Interesting Links for 28-06-2025

[andrewducker]

1. Map Projection Transitions - see which one upsets you the least!

(tags:maps visualisation viaMyBrotherMike )

2. How 'Sex Matters' is shaping UK policy on trans rights

(tags:UK bigotry government LGBT transgender )

3. Israeli soldiers say they are ordered to shoot at unarmed Gazans seeking aid

(tags:Israel genocide gaza Palestine )

4. Plans to help benefits recipients into work 'a mess', say DWP officials

(tags:jobs UK government )

Comments

[cmcmck]

2. Hitler and Jewish people, anyone? And here speaks a trans woman with both Jewish and Romani ancestry.

The people that %^&*! court didn't speak to those of us whose lived experience this is.

[elwinfortuna]

4. There’s a shock!

Employers don’t want to employ unwell people. I’d love a job but no employer who knows the truth of my health issues would hire me!

[dewline]

1. Every one of those projections has been useful to someone at some point, and will be so again down the road. *shrugs*

2. Yeah, this is Organized Bigotry Crime in action, reshaping legal precedent to do great evils, as cmcmck and yourself already understand all too well. Not interested in seeing the local creeps get their hooks into the Canadian judiciary, ever!

3. "Never again" is supposed to mean "never again, not only to us, but to anyone else anywhere else, ever!" And all of these atrocities are meant to keep Netanyahu out of Israeli jail!

4. *facepalm*

[juan_gandhi]

Thank you so much! (The story about Israeli soldiers sounds unbelievable, but...)