Worst Witch

As I walked out one Hebridean Spring morning ... golden eagle overhead, meadow pipets singing away and the sand has been restored at The Singing Sands. #Islay

I mentioned it once but I think I got away with it

I hate it when I can’t take my washing in for fear of disturbing the apex predator that visits most days.

@GussieGrips All amazing! I am also fortunate with regard to tawny owls.

@witch_worst For an urban garden it’s pretty lucky! There’s a tawny owl that comes for the mice and a sparrowhawk tries its luck at my bird feeders. I can never move.

@bindelj Legislation presumes capacity to consent to surgery is present whether or not someone has mental health diagnoses, unless the clinician can demonstrate incapacity. Even still, he is likely to have had a psychology appointment before this surgery…seems unbelievable he was okayed

My article on Vivienne Taylor, a psychotic trans-identified man, sentenced to 21 months in jail last week. Will he ever be safe to release?

You know the implied message is "stop complaining, women", not "stop being violent, men". Really smashing those patriarchal norms there

@alexmassie @AnnaMTuckett it’s pure Fawlty Towers.

OK, awful etc etc. But, come on: very funny too.

@GussieGrips cc @n_aficionado think you would like this

@GussieGrips I can tell why the predator keeps returning. You are v lucky. I have to walk to the park if i fancy seeing a heron

@razibkhan @omarali50 It must be a regional thing? Have grown up seeing Bangladeshi expats from Dhaka who routinely wore lots of saris. Now living in London the British Sylhetis here are in abayas (with hijab + sometimes niqab), never ever saris. Sylhet is said to be more religious than other regions

this is not a was. my mom wears/wore saris a lot in the US. and pakistanis would tell her "why you wear hindu clothes"

@nayanikaaa @emilykmay Monogamous men are literally slaves of women.

@witch_worst @emilykmay Monogamy is a racist colonial construct

it is a toxic thing to commit your life to someone that you fundamentally believe you are not worthy of. it poisons the relationship and creates a power dynamic where one partner is constantly trying to earn their place, it is terrible to be with someone who hates themselves!

@YisraelChaiAdam By-election votes, by-election candidates

In New York, Mamdani used St. Patrick's Day to demonize Israel While in Maine - which has a strong Irish community - Jews and Irish-Americans gathered to celebrate both cultures The world needs more of this and less of the "Paddystinian" narrative

“If you dismantle Greece, in the end, you will find a single olive tree, a vineyard, and a ship. Which means: with just that much, you can rebuild it” Elytis died #otd, in 1996

@Saul_Sadka I was not expecting him to say that. Cannot improve on that delivery

Say what you like about Trump, but the man is hilarious x.com/i/status/20346…

So Iran saw this threat from Trump and decided to double down on its attacks on the Gulf's oil and gas assets in Saudi, Qatar, Kuwait and the UAE, and now also on Israeli petrochemical infrastructure in Haifa. It was an off-ramp for them, but also a two-way trap. The question is whether Trump makes good on his threats. If he does, the stakes in the oil market are raised, but the IRGC will be dealt a huge blow, since it is entirely dependent on gas to power its regime. This is all a dance to present Iran with a strategic dilemma. Trump is using Israel here as the bad cop in a good-cop, bad-cop game. Iran does not export much gas; instead, it uses gas to power its own economy and so control its own people. It is extremely fragile and flammable, particularly under Israeli and US jets. Nothing could be more damaging to the continuation of the regime than the lights going out because the gas stopped flowing, since that gas powers most of their electricity network. Iranian gas is not a significant export good, unlike its oil. Iran’s best option for inflicting damage on its enemies is to attack their nearby petrochemical industries. In reality, those are the only strategic assets it can meaningfully damage, given how combustible and large they are. Iran needs to be pinned down by indecision. It is now on notice: if it escalates and attacks more Gulf oil assets, Trump lets crazy Israel go nuts and throw Iran into darkness. If it does not, it gets boiled slowly like a frog under continual bombardment. Both options suck for them, it looks like they have picked the more kinetic option, and now the ball is in Trump's court. Who will blink first?

@nayanikaaa @emilykmay Tyler is correct.

@emilykmay I get a bad feeling about Aham

@kevinf567 @AnkitM997 Save it and release it later to whichever medium people are using in 5-10 years.

@AnkitM997 Don’t have to look that far

If one day I stop using this account and then forget about it, i wonder which one of my tweets will end up sabotaging my future spouse's political career. I am actually quite eager to figure that one out.

@AkbaruddinIndia cc @nayanikaaa is there a historical connection with Bengal pattachitra?

Young travel blogger Ankita Kumar has found another hidden gem in rural India: Raghurajpur, Odisha. Beautiful to see such places being spotlighted and getting attention.🇮🇳

@woopdedoodahhh @razibkhan Think some would seem to prefer to have Persian or Central Asian ancestry? The cultural narrative of Islam in the subcontinent appears to encourage this, unlike (apparently) with Christianity.

It's weird to me that Muslims seem so occupied by these issues. My parents were raised Catholic in India, and they just accepted that we were once Hindus. In fact, my mom were both excellent sources of Marathi mythology. I don't really understand the shame they seem to have. When I look at all the temples and stuff they built, all I see are extremely civilized and cultured people. Why would you be ashamed of that lol.

yes, but we were indian before we were south asian, which is the point. the muslims of non-indian today were once the musulmans of hindustan and where does the bindi/teep come from? stop coping lol