Notices by HebrideanHecate (hebrideanhecate@spinster.xyz)

@Flick @inscius He probably gave it a name and everything.

https://ykright.substack.com/p/piers-morgan-and-brianna-wu-go-full?utm_source=podcast-email&publication_id=871376&post_id=151766967&utm_campaign=email-play-on-substack&utm_content=watch_now_gif&r=ap7j2&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

"These guys will gravel at the feet of gullible people like Piers Morgan in order to solidify their standing as "one if the sane ones." People like Piers are so used to getting hammered by far Lefties that this ego stroke is just what is needed for him to concede men like Wu and claim they deserve to be in the bathroom. Piers is do dumb that he can't see how old this trick is. Troons study, take notes and follow tricks like these in order to be one of the few to be let past the gate and into "Womanhood." It's all so pathetic to watch"

"These 'resaonable' transwomen are Trojan horses, nothing more, nothing less. They are like the non-kiddy-fiddling pedophiles whose emergence into the public sphere is also a slippery slope leading to the eventual acceptance of pedophilia as a sexual orientation. Karen is spot on as usual."

https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/11/15/is-dog-walking-racist/

While the report doesn’t explicitly say that dogs, or dog-walking, are racist, it does at least suggest that the unbridled presence of dogs in parks and other green spaces is hampering the government’s aim of turning Wales into a bastion of inclusion. It proposes the creation of ‘dog-free areas in local green spaces’, among other recommendations.

The group’s vaunted ‘qualitative and quantitative’ research methodology appears to have consisted of lobbing questions at the unsuspecting Caribbean community in Bangor, a seaside town in north-west Wales. That ethnic-minority Welsh people also own and like dogs does not seem to figure in the reasoning.

We shouldn’t be surprised by this latest comical suggestion. The Anti-Racist Action Plan has already generated plenty of other hilarious headlines. Reports produced by other groups have pointed to all manner of other ‘barriers’ to multiracial harmony, including the alleged dominance of ‘middle-aged white women’ on allotments.

While it is unlikely to achieve anything other than more embarrassing news stories, and a further drain on public resources, here’s hoping the Welsh state’s patronising crusade against imaginary forms of racism doesn’t end anytime soon. We could all do with a few more laughs.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6298z99xv8o

TikTok is being sued by seven families in France, who accuse the social media giant of exposing their children to harmful content - leading two to take their own lives.

The case alleges the video platform's algorithm exposed them to content promoting self-harm, eating disorders and suicide, said Laure Boutron-Marmion, a lawyer for the families.

She told French media that the lawsuit was the first of its kind in Europe.

TikTok, which is one of the world's most popular social media platforms, said it had not received any notifications of legal proceedings relating to the claims.

The company added in a statement that its community guidelines do not allow for the showing, promoting or sharing plans for suicide or self-harm, and that it uses a combination of technology and moderation to ensure these standards are upheld.

The group lawsuit, which has been filed in the Créteil judicial court, is separate to a criminal complaint filed against TikTok last year by the parents of Marie - one of the two teenagers who killed herself.

https://x.com/realMaalouf/status/1851337759908057319

An Islamic regime cleric in Iran tried to secretly film a woman breastfeeding her child and not wearing a headscarf at a hospital, with the intention of having her arrested later.

So all the other women taught him a lesson!

@inscius @Flick They got free or were all meant to, as per usual SNP did some kind of fuck up there too, tablets or some type thing in the secondary schools here, but because they were free most of them then proceeded to treat them like junk and hurled them around and broke them.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gd9023018o

Three Scottish practices told BBC Scotland News they were registering new NHS patients but that there was a two-year waiting list for appointments. And five practices said they had waiting lists of at least one year. A total of 91 practices listed on the NHS Inform website said they were now fully private. In Annan, residents described the lack of dental access as a “nightmare”.

William Anderson hasn’t been to a dentist “in years”. The 76-year-old said: “I think there should be something put in place. What does it cost for an appointment now and how long is it going to take?”

Shirley Kirkpatrick was de-registered when her dentist moved private. “My dentist has gone private and you have to pay upfront,” she said. “I don’t have the money for that so I have to go to the dental hospital in Dumfries. “I think it’s ridiculous. Annan is a small town but everyone needs a dentist.”

Mr McColl said there is now a two-tier system developing in dentistry.

He said: “As far as dentistry is concerned, patients now want things that the NHS cannot deliver - they want teeth whitening, six-month smiles, straight teeth, white crowns and white fillings - these are things the NHS do not provide.

“It’s up to the government to decide what the NHS is there for, and what the NHS can provide and have an open transparent discussion with the profession and patients about what the NHS can deliver.”

@TriptychTwinsRidesAgain We have to go to Inverness to see a private one now, insurance plan for 2 of us is about 55 a month, covers everything done except any lab costs for a crown, that is around 80 to 150 depending, apparently. So many can't afford to do this, and I had to have 3 fillings done, did not even know they were a problem, before would let me on the plan. So again, a lot of cost upfront, thank God my crowns were ok, as some of the prices have heard for them are outrageous. There are around 4000 people thrown off the list here when the dentist closed, both of them, because the one we were with would take anyone with a Highland postcode, which meant that people were willing to travel as could not access NHS where they were. I think that was overdoing it, because it just overloaded them with patients.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy437gnp28zo

@carolen Can't tell you how much this pissed me off, because that is my name, and it really irked me 🤣 If I wanted to curse someone and give them anything it would be far more dramatic and outrageous!

@carolen 😂 well, it's the shortened version of it, am called after my grandfather.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp8ewz39k9ro

Three children have been injured - one of them seriously - in a knife attack at a daycare centre in the Swiss city of Zurich.

A spokesperson for the city's police force said a 23-year-old Chinese man attacked a group of children who were being led to the centre by a staff member.

A daycare worker and a bystander managed to overpower the attacker and restrain him until police arrived.

A five-year-old boy suffered serious injuries and was being treated in hospital. Two other five-year-old boys were treated at the scene for less severe injuries.

@Gnomeshatecheese But didn't you know, China is a paragon of virtue according to so many 🙄

@Gnomeshatecheese That is appalling.

@Gnomeshatecheese There's a lot of dodgy bastards out there who appear to get free passes, because reasons.

@Gnomeshatecheese See also

https://thecritic.co.uk/only-the-truly-privileged-can-be-cultural-relativists/

Cultural relativism is an odious conceit that can only be indulged in by a sanctimonious few who benefit from life in industrialised, liberal democracies. Do the curators, people who so clearly consider themselves better than the museum’s ordinary visitors also believe that the culture of, for example, present day Afghanistan under Taliban rule, is equal to our own?

It is quite obvious to those who have not been educated into ignorance that Britain is a better place to live than either Afghanistan, China or indeed 19th century Ecuador. To believe that people suffering under Taliban rule are different from us, that unlike British women, women in Afghanistan are content to be treated as property, is rank racism. Our culture, imperfect and fragmented though it may be, is better by every metric.

It is sobering to reflect that had the women who now lead collections at the Pitt Rivers museum been born in nineteenth century China, they would scarcely be able to stand on their mutilated feet, let alone hand down diktats about what visitors should think about other cultures.

https://x.com/Wommando/status/1838932862445170759

PARAPHILIC PAEDOPHILE, Alfie Howe, 25, caught with 500+ images of children being sexual abused & babies being raped & had "lurid" convos about abusing babies, has walked free.

Defence said he went thru a "difficult time" "transitioning" & was "awaiting surgery" when he offended

@Ladyfat Eeeeewwww, these men are just plain nasty.

Of course it is, got to keep the perverts happy 😑

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpqj3py2y8jo

Applications for a major Scottish arts fund will re-open after the Scottish government said resources would be made "available" to ensure it could continue.

Last month, Creative Scotland announced its Open Fund for Individuals would have to close to new applications indefinitely, due to uncertainty over government budgets.

However, the First Minister John Swinney annoucned in his Programme for Government that the funding stream would be able to resume.

Mr Swinney also said that a review of arts body Creative Scotland will take place, following a year in which the organisation was criticised for funding an explicit sex show.