groovicat 💜🤍💚

@bindelj Balloons are life threatening to anyone with a serious latex allergy.

I mean….

Sadly, despite paying for Twitter Blue, people are still not seeing my tweets like they used to.😔 Can you please do me a favour? If you follow me and you see this tweet, can you please retweet it.🙏 To make it more worth sharing, here's a Kingfisher on a thorny branch. 🥰🐦

@roryisconfused If they're so sweet why do their owners dress them up in great studded collars?

I go on about this and I’m sorry for that, but the other thing with Bully XLs is that their owners are like “they’re so cute and sweet!” and you see them and they look like a mix between a particularly evil orc and one of those intense close-ups on SpongeBob Squarepants

Revealed: covert deal to cut help for pupils in England with special needs theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/s…

@wiseconnector 6583

I hate doing this, but I am desperate for sales, as currently a few hundred pounds short of being able to cover my bills this month. Please, if you’ve ever thought about buying from me, now would be a great time. Even if all you can do is retweet this, I’d be so grateful (1/2)

@MichaelRosenYes @ChristineJameis It's not about you, it's about them, take no notice x

What have I learned today? That people who disagree with me or hate me for one reason, bring into their dislike, anything they can find eg that I talk about being ill, that Bear Hunt was an adaptation, that I'm a crap writer, that my wife taking me to hospital was wrong,,,

@19MW98 @katemcclelland7 @bbcmerseyside Big money and the doctors/nurses unions won't go along with that- besides, who would pay? The privatisation has gone too far and for too long to recapture. No government will do it.

@groovicat @katemcclelland7 @bbcmerseyside Yes it's not the NHS if it's using private hospitals. Take them into the NHS, nationalise them to replace all the ones which were closed to force reliance on private provision

Joe from Llandudno spot on on @bbcmerseyside this morning. We should protest every incremental withdrawal of NHS care or else you wake up tomorrow in a full blown US system. Already 1k excess deaths/wk, 500/wk more predicted in winter & 7.4m on waiting lists. #RenationaliseHealth

@19MW98 @katemcclelland7 @bbcmerseyside It would mean not using those private hospitals on which the NHS is already dependent.

@groovicat @katemcclelland7 @bbcmerseyside If you reinstate the NHS that would necessarily mean getting rid of profiteers and any organisation/provider including charities & faith groups, as they are not "the NHS"

@19MW98 @katemcclelland7 @bbcmerseyside Not everyone can afford specs or dentistry, even if a dentist can be found. These are basics to which everyone should have access. This would make the NHS more equitable. I agree we shouldn't discriminate between patients. We should identify and stop profiteers.

@groovicat @katemcclelland7 @bbcmerseyside We can afford all services including spectacles, dentistry, niche medicine & surgery. It's not a matter of either/or, playing patients off against each other. NHS is supposed to be available according to your personal medical need not what profiteers want to offer

@ChrisGPackham @IoloWilliams2 can you join me In thanking the people protesting and successfully stopping the removal of swallow nests at Shrewsbury ambulance station THEY ARE HEROS 🐦👏 The swallows are now safe for the rest of the season, thanks to them!! (I take no credit)

Saveourswallows#

@UniofNewcastle Appalling. It's her life and her choice but I wish she'd said no.

@RogersHistory She must really like setting up dangerous and possibly illegal situations.

Gillian Keegan has said Headteachers "have a duty" to drive to the homes of absent pupils and bring them into school, she said she would "pick them up myself" when asked how best to engage with missing pupils. I refer back to my big idea - Everyone in the Department for Education should have to teach full-time for at least 1 term in a state school (and complete it) to qualify to be there. This would mean no one would ever make suggestions like the one above, you’d hope.

@LeifBersweden Any excuse for outrage.

Hemlock is only poisonous when ingested, something a child is v unlikely to do as it tastes awful. Hemlock is a beaut plant & food source for insects. Imagine if instead of killing nature this was used as an opportunity to *teach* kids about wild plants. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

@Wer_ko_der_ko @gerwyn I saw a clip, it was Sweet Caroline.

@Sal_Robins Men explaining to women about women...again

@bindelj No one can empower anyone else.

There's feminism, and then there's utter vacuous bullshit: twitter.com/lorraine/statu…

@WomenReadWomen Sorority?

Six women at the University of Wyoming who sued their sorority for admitting a man who identifies as transgender have been told that their lawsuit should be dismissed by leaders of Kappa Kappa Gamma (KKG). Artemis Langford, whose real name is Dallin, has allegedly been watching the women undress in their own sorority house, with a visible erection. The lawyers for Kappa Kappa Gamma depicted the suit as an attempt by "a vocal minority" (the women) to impose their personal beliefs at the cost of Langford and the sorority. "Perhaps the greatest wrongs in this case are not the ones Plaintiffs and their supporters imagine they have suffered, but the ones that they have inflicted through their conduct since filing the Complaint," they wrote. "Regardless of personal views on the rights of transgender people, the cruelty that Plaintiffs and their supporters have shown towards Langford and anyone in Kappa who supports Langford is disturbing." trib.com/sorority-trans… reduxx.info/women-file-law…