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Transfeminine jurist and bioethicist | Ass. prof at the University of Alberta Faculty of Law | Clerked at Supreme Court of Canada | florenceashley.com | they/them/that bitch | ✡︎

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Exactly.

08.03.2026 23:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Tomorrow Wes Streeting will remove trans minors ability to access, and doctors to prescribe, cross-sex hormones.

Try as it might Labour will never eradicate trans people. They cannot, and should not, change who they are. All Labour will do is make trans lives harder - with more harm and more death.

08.03.2026 19:23 — 👍 1557    🔁 425    💬 49    📌 47

What's going on in Israel re: propaganda, so ppl know:

Was talking to family there this AM & they had TV on. It was reported to me (w/eyeroll) that there was a segment on "what a tough masculine hottie" Hegseth is, "with the tattoos and everything."

"Did they mention the Nazi tattoo?"

"What?!?"

08.03.2026 20:18 — 👍 881    🔁 197    💬 18    📌 12
teewatterss on Threads:
“losing an hour on international women's day feeling very 75 cents on the dollar”

teewatterss on Threads: “losing an hour on international women's day feeling very 75 cents on the dollar”

10/10 take. no notes

08.03.2026 16:47 — 👍 9074    🔁 2053    💬 3    📌 29

Moses: “Women are so superficial with their mirrors and stuff.”

God: “Actually, they used them to neg their husbands into having sex and that’s how you didn’t go extinct in Egypt so show some respect. So yeah, how about you make the Temple washbasin out of their mirrors?!?”

08.03.2026 17:09 — 👍 27    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Usually not because preparing. But also, are you suggesting, להבדיל, that Shabbat isn’t fun? ;P

08.03.2026 17:03 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

(The joke is that “designed” is more literally “works of thinking,” so you could also render it as “made thinking,” aka made in the position of a thinker.)

08.03.2026 16:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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four statue of a man sitting on a rock Alt: Statue of the thinker by Rodin, rotating against a white background and at some point becoming four statues doing the same thing

Translations: “Designed cherubim”

Me:

08.03.2026 16:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Majority doesn’t mention it but they’d agree with that, they’re just not going to point it out for no reason.

08.03.2026 16:10 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

That’s nice. At solstice it ends at 11:32 here. 🙃

08.03.2026 16:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

*giggles* face bread

08.03.2026 15:31 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Me af

08.03.2026 15:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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a cartoon of ralph from the simpsons sits in an orange seat Alt: a cartoon of ralph from the simpsons sits in an orange seat and says "I'm in danger"

When I have to keep myself occupied but Shabbos doesn't end until 9:30 pm

08.03.2026 15:26 — 👍 13    🔁 2    💬 5    📌 0

Another reason to abolish daylight savings — what the fuck is this Shabbat time?!?

08.03.2026 15:20 — 👍 18    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Last Friday, the Supreme Court of Canada released a decision in which the majority applies what they explicitly call an “intersectional approach” to discrimination. Even if it’s just words, it’s a pretty big deal in the current sociopolitical landscape.

Read: www.canlii.org/en/ca/scc/do...

08.03.2026 15:13 — 👍 30    🔁 9    💬 2    📌 0
TikTok comment reading:
Chabad is EVIL. At the Purim party, they ran out of chocolate hamantaschens and I had to suffer eating a jam one. Also they played Benny Friedman music on a constant loop

TikTok comment reading: Chabad is EVIL. At the Purim party, they ran out of chocolate hamantaschens and I had to suffer eating a jam one. Also they played Benny Friedman music on a constant loop

Best response so far to Tucker Carlson’s Chabad nonsense.

08.03.2026 13:50 — 👍 40    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

Shabbat shalom everyone! See you on the other side. Please no nuclear war while I’m gone.

07.03.2026 00:27 — 👍 51    🔁 5    💬 6    📌 0

I don’t think minority/majority is the dividing line. It strike me as more a question of scale and the complex balance of different factors behind moving.

06.03.2026 19:47 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

😆

06.03.2026 19:45 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The same can generally be said for Iran and other majority-Muslim countries.

I promise I knew Iran isn’t an Arab country and just got sidetracked thinking about the Maghreb. 😆

06.03.2026 19:19 — 👍 20    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Yeah, I should’ve phrased it differently. My brain switched to thinking about the Maghreb since that’s the area I know more and it gets the same arguments. 😅

06.03.2026 19:16 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Diasporas are rarely representative because of selection biases in reasons and ability to leave.

The more you love a country and its government, the more it takes to get you to leave—so among the first to leave are usually critics.

I’m not sure why being Jewish is the relevant factor here.

06.03.2026 19:13 — 👍 25    🔁 2    💬 3    📌 0

Too often, people dismiss the Jewish diaspora from Arab countries by blaming Israel and Zionism for why they became hostile to Jews. But it doesn’t stop that hostility being real or antisemitic.

06.03.2026 19:06 — 👍 55    🔁 10    💬 5    📌 0

A lot of people think “surely nobody wants to fuck someone they think is subhuman,” and these people need to be taught about the concept of heterosexual men.

06.03.2026 03:13 — 👍 290    🔁 78    💬 0    📌 0

Lollll

06.03.2026 02:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Fair question but also doesn’t detract from it being just very reply-guy of the NYT to do this.

06.03.2026 02:25 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

NYT using an official account to directly reply to people who criticize them is so embarrassingly pathetic.

06.03.2026 02:20 — 👍 67    🔁 10    💬 4    📌 1

Quick question does anyone know how to restore virtue to a decaying society

06.03.2026 01:27 — 👍 7199    🔁 984    💬 268    📌 135
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McGill, Concordia drop legal battle with Quebec government over tuition hikes - Montreal | Globalnews.ca The English universities won a ruling last April after the Superior Court overturned the hike of about $3,000, finding that it was unreasonable.

If an entire-ass university is too poor to go to court, can you imagine what things are like for regular people? 🥲

05.03.2026 23:46 — 👍 27    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

This is a photo of Graham Platner with a man wearing an 88 shirt, who also seems to think that Graham Platner will "Stand against The Jews."

05.03.2026 22:00 — 👍 404    🔁 119    💬 23    📌 11