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Interesting Links for 03-10-2015
- Pope Francis: Kim Davis Is A Liar And I Don’t Support Her Bigotry
Admittedly, the Vatican didn't phrase it quite that way, but it's still good to know.
Interesting Links for 19-09-2015
- Profound Decisions - Equality And Diversity
Doing it right. The games are created settings, so they can be gender neutral.
- Lidl can only afford living wage because of their extortionate pricing, insist business leaders
Interesting Links for 17-02-2015
- Fifty Shades of Socialist Feminism
'“I’ll buy you a Lamborghini’ “I’d really prefer a tank.”'
- Stonewall to campaign for trans equality
A mere two and a half decades after its formation, and four and a half after the riots it was named for, which heavily involved trans people.
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Interesting Links for 10-12-2014
- Emily Brothers, the first openly transgender person to run for Westminster from a major party
- A brief history of trans parliamentarians « Complicity
Corrects the previous post with a list of other trans candidates
Interesting Links for 05-11-2014
- The Case Against Male Suffrage
1. Because man’s place is in the army. 2. Because no really manly man wants to settle any question otherwise than by fighting about it.
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Interesting Links for 28-09-2014
- Men aren’t entitled to women's time or affection.
Think I'd replace "But it's a hard lesson to learn" with "But some don't want to learn"
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Interesting Links for 19-09-2014
- Anti-trans trolling spree forces Wikipedia to ban U.S. House staffers for third time
- The Satanic Children's BIG BOOK of activities
Link is to a PDF. A Florida county let Christian organisations distribute action books in schools. So they have to let other religions do so too. And The Satanic Temple (who've also erected a statue to Baphomet near a Ten Commandments momument in some US park), put together a fun activity book!
Interesting Links for 19-08-2014
- Pathfinder's new iconic shaman is a transgender dwarf
And they appear to have handled it with a lot of care and understanding.
- BBC News - Julian Assange speaks of 'leaving' Ecuador embassy
Interesting Links for 15-07-2014
- I Can Only Enjoy Video Games With Featureless Blocks as Protagonists
'If you're a burger chef or a spaceship and you want to be represented in gaming, then either make the game, or become an economic force to be reckoned with.'
- Church of England General Synod approves female bishops
Finally entering the Century of the Fruitbat. Though I do wonder if this'll result in a fair bit of splintering off.
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Interesting Links for 21-05-2014
- Will UKIP make me Richer, or will UKIP make me Poorer?
AKA 'flat taxes are regressive'
- Disabled students could be 'shut out' by government cuts
Some of the support I got through the Disabled Students Allowance, particularly the PDA it got me, were a real help in getting myself organised, actually managing to make all the things I was supposed to, etc. I think I'd've had a much harder time without them.
- What If We Admitted to Children That Sex Is About Pleasure? - Pacific Standard: The Science of Society
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Interesting Links for 19-07-2013
- Satanists Turn WBC Founder's Mom Gay in Ceremony Held On Her Grave
- Give Blood - Statements - Blood from UK donors is not sold for profit
I've not seen any of the people worrying that it would be sold for profit, but this seems worth making sure people see it.
- A scientist's view: equality, feminism and men's rights | Andrew Holding | Science | guardian.co.uk
Yes, equality is important. Yes, there are issue that men face. But no, the 'men's rights' issues are not at the same level as the systemic and cultural disadvantage women face.
- BBC News - 10 ways the UK is ill-prepared for a heatwave
Insufficient ability to tow the country north when we need to!
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Interesting Links for 17-07-2013
- BBC - Newsbeat - US issues 'athlete' visas to League of Legends players
'effectively recognising the video game as a professional sport.'
- Why Are UK Trans People Going on About a “Spousal Veto?” | Sarah Brown's Blog
Good summary of issues with the Spousal Veto in the Same Sex Marriage Bill.
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Interesting Links for 26-06-2013
- Texas abortion bill defeated after missing deadline | World news | guardian.co.uk
The bill would have banned abortions in the state after the 20-week gestation mark, limit abortion-inducing drugs and require terminations to be performed in ambulatory surgical centres. Advocates say these and other restrictions in the bill would have also triggered the closure of 37 of the state's 42 abortion clinics.
- BBC News - US Supreme Court overturns gay marriage provision
'The US Supreme Court has struck down a law that defines marriage as between a man and a woman only, in a landmark ruling.'
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Interesting Links for 04-06-2013
- Germany drops its longest word: Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz - Telegraph
'the 63-letter long title of a law regulating the testing of beef, has officially ceased to exist.'
- Recruitment site only offers jobs to beautiful people - Telegraph
- Let your child try and fail before trying to help, new Coaltion social mobility tzar tells parents: Telegraph
Yet no matter how much he says it, it's just not going to happen.
- BBC News - Gay marriage bill: Lords debate 'wrecking amendment'
And trot out all the same old tired & wrong objections
- seven reasons to maybe feel slightly better about things
Simultanously possitive yet downbeat webcmic
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Interesting Links for 22-05-2013
- Legal recognition of humanist marriages blocked in Commons
Gits. IIRC the real reason is more about stopping more non-religious marriages, and other groups such as pagans getting in on the act.
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Interesting Links for 24-04-2013
- BBC News - Same-sex marriage: France changes law
'becomes the 14th country to pass a law allowing gay marriage, and follows New Zealand last week.'
- Fox Censors Cory Doctorow’s “Homeland” Novel From Google | TorrentFreak
DMCA notices for a Creative Commons book. Faaaaaaaiiiiiiillllll.
- Clay Nikiforuk: I Was Detained and Interrogated at the Border for Carrying Condoms
- The Scale of the Universe
Rather awesome little flash thing showing everything from the universe to quantum foam
- Is your Twitter password secure?
'It's a scary world right now, guys. Your Twitter password can cause the Dow Jones to drop nearly 150 points and compel dozens of blogs to write breathless posts about the future of online journalism. You should be worried.'
- Russell's teapot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
'an analogy first coined... to illustrate that the philosophic burden of proof lies upon a person making scientifically unfalsifiable claims'
- Large Hadron Collider putting family-run particle colliders out of business
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Interesting Links for 04-04-2013
- Same-Sex Marriage Does Threaten “Traditional” Marriage | Nursing Clio
Because it shows the lack of necessity of the traditional gender roles.
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Interesting Links for 04-03-2013
- BBC News - Decriminalise drugs, inquiry by cross-party peers says
- Procrastination Is Not Laziness | Thought Catalog
'It’s a neurotic self-defense behavior that develops to protect a person’s sense of self-worth. You see, procrastinators tend to be people who have, for whatever reason, developed to perceive an unusually strong association between their performance and their value as a person. This makes failure or criticism disproportionately painful, which leads naturally to hesitancy when it comes to the prospect of doing anything that reflects their ability — which is pretty much everything.'
- Dr Helen Pankhurst: 'I ask a class if they’re feminists and there's silence' - Profiles - People - The Independent
- "Batman" helps police inquiry | Calendar - ITV News
'"The person who brought the wanted man into the station was dressed in a full batman outfit. His identity, however, remains unknown"'
- Human rights… I do not think they mean what you think they mean.
'Tory ministers plot Human Rights Act repeal'
- Government to try 'crowd sourcing' key policies to see 'What Works' - UK Politics - UK - The Independent
- Jason O Mahony » Blog Archive » Why Canada, Australia and New Zealand should join the European Union.