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My favourite family snap
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I don't know why I've done this
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"I'm not sure that people come out of the womb with a sex" OH MY GOD
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Seen a couple of people I really like on here upset by JKR's tweet yesterday. I'm not dismissing their viewpoint but I think they underestimate how offensive it is to women to be told they have to support a lie.
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1 year
So, Sarah Jane Baker has been arrested
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Why's it called mansplaining and not male pattern boldness
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Trans Activism in a nutshell
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3 years
Love the guy on the right checking if he's on the list
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That's quite a shot
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3 years
Not on @billybragg , not on at all
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3 years
State of the man
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3 years
This will always be a great image
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2 years
Saw some teenage girls tell a bloke that he was going into the wrong lavs today. The system works!
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2 years
Siri, define chutzpah
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3 years
The idea that we've forgotten why women's sport exists is one of the most bizarre turns of recent years
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"In fact, following a lot of research, I’ve surprised myself how right I was."
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2 years
You'd think with all the information and pushback happening now Stonewall would go *less* mental
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Who's the definition of a 'stupid person's idea of a clever person'
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2 years
What if, and hear me out, *there is no way of fairly integrating male people into women's sport*? It should at least be considered
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3 years
I just don't buy the idea that the asexual community is a thing, or that it's oppressed in any meaningful way
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5 years
Hi There! Friendly biologist here! Just want to tell you that none of us have a scooby about how reproduction works and we just spend our days bashing various animals and plants together to see what happens like some weird cargo cult.
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3 years
Eldest has just spent 16 pounds on a burger from Just Eat that's been delivered by a man driving a 3 year old BMW 3 series. None of this makes sense to me
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2 years
I love Twitter. You can sit in bed with a cup of tea watching an Ivy Professor make a tit of himself. Amazing
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2 years
You'll never guess Billy Bragg's view on prostitution
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8 months
"Happy to send you some sourdough starter?"
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3 years
Notwithstanding my misgivings about Andy Ngô this latest development in the WiSpa incident, if true, should cause all the online gender ID people to pause and reflect. I really hope they do
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3 years
Lovely in the echo chamber
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2 years
Literally saying there is "good bullying" Explains a lot
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1 year
Isla Bryson addressed with male pronouns on R4!
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2 years
WARNING CRITICAL MASS HAS BEEN REACHED
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3 years
Imagine the Greene King PR person opening up the social media stuff tomorrow morning
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Stop everyone. This changes *everything*
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3 years
God, been into my teenager's bedroom and found controversial stickers. I'm beside myself
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"none of them were as clear as this"
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2 years
Bloody suburban white women
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Whoops Frances!
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2 years
More MRA shit from horrible Dave
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Hahaha, never change Aidan
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2 years
Ok is anyone *not* blocked by @BrexitBlocklist ?
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3 years
Look, quite clearly if a lot of your students are engaging in sex work then a number of things are going wrong. Like *a lot*
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3 years
Do these people ever question how they are going to tackle male violence when they have no working definition of "male"?
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3 years
The money that only clever people can see
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6 months
Despicable, stupid, arrogant little man
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2 years
Get ready for the Forstater takes. I think we'll see another round of "this doesn't mean..." for things that no-one ever thought it did
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Thanks Sooz, now 0 people are raging
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3 years
Didn't feel I wanted to but now I do. My cat was hit by a vehicle and killed today. He was a lovely boy.
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Is this a lot, for Suffolk?
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"I won't be answering any questions"
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1 year
This man has influence. He is a danger.
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1 year
This is just lying by omission isn't it?
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8 months
Christ
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4 years
ok, who keeps leaving garden rakes out for Jameela Jamil?
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2 years
Just finished my first couple of days working as Zoe Williams, Guardian journalist. Think it's gone ok
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Those poor sex offenders. Really worry about them
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@benjamincohen Who did the investigative work Benjamin?
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I think the world would be better if we ignored Owen Jones. He's a dogmatic fool
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2 years
You did call a woman a "Terf piece of shit" tho
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@DavidMuttering Sorry its so late hope u like it
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Martina Navratilova is right. You're off your rocker
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1 year
Let me make it quite clear that this is not true and please don't do this
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2 years
Just out of interest how many of you are reading my Tweets without an emotional support companion?
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@AstroKatie @MargaretAtwood Saying that no one is banning a word they're just changing its meaning isn't a brilliant argument
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@Jon_Christian @MargaretAtwood @TorontoStar I don't know why so many prostate havers are complaining right?
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Lads lads lads, we don't want to be lumbered with something crap like the ladies have got - birthing people, people who menstruate. No, let's get in first. What'll it be?
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Best episode of Brass Eye ever
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1 year
I wonder if Billy Bragg, or anyone indeed, could tell me the "correct" way of going about setting up an organisation for female people who are exclusively attracted to female people?
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He could be on to something here
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Even I know that you've fucked up your reference here
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hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
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Bought Material Girls by @Docstockk from Waterstones. It wasn't hidden but did have a little note in it with a twitter @ and a message to speak to trans people!
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3 years
Have you accidentally found yourself defending a dog fucker?
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Going to make a Jolyon Maugham parody account that tweets exactly the same things he does but 1 second earlier. It can't even be that hard anymore
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- words are violence - "punch them in the face" - no, not those words
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Hello, we're mental
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PUMA FORCED TO CLOSE ITS DOORS. CARNABY STREET BROUGHT TO A STANDSTILL. PALESTINE WILL BE FREE. CONSUMER BOYCOTTS WORK. JOIN US. 🇵🇸
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"Hello, I'm 12"
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@PennyRed If they are "preferred" why is refusal - on clearly stated grounds - "vicious"?
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I (sadly, some very orange netting) would like to be a fire at the top of a tower, but am concerned it might be cultural appropriation. Thoughts?
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@KatyMontgomerie @YouGov Adding "polling" to the list of things Katy doesn't understand
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@Talldarkfriend @Channel4 @LondonPalladium Well played Terf Agent 001. Your mission is complete
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Confused. Did this guy become a millionaire advising people on how to maximise their tax liabilities?
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@voxdotcom @RottenInDenmark Hahaha. You utter loons
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You've literally screenshot them yourself Frances
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Enjoying a lawyer trying to say that a biology professor doesn't understand sex and sex determination
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People who think that Rowling is an antisemite but Hamas aren't
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Perhaps this isn't the best account to explain the significance of the Forstater tribunal
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@paulsinha The issue here was about the claim that this was the first "all woman final" not about someone's right to live their life in their own way.
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@rivkahbrown I don't want to tell you your job but, as a journalist, have you ever considered getting things right?
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They just... said it
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It's an especially rich day for JoMo's hot takes
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Can't believe a grant is going to an LGB org in Pride Month
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All these years in and still doesn't understand the argument
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@zoesqwilliams @sandymatheson10 @JoPhoenix1 Not sure anyone understands what you mean. Should there have been a guest brought on to explain that Jo Phoenix lost?
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@Telibarb Incitement to violence
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Might become HR director for a Development Think Tank
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I think there's a reason that the "sex is a spectrum" people don't get nominated for science awards
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It is shameful that the #MaddoxPrize shortlist includes an 'activist' who calls trans people ‘damaged’ and a ‘huge problem in a sane world' and stated that the NHS Rainbow scheme is worse than Andrew Tate. @senseaboutsci Here is our statement:
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He's loving calling people racist!
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That Julie Bindel thread is excoriating but this single tweet by Laurie Penny encapsulates the whole thing
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Good luck to none of the candidates standing in the Rochdale by-election 👍🏻
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