Interesting Links for 15-09-2020

[andrewducker]

Apparently there are empty Covid testing centres in England which are turning people away because the booking systems are fucked.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1305208471273566208.html
(tags:testing pandemic epicfail uk OhForFucksSake )

JK Rowling's latest book is about a murderous cis man who dresses as a woman to kill his victims

(tags:jkrowling OhForFucksSake )

Why political parties can't just be based on "what people think"

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1305434347852517376.html
(tags:polls politics UK )

Arm's fired China CEO refuses to leave, company reps banned from Arm China premises

(tags:business China wtf computers )

Microsoft's underwater data centre resurfaces after two years

(tags:Ocean data Microsoft technology Scotland )

Brexit and the break-up of the UK

(tags:UK Europe Doom )

Public Health Wales had a data breach of Covid sufferers

(tags:pandemic dataprotection fail OhForFucksSake wales )

Whistleblower: There Were Mass Hysterectomies at ICE Facility

(tags:crime USA OhForFucksSake )

A Massachusetts Judge Asked Harvard to Find Out Why So Many Black People Were In Prison. They Could Only Find 1 Answer: Systemic Racism

(tags:USA crime racism police )

Beautifully preserved cave bears emerge from Siberian permafrost

(tags:Russia Bears prehistory )

There's an awful lot of overclocking out there

(tags:Windows computers fail )

Comments

[ninetydegrees]

I think the irony is that she doesn't seem to even know that crossdressing and transgenderism are two different things. She's only showing *again* how ignorant she is. Hope this tanks.

So many WTF lately. The world is terrifying.

[andrewducker]

I believe that the gender critical line is that transgender women *are* just men in dresses.

[anna_wing]

Perhaps she does. I have not read the book, so will not comment on it, but the description is compatible with the idea that the risk to women is from men, taking advantage of the general societal impression of women as non-threatening, rather than from transgender women.

[andrewducker]

Except that she's constantly repeating the talking points of the transphobic groups who refer to trans women as "men in dresses".

So she's burned through any good will that it might be a coincidence that she spends a lot of her time on the internet spreading awful lies about trans women and then just happens to have a character in her book who is a man in a dress.

[flick]

Just search for “cross-dressing serial killer”: it’s very common.