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Ashley Waite
@phidaissi.bsky.social
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Autie demon of checking your facts
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leyawn.bsky.social
gentle reminder that when you make jokes about the united health insurance ceo getting killed, your friends who are health insurance ceos will see them. but the united health insurance ceo won’t see them. because he’s dead
December 4, 2024 at 4:32 PM
phidaissi.bsky.social
Oh wow is anyone doing a block list for the apparent wave of "respectfully disagree" bots, they're super obnoxious and there appears to be quite a few of them.

I wonder what the actual pay off is intended to be for them other than creating noise in any online discourse?
December 5, 2024 at 5:57 AM
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morgancarpenter.com
The American Journal of Bioethics has just published my open access commentary on sport:

“Is It Ever OK to Reclassify Someone Out of Their Birth-Observed Sex Without Personal Consent? How Do We Manage Competing Methods of Classifying Sex?”

doi.org/10.1080/1526...
Events at the 2024 Paris Olympics sadly highlight the inability of a categorical system (weight), additional to sex, to allay concerns regarding participation by athletes purported to have innate variations of sex characteristics (intersex variations/differences of sex development). Instead, abusive campaigns demonised athletes with long, prior histories of competition – and sought to impose methods of sex determination and classification that are not directly tested or applied at birth, and which do not universally apply. I ask if it is ever acceptable to reclassify someone out of their sex determined and classified at birth without their consent. I propose that women athletes should always be able to compete, without preconditions, in their birth-observed, birth-assigned sex.
October 15, 2024 at 10:30 AM
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mfwitches.bsky.social
Another day, another pack of dipshits who should know better funding Kyle and Jackie’s hate.

Please get onto this CATHOLIC BOY’S SCHOOL, witches, who’ve been funding misogyny for more than 4 long months.

Let’s go.

#ToYourBrooms
#VileKyle

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We are absolutely sickened by the Catholic boy's school @StJosephsFTG in Ferntree Gully near Melbourne, witches. They've been advertising every week on the Kyle and Jackie O show since August 12th (when we first heard them) which is more than 16 long weeks ago. And these aren't normal ads, either: one of their favourite promotions involves their own students' voices speaking out on radio about how wonderful their school (apparently) is. Do these boys' parents know their sons are promoting the school right alongside Kyle and his callers telling young men how to "butcher the pussy"? Do they agree with their sons spruiking their education right next to a woman's pissing competition? Do woman's pissing competition? Do parents of gay, black and disabled boys know they're spoken about cruelly and horrifically every single day the show goes to air? Yet despite many witches messaging them, calling them and emailing them to politely ask them to stop funding Kyle's terrible misogyny and hate, the school remains completely unmoved. They refuse to return calls. They refuse to let anyone talk to the Principal or Vice Principal, or anyone with the authority to discuss our requests. They even remove witches' heartfelt pleas to discuss the issue from their social media accounts as soon as they can. And yet, they claim on their website to care for the welfare and development of the many hundreds of teenage boys in their care. Yet they clearly do NOT. They're openly funding the misogyny and bigotry they'd say they di And yet, they claim on their website to care for the welfare and development of the many hundreds of teenage boys in their care. Yet they clearly do NOT. They're openly funding the misogyny and bigotry they'd say they disagree with, seemingly without a single care in the world. We're asking witches today to please contact them over the next couple of days. Further, we're so disgusted by this school we've updated our #VileKyle register so you can complain directly to the Catholic Education Office in Melbourne (since the school themselves are so hopeless), and to assist we've provided a helpful list of their board members and relevant contact details: campaigndata.mfw.org.au/business-direc... You can also still contact the school directly if you wish, and maybe you'll contact details: campaigndata.mfw.org.au/business-direc... You can also still contact the school directly if you wish, and maybe you'll have more luck than any witch has previously had in getting through to someone who's willing to discuss this issue intelligently: stjosephs.com.au We're so damn sick of this, witches. If a bunch of so-called Catholics don't GAF what they're funding, then irony is dead. And if a group of teachers and administrators who'd swear black and blue they're educating the boys of the future in morals and ethics couldn't care less about teaching them to hate women and those in minority groups, how the hell do any of them still have jobs? Please get onto this. And if you know ...
November 27, 2024 at 10:56 PM
phidaissi.bsky.social
A pretty good response to the more detailed election tampering claims lately. Turns out the claims in it were guesses and not based on actual known data, and the author has a history of doing similar. Sooo...

Just because you'd like something to be true doesn't mean it is. 😢
Stop Saying Trump Stole the 2024 Election
YouTube video by Rebecca Watson (Skepchick)
youtu.be
November 23, 2024 at 2:52 AM
phidaissi.bsky.social
This is *tremendously* more convincing than the early fraud claims were. If there are overt statistical irregularities I think that is a pretty compelling reason to do a hand count in any areas where such ballots recorded high numbers. Wouldn't be hard to count 'bullet ballots' to debunk or confirm.
janetrice.bsky.social Janet Rice @janetrice.bsky.social · Nov 19
Fascinating. I find Rachel Donald to be highly credible so this is alarming.
Cyber-Security Experts Warn Election Was Hacked
'Musk is guilty as fuck'
open.substack.com
November 20, 2024 at 4:57 AM
phidaissi.bsky.social
I really hate the post-truth world, but this does a decent job of explaining how it happened, and it doesn't seem like it's an easy problem to fix.
bennjordan.bsky.social Benn Jordan @bennjordan.bsky.social · Nov 17
Enjoy the premiere with me tomorrow morning while a script slowly deletes every single thing I've posted on X in the last 15 years.

The Really Dark Truth About Bots
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ5X...
The Really Dark Truth About Bots
YouTube video by Benn Jordan
www.youtube.com
November 18, 2024 at 11:53 PM
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nicholasgrossman.bsky.social
The United States has oligarchs now.
Not merely rich people with more personal influence on politics than poorer people have, but a few extremely rich people closely connected to the national leader who act in government-like roles despite never being elected or nominated to any official position.
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · Nov 14
Breaking News: Elon Musk, a top adviser to President-elect Donald Trump, met with Iran’s UN ambassador to discuss defusing Iranian-U.S. tensions during the next Trump term, two Iranian officials said.
Elon Musk Met With Iran’s U.N. Ambassador, Iranian Officials Say
The tech billionaire, a top adviser to President-elect Donald J. Trump, was reported to have discussed ways to defuse tensions between Iran and the United States.
nyti.ms
November 14, 2024 at 10:03 PM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
The Middle East North African (MENA) Chamber of Commerce wants to know why Trump broke his promise to them to call for an immediate ceasefire in Palestine and Lebanon on Nov 6. They actually believed him.
November 13, 2024 at 12:14 PM
phidaissi.bsky.social
Not that I ever used Twitter much, but a large part of that was how terrible it was at actually showing me anything I cared to see.
Maybe here is nicer?
November 12, 2024 at 8:29 AM