Daisy Brandybuck

@_TheExeter facebook.com/share/p/1B6KTH… Supposed people managers. No loyalty, no integrity, untrustworthy, no morals, selfish, entitled, poor role models. The Exeter was 100% complicit in allowing this to happen. Money before ethics...

@DreyfusJames I've been rewatching Gimme Gimme Gimme. Still brilliantly funny Would love an update on whatever Tom and Linda are up to almost 30 years later.

Yup. If you could kindly drop a brief comment in my posts beneath this, that’d be greattttt… 😁

Can we start the longest running thread of cat pics?

@SamaHoole The lack of decent education combined with unfettered access to social media is a real problem. We are devolving at an alarming rate.

Doris is suffering. Doris does not know she is suffering. The suffering has been inferred from a photograph posted on social media by someone who visited the fell in August, stood at the gate for four minutes, and looked at Doris looking back at them. "She looked so sad," the caption read. "Standing there alone in the rain. No shelter. Just staring." Let's assess the evidence. The rain: Doris has grazed through eleven consecutive days of horizontal Lake District rain without reducing her hours. The rain does not constitute suffering for an animal wrapped in eight centimetres of lanolin-coated fleece that actively repels moisture. The fleece is not a fashion choice. The fleece is a biological weather system. The aloneness: Doris is in a fell with other sheep. She grazes at distance from them because fell sheep are not herding animals in the lowland sense. They distribute across the landscape. Doris is not isolated. Doris is optimally positioned. The stare: Doris can recognise up to fifty individual sheep faces and ten human faces and remembers them for two years. She was not staring sadly. She was filing you. The shelter: the spot behind the east wall where Doris sleeps on cold nights is four degrees warmer than the exposed fell and has been her chosen location on every comparable night since her first winter. She did not look sad in August. She looked at the gate visitor in the specific way a prey animal looks at an unknown presence: assessing, not emoting. This is the anthropomorphism problem. We look at an animal experiencing its natural environment in the way it evolved to experience it, doing the things it is built to do, in conditions it is designed for, and we project onto it the emotional state we would have if we were standing in that field in those conditions. We would be cold. We would be lonely. We would look sad. Doris is not us. Doris is a fell sheep on a fell. The fell is what she is. The rain is her element. The aloneness is her preference. The stare is cognition, not grief. Doris's cortisol: normal, per the vet's annual check. Doris's welfare domains: no concerns across all five, per the farmer's records. Doris's opinion of the caption: she has filed the photographer's face. Doris will remember that face for two years. Doris is grazing. Doris has always been fine. We are the ones who needed the shelter.

The Taliban have a truly brilliant plan for Afghanistan’s women: ban them from education past primary level, forbid them from universities, then slam the door shut on medical, nursing, and midwifery training as of late 2024. All while insisting that only female doctors & nurses can treat female patients, because decency and Islamic propriety demand strict gender segregation in healthcare. Genius, really. What better way to “protect” women than to ensure that, within a few short years, there will be virtually no qualified Afghan women left to provide the very care their own rules require? Male doctors cannot properly examine or treat women without risking violation of those same modesty rules and women often refuse or cannot access male providers anyway due to chaperone requirements and cultural barriers. So the Taliban have engineered a perfect catch-22: no male care allowed in practice and now no new female providers being trained either. Existing female healthcare workers are ageing out, burning out, or fleeing the country if they can. Current female medical students were turfed out mid-training. Midwifery and nursing programmes, already scarce, are now closed entirely. The predictable result? Skyrocketing maternal mortality, untreated gynaecological conditions, women dying in childbirth or from preventable complications because no female professional is available nearby and rural areas turning into death traps for half the population. Yet the Taliban still claim this is all for women’s honour and protection. One might almost admire the sheer audacity of the hypocrisy, were it not costing thousands of lives. They have decided that female illiteracy, poverty and death are preferable to the horror of a woman learning how to read, work, or save another woman’s life. It is not merely cruel, it is spectacularly self-defeating lunacy dressed up as piety. The rest of the world watches, issues statements, and occasionally wrings its hands, while Afghan women pay the price for this masterclass in regressive logic. The Taliban really are as stupid as they look.

I’ve never seen an “omffffffffffffffg” in cat form before

I watched this at least 9 times 🤣

Gregory went from the saddest cat in the shelter, to spacecat superstar, to helping other animals in need, all thanks to you. I almost can’t believe it, but today I was able to donate $10k to his former animal shelter. Remember: even if you’re small, your impact can be large.

Omg I'm dead. Best thing you'll see on X today. This bird had a hate relationship with his cage. 🤣🤣🤣

@oGaZm121707 @Mschatnoir "Scotch" is a drink

Glasgow has had the most immigration foisted upon it. My step mum lives in the high rises which were mostly elderly, some families, singletons and for the most part white. As the elderly died, more and more immigrants appeared. Step mum got an African family in, fine. This family had no carpeting and there are 5 of them in a 2 bedroom. The stomping and banging goes on all night too..they leave bin bags piled up high (not allowed) she went up to knock on door, with sweeties for the children to say hello, introduce herself and just mention its very very loud and would they mind trying a little as she's not getting sleep, she is 79. The father refused the sweeties, apparently also aggressive to the council for telling them to put their waste away properly..and shooed her away. Undeterred she joined a group 'helping refugees' and did a lot with the women. One day she went t a Yoga session but was turned away as it was for 'women of colour only' IN GLASGOW...also a trip for pensioners up the highlands ' for women of colour only' and you wonder why we're fed up?

He is The World’s Most Unlucky Photographer.

I was on my morning walk when I came across a man pushing his cat on a swing...

“Let’s ban new oil and gas licences in the North Sea but spaff away £40billion buying North Sea oil and gas from Norway. Let’s buy coking coal shipments worth £7.2million from Japan but ban UK coal mining. Let’s plaster thousands of acres of farmland with solar panels but spend £50million on sun dimming experiments. Let’s give Drax an estimated £1.8billlion in taxpayer funded subsidies on top of the £11billion it has already received despite Drax burning an amount of wood equivalent to 300 million trees. Let’s give £500million this year alone to wind power companies not to generate power from their wind turbines. And let’s spend £30billion of taxpayers’ money on carbon capture machines but put pensioners, farmers and the disabled into financial peril by claiming there’s a £22bn black hole.”

@adhdrunsme @TaraBull808 The only person to ever look good without eyebrows was Mick Karn, RIP

@TaraBull808 WHY ARE THEY ALL REMOVING THEIR EYE BROWS....SHIT IS GROSS.

The never ending alarm

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My sister keeps photoshopping her cat’s face onto bees

@itvnews MEN are banned from WOMEN'S cricket. You're allowed to say that now so please do so.

Trans women banned from women's and girls' cricket following ECB ruling itv.com/news/2025-05-0…