Dr EM

A thread of my essays on #paedophilia, #transgenderism /transsexualism, #porn, #disability, #WomensRights (almost complete although I'm missing a couple). #RadFem #AntiPorn 1. Charities Creating Climates Conducive to Abuse: uncommongroundmedia.com/%ef%bb%bfchari…

Fabulous!!

Men who have actual relationships with women usually know this because they see us without makeup and even naked sometimes.

PARENTS! This is exactly what you are doing when you give your child unsupervised access to the internet. 😳

You may need to talk me through it again @FeministsHubby

That image looks almost exactly like a slice of your brain under a microscope. An astrophysicist and a neurosurgeon spent years figuring out why. The numbers line up way too well to be a coincidence. Their 2020 paper took an unusual approach. They put pictures of brain tissue next to pictures of the universe and measured everything they could: the shape, the connections, how densely things clumped together. Almost every number came back the same. In the image above, each bright dot is a galaxy, and each dim strand is a filament pulling galaxies toward one another. Each galaxy sits inside a network, connected to about 4 others on average. Zoom into brain tissue with a microscope, and each neuron connects to about 5 others. The clustering pattern matches, and the overall shape of the network does too. One system fits inside your head. The other stretches across tens of billions of light-years, a size gap of roughly a billion billion billion. And the parallels go deeper than structure. Your brain is 77% water, sitting there and taking up space. The universe is 70% dark energy, also sitting there and taking up space. In both, only about a quarter of the total stuff is doing any real work. Your whole life's worth of memories would take about 2.5 million gigabytes to store. The full complexity of the observable universe, every galaxy position across 90 billion light-years, would take roughly 4.3 million gigabytes. Not far apart. The picture in this tweet is the new DESI map, a project from a telescope in Arizona that just finished cataloging 47 million galaxies over five years. That is six times every previous galaxy survey put together. And when you look at it, you are looking at something built like a brain. Either the universe runs on the same playbook your head does, or there are only a handful of ways any complex network can organize itself.

I'm letting in the duck…

BREAKING NEWS: “Starmer denies knowing he was Prime Minister” Sir Kier Starmer has revealed that no one told him until last Tuesday he won the 2024 election and had become PM. He told Beth Rigby “I was totally kept in the dark by my officials. I’m really angry about it.”

As someone who works for the publisher of @jo_bartosch and @robjessel16's book 'Pornocracy', I would like to thank @StroudBrewery for cancelling their event. Indefensible as it was, it has been a massive boon for publicity and sales. Top work

Just too horrendous to imagine. My heart breaks for these brave beautiful women

Such a gorgeous scene yesterday, paying tribute to @ForWomenScot 😍

🚨A "non-binary" male student killed 8 children and 1 teacher in a horrific school shooting in southern Turkey this week. İsa Aras Mersinli, 14, reportedly went by the Japanese female name "Konata" and used "she/they/it" pronouns. reduxx.info/turkiye-non-bi…

🔴 JUST IN Police have shut down a park in Kensington as 2 drones containing RADIOACTIVE and CARCINOGENIC material found looking to target the Israeli embassy in London. Islamist Iranian-linked group Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamia has reportedly taken responsibility. This is terrifying. The fact Starmer is refusing to proscribe the Iranian Regime is EXTREMELY concerning in my opinion.

Turkey suffered its worst-ever school shooting this week as a 14-year-old boy murdered ten people. It's now being reported in Turkish media that the boy had recently started identifying as a 'girl' and had been videoing himself cross-dressing haberhergun.com/haber/okul-kat…

I did not know this. Share. Especially with young women.

The only way taking sex toys into Parliament will prevent rape is if we use them to batter rapists. As am aside, its tough to think of anything less sexy than politicians teaching us about sex.

The guy who made the International Space Station a reality is on X and you can just talk with him. What a time to be alive.

I was written to recently by a horrified mum who took her 10yr old daughter & friend swimming at the Queen mother sport centre, both girls were in a woman’s open changing room getting dressed after their swim. Two men came in & stripped off right next to them. This is NOT ok.

Your brain recognizes the shape of a tree in 50 milliseconds, way before you're consciously aware of what you're seeing. And within seconds, your stress levels start to drop, not because of fresh air but because of the shape itself. Trees are what mathematicians call a fractal. The trunk splits into branches, those split into smaller branches, those into twigs. Same pattern, every scale. You see this design in coastlines, rivers, clouds, even the blood vessels in your own lungs. A physicist at the University of Oregon named Richard Taylor has been measuring this for years. He hooks people up to brain-wave monitors, shows them different images, and tracks what happens. Trees win. When people look at the kind of fractals you find in branches and bark, stress drops by up to 60%. A Swedish researcher named Caroline Hagerhall found the same thing: fractal images trigger alpha waves in your brain, the wave pattern your brain produces when you're calm but still awake. The swaying matters because your brain runs two attention systems. One is involuntary, stuff grabbing your focus whether you want it to or not. The other is directed, the one you actively control when you concentrate or resist checking your phone. Directed attention is a limited resource. It drains. City life burns through it fast: every notification, every ad, every car you dodge crossing the street. Tree branches moving in wind hold your involuntary attention just enough to be interesting, kind of like watching a campfire, but not so much that your directed system has to engage. One system stays gently occupied while the other recharges. Psychologists call this "soft fascination." People at the University of Michigan tested this in 2008. They had volunteers walk for about an hour through either a tree-filled park or through downtown streets, then retake memory and attention tests. The park walkers improved their scores by 20%. Downtown walkers showed zero improvement. Walking on a treadmill didn't help either, so the benefit came from the trees, not the exercise. In 2015, researchers at Stanford went further. They scanned people's brains before and after 90-minute walks. Nature walkers showed less activity in the brain region that controls rumination, when your mind gets stuck replaying the same negative thoughts in a loop. City walkers showed no change in that region at all. The dose is small. A 2019 Michigan study measured cortisol (the hormone your body pumps out when you're stressed) from saliva samples. Just 20 to 30 minutes in any place that felt natural, a backyard, a park, anything with some green, dropped cortisol 21% per hour beyond its normal daily decline. You don't even need to go outside. Roger Ulrich published a study in the journal Science back in 1984, tracking 46 surgery patients across nine years of hospital records. Patients whose bed had a window facing trees recovered almost a full day faster than patients facing a brick wall (7.96 days vs 8.70), needed less pain medication, and got 3.5 times fewer negative notes from nurses. Stress-related illness costs the US over $300 billion a year. A window with a tree outside it costs close to nothing.

This is an extraordinary piece of work - one of those featured is Carole Hooven, the Harvard evolutionary biologist who lost her job for saying sex is real ... bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod…

I had no idea that these chaps had reviewed Pornocracy. They really engaged with it & are so thoughtful. Absolutely delighted.