Malcolm French

a close up of a coyote 's head with a fence in the background Alt: A coyote howling

“Deeply wailing” or “Deeply grieving” in v2?

“Deeply wailing” better suits the poetry, but if poorly executed leaves the congregation sounding like a pack of sickly coyotes.

One can’t respond to this because the OP has either turned off comments or limited them to people he knows.

But if this is their “single most consistent moderation policy,” why is it that explicit death threats against trans people and their allies result in no action even when reported?

- TSN CFL commissioner Stewart Johnston fielded a number of questions regarding the upcoming structural and rule changes to the CFL. Johnston admitted he expected a lot of debate about the changes and reite...

What utter bull$**+.

Stewart Johnston says the Canadian game is awesome and that he wants to protect what makes the Canadian game unique, all the while pushing unpopular rule changes that strip away many of the things that make the Canadian game unique.

#FireCommissionerJohnston
#cfl
@cfl.ca

In some cases it has meant explicit death threats. While simply wishing for vague consequences against someone actively campaigning to erase trans people rates a ban.

It doesn’t help the credibility of moderation that where one crosses the line is arbitrarily different depending on who the threat (or alleged threat) is directed against.

Fairly explicit threats against trans people don’t seem to violate the moderators’ community standards in quite the same way.

Billionaires are a failure of policy.

Trillionaires are a failure of decency.

Having moved around in some high level spaces over the years (though not as many as you I think) I occasionally wonder if mediocrity isn’t a requirement for those who rise to the top.

I’m not inclined to value anyone’s service less because they joined for the coin, or for the opportunity to improve their life. They still served.

But there could be other motives, as you say.

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. . . or the person who looks or speaks or worships differently.

By all means, thank me for my service if you must. But please, don’t just thank me with your words. Thank me with your commitment to justice, inclusion, and peace.

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. . . who tell the workers that their problems are not caused by a system that exploits us all to benefit the wealthiest, but rather by the immigrants struggling to get by on three low paying jobs, or by the trans person who just wants to be able to go to the toilet in peace, . . .

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... while once beloved children’s authors deny well documented Nazi crimes. Hope is replaced with hate, and the world is a darker place.

The best thanks you can give me or any other veteran is to push back against the current tide of hate, to push back against those who demonize “the other,”...

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. . . when the rhetorical techniques of a failed painter in 1930s Germany are being recast by a failed businessman from New York. I see Muslims, immigrants, trans people, and of course, as always, Jews, stereotyped and scapegoated, . . .

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But here I sit, in this time and in this place, in a world where the arc of the moral universe appears to be bending in the wrong direction, when the lessons of Nuremberg seem to have been forgotten, where democratic norms are bent, then broken, then trampled, . . .

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Of course, I could not have known with certainty when I signed on in 1977, and again in 1991, that my career would pass so peacefully. Service is service, and I served.

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Heck, those two weeks were a routine fisheries patrol where we were live testing if Naval Cooperation and Guidance to Shipping doctrines and procedures could be usefully applied in a fisheries context. Hardly the stuff of heroes.

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. . . while cutting benefits and fighting us in court notwithstanding.

I suppose some of it is my own conscience. My 25 years of service was all Reserve time. Apart from two weeks in 2004 aboard HMCS ST. JOHN’S, I never served in an operational context, never in combat, never even in conflict.

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It certainly isn’t that I in any way doubt the sincerity of the vast majority of folk who say it to me, and to others. The 99 percent mean nothing but respect and gratitude I am sure, the handful of grandstanding politicians here and elsewhere, who piously thank us for our service . . .

I don’t know why, exactly, I’ve always been uncomfortable with “Thank you for your service.” Another Remembrance Day has given me an opportunity to reflect on the question.

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So just to clarify, @safety.bsky.app, while it is perfectly acceptable to advocate violence against LGBTQ2S+ people and their allies on Bluesky (must be, you never suspend anyone for that), it is not at all acceptable to riff off a Johnny Cash reference.

Starmer allies issue warning to PM’s rivals as fears grow over leadership challenge No 10 said to be in ‘full bunker mode’ over fears of attempt to oust him after budget or May local elections

Depressing reading.

It’s clear the inept Keir Starmer has to go, but there is also no question that Wes Streeting would be multiple times worse.

It would be like replacing Donald Trump with Stephen Miller.

Collaborators

ERHC told to stop stoking 'public debate' around gender guidance Equalities minister Bridget Phillipson has called on the EHRC to refrain from 'public debate' over its trans guidance.

When both @amnestyuk.bsky.social @amnesty.org and the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention are calling out your government human rights body as unfit for purpose, perhaps its time for a government to make some changes.

@teamlabouruk.bsky.social, how much of your soul have you got left to sell?

YouTube video by florencemachine Florence + The Machine - Perfume and Milk (Lyric Video)

When you least expect it,
a popular culture reference
to Julian of Norwich.

#FlorenceAndTheMachine

It will be interesting to see who follows the Mamdani example (affordability, protect the marginalized, if you will), the Spanberger example (affordability, don’t mention the marginalized), and the Newsom / Buttigieg / Klein / Carville (affordability, throw the the marginalized under the bus.

Feds Tell Faith Leaders 'No More Prayer' Outside Broadview Facility In a possible violation of the First Amendment, federal officials instructed demonstrators to stop holding religious gatherings outside the immigration processing facility in suburban Broadview after ...

The Trump administration are attempting to criminalize Christian prayer.

Establishment “journalism” prints truth alongside lies in the name of “balance.”

It has never occurred to them that if one source says it’s raining and another says it’s fair, that rather than reporting both, they could just look out the @#$% window.

A growing number of comedy people are calling Glinner out.

The only minority destroying America is the billionaires.

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social shows us how to fight back - without throwing ANY minority under the bus.