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So National Review just published a ridiculously awful editorial opposing the Respect for Marriage Act. Thatās not exactly āpositiveā but not unexpected either. Hereās what surprised me a bit: in the comments section, the vast, vast, majority of their readers were calling out the editors for being fools, bigots, and generally way out of step with where America is today, with many comparing it to William F. Buckleyās support for segregation and something that critics will hold against them for generations to come. This attitude would not have been the case among readers of that (ahem) āpublicationā just a few years ago.
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This is beautiful.
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This feels like someone who has read a lot of Discworld and internalized it well. Well done!
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Sandi Toksvig is wonderful and has been a TV and radio presenter in the UK since I was a kid.
Sheās lovely and funny and fiercely defensive of LGBTQ+ rights.
I think sheād be a fabulous friend and/or auntie.
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Sandi is wonderful, at least from the relatively few times Iāve seen her. I went through a period a few years ago where I was watching a lot of UK panel shows on Youtube and she always came across as a delightful person.
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Sheās fucking awesomeā¦
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According to QI, she was at NASA when Eagle landed on the moon in 1969.
Weird factoid of the day 
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A family member was an Ambassador so little Sandi got to go 
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An interview with Andy Bell that includes a discussion of his activism:
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I remember him in Be Cool, in fact I think itās the only thing I remember about it. It was refreshing to see that he wasnāt just going to play musclehead roles.
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good trees bearing good fruit and bad trees bearing bad fruit. Thatās the sort of message that would be great from you. Really simple. Just be a good person. Thatās it. Jesus never even mentioned whether the tree was bent or not.
This bit was hilarious (in British slang, bent means gay).
And to add to what everyone else has said, Sandi is a national treasure!
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I love her casual, twinkly but steely delivery. Sandi is definitely one of the good ones.
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As usual, logic does not play into these kind of theories. Arguing with logic is only useful for those who are not subject to the lies and prejudices in the first place. Assholes gonna asshole.
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On the one hand: more bi erasure and invisibility.
On the other: we Bās are masters of camouflage. Our army grows in plain sight!
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The anti-trans rhetoric feels less about identity and more about othering and conformity and keeping up the pearl-clutching narrative of wonāt somebody think of the children. Fixating on where people can pee and what sport they can play are such low effort/high outrage triggers for the base.
In the sprint of this topic, though: goddammit yes, the alphabet soup gets stronger every generation.
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