Anyone else remember the short-lived Matt Hancock app? What is it with Tories and shitty vanity projects?

I enjoyed it, it's not exactly a light read considering the subject but it's well paced and tightly written. Its depiction of war and trauma may be triggering for some people.

Your experience may vary depending on the translation. Most English translations are based on the 1929 translation that made the odd choice of switching German slang and cultural references with rough English equivalents as well as trying to tone down some of the darker parts.

I read the 1993 translation which tries to be a bit more accurate to the original book, but does do the thing with swapping the slang around which comes across a bit odd especially earlier on where it's layed on a bit thick imho.

I'm currently working through my book backlog.

Last book I read was All Quiet on The Western Front, right now I'm partway through House of Leaves.

BTW I went and read through the studies someone sent me in that thread and turns out the graphs from those studies show that trans women are more similar to cis men than to cis women in all metrics.

Which of the studies said that?

Because I've been reading through them myself and all I'm getting is stuff like:

This which says:

Results In this cohort of athletes, TW had similar testosterone concentration (TW 0.7±0.5 nmol/L, CW 0.9±0.4 nmol/), higher oestrogen (TW 742.4±801.9 pmol/L, CW 336.0±266.3 pmol/L, p=0.045), higher absolute handgrip strength (TW 40.7±6.8 kg, CW 34.2±3.7 kg, p=0.01), lower forced expiratory volume in 1 s:forced vital capacity ratio (TW 0.83±0.07, CW 0.88±0.04, p=0.04), lower relative jump height (TW 0.7±0.2 cm/kg; CW 1.0±0.2 cm/kg, p<0.001) and lower relative V̇O2max (TW 45.1±13.3 mL/kg/min/, CW 54.1±6.0 mL/kg/min, p<0.001) compared with CW athletes. TM had similar testosterone concentration (TM 20.5±5.8 nmol/L, CM 24.8±12.3 nmol/L), lower absolute hand grip strength (TM 38.8±7.5 kg, CM 45.7±6.9 kg, p=0.03) and lower absolute V̇O2max (TM 3635±644 mL/min, CM 4467±641 mL/min p=0.002) than CM.

And this Which says:

Key Findings Key Biomedical Findings Biological data are severely limited, and often methodologically flawed. There is limited evidence regarding the impact of testosterone suppression (through, for example, gender-affirming hormone therapy or surgical gonad removal) on transgender women athletes’ performance. Available evidence indicates trans women who have undergone testosterone suppression have no clear biological advantages over cis women in elite sport.

Both of which were cited in the articles OP linked.

This is the exact opposite of your claim.

The bluestones in Stonehenge come from West Wales. Instead of quarrying stone from near the monument, they dragged these huge blocks from ~278km away. Likewise, the altar stone comes from ~700km away in North-East Scotland. It must've been very important for the ancient Britons to've used these specific rocks for some reason, but their religious practices were conveyed via a now extinct oral tradition so no-one knows exactly why they did it.

I don't know what that means.

What I'm saying is that there's insufficient force and direction for a shampoo bottle to penetrate just from falling onto it.

Anything that is inserted into the rectum has to be eased through the rectal sphincter. Now, there are ways to make the insertion easier such as using lubrication or taking poppers but there's still gonna sufficient resistance that it's not gonna happen without the person making it happen.

Thatcher then Blair's neoliberal privatisation plus a decade and a half of Tory austerity has completely fucked the country, and that's the kinda weak position that America will use to enforce its will on us.

Kier Starmer's Labour party has already shown unwillingness to move away from austerity policies so we're likely on the same track of decline with or without being in the EU.

I would, but it pissed down, like, an hour after the snow settled and now all the snow's gone.

I scrolled through the modlog on their home instance and like clockwork...

Thank you :)

I don't think picking an arbitrary time of, like, 9 years ago is accurate for when the western left's "idpol turn" started. Labour rights and anti racism have always been closely intertwined causes and the trade unions have been closely aligned with queer groups since the 80's at least.

But whatever.

What has that accomplished?

Created a more organised front against the current reactionary pushes and helped getting marginalised people politically active despite the neoliberal attempt to crush grassroots political activism.

Who has it helped?

Plenty of people, myself for example: leftist agitation caused both a reform within the Welsh NHS' gender service to move away from antiquated gatekeeping and towards self-id and informed consent, while at the same time these same groups successfully pushed the Senedd to bring out free prescriptions. My poor, post-grad self wouldn't have had the time to fight to get a gender identity certificate nor the money to afford HRT treatment if it wasn't for the intersectional tactics of the "western left".

It's an attempt by Meta to swallow the fediverse via Microsoft's old "embrace, extend, extinguish" strategy.

selling stolen fissile materials hey wait a second...

I almost fell for it, you won't catch me this easy MI5.

I'll be visiting family to give them presents and nothing else!

Oh and watching that Wallace and Gromit film that's gonna be on BBC One

Not just do you get a better sense of the measurements but also the feel of the fabric. If I'm gonna buy something to wear, I really wanna be sure it's nice against my skin before I buy.

Sadly, I live in the arse end of nowhere though, and there's a lot of stuff I can't find without looking online.

I don't really have strong memories of Christmas, I get the impression from my family that I tended to be less depressive at that time of year.

If you pause it, it's much clearer that it's just been overlayed onto the video.

I disagree, usage of drones hasn't worked to put down any armed struggle in the US's puppet states.

Cis is just the opposite of trans. If some people are trans then it follows others are cis.

20 years ago you'd be pissing and whining about the use of heterosexual.

Another unnecessary sequel?

I'm gonna skip this one, let me know when they put Jesus in space, or make him fight Jason Voorhees, or whatever these sortsa franchises do when they run outta ideas.