Rob Tesh

I've encountered 5 versions of this story so far (I'm heading to the NFC soon to find more) 3 feature the gender transformation.
These 3 all depict it as positive and involve Saint Brendan's well.
These 3 also depict the subject of the gender transformation as a heroic saviour figure.

Starmer most unpopular PM ever

For those telling me I'm wrong about Starmer being one of the UK's worst PMs, & that Johnson, Sunak, Truss etc were worse—essentially, none of those people were elected with a 174-seat landslide for change, & immediately opted for continuity, authoritarianism & wooing actual fascists.

That's why.

In the entire history of formalised sex verification in women's sport from the 50s to the present day, do you know how many instances of men disguising themselves in order to sneak into women's sport they've found? Zero.

The current situation at the University of Dundee is that we are not getting our annual pay increase and that promotion processes are paused.

At the same time the uni is refusing to rule out compulsory redundancies, it is advertising over 20 new senior management jobs for academic staff.

Nothing makes me feel good like scrolling through multiple TikTok videos of medical school students going through their newly minted AI generated textbooks and making slideshows of all of the errors including completely made up muscles and tendons - can’t wait to age in this hellscape

Between the Epstein, Weinsteing, Saville and Church scandals and the history of sexual predation that extends through the entire history of hierarchy in every facet of society maybe creating opportunities for the worst people to have power over others is a terrible idea and we need to stop doing it.

Geoffrey Palmer as "Jimmy" in 1975 sitcom "The Fall and Rise of Reggie Perrin", about to give a rant about all the subversives he'll fight "when the balloon goes up"

uber-wokes, net-zeroists, rejoinerists, corbynites, neo-corbynites, crypto corbynites, Chinese restaurants, why do you think Windsor Castle is ringed with Chinese restaurants?

It's incredible how routine it is now to hear a Labour MP talking like the ranting old bastard at the golf club bar

I dunno, maybe if you're given national political responsibility and you demonstrate significant incompetence or lack of integrity, that should be that? There's a lot of people in Britain who are both trustworthy and competent, maybe we could give them a go

And never forget that Dame Hilary Cass belittled as "shroud wavers" those of us asking, begging, for a regime that would keep trans children alive.

This might sound like hyperbole.

It is not.

They took a decision they were warned would cause trans kids to die. Trans kids died. They covered that up and attacked those trying to expose their cover up.

They deserve to go to prison and nobody will ever be held accountable.

It is the UK way.

Once again, for the assholes, YOU DO NOT GET TO SELF-PROCLAIM YOURSELF AN ALLY! You doubly don’t get to do that to deflect from criticism by the people you claim to be an ally to.

Not just that but Tolkien also said, “Evil cannot create anything new, it can only corrupt and ruin what good forces have invented or made.”

Sound familiar? 🙄

Boromir from THE LORD OF THE RINGS, holding The One Ring. He thought he could use it for good, but everything done with the ring turns to evil. He was one of the mightiest warriors of middle earth, and he could not resist its powers. Others even mightier fell to the ring. Do you think you are stronger than them? The One Ring is generative AI.

Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what genAI is.

GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart.

But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.

Richard Dawkins. Steven Pinker. Lawrence Krauss. Jonathan Haidt. Robert Trivers. Prominent atheists and scientists who have pushed anti-trans propaganda for years. They all had ties to Jeffrey Epstein. Some received huge research grants and island trips, and all of them benefited from their ties.

This line Starmer's supporters keep reciting about him being "a decent man" is honestly just disgusting to me.

A self-degrading thing to say out loud.

Polanski is a pleasure to interview because he will answer any question about anyone. Wes Streeting? “Wes is attacking me every day on social media because I’m another gay man in politics who is not willing to throw the trans community under the bus and that exposes his abject immorality. He must know what it’s like to be othered but he’s more bothered about power than protecting the other. It’s disgraceful.”

Okay but Zack Polanski has been coming out with bangers

Epstein wasn’t a “bad apple”
He didn’t “slip through the cracks”
He was the logical outcome of systems designed to protect rich, powerful men & discipline the rest.
Prisons didn’t stop him. Policing didn’t stop him. The state didn’t stop him.
He was protected & enabled by institutions of power.

1/n

Instead of defining success by conversion, by numbers, or media representation, success in my insurrectionary anarchist feminism is defined by my values, my relationships, my actions, my capacity, and how they all might be leveraged to undermine regime and expand agency for those on the margins.

I bet the extra row is for the "going to" future - but if they want to be *really* complete they should add an extra row for "was going to" and then there would be twenty.

It's all daft though, you can keep expanding the list forever because it's much messier than this. Only two real tenses though.

The only surprise is they admit it

It definitely goes both ways. Nobody with a moral compass becomes a billionaire and vice versa

It's that it's impossible to accumulate that kind of wealth without being evil.

You need to be able to see other people's lives as more disposable than yours in order to justify exploiting them.

And you can't make that kind of money without exploiting people.

John Lithgow says he finds JK Rowling’s stance on trans rights ‘ironic and inexplicable’ Actor says he has struggled with the backlash to his decision to play Albus Dumbledore in the new Harry Potter show, and says books are about ‘kindness versus cruelty’

In the end these statements are meaningless as any more than reputation laundering efforts.

Lithgow can see the hurt and harm. He knows Rowling is directly funding hatred from the proceeds of her merchandising empire. He has chosen to help fuel it.

www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...

Friendly reminder that Epstein is not the first child m*lester that J.K. has been linked to.
There's at least two others.
She invited Prince Andrew to the set of her HBO show (where the cast are mostly children)
And sent flowers to Marilyn Manson.
I wouldn't be surprised if there's more I've missed.

So Rowling is in the Epstein files.

I'm not surprised.

Transphoba like sexual violence is about power. Neither have much to do with sex (defending or having it), and an awful lot to do with making the perpetrator feel powerful.

An gif from Glass Onion. Beniot Blanc shakes his head and says "It's so dumb."

How can it be that it all just comes down to "they're chasers and if trans people have rights they're harder to sex traffic?"

THEY STARTED A FUCKING GENOCIDE BECAUSE THEY WANTED SEX SLAVES!

Jesus fucking Christ how can the world be this dumb.

The question should never be "is fraud profitable" or "is plagiarism good for my h-index". A call for dispassionate study fails to confront power structures that got us here, cedes the framing, and ignores the fact that decision-makers won't fund and won't listen to results of critical studies.

And yes, it's just profoundly antipathetic to having a democratic political culture to suggest we should just have a political class that manages everything on our behalf

this is a fake problem. no one is saying this to regular, offline people who are coming around. they’re saying it to people who are engaged in professional political analysis who committed professional malpractice by scolding people who saw what was coming.

no, those people shouldn’t get a break.