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Genocide is a red line - how far over it they are is irrelevant. 🤷 Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

Screenshot of a quote from David Wade: "Typically, first or second launch, you expect something like 30% of them to fail," says Wade. "Then things start to get better thereafter, by the time you're up to the 10th flight, you're probably looking at a less than 5% failure rate."
Screenshot of a BSky comment: "How it started: "GC's aren't fascist" How it's going: The author repeatedly quoting Mein Kampf. Parker getting the "Roman Salute" banned in Australia. 🤷 "
Screenshot of a comment by the same troll. "Join a #CommunistParty and let us solve racism in the US by guaranteeing equal shares of collective means of production, personal property and income for the different racially identified groups. This is solving the issue without punishments."
Image of toilet signs from Apartheid South Africa: Left: "Mans" / "Men" Right: "Net Blankes" / "Whites Only"
Screenshot from https://opentools.ai/news: "Israel Tops the Charts in AI Usage with Anthropic's Claude, Leaving the U.S. in Sixth Place! September 15, 2025 Israel emerges as the top user of Anthropic's AI assistant Claude on a per‑capita basis, outpacing tech giants like the U.S., which ranks sixth. Discover why smaller, tech‑savvy nations are leading the AI race!" https://opentools.ai/news/israel-tops-the-charts-in-ai-usage-with-anthropics-claude-leaving-the-us-in-sixth-place
Screenshot from Claude.com: "What is Claude and how does it work? Claude is an artificial intelligence, trained by Anthropic using Constitutional AI to be safe, accurate, and secure — the trusted assistant for you to do your best work. You can use Claude for your own personal use or create a Team account to collaborate with your teammates. Learn more about Claude." https://claude.com/
Screenshot of a text talking about the differing word count in various versions of the Bible. "3. Bible word counts differ substantially… Yet Revelations threatens God’s consequences if the text is altered. The word counts of the complete Bible text differ, obviously between the different translations, and sometimes within editions of the same translation. For example, one source reports the New International Version as containing 727, 969 words, another claims the NIV’s word count as 726,109. The King James Version is 783,137 words; the New KJV is reported by the same word count source as containing 770,430 words. Obviously many words have been removed from different editions or versions of the bible, which renders them works of the editors and scholars which prepared them." https://historycollection.com/18-alteration-made-to-the-bible-and-its-consequences/
Screenshot of a Bluesky post about the Anthropic of leaked Claude Code source & how it's been reverse engineered using OpenAI Codex https://bsky.app/profile/michae.lv/post/3mkpolnfmap2u
Screenshot for the quoted authors website contradicting her current article: "Late-Diagnosed Asperger's and Mental Health Having eluded an Asperger's diagnosis until age 30, I faced significant mental health challenges as an adolescent, culminating in a long-term stay at a residential treatment facility in Utah, part of the “troubled teen industry.” I believe much of the current discourse surrounding this industry is sensationalized, and I am against efforts to shut down these facilities. " https://buttonslives.com/about
Screenshot of quote from Liberal Voice for Women Quote: LVfW state in their manifesto: “We, the undersigned, believe that there are two sexes, that humans cannot change sex and that sometimes sex matters in law and in life.” However their email to us states “Liberal Voice for Women are not anti-trans.”
A Screenshot of the Key Points from French research: "COVID-19 mRNA Vaccination and 4-Year All-Cause Mortality Among Adults Aged 18 to 59 Years in France" "Key Points Question: Are COVID-19 mRNA vaccines associated with the long-term risk of all-cause mortality? Findings: In this cohort study including 22.7 million vaccinated individuals and 5.9 million unvaccinated individuals, vaccinated individuals had a 74% lower risk of death from severe COVID-19 and no increased risk of all-cause mortality over a median follow-up of 45 months. Meaning: These national-level results found no increased risk of 4-year all-cause mortality in individuals aged 18 to 59 years vaccinated against COVID-19, further supporting the safety of the mRNA vaccines that are being widely used worldwide." https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2842305
This is a comic strip called "The Terrible Sea Lion" that was published in September 2014 by David Malki, from which the term "Sealioning" was derived. Text in the comic: "Woman: I don't mind most marine mammals. But sea lions? I could do without sea lions. Man: Don't say that out loud! Seal Lion: Pardon me, I couldn't help but overhear. Man: Now you've done it. Sea Lion: I would like to have a civil conversation about your statement. Would you mind showing me evidence of any negative thing any sea lion has ever done to you? Woman: Go away. Sea Lion: There's no need to raise your voice. I'm right here. I'm just curious if you have any sources to back up your opinion? Woman: You're in my house. Sea Lion: You made a statement in public for all to hear. Are you unable to defend the statements you make? Or simply unwilling to have a reasoned discussion? Man: Told you, dude. Sea lions. Sea Lion: I've been unfailingly polite, and you two have been nothing but rude. Woman: I am trying to eat breakfast! Sea Lion: Very well. We shall resume in an hour." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning
Tens of thousands of books, including those taken from the Institute for Sexual Science, are burned in Opernplatz Square on 10 May 1933. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_transgender_people_in_Nazi_Germany
Evita Bezuidenhout is a fictitious Afrikaner character created by Pieter-Dirk Uys in the 1980s, using satire to overcome apartheid censorship and criticise the state. The character was imagined as the wife of an apartheid cabinet minister, she became the South African ambassador in the fictitious black homeland republic of Bapetikosweti. She interviewed Nelson Mandela on national television in 1994, addressed parliament in 1999 and is now a member of the ruling ANC. She has her own political party, Evita’s People’s Party, which focuses on voter education. Pieter-Dirk Uys regards her as his premier clown in the struggle against fear, racism and political correctness and says: ‘Just because she doesn’t exist doesn’t mean she’s not real’
"Caitlyn Jenner announced on Tuesday that she has launched a political action committee called "Fairness First" amid heightened anger with transgender women participating in men's sports. "Today I publicly launch Fairness First PAC to fight the radical gender ideology, put parental rights at the forefront of education, and keep boys out of women’s sports," the Olympic gold medalist tweeted." https://www.foxnews.com/sports/caitlyn-jenner-launches-fairness-first-pac-keep-boys-womens-sports
Article 8 of the ECHR The government is concerned that Article 8 of the ECHR (which provides a right to respect for family and private life) is used too often as a ground to block removals. Article 8 is a qualified right which can be limited on certain public interest grounds. The government proposes to legislate to narrow its scope in three ways: To strengthen the public interest test which decision makers and courts must apply in determining whether removal would breach Article 8. To set out a narrower definition of who counts as a family member for the purposes of Article 8, to include “normally” only “immediate family members”. To limit how and when Article 8 claims can be made. https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/legal-implications-labours-new-immigration-reforms
"Caitlyn Jenner announced on Tuesday that she has launched a political action committee called "Fairness First" amid heightened anger with transgender women participating in men's sports. "Today I publicly launch Fairness First PAC to fight the radical gender ideology, put parental rights at the forefront of education, and keep boys out of women’s sports," the Olympic gold medalist tweeted." https://www.foxnews.com/sports/caitlyn-jenner-launches-fairness-first-pac-keep-boys-womens-sports
The Terrible Sea Lion by David Malki (19 September 2014, No. 1062) from which the term sealioning originates Sealioning (also sea-lioning and sea lioning) is a type of trolling or harassment that consists of pursuing people with relentless requests for evidence, often tangential or previously addressed, while maintaining a pretense of civility and sincerity ("I'm just trying to have a debate"), and feigning ignorance of the subject matter.
Andrea Williams, the chief executive of the Christian Legal Centre, which supported the nurses, said that the judgment “exposes the extent to which the NHS hierarchy has been captured by extreme gender ideology and its willingness to sacrifice women’s safety and dignity in order to uphold it. - from https://www.thetimes.com/article/485f135b-029a-4fd0-adeb-bc76643821eb
Exert from "The Ratzinger Report" Homosexuality, Abortion, Contraception and the Church: “No longer having an objective reason to justify it, sex seeks the subjective reason in the gratification of desire, in the most ‘satisfying’ answer for the individual, to the instincts no longer subject to rational restraints. Everyone is free to give to his personal libido the content considered suitable for himself.” - Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger https://loc.ignatius.com/benedictxvibooks/excerptRR.html
"If you've got, you know, two self-contained cubicles, one of which is labelled men and one of which is labelled women, then the most sensible thing in those circumstances for a service provider to do is to make both of those unisex." Dr Stephenson
Sentence: Sir, I enclose the sentence and minutes of a court-martial on two seamen, late belonging to His Majesty's ship St George. The crimes of which they were convicted was of so horrible and detestable a nature, and the times requiring summary punishments, I caused the sentence to be carried into execution at nine o'clock this morning in presence of the whole squadron. Lord St Vincent Vice Admiral of the Blue
M&S Apology: ‘Truly sorry’ The following day, an M&S customer service assistant replied, apologising for the incident. “Thank you for reaching out to us and sharing your experience,” the email said. “We deeply regret the distress your daughter felt during her visit to our store. “We understand how important this milestone is for her, and we are truly sorry that it did not go as you had hoped.” The retailer said it took her concerns “very seriously” and would ensure her daughter “receives assistance from a female colleague during her next visit”.
Good luck to them - the IOC has spent literally a century trying to define "Biological women" & failing, repeatedly - because their is no such thing. There is a continuum of characteristics, "Man", "Male", "Women", "Female" are social constructs, buckets we put people in (Along with "Intersex" & "Transgender") because they mostly do or don't match an arbitrary laundry list of features. Everybody thinks they know what a "Fish" is, but they don't exist in terms of biology. Essentially the same applies to "Male" & "Female". The closest term in Biology is "Phenotype" - the combination of "Sex Characteristics" a person currently displays / possesses - which are a product of hormones, so many of them change with changing the hormone profile. Humans can "Change Sex" naturally - people with 5-alpha reductase deficiency can present as female at birth but go through a limited male puberty without medical intervention. Biology is analog AF & no amount of legislation can change that, only harm those who don't fit into neat boxes.
Good luck to them - the IOC has spent literally a century trying to define "Biological women" & failing, repeatedly - because their is no such thing. There is a continuum of characteristics, "Man", "Male", "Women", "Female" are social constructs, buckets we put people in (Along with "Intersex" & "Transgender") because they mostly do or don't match an arbitrary laundry list of features. Everybody thinks they know what a "Fish" is, but they don't exist in terms of biology. Essentially the same applies to "Male" & "Female". The closest term in Biology is "Phenotype" - the combination of "Sex Characteristics" a person currently displays / possesses - which are a product of hormones, so many of them change with changing the hormone profile. Humans can "Change Sex" naturally - people with 5-alpha reductase deficiency can present as female at birth but go through a limited male puberty without medical intervention. Biology is analog AF & no amount of legislation can change that, only harm those who don't fit into neat boxes.
Good luck to them - the IOC has spent literally a century trying to define "Biological women" & failing, repeatedly - because their is no such thing. There is a continuum of characteristics, "Man", "Male", "Women", "Female" are social constructs, buckets we put people in (Along with "Intersex" & "Transgender") because they mostly do or don't match an arbitrary laundry list of features. Everybody thinks they know what a "Fish" is, but they don't exist in terms of biology. Essentially the same applies to "Male" & "Female". The closest term in Biology is "Phenotype" - the combination of "Sex Characteristics" a person currently displays / possesses - which are a product of hormones, so many of them change with changing the hormone profile. Humans can "Change Sex" naturally - people with 5-alpha reductase deficiency can present as female at birth but go through a limited male puberty without medical intervention. Biology is analog AF & no amount of legislation can change that, only harm those who don't fit into neat boxes. 🤷🥲
The context for this assertion that the court can know better than the legislature what's good for it is a sequence of paragraphs considering the UK legislative idea of 'living as a woman'. Paragraphs 87-93 go on an extended riff on the concept of 'passing', of living and dressing a certain way as evidence that you are living as a woman. This, of course, means that women could also be assessed against their adherence to this model of gender-approved behaviour. If there is a legal standard to live as a woman (which the court implicitly suggests ought to exist beyond having official documents showing you are a woman) it follows that all women are now subject to having their lives assessed against this standard.