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Yeah, after a run in with some of them yesterday I'm going to block any insinuating Greens are ex-Corbyn supporter anti-semites without engaging.

The best Onion article!

For it is May Day and the blood of the land is felt much closer to its green surface. The pulse of place cannot be denied and nor can the invitation to dance with its wild spirits. - #CLNolan #MayDay #Beltane

Got a hag chip so I could briefly check for Fae before eating the chip

So Mandelson did pass his vetting. Does that mean Starmer should resign for lying to parliament last week saying that he'd failed? More seriously, he obviously didn't bother asking what the process/outcome was before sacking Olly Robbins. I thought Starmer's usp was being a great manager!

Saving for when the next US criticisms of British food thread starts.

Have a break. Have 12 Tonnes of KitKat. Remember, kids, Nestle is literally the company who literally told African mothers that their breast milk wasn't good enough in order to sell more formula. Don't be a snitch, now.

3,000 people have already signed to protect PIP. Can you add your name? the.organise.network/campaigns/st...

On that note: Trans authors (I mean authors who are trans, NOT cis people who write about trans people), drop your book links here and I'll try to repost as many as I can throughout the day. Cis people: Repost trans authors' book links. Cis people who want to complain about being excluded: gtfo

Terfs really have high opinions of themselves. I read a uni parent FB thread asking for advice about their non binary kid. Everyone was respectful and helpful except for one twat who says non binary is made up and attention seeking. As if it isn't terfs that are seeking the attention by commenting.

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I can finally just about hear music in stereo after an ear infection/perforated eardum a month ago! Luckily for everyone else my hearing aid gives me weird noises if I sing along, so no singing for a bit 😂

On this note - my brother @oolon.co.uk has tomorrow off work for International Women's Day but my sister-in-law doesn't!

Gaia and the moon

It took 18 years but naming the kid after a whisky* finally paid off. *Named after the island really

The fascists and dozy regressives coalition is weak

Introducing Hannah Spencer MP 💚

Luckily, I've never seen grape or seggs - it took me a while to figure out what it meant! I get annoyed enough when anyone over 12 says f-bomb instead of fuck!

Probably the first blue sky this year in Northumberland

Watching the #WinterOlympics in awe at the weird and wonderful things people can do with their bodies. My body does weird and wonderful things to me instead. Pity there aren't medals for the amount of liquid leaking from infected ears - I'd get gold atm.

For once I'm not annoyed by the lack of captions because I've got no intention of finding out anything about this.

Me- #Sjogrens you can dry up tears and spit, right? Sjogrens- Absolutely Me- So you can dry snot, right? Sjogrens-... Me- ... Sjogrens- Ha ha, fuck off

I was accidentally on the 'discover' feed - relieved to discover I'm not following someone posting 'protect her as your daughter, respect her as your mom' etc 🤢

#TheTraitorsUK needs more menopausal women bringing chaos! And everyone accuses them of being rude and aggressive - yeah, try it on with a menopausal woman and you know it, fuck you.

Everybody that's objecting to video podcasts is offering transcripts of their audio only ones for us deaf people, right? Video might have crappy captions but it's better than nothing.

Found what could be a relative of the Glastonbury thorn. Maybe Joseph visited Bedlington too 😂

Love this line "Many are calling it "super flu", but it is not more severe nor harder to treat."

I've removed the paywall permanently from this piece, which is a chapter from my novel Villager, told entirely in the form of an online village message board. If you like it, you'll probably like the book. If you don't, you won't... www.tom-cox.com/the-village-...

Luckily, it was a nice day for a dog walk because I lost my door key and had to wait for my husband to come and let me in.

THREAD. A Deconstruction Of Ladybird's Well-Loved Tales Books, 1964-74. You will find the analysis of these beloved books in the alt text below. 1. The Gingerbread Boy.

The Minister for Equaliies replied to my MP asking about the supreme court ruling on Trans people. The last paragraph isn't bad - if they mean it.

Blue sky autumn is the best

Why 1.2 metres of cake? Why not 1 or 1.5M? #GBBO

But that's the whole thing about the monarchy, they could be a mass murderer and still be the monarch because of their birth! That's the main reason why the monarchy should be abolished.

This book is great - so creepy!

Videos without captions. I will be fucking everywhere, taunting deaf people.

Surely, it's more about who they think they can sell their products to? I'm deaf and noticed a while ago that Specsavers audiology ads eventually got subtitles. Presumably because they weren't selling hearing aids because deaf people couldn't hear the ads rather than them being inclusive.

Just went to look at my #revpit #10Queries entry and I seem to have left one of my beta reader's comments in - oops!

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No one gets power over me - I haven't got a middle name

How can it be 'tokenistic' to have representatives of 51% of the population FFS?

3. ⁠this is not the moment for an incredibly expensive increase in state surveillance infrastructure to be run for profit by private tech firms just before Labour ushers in an (even more) authoritarian right wing government. FIX THE GODDAMN COST OF LIVING INSTEAD YOU FREAKS.

Yes, having tests will definitely make kids more keen on reading FFS. Providing money for school libraries and allowing more time for reading in class would be far more effective. But if kids read more they might think for themselves. Can't have that.

My diet of warfarin probably adds a few decades tbh

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The Labour playbook is basically do the authoritarian fascism but shaking your head the whole time to show you dont agree with it