During the pandemic, when people's literal lives were at risk, they refused to shave to ensure respirators safely fit. But now, for "male-level" appearance, it is ordered. As member of a vulnerable family, I've nothing but disdain for these people.

Authors, Those Flattering Emails Filling Your Inbox—They’re All an AI Scam annerallen.com/2025/09/thos...

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73... Over 1.5m signatures so far. If we can't stop it, we can at least let them know we don't want it and they're making a mistake by forcing it on us.

Mandatory ID cards are a terrible, terrible idea iandunt.substack.com/p/id-cards-a...

What if the speed of light was 20 mph? www.skeptophilia.com/2025/09/the-...

Check out the numbers signing this…. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Ok. They’ve pissed me off. I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards: 1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.

I don't care how much better the aesthetic is when shampoo, conditioner and shower gel bottles match. They need to be different shapes so that visually impaired people can differentiate. People who usually wear eyeglasses or contact lenses don't wear them in the shower.

I'm now astonishingly stressed and weary and would love to go and have a sleep but have a meeting. A pox upon their paltry website.

Honestly, no wonder so many people haven't managed to update their pets' micro chip details when the main company #PetLog are so useless. Dreadful, glitchy website, that messes everything up. Plus they charge you £12 to update. They want you to upgrade to their Premium service for £19.95.

Today’s autism announcement was just as bad as we feared Trump blamed Tylenol & vaccines for autism They encouraged women to just “tough out” their pain They praised people who don’t “need” meds or vaccines These are eugenicist talking points & they’re devastating to the disability community:

Walked past this just now. Someone has a great sense of humour and a great understanding of this 💩 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 😉

The narrative for "Little Gidding Girl" begins on the autumn equinox. www.amazon.co.uk/Little-Giddi...

I will also raise you the haggis chicken pakora pie

I read today that autistic people are 9 times more likely than non-autistic people to try to end their own lives. 9 times. And we probably have stronger constant background noise ideation. It does rather suggest that many who pass that way were undiagnosed and struggling because of it.

So, after that and other stressful and difficult things I'd quite like to just go to bed now. Forget about dinner, just pull the covers over and go to sleep.

God, I am so grumpy today. A chugger for the Alzheimers' Society made an approach today in Asda and I just told him to shut up; stopped his spiel dead in its tracks, told him my mum died of it, so no, I don't have 30 seconds to listen to his crap. Then I walked off. I was a bit surprised at-

Further context: the book’s publishers, Unbound, went bust a few months ago, the rights and all remaining stock reverted to me, and I now have several boxes of the book in my office, which is several-minus-one boxes too many. I like the book, make no mistake, but am also keen to get rid of them.

Don't know how old this one is, but considering what is happening in London today...

Happy 4th anniversary to the time this happened on Twitter.

More for suicide prevention month : When suicide ceases to be taboo there will be less suicide. Reaching out when suicidal can be prohibitive because it’s treated like a crime. People get locked up for being honest about those feelings. beyondmeds.com/2018/06/19/w...

Let your coven know that we've a sale on at 4160Tuesdays. www.4160tuesdays.com/4160tuesdays...

Your trauma conditioning is lying to you about you not being smart. 90% of the trauma survivors I've met have been convinced by their conditioning that they are less smart, intuitive, & adaptive than they are-- than they've proved countless times in the process of surviving.

There's no shame in reaching out. It can be hard, but understanding folk are here 💚

Jungian, Kathie Carlson from her book, 'In Her Image: The Unhealed Daughter's Search for Her Mother'.

So, right now, the only reliable way to diagnose endometriosis is with exploratory surgery. But finally, real scientists (instead of male scientists), are on the job & of course they’ve identified multiple markers in menstrual blood that point to noninvasive testing. www.science.org/content/arti...

Not unusual. Mine was "not the worst but in the top ten" for the surgeon who did the laparoscopy. Endometriosis is a miserable condition.

However much you hate your annual gyno appointment, you don’t hate it enough because literally EVERY SINGLE THING ABOUT IT could be less painful, less humiliating, and less poorly designed if any of it had been developed based on actual science and not Man Science.

Scientists trying to find a way to noninvasively diagnose a disease literally got asked by doctors—you know, the FIRST DO NO HARM people?— “Why do you want to NOT cut women open to diagnose a disease, like why would you bother trying to find a way to not cut them open?”

“Menstrual blood was messy, it was imprecise, it was difficult to collect, OB-GYNs told the pair. Why bother when the disease could be diagnosed with surgery?”

Local media report that a group of 20 to 30 individuals put up dozens of flags across Norwich, including outside the Islamic community centre on Dereham Road, in what many residents described as an act of intimidation. www.eveningnews24.co.uk/news/2545503...

julianofnorwich.org/blogs/reflec... #JulianOfNorwich #AllThatIsMade

A palm nut from the Seychelles once drifted ashore, mistaken for a mermaid’s bottom. Its Latin name? Callipyge, meaning “beautiful rump.” See it and more in Mythical Creatures, Colchester Castle: colchester.cimuseums.org.uk/events/mythical-creatures

#JulianOfNorwich #Booklaunch #AllThatIsMade

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I don’t pretend to know the science behind it, but it’s an incontrovertible truth that a cabinet full of mismatched mugs is far superior to a cabinet full of matched mugs.

today is already a depressed day and I'm not even dressed yet.

*loads shotgun* shame

Language, symbolism, and context www.skeptophilia.com/2025/08/the-...

Time to share this one again: zenandtheartoftightropewalking.wordpress.com/2025/07/14/o...

I’ve mulled over posting this for months now. But yesterday it came to a head. And I’m aware that the people who need to see it will either not be here, or will suggest that I’m lying. I live near an asylum hotel. The reason I didn’t post earlier is that I didn’t want to raise undue attention

Did u know? Most male bees are easy to tell apart from the ladies by a superb set of whiskers on the front of their face. It's not clear what function these lovely 'taches perform - probably some sort of sensory role for sniffing out the fillies. So dashing though.. 🌿🌱🇬🇧🌱🐝🪲🌍

You don’t “learn” from a chatbot. You consume. There’s a difference. They’re spewing slop and people are gobbling it up (and eroding their intelligence in the process). Misinformation is everywhere. Please don’t rely on a chatbot for anything important. They can’t replace real human connection

Thankfully, the heat's only going to last a few days, cooling from tomorrow. Because I feel ill with it. Really unwell. The house is cool (as cool as it can be without air con, anyway), and I'm drinking plenty of liquids and doing all the right things. I have never enjoyed hot weather.

Imagine a persistent game of Monopoly, not reset at the beginning of each session. Round 1 ends with 2 people end up owning everything. They have enormous stacks of cash. In round 2, you enter that same game and somehow are expected to not go immediately broke.