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My first collection of a dozen short stories is available on Amazon. If you want to make a fledgling author very happy, you know what to do! 🙏 amazon.co.uk/dp/B09TR5KW6F/…

@Gaynotqueer1 To Ikea: Women often face unique challenges in their daily lives. When they shared their lived experiences, listen without questioning. Notice everyday activities that can be barriers for women. Your consistent support helps women feel valued and respected.

No, IKEA, I'm not going to 'listen without questioning.'

@ripx4nutmeg Next time they could interview a white person made up in 'blackface'? No? Too offensive? But hey, let's interview a man who's a gross caricature of a woman 'cause no one's offended by that. Okay, some women yeah, but they're just right wing terfs ... probably middle aged too.

The BBC's flagship political programme is Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg. After a week of turmoil for the Prime Minister, the show obviously had a drag queen on it #bbclaurak

@PippaP22 Ask Kemi so rightly told Wes Streeting, 'just do your job!'. I wonder what the salary of these 'delivery advisors' is? I'm sure it's not exactly minimum wage...

This is beyond ridiculous and into the realms of madness now. Errr why do they need ‘delivery units’ Darren? Isn’t that what used to be called ‘just doing their job’? You know, that thing they get paid for.

@ripx4nutmeg My goodness! She's a strapping lass...

On a day in which men pretending to be women on dating apps is in the news.. Someone looking for women has found a potential partner on Tinder who's 7 feet tall

@Terfs_R They look like a really bad tribute act for a third rate Seventies pop duo.

Wow… insane fetishist skinwalking as his wife. 🥶🥶🥶

@CleverclogsNina Also, if you're a pensionable age man travelling to Leeds on the upper level of a double decker, & listening to Radio 2 at too loud a volume, put your headphones on! You're not a snotty nosed teenager, & you're old enough to know better. Yours sincerely, another Karen.

If your child is watching something on a phone or iPad in a public place like a train or café, either make them wear headphones to keep the noise contained or train them to sit without a screen. I am a proudly immovable Karen on this issue and will not be taking further questions

@Boshanko @OldRoberts953 To be fair, that's pretty much how she looks all the time...

@OldRoberts953 The face on Phillipson, looks like a bulldog licking piss off a nettle.

Glorious

@Mr_Andrew_Fox Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Looks like middle class parents are belatedly finding out this applies to their offspring too.

Commit an act of terrorism. Complain about the consequences. Checks out.

@DarlingtonUnion @theRCN They might as well have hung up a flag with a V sign and 'Up Yours!' written on it.

The Trans flag flies over the Royal College of Nursing HQ in London @theRCN

@jk_rowling Live footage of Starmer leaving No. 10.

Sprinting away would also be acceptable.

@TTExulansic Lucy is the patron saint of eyes. Maybe Lucy or Lucia?

Cat name suggestions for a female grey tabby with anisocoria?

@LiterateCynic @HJB_News__ I assumed the head covering was for modesty reasons. So 'her' luscious flowing locks aren't a temptation for Little Mothin. The blouse's top button is done up as well, so he can't peek down Rachel's neckline. (Though obvs he'd need to stand on a stool if he had the urge to...)

@HJB_News__ Token head covering for our Rachel less little Mothin feels she needs bringing to heel...?

Be interesting to see how these two fellas will get along in Leeds City Council? Just look at Mothin Ali’s face.

@MrMagspie Wonder what role she'll play. Maybe Viola. So, she - as a woman pretending to be a man - could be acting the part of a woman sometimes being herself and other times pretending to be a man. Could be fun. (Reader, it would not be fun. You'd have left by the interval.)

Magspie predicts; Production closed after poor showing on opening night. 😂

@MediaSOI Should be jail time, plus on the sex offenders register for life.

🚨LABOUR COUNCILLOR AVOIDS JAIL AFTER BEING FOUND WITH INDECENT IMAGES OF KIDS A Labour councillor has been sentenced to 10 months in prison, suspended for two years, after being found with more than 36,000 indecent images of children and other extreme pornography. Roger Spackman, 50, of College Road, was sentenced at Exeter Crown Court after pleading guilty last month to possessing and making indecent images. The sentence follows one of the biggest investigations of its kind conducted by Devon and Cornwall Police. Spackman was arrested at his home in 2017 where 68 items and electronic devices, including hard drives and mobile phones, were seized by officers from the Paedophile Online Investigation Team. In excess of 36,000 indecent images of children, prohibited images and extreme pornographic images were identified from the near five million images and movies that were recovered as part of the investigation. Specialist investigators spent over 100 hours categorising the images and identified illegal material dated from 2007 to 2017. Each image had to be reviewed, evidenced and assigned a category consistent with the severity of its content; with Category A classed as the most severe. The Investigators identified 58 Category A, 49 Category B and 27,520 Category C movies and pictures. They also identified 8,682 prohibited pictures and 370 extreme pictures and movies. Following a near three-year investigation, Spackman was summonsed to court to face charges where he entered a guilty plea to five charges: possessing a prohibited image of a child, possessing extreme pornographic images portraying a sexual act with an animal and three counts of making an indecent photograph/pseudo-photograph of a child. Following his guilty plea, Spackman was also ordered to sign the Sex Offenders Register. He further appeared at Exeter Crown Court where he was sentenced by the judge to 10 months suspended for two years and given a Sexual Harm Prevention Order. The Labour councillor had a 12-year career in Devon’s child protection services. In 1998 he began working at Intervention Services for Devon County Council at a secure children’s home, occasionally working at other units. Before this, he was involved in the creation of Riverside Youth Café in Dawlish. From September 2001 he worked full-time at a Secure Children’s Home until his role was axed in redundancies in February 2010.

@safcpete67 Not sure about the minimum age. But could we at least have cabinet ministers with real world experience of their dept's area of interest? High calibre people with top level business experience running Trade & Industry would be a start.

I propose a minimum age of 30 for all MPs plus they must have done at least 1 serious job for a minimum of 5 years. The current clueless inexperienced in the real world grifters are appalling.

@Sorelle_Arduino No wider risk? Not from that offender, of course. But that statement shows the police aren't presenting this as part of a wider pattern of MVAWG. All these 'isolated incidents' happening again & again. Women & children's safety isn't ever prioritised, is it? Sick of this.

There is no wider risk to the public says the police force that has referred itself to IOPC because the woman murdered by her ex had made numerous reports about his violence

@whorememberspod It's like a spin-off from Acorn Antiques.

Election day today, so great excuse to post the greatest campaign video of all time

@treesey Well, colour me shocked...

The defender of male university tutors wearing massive fake rubber breasts to work is standing for the Greens 🫤

@BirdyBooky Those floor to ceiling doors also aren't safe. If someone collapsed inside the cubicle, no one could see from outside. Let alone if a girl was pushed inside by a boy and trapped in there with him. These schools will have expensive refurb bills on their hands soon. Idiots!

These are the toilets in Harold’s Cross Educate Together Secondary School. Fully open to the corridor and with male and female symbols on every single door. The school has, helpfully, laminate a couple of pieces of paper with arrows written on them saying ‘Male’ and ‘Female’. The only sinks are in the middle of the floor with no wall between them. I suppose the laminated signs are the school’s attempt at a compromise as there was uproar from the students a couple of months ago when plans revealed that every single toilet block and cubicle is mixed sex. Only people who are completely oblivious to the needs and desires of teenage girls especially, for privacy and dignity would make teenage girls share toilet facilities with teenage boys like this. It’s either ignorance or something more sinister - a complete disregard for the rights of half of the population. Educate Together my arse. What about girls and boys from countries, cultures and religious backgrounds for whom these shared facilities will be entirely unacceptable? They will self-exclude from schools like this. Everywhere where mixed sex facilities have been imposed on teenagers like this, girls have ended up physically ill because they will stop drinking water during the day because they won’t use these facilities. @hcetss @Education_Ire @1Hildegarde Why have exclusionary toilet facilities been adopted in this publicly funded school?

@thespiralquirk @scope Any charity that refers to me as a 'cis gender person' can go whistle if they're expecting a donation. As for cancelling a choir because a woman has opinions they don't like ... give me strength!!!

Good luck to any girl or woman who wants same-sex care, because @Scope - which claims to tackle injustice - wouldn't appear to be able to understand that not providing same-sex care is an injustice. It still doesn't understand Eq Ops monitoring and is happy, nay insistent, about referring to 'non-trans' people as 'cisgender', and uses they/them instead of 'he/she'. 🙄 1/2