Posts by Gabble@spinster.xyz
(DIR) Post #Aydg0nLmE0i8IgyPPE by Gabble@spinster.xyz
2025-09-27T17:47:51.786629Z
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@ninapaley @Blackgendermoderate “Type ‘yes’ for the cat currently lying in wait on a high shelf to launch itself enthusiastically onto your chest”
(DIR) Post #AymBwvKXMgvtgoGqhc by Gabble@spinster.xyz
2025-10-01T19:41:59.220455Z
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@HebrideanHecate Obviously ridiculous, serious, etc. But also I am a little envious of the secret squirrel women’s toilets that only women know about.
(DIR) Post #AyssDEkiHd81aCjeHg by Gabble@spinster.xyz
2025-10-04T23:04:21.637566Z
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@jmakesart It’s ‘making fun of gender roles’ in as much as they think of ‘women’ as ‘a gender role’.I have been baffled by people treating drag as something edgy, cool, transgressive. It makes me think of rugby guys dressing up as girls at every opportunity, for every party and every night out, because that’s how cool manly guys bond with other men. It makes me think of every single mixed nerd group having ‘tarts and vicars’ parties that just become ‘tarts’ parties, because all the nerdy men want to wear fishnets and miniskirts with big fake boobs, because they think that’s sexy and so crazy, and look how degenerate I am! It makes me think of every single old comedy TV show which worked in men dressing up as women, because what could be funnier? But also they wanted to play the roles themselves. And it makes me think of traditional pantomimes that grandparents take the children to, with old washed-up soap stars pretending to be Widow Twanky, hilariously still experiencing sexual attraction despite being old and ugly.It is so intensely uncool. It’s like if the media kept trying to tell me Morris Dancing was cool and edgy, and I say this as someone who quite likes a bit of Morris Dancing in moderation.
(DIR) Post #AyuTHM6em4uh0kmno0 by Gabble@spinster.xyz
2025-10-05T20:11:13.426314Z
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@inpc @Flick Oh! This is the thing where the admins at Bluesky have finally had enough of the bizarre, fragile, angry mob that fill their site, and are mocking them in hopes that they go away and let them have something resembling a normal website? And because this crowd is so reactive, it is sufficient to say the word ‘waffles’ to whip them into a frenzied rage?
(DIR) Post #AyuUfllJ8fSxU80PPE by Gabble@spinster.xyz
2025-10-05T20:25:53.157726Z
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@Flick @inpc https://nitter.poast.org/jessesingal/status/1973791534332969007#m
(DIR) Post #AyuUfmzsXyiRJbpYky by Gabble@spinster.xyz
2025-10-05T20:29:06.672672Z
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@Flick @inpc
(DIR) Post #AyuUfo3Sc9Aub0Vvyi by Gabble@spinster.xyz
2025-10-05T20:35:19.665412Z
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@Flick @inpc Literally “waffles”.
(DIR) Post #AyvMxBgBQX6wJWMa8G by Gabble@spinster.xyz
2025-10-06T04:17:44.388368Z
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@inpc @Flick I believe the entire chain of reasoning is:Everyone on Bluesky is convinced Singal is a Nazi and cannot explain why. This is rooted in him not believing that men can become women.Jay said ‘Waffles’ when asked, for the millionth unrelated time, why they haven’t banned Singal who hasn’t violated any of their rules.Singal made a silly joke post using the word ‘Waffles’ , which you have seen, to make fun of how stupid people were being about the word ‘waffles’. Therefore, ‘waffles’ is a Nazi dogwhistle.That is it. There is no other heinous use of the word.
(DIR) Post #AyvN9ogGFNPykVQCSe by Gabble@spinster.xyz
2025-10-06T05:23:18.713609Z
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(DIR) Post #AywSLnG43VSIk0etuK by Gabble@spinster.xyz
2025-10-06T16:12:12.135564Z
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@ninapaley It’s very kind of you to always set up the best toy for them.
(DIR) Post #Az92b3c1SgOO3M1gci by Gabble@spinster.xyz
2025-10-12T20:45:14.010048Z
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@HebrideanHecate Orwell wrote it better, 80 years ago.https://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/lion/english/e_eye
(DIR) Post #Az9t06bierroCM9Kfg by Gabble@spinster.xyz
2025-10-13T04:27:05.307782Z
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@ninapaley Yeah. I spoke to lots of women, got lots of perspectives on things, found things I could help with and things to keep an eye out for, passed on some ideas and information, bought some things, got some tips, and generally feel invigorated.There were also some women there I thought were idiots, and some who were there to be performatively edgey, some who treat this stuff like a hobby, some who weren’t so used to the idea of having other women there who they strongly disagree with, some who were deep into some vague woo. But that’s always the case, and the point is to be a broad gathering where we can share things, focus on what matters, and nudge other women further along.I didn’t go to the party because that’s not my scene. Nobody is going to pass around on social media that someone had a really good discussion with another woman that changed how she will approach an issue in her life, or gave her the tools to shift a policy, or gave her someone to contact later and discuss it in more detail.
(DIR) Post #AzYmFpRCQ7h2qymFrk by Gabble@spinster.xyz
2025-10-25T06:54:55.895468Z
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@HebrideanHecate There’s also five survivors who’ve said they will quit if Jess Phillips stands down from the role.There are people who have been gunning for Phillips her entire career, because she has always talked about male violence and femicide. They have always spoken of her with the contempt that men use to speak of women who bring this stuff up: she’s stupid, she should talk about other types of men only, she’s unfit for the job, etc. That is the background noise of most political media talking about her for her entire career, because she opposes male violence and speaks out against it. Most political media, and most political social media, is very male. And, of course, the angry men of the so-called ‘Labour Left’ hate her, because she didn’t support Corbyn. If she ‘bravely’ speaks out against Islam or makes some comment about different cultures and patterns, and she loses her ‘job’ as an MP for Birmingham, it isn’t just her losing her job: all the women of Birmingham lose her as an MP, and some crazed Islamist man gets in. Who does that help? This is a different sort of decision to making a decision about your own career and life. Staying in her role, running for election, being credible political opposition, is taking a risk with her life. This isn’t hypothetical. Based on comments Phillips made in interview with Helen Lewis, for which she got a ridiculous amount of flak, I’m pretty sure Phillips is capable of letting the inquiry go where it needs to and finding the truth, even if the way any conclusion gets written up has to be couched in careful language: this is how you get it done. She grew up in Birmingham: she knows. Also, consider again her not supporting Corbyn: she is not in that mindless group.If Jess Phillips stands down from this role, I don’t think there’s anyone else who can be found who is capable of the role and willing to put themselves out there. The inquiry will collapse, and who will benefit? Everyone who would be implicated by the inquiry will benefit, as will media who benefit from chaos and anger, and bored people online who like exciting outrage to get angry about but who don’t really care about the issues. And, of course, the violent wife-beaters who march in things like ‘Britain First’ will benefit, because they can pretend this is about the establishment covering it up: they’ve always hated women like Jess Phillips, who talk about male violence and try to do something about it. And all the men who have spent her entire career saying how much they hate the stupid bitch for talking about male violence. And all the angry men of ‘Momentum’, who hated her opposing Corbyn and want revenge.
(DIR) Post #Azat4a7Y7FkM9u5eAy by Gabble@spinster.xyz
2025-10-26T06:45:45.680350Z
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@Flick Are they definitely there overnight, though? Some homeless-but-not-rough-sleepers sit begging (even in sleeping bags) during the day.And some people are trafficked and placed in positions in towns to beg, being taken there by bus each morning and collected in the evening. Sometimes their traffickers rotate them, to try people in different spots. It’s a new reason to only ask if people need anything from the shop, and never to give them money. It’s also a reason to make conversation with them and offer assistance (which they will refuse), especially if it is a young woman who is more likely to tell you things by mistake in my experience, because then you can report the trafficking to crimestoppers and hopefully get them some help.
(DIR) Post #Azb0jA7aNx0B4iP9JA by Gabble@spinster.xyz
2025-10-26T07:43:02.553256Z
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@HebrideanHecate I’m not saying you can’t loathe her: I’m saying a lot of the hate on her has come from a general hatred of her which gets boosted by people who have always hated her working against violence against women and girls. It gets picked up and boosted in weird ways. It makes me think of the people who try to tell me that Germaine Greer isn’t a feminist and doesn’t take rape seriously: our internal discussions get turned into simplistic outraged takes by people who don’t understand any of the context, and have no desire to see things improve for women. And that her “tranny pandering”, which then gets dismissed as “cowardice”, can also be seen as a tactical decision. And it might not be the decision you or I would make, but then we aren’t in the position she is in. And we can rage that this is wrong, and admire the courage of women who spoke out and so are not in the position she is in, but then she is the person who is in this position and can use it.There are actual substantial issues to be raised about the inquiry, which are important to raise and get sorted. It sounds like some issues around how much secrecy people need, and how to handle that without making it feel more frightening or suggesting shame, for example. But turning it into “Jess Phillips is a horrible person and should be removed” is how you end up with no inquiry and nothing done. There is nobody left who could take her place.
(DIR) Post #AzocGIoTPSIc4rlPFY by Gabble@spinster.xyz
2025-11-01T22:11:36.085258Z
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@Flick calling for rent control, Argh! How about we build enough available housing that renting becomes easy? Rather than making all rented housing as conveniently available as council housing is right now? I’ve just been reading the Times article from today about how supermarket chains are engaging in nefarious tactics to try to steal each other’s leases, entirely because it is almost impossible to build a new retail building and so you have to free up an existing one owned by a rival in the spot you want to expand into. Like Urban Darwinism, or whatever it was called in the Mortal Engines books.
(DIR) Post #Azq8khOLyxy4ga2nke by Gabble@spinster.xyz
2025-11-02T14:54:05.441966Z
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@TriptychTwinsRidesAgain @HebrideanHecate See how the dolls resent us,with their bulging foreheadsand minimal chins, their flat bodiesnever allowed to bulb and swell,their faces of little thugs.This is not a smile,this glossy mouth, two stunted teeth;the dolls gaze at uswith the filmed eyes of killers.Margaret Atwood, the second of her Five Poems for Dolls. 1978
(DIR) Post #AzqArMXg6BtnxPi8UC by Gabble@spinster.xyz
2025-11-02T16:26:23.696177Z
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@Flick @virvallis @BILLSan345 @carolen etc etc
(DIR) Post #B0BFVw1GS5blSQt4Hg by Gabble@spinster.xyz
2025-11-12T20:28:28.227579Z
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@LuvGreenTea2019 @Flick You can have a zero hypotenuse if one of the other sides is imaginary.
(DIR) Post #B35Y4WlvBVq6UqLSc4 by Gabble@spinster.xyz
2026-02-07T19:38:56.243145Z
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This is mostly for @Flick It looks like the Bulgarian couple being prosecuted for harrassing/attacking a girl in Dundee are not the same Bulgarian man and woman who were attacked in return by the girl with a knife.This is why much of the reporting of it was so confused.People being prosecuted: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c394vjzrwwjoPeople who were attacked: https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/5323284/dundee-knife-incident-reporting-the-facts/