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That's nice that you value trans people. But will you be providing single-sex toilets for women? Just out of interest, why do you consider the protected characteristic of sex, worthless? Do you feel the protected characteristic of gender reassignment is more important?

Jobless, isolated, fed misogynistic porn… where is the love for Britain’s lost boys? | Sonia Sodha Failing to redress the issues facing young men will push them further towards the far right

We need to talk about what's going on with our boys: today's column is on why young men who are struggling deserve a specific policy and cultural focus just as much as young women.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

#Trump‘s America now providing a safe haven for rapists, paedophiles and sex traffickers.

Tate brothers have left Romania, as travel restrictions lifted (pressure from the misogynist in the White House?)

Flying to Florida

I completely 110% believe in destigmatizing mental health illness. I used to work with people with MH issues. To me MH illness should be regarded as no different from a physical illness. I regard it as no different

a snowy landscape at dusk, the silhouette of a person in the foreground with that of a section of trees behind it

This celebrated painting is set near Victoria Crowe’s home in the hamlet of Kittleyknowe in the Scottish Borders, where she moved to from London in 1968. Crowe frequently painted her neighbour and friend, the shepherd Jenny Armstrong - she is seen here as a small, dark figure set against the snow.

Very important data for progressives to note 👇

Not sure how this isn't obvious if I'm being honest it should be clear to anyone who lives in the real world in this country.

Today @moreincommonuk.bsky.social
releases a deep dive into Progressive Activists, the most liberal/left leaning segment of the public. It looks at who this highly engaged group are, what they believe but also why their approach maybe leading to backlash against progressive causes.

Yet you refuse to support single-sex spaces for women.

Especially in the light of the current administration's attitude towards the Tate brothers with their pitch of an 'unrestricted maleness'

This is a fascinating read.

Quick reminder that if you see a headline from a source you’ve never heard of that isn’t being reported by anyone else, you really should do some due diligence before spreading it around as fact. There’s enough misinformation floating around already; no need to add more.

Photograph of a black bird with red and yellow spot on its wing, viewed from the side facing right, perched on a twig, the bird's beak is open in mid song and out of its mouth swirls of golden mist emerge in the cold air

Photographer Kathrin Swoboda captured amazing images of a red wing blackbird's song, visible via the bird's breath in cold air and early light #WomensArt

Trump revokes temporary protected status for 600,000 Venezuelans New DHS secretary Kristi Noem ends extension that allows people to stay if they cannot return safely to home country

Trump has revoked the temporary protected status for more than 600,000 Venezuelan refugees which consist primarily of women and children. They'll be forced back to Venezuela or 3rd party countries where they'll be vulnerable to human and rape trafficking, and other organized crime. #OpDeathEaters

Blood donor appeal There are spaces to donate blood at some of our city centre venues.

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(Don't usually do this kinda thing BUT)

BLOOD STOCKS ARE CRITICALLY LOW.

If you can, give blood. ❤️

www.blood.co.uk/news-and-cam...

a painting of three cats sitting on christmas ornaments with the name j.s. san on the bottom ALT: a painting of three cats sitting on christmas ornaments with the name j.s. san on the bottom

I don't know what I've been clicking on but my entire Discover timeline is end to end cats. Mind you, with everything that's going on, I ain't complaining

Stepping back from the two big stories of the moment, pretty much all of the platforms where the Southport killer indulged his passions for violence, genocide & murder are owned & controlled by men who were in the prime seats at Donald Trump’s inauguration yesterday.

And they all *hate* regulation…

I agree, it is oversimplified. As your article says, it doesn't account for people with DSDs but I think saying we all started female is confusing. Perhaps it's more accurate
to say, from outward appearances, we all started undefinable and free of gender!

It's become more of an identity than a health issue which is why any talk about 'curing' or 'treating' gender dysphoria is regarded as an attack even if the aim is just to make someone feel better about themselves and their body

The mess began when transgenderism moved from being a mental health issue to an identity. The fight for that came from the stigma around MH diagnoses but it removed gender dysphoria from the medical realm to the social. I'm not going to cater for an 'identity'. A MH issue,that's different; no stigma

What Determines the Sex of a Baby? | Pampers UK The sex of your baby is determined by the male chromosome at the time of conception. Read more about how this works.

Is that so? I thought sex was determined at conception. What you're thinking of is when sexual differentiation starts to be observed as the fetus develops. www.pampers.co.uk/pregnancy/pr...

(Top-Left:) A 25′×25′ infrared image from the Digital Sky Survey 2 centered on our NIRCam field of M 4 for JWST program GO-1979 (green box). The image is aligned with North up and East toward the left. The region indicated in red shows the archival HST deep field from programs GO-10146. (Top-Right:) The entire NIRCam primary field. (Bottom:) A zoom-in on a representative dark sub-region (of ∼3′×0.6′ ) in the NIRCam image (highlighted in magenta in the top panel).

JWST's insane resolution demonstrated.
The ability to see each star clearly from such distance, is clearly the future.
arxiv.org/html/2501.10...
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Supporting wildlife? Not happy at the actions of Network Rail in Walthamstow along the Suffragette Line, here. They've just cut down every single tree on the embankment.We had jays, tits, magpies, woodpeckers; hedgehogs had been spotted in the summer.Can this be right? The last photo shows what was

Thoroughly recommend Tanith Lee. Always loved her books. A good and evocative writer

Good grief, that's awful. So sorry for your loss

Women carry 71% of a household’s ‘mental load’ and it can limit their participation in the workforce, new research finds Making holiday magic adds to an overwhelming mental load that already falls on women.

Women carry 71% of a household’s ‘mental load’ and it can limit their participation in the workforce, new research finds
Making holiday magic adds to an even more overwhelming share of the mental load, the invisible work that goes into managing a household and family.
www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/wo...

The good news about bees: Why they're returning to British gardens Thanks to a combination of efforts by beekeepers, better farming practices and reduced pesticide use, populations are showing signs of recovery

A rare actual good news story: bees – both honey bees and wild bees – seem to be doing better in the UK.

Bee-friendly planting, less pesticide use and an uptick in beekeeping are all having results 🐝 🎉 inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...

Next time he talks about “ the establishment” remember this picture…

Survivors of Nigeria’s ‘baby factories’ share their stories Girls who fled Boko Haram attacks are being enslaved and raped by human traffickers who then sell their babies.

You should be ashamed of yourselves. Repeatedly, you put some quasi-religious belief in an abstract subjective entity you call gender identity over the material reality of the sex-based oppression of women. These girls were oppressed because of their biology www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

London’s festive lights from above – in pictures Jason Hawkes has been taking aerial photographs of central London since the area switched on its Christmas lights, showing us a view of landmarks, shopping streets, markets and a fairground

London’s festive lights from above – in pictures www.theguardian.com/uk-news/gall...