Kenneth John
@kenhepburn.bsky.social
Scotsman with a grievance, or ray of sunshine?
Is the policy “TQIA+ want, TQIA+ get”? Is that it?
December 14, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Is the policy “TQIA+ want, TQIA+ get”? Is that it?
“Why has the Guardian ever employed female writers? We don’t want to hear what women think about things! The paper’s job is to teach women RightThink!!!
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December 14, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Your poor opinion of me leaves me bereft, good sir
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December 14, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Your poor opinion of me leaves me bereft, good sir
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(Although the Graun was pretty careful about not allowing them to actually say that in their pieces - presumably worried it might impact on the paper’s Yankee Dollar funding drives)
December 13, 2025 at 11:10 PM
(Although the Graun was pretty careful about not allowing them to actually say that in their pieces - presumably worried it might impact on the paper’s Yankee Dollar funding drives)
I wasn’t the one losing my shit because a national newspaper had had the temerity to publish female writers who don’t think that a bloke saying “I’m a laydee you see” turns him into a female👍
December 13, 2025 at 11:06 PM
I wasn’t the one losing my shit because a national newspaper had had the temerity to publish female writers who don’t think that a bloke saying “I’m a laydee you see” turns him into a female👍
You’re not familiar with the concept and practice of paraphrase?
Oh dear…
Oh dear…
December 13, 2025 at 10:30 PM
You’re not familiar with the concept and practice of paraphrase?
Oh dear…
Oh dear…
I had faint hopes for the “World’s Most Dangerous Roads” strand, but we would have heard if any of them had actually died, I’m assuming☹️
December 13, 2025 at 9:56 PM
I had faint hopes for the “World’s Most Dangerous Roads” strand, but we would have heard if any of them had actually died, I’m assuming☹️
And Hadley, who had to leave the paper in order to be allowed to write about issues affecting women, not just her (excellent) celeb interviews?
December 13, 2025 at 7:47 PM
And Hadley, who had to leave the paper in order to be allowed to write about issues affecting women, not just her (excellent) celeb interviews?
“Why has the Guardian ever employed female writers? We don’t want to hear what women think about things! The paper’s job is to teach women RightThink!!!
😡”
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December 13, 2025 at 7:45 PM
“Why has the Guardian ever employed female writers? We don’t want to hear what women think about things! The paper’s job is to teach women RightThink!!!
😡”
😡”
Wait till she also hears that the really thriving, booming church congregations in my part of east London are largely populated by folk with a West African heritage.
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December 13, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Wait till she also hears that the really thriving, booming church congregations in my part of east London are largely populated by folk with a West African heritage.
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There is nothing right wing about knowing that mammals cannot change sex and men cannot become women. Interestingly, given the context, there’s definitely something unscientific-faith-belief-system about asserting the opposite.
December 13, 2025 at 5:37 PM
There is nothing right wing about knowing that mammals cannot change sex and men cannot become women. Interestingly, given the context, there’s definitely something unscientific-faith-belief-system about asserting the opposite.
Organisation starts using clunky but honest and accurate phrase rather than mendaciously obfuscatory term? Seems ok for an organisation constantly trumpeting its commitment to delivering trustworthy news coverage, no?
December 13, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Organisation starts using clunky but honest and accurate phrase rather than mendaciously obfuscatory term? Seems ok for an organisation constantly trumpeting its commitment to delivering trustworthy news coverage, no?
Tbf, nobody before the 2010’s talked about “her penis” and expected to be given a science-presenting job on the Beeb.
December 13, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Tbf, nobody before the 2010’s talked about “her penis” and expected to be given a science-presenting job on the Beeb.
Ah - you’re right. I’m confusing the characters filed away in my mental “Monsters” box. I do still have some sympathy left over for the young, I’ll-used victims of her medical “practice” ofc.
December 12, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Ah - you’re right. I’m confusing the characters filed away in my mental “Monsters” box. I do still have some sympathy left over for the young, I’ll-used victims of her medical “practice” ofc.
I sneered at my wife when she insisted on an automatic: and now 10 years of superb Honda auto driving later I work hard not to sneer at folk I know who insist a manual is “proper driving” as they grind through the gears😺
December 12, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I sneered at my wife when she insisted on an automatic: and now 10 years of superb Honda auto driving later I work hard not to sneer at folk I know who insist a manual is “proper driving” as they grind through the gears😺
“Look!! A squirrel!!!”
December 12, 2025 at 3:04 PM
“Look!! A squirrel!!!”
How many people would survive the Inquisition going through everything they had ever said and done at any time, regardless of how irrelevant it was to the heresy they were supposed to have committed?
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December 12, 2025 at 8:29 AM
How many people would survive the Inquisition going through everything they had ever said and done at any time, regardless of how irrelevant it was to the heresy they were supposed to have committed?
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