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@QcWynter One could always reference sports where these types are common. For your specific example, resembling an untrained trans quarterback ought to be sufficiently descriptive.

One particular image from a trans v realists demonstration this weekend caused me to wonder: What is the plural of "man mountain"? Men mountain, man mountains or men mountains? The first sounds correct but AI tells me it is the second. "Man mountains" just sounds wrong.

@robprogressive I have yet to see any recommendations in the DSM5 medical textbook that suggest “more money” as a route to treatment of mental health problems. One does not have to wonder why.

No one wants to hear this but many 'mental health’ problems disappear when you have money No worrying about bills or living costs. No drowning in debt. Feeling stressed? Take some days off or go on holiday because you can afford to And if you do get really ill, you have money to fix that too. Why does no one want to acknowledge this?

NAFO watching Hungary turn out to kick Orban all the way to Moscow.

This bird walks in and straight up owns the room. We all know at least one person who acts like this 🤣

@QcWynter The satisfaction of DIY never ceases however "dirty" the job, skills I think they ought to promote more at school.

Six hours on and my outside drains are all clear. Pleased to report that I was fully "involved" & "took part". I repeat: I was involved and took part, helping to screw together 18 lengths of rod, twist them clockwise down drains & clockwise back out. Final big "glug" was epic.

@andreajenkyns @reformparty_uk You need to speak to kathryn Porter, she can debunk everything Ed Milliband says.

@Osint613 She was entering the water head first not swimming too close. case of bad timing.

Shark bite caught on camera in Fernando de Noronha, Brazil. A nurse shark latched onto a snorkeler's leg after she swam too close. She was freed and treated with stitches.

The dangerous of using ChatGPT for anything!

Its still unable to distinguish between Doric and Scots.

@Fox_Claire 🤣

Funny film from the past. The heckler at the end shouting at Penny "You started it" was...ME

Anne, let's follow that logic to its conclusion and see where it takes us. A couple married for fifty years. They bought a modest house in 1975 for £15,000 in the town where they grew up, where their children went to school, where their grandchildren visit on weekends, where their GP knows their medical history, where their neighbours check in on them, where their friends and family are buried. The house is now worth £400,000 because the market did what markets do over half a century. They have a combined state pension of around £24,000 a year. Your solution is sell the house. Move where exactly? To a smaller property in the same area that costs £300,000? To a flat in a cheaper town away from everything and everyone they know? Into rented accommodation where they have no security of tenure and face potential eviction in their eighties? And having sold, spent the proceeds on living costs over a decade or so, then what? They become entirely dependent on the state anyway, having been stripped of the one asset that gave them dignity and independence. The couple who bought that house paid income tax, National Insurance, council tax, VAT and every other levy the state demanded of them for fifty years. They did not design the housing market. They did not cause house price inflation. They made a decision that the entire apparatus of government policy actively encouraged for decades because home ownership was presented as the responsible, prudent thing to do. Calling that greedy and entitled is a statement about whose choices deserve respect and whose do not. And the answer you have arrived at, that the generation which rebuilt this country, paid into every system it was asked to support and asked only that the promises made to it be honoured, deserves neither sympathy nor the roof over its head, tells us considerably more about the values driving this debate than any of the figures do.

@Becky_Weiss_ Slapping the MMWIG together with the rest of the alphabet is an abhorrent category disservice to those women & girls from male violence.

And don’t forget it ✊

@SVPhillimore Yes somatic response. Resilience can be an Achilles heal thus self care is paramount. Long hot baths are useful for discharge of stress and calm & magnesium gylsinate for aiding relaxation & sleep.

It would be interesting to understand more about the impact of stress on the body and my increasingly serious auto immune condition. Mentally I feel tip top but I do wonder if it’s true that the body keeps the score.

@realMaalouf If the moon was split in two, when did it reunite?

Mehdi Hasan says he believes Muhammad split the moon in two and that he flew to heaven on a winged horse. How can anyone take anything that he says seriously?

@Pranish2006 @realMaalouf No but given that the story is ancient & during a tectonically active period, recession prior to a tsunami is not an unreasonable explanation, splitting the moon in half however is absurd.

@realMaalouf Do you believe that Moses split the sea.

@helensaxby11 The last two words of the first post are alarmingly apt and mentally disturbing.

This is a brilliant thread 🧵

What’s happening in the US today reminds me of how Lebanon was destroyed by Hezbollah on the hands of some Christian useful idiots. In 2005, after Hezbollah assassinated Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri, the Lebanese people revolted against the Syrian occupation and finally forced it out after 15 years. Hezbollah was close to collapse, because its existence depended on the Syrian presence. A Christian leader who loved himself more than he loved Lebanon saw an opportunity in allying with Hezbollah for electoral gain. By doing so, he gave Hezbollah renewed legitimacy and saved it when it was close to dying. The Christian followers of this man, Michel Aoun, out of hatred for rival Christian parties, began praising Hezbollah. Some of them attended Hassan Nasrallah’s speeches and religious events, and wore the sword of Hussein as a necklace, not out of love for Hezbollah or Shia Islam, but out of hatred for other Christians. Because of what Michel Aoun and his followers did, Hezbollah managed to take over Lebanon. When Aoun became president, he effectively handed the country over to Hezbollah. The woke reich in the US today reminds me of those Christians who saved Hezbollah and empowered it and destroyed Lebanon. The woke reich, out of hatred for Israel, is empowering Islamic jihad, rebranding it in the West, and making the American people vulnerable and weak due to the confusion they spread. If the woke reich keeps doing this, the Republicans will lose the election, and the left, which is already in a symbiotic alliance with Islamic jihad, will take over and deliver the US to ideologies that hate the West and seek its demise.

Polish physician Eugene Lazowski, working with fellow doctor Stanisław Matulewicz, carried out one of the most ingenious acts of medical resistance in Nazi‑occupied Poland. In the early 1940s, Matulewicz discovered that injecting patients with killed (non‑infectious) typhus bacteria would trigger a false‑positive on German typhus tests without causing illness. Lazowski realized this could be used to protect Jewish families and Polish civilians in the town of Rozwadów, where deportations and forced labor were escalating. Quietly and systematically, the two doctors began administering these harmless injections to people at risk, especially Jews, who were forbidden from receiving medical care and could only be treated secretly through Lazowski’s backyard fence. As the number of “typhus cases” grew, German authorities panicked. Terrified of the disease, which had devastated armies in World War I, they declared the area an epidemic zone and imposed quarantine rather than entering the community or deporting its residents. For two years, this fabricated outbreak shielded roughly 8,000 people from roundups and transport to concentration camps. When German inspectors finally visited, Lazowski staged the sickrooms carefully, and the inspectors, fearful and eager to leave, confirmed the epidemic without discovering the ruse. After the war, Lazowski emigrated to the United States, and his story remained largely unknown until he published his memoir in the 1990s. His operation stands as one of the most remarkable examples of life‑saving deception during the Holocaust. Lazowski’s operation is also incomplete without noting how it ended and why it stayed hidden for decades. In 1944, as the Germans began retreating and suspicion grew, he narrowly escaped arrest and fled with his family, leaving the “epidemic zone” behind just before the ruse might have been uncovered. After the war, he practiced medicine in Poland but avoided discussing his actions because the communist government discouraged stories that highlighted independent resistance or aid to Jews outside state‑approved narratives. Only after emigrating to the United States did he begin sharing the full account, eventually publishing his memoir in the 1990s. Survivors from Rozwadów later confirmed how his fabricated outbreak had shielded their community, turning what looked like a small medical trick into one of the most quietly consequential rescue efforts of the Holocaust. © Reddit #drthehistories

Wrong, so very wrong.

@UnityNewsNet They are purchasing massive amount of UK housing stock also for renting to the population. Same as Lloyd's bank.

Did you know that Larry Fink's BlackRock is creating a joint venture with the Greater Manchester Pension Fund (that pays pensions to hundreds of thousands of ex public sector employees) to buy up NHS clinics and GP surgeries? The US asset management firm already extracts huge rents from owning 65 NHS GP surgeries. Now they want to ramp up their ownership of NHS properties - up to £1 billion by 2030. Do you think they care about your health and wellbeing?