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1) What Rowling is saying is just not true.
2) "Sex offences" include prostitution.
3) referring to a trans woman as a "trans-identified male" is transphobic.
4) some trans women are shitty people. That doesn't make them less women. DV rates among lesbians are ignored.
i’m in a code review with elon musk. ive got the CSS for https://t.co/iXbfr5d1Jg on 3 monitors. my browser’s in dark mode so it looks cool. “this part?” he asks, pointing to code for the Giant Omelette. “caches tweets in the mainframe cyberhex,” i say. he nods. “as i suspected”
So far, 27 years of COP meetings have been a complete failure; you can't argue with physics. Anyone saying otherwise has fossil fuels or books to sell. #EmergencyMode
Luxury cruises are punctured garbage bins on water
>47 cruise ships emit 10 times more sulphur dioxide in European waters (2017 data) than all of Europe’s 260m cars combined
>That's just 1 of 3 air pollutants discharged from the ships’ smokestacks
And it gets worse
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My day so far
8am: It’s going to be 21C today
9am: I cycle past a heavily policed Just Stop Oil protest
10am: Shell confirms it paid no tax on North Sea oil this quarter
12pm: UN predicts 2.5C global heating & catastrophic extreme weather
4pm: Rishi Sunak will not attend COP27
Kemi Badenoch could have used her first appearance as Women & Equalities Minister to ban conversion therapy, demand better trans healthcare and condemn the rise in LGBT+ hate crimes.
Instead, she attacked the CEO of @PinkNews.
The entire LGBT+ community have my full support.
Eddie Izzard: *Comes out as gender fluid in 1985*
Eddie Izzard: "I requested or asked [to be called she/her], I've never insisted it or demanded it. I'd never do that."
Rosie Duffield: I will NOT CALL YOU A WOMAN YOU WILL HAVE TO ARREST ME FIRST!!!!!Lkwejhwoif
Reminder that if a minutes silence was held for every migrant worker that died in Qatar building their World Cup stadiums in horrendous conditions, the first game would be delayed by over 4 and a half days.
Earlier this week all the windows at the research centre of the world's largest fossil fuel services company - Schlumberger - were smashed. Surely a "legitimate target" if ever there was one. But no media reported it, no blue tick scientists praised it. Do you see the problem?
is it me, or did the tomato soup action get more public attention than Wynn Bruce? The climate activist who died after setting himself on fire just a few months ago?