@FruellaDeBrille I'm not sure which "woman" you mean, but nevertheless how stunning and brave "she" is!
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Idonia
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@WingsScotland Has anyone looked at his spending behaviour before this started?
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Interesting reader comment. The numbers are right. So his pilfering basically started after they slashed his pay.
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@HollyGrayle Ah yes. The Ottoman Empire was very aware of the different ethnicities within it. They slaughtered them with impunity.
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The British Empire did more harm than good to the world, according to a Brown now residing in Britain. Moreover, it wasn't as "inclusive" as the Ottoman Empire or the Mughal Empire, both of which appreciated the diversity within their realms and, quite obviously, did an immeasurable amount of good for the world, which is evidenced by how many people flock to live in the remnants of them.
(Absolutely incredible inversion of history)
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It’s belatedly occurred to me that I didn’t thank those who’ve donated to TERF Times.
I didn’t mean to be rude & it is in the works… I’ve just been so busy with daily commissions I’ve not yet got the website up. But I am grateful (& haven’t spent it on chopsticks I promise)!
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Walking away from a female customer who is worried about being undressed in front of men in changing rooms, and calling her "abusive" for asking about it, is not a good look @marksandspencer. I wouldn't go near that store.
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Colchester @marksandspencer I asked where the women’s changing room was to try on swimwear. Manager Andrew (he/ his /him) says gender neutral changing areas are “completely safe” for women and girls. For asking him this question, he told me to leave the store. @SexMattersOrg
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A Norwegian neuroscientist spent 20 years proving that the act of writing by hand changes the human brain in ways typing physically cannot, and almost nobody outside her field has read the paper.
Her name is Audrey van der Meer.
She runs a brain research lab in Trondheim, and the paper that closed the argument was published in 2024 in a journal called Frontiers in Psychology. The finding is brutal enough that it should have changed every classroom on Earth.
Sometimes the students wrote the word by hand on a touchscreen using a digital pen, and sometimes they typed the same word on a keyboard. Every neural response was recorded for the full five seconds the word stayed on screen.
When the students wrote by hand, the brain lit up everywhere at once.
The regions responsible for memory, sensory integration, and the encoding of new information were all firing together in a coordinated pattern that spread across the entire cortex. The whole network was awake and connected.
When the same students typed the same word, that pattern collapsed almost completely.
The reason turned out to be something nobody had really paid attention to before her work. Writing by hand is not one motion but a sequence of thousands of tiny micro-movements coordinated with your eyes in real time, where each letter is a different shape that requires the brain to solve a slightly different spatial problem.
Your fingers, wrist, vision, and the parts of your brain that track position in space are all working together to produce one letter, then the next, then the next.
Typing throws all of that away. Every key on a keyboard requires the exact same finger motion regardless of which letter you are pressing, which means the brain has almost nothing to integrate and almost no problem to solve.
Van der Meer said it plainly in her interviews.
Pressing the same key with the same finger over and over does not stimulate the brain in any meaningful way, and she pointed out something that should scare every parent who handed their kid an iPad.
Children who learn to read and write on tablets often cannot tell letters like b and d apart, because they have never physically felt with their bodies what it takes to actually produce those letters on a page.
A decade before her, two researchers at Princeton ran the same fight using a completely different method and ended up at the same answer. Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer tested 327 students across three experiments, where half took notes on laptops with the internet disabled and half took notes by hand, before testing everyone on what they actually understood from the lectures they had watched.
The handwriting group won by a wide margin on every question that required real understanding rather than surface recall.
The reason was hiding in the transcripts of what the two groups had actually written down.
The laptop students typed almost word for word, capturing more total content but processing almost none of it as they went, while the handwriting students physically could not write fast enough to transcribe a lecture in real time, which forced them to listen carefully, decide what actually mattered, and put it in their own words on the page.
That single act of choosing what to keep was the learning itself, and the keyboard had quietly skipped the choosing and skipped the learning along with it.
Two studies. Two countries. Same answer.
Handwriting makes the brain work. Typing lets it coast.
Every note you have ever typed instead of written went into your brain through a thinner pipe. Every meeting, every book highlight, every idea you captured on your phone instead of on paper was processed at half depth.
You did not forget those things because your memory is bad. You forgot them because typing never woke the part of the brain that would have made them stick.
The fix is the thing your grandmother already knew.
Pick up a pen. Write the thing down. The slower road is the faster one.
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Possibly the funniest cartoon The Guardian has ever published.
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iPhone won’t charge either because of water. That really is the last straw today
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Any women* in the running to be Labour leader?
*actual women
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@JamesMelville Must have been the magic mushroom vol-au-vents they served up with the Bolly.
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We are governed by selfish, sociopathic narcissists.
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@TheParty1sOver @Dennynews Surely not! It says "Souvenirs from Scotland" in the window 🤔
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@Dennynews No doubt selling cheap Chinese tat...😳
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The most cringe street in Scotland. It’s baffling this kind of shop frontage is allowed in a supposed word heritage site.
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@StateDept @ConradJarrett It takes Americans to call out the UN’s disgraceful interference and attacks on UK sovereignty, something the British government has sadly failed to do itself. Well said, State Department.
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Last week, the United States refused to participate in the UN’s review of the Global Compact on Migration.
The United States objects to the Global Compact on Migration and UN efforts to facilitate replacement migration to the United States and our Western allies.
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@CaptainVirgilx Let the snails have a midnight feast. Then you can eat the plump, juicy snails. Delicious!
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The Minack Theatre has cancelled a production of Lakmé after a US-based Hindu campaigner complained that it was “deeply problematic” and described it as “shallow exoticism based on prejudice”.
The theatre, which had been due to stage the performance from 7–11 September, had already publicised it alongside a trigger warning stating that it contained “cultural bias” and “stereotyping or negative depictions of people/cultures”.
The complainant, Rajan Zed, President of the Universal Society of Hinduism, was not content with the production simply being pulled. He has also called on Surrey Opera to apologise and demanded that its president and artistic director undergo “cultural sensitivity training”.
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