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So the Telegraph is taking this well

If Starmer 2.0 means nothing else, perhaps it can mean this…

Same, but 1994.

It started when a really disgusting McDonalds put me off for about a week, but then I just didn’t start eating it again. I still might, one day, if I wanted to enough. But it hasn’t happened yet.

The High Court today confirms that the EHRC's draft code of practice got the law wrong and must be changed.

Women's and men's toilets can be provided on a trans- inclusive basis for customers and service users.

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

Bowel cancer screening | Bowel Cancer UK Learn about the different screening programmes currently in use across the UK and what tests are available.

Colonoscopy is the gold standard for diagnosing bowel cancer, but a very helpful home test is also available — the FIT test is normally done as part of screening after age 50, but you can ask your GP for it if you have any changes in your bowel movements

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I DON'T KNOW BUT I'VE BEEN TOLD
HER HUSBAND'S TOILET'S MADE OF GOLD.'

BBC News headline: Wetherspoon dog policy could be breaking the law, watchdog says

Yeah but he would say that wouldn't he

Anyone who thinks what's happening is the worst political scandal this century, in this country should take a stroll down to the Covid Memorial Wall.

"It's horrible...and I've seen 'Cannibal Holocaust'."

Did Trump email supporters asking if they were American citizens or if ICE needed to track them down? A fundraising email from the president's leadership PAC asked recipients to take a survey confirming their citizenship.

✅ Yes, a fundraising email from Trump's leadership PAC asked recipients to fill out a survey and included the line, "Are you a proud American Citizen or does ICE need to come and track you down?"
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Absolutely phenomenal thread

To delete your TikTok account without agreeing to the new TOS:

1) put your phone in airplane mode
2) open TikTok and go to your profile
3) go to settings and scroll down to delete account
4) turn airplane mode off
5) delete your account

Credit to @ kimsaira on instagram for this

A man told me yesterday that it was important to "take emotion out of the equation“ when analysing the situation in the US, at which point I told him very calmly that "a woman who disagrees with you is not necessarily emotional".

Ladies, it was a breakthrough.

I should have done this years ago.

If you read twitter backwards it's about nazi pedophiles trapping Stephen fry in a lift

Last fiction book I read was Pride and Prejudice, so heir incubator and household manager I guess?

And the one before that was Dawn by Octavia E Butler, so

[spoiler alert]

more or less the same.

If the human body is 95% water - a human who has eaten a carrot is 96% snowman.

someone is heating me until i emit an aromatic vapour and i am FUMING

Remember: It ys okaye to be lonelye. It ys okaye to feel lost. It ys okaye to be sad. It ys okaye yf nobody ys arounde. It ys okaye to have no plannes or just small plannes. It ys okaye to have big plannes that seem exhausting. It ys okaye to be a mess. Take care of thyself. Thou art amazinge.

Some good news.

And I saw a few people out wearing masks in town, which is a few more than usual, so maybe it’s not a terrible thing anyway if we ask people to be considerate and avoid spreading their germs around.

Mine was someone playing Silent Night on a descant recorder earlier today.

And I feel obliged to add that it was really lovely, what with recorders having been ruined for most of us through endless mechanical renditions of London’s Burning in primary school. It was nothing like that.

The most brutal way of telling someone they’re a few sandwiches short of a picnic that I’ve heard in French is t’es pas la truite la plus oxygénée de la rivière. It means “you’re not the most oxygenated trout in the river.”

* read on for similar insults from around the world (a thread)…

If you're not trans, I don't think I can fully explain how important this is.

It's so powerful that one of the most circulated science media publications in the world has come out and said "trans children are real and providing transition care improves their lives." That's groundbreaking.

A very delicate, finely-detailed mixed-media illustration looking down through winter trees passed a herd of deer towards a wooded valley and golden winter sunrise

Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar
Window 20
‘Winter Sunrise’
Artist: SR Badmin

Nobody in The Moral Maze gets eaten by the Moral Minotaur, which is a fundamental flaw in the programme.

The tuba meme, where a schoolgirl has her head pressed against the wall by another girl wielding a tuba, pushing it right up to her face, suggesting and intense, unavoidable onslaught of sensory information Girl against wall:Me trying to do a basic ask I've managed Jo do every day Without incident for many years Girl with tuba: EVery organisation on Earth Tuba: AI

Daily life in 2025.

#AI #Tech #JustLetMeBe #FFS

THE QUIET ONE Fingers relentlessly unpicking The anxious alopecia of another woolly jumper Under the desk Skin picked to the quick Stomach sick Dread accelerates thumb nail digs Wishing for a note to be an absentee Of another bout of insults and failures in PE Pierced by every slight Ponders possibility of escape The safest place? The library for the lunch break Seek solace in a comic book Is this forever This shitty world that drowns you? But one day you'll see From that unnecessary pain Came someone So much more complex Intriguing And resplendent Make it through Many are waiting for you You will be feted You will find your people And be magnifcent

This is the #poem I read at end of my resignation - it will be in the follow up collection to Ice Cream for a Broken Tooth , most likely called Let The Quiet Ones Rise

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I was there at the Patrick Stewart episode with the communicator pin that got a bigger ooh than the piece of meteorite. I was there in spirit during lockdown, hearing you all figure out how to do a panel show on zoom.

You did the brave and decent thing, and I’m gutted you had to. Very best wishes x

🧵 Is it a super flu year? Who knows, but I think the current reporting is stupid.

A pissed off thread using data.

Firstly - here are today's headlines and some from the last 3 years... spot the difference. 1/10

Your annual reminder that the most revealing difference between Irish and Scottish Gaelic is definitely in the words for December: Mí na Nollag (Month of Christmas) in Ireland, and An Dubhlachd (the Blackness) in Scotland. So once again may I wish you all a lovely Blackness.