pickwick
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just another angry glaswegian leftie
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People who object to terms like "birthing person" think they're being used as synonyms for woman, but they're not - that's the whole point. A childfree woman like me would never be called a birthing person. A 12-year-old giving birth wouldn't be called a woman.
November 6, 2025 at 5:20 PM
People who object to terms like "birthing person" think they're being used as synonyms for woman, but they're not - that's the whole point. A childfree woman like me would never be called a birthing person. A 12-year-old giving birth wouldn't be called a woman.
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Yes, "pregnant people" is inclusive language that describes pregnant cis women AS WELL AS trans men and nonbinary people, a lot of whom can get pregnant. But it also describes, like, 12-year-old girls who get pregnant. Do centrist pig-dogs think THEY are "women" too? Coz...bit of a red flag, that.
November 11, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Yes, "pregnant people" is inclusive language that describes pregnant cis women AS WELL AS trans men and nonbinary people, a lot of whom can get pregnant. But it also describes, like, 12-year-old girls who get pregnant. Do centrist pig-dogs think THEY are "women" too? Coz...bit of a red flag, that.
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No women ever commented on, or took part in, Nuremberg then? No women ever discussed or thought about the problem of Nazi evil and its banality? No Rebecca West, Martha Gellhorn, no Janet Flanner, no Hannah Arendt? Just an all-boys affair for an all boys evil.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...
Nuremberg review – Russell Crowe’s Göring v Rami Malek’s psychiatrist in swish yet glib courtroom showdown
Crowe and Malek are hugely watchable but this ultimately fails to deliver an authentic version of events
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:00 PM
No women ever commented on, or took part in, Nuremberg then? No women ever discussed or thought about the problem of Nazi evil and its banality? No Rebecca West, Martha Gellhorn, no Janet Flanner, no Hannah Arendt? Just an all-boys affair for an all boys evil.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...
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Sorry, am I genuinely being asked to believe that the BBC is biased in favour of trans people?
I cannot remember the last time a trans person was given a voice on the BBC. It's as if they don't exist. They are talked about on the BBC, not talked to.
This entire debate is just fucking stupid.
I cannot remember the last time a trans person was given a voice on the BBC. It's as if they don't exist. They are talked about on the BBC, not talked to.
This entire debate is just fucking stupid.
November 11, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Sorry, am I genuinely being asked to believe that the BBC is biased in favour of trans people?
I cannot remember the last time a trans person was given a voice on the BBC. It's as if they don't exist. They are talked about on the BBC, not talked to.
This entire debate is just fucking stupid.
I cannot remember the last time a trans person was given a voice on the BBC. It's as if they don't exist. They are talked about on the BBC, not talked to.
This entire debate is just fucking stupid.
These are our "liberal" journos and they've done more harm to trans people than Trump has
Emily Maitlis admitting she worked at the bbc to try and get healthcare for trans people shut down
November 11, 2025 at 12:44 PM
These are our "liberal" journos and they've done more harm to trans people than Trump has
Today in irregular verbs
- I am part of the silent majority
- You have been radicalised by fake news
- They have been forced into wokeness by organisational capture
- I am part of the silent majority
- You have been radicalised by fake news
- They have been forced into wokeness by organisational capture
November 11, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Today in irregular verbs
- I am part of the silent majority
- You have been radicalised by fake news
- They have been forced into wokeness by organisational capture
- I am part of the silent majority
- You have been radicalised by fake news
- They have been forced into wokeness by organisational capture
I have officially had my first "Christmas music playing in the shops" experience
It wasn't Wham, at least, it was Boy Least Likely To
It wasn't Wham, at least, it was Boy Least Likely To
November 11, 2025 at 12:22 PM
I have officially had my first "Christmas music playing in the shops" experience
It wasn't Wham, at least, it was Boy Least Likely To
It wasn't Wham, at least, it was Boy Least Likely To
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Emily Maitlis not a doctor not trans not an expert in this field worked for ideological reasons to get healthcare for kids shut down, paid for by the licence fee - and she complains about ideological capture. Absolutely farcical
Emily Maitlis admitting she worked at the bbc to try and get healthcare for trans people shut down
November 11, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Emily Maitlis not a doctor not trans not an expert in this field worked for ideological reasons to get healthcare for kids shut down, paid for by the licence fee - and she complains about ideological capture. Absolutely farcical
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Delightful detail from the Roman “unswept floor” mosaic by Heraclitus, showing a mouse nibbling a walnut.
Superb use of darker tiles for subtle shadow effect!
2nd century AD. Vatican Museums www.museivaticani.va/content/muse...
#MosaicMonday
#Archaeology
Superb use of darker tiles for subtle shadow effect!
2nd century AD. Vatican Museums www.museivaticani.va/content/muse...
#MosaicMonday
#Archaeology
November 10, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Delightful detail from the Roman “unswept floor” mosaic by Heraclitus, showing a mouse nibbling a walnut.
Superb use of darker tiles for subtle shadow effect!
2nd century AD. Vatican Museums www.museivaticani.va/content/muse...
#MosaicMonday
#Archaeology
Superb use of darker tiles for subtle shadow effect!
2nd century AD. Vatican Museums www.museivaticani.va/content/muse...
#MosaicMonday
#Archaeology
Every broadcaster should stop editing Trump for clarity or coherence
NEW: Donald Trump has threatened legal action against the BBC amid claims the broadcaster edited speech by the US president.
November 10, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Every broadcaster should stop editing Trump for clarity or coherence
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Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
Tim Davie was, AFAICT, genuinely committed to the belief that if you have two people making competing claims, telling the viewer which claim is true is editorialising and should be avoided.
They want to replace him with someone who'll actively push the right's lies as truth.
They want to replace him with someone who'll actively push the right's lies as truth.
November 10, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Tim Davie was, AFAICT, genuinely committed to the belief that if you have two people making competing claims, telling the viewer which claim is true is editorialising and should be avoided.
They want to replace him with someone who'll actively push the right's lies as truth.
They want to replace him with someone who'll actively push the right's lies as truth.
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It seems to me that BBC News' problem lies in its catchphrase "We get criticised from both sides so we must be right". No: when you allow someone to say 2+2=5, you are as wrong as when you allow someone else to say 2+2=3.
November 10, 2025 at 9:21 AM
It seems to me that BBC News' problem lies in its catchphrase "We get criticised from both sides so we must be right". No: when you allow someone to say 2+2=5, you are as wrong as when you allow someone else to say 2+2=3.
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What bothers me is that impartiality and balance are two different and incompatible things. Impartiality means that you don't intervene to put your thumb on the scales. Balance necessarily requires that you intervene to artificially make every issue look like a 50/50.
November 10, 2025 at 10:49 AM
What bothers me is that impartiality and balance are two different and incompatible things. Impartiality means that you don't intervene to put your thumb on the scales. Balance necessarily requires that you intervene to artificially make every issue look like a 50/50.
he's gone full City Watch oath
November 10, 2025 at 10:45 AM
he's gone full City Watch oath
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Abuse survivor took his own life after being refused anonymity by the Scottish Child Abuse inquiry
www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottis...
www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottis...
Final messages of abuse survivor who took own life after being refused anonymity
Kevin Sutherland left a two-minute voice message for his mum before his death that makes her cry every time she plays it. He had been refused anonymity by the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry.
www.dailyrecord.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Abuse survivor took his own life after being refused anonymity by the Scottish Child Abuse inquiry
www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottis...
www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottis...
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I do like how, in the bit of Prescott's memo where he criticises the BBC for editing together different parts of Trump's speech, his own quote of "what Trump actually said" is... edited together from different parts of his speech.
November 10, 2025 at 9:45 AM
I do like how, in the bit of Prescott's memo where he criticises the BBC for editing together different parts of Trump's speech, his own quote of "what Trump actually said" is... edited together from different parts of his speech.
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Love that anything that doesnt call me slurs or advocates for me to be pushed out of society as unwanted scum now counts as unduly biased
November 10, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Love that anything that doesnt call me slurs or advocates for me to be pushed out of society as unwanted scum now counts as unduly biased
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I think if you understand what’s happening here as basically the usual reactionary crackpots seizing any excuse at all to crack down further upon what the public is permitted to hear, using whatever tools and excuses happen to be lying around at the time, then that is the closest to what’s going on.
Over on X The Everything App, the wingnuts are absolutely interpreting this as the BBC getting stomped upon specifically for being a pro-Hamas propaganda outfit defaming Israel.
Happened to have the news on last night when Tim Davies resigned & I couldn't help but notice how, within the space of ~20 minutes, the story morphed from one about a dodgy edit aired over a year ago to the BBC's alleged "anti-Israel bias". Real stink of shit coming off all of this.
November 10, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I think if you understand what’s happening here as basically the usual reactionary crackpots seizing any excuse at all to crack down further upon what the public is permitted to hear, using whatever tools and excuses happen to be lying around at the time, then that is the closest to what’s going on.
You'd think people would learn that you can never pander to the right wing enough to stop them turning on you the second it's convenient
November 10, 2025 at 9:19 AM
You'd think people would learn that you can never pander to the right wing enough to stop them turning on you the second it's convenient
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It's important to keep pointing this out about the many people who have gone the same way. Too often we suggest or imply that the trans moral panic merely allowed these people to be who they always were. Not true. We're seeing a process of *radicalisation*. We can't fix things unless we name them.
Transphobia is a pipeline to the far right. An example:
Suzanne Moore used to be a left wing columnist at the Guardian.
Then came the anti-trans panic. Despite the Guardian also promoting it, it wasn’t enough & she left.
Moore is now complaining about wokeness over the Irish famine & colonialism.
Suzanne Moore used to be a left wing columnist at the Guardian.
Then came the anti-trans panic. Despite the Guardian also promoting it, it wasn’t enough & she left.
Moore is now complaining about wokeness over the Irish famine & colonialism.
Suzanne Moore, who would rather be locked up than pay her BBC licence fee because the BBC is too nice to trans people for her liking.
November 10, 2025 at 7:51 AM
It's important to keep pointing this out about the many people who have gone the same way. Too often we suggest or imply that the trans moral panic merely allowed these people to be who they always were. Not true. We're seeing a process of *radicalisation*. We can't fix things unless we name them.
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he looks pretty good for a guy whose face is being gnarled by leopards.
BBC director-general Tim Davie resigns over Trump documentary controversy
BBC director-general Tim Davie resigns over Trump documentary controversy
BBC director-general Tim Davie resigns over Trump documentary controversy
www.independent.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 6:23 PM
he looks pretty good for a guy whose face is being gnarled by leopards.
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The fact that the right wing press is now coming for Tory appointees to the public service broadcaster demonstrates precisely how far right they have gone. Overton window exiting stage left (audience right), pursued by a bunch of howling Nazis.
BREAKING: BBC director-general Tim Davie has resigned, the corporation has announced
Read here: www.thenational.scot/news/2...
Read here: www.thenational.scot/news/2...
November 9, 2025 at 6:35 PM
The fact that the right wing press is now coming for Tory appointees to the public service broadcaster demonstrates precisely how far right they have gone. Overton window exiting stage left (audience right), pursued by a bunch of howling Nazis.
It's pretty embarrassing that Britain is even oursourcing its state-controlled media to the US
November 9, 2025 at 6:58 PM
It's pretty embarrassing that Britain is even oursourcing its state-controlled media to the US
