Standing at a slight angle to the universe: current affairs, politics, and the rest. he/him 🏳️🌈 📸: @zefrographica | 🦋 @zefrog.eu
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My ambition to be a writer has so far only resulted in three short stories. The muse is proving restive!
You can find my efforts here: bit.ly/341fXOG together with synopses and an anonymous feedback form.
Enjoy!
#WritingCommunity #shortstory #iamwriting #queerfiction
Nicolas Chinardet retweeted
French movement asks X users to leave platform on US inauguration day l.euronews.com/CFd
Please, go read the definition of "cahoot", Mr Rajan. It doesn't quite mean what you seem to think it does
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So, let me get this straight: reintroducing beavers is "Tory legacy" that can't happen, but that awful university free speech law with its stench of culture wars is acceptable?!
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- Beavers as "Tory legacy": theguardian.com/environment/…
- come back of the university free speech law bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cyv4…
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In France it is now woke to test future police officer on the ways to treat victims of homophobic attacks (this from one of the main radio stations, which recently took a turn to the right. It used to be the only one my parents listened to, when I was a kid)
Europe 1 (dont l'actionnaire majoritaire est Bolloré) dénonce le fait que les policiers puissent être interrogés durant leur concours sur la prise en charge des victimes de LGBTphobies.
ALT INFO EUROPE 1 - Wokisme : une épreuve du concours de police sur la haine anti-LGBT imposée aux futurs officiers
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Greatest city in the world. independent.co.uk/travel/new…
France is about to have another big rape trial. This time that of a gynecologist with 130 complaints against him... (79 rapes and 16 assaults will go to trial). But it won't get the same coverage because there won't be the people angle of a charismatic victim to front it #r4today
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The story is here: lesjours.fr/obsessions/gynec…
Nicolas Chinardet retweeted
Remembering Thomas Lawrence Higgins (1950-1994) on this particular day. #AnitaBryant
It seems the new MO of the swivel-eyed Musk brigades is to drop a disobliging comment on the one of your posts they object to and immediately block you. I'm sure they feel very proud and righteous for having had "the last word" too 🙄 That's thanks to the new faux blocking system
I'm watching a British series from 2003, and in the subtitles the words "very nice, cold Chablis" are replaced by "very nice, cold [non-english]" 😅
How cool and convenient! You're found guilty but face no consrquence whatsoever because you are rich and powerful... now that's what I'd call two-tier policing (but I bet those normally whinging about won't see it that way)
This is an extremely short-sighted attempt to woo Trump and Co. Younger employees actively look for companies that promote DEI. And such companies are proven to be more successful. Go woke or go broke, Meta!
axios.com/2025/01/10/meta-de…
Nicolas Chinardet retweeted
The Uniform Penny Post came into force #OTD 1840 & 112,000 letters were posted, more than three times the number posted on the same day the previous year. Postage has gone up a little bit since then! victorianweb.org/history/pen…
ALT A Penny stamp with the young Queen Victoria's profile against a black background, and "One Penny" printed at the bottom.
The right are completely deranged, aren't they? They campaign for years to "free" themselves from a democratic union, only to ask for Trump to "buy Britain" (Littlejohn's latest diatribe) and become subservient to another country...
Fans who know every words to every songs of the artist they like, you say? Whatever next?! #r4today