James McKay

Every day's a great day for not pretending not to know where babies come from.

[James McKay @quietcircus]

@wicked_billie @toughtalkty All of that is extremely vague. Got any actual material achievements you can point to?

[James McKay @quietcircus]

@wicked_billie @toughtalkty Sex between men was already decriminalised in England and Wales 2 years earlier, after a 10 year campaign. Gay Liberation, the movement that chose Stonewall as its origin myth, was a revolutionary Communist enterprise that proposed abolishing the nuclear family. History matters

[James McKay @quietcircus]

@toughtalkty I'm not at all sure that self-respecting homosexual and bisexual people shouldn't be doing the same with the gay "community" tbh

[James McKay @quietcircus]

@wicked_billie @toughtalkty what exactly happened at Stonewall and why should we care?

[James McKay @quietcircus]

@ffenics @toughtalkty I don't think that's true

[James McKay @quietcircus]

@HarleyShah children are very good at picking up adults' prejudices and playing up to them

[James McKay @quietcircus]

@harryr33 @sharrond62 The issue is not "trans" people, it's the much larger number of "allies" who have jumped on the issue as a way of rejecting reason, responsibility and social bonds (and as a way of advancing their careers by eliminating rivals). The parents of "trans kids" are in a desperate hole

[James McKay @quietcircus]

@bookfae_ @emhoneyreads When you read your eyes are constantly scanning the words and lines ahead of your place in the text, it's not the same as having each word presented in linear order. Reading is different than being read to.

[James McKay @quietcircus]

@JustMisogyny Undoubtedly, since 1994 at least

[James McKay @quietcircus]

@JustMisogyny It's a long story, this is just the bit I was involved in, and it's complicated. Even back in the late 1980s "we're here we're queer we're not going shopping" was a chant everyone could get behind. Slur or not, that rhyme is too damn useful

[James McKay @quietcircus]

@Albrochier it's true though, and it's what keeps us safe. all the dirty money in the world has an interest in keeping this archipelago afloat

[James McKay @quietcircus]

@danascullyshair letting people think that there is certainty about something, when you know there isn't, is falsification not simplification

[James McKay @quietcircus]

@QuetzalPhoenix the leftoids aren't left-wing at all, they're liberal fundamentalists

[James McKay @quietcircus]

@thewinterdollx luckily my sense of worth does not depend on the permission, approval or opinions of strangers on the internet, so I'll continue to do as I see fit thanks

[James McKay @quietcircus]

@NickTaber of course, that's what religions do

[Athanasius @Athanasius_45]

The Pythia knew everything:

οἶδα δ'ἐγὼ ψάμμου τ᾽ ἀριθμὸν καὶ μέτρα θαλάσσης,
καὶ κωφοῦ συνίημι, καὶ οὐ φωνεῦντος ἀκούω.
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I know how the number of the grains of sand and the size of the sea,
I understand the dumb and hear the voiceless.
Herodotus, Histories 1.47

[James McKay @quietcircus]

@nyaraV2 "literally saves lives" bless

[James McKay @quietcircus]

@justalexoki work out what it's telling you and fix the actual problem

[James McKay @quietcircus]

@rustynew386 the only significance that Stonewall has is that the anniversary was chosen as the date of the first P.R.I.D.E. event, which in its turn marked the beginning of Gay Liberation, which is not at all the same thing as rights for the same-sex attracted

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@levelsio oh it exists it's just not for sale to just anyone (if it is for sale at all)