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@VerhofstadtQ @DavidHCardiff Ah yes, when you could buy pens but not pencils, newspapers but not books and I had to explain to a shop a manager that the thermal socks I wanted to buy really were an essential item. What days they were. 🙄

As he steps down, here's a photographic summary of some of Mark Drakeford's greatest achievements as First Minister of Wales.

You've forgotten one @Plaid_Cymru! Funny you'd forget the 'values' statement appearing on your own website - your commitment to bringing Self-ID to Wales. You know, the one that hands any man access to female-only spaces." As ever, we're happy to help out 🔽 partyof.wales/trans_equality

@lynpopsicle @bagshaw2112 Spot on! This place is short of laughs as it is without cancelling Bob Monkhouse 🙄

@Iambeth2 @bagshaw2112 Exactly 💯. We must fight all this ridiculous nonsense, otherwise there won't be any Humour anywhere

Here is the news on the Bob Monkhouse story . This is absolutely shameful of the BBC and their production company. Share this far and wide so people understand what a disgraceful and sad world we are becoming #bobmonkhouse #jokes

The Royal London, Whitechapel's AWAKE hysteroscopy service this month offered this woman NO pain relief apart from the ibuprofen/paracetamol she took at home. The video suggests that 'chants' on one's phone might help. @RoseCoatesBN5 This woman has been traumatised.

Chloe woke up at 6:45am and immediately felt proud of herself. She had, after all, not eaten a single animal product in four years. The planet was healing. She could feel it. 6:52am - Applied her morning SPF. The SPF contains beeswax. Chloe does not know this. Moving on. 7:10am - Breakfast: a smoothie containing avocado. The avocado was grown in Michoacán, Mexico, on land where a pine forest was until 2019. It required approximately 320 litres of water to produce. It was flown to the UK. Chloe sprinkled hemp seeds on top. The hemp seeds came from China. Chloe felt connected to the earth. 8:00am - Got dressed. Polyester leggings, derived from crude oil. A bamboo top that was processed using carbon disulphide in a Taiwanese chemical plant. Trainers with a recycled plastic upper that sheds microplastics into waterways with every wash. Chloe's outfit today had a higher carbon footprint than a ribeye steak. Chloe does not know this either. 9:30am - Posted on Instagram about choosing compassion. The phone was manufactured in a Shenzhen factory using cobalt from the DRC, where mining operations have displaced local communities and killed an unknowable number of small mammals, reptiles, and insects. The algorithm served Chloe an ad for oat milk. Chloe liked it. 12:00pm - Lunch: tofu stir-fry. The soy was grown in Brazil. Brazil produces more soy than almost any country on earth. The primary reason is soybean oil: one of the most widely used industrial and culinary oils on the planet. The soymeal left over after oil extraction is fed to livestock as a byproduct. Chloe is aware of the livestock connection and finds it outrageous. She has not looked into why the soy was grown in the first place. The answer is the oil. The oil is in her salad dressing. 1:30pm - Drove to the garden centre. The car runs on petrol. Chloe has a Just Stop Oil sticker on the bumper. This is not being commented on further. 3:00pm - Bought a monstera. The monstera was grown in a Dutch greenhouse using natural gas heating. Chloe put it next to the pothos that is slowly poisoning the neighbourhood cats. 6:00pm - Dinner: pasta with cashew cream sauce. The cashews were processed in Vietnam, often by workers in conditions that would prompt significant commentary if they were in an abattoir. 8:00pm - Watched a documentary about factory farming. Wept. Posted about it. Caption: "We have to do better." Chloe is, by every measure she has chosen to measure by, doing brilliantly. By some of the others, the picture is more complicated. Chloe has not chosen to measure by those.

Average of 18 deaths a week in Wales linked to A&E waiting times, new data shows itv.com/news/wales/202…

@HealthAPPG Please let's discuss returning anaesthetists for hysteroscopy at tomorrow's renewed Women's Health Strategy meeting. Hysteroscopy with biopsy is uterine surgery. It's being done on OTC meds from home + a stress ball as pain relief. 11,000 horror stories and rising.

Baroness - then Lyn - Brown couldn't have put it better. "The Govt needs to ensure the NHS has the capacity to give women the treatment they need in time AND free from pain. Because what is the point of a Women's Health Strategy, if it can't do that?"

@HysteroscopyA @HealthAPPG Procedural pain is continuing to be ignored,skirted around, side stepped,The 1st step in putting something right is acknowledging there’s a problem . Hard for gynaecologists to admit they all have been inflicting unnecessary avoidable pain on thousands of women for years .

@HysteroscopyA Welsh Labour have run the NHS for 27 years so who is Mr Streeting going to blame here in Wales?

Why's there no mention of excruciating Procedural Pain in the 'starter questions' for discussion at the Health APPG's renewed Women's Health Strategy meeting on 25th? We need anaesthetists not stress balls, 'kool packs' & flowery light boxes.

@JMSimpsonauthor @GoodKingLou

Tesco raspberries one hour after leaving the shop.

@LeeHarris He says 40 years of underinvestment? There have been Labour govs in that time. Maybe he meant 14. Still, either way, it’s 💩

🚨Keir Starmer LOSES HIS TEMPER at the select committee hearing because he is *rightly* accused of "enormous complacency" for failing to defend Cyprus. He's extremely thin-skinned and lacks the emotional maturity to be prime minister. The man is not fit for office.

@clarky_on I’ve listened to the first 10 mins. Not keen on the language used “quicker and more cost effective’ and ‘women being more compliant”. 🙄 and since when is a pain score over 5/10 acceptable just because it’s quick?

@Iambeth2 This is about single use mobile scopes

@clarky_on @HysteroscopyA @alistairsteel @isitsleepytime @Dean_Hough1 @medicalmodelbri @Molly2323232323 @BSmytheee @Cray_tweets1 @NHSResolution @lengreview @Burnt2020 @Shr_Nottingham @cannula_service @SedateUk Well that possibility fills me with horror.

@alistairsteel @isitsleepytime @Dean_Hough1 @medicalmodelbri @HysteroscopyA @Molly2323232323 @BSmytheee @Cray_tweets1 @NHSResolution @lengreview @Burnt2020 @Shr_Nottingham @cannula_service @SedateUk What is very scary is that the NHS could have plans to move hysteroscopy to the community setting/women's hubs that lack the back up and anaesthetic options of hospitals when OPH goes wrong. Scope manufactures already believes the demand for portable/disposables is needed.

hysteroscopyaction.org.uk/pain-survey/ Had a painful hysteroscopy? Please complete our anonymous survey. Thank you to the 10,700+ who've already done this. You're providing the evidence needed for NHS hysteroscopy services to be drastically improved.

How much more are women expected to put up with? Because appointing a man who identifies as a woman to represent people suffering from endometriosis is not inclusion, it is disrespect. At best, it is tone-deaf. In reality, it's outright misogyny dressed up as progress. A man representing women with endometriosis. Think about that for a moment. Women fought for decades to get this disease recognised, treated, researched and taken seriously. Now they are told to step aside and let a man represent them. Call it inclusion if you like. Many women will call it something else. If women can’t even speak for women’s health anymore, what exactly are women allowed to speak for? Endometriosis is not an abstract identity. It is a painful, often debilitating medical condition that affects women because they have female reproductive systems. One in ten women in the UK suffer from it. Many spend years being ignored by doctors, misdiagnosed, or told the pain is “normal”. Women have fought for decades just to have this condition taken seriously. And now, after all that, they are told a man will represent them. You could not design a more insulting situation if you tried. Novelist Amanda Craig, who has personally suffered from acute endometriosis, said the appointment was “absolutely ridiculous” and compared it to a white person claiming to speak for black people. It is a harsh comparison, but you can understand the point she is making: representation should come from lived experience, not political fashion. This is the problem with identity politics when it loses all connection to material reality. Women are told to be quiet, be kind, be inclusive, and accept that even their own medical conditions are no longer theirs to speak about. So again, the question stands: How much more are women expected to put up with? Because when women cannot even speak about women’s health without being told to step aside for a man, that is not equality. That is erasure. And dressing erasure up as progress does not make it progress. It just makes it harder to challenge. #WomenMatter

@karmaflow2025 @cambionnome In the U.K., it is done routinely without general anaesthetic or sedation. Diagnostic hysteroscopy are done taking over the counter pain relief only. It is barbaric and the pain was unbearable. 😔

Ciao ragazzi ieri mi hanno tolto in ambulatorio un polipo uterino di circa 5 cm ...grande più di 1 ora l'intervento, sono riuscita a tornare da sola in macchina non avevo nessuno mi accompagnasse...ancora oggi non benissimo per chi può una 🙏 e/o good vibes viver sola non aiuta..

An unbelievable 10,986 women have now completed our anonymous survey. No woman should have to put up with unnecessary procedural pain. If you've had a painful outpatient hysteroscopy please head over to our website and complete the survey. hysteroscopyaction.org.uk.

Almost 11000 women have completed this survey. That’s almost 11000 women who have experienced pain and trauma. And yet we’re told women tolerate it well. Cleary we don’t. When will enough be enough? 🤬