Hamish

Back on Twitter after a healthy detox. Sticking to tech this time 😊 UPDATE: turns out I can’t avoid politics.

[Hamish @hatfinch]

Why don't we have the "neutral" yellow skin tone emoji render as line art, i.e. the skin would be white on a white background and black on a black background?

[Hamish @hatfinch]

@BBCNews US Supreme Court upholds ban on *males* in female school and college sports.

[Hamish @hatfinch]

@miroirdufou @jk_rowling Do you understand exactly what it feels like to believe you're Napoleon?

Does this mean that people who believe themselves to be Napoleon are, in fact, Napoleon?

[Playteaux @Playteaux1]

American in The “Unpredictable” UK Heat Wave

[Kyle 🚄 @KyleTrainEmoji]

PICARD: Data, shields up

DATA: Brilliant! Shields can reduce damage we sustain. Not immunity. Not hubris. Just prudence. It's not precaution—it's strategy.

[camera shakes]

WORF: HULL BREACHES ON NINE DECKS

DATA: Here's what happened: you told me to raise shields, and I didn't

[Hamish @hatfinch]

@PowerHeels2006 @Doogsta @PaulEmbery @lawyer4laws But the logical conclusion of all this is that men and women are both going to have to be asked, right? Otherwise you'd be discriminating on the basis of gender reassignment.

[Hamish @hatfinch]

@AnonInclusive @mrstomlinstan @JamesCantorPhD @sharrond62 “Proudly blocked by JK Rowling.”

Clearly you are an independent fact checker and not a biased activist.

[Hamish @hatfinch]

@AnonInclusive @JamesCantorPhD @sharrond62 I’m sure you kept an open mind, “Inclusion Fact Check”.

[Hamish @hatfinch]

@AnonInclusive @JamesCantorPhD @sharrond62 You didn’t read the paper.

[Hamish @hatfinch]

@JMSanchis70 @JamesCantorPhD Which is to say, gender is completely meaningless.

[Hamish @hatfinch]

@DrainBammag @kimber_tweets @JamesCantorPhD This suggests to me that co-morbidities are being systematically under-detected in the reassignment cohort. Perhaps that group has been coached for fast-tracking on internet forums?

[Hamish @hatfinch]

@AlbaAyrshire @ColinBrazierTV See also:

"Given this distinction between sex and gender can be used as a way to gate-keep who can claim to belong to what gender based on sex differences, making such a distinction right now can easily be seen as a dog whistle."

[Hamish @hatfinch]

@AlbaAyrshire @ColinBrazierTV "CCC cannot pinpoint exactly for each and every tweet where it would be transphobic as that preliminary classification is one made in context of the whole situation.
People feel your (twitter) contributions add to the transphobic climate".

[Hamish @hatfinch]

@AlbaAyrshire @ColinBrazierTV Thanks! I'm very glad to be rid of them.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

As another man who once worked with me declares himself saddened by my beliefs on gender and sex, I thought it might be useful to compile a list for handy reference. Which of the following do you imagine makes actors and directors who aren’t involved with the HBO reboot of Harry Potter so miserable?

Is it my belief that women and girls should have their own public changing rooms and bathrooms?

That women should retain female-only rape crisis centres?

That men don’t belong in women’s sport?

That female prisoners shouldn’t be incarcerated with violent men and male sex offenders?

That women should remain a protected class in law, because they have sex-specific needs and issues?

That language should reflect reality rather than ideological jargon, especially in a medical context?

That women shouldn’t be harassed, persecuted or fired for refusing to pretend humans can change sex?

That women should not be threatened with violence and rape when they assert their rights?

That freedom of speech and belief are essential to a pluralistic democratic society?

That troubled minors, especially those who are gay, autistic and trauma-experienced, should be given mental health support instead of irreversible surgeries and drug treatments on non-existent evidence of benefit?

That gay people shouldn’t be pressured to include the opposite sex in their dating pools, nor should they be smeared as ‘genital fetishists’ when they don’t?

That cross-dressing heterosexual male fetishists aren’t actually oppressed, but having the time of their lives piggybacking off gender identity ideology?

That said ideology, and the privileged, blinkered fools pushing it because they suffer zero consequences themselves, have done more damage to the political left’s credibility than Trump and Farage could have achieved in a century?

Let me have your thoughts.

[Elica Le Bon الیکا‌ ل بن @elicalebon]

Tears streaming down my face listening to this audio out of Iran. They are saying it’s a massacre worse than the mind can fathom. That the 12,000 estimate is a joke in comparison to the numbers killed. And above all, that they outside help… and they need it NOW

[Steve 🇺🇸 @SteveLovesAmmo]

A speed reading training video starts at 300 words per minute and ends at 900 words per minute.

I was able to understand this entire video the first time it was present.

Could you?

[Hamish @hatfinch]

@GemmaAlexa1990 @RangersBear55 @rickygervais Well he'll surely be cancelled by the woke after having Gervais on, so we should see better comedy from him from hereon in.

[🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 𝙱𝙴𝙰𝚁 🇬🇧 @RangersBear55]

LOVE @rickygervais 😅

[Hamish @hatfinch]

@ViktorKlopp Now show us the outtakes reel.