Pip Cooper

@seerutkchawla @hamster_gangsta

New Oxford University study on BBC reporting of 'transgender' people: Since 2000 in the UK • 11 were murdered (mostly killed by their male partners). This generated 137 news stories • 20 committed murder. This generated just 58 news stories, of which only 23 mentioned trans

@WeRtheMods If I slapped on all the make up I’ve ever used in my entire life it would still be way less than this! 😂

I don’t understand how women can feel comfortable wearing this much slap. I feel uncomfortable even using a heavy moisturiser. Do you just get used to it?

Good morning all. Here’s this morning’s gravity train being taken up to its starting point. I jumped out of bed for this one 🤣 Happy Sunday

He’s dead on.

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One of my favourite sweet treats! Flapjacks! Made these ones for my lunchbox ☺️😋

@timmyvoe @PolitlcsUK @thetimes That was the old Ecology Party. Never should have sold their soul to narcissistic Euro Greens.

@PolitlcsUK @thetimes Remember when the greens used to be about the environment and animal welfare?

🚨 NEW: Green Deputy Leader Mothin Ali has called for legal action against his own party in leaked private comments After candidates were suspended for antisemitism, he urged them to get "serious legal advice to make sure that we are putting the party on notice” [@thetimes]

A single 400-year-old ancient oak produces 234,000 litres of oxygen a year while soaking up carbon dioxide, and can support more than 2,000 species of bird, insect, fungus, and lichen. 📍my favourite oak #lakedistrict

My village stopped #MayDay celebrations a decade ago. Too Pagan for the incoming city folk. This year it's been revived by locals 🥰. That's the same May pole i danced around 40 years ago, and indeed the same skirts! Not at our 7th century village cross, but hopefully one day 😀

I’ve admired @Ayaan for years. Now she and I, and @genspect , have been denounced as a “hate group” by the SPLC. These labels tell you everything about the accuser. Ayaan’s brilliant article explains how their day of reckoning is overdue thefp.com/p/ayaan-hirsi-…?

Of course they don't. This isn't a right that can be conferred onto men, and you simply can't compel the rest of society to go against their fundamental understanding and best interests.

Enjoying the left thinking the Banksy sculpture is about the far right. Without any reflection whatsoever.

This is one of the all-time funniest stories. As it turns out, true-blind selection makes most fields - from music to nursing - LESS diverse in gender and sometimes race terms. So, we don't do it anymore.

This is England, where even the kindest, most human acts are subject to control by authoritarian pen pushers. Using “health and safety” to stop a young 25 year old man from cleaning gravestones with soap and water. This is how you crush a society. You do it by smothering small acts of decency, like driving people home from the pub and cleaning gravestones. You do it by putting rules in the way of people pulling together, until eventually they just stop trying. Reject this 🔥

Put solar panels on car parks rather than plastering them on thousands of acres of prime farmland. It’s a hell of a lot more logical.

I decided in January to start buying meat from Butchers rather than supermarkets. 4 months in what have I found 🤔👇

Fascinating. @Sargon_of_Akkad Carl Benjamin reads his Oxford Union debate speech I would have been on the opposite side of side had we not both been disinvited I agree with most of what he says. When you actually listen to others, one can find agreement.

Before steam engines were used in 1863, slate was transported down from the mines in Blaenau Ffestiniog to the port by gravity trains. Today the railway runs occasional gravity trains for fun. One such train has just gone past our house. (PS. This is not today’s event that I am beyond excited about 🤣)

Look at this Norwegian church. It has been standing through Norwegian rain for over 840 years. The trees were prepared for nearly two decades before anyone cut them down. Workers walked into old-growth pine forests and stripped the chosen trees of their tops and their branches. The trunks stayed standing for fifteen to twenty years. The roots kept pulling resin upward. The pitch bled out of every old branch socket and saturated the heartwood from the inside. By the time the trunks were felled in winter, the heartwood was no longer wood. It was malmfuru. Ore-pine. Functionally pressure-treated lumber, except the pressure was applied by the tree itself, for free, across two decades before construction started. That is why iron was rejected. Iron rusts. Iron expands and contracts on a different cycle than the wood around it. After 100 winters iron splits the fiber and the joint dies. Wooden pegs swell with moisture in the same direction as the staves. The joints get tighter over time. Tongue-and-groove walls. Ground sills on a stone foundation. Four corner posts carrying load down through stone, never up through soil. Then the tar. Pine roots and stumps stacked under clay, lit on fire, burned for two days under controlled airflow. The wood decomposes into pitch. The pitch gets reapplied to the church every 10 to 15 years. Including this decade. Norway built around 2,000 stave churches between 1150 and 1350. 28 survive. Borgund is the best preserved because its corner staves rest on stone, not soil. The ground never won. Modern lumber arrives at the construction site finished. Borgund's builders made the lumber finish itself.

@Jebadoo2 @RayAlexWilliams Literally the only reason why there is a debate about the definition of woman is because men are claiming to be one.