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As it's international blasphemy day, can I just say that my dinner (a lovely piece of halibut) was good enough for Jehovah 🐟😀
Oh yes, there is no god, there is no such thing as islamophobia, and transwomen are men.

Good night, Bob. You were anything but "ordinary". #RIPRobertRedford

A gender-critical book at Scotland’s National Library is the latest in a long line of cancellations | Susanna Rustin The UK supreme court’s ruling earlier this year has not stopped a wave of unfair boycotts and exclusions in the arts, says author Susanna Rustin

A gender-critical book at Scotland’s National Library is the latest in a long line of cancellations | Susanna Rustin

"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."
- Salvor Hardin, Foundation, Isaac Asimov

There isn’t one political point where I stand with Charlie Kirk. Disagree loudly, debate fiercely — but violence is never acceptable.

The attack on Charlie Kirk is disgusting, vile, and reprehensible.

In the United States of America, we must reject political violence in EVERY form.

I'm horrified by the shooting of Charlie Kirk at a college event in Utah.

Political violence has no place in our country.

Houses of Parliament - 1904 #artbots #monet
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The rise of irrationality. The rise of halfwits getting into positions of power. Worrying times.

Graham Linehan: Father Ted co-creator arrested at Heathrow over his X posts Graham Linehan was arrested on suspicion of inciting violence and bailed pending further investigation.

This is "hate speech" nonsense again, or policing what Kemi Badenoch called "hurty words", which I've been accused of using. Graham asked for my email address, in case I got arrested. I just got a caution.
Wish I'd had £5 for every threat I'd received on Twitter.
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Imagine if, over Easter weekend, the police decked out a car in crucifix livery and went about sprinkling everyone with holy water.

Sandie Peggie cleared of gross misconduct allegations Sandie Peggie has been cleared of all internal misconduct allegations following a dispute over changing room access with trans colleague Dr Beth…

Cleared of ALL charges.
Bring on the Tribunal and may the fires of hell rain down on bit NHS Fife and Dr Upton.
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Our sister died because of our mum's cancer conspiracy theories, say brothers Paloma Shemirani’s brothers say she refused chemotherapy because of their mother’s beliefs.

Irrationality and delusion are among our oldest and most dangerous failings. Now they are enjoying an internet-powered renaissance. Worrying times.
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Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ theodicy The latest Jesus and Mo strip, called, “trite,” is correctly captioned “The idiocy of theodicy.”  Indeed, this is the kind of babble you encounter when you read “sophi…

Jesus and Mo deal with theodicy, but come up with the same explanation for evil.

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Revealed: Saudi Arabia’s secretive rehabilitation ‘prisons’ for disobedient women Girls and young women describe facing flogging and abuse in so-called ‘care homes’ after arguing with their fathers or husbands

Young women are flogged, abused and imprisoned indefinitely in SA.

Their crime? Disagreeing with their father. Kissing a boy without permission. Being gay. Talking back. Having an independent thought in their head.

This World Cup is not for women.

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#MusicSky #Disco

A quote from Breakfast of Champions As for the story itself, it was entitled The Dancing Fool. Like so many Trout stories, it was about a tragic failure to communicate. Here was the plot:...

It was the tangent on "The Dancing Fool". I later found out it's a well known quote from the book:
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When You Are Engulfed in Laughter A strange thing happened when I first read Breakfast of Champions, by Kurt Vonnegut

Breakfast of Champions has a special place in my heart. It did something no other book has done:
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Kurt Vonnegut in 1972. The man saw around corners. #AmReading 📚

This is a Kurt Vonnegut graph of a Kafka story

Per Douglas Adams, the British consider food a means of atonement for unspecified national sins.

Internet exchange that will never leave my head is a guy kept talking about how much he loves scott adams' work and then soon reveals that he was thinking of Douglas Adams, and then a different person was like "i thought hitchhikers was by clive barker"

Kneecap say terror charge is part of ‘witch-hunt’ to prevent Glastonbury gig Northern Irish rappers say charge is ‘political policing’ to stop them speaking out about ‘genocide in Gaza’

Well, there's that. There's also the possibility that doing something gratuitously stupid might not help the cause.
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This Dutch Jewish lad was gassed upon arrival at Auschwitz. He was only two. Had he lived, he'd be 84 today.

When You Are Engulfed in Laughter A strange thing happened when I first read Breakfast of Champions, by Kurt Vonnegut

That is brilliant.
Vonnegut remains in a class of his own. Such an expansive mind, yet so rooted in the real world. I think there's something of this combination in an unusual experience I had, years ago, with Breakfast of Champions:
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I've been reading Vonnegut for decades. Occasions upon which I stumble across something he said that I haven't read before are becoming increasingly rare. And yet every time they only make me love him more.

Unions and bosses are flouting trans ruling Implementing the Supreme Court’s judgment that ‘woman’ means female requires Keir Starmer to speak up for the law

We need a root and branch transformation of unions to ensure the maximum involvement of the mass of members in activity and decision making. Women are too often shut out or impeded from making our voices heard. Time for change /1
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