https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/a-woke-witch-hunt-has-taken-over-the-arts/

If artists do not apologise, they get the JK Rowling treatment: people who ought to be their friends turn on them for fear of being denounced themselves. After Rowling took up the gender critical cause, every star in the Harry Potter movies came under pressure to disassociate themselves from her. I have no doubt that many were genuine in their condemnations. But no one should pretend the spectacle did not have a McCarthyite element. Like authoritarian governments, authoritarian movements want to isolate their targets by tearing the natural bonds of affection and provoking friends into denouncing each other.

The most compelling parallel with dictatorship, however, is in the tentative nature of protests against such censorship. Artists do it obliquely in a code that only the initiated understand. The National Theatre, for example, dare not take on woke culture directly. But it has revived The Crucible, Arthur Miller’s 1953 reaction to McCarthyism, just when we need it the most.

Can you rig up a crush to pen her into?

Oh wow! Purring is great!

Notably, the woman labelled an “extremist” has a partner who identifies as trans.

Lol oops.

I know the feeling. Both feelings.

15m city could work if done correctly, from the ground up. I doubt the first attempt will work, though, and I’m dubious about the desirability of it in any case.

Fair point, but you know what I mean. Can you interplant lettuces with your squash, knowing the lettuces will be over before the squash get big enough to swamp them?

I believe that arguably it is, because consent can be given.

It’s been very mixed here, one minute blazing sun the next thunder and rain.

I’ve mostly been In The Shed.

Huh. TIL that the same bible verse that prohibits mixed-fibre clothing also prohibits sowing more than one type of seed in the same field. I wonder how that is squared with things like three sisters planting?

How strict is “field”? Can you have tomatoes surrounded by marigolds? What about in ornamental gardens?

Ta.

They really are, I’ve been putting the lamp on earlier and earlier.

Who’s to say you don’t also have a dirty mind?

I went out to see if I could spot Saturn, but it’s cloudy that way. Nice moon, though.

Does, of a US car driver, “he turned on his four-ways” mean putting on hazard lights, ie pressing the button that make all of your amber turn / indicator lights flash?

They would indeed be cold and dead up here!

I’m not surprised: https://wingsoverscotland.com/the-rorschach-test/

11,660 men serving time for sex offences out of 29.5m = 1 in 2530 men

103 women serving the same time out of 30.4 million = 1 in 295,000 women

92 transwomen serving the same time out of 48,000 = 1 in 522 transwomen

It’s the same everywhere we have reliable stats for.

Always makes me double take when I see the fag ash and think it’s snowing ;)

No, that was last year, little bear!