Linda McQueen

@BaskinsSarah @babybeginner It has to be magnesium glycinate, though, specifically

@babybeginner Magnesium has worked wonders for me. I will even get an extra "dose" & drink a can of Recess, which has Magnesium in it. They are a variety of flavor combos (my fave is strawberry rosé), low sugar, and good for a fizzy, non-alcoholic drink a couple of hours before you lay down.

Can’t someone tell me how to sleep? It’s been a week of an hour or two a night. It’s 4:41am and I’m exhausted. Been staring in the dark since 1am. Insomnia. If you know, you know. This is what my brain feels like. (My own art, drawn by hand).

@hkhayford @TaniaAMarshall It's contempt. Slight lifting of one side of the lip.

@TaniaAMarshall's Hint: "This is often called one of the most destructive emotions in relationships because it signals deep disrespect and emotional distancing. It also predicts issues like divorce more strongly than other negative expressions." And that's the giveaway. If needed, search for (or ask Grok about) Dr. John Gottman's Four Horseman. Or, if you already know the answer, I'm interested to know: Can you explain why?

@RichardDawkins I much prefer this, and have actually worked on books as an editor and typesetter that follow this arrangement. The only down side is that you can't tell, while on the page, whether something potentially confusing or interesting has a note or not. Perhaps do this at chapter ends?

Endnotes are often signalled by little numbers in the text, but I find these distracting. What do you think? In The Genetic Book of the Dead, I pioneered a different system. Each endnote has a key phrase, the phrase which would, under the old system, have borne the little number. It also has the page number on which the phrase occurs. Do you prefer the little numbers? A refinement , which I propose for my next book, is the quarter of the page where the phrase occurs.

Unlike your privileged, spoiled ass, I actually lived in Iran under the Islamic Republic. My everyday life was shaped by the Supreme Leader and the brutal regime he runs. You will never understand the feeling of seeing the man who helped destroy your life finally gone. You only read about it. I lived it. So sit this one out, kid. You have no idea what it means to live under people who rule your country while treating your life as disposable. You have never experienced oppression, you little brat. You just love to cosplay it.. And that is our difference.

If you tell women to change their behaviour to avoid being raped, what you’re really saying is, “make sure he rapes the other girl instead.” There will always be a woman who is more vulnerable less sober, less confident, with fewer friends around her, or walking alone in a darker part of town. She deserves to be safe just as much as I do. Safety shouldn’t depend on which woman was easier to target that night. The problem isn’t women’s behaviour. The problem is men who choose to commit rape as an act of violence.

A large number of people (mostly men, in my experience) who're sympathetic to some of women's opposition to gender identity ideology, nevertheless think it's cruel to point out that a trans-identified man looks like a man, and unkind not to 'respect' his pronouns. They think these are 'compromises' women should be prepared to make. 'What does it matter?' they say. 'How does it hurt you?' The psychological effects of being coerced, manipulated or pressured into doing something that is against a person's own beliefs or values are well known. 'Moral injury' occurs when a person is forced to betray deep-held convictions, or stand in silence while those convictions are being betrayed. The individual feels transgressed at a core level. The inevitable consequences are stress, anxiety and anger. Workplaces across the west have imposed a Kafkaesque situation on women. A belief system most people consider nonsensical, but which, in elite circles, has become almost a religion, has been imposed from on high. Women are being persecuted and punished for not pretending they think men can change sex. The policing of pronouns, and the harassment and shaming of women who won't pretend they can't recognise a man when they see one, is merely the tip of genderism's gigantic, threatening iceberg. Any man who seeks to force women to play along with the fantasy that he's female is engaging in a typically male power play. At worst, he will suffer narcissistic injury from her non-compliance, but that doesn't make him objectively vulnerable. The non-compliant woman, though, suffers lasting moral injury by being forced to participate daily in a lie - a lie, moreover, that constitutes a fundamental threat to her own rights to privacy, dignity and safety. It has been profoundly illuminating to see how many people - possibly because their own values spring, not from a place of rationality or true conviction, but from fashion and self-interest - see male narcissistic injury as so very much more worthy of compassion than the moral injuries suffered by women.

@usernamecoffee Foot injury. Didn't get better after a week's rest.

They don’t tell us why the exit 🤷‍♀️ Or did I miss it #Strictly

I spoke to a woman yesterday who went to the GP repeatedly for a year until they bothered to look for her tumour. This is another story of how the NHS has let a woman down so badly. This is a direct way to help a woman in need. Urgent Hysterectomy Due to NHS Delays givesendgo.com/HC?utm_source=…

Good morning, today is a good day to show some kindness. To all of you who have so far. Thank you. @banbadmen could really use some hope and kindness. For her family, for her child. She would never have dreamed of asking,but I will. She can't go to work and earn it, the money she needs. She's too sick and she can't afford to stay sick. What a situation to be trapped in with no end in sight. So we're here asking for help. Help she herself has given without even thinking about it. Whilst many of do this without expectation, she needs your help now. So if you can please donate to her fund givesendgo.com/HC?utm_source=…

@banbadmen @ToBeDamnedOrNot @MalleyNotagain @Isla_macy @RobbieTravers @TheOnlyGuru @artistofpeeps @kebabwhisperer @HellNoItsJudith @Pookeynoodle1 I just tried again and it worked. Best of luck!

@wordwatching @ToBeDamnedOrNot @MalleyNotagain @Isla_macy @RobbieTravers @TheOnlyGuru @artistofpeeps @kebabwhisperer @HellNoItsJudith @Pookeynoodle1 Drop me a DM if I can help .. thank you so so much though it’s greatly appreciated ♥️

The point of declaring words violence was always to be able to use violence against words.

@CarerUnderCover @Foxglove2026 Yes.

@Foxglove2026 I have a limited understanding of the male body, but I don't think that it would be possible to build a functioning phallus out of your arm flesh. Let alone the inside stuff. Am I underestimating people's stupidity?

Can somebody who knows please tell me - why do men get castrated for trans? I am not a medic, but I can't imagine that they can get any semblance of a functional female anatomy in turn, so why do they do it? They're just making themselves a eunuch, not a woman, no?

‘The human conceit that personal feelings can change reality signals an extraordinary elevation of humanity in a kind of species-level solipsism.’

@Gazrj01 It's just winged its way!

#WIP Treading water a bit while I wait for my novel to come back from the editor after the first round of copy edits. There's always plenty of research to do on future books, but I'm excited to see what magic she may have done 🇦🇺🏳️‍🌈 #historicalfiction #CrimeFiction #writeLGBTQ

Am sick to the back teeth of seeing @BBCNews @itvnews etc interview MALES having tantrums over biological FACTS. HOW ABOUT...OH!I dunno. Interviewing WOMEN who lost their awards, jobs & spaces? Rape survivors forced to refer to RAPISTS as "SHE" in court? Detransitioners? FGS.