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@existentialgoof @IsleOfNate @theashtraymaze @Cyn1calCrusader Nah. It's been in the high 50s and 60s where I live. If you're not at the beach or in an AC building it really can feel hellish. Even in the shade, and too many buildings end up like ovens. We also get little microcosm pockets of high humidity even if the regional average is low.

@IsleOfNate @theashtraymaze @Cyn1calCrusader High humidity does indeed make high temperatures worse. But we don't have high humidity in the UK when temperatures are high. Daytime humidity during this hot spell hasn't gotten out of the 40s, as far as I can tell.

So, jokes aside, to understand why the heat is worse in the UK than say Arizona for example, the answer is quite long... First it's the Humidity, it's far higher here. The UK's island location and prevailing south-westerly winds bring moist sea air, so heatwaves are often humid rather than dry. In contrast, many of the hottest US states (e.g., Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico) have dry desert heat where sweat evaporates quickly, so you actually feel cooler despite higher temperatures. Even humid US regions (like the Southeast) usually have widespread air conditioning to offset it. Second, the buildings and Infrastructure that we have all are designed to Trap Heat, not Release It. UK homes are built for cold, damp winters: thick brick/stone walls, heavy insulation, small windows, and designs that retain warmth. During a heatwave, they turn into ovens, solar gain through windows builds up, and there is poor ventilation or passive cooling features like overhangs, shutters, or light-coloured roofs. Plus, poor air conditioning: Only about 5% of UK homes have AC (vs. ~90% in the US). It's not standard because it's rarely needed most of the year, but during spikes it's a nightmare. Also, retrofitting is expensive and tricky in old terraced houses or listed buildings. This extended to public transport, schools, offices, and even hospitals as they often lack cooling. Finally, most importantly, we have zero acclimatisation. Meaning it's just as hot at night as it is during the day. Britons aren't physiologically or culturally used to sustained heat. We're properly white! So, a sudden jump from typical UK summer temps feels extreme, and the body struggles more without gradual adaptation. Heatwaves often bring "tropical nights" (temps staying above 20 °C), so homes don't cool down overnight. You can't sleep, recover, or anything which just compounds fatigue, dehydration, etc. Drier US heat often cools significantly at night. That is all topped up with the fact that we have longer summer daylight at the UK's higher latitude meaning more hours of solar heating. Hope this long explanation that no one wanted clears this right up...

@toniosq @PopBase I've been to Arizona. Dry heat is lovely. Humid heat, especially when you were still having hail & frosts just a few weeks before is horrible. Your body doesn't have time to adapt and houses aren't designed for it. People get very ill & even die.

@PopBase that’s it? they would hate arizona texas and florida

Today becomes the UK’s hottest day during May in recorded history at a high of 34.8C. (bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1w2…)

@eurostrategist @archer_rs Climate change means extremes, not just heat. Just a few weeks ago we were having hail here in the UK. People had wooly hats on. We used to have annual snow & predictable summer heatwaves. Now we're seeing more unpredictability, storms, flash flooding & intense periods of drought

@archer_rs The only myth is the way, woke, the left and the radical center, want to shape the narrative to cash the end-year bonus for ruining Europeans’ lives.

Apparently climate change is a myth.

@HopeAcedia I don't know. People who divorce because they lied or cheated are also looked down upon, and they are definitely not celebrated for doing so. Lying to a partner for years is not ok because you're denying them a choice and agency. It's about the deception, not him being gay.

25 year old dating a 17 year old aside (because it's just been brought up to death) if he got divorced to her purely for emotional reasons the reaction wouldn't be negative, so the lesson here is that people mad about this are homophobic I said what I said.

@owenjonesjourno If they're masculinised enough to appear convincingly male they're actually not meant to use the women's. They took that into account. Unisex toilets are meant to be provided. The guidance is for service providers & this really is mainly about giving women & girls agency again.

And what happens to trans men? By law they are supposed to use women’s toilets. But if they do so, they face being ejected on the basis they are male intruders illegally using women’s toilets.

The risk of a trans woman being abused or assaulted in the men’s toilet per visit = extremely high. The risk of a woman being abused or assaulted in the women’s toilet per visit = extremely low.

@supertolerant My parents had a high income but both came from working class backgrounds & had that same attitude. Yet their 6bed only cost 90k & our cupboards were always well stocked. Too many people today have very little left after rent, & can barely afford groceries, nevermind a holiday.

I was young in the 80s/90s in the UK. I don’t remember my parents ever going out to eat, except when we were on holiday (in the UK). I don’t think they ever took me to a fast food restaurant, or ordered takeaway food. People today have no clue how working people lived. /1

@Kyuu_cumber @MoleyBum1 @Lynnexandra @Qveen_Potato And transvestites/fetishists are known to have higher sexual offending rates. So you've also got a cohort who are more of a risk. It's not women's fault or fair to expect them to just deal with it. Many transwomen have chosen to use male facilities & have done so safely for yrs.

@Kyuu_cumber @MoleyBum1 @Lynnexandra @Qveen_Potato You don't have to be on hrt to claim to be a trans. That's the problem. Activists decided it wasn't inclusive enough so now you've got a mixture of people with & without dysphoria, who may or may not medicalise claiming to be women - so the offending rate is identical to men.

The problem that will arise is that someone can claim their biological sex is female and walk into the woman's restroom. Trans people who don't want to break a law, will not use any public restroom if it can be helped. It's a chilling effect and rather ineffective at preventing what transphobes keep crying about, which is cis people committing crimes and those people using trans as a cover. Not to mention anyone not fitting beauty standards of a "woman" or a "man" will be targeted and assaulted.

@ShayWoulahan Had similar experiences. Later pressured to watch "church of fudge" by teen bf because it was "hilarious"... apparently. I think it's now considered a form of abuse. I really wish I could unsee it. I actually can't believe some of the things they were watching & accessing online.

I remember when boys would show this video to people on the school bus without consent and laugh at their reaction. It was the first time I ever seen porn and to this day I still associate porn with this disgusting scat video. Even the word porn triggers disgust in me.

It's going to be hot hot hot 🔥 for at least the next week....please but out life saving water for all our wildlife. Thank you #hedgehogs

@hitchrogers @fitzcavendish @RichardDawkins That seems incredibly sexist & regressive. Men deciding superficial things like clothes, hair and make up = woman? I feel any unique culture we have is more to do with how we form community & bonds at different life stages, & usually this is entirely to do with us being female.

@fitzcavendish @RichardDawkins Biologically, no. Culturally, yes. That's the whole point. "Human Females" are biological "Women" are a thing we made up to tell human females how to dress and act. Some human females don't feel like dressing and acting how they're told. Same with some human males.

The leader of the Lib Dems, and the leader and deputy leader of the Green party, think some women have penises. In itself, it seems like a relatively unimportant matter. But it is symptomatic of a contempt for science and evidence-based truth. Could you vote for a flat-Earther?

@babybeginner @slipkn0t8 Aww he's loving it. 💕 Amazing progress.

Enjoy one peaceful minute of petting Bruiser. A feral cat who never knew love before. Wait for it….TUMMY RUBS. And for those who know, there is something special happening here. Every day I post about my journey with Bruiser. It gets better and better.

@_Leyanelle_ @janeclarejones @sleeepysandy @DanniBrener @Marikacobbold To then equate this criticism to racism is intellectually & morally dishonest. You might think you stand tall but you're letting down both Palestinian & Israeli victims alike for the sake of ideological purity that thinks criticising Hamas legitimises the suffering of Gazans.

@_Leyanelle_ @janeclarejones @sleeepysandy @DanniBrener @Marikacobbold Susan didn't say that though. She said the uncorroborated rumour that dogs were trained & used to rape is nonsense because it is. The eagerness to believe it & the way Oct 7th is being minimised as just "wartime rape" is extremely disturbing.

Likewise, the feminists who draw any kind of moral equivalence between rape *in* war (everyone knows it happens, stop straw manning), and rape *as* war should be forced to read the Commission's report. Hamas are evil & choose women's bodies as their battlezone: it is that simple.

@janeclarejones @FreyaVanadiss Are you equating Oct 7th with rape in war because that is problematic? It was an act of terrorism. Not war. It was uniquely barbaric. That shouldn't be complicated to acknowledge & it doesn't follow that stating that means innocent Gazans deserve to suffer or are uniquely vicious

@FreyaVanadiss I didn’t Freya. This is the tweet of mine that led to Susan’s response. It’s is clearly a tweet about tribalism, and using rape to paint ‘the enemy’s’ men as uniquely barbaric.

So you agree that collective punishment of the people of Gaza for the actions of Hamas is wrong then?

@hell_line0 This was a failure of the adults around her. Little kids are obsessed with gender stereotypes at that age. They see short hair & assume boy, longhair -girl. You absolutely encouraged it by failing to help her make sense of the world & herself, & instead reinforced her confusion.

My nephew is trans. He started telling us at about age 3 that he was a little boy, not a little girl, and he wanted to be called "son" by his dad. No one ever suggested this to him or encouraged him to do it despite him not wanting to. We all just said "sure if that's what you want" and didn't fight him on it. He'll be 18 soon and still living as a boy. Trans kids exist. They deserve to live safely.

@kitttminho No rape is the the word specifically for forced penetration with a penis. Only men can commit rape. Men and women can be victims of rape. Anything else is classed as sexual assault. Feels like the real issue is that people minimise how severe & devastating sexual assault can be.

Women can rape. Men can rape. Women can be victims. Men can be victims. Denying any of this is anti-victim and pro-abuser.

Terfs say they care about women, yet will with full confidence, say that a woman forcing another woman to have sexual intercourse doesn't fit the definition of rape because "da law sed so"

@windupgemma @SillyOracle Gender identity ideology is homophobic, sexist & misogynistic. Criticising it is entirely in keeping with left wing ideals. We prioritise pluralism & socialism over individualistic regressive identity politics, which is setting back both LGBT & women's rights. You haven't a clue

@SillyOracle So unless you're right wing stop pushing their homophobic, misogynistic agenda. And stop trying to silence the women who stand up against it

Suing a charity is disgusting. People donate their money in order to help people Terfs need to learn to accept that their beliefs make people feel uncomfortable instead of trying to force people to accept them All this does is take funding away from projects that help people

Still one of the best videos of all time

@theasewell05 @Sorelle_Arduino I suspect some form of psychopathy tbh. People with psychopathic & narcissistic traits are known to be attracted to careers in medicine due to the sense of power it bestows.

I had such a strong gut reaction to Helen Webberley last night. I simply don’t believe her. She’s insincere, disingenuous. Downright malign. I meet trans activists ALL THE TIME. This felt different.