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@SamaHoole ❤️💛❤️😂

It is 6.40am on a Tuesday in May. The BBC weather, on the radio in the kitchen, has promised sunny intervals. Brian, looking out at the fell, sees Doris already in the lee of the wall, head slightly down, wool flat against her left side. He puts down his mug. He reaches for his coat. By 10.30am, the rain has come in horizontal off the fell, and the BBC has updated the forecast. Doris was twenty-six minutes ahead. She is, by Brian's working tally, twenty-six minutes ahead on about 70% of weather changes. Sheep have, anatomically, several reasons for this. A coat of wool that responds to humidity at a level of measurable precision. Wool fibres swell by approximately 16% in diameter at high humidity. A sheep moves slightly differently in damp wool than in dry wool, and Doris has been doing that calculation in her own body for her entire working life. Olfactory receptors significantly more numerous than the human equivalent. Sheep smell the change in the air long before a human notices the cloud has started to lift. Barometric pressure sensitivity, well-documented across livestock species. Doris can feel a storm coming before the storm is visible from the gate. She does not know it as a forecast. She knows it as a slight discomfort, and she addresses the discomfort by moving to the lee. Behavioural rules of thumb developed across millions of generations: lie down before rain, find the lee before wind, move uphill before flooding, move downhill before heavy snow. These are not chosen behaviours. These are the heritable wiring of an animal that has, in the British uplands, had to be right about the weather for ten thousand years. Brian has, on the farm next door, been watching the flock for thirty-one years. He has observed Doris's behaviour against the BBC forecast more times than he can count. The BBC has not, to our knowledge, attempted to recruit her. The BBC's loss. The forecast said: sunny intervals. It is, by 10.30am, raining. The sheep was right. The sheep is always right.

Head and neck cancer is a story of failed interactions and isolation. Communicating without a tongue, a broken jaw and limited mouth movement means conversation becomes fraught. Words do not come out in the way you want them to and speaking becomes hard work because articulation is physically challenging. My voice is weak and my words are sometimes unclear. I can always tell when someone hasn’t understood me - there’s often a confused glance, an awkward smile, a polite nod. I have to ration language now and choose words carefully. I plan ahead for situations most people enter without a second thought. But conversation is usually spontaneous, and that’s where I struggle most. Getting the words out is difficult, even though my head is still full of ideas, observations, humour and fluency. And that’s the thing: in my mind, I am still fully fluent. I can hear myself speaking like I used to - with power, punch and wit. The voice inside my head has not changed but head and neck cancer pushes you to the edges of interaction - a lot of the time it is easier not to speak at all, not because I have nothing say but because saying it has become stressful and immensely frustrating. Please continue to support me at gofund.me/34ab6cc47

@John_Dabell It is your words here which carry & lift & provide comfort & deeply valued insight-the words,perhaps not always to hand in the immediate, now have ripples further & wider to create bigger connections & multiple meanings-a community of minds happily connected -a new voice Mr D🤗

@DrBeaVillarroel 2)the outdated idea that these two qualities are mutually exclusive is both ignorant & displays a distinct egoistic attitude from such commentators-Jealousy,be it professional or personal is an unpleasant creature to encounter-I am saddened you have had to experience either guise

For future reference to those making cartoons about my science: please don’t put me in lab coats or masculine clothing. I don’t care what people think women scientists are “supposed” to wear. I am who I am, and I dress the way I dress -- it changes with my mood, the day, and yes, I love my high heels. First, I am a woman. And yes, when people deliberately try to portray my looks in an unflattering way, it does hurt me. Second, I am also a scientist. Trying to erase someone’s identity for the sake of an artificial storyline also erases something very real: science is done by human beings, not detached machines.

@DrBeaVillarroel 1)Dear Lady-That you celebrate being a woman, enjoying the feminine energy & the wonderful ways in which that is possible to express, is beautiful to behold. That you celebrate, explore & express all the cerebral capabilities you have is also beautiful to behold…

@DarrenPlymouth 💯🔥🔥🔥

The big question is... How did David Icke know? Because he nailed the insidious agenda in 1998 David Icke was right.

@rickygervais Agreed.

Donkeys are the most beautiful, companionable and gentle souls on earth. But every year 6 million are stolen, slaughtered and skinned for fake Chinese medicine. Some people are stupid cunts.

Anyone who believes in man-made climate change needs to take a long hard look at themselves. Here are the basic facts: - 0.04% of the atmosphere is carbon dioxide. Once we drop below 0.02% plants will start dying. - Of that 0.04%, 97% of that is made up of natural emissions (gas released from tectonic shifts, historic volcanic, eruptions etc) - 3% of that 0.04% is made up of human contribution. - Of that 3% of 0.04% Britain contributes 1%. The man-made climate change narrative is nothing more than a control mechanism by technocratic globalist elites.

Man accidentally walks into the scene while they are filming for Hontavirus 🤦🏻‍♂️

@John_Dabell Hold Fast there Mr Dabell ⭐️🔥⭐️

I had my 75th immunotherapy treatment today, another milestone! Here are the pharmacy staff preparing things.

@davidicke I do wish these idiots would disappear & let humans get on with living….🤬😞

What is 'fuck off' in Ethiopian?

@brian_grindrod @iluminatibot I love this….💛🔥

WHO Director Tedros Ghebreyesus said every country in the world is now expected to submit to his International Health Regulations because of Hantavirus. He called it a moral obligation for nations to obey the WHO’s Global Health Order and support each other by giving up their sovereignty.

Is this worth 3,500? #glassbag #glassblowing youtube.com/shorts/WKcPqvG… via @YouTube

@JohnCleese Imho-This person is deranged or groomed or a combination of the two to have such a complacent, morally corrupt, blatantly damaging mind set-quite frankly what the hell are people doing even giving this creature airtime? 🤬

This is the most terrible lie I know quite a few women who have undergone such experiences, and all say it affected them adversely How dare she talk such harmful nonsense !

@SamaHoole It’s called the EU…..🤔?

1958: a British fishmonger had cod, haddock, plaice, sole, herring, mackerel, sprats, kippers, smoked haddock, eels, oysters, mussels, cockles, whelks, brown shrimp, and crab on his slab. All landed within the week. All from British waters. 2026: a British supermarket has tilapia from Vietnam, salmon from a Norwegian feedlot, and a tray of "white fish bites" of unspecified species. The North Sea is still there. The boats are still in the harbour. Somewhere between 1958 and now, the fish stopped reaching the customer.

@John_Dabell Legend! 💛🤗💛🤗💛

26,000 steps in Derbyshire today. 6 months ago I had a collapsed lung and multi-organ failure because of my cancer. How do you like them apples?!