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@FondOfBeetles My 20 year old daughter castigates her housemates on their shoddy knife skills. She also tells them "opening a jar isn't cooking." This slays me.

Why are young adults saying they can’t cook food? The instructions are usually on the pack. Pasta and basic tomato/veg sauce is fine. Boil an egg, FFS. Fry a chicken breast. Learn to use salt and butter. That’s mostly why you think you can’t cook like your favourite Uber Eats.

@TheVikingDane And in fairness, "people are up in arms about ..." is what Twitter is for these days. It was more fun when it was about crowdsourcing a particularly toy for a toddler

@TheVikingDane Personally I'm in favour of people not wetting themselves 😉

I wonder what we will be shouting at today? Yesterday it was bins in male toilets. Suggestions welcome...

@TheVikingDane I was offline yesterday, gardening, and missed it. Is it the bins for men's incontinence pads? I noticed they have been installed in some accessible toilets. Sounds sensible to me.

@bookscheeseyarn 🤣🤣🤣 Dont start it all up again 🤭

@DreyfusJames Jesus. I'm naïve, I thought it was to be a domestic servant, not child brides. Those poor, poor girls.

MSM: “Excellent job, all. I think we’ve managed to alienate anyone with a functional brain, lose any kind of trust or confidence we once might’ve possessed, AND sink to the lowest possible depths imaginable in recent years…” BBC: “Hold my hazelnut soy latte…”

@BradfemlyWalsh Yep!

Wait, was Natasha Lyonne in American Pie???

@CarlBovisNature Margery Linnet. Or possibly Dorcas, I can't tell those girls apart.

Who knows what this bird is called? 🤔🐦

@PopsyT @jan_murray It's being critical of the concept of an internal sense of gender. I have a sex. Society imposes gender stereotypes and expectations on my because of my sex. I reject them. So I am Gender Critical

Just a typical example of bad leadership Janet. Not taking responsibility for a complete balls up and blaming anyone but themselves. I also take issue with the term ‘Gender Critical’. Gender pertains to sex: Male/Female. Criticism or not extolling the virtues of trans or non-binary or whatever’ shouldn’t be referred to as Gender Critical in my view. It should be framed as being critical of a mental health disorder.

I’m seriously thinking about offering Scope my services for crisis PR. “Mates’ rates”, obviously. Because this is bad.🫣 Someone has just sent me the response they received after complaining to the disability charity about their decision to drop my choir from the London Marathon - because of MY gender critical beliefs. Which was later reversed. This is now the fourth public statement I’ve seen suggesting the issue was not my views, but the way I expressed them. Two key problems with this. First off - it does not reflect my telephone conversation with the CEO. These are direct quotes: “your views are contrary to our views” “we don’t think that you’re an appropriate person to support our event” “had we known, we wouldn’t have extended an invite” “now we’re aware of your views…” “we can’t have you sing for Scope knowing your views” Secondly - if you hold gender critical beliefs, you believe humans cannot change sex and that men are not women. If someone believes the opposite, there is no softer or “nicer” way to say it that changes how it will be received. Scope's CEO also acknowledged that I had never done or said anything at previous events to suggest I would do anything other than turn up, sing and cheer on the runners. Yet instead of acknowledging this was badly handled - and trying to put things right - they appear to be continuing to frame me as the problem. Including in responses to people who complained about how I was treated. Just extraordinary.

@HadleyFreeman @SalmanRushdie @HJoyceGender I'm so glad to see @CCriadoPerez 's Invisible Women in there too. I believe it's one of the most important books I've ever read.

And for the books section I picked my favourite non-fiction books of this century, including ones by @SalmanRushdie and @HJoyceGender The 25 best non-fiction books of the 21st century thetimes.com/article/54c313…

For today’s @thetimes column: how did we get to a point where my synagogue has been deemed too dangerous for my children, and why is Zack Polanski dismissing all this as mere “perception of unsafety”? My synagogue is seen as too dangerous for kids thetimes.com/article/f0625a…

@bindelj Is that Bane? I thought Batman defeated him

I've been protested hundreds of times, but this one, from Vancouver last year (I was speaking at an event on how to support women and girls following rape and sexual assault) is by far my favourite:

@hannahsbee The comments under the article seem to prove the young women's point.

Some fascinating data on young women’s views and outlook in this thread….

How could my damned oven die when we were having a houseful for Easter weekend? fearlesslyattempting.blogspot.com/2026/04/we-hav…

@LissaKEvans It's a lovely little plant - and completely different to its namesake Purple Toadflax, with is tall and elegant but also came from Italy

Ivy leaved toadflax. There’s a wonderful bit in the Attenborough series on plants which shows how it ‘climbs’ the wall, sending stems upwards, each searching for a crack in which to plant the seed with which it’s tipped…

@JulianHartley5 @roseveniceallan Yes.

@bookscheeseyarn @roseveniceallan That is the current law. Is it right?

Nobody should be criminalised for doing something to their own body. Even in tragic circumstances when a woman is heavily pregnant, her body belongs to her, not her unborn baby or the state. Late term DIY abortions are traumatic and any woman choosing that needs help, not prison.

@JulianHartley5 @roseveniceallan But it doesn't. No rights at all, until it's born. Wishing otherwise doesn't make it true

@roseveniceallan This autonomy argument (which is repellantly stupid) fails on its own terms as soon as we recognise that the unborn baby has autonomy as well.

@fem_mb I got 0.0048 I also realised how many cracks my screen protector has!

Interesting online test of your color perception. I had trouble with the reds but got a 0.0065. How's yours?

@Nested42937 @StarshipSMT42 @MadelaineLucyH Being hit on by strangers isn't really attractive or arousing, however nice his cheekbones might be.

@StarshipSMT42 @MadelaineLucyH Yes it's not impossible for a woman to find a handsome stranger attractive? I acknowledge she might get a lot of unwanted attention

I love (genuinely, it's interesting) when a male author tries to write as a female character and gets it badly wrong. Male author: She blushed, impressed by his courage in having asked her out. He was kind of attractive, and she felt very aroused. "I'm so flattered," she whispered shyly. "But I have a boyfriend." Female author: She stared at the table, annoyed at the awkwardness of the situation. The stranger hung over her, like a scavenging gull. "I'm so flattered," she said limply. "But I have a boyfriend."

@hellshousewife @MadelaineLucyH Because we know who has to clean it all up afterwards

@MadelaineLucyH The one that gets me - every tv drama I see, the lead female loses her temper and sweeps everything off a desk/dressing table/kitchen counter and then smashes stuff. Absolute bull. Women don’t trash the place - that’s a man thing.

@ick_real There were onions, tomatoes, mushrooms and garlic in the he sauce and it came with a green salad.

If you grew up in a “vegetables at every meal” household….what did you eat with spaghetti???