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At what point exactly did we decide that paedophilia is a crime only worthy of a slap on the wrist? What's going on with judges recently?

@sciencegirl 220lbs is still far too heavy. 120lbs is pushing it when they're carrying adults on a regular basis for long hours. There's a perfectly serviceable cable car. Everyone should use it .

Tourists weighing over 220 pounds (100 kg) are no longer allowed to ride donkeys in Santorini under updated animal welfare rules. The decision follows concerns that the animals were being overburdened, especially on the island’s steep routes, including the 500+ steps leading to Fira. Experts recommend donkeys carry no more than roughly 20% of their body weight. New guidelines also require regular rest breaks, daily movement, and constant access to water. The changes came after pressure from animal welfare advocates highlighting overwork and heat exposure. Visitors can still reach the top by walking or using the cable car—offering alternatives while reducing strain on the animals.

I don’t understand a word but I can’t stop laughing.. 😂

🚨Nurse who called trans paedophile ‘Mr’ WINS NHS settlement Jennifer Melle, a Christian nurse from South London, was disciplined by the NHS for “misgendering” a paedophile prisoner. She’d been set to bring an employment tribunal against the NHS Trust before the NHS decided to SETTLE. How many settlements will it take for the NHS to dismiss gender ideology and instead start preaching common sense? Our own Supreme Court ruled that there are only two biological sexes! Good on Ms Jennifer Melle!

@JournalistJill Little boys weren't breeched (put into britches) at that time until they were about 4 - 7 years old. This was a rite of passage, often accompanied by the cutting of their hair, met with mixed feelings by their mothers. I love a historical novel, me. They teach you this stuff.

So - as terfs have always said - gender is simply stereotypical nonsense about clothes and hair? I’m betting society knew what sex his grandfather was when he wanted to vote or buy a house. 🤪

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”.

@Glinner "I have an eight." 'Glamwigs' 🤓

@sappholives83 It really does make you wonder. I used to have every sympathy for their cause, but as a diredirect result of their behaviour, I can't help but feel actively antagonistic towards them, and by association, everything they stand for. I know that's wrong, but I can't seem to help it

I will never understand how these idiots came to the conclusion that if they made nuisances of themselves, people would want to support them. It’s so deliberately offputting that I can’t help thinking that it’s all a psyop funded by the oil industry.

This Saturday 11th April is Death Race day!! The Grand National is a cruel & totally unnecessary race. If you have or are placing a bet on this race or have entered a sweepstake at work you are personally responsible for any horse that dies because of this race!! 🤬🤬🤬 #YouBetTheyDie #BanHorseRacing #banthegrandnational

@archer_rs It's fun to laugh at these people until the words at the end sink in. "She is predicted to win." Suddenly, it's no longer that funny.

I sometimes wonder if the Green Party in the UK goes out of its way to find the most wakadoodle candidates possible.

@NiallHarbison Sorry, but there's no such thing as no inside space for the dog. I've spent holidays camping in a minivan, and there was inside space for the dog.

Hard one… cruelty or kindness? This dog belongs to a not well off family who live in a shack. They love him. Unfortunately he likes chasing cars and mopeds. That’s very dangerous here as he’ll get injured or even shot. I see it all the time. So the owners solution is to tie this empty and light container around his neck. It stops the dog being able to run fast. It means they don’t have to keep the dog on a chain 24/7 for his own protection. People in the West will be quick to say it’s cruelty but that awkward solution is a sign of love. Just in a very different way. They live in a shack and have no inside space for the dog. I totally get that people will say it’s cruel. It’s certainly not ideal. But I do know they love their dog 🥺

Once the countryside is gone, it’s gone forever. We lose our green and pleasant land (and our food security) at our peril.

@sciencegirl That's very cute. He looks like a little humunculus, but it's not good to get it into eyes. Nice idea, but it'll lead to problems.

This cat owner made a nebuliser chamber for his cat with asthma

In all my 46 years of working, I never once heard anyone complain about old people getting a state pension. We just knew the older generation deserved looking after when they couldn't look after themselves after all their years of hard work.

Every year, 180,000 bulls are killed in bullfights. Colombia just decided it's done being part of that number. Colombia's bull fighting ban passed Congress 93-2. The Constitutional Court upheld it. Every bullring in the country will be converted into a cultural venue, arts space, or sports facility by 2027. When President Petro signed the bill, he said: "We cannot tell the world that killing living and sentient beings for entertainment is culture." Animal rights groups had been trying to pass this ban for twenty years. It failed fourteen times before it finally passed. Globally, roughly 180,000 bulls are killed in bullfights every year. Colombia was one of eight countries where it was still legal. Now seven. Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, and Guatemala all banned it before Colombia did. Spain, France, Portugal, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela, and Ecuador still allow it. This isn't about disrespecting tradition. It's about recognizing that traditions can evolve. Colombia just proved it.

People who ask “why didn’t you fight back?” need to watch this once a day.

@Telegraph The main thing I get from this is happiness that young women today will have nothing to do with a bloke who hates dogs. It fair warms the cockles.

🐶 'I’ve quickly learnt my canine aversion is the biggest dealbreaker on dating apps. But I’m not the monster, pet obsessives are' Read how Noah struggles to make it past the third date without his dislike of dogs coming up 🔗 telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03/3…

You can ask for a glass of water on a hot day. They can't. A shallow dish of water with a few stones is all it takes. Bees, butterflies, and birds find it within hours. This is a five minute project that saves lives all summer.

This annoys all the right people.