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When a US YouTuber reacts to a question about if they support Trump or not with not only refusing to answer the question but with anger and outrage at even being asked...

There's your answer right there.

When the thing you didn't want to go to has been postponed! Yeah, I get my Sunday back!

Dragon Age is probably not the franchise to invoke given it's had queer characters independent of the player's preferences since it started. Indeed the character on the right's recruitment mission involves trying to rescue his male ex. Later DA games add in even more of this sort of thing.

Ours is actually on Win10! With plans for a Win11 upgrade later this year

Network probably still reliant on one odd person in the basement though.

Conspiracy theorist upset that they are the target of a conspiracy theory. 2025 is going to be an interesting year for MAGA.

Useful contacts - Christmas and mental health Contact details for helpful organisations who can support your mental health over the Christmas period.

If you, or someone you know, is likely to be struggling this Christmas, this link has a load of useful contacts. www.mind.org.uk/information-...

Mercifully, mine have avoided this fate by virtue of being in a relatively overlooked fandom.

Discussion on Threads about why do so many video games have to involve killing and why can't we just enjoy our cosy games and...

Nowt's stopping you playing Sims, Stardew Valley, Animal Crossing, whatever. Just leave us murderous reprobates to our killing fields in peace, yes?

Does she know what that word actually means...

:( All I wanted for Christmas was Bukayo Saka healthy.

Advice to anyone who wants to be seen as a moral arbiter. If child abuse claims regarding an employee of yours are brought to you, ACT ON THEM. It's not exactly a great leap of moral thought to conclude that grown men trying to have sex with kids is bad, is it?

The line about feeling like a miscast evil villain rang so true. I was bullied so often, including by my own mother, I started to think I must be one.

I no longer think it's the case, but people in adult life too have been weirdly keen to cast me in that role. Afraid I'll tell the truth about them?

Oh this is VERY amusing!

Lads; I see some of you tryna chat this bot up as if she's real

The picture is nicked from Business Insider. It's a scam bot.

I work in a team of five. Boss is cool, worked with him for years. Colleague 2 is entertaining enough to be worth the hassle. 3 is a fellow NDer and great. And then there's Number Four.

Oh my god, number four is irritating. I will celebrate the day he leaves this organisation, stg.

Five Reasons Quakers Can Celebrate Christmas In Quaker faith & practice, passage 27.42 says: A… testimony held by early Friends was that against the keeping of ‘times and seasons’. We might understand this as part of the conviction …

Do Quakers celebrate Christmas? It depends which Quaker you ask, of course, but here's a blog post I wrote about some reasons why, even though we traditionally don't keep the liturgical year, we might choose to. brigidfoxandbuddha.wordpress.com/2016/12/12/f...

I am all for this action.

I'd also suggest emailing the same to dhsc.publicenquiries@dhsc.gov.uk *at a different time* ie not as a part of the blockade. Please use your own words if you can.

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Love Actually this, Die Hard that - the true Christmas movie is obviously Muppets Christmas Carol.

OTOH when one of the Men On The Internet snaps at you to go and make him a sandwich, we now have the perfect comeback.

Chris may have just saved his #strictly run.

Oddly enough, “stop running down the public services in which they work and stop hateful misinformation campaigns against them just for doing their jobs” does not feature as a proposed solution.

Less than 10% of power in Britain currently coming from fossil fuels. 63% from wind (as you'd probably expect). The dunkelflaute is over! grid.iamkate.com

One thing you will never think after reading a great book or listening to a great album or seeing a great piece of art is, “I’m really glad this person remained cautious while they were making this and guarded against being perceived as weird.”

Anyone insisting we have to welcome conservative "thinkers" are the ones that either truly live in a bubble or are actually conservatives. I don't need to hear any new justifications they come up with to ruin everyone's lives with their nonsense. I've never gone a day without hearing it yet anyway.

By the time I'd found the real one and not the impersonator, I am pleased to report that he's already on at least one blocklist (which saved me the trouble) and Shinigami Eyes is also flagging him red.

This is fabulous! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

On November 20th, Rep. Nancy Mace introduced a federal trans bathroom ban under the title of the "Protecting Women's Private Spaces Act." While this began as an attempt to bar newly-elected Representative Sarah McBride of Delaware from using the women's restroom in her own place of work as a legislator - which is unacceptable on its own merits - it will not end there. Speaker Johnson's decree in support of Mace's proposal reiterated the same argument: that this is an act designed to protect women, to keep us safe, because "women deserve women's only spaces." To introduce this legislation on the International Transgender Day of Remembrance - a day commemorating trans people worldwide who have died due to hate and violence - is appalling. To pretend Mike Johnson and the House GOP care about the safety of women, given the candidate they just elected and the Cabinet nominations he continues to make, is beyond naive.

Over the past several years, as trans bathroom bans have been enacted in communities across the country, we have seen firsthand the cascading negative effects. No one is made safer by this. Certainly trans youth are not, as we saw firsthand from the shocking, violent death of Nex Benedict, a 16-year-old nonbinary youth in Oklahoma who complied with exactly such a bathroom restriction and was brutally beaten by classmates in February of this year. But even the women and girls these bills purport to protect are at increased risk; this legislation empowers individuals with narrow definitions of gender presentation to appoint themselves bathroom cops, and harass anyone they do not believe is publicly performing the role of womanhood correctly.

Lesbians and butch women, women who are unusually tall, women who have short hair, women who wear baggy or "masculine" clothes, women of color in professional sports whose bodies are critiqued for their strength, even simply women who wear baseballs caps: all of this is sufficient evidence for increased harassment. This is not even a new phenomenon; there are news stories of exactly these cases going back to the bathroom bans of 2016. It will not just be Rep. McBride who suffers for this; it will be your own congressional staff - anyone who is queer, trans, nonbinary, gender-nonconforming, or simply does not fit the stereotype of female physical appearance - whose workplace harassment you would be enabling if Mace's proposal is allowed to pass.

The people who make women's restrooms unsafe are people like Nancy Mace, who are banking on the silent complicity of other cisgender women to support the lie that the majority of us feel safer and more comfortable with trans people pushed out of our spaces. The end goal of trans bathroom bans is not limited to who uses which bathroom; it is a way to test the public's compliance with eradicating trans and nonbinary people from public spaces altogether. In the wake of the recent presidential election loss, it seems clear that it is also a test of the moral backbone of the Democratic Party, and whether we will choose to abandon our progressive values for the sake of expedience and permit more Nex Benedicts to suffer.

boosting the Cisgender Women Against Bathroom Bans petition again, please sign and share if you missed it the first time around! It’s at a little under 8,500 signatures now and we would love to try to get it to 10,000 by the weekend!

actionnetwork.org/petitions/no...

Responding to the Cass Review - a solution focused approach - TransLucent TransLucent appreciates the efforts made by Dr Hillary Cass and her team  to improve the healthcare of gender-questioning children and young adults - we

I want to thank the entire team of gender identity healthcare professionals who, over many months, put together TransLucent's response to #Cass.

I am delighted to confirm LGBT Consortium (with over 650 members) 'support and endorse' our report.

translucent.org.uk/responding-t...