I am also on the other place now. You can find me at @layog.bsky.social

I know Lewis is sneering at this but when I saw this Times editorial it did make me think about how our cultural elites are often even more liberal than our politicians (who are more liberal than voters).

Logging a male-born transwoman as a woman and crucially not recording their natal sex, on police reports, is violence. It skews statistics on sex and criminality that will lead to harms.

This can so easily be flipped tbh. Forcing a female officer to search a male-bodied transwoman, is violence. Forcing a female prisoner to share a cell with a male-bodied transwoman who has committed sexual offences, is violence.

RT @shagbark_hick: The training these guys do is insane. ~80% of those who try to be USCG rescue swimmers fail out. You have to be in Olym….

The context of this reply succinctly outline here.

Only three tribes say something as mental and as odious as this: far-Left, far-Right, or FBPE-liberal. As Al Murray is “centrist" coded (due to being Corbyn sceptic), I doubted it would be the latter. Turns out it’s a Right-wing poster this time.

Weird how Harry looks fairly consistent throughout but Ron is just a different fella in every shot.

RT @BrentToderian: One of the most successful pedestrian streets in the world, the Strøget in Copenhagen was filled with cars until a 2 yea….

RT @StatisticUrban: It really is insane that the Anglosphere just doesn't build housing.

RT @fitzochris: Footballers playing cricket in the off season? It’s like the 1960s have returned. He’s bloody quick too.

This reminds me of the Iraqi cab driver I had in LA. He said he’s fine driving around US soldiers who served in Iraq cos they just wanna tell him their war stories. But he got uncomfortable when I started asking for HIS experience of the war. I actually didn’t ask him if he was.

RT @rcolvile: @BernoulliDefect It may be honesty but also not knowing that ‘social protection’ and ‘welfare’ are different things. In fact….

RT @rcolvile: @BernoulliDefect No, it’s mashing up two different data sets in a dishonest fashion. And the pension stuff, but mostly the di….

RT @Sam_Dumitriu: In 1937, London built 80,000 homes. Last year, it built less than half that. To find out why, I looked at two different….

RT @paulpowlesland: A few things to reply to from the comments:. - Re water quality: the PLA (despite having the powers to do so) have neve….

RT @rcolvile: @GerryHassan And finally of course we used to be in Eurostat, so there is earlier data which includes us! And hey guess what….

RT @rcolvile: ‘If I use completely different definitions of welfare spending, the UK is barely spending anything at all!’.

RT @MittenDAmour: Something so British in the glee we feel when a wholesome hero is unmasked as a rotter. We live for this shit.

My mate thought bringing up Hillsborough in the context Diogo Jota’s death wasn’t appropriate. He said you wouldn’t do the same about the Manchester Arena Attack but then again, he said the Manchester Arena bombing was so disturbing you want to bury it somewhat/don’t bring it.

I don’t think the rest of country looks at Liverpool as a city that has suffered more tragedies than any other. Hillsborough was unique due to the state cover up, I accept that. But Bradford had the Bradford City fire. Manchester had the Arndale bombing and the Manchester Arena.