I don't mind clicking a star rating in an email. But if that click opens another window and it turns out I have six other star ratings to click through and then you want me to type a comment, you are probably not getting feedback from me.

my sewing machine is broken! worst day ever!

Yup. The government have started the collapse of Motability by pulling loads of money, so they've had to respond by doing stuff like this and cutting the mileage limit to save money. Advance payments have gone up loads too. It's looking like our current (and first) Motability car will be our last

trans women have a biological advantage at being hot now

This is a human rights issue. You can't have different laws for #disabled people leasing a car, than you would have if an able person leases a car. #Disability #Motability #Pip www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/cost-of...

We went out to a nice bar, and they had a bunch of board/games game, one of which was “Play that tune: Kazoo your way to victory with this musical guessing game! (Includes four kazoos)”

me yesterday: *casually mentions that 8yo’s friend F’s mum is a lawyer* 8yo today, in the middle of an argument with her sister: “I have a lawyer, you know!”

I’m slightly alarmed by how many posts are going, “wow, the C of E is AGREEING with the POPE??” It’s been a long 500 years folks.

100,087 100,087 signatures from women in the UK who don't think trans women are a threat, and don't want them excluded. When I signed this there were around 4000 of us. Not In Our Name!

*gritting teeth against the 1) and 2) having different indents*

me to non-British/Irish people: yeah, the trick with marmite is to spread it thinly. Just a scraping because it’s a really strong taste. me making marmite on toast for myself:

I have been violently attacked by a cartoonist.

Ironically the BBC stumbled on a really important story: Desperate asylum seekers being forced to turn to fraudulent fee-charging “advisors” to navigate a system that is intentionally impossibly baroque and from which all sources of free advice have been removed. But no: they chose Fake Gay Panic.

C’mon London.

Protest is supposed to be disruptive. That’s the point. From the suffragettes to the anti-apartheid movement, it was cumulative, persistent, inconvenient protest that changed this country for the better. (3/5)

I’ve just checked… 99,563!!! Wouldn’t it be great to get to 100,000 on the first anniversary of the illegal Supreme Court ruling. So, sign it here👇if you haven’t already done so. Notinourname.org.uk Then repost. Tell your family and friends. Every signature makes a difference!!!

Love to pay £24 for €26.50, so glad we kept our sovereignty.

"technically a member of X religion / no religion but culturally could not be more Y" is such a fascinating genre of person.

embarrassing that Spain should have invented this before the UK or Ireland.

Have you ever been criticised in public for using a Blue Badge? I’m looking to gather disabled people’s experiences for The Guardian to explore hostility around the Blue Badge and Motability schemes. We’ve made a quick form you can fill in here: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a... (Please share.)

"In a written statement today, Phillipson thanked the EHRC for its updates, adding: “This government has always supported the protection of single-sex spaces based on biological sex”." this is a straight-up lie! if that was true there would have been no SC decision and no need to update guidance!

Dying to know what the plan for enforcing this is.

With enormous regret, SLAB is today advising supporters not to vote for ANY Scottish Labour candidate in this election. There are several pro-trans Labour candidates standing on 7 May, but a vote for them would now sadly be an endorsement of explicit transphobia. #NoVotesLabourInMay #TransRightsNow

At Scottish Labour Conference in Feb 2025, a leadership-backed motion to adopt a transphobic policy on single-sex spaces in schools was defeated. Party members and affiliates voted it down. Today Scottish Labour's leadership put that transphobic policy into its manifesto for May's election anyway.

For the avoidance of doubt, following the publication of the explicitly transphobic Scottish Labour manifesto this morning, I will not be campaigning for any Scottish Labour candidates in the upcoming election, and I will not be voting Scottish Labour either. #NoVotesLabourInMay #TransRightsNow

why is every discovery that the patriarchy still exists pitched as a "surprise" omg www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“Another institutional abuse”: survivor of Irish mother and baby institutions, who lives in London, can’t afford to accept compensation. Read more about my client Rosemary Adaser & the c. 13,000 survivors still waiting for action by the UK Government: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

i hope the white house sends vance to campaign for Reform in britain

Orban's loss has financial and organizational consequences for the far right worldwide.

Having handwriting that leans backwards is a sign of Poor Moral Character.

things you say if you don’t believe caring work is work.

The children have discovered wired earphones and they think they are MARVELLOUS. You don’t need to charge them separately! They’re much harder to lose! They’re way less bulky than headphones! Why didn’t we tell them about this amazing innovation!

Another week goes by, and this has now reached 98,000 signatures!!!! 🎉🎉🎉 On now to 99,000. Once again, I ask any woman reading this, who is disgusted at the treatment of trans women in the U.K., to please sign it at the link below👇, then pass it on. Every signature counts. Notinourname.org.uk

That finch is going to write a sternly worded letter to the RSPB.

Remember folks, don't use Meta for Welsh translation work..

I have to perform surgery on beloved Holly Dolly when we get back from our holiday. i have some brown cotton lawn and thread on order. Current thinking is to make her a pair of gloves the same colour as her hands, and darn her face, but is there a better way?

our job is beach.

We are on a TRAIN to BRIGHTON, we have the NEW LOTTIE BROOKS, everything is great. (Elder has the physical book, Younget has the audiobook, parents have peace and quiet, everyone is happy.)

It’s so stressful being a seasoned train commuter with excellent space-spotting, people-dodging and seat grabbing skills trying to marshall two children to do the same.

noooooo, this is a disaster!

We are going to Brighton for a couple of days this weekend. What are fun things to do with an 8yo and an 11yo in Brighton? Going by train, so no cat!

They had a couple of dozen people who were nearing the end of their fixed status visa and had done absolutely nothing wrong but who were within a few weeks of losing their right to remain and were just stuck waiting to see if the audit got completed / the restrictions would be lifted in time.

I was also in a webinar a year or two ago where a food employer had been put under restrictions by the home office whilst they were audited. there was no clear trigger for the audit, it was indefinitely long, and they couldn’t re-apply for anyone’s visas until it was complate.

Indentured labourers typically had shorter periods of indenture than this in the 19-th century British empire.

counterpoint: CD cases.

redemption comes after restitution: when you’ve made whole every woman or other victim who was pushed out of the field or unable to perform even one gig, restored their careers and compensated them materially. oh, you can’t do do that? well then.

I've said this before, but I've never understood why that kind of "redemption" means "let them get right back to being a public figure" and not going "oh that's nice. I hope his job at the Walmart is treating him well."

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“Well, we mainly had two children so that when you‘re teenagers, you can talk to each other about how terrible and awful your parents are.” “Oh GOD, that‘s so CRINGE, Maeve, we have the absolute wors— WAIT, we’re playing right into their hands!“

always confused by how excited the kids get about Easter because we don’t go to church and we’re not singing Vierne’s Messe Solemnelle, so it’s basically just another day?