I was devastated. And really worried. Not long after, when I came into the office, there on my desk was a huge box covered with silver paper and red ribbon. I tore the paper open and underneath was an impressive wooden case with a label that read: CHATEAU HAUT BRION 1961. I opened it to see six big, beautiful magnums of Chateau Haut Brion 1961. A priceless gift of one of the finest wines ever made. There was a note:
"My dear Mel,
What a splendid entertainment, one that should give you no anxieties of any kind.
I thank you most humbly for your dedication and I offer you further thanks on behalf of the Golden Gate Bridge.
With kindest regards and again my warmest congratulations.
--- Hitch"
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The first casualty of the war on masculinity was male bonding - a characteristic of masculinity as well as a characteristic of male homosexuality since the dawn of time.
Gutter queens don't see it that way. "Gay" has devolved into nothing but (often mutual) sexual exploitation.
Clint/Collide Press puts together reels of the brotherhood of naturally masculine vintage men.
It seems that men today, men, or maybe it's gay men, aren't inclined to the idea of brotherhood, especially if there's no sexual attraction.
youtube.com/shorts/PsYLvvuJ6โฆ
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A scorpion needs to cross a river but canโt swim, so it asks a fox for a ride on its back. The fox hesitates, fearing a sting. The scorpion replies that stinging would drown them both, so it would be foolish.
Convinced, the fox agrees. Halfway across, the scorpion stings the fox. As they both start to drown, the fox asks why.
The scorpion answers, โI could not help it. It is in my nature."
A group of migrant teens disrupted a Catholic Mass in Vienna, Austria, repeatedly shouting the Islamic phrase โAllahu Akbarโ while Christians were attending a religious service.
The parish priest, who has served the community for two decades, said: โI have never experienced anything like this. And I have been here for 20 years.โ
He also revealed that another priest in a different Vienna district had reported similar disruptions occurring regularly at his church.
The priest expressed particular disappointment because his parish has been helping Muslim refugees since 2015, providing housing assistance, German-language courses and support with administrative procedures.
No police complaint was filed, and the church's exact location was withheld for security reasons.






































