Joe Ruffles 🇺🇦

Londoner with dodgy accent now resident in Berlin but often found elsewhere.

[Joe Ruffles 🇺🇦 @jwruffles]

@stormrobinson @Indy_Game_Dev Your ears probably are weird. Part of your charm. But the pods still ought to stay in.

Are you using the standard size ear tip, or did you experiment with one of the others?

https://t.co/E20EXnXH1B(2nd%20generation,three%20sizes%20of%20ear%20tip.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

The rewriting of history begins.

Opponents of gender ideology haven't merely 'endured unsparing criticism'. I haven't simply been told I 'betrayed real feminism' or received a few book-burning videos.

I've been sent thousands of threats of murder, rape and violence. A trans woman posted my family's home address with a bomb-making guide. My eldest child was targeted by a prominent trans activist who attempted to doxx her and ended up doxxing the wrong young woman. I could write a twenty thousand word essay on what the consequences have been to me and my family, and what we've endured is NOTHING compared to the harm done to others.

By standing up to a movement that relies on threats of violence, ostracisation and guilt-by-association, all of us have been smeared and defamed, but many have lost their livelihoods. Some have been physically assaulted by trans activists. Female politicians have been forced to hire personal security on the advice of police. The news that one of the UK's leading endocrinologists, Dr Hillary Cass, was advised not to travel by public transport for her own safety should shame everyone who let this insanity run amok.

Lest we forget, gender apostates have been targeted for crimes such as doubting the evidential basis for transitioning children, for arguing for fair sport for women and girls, for wanting to retain single sex spaces and services, especially for the most vulnerable, and for thinking it barbaric to lock in female prisoners with convicted male sex offenders.

Now the political landscape has shifted, and some who've been riding high on their own supply are waking up with a hell of a hangover. They've started wondering whether calling left-wing feminists who wanted all-female rape centres 'Nazis' was such a smart strategy. Maybe parents arguing that boys ought not to be robbing their daughters of sporting opportunities might, sort of, have a point? Possibly letting any man who says 'I'm a woman' into the locker room with twelve-year-old girls could have a downside, after all?

Mealy-mouthed retconning of what has actually happened over the past ten years is predictable but will not stand. I don't doubt those who've turned a blind eye to the purges of non-believers, or even applauded and encouraged them, would rather minimise what the true cost of speaking out was, but 'yes, maybe trans activists went a little over the top at times' takes are frankly insulting. A full reckoning on the effects of gender ideology on individuals, society and politics is still a long way off, but I know this: the receipts will make very ugly reading when that time comes, and there are far too many of them to sweep politely under the carpet.

[Carl @HistoryBoomer]

I never get rude people following me here. I mean, you can be rude, and I can block you.
Free speech means you shouldn't be silenced, but it doesn't mean I have to listen.

Fair, right?

[Teddy Schleifer @teddyschleifer]

It's not just Elon Musk.

There's a LOT of Silicon Valley influence on Donald Trump's new administration.

Look at the personnel.

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

It's true that much of this aesthetic can be conservatively coded in the same way that a lot of prep, Americana, and classic tailoring can be conservatively coded (even if these clothes were once worn by ppl of all stripe). IMO, coding everything in the culture war is dumb.

[Carl @HistoryBoomer]

“—Orange man bad—is your only argument.”

Well, no, I’ve got more, but that’s enough! You say it like it’s a gotcha, but “orange man bad” is a good reason to vote for Harris!

[Joe Ruffles 🇺🇦 @jwruffles]

@bernardtjoy Bartley the Scrivener.

[steve richards @steverichards14]

How do Emma Barnett and Laura Kuennsberg know their listeners/ viewers are furious? It’s a form of populist arrogance..they read the screaming headlines in some papers..assume they speak for the entire electorate and elect themselves as their fantasy audience’s spokespersons.

[John McPartland @McPartlandJohn]

Well said Steve. Their claims have always amused me as nonsense and worthy of nothing but contempt.

[Ben Rhodes @brhodes]

Trump like his fellow traveling nationalist autocrats has no solutions to the problems that have angered populations around the world - he just tells you who to hate so he can benefit and his rich friends (many of whom caused these problems) can profit.

[David Simon @AoDespair]

Just read the insights of Jeff Bezos in his opinion piece in The Post. I wasn't going to join 200,000 others and cancel my subscription because doing so won't hurt Bezos -- he paid more for his yachts than his newspaper -- and, yes, the Post newsroom where good people, and some friends still labor continues providing meaningful journalism. But, my god, this man's insipid defense of his own transparent cowardice is provoking.

I cancelled. I wasn't going to do it. I probably shouldn't, and certainly, if this technobrat oligarch ever releases his grip on what needs to be an independent newsroom and editorial board, indifferent to the financial positions of its publisher, then I'll return. But this kind of abuse of a public trust by a publisher is unacceptable.

[Hugh Laurie @hughlaurie]

Someone - and I wish I could remember who - once said that it’s much easier to trick a person than to persuade them that they’ve been tricked.

[Joe Ruffles 🇺🇦 @jwruffles]

@bernardtjoy Precocious as ever.

[Dr Tessa Dunlop @Tessadunlop]

Just giving my new friends @johnredwood and @Jacob_Rees_Mogg a little lesson on the economy.

Must not let the authority gap get in the way.

[Joe Ruffles 🇺🇦 @jwruffles]

@NicholasTyrone when it was, in fact, a pinch.

[Carl @HistoryBoomer]

Why Kamala?
—she'll pick judges who will protect abortion rights
—she'll maintain/expand Obamacare
—she believes in opposing Russia in Ukraine
—she did not spend two months trying to subvert election results with fake electors, etc, and then support an insurrectionary riot

[Carl @HistoryBoomer]

Cultural appropriation isn’t real. If I make bubble tea, that doesn’t stop anyone else. The culture isn’t appropriated. It’s still there!

The supply of culture is unlimited!!!

[steve richards @steverichards14]

Taking back control:

[Yasmin alibhai-brown @y_alibhai]

Am discussing modern populism in Stratford upon Avon tomorrow evening. Before Davod Edgar's play at the RSC. Do book and come. Stable democracies are being undermined. More of us should know and care about this threat.

[Joe Ruffles 🇺🇦 @jwruffles]

@bernardtjoy 👌