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On 31/03/2024 at 08:19, Hedgecutter said:
Any dots before the @ in a
n emailGmail address are completely superfluous.I.e. if my email was hedge.cutter@gmail.com then I'd still receive an email even if somebody accidentally sent it to hedgecutter@gmail.com
Gmail is fairly standard now but if anyone tells you their email is e.g. itzdrk@googlemail.com you can just send it to itzdrk@gmail.com and it will reach them.
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I don't think Dougie Imrie has done much wrong there, hands in his pockets, keeping a distance and saying that she has too much to say for herself isn't some vile misogynistic act. The reaction of everyone else around not getting involved tells it's own story.
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Subs have made Celtic noticeably worse
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Win this and we're pretty much on our holidays. Would be nice.
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6 minutes ago, North Terrace Gazza said:
Remember when James Maxwell wasn’t good enough for us at right back but now McAllister after one half decent performance gets a new contract. Underwhelming unless we’re in league one of course
Tbh to Maxwell he was a left back playing in left midfield. We don't rightly know how he would be at right back.
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25 minutes ago, muZZa__44 said:
1 down just paddy reading left to go
Yeah I think it's likely as well.
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Concerning.
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59 minutes ago, Thereisalight.. said:
My mate informs me the player of the year is the 27th and at Vinyl.
I usually drag my cousin along but I've got no appetite for it this season. No real stand out this year. I'd probably give it to Murphy
Precedent has been set that Amartey gets it.
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3 hours ago, Tattie36 said:
Can’t we just call off the rest of the season?
No fancy a wee draw. Exciting 0-0?
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1 hour ago, lau03143 said:
The views of the Scottish electorate was to remain part of the United Kingdom. The SNP support is going to collapse at the next election, and since 2014, the SNP have shat it at pushing for another referendum, so why would any PM grant another referendum anytime soon.
I don't think there have been any Scottish polls suggesting an SNP collapse. Seems to be lots of UK wide ones where Labour popularity in England is granted to elsewhere which isn't how reality works.
I think the SNP will likely lose some seats as I don't think they are as popular as they were but I also don't think they are unpopular enough to have a "collapse".
Labour are definitely nowhere near as popular up here as England so I can't see them making huge strides.
Personally won't be voting for either
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Met office don't have a weather warning Saturday. Seems to be just BBC
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14 hours ago, The Golden God said:
Imagine spending so much time being raging that you can’t say nasty stuff online without the possibly of consequences.Imagine telling everyone proudly that your Da was a bigot.
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2 hours ago, AUcal said:
Lives at my desk!
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On what day will the Palestinians killed along with the aid workers become declared 'Khamas!!!'
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15 hours ago, alta-pete said:
Hmm. It seems the failed family lawyer is a bully and Humza an unprincipled shitebag. Pass it on…
Sturgeon ‘blocked changes’ to Scotland’s hate crime laws
Former first minister accused of pressuring Humza Yousaf over legislation that prompted JK Rowling’s ‘arrest me’ challenge
Simon Johnson, Scottish Political Editor2 April 2024 • 4:01pm
Nicola Sturgeon has been accused of blocking changes to Scotland’s hate crime laws that would have protected feminists’ freedom of speech on trans issues.
Feminist group For Women Scotland (FWS) say that as first minister, Ms Sturgeon forced Humza Yousaf, then her justice secretary, to withdraw amendments to the legislation during its final parliamentary stages in 2021.
Susan Smith, one of the group’s directors, said these would have provided specific freedom of speech protections for feminists who argue that sex is a physical binary characteristic that cannot be changed.
As the legislation came into force on Monday, JK Rowling posted pictures of 10 high-profile trans people and ridiculed their claims to be women. The Harry Potter author then dared Police Scotland to use the new laws to arrest her.
JK Rowling mocked a number of trans people in her social media post and challenged police to arrest herCredit: JOHN PHILLIPS/GETTY IMAGES EUROPE
Ms Smith said Mr Yousaf, who succeeded Ms Sturgeon as first minister, had broken a promise that she and a colleague would be involved in drawing up training materials for the police that would have dealt with situations like that.
She told BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour that this was because he thought that “it would upset the trans lobby if those examples were given in the guidance to the police”.
In 2021, Mr Yousaf oversaw the passage of the hate crime legislation at Holyrood, which was supported by nearly all SNP and Labour MSPs. However, it did not come into force until Monday, as Police Scotland said it needed time for training.
The legislation creates a criminal offence of “stirring up of hatred”, expanding on a similar offence based on racist abuse that has been on the statute book for decades.
It extends the offence to abuse on the basis of age, disability, race, religion, sexual orientation or transgender identity.
MSPs raised concerns about women’s exclusion
But an amendment to add sex to the list of protected characteristics was voted down, despite cross-party MSPs raising concerns about why women were excluded.
Ms Smith argued that those accused of hate crimes under the legislation face living under the cloud of a police investigation for two years, even if they are later cleared of any wrongdoing, “so the process very much becomes the punishment”.
“And this could all have been avoided because right back at the beginning, during the last stages of the Bill, there was an attempt to put in free speech amendments,” she added.
“There was an outcry on Twitter. Nicola Sturgeon directly intervened and made Humza Yousaf pull them.
A protester labelled Nicola Sturgeon a destroyer of women's rights during a demonstration at Holyrood in 2021 Credit: IAIN MASTERTON/ALAMY
“He then promised at committee, he promised me and Lucy Hunter Blackburn that we would be involved in drafting guidance and giving examples so the police would understand if somebody like JK Rowling made a thread like that on Twitter, for example.
“We could have had real world examples for the police to use in training. But what happened was he broke those promises because ministers decided that it would upset the trans lobby if those examples were given in the guidance to the police.”
In early 2021, Mr Yousaf tabled an amendment to the Bill aimed at addressing concerns that gender-critical feminists would be criminalised for arguing that trans women are men.
This was later withdrawn, and he persuaded other parties to pull their amendments on the same issue, with a round table discussion on the issue held instead.
The final Act contains a section stating that “behaviour or material is not to be taken to be threatening or abusive solely on the basis that it involves” discussion or criticism involving trans issues.
However, this is weaker than the freedom of speech protection given to “discussion or criticism relating to, or expressions of antipathy, dislike, ridicule or insult towards” religious beliefs and practices.
A senior SNP MP said the final wording of the Act ignored the recommendations of an official review of hate crime by judge Lord Bracadale that a “protection of freedom of expression provision” be included.
Women's rights groups protested outside a Glasgow sex shop designated as a reporting centre for hate crime as the new law came into force on MondayCredit: JAMES CHAPELAND
Joanna Cherry KC, the Edinburgh South West MP and an ally of Rowling, tweeted: “His recommendations were not followed by the Scottish Parliament in relation to the offence of stirring up hatred on the grounds of transgender identity, but they were in respect of religion. Relevant amendments were voted down.”
She added: “For these reasons, many of us have legitimate concerns about this aspect of the legislation, being weaponised against women, who do not believe in gender identity theory, and wish to exercise their right to explain why. As JK Rowling has done.”
On Tuesday, Rowling went on social media to hit back at claims she would be remembered by history as a “bigoted children’s book author”.
She said: “Again with the legacy guff... if your friend History thinks women don’t deserve sex-based rights, healthy kids should be medicalised, and free speech needs stamping out, I’m not interested in being his buddy. He sounds a massive dick.”
Ms Sturgeon’s spokeswoman referred a request for a comment to the Scottish Government. The Scottish Government was approached for comment.
What's the issue here?
Should hate groups like FWS be taken seriously?
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8 minutes ago, D'Jaffo said:
Think if Caley beat them then it’ll be a 12 point gap with 4 games to play so it’ll be all but done. We’ll just be making it mathematically impossible for them to come back.
Just a shame it’s not Dick Campbell in the dugout.
I'll take Killie b*****d Dim Jim McIntyre
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2 hours ago, itzdrk said:
Really feels like now or never for Arbroath tonight, I can't see it happening but the chance to eat up 6 points on Inverness this week isn't impossible.
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The home game with Arbroath might be a bit of a sadyin, looks like it's falling on us to have the first go at relegating then.
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We're they unable to stop bouncing for years?!
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Ayr ⚫⚪ vs Morton 🔵⚪ - 09/04/24
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