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Lifted from the comments, a small snapshot of our times:
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โ ๐ฒ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ถ. ๐ท๐๐๐ ๐ฎ๐ฑ (@charles_hart) October 18, 2025
There’s much that could be commented on – the raging at the innocuous, the dishonest use of the word hate, the projection, the nails and five o’clock shadow combo, the theatrical sweater-pulling and the ostentatiously deep breath, as if superhuman patience were being tested.
To say nothing of the seeming belief that he – Mr Zara Paquette – were barking his instructions directly to Keira Knightley, as if she would be watching and dutifully taking notes. Like a good, obedient woman.
But what strikes me most is the fact that Mr Paquette doesnโt seem to understand that what he wants โ i.e., the ability to coerce and dictate, to bully others into lying โ is not something that he should want.
Wanting the power to make others tell quite blatant lies about what is and isn’t real, and to thereby make those people cowed and absurd, is what makes him a bad person. A villain in this low-grade cross-dressing drama.
Or, as Wesley Yang put it here,
Your legal documents must all list your sex, not your claim to be a different one. Your access to sex segregated facilities is determined by your sex, not by your claim to be a different one. Whatever inconveniences flow from a personโs attempt to falsify their sex is not a matter for any public institution to solve.
No one has a duty to help anyone else to falsify their sex.
That this should even need saying is itself quite remarkable. Yet here we are.





Well, they have a point. It’s just not the one they think it is. Their real danger going forward is that they have adopted and amplified everything the boomer generation was wrong about and reject what little positives the few boomers who still have seeds from the WWII and Great Depression generations have tried to pass on. Not that they’ve tried all that hard. Because gotta be cool and hip with the youngsters! Be your child’s best friend! God forbid they view you like you viewed your Edith & Archie parents.
Keira Knightley vs Bluesky weirdos.
Pineapple on pizza!
Vegemite, no, Marmite!
Emacs, Vi!
“Some people simply lose control of their faculties when using the internet.”
A reasonable offer.
“An Abundance of Caution”
“This is my defendant Mohammed and this is my other defendant Mohammed.”
–Barrister
Avoid peanuts! Cut their naughty bits off instead!
That one goes on my banned shit phrases list as well.
Bureaucratic drag.
I don’t mean to sound prim or stuffy but, were I a parent, I don’t think I’d be thrilled to find this woman teaching my child.
Don’t care if I sound stuffy, I wouldn’t be thrilled to find her in the local market, off-leash & un-muzzled.
Well, I’m an American and I grew up loving beans on bread (or toast). So there.
Never put cheese on it though, I’ll have to try that.
Having a hard time picturing our host on a motor scooter.
You wouldn’t be the only one.
Well, Iโm an American and I grew up loving beans on bread (or toast). So there.
chrisfoleen: Your mouse avatar looks vaguely familiar.
I believe that’s Ignatz.
Speaking of teachers. Scroll down for context.
Bureaucratic drag.
There is no end to this rot it seems – Biden did that to the US with the CHIPS Act. Free gov’t money to onshore chip building – but you had to meet crazy DEI hiring standards, including hiring convicted felons(!), the usual % of various flavors of “oppressed” humanity, and other ESG crap, none of which had to do with actually making computer chips (a highly technical, highly sensitive industry) in order to get it.
Which is why the U.S. government now has an ownership interest in Intel. Funny how the outcome of all these anti-fascist actions is, well, fascism.
drag: there was in US an internet connectivity fund for rural communities, but after many years not a single person has been connected. Why? 14 steps to go through to get approval and $, including showing you can serve minority communities blah blah.
NSF (national science foundation) grants you must prove that you are a racial/feminist activist, not merely unbiased. You cannot say you plan to bring on the brightest grad students. Just try to find a top black student in a tech field, even if you wanted to.
That phrase left me with a mental image of a group of middle aged civil servants in dresses and bad make-up
When a perfect phrase comes along: Chardonnay Jacobins
See also: “champagne socialist”, which first appeared around 1986 according to the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
Beaujolais Bolsheviks.
Montrachet Maoists.
Cabernet communists.
From that piece:
What do suppose this Madame Defarge was knitting when she made her proud proclamation?
The year is 2025. You are part of a vast criminal heist ring to take the Napoleonic crown jewels from the Louvre.
Me? I am “Thierry the Algerian.”
Intersectionality.
I wonder why there are no think pieces about Resistance Grandpas.
Just kidding, no I don’t.
Michelob Marxists? Budweiser Bolsheviks?