As @[email protected] comments, "She seems to think womanhood is something you can earn or lose on the basis of your behaviour. Supporters of self-ID should be just as appalled as people who believe in women's sex-based rights"
Nicola Sturgeon clarifies matters.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/The_StateMedia/status/1620060516717838336
When bureaucracy eats itself
1 - You might remember this lovely artwork; it was made by kids from a Primary school in Devon last October. Sadly though, I haven’t got paid a penny yet, it's not the school’s fault but down to @[email protected] finance department. I could do with some help and advice . . . read on.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/DarrellWakelam/status/1619696805612236801
“1 - You might remember this lovely artwork; it was made by kids from a Primary school in Devon last October. Sadly though, I haven’t got paid a penny yet, it's not the school’s fault but down to @DevonCC finance department. I could do with some help and advice . . . read on.”
Among those murdered in the Holocaust were 20,000 Hungarian Jews, shot on the banks of the Danube, having been forced to remove their shoes. The shoes were deemed to hold value. Sculptor Gyula Pauer’s monument is composed of 60 pairs of shoes in iron. #HolocaustMemorialDay
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/claremulley/status/1618883518318391296
“Among those murdered in the Holocaust were 20,000 Hungarian Jews, shot on the banks of the Danube, having been forced to remove their shoes. The shoes were deemed to hold value. Sculptor Gyula Pauer’s monument is composed of 60 pairs of shoes in iron. #HolocaustMemorialDay”
#HolocaustMemorialDay Remembering my lost ancestors, and so many others... this visual family tree image just so powerful
To finish this thread, here’s the before & after family tree from Art Speigelman’s Pulitzer Prize winning comic Maus, about his parents surviving Auschwitz, which reveals something about the devastation the Nazis inflicted on European Jews. But please, learn the details.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/thingsbyuna/status/1618908546195918848
Interesting about AI & ChatGPT. “It’s important to remember that the AIs,remarkable as they are, do not understand anything.” I’ve long argued that intelligence requires understanding knowledge from experience as well as study. Opportunity to value all kinds of human intelligence https://twitter.com/mrianleslie/status/1618341653944881152
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/tinastowell/status/1618509317115875331
It’s #BurnsNight & never have these words of the great bard seemed more apposite.
“Amid this mighty fuss just let me mention,
The rights of woman merit some attention.”
A Happy Burns night to all those celebrating our great poet across the world.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/joannaccherry/status/1618178424845242369
"I honestly don't know why you fucking joined, Simon"
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/SlenderSherbet/status/1617480395343421440
Watching these 'save the NHS' ideas as someone who has lived in the US is a special kind of nightmare. When you charge people to see their GPs, the poorest stop going. Instead, they present in the ER, which is much more expensive. Everyone knows this. Except Tories. https://twitter.com/Smyth_Chris/status/1616575136534089728
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/TabitaSurge/status/1616715584590282752
Now or never #Peckham! Last chance to comment on this proposal ⬇️. Developer's last timetabled consultation event tomorrow Saturday 21 January 11am - 2pm, Unit 12 in Aylesham Centre.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/ACAPeckham/status/1616344812285739008
"One of the criticisms I've faced over the years is that I'm not aggressive enough or assertive enough, or maybe somehow, because I'm empathetic, it means I'm weak. I totally rebel against that. I refuse to believe that you cannot be both compassionate & strong." Jacinda Ardern
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/the_female_lead/status/1616064498372067331
“"One of the criticisms I've faced over the years is that I'm not aggressive enough or assertive enough, or maybe somehow, because I'm empathetic, it means I'm weak. I totally rebel against that. I refuse to believe that you cannot be both compassionate & strong." Jacinda Ardern”
