object, agile and wiki pioneer. founder, open climate initiative. ruby guy. pronouns: if you're talking to me, use 'you'; if you're talking about me, don't care

West Wick, UK
Joined March 2007
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This is a documentary about gender ideology in Australia. From the perspective of people who are gender critical, many of whom have suffered dire consequences for speaking up. It should be fascinating.
PREMIERING NOV 5th The debate we’re not supposed to have! whodecidesfilm.com #Auspol #WhoDecidesFilm
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If this is true it is peak insanity. Anyone can claim anything caused distress. You can receive an *unlimited fine* for someone claiming you caused them distress. This post caused me distress. The poster should be fined out of existence.
🚨 NEW: Respect Orders are now live across England and Wales People who cause harassment, alarm or distress to others can receive bans from town centres, anger management courses or unlimited fines Anyone who breaches an Order can be arrested and jailed for up to 2 years
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Best anecdote in Carol Thatcher's book about her father is when Sir Denis boarded a train at Paddington in which the only empty compartment was reserved for Rosewood Psychiatric Hospital. Denis travelled alone and in comfort as far as Reading when "all these chaps piled in", accompanied by a male nurse, who counted them before the train moved off. 'One, two, three, four ... who are you?" "I'm the Prime Minister's husband." "Six, seven, eight, nine..."
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WTF, $3000 Samsung TV has an always-on mic, automatic content recognition, geo tracking, network mapping, and ships your data to Samsung + 400 partners. Bro Rooted a brand-new 2025 Samsung TV after noticing absurdly targeted ads. Firmware was locked down, so zero-days it was. Got a root shell. then found: always-on voice service, ACR, geo, full telemetry pipeline, and four separate DRM systems. This isn’t a bug, It’s the product bro.
i own a relatively new (2025) samsung tv. i kept getting weirdly targeted ads. i tried reversing the firmware but it was aes encrypted and no keys unless tear it apart and do uart/jtag magic. zero days it is. root shell on new samsung TVs! discovered PRIVACY HORROR. write up?
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Indeed Bernie. Bodies lying all over the place here in Europe. No, wait. The 32,000 is not an actual body count. It’s the result of modelling by Imperial College on the basis of several dubious assumptions. People did die of heat this summer. They usually do when it gets v hot e.g 1976, 2003. The exact number is not clear. But even if 32,000 was a real figure we know for sure many, many more will die of cold this winter. They always do.
Climate change killed 32,000+ people in Europe this summer. Trump believes this crisis is a "hoax." Republicans in Congress are following their "Great Leader.” NO to Trump’s fossil fuel agenda. YES to creating millions of jobs by moving our energy system away from fossil fuels.
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This has gone viral in France. The wonderful black woman is a credit to France. The smug, haute-bourgeois blonde an embarrassment.
“Your shops that got looted were nice, okay, but we’re starving.” People looked this girl up and her dad is a corporate executive who worked for Shell. What a smug psychopath.
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I can't get over just how crazy and dumb Official Ireland has become in the past decade or so.
🇮🇪 The Irish state has published an advert discouraging grandparents from hugging their grandchildren, as part of a campaign designed to promote "consent".
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As always @jk_rowling nails it. “It’s true, of course, that trans activism doesn’t impact all women negatively. In fact, the more privileged you are, the less it tends to affect you, and the more it might benefit you. Aside from an avalanche of death, rape and torture threats, it hasn’t noticeably affected my life. Nor does it hurt wealthy women who repost the vogueish mantras while sitting in dressing rooms guarded by private security guards. It doesn’t hurt women in the upper echelons of media, publishing and academia, who don’t need a changing room at work and who feel a snobbish disdain for working class women who don’t want to strip off in front of heterosexual males who’ve ‘identified’ into the women’s changing room. Trans activism doesn’t hurt headline-hungry female politicians whose attitude to women’s rights is ‘whatever is good for me personally’. On the contrary, trans activism has been good for those women. It’s fashionable, and keeps them popular with their progressive tribe, and costs them, personally, absolutely nothing.”
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I cannot remember any single day with SO MANY critical security breaches / disclosures, which would impact so many sites/companies/users And have to admit that the two big labs (and especially Ant) has been warning of THIS type of thing happening, since Mythos announcement
There are five separate ongoing security incidents referenced in this list
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And they were free to travel to the West. Indeed, the GDR hoped that, if they left,they wouldn’t come back - as the FRG would have to take over paying their pensions.
Retired couple at home in East Berlin, 1980s.
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You take climate change seriously, support cutting emissions and publish research consistent with IPCC assessments. Then you find yourself labelled a “climate denier”. That happened to @RogerPielkeJr. He studied losses from hurricanes and other weather disasters. Those losses are rising—but how much comes from climate change, and how much from having more people and more valuable property in harm’s way? His findings were not well received. In his lecture at Clintel, he describes the political attacks that followed, including from the Obama White House. He also walks through what the science says about extreme weather. Heatwaves, floods, hurricanes and droughts each tell a different story. And he explains why he challenges the attribution studies behind so many headlines. His full first lecture, recorded on 11 October in Driebergen, the Netherlands, is now online. Around 57 minutes, with clear explanations and plenty of personal experience. Worth making time for. 🎥 Watch via the link in the first reply.
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This will be fun - talking about my slightly crazy, zigzag career rather than just the most recent twist into TERFery
Announcing our first speaker event of the year: @HJoyceGender! Helen will be speaking to us on 27/10 about her fascinating and episodic career, from academia to journalism to advocacy. Tickets now available using the link in our bio!
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Bridget Philipson MP should not be writing in the Independent that no parent will be prosecuted for tense and difficult conversations with children when the conversion bill she is promoting permits for exactly that to be prosecuted. Time to end this misinformation from govt.
Replying to @MensNetwork1
3/ It is also not accurate to offer reassurances to parents in the terms adopted by the Secretary of State. There is no “carve out” for parents. There is no parental defence. This can be privately prosecuted. The predecessor minister anticipated parental prosecutions.
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Since I wrote and filed this last night Fintan Slye, who’s remuneration is almost £1m/year to run state-owned Neso, the organisation responsible for managing Britain’s power system, told staff he was “disappointed” in himself and “should have fixed” the problems before an independent report raised them. There’s still a widespread feeling in Neso that he puts carrying out the government’s net zero wishes/obsessions way above the concerns of his staff.
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This has to be one of the most extraordinary examples of what happens when gender ideology gets into the newsroom. The Daily Mail is reporting that transgender actor Hunter Schafer has undergone “gender-affirming bottom surgery”. Yet the journalist repeatedly describes Schafer as “she”, calls him an “actress” and claims he “transitioned to female” as a teenager. But if Schafer had already become female, what exactly was the surgery affirming? And why is a journalist reporting on surgery involving male genitalia seemingly unable to acknowledge that the patient is male? This isn’t about being unkind to anyone. It’s about the language journalists use to describe biological reality. Because when journalists start treating the idea that human beings can change sex as established fact, rather than distinguishing sex from gender identity, they’re no longer simply reporting what happened. They’re adopting a contested belief as the framework for their reporting. Link below 👇
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Missing from this conversation is the fact that last week food merchants in Gaza were going on strike because they were so angry at the huge margins Hamas is extracting from them. Why is Hamas never mentioned?
One of the main suppliers of food aid to Gaza, the UN’s World Food Programme, says it’s being forced to “drastically reduce lifesaving assistance” because of a funding shortage. Acting exec director Carl Skau is asked if he is pushing the Israeli government hard enough.
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CDC recommended vaccinating pregnant women "to save themselves and their newborns" because they said pregnant women are at higher risk. Disgustingly, the opposite is true according to this 2022 article. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/article…
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A barrister who spent 50 years fighting for human rights now calls Jews and Holocaust Survivors “grasping and genocidal” and has a history of antisemitism. Meet Usha Sood, Head of Trent Chambers. Full story ⬇️ gnasherjew.com/head-of-notti… (H/T @nicolelampert)
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The sheer hateful ignorance and callousness of this. From a barrister of many years standing and with the other posts and distinctions mentioned on her professional biography on her chambers website
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Three murder convictions. Same alleged method. On one, the expert route to murder ran through a day she was off. On another, it started on a day she was off. On the third, the lead expert's account changed in the witness box. It's all in the transcripts.
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