Kevin Kretsch (DrKev)

Trump administration, all of them, are lawless thugs. There should be no doubt about it now.

This at the UN, not NATO. Iran is not in NATO. Mike Waltz is the US Ambassador to the UN, and he's threatening Iran's UN Ambassador, who is explicitly not on US soil when he's at the United Nations. Mike Waltz knows that and is behaving like a lawless thug anyway.

"Bless me Father for I have sinned. It's been a week since my last confession. Same sins as last week."
"And are you sorry for your sins?"
"I am, Father."
"Grands so. God forgives you. Do three hail Mary's and a decade of the rosary"
"Thanks, Father. See you next week."

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“Its not the time”

63 years ago, Dr. King wrote in his letter from Birmingham jail that the white moderate was the greatest impediment to freedom. “It’s not the time” is EXACTLY what he was talking about.

Awaiting pushback for my Paris-Dublin flight. Captain just gave his pre-flight speil, mentioning that would would “taxi out to the easterly runway”. That made me smile ‘cause Paris CDG has 4 runways, and they are all parallel. 🙂

Dublin here I come!

Today is day 1489 of #LongCovid for me. That’s 37 months, or, 4.08 years. No end in sight. 😖

Dublin is the 19th best city in Europe says a review of 180 places. Dublin is deemed highly livable, lovable and prosperous. It's ranked #1 for Economic Output, #9 for biking, and #11 for walkability. 🇮🇪🚲🚶

www.worldsbestcities.com/rankings/eur...

While council staff are barred from using free AI chatbots, councillors are trained on them "Use of free and publicly accessible Gen AI tools present a significant risk for organisations," Dublin City Council guidelines say.

While council staff are barred from using free AI chatbots, councillors are trained on them. "Use of free and publicly accessible Gen AI tools present a significant risk for organisations," Dublin City Council guidelines say.

Wide protected bike-lane filled with people riding bikes in central Paris. #UrbanBiking #UrbanTruth

Paris urban biking investment helps cut pollution in half: “Between 2005 and 2024, levels of nitrogen dioxide and fine particulate matter — 2 of the most harmful pollutants to human health — have been slashed by 50% and 55%, respectively.” Via @momentummag.bsky.social momentummag.com/paris-proves...

I don’t understand people in airports. The incoming aircraft has not arrived yet and people are queuing to board?? Assigned seating and boarding by group, like why?

I just fundamentally do not believe that there are families so homophobic that they are OK with their kids being trans instead.

It was in those spaces, in the late 2010s, that I realized that the fundamentalist Christians I’d grown up with weren’t the only people enforcing rigid ideas about how others should think. After arriving in New York with mainstream Democratic views, I took classes heavy on critical theories that fixated on identity categories and reflexively decried capitalism and the West. Within influential LGBTQ organizations, gay rights had given way to radical queer politics, and academic theories about sex and gender had hardened into doctrine. Widespread revulsion toward Donald Trump had narrowed the boundaries of permissible discussion on the left. The more Trump and his followers opposed something, the more we were supposed to support it. The prevailing view was that any debate within our side would become ammunition for the right.

For a long time, I feared that if I didn’t keep my thoughts to myself, I would lose the only community I’d ever really belonged in. As controversy flared up nationally about pediatric gender medicine, though, I started voicing concerns, rooted in my own experiences, over what looked to me like a rush to medical treatment. For all the sloganeering about protecting trans kids, I heard no discussion about protecting effeminate gay boys from unnecessary medicalization. When I and others asked whether progressive norms might be nudging effeminate gay boys to think of themselves as girls, no one wanted to hear it. Instead of answers, we were given the LGBTQ community’s official line. “Gender identity and sexual orientation are two different things,” the Human Rights Campaign asserts. But the confidence with which people claim that the two have nothing to do with each other is hard to square with research findings: According to data collected mostly before the recent surge in pediatric-dysphoria diagnoses, most prepubescent children who experienced gender distress went on to experience same-sex attraction and ultimately did not pursue a gender transition. Of 70 adolescents whom Dutch clinicians subjected to puberty suppression from 2000 to 2008, the overwhelming majority were attracted exclusively to people of their biological sex.

Straightforward right-wing agitprop. The idea that thousands of kids were pushed into gender-affirming surgeries because the left shuts down debate is a laughable conspiracy theory. The overwhelming social pressure is to be cis, not trans!

I actually don't have words as to how angry I am.

Wonder what happened in these countries that people on student visas in the UK found themselves needing to apply for asylum instead of going home post 2021.

UK Labour are heartless bastards & apparently have bo idea whats happening in the world.

Poor fuckers will have to slum it in the inferior super-luxury housing. There’s only one thing for it…

Raise their fucking taxes. 😆

US strikes on Iran ‘outside international law,’ says Macron Macron joins Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez in calling the legality of the strikes into question.

After four days of hesitating, the president of France has joined the prime minister of Spain in saying that the 🇺🇸🇮🇱 attack on Iran is a violation of international law.

But they are still the only 2 EU leaders to have done so. Will others join?

I noticed at least half a dozen Israeli El Al airliners parked up at terminal 1 at Paris CDG this morning. Getting them out of harm’s way I guess?

In other news, France is to make more nuclear warheads.

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Avoid the pump & higher fossil fuel prices - electrify your home, switch to an EV, use mass transit, or micro-mobility options. There are options available at all budget points. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋

As we say in Ireland, "go fuck yerself ya transphobic piece of shite".

Wonderful song that back in my gigging days I must have played a few hundred times.

And I’ll bet that person has absolutely no idea of just how rude they are so many times a day in Paris if judged by the rules of French culture (which they are usually not judged by because people in Paris generally understand the tourists come from a culture with different rules).

Our abortion laws and policies, are still forcing people dealing with Fetal Fatal Abnormalities to travel to the UK for healthcare which should be provided for here with compassion.

#TMFRIE #FreeSafeLegal #Repealedthe8th #Spéirgorm

Source: spoonfulofhannah on tumblr Fatigue feels like you have sandbags tied to your feet while trying to walk. It feels like you haven’t slept in weeks. It feels like gravity is pulling you down. It feels like cotton balls are in your head, clouding everything. Fatigue is NOT the equivalent to being tired.

@spoonfulofhannah.bsky.social

I agree with her.

I started watching "How to get to Heaven from Belfast" on Netflix. Wasn't sure after ep.1 but I've just finished ep.2 and I think I'm hooked!

#SpeirGorm

It is extremely problematic to present or perceive service providers as the voice of disabled people and I really need people to understand that.

These awesome people known as Led by Donkeys. It takes barely 63 seconds of due diligence to figure this out, because their name is posted at the end of the video. Please do better next time. ⬇️

Board of Peace - Season 1

How have crime rates in the United States changed over the last 50 years? Both violent and property crime are far below their 1990s peak, but some crimes see periodic rises.

Looking at the 2024 crime figures, it's absolutely insane how Trump, tech billionaires, and centrist pundits fooled everyone into thinking Biden had turned the U.S. into some Hobbesian hellscape.

50-year lows for violent crime, armed robbery, property crime. Second-lowest homicide rate.