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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 2h

I got an ankle monitor so now at dinner parties I don't have to keep going upstairs to check on my ankle.

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MrPaulRobinson @mrpaulrobinson.bsky.social · 11h

"Shall we do two separate tweets?"

"Nah, fuck that. Pub?"

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Non-dairy Canary @nondairycanary.bsky.social · 20h

'Alas, love can make all of us blind.'

It certainly can. Because of love, Amber thinks that the Grundys are a paragon of family harmony. #TheArchers

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Non-dairy Canary @nondairycanary.bsky.social · 20h

None of that is a rebuttal to what I wrote.

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Non-dairy Canary @nondairycanary.bsky.social · 22h

Wax and Wane

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Non-dairy Canary @nondairycanary.bsky.social · 22h

Only 20 years ago, musicians made their money from selling recordings, and advertised them by touring. Today, the records are increasingly irrelevant, and the money comes from playing gigs. I know the old record label business had its faults, but the streaming model is infinitely worse.

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Non-dairy Canary @nondairycanary.bsky.social · 23h

That's very much not what 'trans' means.

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Non-dairy Canary @nondairycanary.bsky.social · 1d

I should apologise, not you. I think my response reads as unnecessarily catty. Sorry.

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Non-dairy Canary @nondairycanary.bsky.social · 1d

Good grief.

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Kath @kathyburke.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, yes I know I keep banging on about my fucking book! However, if you want one repost this and I’ll do a random winner pick thing by the end of the week because I’m great like that. ♥️📚
#amindofmyown

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Non-dairy Canary @nondairycanary.bsky.social · 1d

'if you believe that transexual women are, or have ever been, privileged by their innate condition or the medical process of transition'

It's men who are 'privileged', and that includes 'transexual women'.

“Old clothes do not make a tortured artist.” To suggest otherwise? That WOULD be grotesque.

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Non-dairy Canary @nondairycanary.bsky.social · 1d

'Apparently (by your logic) it’s biological in some purely essence based way ...'

On the contrary, it's biological in a scientific, observable, testable, repeatable, evidence-based, BIOLOGICAL way.

The only 'essence' on display here is that by which you insist on reidentifying yourself as a woman.

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Non-dairy Canary @nondairycanary.bsky.social · 1d

'I mean the list is obviously far longer ...'

The longer you make your list, the fact that biological sex is missing from it only becomes more obvious, and your already failing argument becomes weaker still.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 1d

All these people really want is to pay no taxes and be treated with floor scraping deference. Everything else is just bullshit in pursuit of that goal.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

Party donor Nick Candy says "I cherish the values we grew up with here in the West. But today you are more likely to find the values we grew up with in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.’

Via Sam Leith in the Spectator
www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...

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Non-dairy Canary @nondairycanary.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, I would never mistake you for someone who writes 'above an 8th grade level'.

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Non-dairy Canary @nondairycanary.bsky.social · 1d

You can keep making the same unsubstantiated claim until the cows come home, but repetition won't make it any less absurd.

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Non-dairy Canary @nondairycanary.bsky.social · 1d

Sticks and stones may break my bones,
But an idiot with a Thesaurus will never hurt me.

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Non-dairy Canary @nondairycanary.bsky.social · 1d

You're using what you want the answer to be as your reasoning for arriving at that answer. It's the perfect circular argument. It fails to connect with anything outside itself.

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Non-dairy Canary @nondairycanary.bsky.social · 1d

'Your entire ideology is based on genuinely apocalyptic failures of critical reasoning ...'

'Genuinely apocalyptic'.

Gosh, Acknowledgement of biological sex will cause the end of the world. Who knew?

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Non-dairy Canary @nondairycanary.bsky.social · 1d

'I am saying that if you were to define sex in any way that is relevant to risks or society or phenotype or whatever ...'

You really are scraping the barrel. You could define sex as a four-legged equine quadruped, but it's never going to win the Grand National.

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Non-dairy Canary @nondairycanary.bsky.social · 1d

It’s been a thing some people may have claimed for 100 years, but some people claim all sorts of absurd things.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 2d

Richest 1% has more wealth than 70% of UK population combined.

Top 20% own two-thirds of wealth, receive 36% of income.

Bottom 20% own 0.5% of wealth, receive 9% of income.

Can't grow economy or have social stability.

Poverty is political choice. Which political party wants to address this?

The government must ensure fair distribution of income

'The average real wage of workers has hardly moved from the 2008 level whilst bosses never had it so good.'

leftfootforward.org

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Non-dairy Canary @nondairycanary.bsky.social · 1d

'Sex is real and meaningful'
... and immutable.

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Non-dairy Canary @nondairycanary.bsky.social · 1d

'people who have changed sex'
Not a thing.

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Non-dairy Canary @nondairycanary.bsky.social · 1d

Good for you, and good for them.