Magic Pudding

@NimkoAli Good grief

@NimkoAli Marriage is illegal in the UK for under 18s.

Why are we glamorising this? She should be in school sitting her GCSES.

@crusade_enjoyer Same man designed the Wellington, the Lancaster and the bouncing bomb, and the earthquake bomb.

The same guy designed the P-38 and the SR-71.

@ubelfem I think it's not even someone "fem"

you're not a radfem if you don't believe female opression is not sex-based, and that sex is an unchangeable biological reality lol

@urbanponds101 I never do, and I reckon it makes no difference at all

am I supposed to be ‘deadheading’ this lot?

@ScarredForLife2 It was superb!

THE TRIPODS (1984): BBC adaptation of John Christopher's YA novels about a future England under alien occupation. The population is 'capped' at 16, becoming thralls to the tripods, but one group of plucky teens decides to join the French resistance... Where's series 3, lads?

@AlexKepfer @HazelAppleyard I see it in blokes too. Both these 2 refrained from having kids.

@MagicPuddingDi @HazelAppleyard This is common with women who are getting close to hitting the proverbial wall. Women 28-35 start getting desperate because their biological clock is ticking. They settle for an average dude, marry them, spit out a couple kids then stop having sex with them. VERY common.

Wow he has wasted 8 freaking years of her life from age 20-28. In this time she could have found someone who doesn’t constantly doubt his attraction to her, who isn’t already thinking about leaving her down the line, and constantly lusting after other women who he actually find attractive. I feel so bad for her. He should have let her go a long time ago. So unfair on her.

@StevesThrillers Oh good luck!

@MagicPuddingDi Not yet. Still trying to gain their trust. I put food and fresh water up there again this morning, then sat and waited (~12 1/2 minutes) for them to materialize. I sat motionless while they ate. I know someone that has a cat trap I am going to see about borrowing.

Sat down on the couch to drink a cup of coffee. Skippy had other plans. Onto my shoulder he went. My coffee is cold, but Skippy is happy and purring away. So everything is right with the world. Oh sure, gas prices are up, but Skippy is happy. Does anything else really matter?

@Mazclin So... in the "polycule" there's Euan with unspecified disabilities that don't seem to handicap him, the one with the rotting kidney, and the one with mobility issues. What a mystery! If only there was a common denominator!

Euan blaming the NHS for his boyfriend’s disability. Nothing to do with him getting his dick cut off 🙄

@AgentP22 That's quite something as a bit of journalism "the Bradford born..."

Maybe the craziest thing you will read today. The Scottish Greens want new train lines that avoid England. 🙈

@history99917180 Any time I see an amine girl as profile pic I know it's a bloke with the objective attractiveness of a slug and narcissistic male pattern rage ready to spew.

I’ve upset the trans mafia. Some have suggested I will come to harm. Oh well. I spent my career dealing with threats from proper dangerous types. I’ve fronted up to armed robbers and won. Barry, the 40yr old bloke who dresses like a anime gamer girl really doesn’t scare me.

@HazelAppleyard The first left her boyfriend 5 years later, the other stayed with hers for 15 years. In both cases they broke up with the bloke who was devastated and never suspected it. One sided relationships in terms of love- physical or emotional- are really quite common and never right

@HazelAppleyard I've had 2 friends, both female, who took on boyfriends and moved in with them while not being "that" keen on them. Because they felt it was the right time. One told me from the start that the chap was in love with her, but she wasn't with him. The other told me same years later

@stolphie Because they're not girls? They're adult men, so not female, and never have been girls.

is there any reason at all why everyone does literally everything in their power to make sure they dont accidentally draw a trans woman as just a regular girl

@ElegabalusGroyp Swimming pool changing room.

Where the fuck does this "watching little girls undress" come from. Im yet to understand what context this person would be in proximity to a undressing child.

@4thOfJuly365 My eyes!!!!

You'll never be able to convince me that this is normal.

@bstpussydisordr What an utterly stupid, irresponsible and disgusting comment.

every trans suicide is a murder

@gloopbastard Any time a bloke approaches them.

at what point does a plastic surgeon have the moral obligation and right to say 'no you've had enough boob'

@BrianSJ3 @hatpinwoman Absolutely agreed, but I think the whistle blowers understand safeguarding acutely.

@MagicPuddingDi @hatpinwoman In my dealings with the NHS blob, institutional loyalty is total. The fate of whistleblowers is awful, as is well known. It is a complex issue but much is driven by anxiety moderntimesworkplace.com/archives/erics… Baby P situations have many similarities Evil is more banal than satanic usually

I’ve been reading/watching about the Harold Shipman case, and it made me think a lot about safeguarding because it’s a really good example of how important safeguarding is. One of the first people to raise concerns about Shipman was Linda Reynolds and she offered two explanations for her concerns “The first was that shipman was a caring doctor, who looked after his elderly and sick patients, in their own homes, rather than having them admitted to hospital, and who visited them frequently when he knew them to be ill. The second was that he was killing his patients” (From the Shipman report) The flags she was seeing, along with a female coroner who was concerned as well, were the disproportionate number of deaths in his patients, and the fact they were largely women of around the same age instead of a demographic mix. Added to that, many victims were found fully dressed in their own homes, rather than sick in bed which is more usual in deaths after illness. They were not surrounded by friends and relatives either, like many dying patients. They were also often ‘found’ by him. Or he was present at their deaths. Which seemed odd. What’s interesting is that these flags are significant, and turned out to be correct, but not concrete at the time she raised them I think too many people still think safeguarding concerns are only legitimate when concrete facts have already been discovered. But safeguarding is a protective tool that actually opens the door to gathering facts because of things that flag up or feel off. Raising concerns is not defamatory or cruel, just because you can’t yet prove they are correct. Raising concerns is how you protect vulnerable people until the facts are known. And that only works if people take it seriously enough, and investigate, when flags are raised He was considered a “lovely” man by many, and he had a lot of patients who trusted and liked him. In acting on her suspicions, despite that, she not only did the right thing but took a certain amount of personal risk. If the police had verified her concern when she brought it to them, three more women would have been saved And in a parallel universe, where an innocent doctor was flagged up for similar reasons, and found to be fine, it would still have been the right thing for her to step forward No matter how lovely he seemed