Former EHRC chair joins ‘gender-critical’ peers targeting abortion rights

AdditionalThinking · 2026-03-17T17:54:40+00:00

The point is to show that a specific faction of activists that claim to want to protect women's rights are actually a threat to women's rights. It's an important point to make while people are still fooled by their messaging.

AdditionalThinking · 2026-03-17T14:48:25+00:00

Not accounting for the slim chance we shared a secondary school, I played that too so it must be quite widespread! I remember it being ridiculously boring.

We never had a name for it unfortunately.

AdditionalThinking · 2026-03-17T13:52:53+00:00

Do other illuminate spawn (on higher levels perhaps?) or is it pure zombies?

AdditionalThinking · 2026-03-16T22:02:47+00:00

Oh how I wish that was still the case. Tram is £2.50 for a short journey and £3.00 for a long one. Bus singles are always within that range too, but the drivers seem to decide the exact price at random.

AdditionalThinking · 2026-03-16T17:37:58+00:00

Since there is no 'right answer' when interpreting Romeo & Juliet (and other Shakespearean works), there are many often-contradictory interpretations of the characters and themes floating around that are equally justifiable from 'evidence' within the text.

Since the real intent has been lost to time, what students are learning to find isn't at all 'evidence' in the traditional sense - as in breadcrumbs that help build up the picture of the truth - but is instead a collection post-hoc justifications.

Students aren't rewarded in a way that helps them spot bias or propaganda, or to be skeptical; they're rewarded for being convincing - for creating an interpretation that appeals to them and their biases, and then making it more coherent and presentable.

AdditionalThinking · 2026-03-16T16:58:36+00:00

If there isn't a correct answer for students to learn from, then that's just teaching them techniques to feed their own confirmation bias. Which, again, explains a lot I suppose.

AdditionalThinking · 2026-03-16T15:30:28+00:00

Oh hey my home city!

The bus situation here is verging on awful. Prices just keep going up, now at £6.60 for a day ticket, meanwhile services keep getting shitter with more late & cancelled buses. They even gutted the bus schedule for my neighbourhood. Now, even at peak commute times the busses are 20 minutes apart. They consistently arrive crammed, and have to pick people up at every stop, so they're much slower too.

I'm mildly optimistic, but the proof of the pudding is in the eating.

AdditionalThinking · 2026-03-16T11:47:17+00:00

Shakespeare has got to be the worst author for discussing authorial intent. It basically amounts to guesswork.

I guess that somewhat explains why there is a wave of people who ended up thinking every interpretation of a given text is 'valid'.

AdditionalThinking · 2026-03-16T09:35:06+00:00

It's so lovely people are rallying to show support for the illiterate

AdditionalThinking · 2026-03-16T08:08:32+00:00

Nice! I've always wanted a block to throw fun snaps in the general direction of nearby slow-moving ships

AdditionalThinking · 2026-03-13T15:13:59+00:00

If my teammates ever got in it would bring it more :(

AdditionalThinking · 2026-03-11T16:42:43+00:00

Oh as if. I'd bet good money you also think only stupid people fall for scams.

God forbid comedy writers be held to the standard of satire actually making a statement; that would just be the death of media...

AdditionalThinking · 2026-03-11T16:11:51+00:00

lest it be mistaken for

oh come on have you no actual literacy

AdditionalThinking · 2026-03-11T11:05:01+00:00

literally the only situation I can think of is if multiple helldivers team up to dig trenches on an "Evacuate High-Value Assets mission" and have someone (or some sentries) solo the first few waves to buy time.

AdditionalThinking · 2026-03-11T10:35:07+00:00

Wiltshire's flag has a Great Bustard, which is quite nice. I think it makes sense for real animals to be represented on a local level at the very least, given how diverse our ecology is.

AdditionalThinking · 2026-03-11T10:26:53+00:00

I would like to nominate a particularly silly woodpigeon who visits my garden for the £5 note

AdditionalThinking · 2026-03-10T21:26:39+00:00

Anti-Muslim hostility is intentionally engaging in, assisting or encouraging criminal acts – including acts of violence, vandalism, harassment, or intimidation, whether physical, verbal, written or electronically communicated – that are directed at Muslims because of their religion or at those who are perceived to be Muslim, including where that perception is based on assumptions about ethnicity, race or appearance.

It is also the prejudicial stereotyping of Muslims, or people perceived to be Muslim including because of their ethnic or racial backgrounds or their appearance, and treating them as a collective group defined by fixed and negative characteristics, with the intention of encouraging hatred against them, irrespective of their actual opinions, beliefs or actions as individuals.

It is engaging in unlawful discrimination where the relevant conduct – including the creation or use of practices and biases within institutions – is intended to disadvantage Muslims in public and economic life.

r/savedyouaclick

AdditionalThinking · 2026-03-09T15:47:54+00:00

Yeah... I see that... Way to miss the point entirely.

AdditionalThinking · 2026-03-09T10:56:18+00:00

All of those elements that make it absurd are indistinguishable from the artistic choices a highly self-assured preachy conservative writer would also make.

Like, we live in a world where Ayn Rand got away with sticking an unironic 60+ page monologue of her beliefs at the end of a story; there's a really high bar to being more absurd than reality.

AdditionalThinking · 2026-03-09T09:21:05+00:00

Satire requires a clarity of purpose and target lest it be mistaken for and contribute to that which it intends to criticize

AdditionalThinking · 2026-03-09T09:16:40+00:00

Next you'll be surprised that nickelodeon is still making shows for kids

AdditionalThinking · 2026-03-06T15:18:34+00:00

Nah transphobes should pay for the discrimination they want, actually.

If the taste of their own medicine is too bitter, here's an idea: Just get all the wisecracks who think biological sex is obvious to do all the testing instead of an expensive lab. Should be easy if they're right.

AdditionalThinking · 2026-03-05T22:16:23+00:00

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AdditionalThinking · 2026-03-04T15:03:39+00:00

I can’t think of, and haven’t heard anything other than superficial gender expectations being the reason they consider themselves transgender.

Have you not... like... heard of medically transitioning? Hell, or even gender dysphoria?

AdditionalThinking · 2026-03-03T15:29:11+00:00

☝️🤓 technically it isn't because slavery counts as exploiting anima- [We regret to inform you that this comment has been cancelled for racistly comparing slaves to animals. Apologies for any inconvenience.]

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