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alexanderhay, 10 months ago to news

Apparently, the #DailyMail has just launched "Woke Watch", where red faced pillocks send in angry e-mails, complaining about transgender asylum seekers giving their house prices pronoun cancer, or something.

Anyway, UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES should one e-mail wokewatch@dailymail.co.uk to #Troll, #Shitpost or just plain take the piss. No, that would be WRONG. Oh, for shame!

#News #UK #Media

RickiTarr, 5 months ago to random

In the 90's, a full grown man who was pretending to be a doctor, wrote a book called Men Are From Mars, and Women Are From Venus. The book simply stated that women are emotional, and men are rational, while writing about his downright abusive irrational treatment of his own wife, and somehow this was a best seller.

Lazarou, 7 days ago to UKpolitics

this young woman is the Future

EDIT: the antifacists' name is 'Victoria'
Begin the writing of ballads honouring her act

#GE2024 #NigelFarage #Farage #UKPOL #Ukpolitics #Clacton

alexanderhay, 16 days ago to technology

[SLOWCLAP]

"'I was misidentified as shoplifter by #FacialRecognition tech...'

"...[Sara] says after her bag was searched she was... banned from all stores using the #Technology.

"I was just crying and crying the entire journey home… 'Oh, will my life be the same? I'm going to be looked at as a shoplifter when I've never stolen'.

"#Facewatch later wrote to Sara and acknowledged it had made an error..."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-69055945

#News #UK #SurveillanceCapitalism #Privacy #HumanRights

alexanderhay, 11 months ago to languagelearning

Something happening on the #Russian Invasion of #Ukraine Live Threads over on #Reddit - users are rapidly embracing #Mastodon links, and there is a demand for it as a viable #Twitter alternative.

Given how much these mega-threads have relied on the Bird Site for updates over the last 17 months, this is a very significant development. If all the main #Ukraine #War #News accounts end up on here, Twitter may lose its monopoly in this regard.

black_flag, 2 months ago to trans

You might find it amazing that a supposed medical report into the treatment of trans people didn't interact with ACTUAL TRANS PEOPLE. (It did interact with plenty of antis and treated them as neutral and reasonable.) But so much did NHS England's Cass Report not interact with actual, real trans people that it resorted to generating AI pics of them.

These bigots are literally making up people to get mad at.

#trans #lgbtq #nonbinary #lgbtqia

pvonhellermannn, 3 months ago to Anthropology

Not sure I can bring myself to watch this, with major redundancies at my university and others, and whole departments being closed down, because there are not enough students. The whole sector is breaking apart. I hope the series will consider this too.

Yes, your son should go, and even better if he chooses a subject like #Anthropology which is shrinking just as the world needs it more than ever
#university #UK #TheCrumble

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68484598

alexanderhay, 2 months ago to Warhammer

If anyone's interested, the owner of Coat D'arms miniature paints is thinking of retiring and wants to sell his business.

SOO-OOO-OOO, if you've ever wanted to own your own acrilyc paint business, here's your chance!

#Warhammer #WarhammerCommunity #Art #Business #News #CoatDArms #Miniatures

alexanderhay, 7 months ago to Israel

Oh fuck off, you wretched streak of piss.

"#KeirStarmer: #Israel-#Hamas ceasefire may risk further violence

"#Labour leader attempts to quell growing tensions within party over conflict in Israel and #Gaza..."

#UK #UKNews #News #Politics

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/oct/31/keir-starmer-israel-hamas-ceasefire-may-risk-further-violence

alexanderhay, 9 months ago to mastodon

If anyone encounters @danielhudson in the wild, please block and report him. He's #Nazi dogshit, and he needs running out of town.

#Mastodon #Fediblock #BlackMastodon #Fascism

alexanderhay, 10 months ago to Unions

#SAGAFTRA has just voted unanimously to go on strike.

" ‘Oppenheimer’ Cast Leaves U.K. Premiere as SAG-AFTRA Strike Imminent

"UPDATE, 11:44 am PST: #ChristopherNolan confirmed before the beginning of the “#Oppenheimer” screening that the cast has left in solidarity with the SAG-AFTRA strike...

#Unions #Hollywood #Cinema #Film #TV #News

https://variety.com/2023/film/global/matt-damon-oppenheimer-cast-moved-red-carpet-strike-1235669528/

alexanderhay, 6 months ago to journalism

Hmm... Makes you wonder which other journalists, rent-a-gobs and politicians are on the payroll too?

I have my suspicions. More names will be coming soon, care of the #CyprusConfidential Project.

"Top #German #Journalist received €600,000 from #Putin ally, leak reveals

"Influential author and broadcaster #HubertSeipel received financial support for his work on two books described by many as sympathetic to #Russian president..."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/14/german-journalist-putin-hubert-seipel

#News #Journalism #Media #Corruption

alexanderhay, 8 months ago to random

Looking for a #Museum #Job? The Scottish Fisheries Museum is looking for a new Director.

Salary: £55,000

Work Pattern: #Hybrid

Location: #Anstruther (Scotland), near #StAndrews

#Vacancy #Vacancies #Opening

https://www.brucetaitassociates.net/vacancy/54

alexanderhay, 14 days ago to news

CAWWWW blimey!

"These #Crows have counting skills previously only seen in people

"The #Corvids are the first animals other than humans known to produce a deliberate number of calls on command....

"...The researchers also... could` predict the upcoming number of crow calls based on the sound of the first call, suggesting that the birds planned the number of calls in advance..."

(A literal case of 'Counting Crows'?)

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01482-x

#News #Zoology #Ornithology #Neuroscience #Birds

alexanderhay, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

The #CassReport does have a certain "we had to destroy the village in order to save it" vibe about it. Or to put it another way, conversion therapy ahoy!

#TERFs will, of course, be wanking furiously over it. But it also means young people will be ignored, for their own good, of course.

#CassReview #Cass

alexanderhay, 9 months ago to SquaredCircle

In further sad news, #Wrestling and #Horror icon #WindhamRotunda, who wrestled under the nom de plum, #BrayWyatt, has died of a heart attack at only 36.

A talented and unique talent, and one who exploited to the full the storytelling potential of #ProWrestling gimmicks.

Worse, #Covid played a part in this, by exacerbating an existing heart condition. It is not over.

#News #Covid19 #RIP

https://thecomeback.com/wwe/bray-wyatt-covid-heart-attack-cause-of-death.html

alda, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

The people who designed Amazon's Kinde-to-Print self-publishing process don't know much about print, do they?

Here I am attempting to read a book that I just got in the mail and the margins on the spine side are so tiny that the first character in a line is barely visible and the margins on the outer side are good 2.5-3 cm.

I'm not sure if they've even seen a book before.

alexanderhay, 28 days ago to news

It's #PterosaurPtuesday, so time for a PteroNews Dump.

"...A unique species of flying reptile, or #Pterosaur, that lived 168-166 million years ago has been discovered on the Isle of #Skye...

"...Scientists were surprised to find a pterosaur from this period - they were thought to mostly live in China.

"...The creature - called Ceoptera - is the second pterosaur found on Skye..."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68207021

#News #Pterosaurs #Paleontology #Science #Fossils #Scotland

alexanderhay, 1 month ago to Eurovision

One question - if #JoostKlein is found not to have broken any law, does this not mean he's been cheated?

#Eurovision #Eurovision2024 #News

alexanderhay, 1 month ago to news

"....All the while, Biden will need to bear one thing in mind. What is good for Netanyahu is good for Putin, and therefore for Trump."

https://archive.ph/FGPoH#selection-2292.0-2292.1

#USPol #News #USNews #Politics #Putin #Biden #Netanyahu #Israel #Gaza #Ukraine #Trump #Putin

alexanderhay, 20 days ago to UKpolitics

By the end of this, Larry The Cat will have gone through more PMs than 'Boris' Johnson has had mistresses.

#UKPolitics #News #Politics #GeneralElection2024

alexanderhay, 26 days ago to CosmicHorror

"The Ugly Muppet Toy Pageant 2024: RESULTS!

"And now, the moment you’ve been waiting for: The moment when we award #Muppet #Toys for being visually unappealing!"

https://toughpigs.com/ugly-muppet-toy-pageant-2024-results/

#CosmicHorror #Comedy #Images #Hauntology #Cursed

alexanderhay, 2 months ago to TikTok

While everyone is up in arms over the prospective #TikTok #Ban, no one seems to be paying attention to #BobbyKotick's open desire to buy a controlling stake off Chinese owners, #bytedance

Yes, THAT Bobby Kotick. See below for a quick reminder. Strangely, this never comes up in conversation.

A cynical sod might even wonder if the TikTok furore is just the US government nobbling a competitor to its native social media dumpster fires.

https://www.eurogamer.net/activision-boss-bobby-kotick-under-fire-after-damning-report-into-what-he-knew-of-workplace-abuse

#News #Gaming #Media #SocialMedia

alexanderhay, 1 month ago to Eurovision

Another year, another Eurovision. Here follows an increasingly inebriated series of shit-posts as I cover the most contentious contest in years.

#EuroDrama #Eurovision #Eurovision2024