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Swearing, feminism, lefty, eco, argumentativeness, home education, science, public engagement. Occasional pedantry. And maybe some menopause jokes. I failed to copy over my contacts from the other place. I’ve not ditched you on purpose.
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This article is bizarre. It doesn’t name any of the researchers, or their department. And the link to the paper 404s.

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

Robert Jenrick has declared that he is an "Anglofuturist" today. It is not a phrase that many people will have seen in mainstream politics and the media. What does it mean? It may have two distinct and overlapping meanings to those who are championing it, such as the Anglosphere Institute

submitted 18 hours ago • 41 comments

Jesus Christ, since when is a normal sized chocolate bar £1.09?

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

My son says he has a clear argument why he should be allowed ice cream for breakfast. But it doesn’t make it true.

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

Exactly this.

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

On LBC @zoejardiniere.bsky.social lists 3 previous instances where military aircraft have been targeted by campaigners in order to prevent them being used in war crimes, and she describes the govt banning Palestine Action as terrorists as an abuse of state power. Well said.

submitted 1 day ago • 52 comments

One bit of urbanism that caught my imagination and I've always remembered: Design a city that works for women -- where women can move freely & independently, without fear -- and you will have a city that works for everyone.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Tell it to the techbros.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Reform UK are NEVER about taxing the rich. Like other modern far right & neo-fascist parties, they are about *telling* the mugs they will tax the rich, whilst offering the rich big tax breaks etc to become fellow travellers & supporters of the programme/regime. True in 1930s Germany. True now.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

We will be properly honouring ‘Daniel Hannan Day’ on Tuesday with all the requisite pomp, circumstance & documentary evidence of what an irredeemable arse he is that you would expect. Elevating our world’s wrongest man to the House of Lords will always be the essence of Brexit. Do join us…

submitted 4 days ago • 100 comments

Oh FFS, because it’s major abdominal surgery, with lifetime consequences for both baby and mother, which in many cases would not be needed with the right medical management.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

“During this stage, the most impactful ADHD symptoms were brain fog or memory issues, and overwhelm, both of which 70 percent of women said had a “life-altering impact” in their 40s and 50s.” www.additudemag.com/menopause-sy...

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Hamlet thought about killing himself.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

You read history and think, “Why would they put a pig on trial?”, but apparently people today believe stupid things too.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."  -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

submitted 2 days ago • 401 comments

Yesterday I spent a lovely afternoon as an Independent Visitor - hanging out with a young person, running round a maze, finding deer, and playing skyjo and then a mammoth game of pass the pigs that went on for over an hour! What's an Independent Visitor, I hear you say? Read on....

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Yeah. Fuck Wes Streeting. The guy is working hard to get nothing right in his first year in post.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

I did a co-design project about depression research. The big data scientists (lovely people, hearts in right place, etc) wanted to find genetic predictors of depression. Lived experience members wanted to talk about poverty, etc.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

It really boils my piss when Google maps WARNS me there is a mobile speed camera ahead. And then tries to make me complicit by asking me if it’s still there.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

An old school friend of my dad’s died a horrible death of mesothelioma, in his early 50s, after having a summer job in an asbestos factory when he was a student.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Christ on a bike. Did anyone else go to bed not expecting a new war to start before they got up?

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

10.20pm in Edinburgh on summer solstice. It’s still daytime!

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Why TF are Farage and Jenrick quoted here? What do the Green Party or Plaid Cymru think about it? Why is the BBC constantly platforming the racists? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Driving in the car and go through several changes of speed limit. 11yo asks me why they are all different. I’m explaining dual carriageways and things that affect chances of a collision, especially with pedestrians.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

A few years ago, I saw these cigarette bins in #Edinburgh... ...and now #StAlbans have got them too! Oh, the contrast!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments