Detournement
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Irma Vep was brilliant.
The Dragon show was (eventually) entertaining nonsense.
I think that's all I watched that first aired this year.
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28 minutes ago, LongTimeLurker said:
The Northman while on a plane to Canada a couple of days ago. Quite enjoyed the Viking angle because I have some Shetland ancestry and that part of my family were always firmly of the opinion that it would have been better to have stayed Norwegian, but the director overdid it a bit on the austere landscapes and sending a boatload of slaves from Russia to Iceland didn't exactly make sense for anyone who dabbles in geography. DNA research suggests the Faroese and Icelanders are patrilineally Norskie and matrilineally Irish/Scottish Gael. Nicole Kidman's character unlikely to win an award for being Mother of the Year. Didn't even realise it was Bjork until I saw the credits, but was barely awake by that point.
The Vikings were into sailing down the Volga and taking slaves. They got around.
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26 minutes ago, Jeff Venom said:
The actual state of this. There are no words that do justice how out of touch this weasel is. Even if this
It's crazy how out of touch our Washington DC imposed, Goldman Sachs banker billionaire Prime Minister is.
There may be a point when the majority people stop thinking 'Why are our politicians so shitty?' and start thinking 'Why is the structure of our society so shitty'.
It won't happen anytime soon though. There are still decades of trying to vote things better ahead of us.
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10 hours ago, Ginaro said:
There's now a "views" count on tweets (on my Twitter web anyway), which just looks confusing and unnecessary alongside the replies/RTs/likes numbers.
Aye you can see what they are trying to do as it makes some tweets in your feed feel less important than others.
The Musk takeover is all about changing the Twitter format from something approaching a 'town square' to something closer to a TV channel or newspaper website which will favour corporate views and viewpoints.
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1 hour ago, Leith Green said:
Where exactly do you think Rape Crisis centres or Womens Shelters SHOULD get their money?
Should they be doing sponsored "running away from the abusive husbands" or maybe a "how low can your skirt go before you are fair game darling?" telethons?
I happen to know a guy who does work for a Womens Charity - last minute, midnight flits with only the clothes they and the kids are standing up in.
He has many a harrowing, horrific story, but - No, you are bang on, the question really should be "where do they get the money?"
Arsehole.
The Scottish Government funding them is fair enough. It just means that you can't then use their opinions as validation of Scottish Government policy.
The Third Sector in Scotland is largely a make work scheme for useless middle class graduates and definitely doesn't represent value for money but that's another issue.
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2 hours ago, invergowrie arab said:
Have you told Women's Aid and Rape Crisis because they were in favour.
They are part of Sturgeon's Third Sector patronage scam so it's not really a surprise is it.
Hold The Press: Third Sector organisation that gets 90% of it's funding from the Scottish Government agrees with Scottish Government.
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It's not just about people getting certificates as pretty much anyone can now claim to be a woman and it's illegal to ask them for proof which poses problems for providers and users of separate gender services and facilities.
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1 hour ago, welshbairn said:
She led for the SNP as shadow education secretary on getting it repealed in Scotland, 3 years before England and Wales.
She was in Souter's pocket along with the rest of the SNP at the time.
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There is anger on both sides of the debate. But given his politics – Bell describes himself to me as a “Corbyn-supporting Jew” – he has been most shocked by the reluctance of the left to engage with the issues. “They think this is to do with being liberal, rather than with concerns about the care of children. Mermaids and Stonewall [the charities for trans children and LGBTQ+ rights] have made people afraid even of listening to another view.” It surprises him that the left is unwilling to consider the role played by big pharma. In the US, a journal that published a paper about the effect of puberty blockers on suicide risk recently had to disclose that one of its co-authors received a stipend from the manufacturer of another drug.
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Just now, carpetmonster said:
You can't get a GRC in Scotland until you're 16, so this is literally nothing to do with this argument.
The Tavistock clinic court cases show that medical professionals are led by social norms when deciding whether or not carry out these procedures in children.
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4 minutes ago, Boo Khaki said:
The point being, hating people simply because they don't conform is phobic.
I agree with that but this argument is about more than opinions and feelings. The most important issue whether children should be given hormones to block puberty or now.
Given that we know that peer groups and social media can cause psychogenic illness and that diagnoses of schizophrenia are rapidly increasing it doesn't seem like a great idea to give children serious medical procedures based solely on their opinions of themselves.
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5 minutes ago, Boo Khaki said:
It's not as if it's difficult to give it a definition, if you absolutely insist upon it.
There's not even a widely agreed definition of being trans with some people believing that they are born with an innate gender (idiotic) and some people believing that they are socialised into a particular gender (correct).
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1 minute ago, Boo Khaki said:
There's a wee bit more to it than that, but if you honestly believe the SPS are arbiters of who is eligible for a GRC then I'll really have to stop taking you on face value.
They will be if someone is getting the jail.
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Just now, Boo Khaki said:
Yes, and I've done you the courtesy of explaining exactly why I used that term rather that denying it, as you imply, so you could at least acknowledge that your claim that mere use the term itself is the preserve of idiots is nonsensical. Unless, of course, you believe that transphobia itself simply is not a thing and transphobes do not exist.
There is no actual definition of transphobes though so it's a meaningless term.
There are people who say that lesbian women who refuse to consider transwomen as potential partners are transphobes. That's obviously mental.
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6 minutes ago, Boo Khaki said:
Unless it is later changed by the acquisition of a GRC, a fact which you are clearly already aware of.
The GRC reform bill does not alter this fact, and this is a circumstance which has existed since long before the SNP were making law. So again, I'd ask how on earth you can conclude 'it has now changed' when it has not.
To change sex you previously needed an (absurd) medical diagnosis. Now that is no longer required, you just need the nod from Police Scotland (and possibly the Prison Service).
To pretend that this is all just technical legal stuff is disingenuous as we have seen when other contentious bills are passed then are later used as justification to limit free speech.
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1 minute ago, Boo Khaki said:
Indeed.
What is your point?
The point is that any attempt to separate the legal definition of sex from biology is absurd when the recording of sex on all birth certificates is wholly dictated by biological sexual difference.
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Your sex is only legally recorded once in your life a few days after you are born and it's 100% down to biological sexual difference.
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3 minutes ago, Boo Khaki said:
No, we don't, and no, it hasn't.
As Lady Haldane pointed out, 'sex' as referenced in the Equality Act has always referred to 'legal sex'. Contrary to the claims of 'bringing confusion', she actually clarified the matter, even though it was always abundantly clear in the first place.
The ranting about 'biological sex' is nothing but a strawman concocted by transphobes. There never was any reference to 'biological sex' in the relevant laws and acts they keep bringing up, because there is and never was any requirement for there to be. The Equality Act was always intended to apply to sex as it is legally defined, and it beggars belief that groups such as For Women Scotland think this is in any way unclear or ambiguous.
Sex is a biological term and it gets recorded on your birth certificate based solely on biology.
Your legal sex is based 100% on biology unless you get a GRC.
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Just now, Clown Job said:
The Tories have always opposed equality measures for the LGBT community
This is who they have always been
Sturgeon opposed gay rights as well when there was a few quid in it for her.
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Just now, alta-pete said:
I have no skin in this game.
Everyone has skin in the game as we all identify as a sex/gender and how that is legally defined in Scotland has now changed due to the whims of Sturgeon's social circle and the votes of people who will vote for literally anything if it means staying on the Holyrood gravy train.
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Just now, carpetmonster said:
No, I'm talking about the Labour, Lib Dem and Tory MSPs who voted FOR It. They're Nicola Sturgeon's nodding dogs, aye?
Labour were whipped and are exactly as useless a group of politicians as the SNP.
I've no idea what the Lib Dems and the Tories are up to.
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Just now, carpetmonster said:
She must have some powers of foresight to have started talking about GRC in 2016/2017 anticipating the Covid pandemic. Does she take DM's on Twitter about the lottery numbers?
And when did she get the nodding dogs in the Parliament to pass it?
Right after she made an arse of Indyref2 and right before they walk back calling the next GE a defacto referendum.
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4 minutes ago, Aufc said:
I genuinely haven’t followed any of this as it’s really of no interest to me what people get upto. However, reading a bit on twitter there. What’s the deal? So a male prisoner can decide to be housed in a female jail? Male sex offenders can be housed with vulnerable women? All seems very bizarre to me. It’s a shame that normal people going, what is I imagine a very confusing process, are grouped together with others as above.
That won't happen because it's self ID in name only and Police Scotland have the final say on who is what gender. Modern Scotland to a tee.
It's an absolutely pointless bill that has only been passed to create headlines and deflect from the fact that Sturgeon - who opposed Section 28 being repealed - has zero achievements in office other than passing Harold Shipman on the list of pensioner killers.
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10 minutes ago, Wee Bully said:
Do you support flashing when there are children about?
Genitals are irrelevant in Scotland now mate.
If you go to a gym or swimming pool it's lottery what you'll see in either changing room.
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
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No Direction Home (2005)
Marty Scorsese rescues the footage of Bob Dylan's 1966 world tour in a nearly 4 hour documentary which takes you from Dylan's childhood up to his motorbike crash in 1966. Dylan does his usual trick of telling outright lies or saying nothing at all and most of the narrative comes from his friends from the period who are a mixed bunch. The footage of absolutely raging young English fans after the electric concerts is priceless. He's still winding up idiots 60 years later.
Bed and Board (1970)
The fourth film in Truffaut's Antoine Doinel series. If there were 100 of these I'd watch them all as Jean Pierre Leaud is so entertaining to watch doing anything as Antoine. Here Antoine has found marital bliss but throws it away for some very exotic strange. The moral of the story is affairs are a bad idea and if you have an itch that needs scratched get yourself to a brothel. France in the 70s.
Pickpocket (1959)
A lonely young man learns how to be a crack pickpocket in Paris. The scenes when they are out stealing are thrilling but it feels strangely old fashioned compared to Breathless and The 400 Blows which came out the same year.