Kate Witney

@BrunswickSteve @rosebudlight 😂

@rosebudlight By “whole world would fall apart”, you mean she rolled her eyes and tutted.

back when i lived with my mom she’d constantly misgender and deadname me, so whenever that happened i would call her larry and her whole world would fall apart

@WeirdMedieval I want one.

a 13th-14th century seal depicting a squirrel encircled by the words I CRAKE NOTIS ('i crack nuts')

I'm looking for women who have been victims of coercive control (in last 10 years). I'd need interview but you can be anon if you wish. Pls DM me in confidence if you can help or might know someone willing to speak. PlsRT #journorequest

@LeorSapir @wpath Oh FFS!

March 2026 article in @wpath's peer-reviewed journal (IJTH): "Menstruation is typically constructed as a biological hallmark of cisgender womanhood, excluding transgender women from menstrual cycle-related experiences."

MPs must stop hiding behind “what the public told us on doorstep” & tell us why they think the PM isn’t competent. In our democracy the public speaks once at a General Election & mandates a Government that sometimes has to take unpopular decisions. It’s not a popularity contest.

I want more drama. Burnham has arrived in London on a train. He should have been on a horse surrounded by knights in armour or something. The King of the North needs to up his game.

@drhingram I once tried to track down someone who had contacted me on an email account I had no longer any access to. All I remembered was that he lived in New York and that his surname was Dicks. Oh my word.

Trying to find the livestream of the peregrine falcon chicks that have hatched here and I just typed 'Birmingham chick cam' into my work laptop. FFS.

I want something to listen to as I cook and, fed up with the radio’s obsession with the Labour Party leadership, I click on the TV. And there’s Gregory Peck. I have no idea what’s going on, but obviously I now have to sit and watch the TV instead of cooking my meal.

@thefempire50 @drhingram @ZoeNope Just Googled - oh my word! (I loathe AI, but I do love the way the AI search results runs the two definitions together!).

@drhingram @ZoeNope There is an art technique called ‘frottage’ and I once set students to google it for homework. I had had no idea it had a different meaning until I had a note from a parent…

Radio 4: The markets have been volatile today in response to uncertainty over the Labour Party leadership. Translation: The markets have been volatile today in response to an entirely confected crisis, manufactured by the media.

@BradfemlyWalsh Thinking of you tomorrow. We know our bodies, but not all doctors respect that. x

I've got a v important medical appointment tomorrow. I've worked out what I believe is wrong with me and have sent an email in advance to the specialist containing all the evidence. So please wish me luck that she will be receptive and not dismissive, like most doctors...

Well, if there's a nicer way to spend an early Summer's day than pootling round Lincolnshire churches with a lovely retired butcher and coming home to a little light gardening and an evening in the garden I'd jolly well like to know what it is.

@JournalistJill 😂 Very good!

@KIWitney In the footsie 100?? (I’ll get my coat)

Just asked my 13yo daughters to have a sock amnesty as they never have matching socks and they are dotted all over the house. They are very grumpy about it, asking if I am making some kind of ‘political statement’. Yes, girls. Yes I am. Get on with it. 😂

@JournalistJill Stalin in a codpiece.

Even though I struggle to spell it, Rievaulx (?!?) Abbey in North Yorkshire def worth a visit. Nice tea room and gift shop. (Henry VIII was a total shit wasn’t he?)

Will a leadership contest and yet another PM help anything at all? For all his many faults Starmer is someone with a commitment to public service and a politician who is respected on the international stage. I do wish the media would just shut the **** up.

I certainly have my reservations about Starmer, but what is this frenzied bay for his blood after people have cast their customary mid-term protest vote in the local elections? 1/n

@amwilson_opera Oh, FFS.

Is this the first time this has happened - an opera production actually *pulled* because someone takes offence at the subject matter? telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/05/0…

There comes a point, it seems, when the almond croissant you bought for a treaty Saturday breakfast starts to look increasing like Friday night pudding…