EmFord

Absolutely the world needs cats with the attitude that a kiss and hug can break up conflict..

At age 10, she sabotaged her arranged marriage by chewing raw aubergine until her teeth turned jet black. At age 6, her family held her down for female genital mutilation. At age 50, Egypt’s government threw her in prison. From her cell—using a smuggled eyebrow pencil on toilet paper—she founded the Arab Women’s Solidarity Association and ignited a feminist movement across the Arab world. This is Nawal El Saadawi (1931–2021), the godmother of Arab feminism. Born in a small Egyptian village, she refused to accept a culture that valued boys far above girls. She became a doctor, exposed the horrors of patriarchy in her groundbreaking book Women and Sex, and wrote landmark works like Woman at Point Zero. Imprisoned under Sadat, censored, threatened with death, and forced into exile, she never stopped fighting—for girls facing FGM and child marriage, for women’s bodies and voices. She ran for president at 74, wrote over 50 books, and outlived her oppressors. Her rebellion started with blackened teeth and a defiant smile: “No. I will choose my own life.” And she did. This is the battle we fight with Islamic extremism.

En las costas de Australia, algo extraordinario ocurrió. Una orquesta completa fue llevada al océano… no para tocar para personas, sino para intentar comunicarse con ballenas jorobadas. El experimento, impulsado por M&C Saatchi Sydney junto a Optus, no era solo música al azar. Cada nota, cada frecuencia, fue creada para acercarse a su lenguaje. Y entonces pasó. Las ballenas jorobadas se acercaron. Escucharon. Y respondieron. Como si, por un instante, dos mundos completamente distintos se entendieran sin palabras. No fue solo un experimento. Fue algo más grande. Que la conexión no siempre necesita el mismo idioma… solo la intención de escuchar. Y quizás, también, un recordatorio: No estamos solos en este mundo. Solo hemos olvidado cómo comunicarnos con él.

National Geographic Award winning photograph of the year. So beautiful. 🐝🐝🐝

Mount Yoshino in Japan has been blooming with cherry blossoms for over a thousand years More than 30,000 cherry trees were planted here in four groves at different altitudes so they would come into bloom at different times of the spring

Much enjoying #Pilgrimage, Northumberland is the most wonderful county and Lindisfarne has a very special atmosphere of peace and tranquility. I have a few precious items related to the Lindisfarne Gospels, love illuminated texts.

While you may have been on an Easter egg hunt on Sunday, one of our crews were cracking open a garage wall in a search for trapped fox cubs on Letchworth Road. All 3 were recovered safely with one given oxygen therapy, and then left with the RSPCA for treatment. Fantastic result!

@mickeya100 One of those grey things that enjoys the most expensive koi carp in its diet!

Spotted on canal today, what is it ?

@zarahussain999 @PolitlcsUK I wouldn't have put you down as a Ye (he changed his name legally) fan, given what he persuades his wife to wear, and the lyrics of some of his songs! He was banned from Australia; Spotify, Apple Music and Youtube have banned his songs. youtu.be/HBMy-y2wb4I?si…

@PolitlcsUK Strange decision

🚨 BREAKING: The Government has blocked Kanye West from entering the UK to perform at Wireless Festival because his presence would "not be conducive to the public good"

@HamasAtrocities What's the bit about suffragettes? Emmeline Pankhurst was a militant in the early 1900s when I doubt the peaceful Muslim women were allowed many rights at that time.

HAHAHA A young woman wearing a keffiyeh confronts police in the UK saying: "We fought for this country. Slavery was legal" The reply she gets from a British man is epic

@bookplatypus Apparently the gov't wants to standardise bin collections across England, not sure if it applies to nations too. Fly tipping is a huge and costly issue for farmers apparently.

@EmFord2015 Belfast City Council roster their bins and boxes, recently have banned bin liners and over-filled bins with stuff hanging out! Fly tipping is endemic.

Bank Holiday chaos! When the street binfluencer cottons on to their role and starts putting their bins out at 7.30am on the day of collection. And everyone else realises they've put the wrong bins out on the wrong day!

Honored to have traveled further than any spread in history 🚀 Taking spreading smiles to new heights ❤️

@bookplatypus Being a relative newbie I'm not sure how strict or relaxed this council is yet, not many have brown bins for some reason 🤔

@EmFord2015 My bin is lead bin! Next door brown bin flashed with tge red badge of shame because it had a few twigs hanging out of it

@bookplatypus Hopefully, although they may have taken Australian Vegemite instead 😕

@EmFord2015 One great leap for Nutella - maybe Marmite should be there too.

Talking Nutella, try it the Italian way with Nutella Macchiato, out of this world (although Nutella was vegetarian, they now do a vegan version)!

The highest quality video of the moon was just released… this is so beautiful.

@helen296442 @AlexBarnicoat_ Using Sanhedrin 58b “While it is a part of the Babylonian Talmud, it is not practiced as binding halakha (Jewish law)” for 1,500 years. Judaism keeps up with modern times, as do most religions.

@AlexBarnicoat_ Not a religion of peace

The average Jewish family in the UK has 7 children. The average Christian family in the UK has 1.9 children. Labour just lifted the Two Child benefit cap, which won't affect the vast majority of British people. But Jews? They're about to get paid a fortune. Why?

@sueveneer So many people saying chewing food makes me realise my mother suffered it, it was a constant telling off throughout my childhood. Wish she was alive to chat about it now I understand.

Fellow misophonia sufferers…what is your most dreaded noise?

@AlexBarnicoat_ Still throwing out untruths? There are far more secular Jews than Ultra-Orthodox, it balances out at 2.6 children per Jewish family. Most Jews work and many are professional high earners so doubtful they'll ALL claim child benefit. Did your parents teach you to hate?

Dear college students who so fervently protested for months across America: Iran is hanging kids your own age for doing exactly what you did - protesting. Why aren’t you standing up for Iranians who desperately want freedom? nypost.com/2026/04/05/wor…