I love pies. But the ideological view that it's unpatriotic to enjoy a wider range of food is just bonkers. How to make life less enjoyable.
18.10.2025 20:05 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@louiselocock.bsky.social
Mostly retired qualitative health services researcher, linguist, europhile, cat lover. Other animals welcome. Mostly in Oxford, occasionally in Aberdeen She/her https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8109-1930
I love pies. But the ideological view that it's unpatriotic to enjoy a wider range of food is just bonkers. How to make life less enjoyable.
18.10.2025 20:05 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0This is disastrous on multiple levels. We already have a high level of mistrust & people opting out of sharing will hit medical research so hard. Iβd also hesitate to encourage people to share their protected characteristics data to monitor equality & diversity because of the plausibility of misuse.
18.10.2025 08:49 β π 51 π 23 π¬ 1 π 2Tickets are selling fast for @drjaninaramirez.bsky.social LEGENDA event at the Sheldonian Theatre this November.
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Book your place @blackwells.bsky.social now :
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I remember my first Chinese food back in the 1970s. For those of us brought up on boring meat and two veg, it was unimaginably exciting to taste something so different. Jess Gill is clearly an idiot.
18.10.2025 19:58 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Never had a curry? Stupid woman doesn't know what she's missing then.
18.10.2025 19:07 β π 9 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Great to see the #NoKings inflatables have reached London
18.10.2025 15:49 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0You might like this too, about the diversity of East Oxford. Don't let anyone tell you Oxford is all gown and no town. bsky.app/profile/loui...
18.10.2025 15:27 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1'Jason Momoa sneaking up to Henry Cavill' meme with GREEN PARTY MEMBERSHIP NUMBERS 'sneaking up on' CONSERVATIVE PARTY MEMBERSHIP NUMBERS Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of the Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ
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Tremendous. Glad to see plenty of women allies there too.
18.10.2025 14:11 β π 8 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Oh, hello Bath & North East Somerset - consulting on making residents parking charges higher for bigger and more dangerous cars to improve fairness and road safety. Yes a Land Rover SHOULD pay more than a Fiat 500.
www.bathnes.gov.uk/preliminary-...
Supporting trans rights does not mean opposing women's rights.
Supporting women's rights does not mean opposing trans rights.
Please think about whose interests it serves to turn those who should be allies against misogyny and transphobia into each others' enemies instead.
#LGBWithTheT #always
Looks like it's gone well. There are several organising groups, including Women Against the Far Right and an official Green Party delegation. bsky.app/profile/what...
18.10.2025 13:28 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Well done Oxford
18.10.2025 13:24 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Horrible old sexist
18.10.2025 13:20 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0This is today. Come on, women of Oxford.
18.10.2025 08:19 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Brilliant. I'm told they promised an open mic but I suspect that might get stamped on if lots of brave women start speaking out for trans people
18.10.2025 08:16 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Another of my favourite churches, the very ancient Santo Stefano in Bologna (known as the seven churches, all linked together).
17.10.2025 20:22 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0This is awful if correct. Chancellor preparing to save more than a billion pounds by targeting disabled peopleβs capacity to get cars through the benefits system
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
On the 'one in, one out' principle, could we have Prince Harry back now?
17.10.2025 19:46 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0"Discussing the matter". Imagine what this discussion was like.
17.10.2025 19:36 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0I think it's about time we had a re-run of the Mitchell and Webb sitcom 'The Ambassadors'. Especially episode two, 'The Prince's Trousers', in which trade envoy and minor royal Prince Mark of Bath (Tom Hollander) turns out to be an arrogant, demanding playboy. So obviously based on Randy Andy.
17.10.2025 19:30 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Too expert, that's why. I feel for you
17.10.2025 18:38 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0The artist formerly known as
17.10.2025 18:16 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Time for another outing of my comment that this political system fragmentation is looking rather like two party politics.
17.10.2025 08:59 β π 11 π 4 π¬ 2 π 0Poster says 'Stop the Far Right. Stop the hate, stop the fear, transphobes are not welcome here. Posie Parker, you can't hide. You have fascists on your side.' For more on 'Posie' and her support for 'Tommy Robinson' see hopenothate.org.uk/case-files-k...
17.10.2025 14:36 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Oxford - another protest against the far right. Assemble 12.30 tomorrow (Saturday) at Bonn Square. This time against 'Posie Parker's' so-called 'Let the women speak' group. They are saying men will try to silence their anti-trans views. Women needed to show them they don't speak for all women.
17.10.2025 14:30 β π 6 π 1 π¬ 2 π 1I don't care what anyone's done. The death penalty is always inhumane. But if someone could be innocent it is particularly grotesque.
16.10.2025 17:04 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0How Maltaβs Assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia Connects to an Organisation Close to Nigel Farage.
Turlough Conway shows that two men associated with the murder of Maltaβs most famous journalist were also key donors to Nigel Farageβs pan-European political project
bylinetimes.com/2019/12/03/h...
Well done, healthcare unions. It needs saying
16.10.2025 10:56 β π 16 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0Our healthcare sector is built on the rich diversity of its workforce.
Today weβre calling on the media and some politicians to stop spreading misinformation and anti-migrant rhetoric.
Read our joint statement: www.bma.org.uk/news-and-opi...