Notices by Flick ?? (flick@spinster.xyz)

@astarsscreams @MandyJane Yes, ever since this article: https://www.statnews.com/2017/02/02/lupron-puberty-children-health-problems/

Two-tier policing? In modern Britain? Of course not! Preposterous suggestion!

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05/23/jewish-protester-arrested-mocking-terrorist-leader/

A Jewish protester was arrested by the Metropolitan Police after he briefly held a placard satirising a Hezbollah terrorist leader, The Telegraph can reveal.

The British man, who has asked to remain anonymous for his safety, was detained and charged last September over a cartoon that showed Hassan Nasrallah, the Lebanese terror chief, with a pager and the words “beep, beep, beep”. […]

Following his arrest, in police interview footage obtained by The Telegraph, an officer can be seen repeatedly asking the counter-protester: “Do you think that showing this image to persons protesting who are clearly pro-Hezbollah and anti-Israel that by doing so would stir up racial hatred further than it is already?”

Both the counter-protester and his lawyer, Carl Woolf, specialist criminal solicitor advocate at Woolf Law LLP, were “completely shocked” at this question.

https://archive.ph/qwrQp

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/is-chemically-castrating-sex-offenders-really-a-good-idea/

The use of drugs to suppress the production of testosterone – which could form part of the chemical castration of criminals – is commonly used as a treatment for prostate cancer. But even when given to older men, such as my late husband, Jeremy, who died of prostate cancer two years ago, it can take a long time, years even, for it to reduce both libido and sexual function.

Unsurprisingly, the effectiveness of the drugs can vary between patients. Viagra-type drugs can be taken to restore a man’s sexual function. Injectable testosterone can also be acquired. What’s to stop offenders getting hold of such drugs and continuing to pose a threat to vulnerable girls?

In any case, it’s worth remembering that rape is only part of a paedophile’s agenda.

https://archive.ph/rP48l

@djsumdog @Lotoscott Never mind that, look at the concrete bases.

@Chronic-Yonic Does it scuttle or crawl? General rule of thumb is that quick ones are carnivores (good!) and slow ones are vegetarians (bad).

@KeepTakingTheSoma The replastering fixed it….

I’m very glad to be rid of this manky mess from the roof leak:

Now that the electrician has been (and gone, leaving behind a distinct pong of eau de gros homme par une chaude journée; lovely chap and Dog very taken with him, but eww), my hallway redecoration is finished.

See if you can extrapolate from my living room redecoration to guess which photo is before and which is after.

Further, this evidence would help policymakers confront and handle a pivotal question: Does the criminal-justice system care about inner identity? Should it? External appearance matters for cops and prison guards to identify and sort offenders. However, trans advocates insist that correctional staff disregard outward appearance in addressing, housing, and handling trans inmates because it has no bearing on true identity. Adding to this circularity, the “right” for inmates to contravene their natural appearance with in-custody surgeries or commissary items for genital tucking contradicts this notion that appearance doesn’t matter, because they argue that appearance matters above all else.

@KeepTakingTheSoma @HebrideanHecate @TriptychTwinsRidesAgain Don’t they have a policy that every new hire has to work on the shop floor for a period of time? Vaguely remember a former colleague going into their head office finance team and having to do it.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05/03/police-trans-officers-from-strip-search-women/

Police chiefs “will not rush” to ban trans officers from strip-searching women despite the Supreme Court ruling that sex is biological.

Forces have been accused of a “stunning lack of urgency” after saying they would not immediately respond to the ruling. […]

On Saturday, an NPCC spokesman told The Telegraph that, in the absence of national guidance, “forces should make decisions [about strip-searches by trans officers] on a case-by-case basis”.

The Telegraph understands that, in practice, this means opposite-sex strip-searches are still allowed in territorial forces across the UK. […]

A female officer from Northumbria Police described the NPCC position as “keep calm and carry on – we hate this ruling and are looking at options to circumvent it.”

https://archive.ph/Lsa7v

The future of the UK’s medical profession, ladies and gents:

@mittimithai If I was a US academic with an ongoing career, I wouldn’t want my name on it. There’s a reason the Cass review was done by someone post-career.

@KeepTakingTheSoma I don’t pay for it, I still care what it does.

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/forget-adolescence-keir-starmer-must-watch-groomed-a-national-scandal/

I look forward to Keir Starmer hosting a special summit on the Channel 4 documentary, Groomed. And to hearing him gush about it every time a reporter puts a mic anywhere near his mouth. And to seeing his proposals for showing it to teens in schools across the land in order that we might prise open their innocent eyes to the dangers of so-called grooming gangs.

After all, he did all that for Adolescence, a Netflix drama about a made-up crime against a fictional working-class girl. So surely he’ll do it for a documentary that lays out in grim, eye-watering detail the industrial-scale horrors that were inflicted on real working-class girls by gangs of mostly Muslim men in towns across England.

https://archive.ph/ZCN9N

The BBC is doing a consultation on “the future of Our BBC”.

It’s mostly very cleverly phrased questions designed to elicit the correct responses (eg: “is the BBC sufficiently independent from the government of the day”, when the real question is “is the BBC sufficiently independent from the Westminster consensus”), but there are a few free text boxes where one might point that out, or request less shoehorning in of “trans” in both drama and news, or mention the mis-sexing of male criminals in the light of the recent Supreme Court ruling….

https://www.bbc.co.uk/send/u193491675

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/norway-is-laughing-at-milibands-net-zero-folly/

Yet still Norway has no net zero target. Why? Because its government, unlike ours, seems to have thought the whole thing through properly and realised that to go all the way to net zero would be fantastically expensive. It is one thing curtailing your carbon emissions; quite another blocking off every conceivable source of them. Norway, unlike Britain, values economic growth over ideological purity.

It shouldn’t really come as a surprise, then, that Norway’s energy minister, Terje Aasland, has just scorned Britain’s policy of running down North Sea production of oil and gas. His own country, he says, will continue to develop the North Sea for the long term. It will do so, he says, partly because the industry has helped make the country fantastically rich, allowing it to build up a sovereign wealth fund which our own deeply-indebted government can only envy, and partly because it recognises that however hard you might aspire to switch to clean energy, it is a long process, and that industrialised societies will remain reliant on fossil fuels for decades to come. […]

While Britain hit the oil and gas industry with windfall taxes in recent years, Norway offered tax concessions to ensure that oil and gas exploration could continue during Covid, in order to maintain Norway’s energy independence. That just about sums up the difference between UK and Norwegian policy. This week, with Tony Blair’s intervention, it seemed briefly as if the government might transition towards a more level-headed policy. But sadly, with Keir Starmer taking Miliband’s rather than Blair’s side, and Blair bizarrely backtracking on his remarks, the moment has passed.

https://archive.ph/35NZf

@TruckDriver @PNS “Temperature fluctuations”, reportedly.

Wait, what??

@BowsacNoodle Quite.