Sheila

@Del_ivered @citizen_tammy @HebrideanUK Having had a dormant Twitter account for years, since lockdown becoming active I’m guessing disagreeing with people on the constitutional debate = you’re on a list and blocked 🤩

@EylonALevy @IDB1127 Heartbreaking.

Yup. The UAE is going to diverge from the UK and converge with Israel.

@tractorgirly Yup.

I hate this word but she is truly a fucking nasty c*nt to speak ill of the dead. Like her sister who makes out she’s the widow of her ex husband to garnish sympathy from her FB following while his real widow must be feeling like shit that she’s the one looking for sympathy. The Sturgeon sisters are both horrible narcissists who lie and cheat and do all they can to make themselves out to be victims which they most definitely are not.

@times3stillpat @furbabygirl 😀

@furbabygirl Not as confused as the Middle East😂😂😂

Why is Keir Starmer still in the Middle East? He’s not participated in any part of the process, constantly saying it’s not our war, he’s never been part of the negotiations to end the conflict so why is he out there pretending to be some kind of peace broker? I’m confused.

@CAILEAN_UK Is she in therapy? The only party in Scotland that woman can vote for is @ScotTories

Shock, horror: a second-rate provincial comedian, best known within Scotland’s pro-independence cultural bubble, is now offering political commentary on Scottish Labour.🙄

@TheAttagirls @florabegora 😀

@MrsLScotland @florabegora Without a doubt!

There is no Woman of the Day today. Instead, I want to explain why I do what I do. No one really knows who first said, “History is written by the victors” but I’d bet you any odds it was a man. Think of your schooldays and count the number of times you learned about the roles played by women in shaping history, other than regnant Queens and perhaps Marie Curie and Florence Nightingale. Yet women lived, worked, networked, debated, campaigned, organised, invented things and built them too - but you’d never know this if your lessons, like mine, were confined to history books. For a practical example, just look around you. Fridge, washing machine, dishwasher, ironing board, home security system, call waiting system, car heater and windscreen wipers, even the very first computer algorithm: all invented by women. Are you surprised? Confined to the house, denied access to higher education, barred from engineering, denied entry to all branches of science and the professions for centuries, those bright analytical minds turned their attention to their immediate surroundings and saw what was needed to free them from domestic drudgery. In return, history ignored women’s achievements, glossed over them or consigned them to dusty footnotes. If all else failed, their work was credited to - or stolen by - men, the phenomenon known as the Matilda Effect, first identified by feminist Matilda Joslyn Gage in 1870. In 1993, it was named for her by historian Margaret Rossiter who said, “It is important to note early that women’s historically subordinate ‘place’ in science was not a coincidence and was not due to any lack of merit on their part. It was due to the camouflage intentionally placed over their presence in science.” Once you see it, you cannot unsee it - the Matilda Effect is everywhere - but now substitute ‘history’ for ‘science’. The proposition still stands. What I try to do is to pierce holes in that camouflage by writing about the almost-invisible women of history who overcame manmade barriers and changed the world. As a Second Wave feminist, I thought we’d won all the big battles, that it was just a matter of mopping up the resisters and dragging them into the 20th century. I did my bit to redress the balance in an overwhelmingly male environment, but how had I managed to miss the barefaced theft of our words, our spaces and services, our sports? How had we suddenly been reduced to a walking collection of body parts? It was a wake-up call. Once I saw, I couldn’t unsee the terrible damage being done to girls and young women who did not conform to the offensive sexist stereotypes being imposed on them by men who mimic women and their inane female cheerleaders. It made me fearful for non-conforming girls: tomboys. They need to see strong women as role models, women who don’t care about performing femininity, women who defy convention and do things their way. If you can see it, you can be it. So I went digging around in those dusty footnotes, found a little gold and started from there. I found thrilling tales of women who were inventive, resourceful and brave. Then I started sharing what I found more widely, tied to the calendar as Women of the Day. How do I find them? Often by pure chance. I go looking for one woman, spot a couple more names along the way - women whose stories really resonate with me - and file them away for the right time. Women’s history had been right under my nose the whole time. I just hadn’t realised that you needed to dig a little. The rather unexpected bonus was that in giving them a voice, I found mine. I am a conspicuously law-abiding woman, a former prison governor, and if you had told me when I retired that one day, I’d be standing outside a police station in protest at the hounding of gender critical women and singing “Go catch some rapists” to the tune of Guantanamera, I’d have advised you to seek immediate medical attention for the effects of the bump to your head. But here I am, telling women’s stories, and behind the scenes, pursuing a second career as a women’s rights activist. I won’t ever fall asleep at the wheel again. Tomorrow, I’m off to Cardiff with my Women of Wessex sisters, to protest about @bphillipsonmp’s inexplicable decision to delay laying the EHRC Code of Practice before Parliament — and make no mistake about it. It IS a decision; one that is causing real harm and damage to the rights of women and the protection of children. Some of you come for the occasional stories of women in history hiding in plain sight, but I hope you stay because you care about fairness and safety for women. For now, I leave you with this thought from the 1949 memoirs of Somerset suffragette Nelly Crocker (1872-1962): “Modern young women seem unaware of the price paid for their political and social emancipation, and modern historians have greatly ignored the struggle”.

@DominicFarrell This odious man is on camera denying any gangs of sexual predators were operating in London, what’s a grooming gang he repeatedly asked @Councillorsuzie. I wouldn’t trust him to help me across the road.

@peck51 😳

@RorgViking @DominicFarrell 😉

Some say it's AI

@latsot And the pigeons are so slow to fly away 😳

Pigeon about to meet anti-pigeon. This probably won't end well.

@koshercockney He don’t look peaceful he looks and sounds hysterical! No boundaries. People like him are rather sadly so full of their own entitlement they are very malleable for the manipulators in the game 🤦‍♀️

🚨 London, right now. Look at this idiot throwing a tantrum. This Pro-Palestinian mob is crying because armed police are surrounding the Ministry of Defence building which they tried to storm after attempting to lynch members of the UK military.

@peck51 They don’t seem to have any boundaries about how civil society works, or don’t care, but the escalation ain’t good.

I’ve no words to describe how I feel about this incompetent jester. Well that’s a lie but they are all very very bad words. What have we done to deserve the labour government?

@Boobaloosh Challenge that.

I think what I find most annoying about the last 2 days, is that all the people I reported, who told me to go and kill myself (commit suicide)... X has found no wrong doing!!! I find that very disconcerting, to say the least. 🤔

@BlondShelley @_______Ki_onX Didn’t she pop off to Iran then broadcast to those in the west about wrong we all were? It was all lies about the cuddly Ayatollahs!

Typical anti Israel mentality. No taking of responsibility for your revolting behaviour and then blaming Israel for the consequences of your actions

@RepMikeCollins @JohnPaulDetriot 💔

Americans murdered by illegal aliens. They deserved dignity.

@Mark1957 @theSNP I’d love to see the actual numbers of children who have achieved the expected reading level for their age. I saw a number of only around 80% have, have no way of knowing how bad that it is compared to 30 years ago.

@theSNP More baloney election promises from the SNP which are as believable as: - Scrapping the ‘unfair’ council tax -Creating a new national energy company for Scotland - Ending child poverty - Dialling the A9 - Closing the education attainment gap - Reducing drug deaths Etc, etc!

Reading shouldn’t be a luxury. It should be accessible to all. A re-elected SNP government will expand access to free books for children across Scotland, in partnership with The Dollywood Foundation UK. On May 7, make it both votes SNP for a Scottish Government that’s on your side.

t.co/fGMAtqg9CX Muslims are carrying out a genocide against Christians in Nigeria. Please don’t stop sharing this until everyone sees it. The Muslim terrorists are displacing countless Christians; those who can’t flee will not survive. The Islamic persecution of Christians across Africa and Asia must be stopped!

@AndrewH56488884 @theSNP Whit? Do you live in Scotland?

@MrsLScotland @theSNP You'll enjoy the benefits nevertheless.

Make it Both Votes SNP on May 7th for a government that’ll give you up to £10,000 towards your first home.