The BBC has rightfully criticised russian state owned media in the past for doing similar things but now its doing the same

A good book I liked about it was Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue by Leslie Feinberg, available here in pdf form: https://transreads.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/2021-12-29_61cca107e2f6b_leslie-feinberg-trans-liberation-beyond-pink-or-blue.pdf

It was written in the 90s so some of the terms are sort of dated but it holds true with what a lot of the modern trans experience continues to be

a new political office who’s sole purpose is to determine if trans people should have rights or not.

We already have that smh: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minister_for_Women_and_Equalities

A Council of Europe report[6][7] in September 2021 criticised the Minister for Equalities, stating that rhetoric from the minister is in contradiction with international human rights standards and has contributed to a sharp increase in transphobic crimes since 2015.

They're basically reassuring her that they're still transphobic enough for her to support after she went against them to endorse the Communist Party of Britain because one of their candidates put out a really transphobic statement for their election (but then CPB disavowed their member's statement in a really limp wristed way to try and maintain the facade that they're still the social centrists in between the former party RFB and CPGB-ML so she took back her endorsement)

We're at new new labour now smh

Knowing how transphobic Streeting is the "simplification" of the process will probably be banning it all together

Also how labour is literally getting policy advice from JK Rowling: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/labour-jk-rowling-rachel-reeves-labour-party-douglas-ross-b2567853.html

iirc from growing up in a church school and all the Bible study bits I did growing up, there's a bit in the bible where jesus says that if someone tries to kidnap and enslave someone they should pay a fine to the parents in addition to the punishment they'd receive from the law which some people twist around into trying to imply that jesus was saying kidnapping and enslaving people is ok as long as you pay a fine to the parents.

What's the point in memes where it's putting something that's just uncontroversially true and not really that complex of an idea next to a twink wojack

Edit: just read the comments smh. My bad OP you're entirely in the right for this, apparently the basic idea that the dominant ideology reproduces itself is too complicated for people to get, also someone calling you a tankie for this lol

go to this web address: https://app.element.io/#/register and then put in either matrix.org or chat.blahaj.zone as your homeserver. the page should look like this once you've done that:

once you've set up an account try clicking through the link to the chat i sent you again

Have you made a matrix account?

i found some links for you and edited my earlier comment

i saw something a few weeks ago about some company in china that recently patented a potential cure for diabetes that removed the need for insulin so it might be referring to that. i'll try and find an article about it

edit: here's some stuff about it

https://interestingengineering.com/health/stem-cell-therapy-diabetes-china

https://www.diabetes.co.uk/news/2024/may/stem-cell-therapy-cures-man-with-type-2-diabetes-chinese-study-claims.html

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/healthcare/biotech/healthcare/chinese-scientists-develop-cure-for-diabetes-insulin-patient-becomes-medicine-free-in-just-3-months/articleshow/110466659.cms?from=mdr

idk about hte claim that people are trying to fight it (though tbh as soon as it looks like it might be viable on a large scale they probably will tbh)

There's a blahaj matrix chat, lemme just find the link to it

Edit: here's the link https://matrix.to/#/#genderverse-chat:chat.blahaj.zone

cant wait

In future I'd advise using the term cis woman instead of biological woman because biological woman has a history of being used as a transphobic term by TERFs to delegitimise trans people, especially in the UK.

One thing I've seen used for CPGB-ML (an ML party so notable for their transphobia that JK Rowling has repeatedly endorsed them and their members and even the MLs in Britain largely range from looking down on to openly hating them) are the phrases tailism and right deviationism being applied to them

As a general trend in Britain the term tankie (at least in my experience) is used less by the far left because it originated here and has had more time to be misused to the point that most of us remember stuff like Jeremy Corbyn being called a "tankie trot" by Boris Johnson and stuff like that

I literally just use the web browser bcs I'm spiritually a boomer despite physically being a zoomer

I mod the comm and it has been removed now o7

I actually got banned from a comm on here just yesterday for pointing out that one of the people who was posting a load of things saying "FUCK TANKIES" had repeatedly admitted that they were a fascist and shouldn't be trusted. Like I'm a trot, I have no love for stalinists obviously but I think it should be pretty obvious to people at this point that the people constantly yelling about tankies are just using it as an excuse to amputate the entire far left out of political discussions.

::: spoiler receipts

The image I posted: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/d7110acb-ec24-4f8b-9454-955956eb2548.png

The mod who removed it:

I mod that comm and it has been removed o7, thanks for reporting it

full quote:

The prescience, he realized, was an illumination that incorporated the limits of what it revealed- at once a source of accuracy and meaningful error. A kind of Heisenberg indeterminacy intervened: the expenditure of energy that revealed what he saw, changed what he saw.

And what he saw was a time nexus within this cave, a boiling of possibilities focused here, wherein the most minute action - the wink of an eye, a careless word, a misplaced grain of sand - moved a gigantic lever across the known universe. He saw violence with the outcome subject to so many variables that his slightest movement created vast shiftings in the patterns.

just to clarify i want evidence of this specific admin function being misused, i and everyone else already knows that the lemmy.ml mods are trigger happy with their bans, but you’re claiming that they’re misusing the anti-CSAM feature to remove comments from the modlog that they actually removed for criticising china to cover their tracks which i havent seen anyone else accuse them of

can you link me a single example of someone saying that they had their post removed from the mod log

I didnt say that lemmy.ml mods havent been overbearing with their moderation i said "i havent seen anyone even claiming its been used against them or pointing to their post being permanently removed from the modlogs unjustly".

if you want me to spell it out slowly i can:

• lemmy.ml mods have abused admin powers at some points
• it is possible that the lemmy.ml people could abuse this admin power
• as far as im aware there is no evidence that anyone has misused this specific admin power
• this specific admin power has been used to remove child porn and dox info
• since this admin power has been used for good reasons and hasnt been used for bad reasons it shouldnt be removed as an admin power

well i havent seen anyone even claiming its been used against them or pointing to their post being permanently removed from the modlogs unjustly, only people saying that maybe it could be used in this way, so no i dont think that the ML tankie front are using it that way. and since i know it has been used for its stated purpose to fully remove actual doxx information and child porn i dont see why it should be removed as a feature, at very least until there's some evidence of it being used maliciously

all instance admins have the ability to do this on their own instance, the functionality was added to deal with doxx info being posted so it wouldnt be visible even in the modlog, and it was used a lot to deal with the CSAM spam attack too - basically whenever this happens the relevant message will still be in the modlog but it will be changed to "Permanently Removed". Currently there's no evidence or even accusation that this functionality has been used for anything except the stated purposes though so i wouldnt worry too much.

your brain is being eaten by reddit prions

on lemmy i dont really use it because it screws up comment chains but on twitter and fedi and stuff i go wild with it

Pretty sure I haven't posted this one before, I have like a big folder of Garfield memes to post and sometimes I get mixed up with which ones I've posted already and which I haven't

I think micro plastics in our anything will probably be an issue

I used to quite a bit but I don't anymore, because cigs fuck with hrt

pogging off

whichever of the two is more like a bear

im literally in one of the protest encampments in britain right now and the vast majority of people here are anti liberal leftists, there's literally more overt marxists here than there are liberals

this looks so cool

A trans communist I've talked to a lot over the internet for ages, she introduced me to her wife and a load of other trans communists from across the world and helped put me in contact with people to get hrt from and helped me pay for it after I got cryptoscammed out of the money I was using to buy it, also given me a lot of advice on self injecting and general good social advice. Also helped me get through a pretty traumatic situation I was going through several months ago that kind of fucked me up mentally.

im not out to my grandma yet though so she just sort of thinks of me as her weirdly effeminate grandson

im such a fiend for tv slop, like my favourite shows are garfield and friends, the big bang theory, and ancient aliens and also futurama but i dont think that really counts as slop tbh (though tbf i only really like ancient aliens and the big bang theory bcs i like watching them when i go over to visit my grandma (a lot of the time she doesnt really have the social energy to interact for too long but she likes having me around the house so i'll go over and we'll talk a bit and then she'll get tired so i'll just potter around with the tv on for a bit and then ill make her dinner or something))

fr, one of my favourite wads of all time, i used to stream myself playing it to them and then they'd stream themselves playing myhouse.wad bcs they werent good enough at the game to deal with ancient aliens, imo the first episode will always be my favourite though because the whole collision of the mayan / sci fi aliens / standard doom aesthetics is just so cool (also bcs ive played the first episode through on its own so many times when ive just got a little bit of time to kill)