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David Allsopp

@doublehelix.bsky.social

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Scientist turned software engineer. He/him 🏹 Field archery 🐀 Rats 😷 COVID cautious 🏃 Parkrun https://medium.com/@davidallsopp @[email protected] @doublehelix on the birdsite

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David Allsopp @doublehelix.bsky.social · Nov 17

A short thread of my essays on Medium - mostly debunking anti-trans disinformation and other bigotry

1) "Sex-based rights" are contradictory nonsense

The term is a dog-whistle slogan, coined just to exclude trans people, with multiple meanings — none of which make sense
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“Sex-based rights” are contradictory nonsense

The term is a dog-whistle slogan, coined just to exclude trans people, with multiple meanings — none of which make sense.

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David Allsopp @doublehelix.bsky.social · 4m

LMAO. I knew a young guy in Kung Fu class who got a tattoo in Chinese script saying "Kung Fu Fighter".

He got one tattoo studio to draft it, then took it to another place and asked them to translate it back to English to check he wasn't about to do something permanently embarrassing

Mike Rugnetta @mikerugnetta.com · 50m

Overheard a guy last week telling a buddy he got a tattoo in latin, but ChatGPT gave him the wrong translation, and after he got the tattoo, he confronted ChatGPT about the error and it was like “You are totally right I gave you the wrong info. That is my mistake.”

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 5h

They cannot talk about the shutdown without lying.

There is no connection between troop payments and federal employee layoffs. Zero.

They are paying the troops with multiyear R&D allocations within DOD. This is also illegal by the way! But completely disconnected to the layoffs.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

WELKER: During the 2019 shutdown when Trump was president, no federal workers were laid off. Why are these firings necessary?

VANCE: Who do we care more about- federal bureaucrats or the troops getting the payment they need?

WELKER: But layoffs are a priority?

VANCE: They have forced us to choose

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David Allsopp @doublehelix.bsky.social · 13m

Artificially Celibate => arcel

Which conveniently sounds like "arsehole"

David Allsopp @doublehelix.bsky.social · 22m

<engage chipmunk voice>

"Hypothetically, what if the leopards only ate *other* people's faces?"

The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 59m

Fascinated how the guy who made superstars of Matt Walsh, Candace Owens, Jordan Peterson, and Michael Knowles thought that unfettered racism and every phobia in existence wouldn't eventually include anti-semitism

Ben Shapiro warns that conspiratorial right is taking over social media

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 20h

So now the Administration are saying that the mass firing of CDC scientists, including many responsible for preventing outbreaks, was an “error” and many will be brought back.

Whether by intention or incompetence, dismantling public health will kill people.

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Brian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social · 6h

“One of them, Albert ‘Skip’ Caissie Jr., 78, said in a phone interview that he wasn’t aware that he was involved in a Supreme Court case.”

Who Are the Louisiana Voters Behind a Major Supreme Court Challenge?

www.nytimes.com

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Tania J. Spencer @taniaspencer.bsky.social · 23h

Courtesy of @1goodtern.bsky.social, via X -

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2h

Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 4h

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 1d

How the media are gaslighting trans people

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 2h

The ‘Transit’ gender clinic in Spain has a 3 WEEK waiting list! 😳😳😳

It covers a population of 8 million, (equivalent to the population of Scotland & Wales combined, or 1/7th of the population of England) It has a total of 43 staff, a majority of whom are part-time, working 6-7 hours per week!

Trans health waiting lists are a political choice

I’m just back from an awesome trans healthcare conference in Norway (blog on that to follow). Here I wanted to share information from a presentation by the founder of the transit trans health…

growinguptransgender.com

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ian.fenrisgames @fenrisgames.com · 1h

we only built the lifesized model

foam and fibreglass model of a reclining Cadbury's Caramel bunny, approx 5' tall, built for Cadburyworld in Birmingham.

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JPWeiland @jpweiland.bsky.social · 18h

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David Allsopp @doublehelix.bsky.social · 2h

And more than another 30 seconds now. Interestingly the variation in time is much lower than for running (where my time would vary by a minutes and a half either way), giving a very steady linear improvement over the last few months. More of a muscular limit than an aerobic one, I guess.

David Allsopp @doublehelix.bsky.social · 2h

Has he been visiting JK Rowling or something?

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 6h

Wish things were less awful so we could more deeply enjoy the Jordan Peterson mold thing

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 1d

Conversation with hotel front desk after a few days of New York comic con:

Me: Hi, could I get housekeeping on my room today?

Clerk: Sure, was your room set to D&D?

Me: …Sorry, what?

Clerk: “Do Not Disturb?”

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 6h

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Paul Bowes @paulmbowes.bsky.social · 5h

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Meta AI adviser spreads disinformation about shootings, vaccines and trans people

Critics condemn Robby Starbuck, appointed in lawsuit settlement, for ‘peddling lies and pushing extremism’

www.theguardian.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6h

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 6h

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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Celeste Trianon @celeste.lgbt · 5h

Safe to say, with these changes, people with “X” gender markers will no longer be able to travel to or even from the U.S. starting October 14.

www.visaverge.com/passport/cbp...

CBP Enforces Binary Sex Codes and Enhanced US Passport Validation in APIS

CBP enforces binary sex codes and stricter US passport validation in APIS effective October 2025. Key compliance updates for business travelers and airlines.

www.gtlaw-insidebusinessimmigration.com

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 6h

The deportation order is based on Vedam’s conviction for murder—a crime he did not actually commit and for which he’s now been wholly exonerated. He entered the US at 9 months old and was a legal permanent resident before his conviction. We are so, so, so far from the light of justice.

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 18h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 7h

The deportation order derives from the crime of which he has now been exonerated.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 11h

“I’m old enough to remember when mainstream British politicians, who should know better, stirred up racial hatred as a path to power. You’re old enough to remember too because it was last Tuesday. And it was Robert Jenrick”

Cathartic anger at flag-flying racism.

www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

Stewart Lee: The thugs have taken my flag. So I’ve taken theirs

What do you do with a lot of cheap banners hanging from motorway bridges once you’ve torn them down?

www.thenerve.news

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David Allsopp @doublehelix.bsky.social · 6h

Ah yes, I guessed one of them had to be Jessica!

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David Allsopp @doublehelix.bsky.social · 7h

(She does not recount who the 1st and 2nd sexiest cartoon characters were)

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