Diane Purkiss

Look at the two pictures. You can see what they are trying to do.

Same! I had it to review for the TLS, and I had to roar through it. Ruined it for me. I should really say no to reviewing– it just wrecks a book.

I avoid them when they are being hyped. I need to take several weeks of breath to decide if I actually want to read them at all. But Piranesi is great.

Heart of stone not to laugh, etc.

Not trans, not drag queens

hmm not an immigrant not trans 🤷
#Pedocon

New Report Says Cass Review Should Not Be Benchmark For Trans Healthcare in Australia - Star Observer A major new peer-reviewed report warns that the Cass Review is fundamentally ill-suited to guide Australia's care for trans young people.

New Report Says Cass Review Should Not Be Benchmark For Trans Healthcare in Australia

Entirely. But it’s shocking to see universities is refusing to exercise any independence of mind.

New Dawn Rose! Love this hue of pink!

#roses #flowers #bloomscrolling #gardening #pnwgardening

Let’s start the day with a stunning rose.

#Stunday #SundayRose #flowerreport #ColorADay #OrangeSun #roses #flowerscape #BloomScrolling #flowers #garden #photography #EastCoastKin #photographersofbluesky

Leaving the ECHR Won't "Take Back Control" - It Will Hand Your Rights to Politicians The Myths are Seductive, The Reality is Very Different - Without the ECHR Your Freedoms Rest On Whichever Home Secretary Wakes Up Grumpy

The Tories and Reform going this hard after the ECHR should concern us all.

Being accountable to an international court means our Government has to answer to them if it tries to undermine your human rights. Be very suspicious of any UK politician who wants to remove that check on their powers.

Share this and speak up for your freedoms.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor hits out at transphobia: "These people make trans people their whole personality" Sophie Ellis-Bextor has criticised increasing levels of transphobia in the UK and overseas in a new interview.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor hits out at transphobia: “These people make trans people their whole personality and spend their entire day being angry” 💯

“There was a time when Pride felt like a celebration of the shoulders people were able to stand on, but now it feels like an absolute political necessity”

It’s quite repulsive – I keep wondering why they are doing this. It’s hard not to see it as an effort to make actual human lecturers obsolete.

Might you share some of the choice parts of the content?

Not long ago -- in my lifetime -- all trans people faced unspeakable violence, including state-sponsored violence, for simply existing

And self-appointed gatekeepers made it as tough as possible for a person to transition.

Anyone who wants to bring back the gatekeeping also wants the violence back

It’s simple really.

REPOST if you’re PROUD of Greta Thunberg for what she does for Palestine✊🏻

I totally agree, and my post was at least partly ironic. However, it’s difficult to resist the pressure exerted by daily emails from the university.

Yes, it’s rather like inviting the current president of the United States to teach the class 😂 You just know that nothing will go well because it might say anything.

Who is this nobody?

Can anyone suggest a pedagogical use for ChatGPT.edu? It has been imposed on Oxford without a great deal of academic consultation. Today, it drew a map of Shakespeare’s London featuring the Wren Saint Pauls and placing the tower of London south of the river.

Well that's the trouble. We did. We voted out the Tories, only to get a government that now does the same or worse. It's not hard to see why people feel like giving up on politics.

Look what they took from us

There is a mistaken impression in Democratic circles that Trump's invasion of our cities and trampling of our rights and freedoms is popular. It isn't:

Badenoch: "Why couldn't we deport those foreign nationals who raped girls in communities across the UK? Why do we still allow them to remain in the very same town where their victims live?" Because, yet again, the bulk of them were UK nationals, many of them born here.

Deadly NO2 air pollution levels in London in 2016 before the introduction of the Ultra Low Emissions Zone

Experts feared it would take 193 years to reduce London's deadly levels of NO₂ air pollution to legal levels.

This week Mayor Sadiq Khan announced his team had defied the howls of pro-fossil fuel and motoring lobbyists to achieve the life-saving target in just 9 YEARS.

Here's how they did it 🧵

I've seen worse for the past two years coming out of Gaza. And now it's coming home to roost. Our country is deathly sick.

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