Former podcaster of Radio Clash (still sort of), owner of Hard Up Hiker YT channel, mashup artist, ne'er do well, seemingly the Monarch of Shadowbans and captain of obscurity!

Heads up: 'Devil's advocate', strawmanning or arguing a false position for a 'gotcha' isn't welcome here, go sealion elsewhere.

This is not your argument playpen.

Genuine responses wanting a real discourse only please.

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she likely met him. Other emails show that they knew each other.
He asked to meet her. We don't know if he did at that theatre event, but they were pallly enough to chat via email.
Also after the emails came out, she deleted the logs of her yacht the next day - decades of them. Suspicious. Did she visit Epstein Island?

2026-08-06 15:51:23 UTC

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" private places and private teams" - doesn't exist.
Apart from some exception to private clubs - all places could face a legal challenge if a cis woman (or men, any cisgender person) feels a trans person is infringing a same sex space.
Doesn't mean they did anything, just be there. As I said, like apartheid.
It's the Tories fault, they employed many TERFs to the Equality Commission for this very reason. And oddly Labour continued the trend....

2026-08-06 15:46:00 UTC

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the problem is...the laws are a mess, because althought strictly they haven't changed the law - you can pee where you want...these guidelines have emboldened people to sue.
It's called lawfare. So even if the laws don't change, and it stays a guideline - which given what it happening it might not stay just a guideline, it's in effect a law by the backdoor because JK Rowling has a lot of money pledged to fighting unisex toilets, trans people in same sex spaces, etc.
So even though people say 'no rights have changed' - they effectively have. Or people THINK they have, which means they challenge and attack people...when they have no right to. So it means the perception of the law has changed...which makes it the law in effect.
Also puberty blockers being banned (although there is now a trial), trans youth aren't get healthcare...and they are eyeing up doing same for adults. That is directly affected.

2026-08-06 15:29:03 UTC

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no, maybe when you grow up you'll learn that to have a level playing field, you have to do some work as well...
...go and learn. Rather than tell people they are wrong and being a poster child for Dunning Krueger.
Do you approach black and brown folks and say 'I don't think the UK is racist' - no? How it this different?

2026-08-06 15:16:02 UTC

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it's in the EHRC guideline. Go google it.
I am not your fucking librarian.
You are the one asseting I'm wrong, so go do the research. It's not up to me to prove every single thing you want to pick holes like a pedant.
Especially when it's out there.

2026-08-06 15:14:53 UTC

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not going to Google for you, it's all out there, many orgs like the Good Law Project who I linked talk about how the rights are being affected.
You're wasting my time.

2026-08-06 14:56:29 UTC

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and it's not a recent phenomenon either. Years before the current trans witchhunt really got going, the UK was sliding down the rankings - #8 in 2019:
These are assessed on laws and actions so it's not a random index. ILGA is a big international org, they don't really have an axe to grind re: UK specifically. We used to be #1 in 2015 after marriage equality!
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/uk-lgbt-rights-gay-human-rights-rainbow-europe-ranking-a8913461.html

2026-08-06 14:54:18 UTC

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it's easily Googlable, hence not providing sources.
So assuming your question is in good faith (tbh TERFs often do the exact line you are going down so really sceptical)
https://goodlawproject.org/uk-plummets-down-rankings-for-lgbtq-rights/
ILGA has been tracking this for years...decades even. We used to be #1 - now we are way below the European average for LGBTQ rights.
Trans Europe and Central Asia (TGEU) also tracks this.
https://www.equaldex.com/equality-index
Compare Canada for the legal side - it's not just opinion, it's the legal protections as well. The UK is lagging behind on self ID, access to trans healthcare and puberty blockers, and a bunch of other things.
Immigration is also an issue, since those fleeing homophobic and transphobic regimes, unlike say Canada don't get welcomed, it's much harder to prove. Marriage also means nothing re; a right to stay.

2026-08-06 14:22:04 UTC

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they are - the new guidelines for same sex spaces that came in yesterday is definitely trying to reduce trans and queer rights by segregation - the idea that just by existing in a spce you can get booted out by some complaing white cis het Karen.
People are calling it an apartheid policy, and it's not hyperbole. I have friends who are worried to go into a toilet now....it's not some abstract thing. I am trans non-binary but look cis male so unlikely to get aggro. But others do - and are - including cis women who don't conform to gender.
The whole 'what rights are being attacked?' ignored that the UK has slid down the equality rankings for years, and is now seen as a toxic place.
And they want to take that ostracism of trans folks from spaces further - the lawfare of JK Rowling and co.
I agree Amnesty caved due to legal pressure. But that's Amnesty's job to resist pressure like that....surprised that massive dictatorships didn't get them to cave but a children's book author with a lot of money did?

2026-08-06 01:06:35 UTC

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It has happened before. Even in places without guns.
Or did we imagine the French Revolution and the Russian one?
I am not saying 'don't vote' or 'voting bad'.
But saying revolution is never possible is a very weird modern and closed mindset (and very Uhhmerican)

2026-07-25 17:20:45 UTC

Estimated 150,000 at London Trans+ Pride…which makes it the biggest trans protest since last year which was 100,000.
Glad I made it this year…a LOT of waiting in the sun. I marched with Switchboard cos John.
This was my first London Trans Pride…or Trans Pride anywhere. I almost didn’t make it again this year…last year I bailed cos of imposter syndrome and feeling out of place in trans spaces as an enby.
This year I had some online aggro from 3 people - turns out 2 of those are queerphobic/transphobic TERFs so makes me feel better.
When that shit comes out of the blue from a not obvious source it can poleaxe me. Randoms and TERFs I do not fucking care, people who I know or seem to be not a TERF plays badly with my radar/ND.
Also I was badly missing John so very low last night and this morning. Glad I went though.
#londontranspride #transpride #transpridelondon #transgender #nonbinary #switchboard
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2026-07-12 00:38:51 UTC

"“Sometimes the logos are designed well enough, the Spain-based illustrator told NBC, that she doesn’t have to do much work to get them into gear.
Other times, the companies that hire her need an entire redraw that, somehow, remains true to the contours of the original AI version she was given - and those often end up taking longer than if she’d simply cooked up the design herself.
There’s people that are aware AI isn’t perfect, and then there’s people that come to you angry because they didn’t manage to get it done themselves with AI,” Carstens told NBC"
Oh this is hilarious...so after ditching a whole load of workforce, they are hiring freelancers to fix the AI mistakes? And often the redraw/remake takes longer than if they'd hired a creative in the first place?
I did tell you so...I spent a lot of time early Ai fixing text etc, it often was quicker to do it myself, or comp it from CC Zero images. That was after hours of trying to get it to do something....
https://futurism.com/companies-hiring-humans-fix-ai
#ai #generativeAI

2026-06-25 14:18:28 UTC

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why can't we seize it back?
It's been done before. And before we had social media and ways of mass organising...(and a few other things I can't mention cos I know the powers that be watch social media for incitement comments).
Like if poor Russian peasants can take over a Tsarist regime, this should be a piece of piss?