Notices by Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖ (christineburns@mastodon.green), page 4

Oh and congratulations to Birmingham Live for cramming so many negative oil-lobby talking points into one brief piece! 😂

@thelocalecho @goatsarah @zoe Thank you for the update. Glad to see you’re moving on. I was starting to think you’d bought a chateau and would be settling down to make renovation YouTubes like all the other ex pats dans les pays.

Suddenly less subversive. I hope departments reorder progress flag lanyards. The more colours, the smaller Suella becomes until she finally disappears in a nasty smelly puff.

One really easy ‘win’ this week is for the government to cancel the order that stopped Scotland’s democratically passed bipartisan Gender Recognition (Reform) Bill from receiving Royal Assent. If people seriously believe that genuine GRA reform would be problematic then there is an actual controlled trial waiting right there.

Another chance to enjoy 20% discounts on EV rapid charging this afternoon, if you operate these networks with an Electroverse card. The logic for this is similar to that behind Octopus’s Agile domestic tariff, which brings the benefits of low electricity wholesale prices to consumers. Of course I’d prefer these networks to be dropping their prices in general. EV rapid charge networks were quick to raise their prices when power prices went up two years ago but slow to respond the other way.

A timely review of evidence finds no grounds anywhere to believe that trans women pose a danger in the toilets.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13178-018-0335-z

Wakey wakey America. Out of bed. You don’t want to be missing your last Independence Day do you?

@zoe @goatsarah @ajlanes Ah.. I was thinking more along the lines that you take buses to Cherbourg and send one over to collect the car whilst the other two get an Air BnB to await their return. See? In my head it’s much more like ferrying snakes and rabbits and lettuces across the river 😂

@goatsarah That sounds like one of those mind puzzles involving snakes and rabbits or lettuces. Could it be worth getting a ferry from Cherbourg to fetch the car?

@goatsarah Using two fingers as dividers to extrapolate where you’d got in three hours I was thinking it was probably too far but I couldn’t see much evidence of mariners in other places. Brest tomorrow?

Having fun watching the continuing seafaring adventures of @goatsarah and her crew thanks to the boating equivalent of FlightRadar. Yesterday they left Cherbourg at lunchtime and were moored up in St Peter Port Guernsey in time for tea. Today they’re headed south west towards the French coast (somewhere like Roscoff I guess). It’s like following Greta all over again https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/shipid:3886856/zoom:11

Am I alone in thinking that Trump has single-handedly ruined every TV drama, every film and every novel about the US government’s prowess that we’ve consumed over the last eighty years. Secrets aren’t guarded in vaults but lie stacked with dirty washing in messy closets. The west wing isn’t a well oiled machine under a Bartlett but a chaos machine under Trump. There are no ‘00’ agents, or Ethan Hunts to blow away the bad guys with extreme prejudice but failing pillars of state.

Pleased to see that @goatsarah and Zoë are close to land now at the port of Cherbourg after sailing their boat 14 hours across the busy channel from Gosport. They are not far off their original ETA. https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/shipid:3886856/zoom:9

@goatsarah They appear to be tying up in the marina! (1 knot speed, 180 degree reversed heading)

@goatsarah @fishidwardrobe They’d do better turning the residual assets into a theme park.

Peter Osborne: The Conservative Party is FINISHED for good.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=TADeOmCVo_s&si=Xa_R9n-sd9NV4cDt

@goatsarah Well, they’re not very good political debaters. It’s a source of constant amazement that most pols haven’t yet formulated the way to deal with the infantile gotchas of the GC-Press-ERG nexus in the way I’m sure the last generation of actual statesmen could. It doesn’t help that they’re so afraid of the mere idea of trans that they have never done the basic homework to blow off the nonsense lies. Instead they look like they’re caught in the headlights.

@katiefenn @goatsarah Judged by how it has spread within the chattering classes of North London (which explains the press/SPADs/ middle class bubble concentration) I think it is spread through inadequately sanitised private dinner parties. It’s something you have to affect belief in to be assured of continued invites. It’s a classic example of a groupthink contagion and the danger lies in the power of the people who get the mind virus.

Green Party’s Carla Denver: “ Trans rights don’t threaten my rights as a woman”

https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/06/20/green-party-carla-denyer-trans-general-election-2024-lgbtq/

Jo Maugham presents the receipts for his assertions about a trans youth suicide explosion and NHS management attempts to cover it up. The gender criticals kidded themselves they were on the right side of history and shutting down a conspiracy in trans care. As anyone could have predicted, their ideology, snatching the prospect of timely care from young trans people, appears to have produced an actual tragedy.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1803729360731406489.html