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Gay. Socialist. Carer. Disabled. Disability & Equality Rights activist. Into Keto/low carb food, Health, Nature, Politics, Housing, Finance, Technology, Music, TV, Film, Comedy and Humour.
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Revealed: at least 25 UK ‘spy cops’ had sex with deceived members of public - The Guardian apple.news/AWGFGTqIPR2W... Gross.

They always seem to go too fast the weekends don't they? I don't even know what happened to Saturday. Hope everyone's ok. Sending my best wishes.

Please sign and urge others to support this petition. stoptrump.org.uk/petition-can... Thanks @premnsikka.bsky.social

Wishing everyone a happy weekend. ❤️

One of the plus sides of the latest iOS 18 is that you can record phone calls. Just saying.

I put the car in for it's MOT a week ago. It passed with no advisories thankfully. But I had to get other work done, like a replacement valve for the squeaky clutch peddle, a new os front door handle assembly as their partners broke a clip inside a few years back and a new spare key and fob. £1200!

I've just had my quarterly United Utilities water bill though and it's increased by 23% with the same usage. They're an absolute cynical and arrogant disgrace.

LGBTQ kids worry their straight parents won't accept them. Here's one way to fix that - The Big Issue apple.news/AL8SvWQ-sQBa...

British couple in their 70s arrested by Taliban - BBC News apple.news/AKVio-1JsQo6... This is akin to the couple I read about the other day who got arrested cycling through Iran.

‘A source of national shame’: shelters in England turn young people away as number of rough sleepers soar - The Guardian apple.news/AMCYZX3RsRTK...

‘A piece of meat in a tank of sharks': Friend of Jaysley Beck describes misogyny in Army - ITV News apple.news/A45ZHcoY-Qz6...

The great British food shortage: Why your weekly shop is about to get worse - The Independent apple.news/Aff8G1H1sSrq...

Apple just discontinued one of its most iconic inventions - 9to5Mac apple.news/AUD4LELPSSSO...

Even in his final seconds of life, first gay imam pushed boundaries - BBC News apple.news/Ab46_FYcrQPq...

Forced Adoption: Britain's silent scandal and the drug given to mothers with link to cancer - ITV News apple.news/Ao1Ujjb31SvO...

I'm so impressed with myself for getting back home last night after emailing my car dealership that I may need to reschedule my MOT etc because I didn't think I would be able to drive home. A bottle of water and a loperamide and I thankfully perked up. That's untreated Type 2 Diabetes for you.

Have a great new week everyone.

Waitrose to stop selling suffocated farmed prawns, as campaigners say they feel pain - The Guardian apple.news/AEMcsBTQQQg-... | ‘Eyestalk ablation’ and ‘suffocation in ice slurry,’ to be replaced with ‘electrical stunning ‘ instead.

I hope everyone’s enjoying their weekend. youtube.com/shorts/40hVY...

I’m trying out a newer improved version of my extended wear contact lenses and my right eye doesn’t like it and is somewhat bloodshot and blurry. What to do? I’ll just have to put a new pair of my older ones in instead I suppose. Was looking forward to going for my check up with the new ones.🤷

Seven reasons you might be waking up to use the loo at night - Good Housekeeping apple.news/ABMFVc-AhS-K...

‘A necessary step’: City council granted possession order on St Peter’s Square tents. Public space by town hall ‘not safe, suitable or sanitary’ for refugees camping there. confidentials.com/manchester/a...

Feral pigs spotted roaming Cairngorms National Park caught and culled www.bbc.com/news/article...

Avian flu outbreaks see 1.8 million farmed birds culled www.bbc.com/news/article...

Anti-Valentines Day events for singles to do in Salford salfordnow.co.uk/2025/02/12/a...

MI5 lied to courts to protect violent neo-Nazi spy - BBC News apple.news/AvFJ5K45YSM6...

Inside Britain's fascist fight club: Secret footage shows far-right group preparing for 'race war' - ITV News apple.news/A2oggubLnSkO...

French police release British couple’s cause of death - ITV News apple.news/ANpVb6D4nRK-...

Hamas says it will suspend release of Israeli hostages - The Standard. | I don’t blame them. And they treat their hostages better than the Israelis in any case. apple.news/AqcyZ3fA0R4-...

My soda stream broke recently and I won’t replace it because it’s Israeli. I’m glad I found an alternative. What to do with the spent CO2 canisters though? I don’t want to contact them.

Oh dear. I shouldn’t watch things like this before bed. Currently showing on ch95 on Freeview in the U.K. Children of the Full Moon www.imdb.com/title/tt0087...

Watching the gorgeous Brian Cox in Hammer House of Horror. (1980). ‘The Silent Scream.’ www.imdb.com/title/tt0081...

RIP Marianne. youtube.com/watch?v=gHrs...

Tragic. ‘World champion Russian figure skaters confirmed as being on board crashed US plane’ www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...

Trans kids are not a bargaining chip. Being trans isn’t a culture war. Not giving an inch in my support for trans and nonbinary people of all ages to live freely and openly, and neither should you. Gender is what we make of it, and that’s what they’re afraid of.

Your regular reminder that the first known clinic to offer gender-affirming surgeries was … destroyed by Nazis. In 1933. (Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institut für Sexualwissenschaft.) They always come for trans people first.

Woolworths, Wilko and now WH Smith – why Britain’s high-street stalwarts don’t deserve to survive - The Independent apple.news/A0gx7ZNLYQ1W... Contrary to the author, we go into Smiths stores. We went in before Christmas to get my mum’s new year’s diaries because they’d stopped selling them online!

More than half of Gen Z wants UK to become a dictatorship, survey claims - The Independent apple.news/AvmiVB26hSze... What?! I don’t/can’t believe it!