Diane Kearton @DiKearton

@SandyofSuffolk @granddesigns And no one can replace the light bulbs.

@legaltweetz Henri Nouwen wrote a wonderful book about this painting and the biblical story after he had sat and studied it for months. One of my favourite books

Want the truth about the RNLI Channel crossings 1.2% of their total launches Let that sink in and don't listen to the political posturing that infer something different

RNLI @RNLI

a year ago

The facts behind our work in the Channel. In 2024, our crews launched 114 times to Channel crossings – that's just 1.2% of our total launches. Our core purpose is to save lives at sea. Anyone can drown, but no one should.

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@MartinSLewis Just done it for the first time..1 year and 15 miles out! Very pleased with myself! Add it to the crosswords, codeword, sudoku, etc I do each morning!

@StacieGerbyo UK pensioner here, but totally behind you. All power to you

@babybeginner Never tired of seeing Bruiser, first thing I look for every day.

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@London_W4 Looks as though Orson Welles, the Third Man, is lurking in the shadows

@babybeginner We love Bruiser! Happy to donate a bit from the UK. 🐈‍⬛

@nw_nicholas We have a Grumpy Cook cafe here in Milton Keynes, same ethos. Didn’t realise it was part of a larger organisation.

@Lynnemnaylor Agreed. I finished it this week. So full of admiration for her, her honesty and courage. So pleased she’s found love again

🚨Taliban have invalidated all divorces granted under previous Afghan government, forcing divorced child brides to return to their former husbands. Thousands of young women, some of whom married as children, are now legally bound to return to adult husbands they had been freed from. The new rule is being widely condemned as a grotesque violation of women’s rights, trapping many in abusive marriages.💔

It seems literally impossible for certain trans activists to grasp that not everything is about them. The only rape crisis centre in Edinburgh prior to the opening of Beira’s Place was run by a trans-identified man who publicly told potential service-users they would be ‘challenged on their bigotry’ if they didn’t agree he was a woman. Meanwhile a ‘non-binary’ man subsequently convicted of rape, and found by the sentencing judge to harbour serious hostility towards women, was permitted to access the centre’s services. Trans-identified men in Edinburgh were better served than women when it came to accessing support after rape or sexual assault. Beira’s Place, which I founded and fund in its entirety, gives women a choice. The female-led, female-centred model of support is provably preferred by most female survivors. We know for a fact that some of our service-users didn’t seek help before we opened, because they didn’t want a male providing their therapy, or for men to be accessing what they needed to feel was a completely safe space. However, if a woman was happy with a male support worker, or with males also using the service, she could of course choose the alternative rape crisis centre. Some men, trans-identified and not, disagree that even the most vulnerable and traumatised women should be allowed to exclude men from rape crisis centres, yet many women see a male-free space and service as the last or only chance of putting their lives back together. It takes immense courage even to pick up the phone to access help after rape. Yet, even at their worst moment, these women told by activists like Willoughby that their priority should be centering his feelings, pandering to his ‘identity’ and pretending that they don’t recognise his narcissism and aggression as a quintessentially male response to not being given what he wants, by women. The simple truth is that no decent male, however they identify, would ever seek to breach the boundaries of women whose sense of self and safety has been shattered by their experience of male violence or rape. 98% of sexual predators are male. 88% of sexual crime victims are female. Beira’s Place exists because I saw an unmet need and the fact that we’ve been so busy since we’ve opened proves, not that women hate trans-identified men, but that this is where women feel safe enough to deal with trauma they might otherwise have had to carry with them forever.

@Miss_Snuffy So true! My mum was 5’11’’, my dad 5’2’’.

@zippytonto @according2_taz @TheRAC_UK AA left friend with 2 kids, one 6 years old, for 6 hours till 2am, appalling!

@vesperdigital Who is she? She’s excellent!

Three times they lit the fire. Twice she walked out of it. She must be a witch. Emma Bateman joined the Green Party in 2009. She was elected three times as Co-Chair of Green Party Women, by the women she represented. Then she asked one question: whether her fellow co-chair was biologically female. For that, and for refusing to be solemn about "fairy" pronouns, she has been suspended, hauled before panels, and expelled. Not once. Three times. One disciplinary finding solemnly recorded that she read out the party's own policy "in a clearly overtly sarcastic fashion." Sarcasm. That was the charge. A grown adult wrote that down and signed it. Here's what the party would rather you didn't know. A court has already ruled that it unlawfully discriminated against another member for the same beliefs. Its own leaked legal advice warns its conduct is indefensible. It carried on anyway. Now Bateman is taking them to court, funded pound by pound by ordinary people, against a party spending its members' subscriptions on six-figure legal fees. A party that expels the same woman three times for a belief the courts protect is not enforcing rules. It is manufacturing the evidence against itself, one expulsion at a time. The party of science versus a woman who states material reality... Full story: labourheartlands.com/emma-bateman-v… Should a political party be allowed to expel members for stating material reality and the position that the courts protect? Tell us what you think below. #womensrightsmatter

A man (Samantha Tempest, here abbreviated to ST) is arguing in court that he belongs in a group for menopausal women. It is pointed out to him that menopause is the cessation of ovulation and that, being a man who never started, let alone ceased, ovulating he does not belong in such a group. He disagrees. He says he's had 'menopausal symptoms' like hot flushes and brain fog. This is like me claiming to have been in the army because I once shot an air rifle and quite like khaki.

@Fontybits1 @crit_gen 😂😂😂😂😂