Diane Jones

Georgia O’Keeffe, Lake George with White Birch, 1921 #WomensArt

Microsoft even disabled the ICC Chief prosecutor Karim Khan and his team's email accounts on behalf of Israel. Francesca Albanese was cut off from all her bank accounts; unable to open new ones or use/ get credit cards. When you confront them, they will come at you for everything, from every angle— to discredit and silence you. They control the banking systems through which money flows globally, whether through financial institutions or intermediaries like Stripe. When the US sanctioned Albanese last year, it wasn't just her money that was frozen— her hotel bookings were cancelled, her health insurance refused to reimburse her, she couldn't even use most apps. Even the Christmas gifts her 13-year-old daughter received were sanctioned. And she was reprimanded only after she began focusing her attention on the powerful American corporations complicit in funding and enabling the genocide in Gaza. She wrote letters to 48 companies, universities and financial institutions notifying them that they were complicit in and profiting from a genocide— the Trump Administration instantly moved to punish her. They have infiltrated and can manipulate every facet of your existence in ways beyond your wildest imagination. They will try to exploit every component of your life in order to make it work against you. Remain cognizant of this in every aspect of what you think is your *private* life. They don't just control the weapons that kill, but the algorithms on your phone that can be used to dictate your life as well.

One day (& it can’t come soon enough) we’ll look back on this vile parading of women by men the same way we look back on other vile parading. Just repulsive how women are perceived & allow to be mocked, daily, every bloody where. And people wonder why young women have issues!

.@NicolaSturgeon still maintaining that women's rights activists want to remove LGB & abortion rights. That wholly imaginary construct is the most "toxic" bit of the debate. Not, you note, the men who assault women or graphically imagine the death of women they dislike.

If our cultural values and ways of life are what got us here, rooted in narrow-boundary, cold, and logical thinking – then perhaps moments of turbulence like these actually call on us to change our way of thinking entirely.

It's been over a year since we made the animated film The Great Simplification. In that time, the world has continued to track the systems synthesis presented in the movie: humans -combining energy and materials into technology and services, representing it all by money, in order to generate *feelings* that match ancestral drives. In aggregate, this global 'metabolism' -riding the upslope of the carbon pulse- generates growth, plus waste. It has no braking system. It reacts but has no plan. The film offers a framework for the questions of our time ==>A species level conversation. 32 minutes

In this episode, I'm rejoined by philosopher and neuroscientist @dr_mcgilchrist for discussion on how our left-brain dominance obscures our sense of value, especially for abstract qualities such as truth, goodness, and beauty.

The BBC has avoided using the term "Israel lobby" over the past two years, new research by Declassified UK shows, even though: - BBC execs regularly meet with the lobby - A quarter of all MPs are funded by the lobby - Half of Starmer's cabinet depend on lobby money - The lobby has taken credit for getting Palestine Action outlawed as a terrorist group. More here: declassifieduk.org/why-dont-uk-me…

@ArturNadol7566 @CherylE10044162 @SamiraAhmedUK @BBC @theJeremyVine Injustice over women’s pay compared to men’s Injustice over women’s pension pots compared to men’s Carers are mostly women - and carers allowance is worth … ? Teaching Assistants are mostly women who need the hours to fit with childcare … & they are paid peanuts 🥜🥜🥜

@ArturNadol7566 @SamiraAhmedUK @BBC @theJeremyVine i believe the same was with the Radio 2 breakfast show, when Zoe Ball took over from Chris Evans, same show, Chris was on peak salary of £2.25 but dropped to £1.6m whereas Zoe's peaked at £1.36 mi, so quite a gap at their max

Israel wiped out most of this Palestinian family in Gaza, despite the so-called “ceasefire.” Islam Karsou, who was pregnant with twins, was killed along with her two other young children by Israeli shelling.

BBC PAID HIM 6X MORE. THE TRIBUNAL SAID THAT WAS ILLEGAL. THE BBC SAID IT WAS COMPLICATED. Samira Ahmed @SamiraAhmedUK presented Newswatch on @BBC for years. Same format. Same length. Same job. Read viewer feedback on camera, wrap it up, go home. Jeremy Vine @theJeremyVine did exactly the same thing on Points of View. She got £440 per episode. He got £3,000. Ahmed spent years trying to fix it quietly through internal BBC processes. The BBC said there was no problem. She filed for tribunal. In January 2020, the tribunal ruled unanimously in her favour. The BBC could not explain the difference. They tried. They argued Vine needed "a glint in the eye" and to be "cheeky." The tribunal said that was not a skill. It was a story the BBC told itself. The total underpayment was close to £700,000. Sarah Montague, another BBC woman, settled separately for around £400,000. The National Union of Journalists flagged around 70 more cases waiting resolution internally. After Ahmed won, 700 BBC women received pay rises. The BBC's statement after losing? They regretted it had gone to tribunal. Not that they paid a woman six times less than a man for the same work for years. Just that it became public. Sources: @guardian, @BBC, @IFJGlobal, Others

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Hayv Kahraman, contemporary Iraqi artist who paints and sculpts and whose work reflects issues for women personally and their role within society #WomensArt

This is what courage looks like. @roisinmurphy did no more than question the medicalisation of vulnerable adolescents yet the mob tried to cancel her. Can't wait to hear her full @Freedom_in_Arts speech. 👇

"Fellow Oxford professor Michael Biggs tells me there is ‘a strong case that Mr Rattley is creating a degrading and offensive environment, especially for female students, which would constitute sexual harassment’. ‘Adults should be free to explore their sexual interests in private with other consenting adults, but not to bring them to work’, he adds." @jo_bartosch spiked-online.com/2026/04/29/why…

Today’s Supreme Court decision effectively guts a key pillar of the Voting Rights Act, freeing state legislatures to gerrymander legislative districts to systematically dilute and weaken the voting power of racial minorities - so long as they do it under the guise of “partisanship” rather than explicit “racial bias.” And it serves as just one more example of how a majority of the current Court seems intent on abandoning its vital role in ensuring equal participation in our democracy and protecting the rights of minority groups against majority overreach. The good news is that such setbacks can be overcome. But that will only happen if citizens across the country who cherish our democratic ideals continue to mobilize and vote in record numbers - not just in the upcoming midterms or in high profile races, but in every election and every level.

A British egg in 1955 came from a hen that had been outside that morning. The hen had eaten grass, slugs, beetles, worms, and whatever the farmer's wife had thrown into the run from the kitchen. The yolk of the egg was orange, occasionally so deep an orange it looked almost red. It stood up in the pan when you cracked it. The white was thick enough that you could lift the egg by its yolk on a fingertip if you were careful and the egg was fresh enough. The hen produced perhaps 180 eggs a year. The flock was small, twelve to twenty birds, attached to the farm or the smallholding or the back garden. Eggs were seasonal, abundant in spring and summer, scarce in autumn, almost absent in winter. A British family in 1955 ate eggs when the hens were laying and ate something else when they weren't. A British egg in 2026 comes, in the overwhelming majority of cases, from a barn of 16,000 birds confined under artificial light at carefully controlled temperature, fed a formulated diet of soy, wheat, and synthetic vitamins, producing 320 eggs a year per hen by extending the lay through the winter dark months. The yolk is yellow because the feed contains a synthetic carotenoid called canthaxanthin, dosed to produce the colour the consumer expects. The yolk does not stand up in the pan. It collapses under its own weight, spreading thin across the surface like a slow puddle. The pasture-raised egg contains roughly three times the omega-3, twice the vitamin E, considerably more vitamin A and D, and more folate than the commodity egg. The peer-reviewed literature has been saying this for twenty years. The egg has been the standard breakfast protein on the British plate for four hundred years. The modern egg looks like the old egg, costs roughly the same, and delivers approximately a third of the nutrition. The British shopper, examining the box at Tesco, has no way of knowing this. "Free range" means the hen had access to a door that was theoretically open at some point during her productive life. A pasture-raised egg from a small producer at the farmers' market costs approximately 50p. A commodity egg from Tesco costs approximately 25p. The price difference is the entire reason the system exists. Find a small producer. Pay 50p. The yolk will tell you what an egg used to be.

Sandie Peggie was forced to give up the job she loves for refusing to share a changing room with a biological male. If NHS Fife had actually followed the law, none of this would have happened. But let’s not forget: these conditions were created by the SNP Government and their embrace of dangerous gender ideology.

I’m all for tighter IT security but my nearly 80 yo dad is currently locked out of his outlook email and trying to get back in and to prove he’s ’not a robot’ he is having to identify 10 - yes 10 - genuine cat miaows from human miaows. Utterly bizarre.