richard "tricky dickgirl" nixon Our natural state is dying before seventy if we're lucky, by five if not, spending our days walking after gazelle and throwing rocks at them until they die. Fuck the natural order, let's hear it for modern innovations from helping trans folks to feeding the hungry 👍

since my transition i have been even less interested in the 'natural' way of doing things. it is because of applied human ingenuity that i can inject estrogen. even more fundamentally, it is why eight billion people can live on this planet

i'm glad that greenpeace has decided that children being able to see is less important than bullshit ideas about 'genetic engineering' as if every single thing we eat is not the artificial product of human ingenuity

If you’re a fundamentally weak person, latching on to a movement that gives you an excuse to be cruel and dominant in the name of righteousness is very appealing, and that drives like 90% of the worst leftism.

Here’s one of the most persistently nasty people on here, for instance, who called Will a “pussy”

It’s because they were bullied in middle school and want to be bullies themselves nowadays, and they think he’s vulnerable then get mad when he isn’t.

Look I love Melbourne but can't deny this is one of the best views on flight approach in the world

This is definitely a thing

Semi-related, it's fascinating to watch in real time the Anglophone right give up on free markets altogether as part of their (in some ways convenient) pivot to simply having the worst opinions on every possible topic

Reminded by the odd framing here of when Cillian Murphy won the Oscar and all the newspapers had to call him 'the first Irishman born in Ireland to' because Daniel Day Lewis exists

Rob Palk New Statesman: Can fiscal prudence prevent gender? We ask the last Tory in the Red Wall
Spectator: 5 Waffen-SS divisions you haven't tried yet

🎉 Big change from U.S. Department of Transportation:

If your flight gets delayed or canceled, airlines now have to refund you automatically in CASH.

Refunds cover:
- Delayed flights (3+hrs domestic, 6+ hrs int’l)
- Airport changes
- Added connections
- Service class downgrade
- Accessibility changes

Good, he’s trying to take all their reproductive rights away.

Do you know how racist you have to be to make Liz Truss say: “I’m with Martin Luther King”

I recognise that my bio reads like silly nonsense, because it's a very deliberate bit that relies on understanding the bible, but I am impressed at the number of people who reckon they're Christians and bitch at me because they think my silly bio is woke

French people in London today