Notices by Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖ (christineburns@mastodon.green), page 5

Erin Reed: In a major move, UN Women, the United Nations Entity tasked with women's equality and protection from violence, has called the gender critical movement an extremist "anti-rights" movement.

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/un-women-calls-gender-criticals-an

@ryanc Is this a Gendersql Injection attack?

@ryanc Or an Old Buffer overflow?

OSF Preprints | CRITICALLY APPRAISING THE CASS REPORT: METHODOLOGICAL FLAWS AND UNSUPPORTED CLAIMS

https://osf.io/preprints/osf/uhndk

A diesel Parcel Force van just rattled past me with some greenwashing nonsense emblazoned on the wing, claiming they were turning their “Red vans green” with some nonsense called “eco start delivery”. No guys, it’s a diesel van and the lie about it being in any way ‘green’ belongs in the late 1990s where it began.

Viral disinformation: How 51 million watched a viral video featuring a bogus doctors’ group pushed by Elon Musk, against trans care that is approved by the real professional association they pass themselves off as. And, yes, of course the Cass review is now part of the weapons arsenal.

The rank dishonesty of the movement targeting trans folk should be all you need to understand.

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/bogus-doctors-group-pushed-by-elon

I’m a technology geek. I’m sure everyone knows that. First degree in Computer Science 50 years ago. Masters the year after. That was my profession for nearly 30 years, during which time I evangelised lots of new and exciting stuff. But I watched Apple’s WWDC announcements for iOS 18, iPadOS 18, MacOS etc… and my heart sank. Apple are now bloating the tech with stuff we weren’t asking for, at the cost of making it harder to understand. These are the first updates I’ll resist installing.

Honestly, which of us hasn’t already got workflows to use the individual tools to achieve things we want? We trust the results because we watch the steps. But to use a sexed up Siri to piece together context by going into all our apps introduces a realm of uncertainty for actions that I, for one, would want to cross check. And if I have to cross check then I might as well have done what I want in the time honoured way. I want my devices to help me, yes, but not take over and get things wrong.

Just had my first Shingles vaccination. There’s a ‘part 2’ to come in six months too. I had chicken pox back when I was about six years old and the virus stays dormant in the system for life, waiting for your immune system to become weaker with age, so I’m not messing with that risk. A nice introduction to a chatty practitioner associate too.

Halfway across the Irish Sea yesterday I ventured out on the stern of the Dublin Swift. The Swift, as the name suggests, is built for speed — taking 2.5 hours to do a crossing that larger conventional ferries take 3.5 hours to do. The craft uses water jet propulsion rather than conventional propellers to get up to 33 knots and I wasn’t expecting to see these great plumes of water billowing up behind us.

New restrictions on puberty blockers - GOV.UK

How can a drug be withheld from one specific group of patients for reasons of ‘patient safety’ whilst continuing to provide it to those already receiving it and anyone who needs it prescribed for anything other than being trans? And how is that even managed on the ground? How are pharmacists supposed to deal with scripts? Government has gone full mask-off.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-restrictions-on-puberty-blockers

@jacqui76 Only people aged 82 or over can ever have experienced national service. The last intake was in 1960. So, this is an appeal to a fantasy of a bygone age held by boomers who were themselves spared the experience. It’s the generation fed the idea that anything ‘new’ that scared them, starting with the social revolution of the sixties, was the fault of ending conscription.

Tories to introduce urgent bill to declare that it didn’t rain on Rishi Sunak.

I can’t believe Amazon are paying me £0.01 for pages of my self-published stuff that someone read with Kindle Unlimited in March. I’ve had some paltry payments in the last 11 years but 1 penny from Kindle UK is a record low 😂 My bank is going to just love processing that.

Matthew Hodson on Section 28…

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1791020075589234848.html#google_vignette

@goatsarah Not ‘Scorchio’ but agreeably sunny

Solar is providing 37.4% of the electricity generated on the British mainland. 10.51GW !! https://grid.iamkate.com

@katiefenn @goatsarah Yeah. When you’ve stashed more money than you and your loved ones could possibly spend and you’re still compelled to go on screwing others to keep on stashing then it’s an indication of a hole inside that just can’t be filled. These people have a sickness and, far from wealth buying them freedom, it becomes a monster that takes them over and ensures they can’t be happy with ‘enough’.

J K Rowling calls trans soccer official a crossdressing straight man for no reason.

Look, even Elon Musk has advised her to get some other interests. It’s quite the journey she’s been on but she’s not alone and one day I’m sure psychiatrists will write books about this and other phenomena of our time.

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/05/cruel-jk-rowling-calls-trans-soccer-official-a-crossdressing-straight-man-for-no-reason/

79 years ago this Wednesday the Sunderland that my father’s RAF aircrew was assigned to got lost in a storm, flew a reciprocal bearing and three of Dad’s crew mates were killed. He himself sustained a broken leg and, being trapped upside down at first, he could have joined them but for having words with himself. I’m hugely indebted to the person who traced this squadron record of the events that day.