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@Marikacobbold That's a relatively new thing. We swam a lot in the Dart when in our teens, and called it "going down the dart"

I've lived in the UK all my adult life but some things I still find most peculiar, such as calling perfectly normal swimming, "wild swimming." Swimming in water that isn't a chlorinated soup in a basin, is still just good old swimming.

“Through an army of grassroots volunteers, the campaign will ask every single Parliamentary candidate, of all parties, that simple question: What is a Woman? We will record their responses (or prevarications) and upload the footage to a dedicated website" .telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/09/2…

@ArsenalWFC Pelova

The player I want on the back of my new home shirt is ____________ Let us know below, Gooners 👇

@troovus @PeriKennedy Never seen her b4...

UNISON is one of the UK's largest trade unions, with 1.3 million members How often do you see general secretary Christina McAnea in the media (social media or mainstream media) arguing for workers' rights and pay and conditions, in comparison to other major trade union leaders?

@GayGordon84 @Louiethelou @TheVikingDane How u going to make enough for all of us??😁

@kercoboots @Louiethelou @TheVikingDane I’ve made an executive decision to half the recipe

Good morning everyone. I hope you have a wonderful day. Just have to wait until the working day is finished before plotting shenanigans. Cant wait! Reach out if you need anything or require a virtual hug.

@GayGordon84 @Louiethelou @TheVikingDane amazon.co.uk/Stainless-Indu…

@Louiethelou @TheVikingDane When I manage to get a big enough pan!

@LeorSapir @STILLTish The info in this tweet is shocking.

I speak to many doctors in my line of work. They come from across the political spectrum and from a range of specialties. One of the most sobering things I've learned from them is the extent to which medical schools do not always teach students about the principles of evidence-based medicine. Few of those I speak with knew, for instance, that a doctor's expert opinion, though valuable, is lowest on the hierarchy of information in EBM. I've heard doctors say they were never required to learn how to read a scientific research paper. Another, and related, troubling insight I've encountered is the extent to which DEI requirements and instruction have displaced traditional medical education, including units on biology and chemistry. DEI has also led to lower standards in admission, testing, and graduation. Med schools are very concerned about "identity representation," even when this comes at the expense of rigor and merit. There is a real generational divide within the medical field right now, with older doctors, liberal as well as conservative, expressing concern about the entry of young, ideologically-driven, not-always-competent physicians into the field and remolding it to mirror a university social justice seminar. This is bad for patients, bad for the medical profession, bad for hospitals, bad for insurance companies, and bad for the integrity and trustworthiness of science.

@TheSurrealMac Ffs

@Physdashastro Stop it. Now I can't stop rubbing my face.

@RoddyQC It's not the mob, it's the govt, and a huge social media Corp.

On cancellation culture: If someone acts criminally, they should be prosecuted and, if appropriate, jailed. If someone causes injury, they should be sued for damages. What is *not ok* is for those we dislike or of whom we disapprove to be denied, by the mob, the ability to earn/

@MythinformedMKE Has he got dresses at home in the wardrobe?

Neil deGrasse Tyson says that sex-segregated bathrooms are probably just an old-fashioned oddity that in the future will be considered crazy.

It really is a disgrace that UK politicians are so confident that their role is to police what is published on line (post passing the illiberal #OnlineSafetyBill) that they indulge in such open, censorious over-reach. To Rumble's credit its CEO @chrispavlovski is not intimidated

@moleatthedoor 😁

It's very silly, and rather a specific reference but... 🤭🤭🤭😬

@RoseInWanderla1 😂

When you're trying to have a discussion about women's issues but men keep barging in.

@hoovlet @MsCarriggofreal @neiltyson Sounds a bit thick for a scientist, only seeing the things that confirm your bias is not science

Fascinating discussion with @neiltyson . Here's one surprising admission from Tyson, starting at 53 minutes. He described how "girls" have certain "features that were manifest" to him. These were all ornamentation (makeup, jewelry, long hair), and "boys'" features were less ornamentation, and short hair, different clothes, and muscles (a result of a cultural norm, going to the gym). Without these cues ("100% of which" were things each sex "chose," like breast augmentation, which women get so that they can "be female for you") he would not be able to detect the sex of people who are sitting down. At least, he said that those kinds of visual cues (he made some kind of exception for facial hair and baldness) are his "only cues" to sex. If his sex-detection mechanism is truly this poor, then it's highly unusual among mammals. We mammals are excellent sex detectors, and this is of course important for survival and reproduction. Humans are not an exception to this, although we do rely relatively heavily on visual rather than olfactory cues. Interestingly we bias our sex detection toward "male," because men are more often a threat to both sexes. (Being able to detect another's sex is especially important to women, who are at an extreme strength disadvantage and at a higher risk of sexual assault, but this did not seem to factor into Tyson's views about protected spaces for women.) Humans are generally not aware of the cues on which we rely to discriminate the sexes, but we are extremely accurate. Of course the body size and shape are strong cues, but we can tell sex even from faces that are devoid of any hair or makeup cues, and when the rest of the body isn't visible. There is lots of literature on this. Here's one example. researchgate.net/publication/12…

@EcoSenseNow @CaptainVirgilx Pretty cheap to end freedom of the press

See here what is happening to freedom of speech in Canada. Ezra Levant, head of Rebel News is sued and fined for writing a book critical of our useless Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Trudeau has bought the mainstream media for $600M so they fawn over him: thelibranos.com/the_libranos_t…

@JoolzDenby FFS

This is what passes for art now.

@elonmusk There is. Jus not in person...

“There is no easy way from Earth to the stars” – Seneca 40 AD

@suttoncloud9 OK. Fair enuf. Jus guessing, and trying to excuse Athenea coz I like her football 😏