So painful watching an entire generation discover
'TW_are_W' was the perfect aspirational slogan & metaphor
No exceptions? Literally? Irrevocably? Always were?
It never really made sense
Unreliable guide to law, sport, biology, feminism..
and an albatross around necks of progressive parties.
18.02.2026 08:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
You can't take the middle-distance runner out of the man!!
In fact his key concern here - & properly so - is the correct classification of DSD athletes, to avoid any rerun of absurd result in women's 800m at Rio olympics. (the British runner Lynsey Sharp lost out on a medal)
19.03.2025 08:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Where the waves make their own rainbows. Cliff Beach, Isle of Lewis #scotland
18.03.2025 21:25 — 👍 314 🔁 28 💬 8 📌 1
imho, we *should* continue to encourage science, education & arts ties with Isr.
we should also ramp up scholarships for Gazans.
(not just for medical students)
Eurovision '25 entry probably won't fly
(Russia is out for less).
Ideally, 2 entries for 2 states.
19.03.2025 07:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
2 states is now urgent (Isr blocks 1-S + votes-for-all)
Palestinians are ~50% of population today in historic IL/P.
UK & EU should immediately recognize 2-S on '67 borders.
And talk to all parties (does anyone have lily-clean hands?)
78:22 partition ('67 borders) would be generous to Isr.
19.03.2025 07:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Indefensible.
150 killed during ceasefire; >400 dead since IL broke it.
>50,000 killed in just 18 months: Gaza+WB, Leb Syr Yem.
(~30,000 Isr dead in *all* wars & terror since 1917)
Schools homes clinics & embryos methodically destroyed.
Should Irgun have surrendered to Britain in 1947?
Ask him.
19.03.2025 07:54 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
A field of red poppies as far as the eye can see on a fresh summer morning. Mist is drifting across the trees and the sky is filled with the colours of sunrise
Over in The Bad Place I’m on day 35 of my futile one-woman crusade to keep real images popping up on your feed rather than AI.
There’s so many AI generated images of poppies I’ve seen over the last few days that I wanted to share a real poppy field for Remembrance Day ❤️
11.11.2024 10:57 — 👍 151 🔁 29 💬 8 📌 0
Posing Ling Tailed Tit.🥰🐦
#birds
16.11.2024 22:49 — 👍 578 🔁 45 💬 16 📌 4
yup, it was Meera & Arjun in Yuva (Mani Ratnam)
K.S. ?
"I am well aware of the definition of a liquid, and that is why I've never described this as [hesitates] and referred to it as a liquid"
17.11.2024 08:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Graphic shows dramatic reduction in polio, rubella, mumps, measles, and hepatitis A cases after the introduction of vaccines for each disease.
Disease prevalence in US states before & after vaccine introduction
Graphic from Edward Tufte
More graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d... 🧪
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17.11.2024 07:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by Paolo Brignoli
Fairouz - El Bint El Shalabiya - Lockdown Transcription 11# (Paolo Brignoli)
Lebanon. But now you can't say:
"a faraway country .. people of whom we know nothing”
youtu.be/QFj6OHps2RQ?...
17.11.2024 05:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Arrochar 'alps'
migrated. back in analogue world till 2025.
will usually not be here: mostly as a window or diary.
& awaiting bookmarks.
17.11.2024 05:33 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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