Some of you will probably laugh at this, and many will not understand it. My 17 year old cat is not doing well, and we will probably have to let her go. Kidney failure, almost from 1 day to the next. 2 days ago she was still running around like a young cat. I am a grown man, and this is breaking my heart. At the same time I have to find a way to explain to my children that this is part of life, even when it feels brutally unfair. 17 years. She has been with me for almost half my life. Through 4 different homes, different chapters, different versions of myself, from having no children to having 3 children. She was always there. Every day she came to me, wanted to be close, climbed onto my arm like it was the most normal thing in the world. She never scratched 1 of my children. Never hurt anyone. A proper little lady. Call me soft if you want. I do not care. There are things in life you only understand once they are suddenly standing right in front of you. The quiet loyalty of an animal is one of them. No words, no demands, no drama. Just presence. For 17 years she simply existed next to me, through stress, change, exhaustion, bad days, good days, moving boxes, new rooms, crying babies, growing children and all the silent moments. And now I have to watch her become weak almost overnight. I have to look at her and somehow decide what kindness means when every part of me wants more time. Love makes you want to hold on. Responsibility forces you to let go before suffering becomes the price of your own selfishness. So yes, I am devastated over a cat. A 17 year old little soul who followed me through almost half my life, never asked for anything except closeness and food, and gave my family nothing but gentleness. Laugh if you want. I will grieve her properly. This picture is 17 years old, from the day I picked her up.

An article on Lola of Dundee. A working class girl deserving a huge apology. Link below.

This is a joke. @NHS I’ve just received my repeat prescription and there was a fuck up. I’ve been given Naproxen instead of Zapain. So being a good guy and all that I went back to the chemist and said I don’t need these naproxen. Oh we can’t take them back, I said I’ve not touched them or opened them what are you talking about, They said I could have tampered with them. Ffs. WTF They thrown them away. How many hundreds of millions of wastage is this in a year ffs.

BBC Reported Missing looks at the case of Taylor Russell, a vulnerable young woman. She says she identifies as a man. This means she's referred to as he, she and they throughout, and male and female. This confusion seems to hinder the search - and she eventually turns herself in

Our lawsuit seeks accountability for what happened to 15-year-old Kallie Keeler on December 6, 2025—and the callous indifference displayed by officials since then. We’re also seeking an injunction to ensure it never happens again. 2/

3 weeks ago I ran into this little guy when jogging. He was tiny and completely broken from living on the streets. We’ve been fixing him up and you won’t believe Jimbo today… (1/7) 🧵

Tourist on temp visa unaccountably given the power to make laws in the Clown-Country of Scotland says what?

Trans MSP calls for biological males to be able to use Holyrood women's toilets thescottishsun.co.uk/news/16…

He's not bothered about child sexual exploitation on Pornhub, OnlyFans, Roblox, or any of the countless platforms where children are groomed, abused, and exploited. He's not demanding tougher sentences for predators. He's not demanding the closure of sites that profit from sexual content children can access. He wasn't particularly interested when the BBC spent decades covering for prolific celebrity nonces or when LBC parade around government psyop whore Bonnie Blue. What he cares about is @X. Because X is where people get news, compare notes, share evidence, and discover that what is happening in one town is happening in another. From Penzance to Portugal - we are one. The pretence is that this is about "misinformation" and "encitement", but the actual target is the means by which ordinary people communicate with each other. They've tried destroying our pubs and our churches and communities - where we congregate and talk and unite. But we found somewhere else, so that has to be destroyed too. What they forget is that the British were organising long before mobile phones, the internet, social media, television, radio, or newspapers. For a thousand years we organised rebellions, uprisings, protests, petitions, and resistance movements armed with little more than word of mouth, churchyards, market squares, pubs, and messengers on horseback. The Iceni managed it. The Cornish managed it. The Levellers managed it. The Chartists managed it. The people who fought the Romans, the Vikings, the Normans, and every other power that tried to impose itself upon them managed it. If people are angry enough, they will find each other. They always have.

These guys go beyond activism & into terrorism x.com/i/status/2020589717017… "Ensure your target can be hit repeatedly until they desist from their activities" & "We only do actions if we believe they will cause direct harm" etc, so then offices move, lectures get cancelled, etc 🤬

I love twitter 😻

Why has the BBC got incels writing its headlines? This huge man, already a known stalker, grabbed this young woman by the hair, tried to sit on her, said gross things and tried to force her to kiss him, for 15 minutes until stopped. He absolutely does deserve this sentence.

RT @RosieDuffield1: Piece on Women Equalities Select Committee session by @Geri_E_L_Scott. Can't tag WESC now as it was decided that they…

Look what's trending 😂😂

I'm a cardiologist. A 42-year-old mother of two came to my office complaining of jaw pain and crushing fatigue. She ran half-marathons. Her EKG was normal. Another doctor had sent her home with anxiety medication. When I got her into the cath lab, I found severe microvascular disease — plaque choking the tiniest vessels of her heart, the ones standard angiograms routinely miss. Her heart had been starving in silence while everyone told her she was stressed. She is alive today. Too many women like her are not. Heart disease kills more women than every cancer combined. And medicine is still diagnosing it through a male lens. 84% of cardiologists report having patients in the past year whose heart disease was misdiagnosed by another physician. Women with a STEMI heart attack have a 59% greater chance of being misdiagnosed compared to men. Women with an NSTEMI — 41% greater chance. The reason is structural. For decades, we screened, tested, and treated women using a template built for men. Men's heart attacks announce themselves — the crushing chest pain, the clutched fist, the Hollywood collapse. Women's hearts whisper. Crushing fatigue that feels like wearing a lead vest. Jaw pain written off as TMJ. Nausea blamed on a stomach bug. An ache between the shoulder blades blamed on a long week. Shortness of breath blamed on being out of shape. For years, medicine called these "atypical" symptoms. They are not atypical. They are female-typical. Half of humanity is not a variant. And the biology runs deeper than symptoms. Women have smaller hearts and narrower coronary arteries. Plaque doesn't only clog the big highway vessels — it hides in the microvasculature, the tiny branches feeding the heart muscle itself. A woman can have a heart attack with a completely "clean" standard angiogram. SCAD — spontaneous coronary artery dissection — occurs 90% of the time in women. Often young, fit women with zero traditional risk factors. It's the leading cause of heart attack in women under 50, accounting for roughly one quarter of all cases in that age group. Most doctors have never diagnosed one. And some of the most dangerous cardiac risk factors are hidden in women's medical histories where no one thinks to look: Preeclampsia or gestational hypertension doubles to quadruples lifetime heart disease and stroke risk. Pregnancy is the body's first cardiac stress test — and these complications are early warning sirens, not closed chapters. Autoimmune disease — lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis — far more common in women, turbocharges inflammation and plaque formation at any age. Cardiovascular disease in women aged 20-44 is projected to surge nearly 50% by 2050. The youngest patients in my practice keep getting younger. What every woman should ask her doctor — and what every doctor should be asking: "Given my pregnancy history, autoimmune status, and family history — what is my full cardiovascular risk?" If they don't ask about preeclampsia or gestational diabetes, volunteer it. "Should I have an Lp(a) test and a coronary calcium score?" Standard cholesterol panels miss too much. Lp(a) is genetic, one-time, and most women have never been tested. "My tests came back normal but my symptoms haven't stopped — what's next?" Normal stress tests and angiograms can miss microvascular disease, spasm, and SCAD. Persistent symptoms warrant coronary CT angiography or cardiac MRI. And if something feels wrong — say these exact words to your doctor: "I am concerned this could be my heart." That single sentence changes the workup. Do not soften it. Do not apologize for it. 80% of heart disease is preventable. But the playbook has to be built for female biology. Two decades ago, I wrote one of the first books warning that heart disease was the number one killer of women and that medicine was diagnosing it through a male lens. It was recognized by First Lady Laura Bush at the White House during the early years of the national conversation about women's heart health. I'm haunted by how much of that book I could republish today unchanged. The science has advanced. The awareness has grown. But the gap between what we know and what happens in the exam room is still costing women their lives. Share this with every woman you love — and every doctor who treats them. READ MORE: open.substack.com/pub/afshin…

RT @Jonnywsbell: "Gabrielle" is a 50 year old ex-navy bloke...he's 6'8", 220 pounds...and he plays college basketball with teenage girls...…

Did they put out bottles of Prozac in May for Mental Health Awareness Month? What is wrong with these people.

we've been over this... white is a subsective modifier that keeps the original category intact. white woman, old woman, tall woman. trans is privative, it removes the category. fake gun, plastic apple, toy car. any other stupid shit?

Please help this get to @PaulaBarkerMP !! (no longer active on Twitter tho). Paula is one of the 53 MPs that signed the Early Day Motion against the recent EHRC guidance. The below was emailed to Paula today by a female constituent who has reached out, but is doubtful of any reply. This woman feels deeply that her voice be heard. I do too. Paula, if you read this, please reply to her email. "Dear Paula Barker I am upset and disappointed to see that you are one of the 53 MPs who have signed the Early Day motion against the EHRC s Code of Practice regarding the Supreme Court judgement in For Women Scotland Vs the Scottish Ministers. Single sex female only services such as rape crisis services and women only support groups, as well as being able to choose female health care professionals in intimate examinations, have been vital to me. Having been gang raped at age 13 and experienced multiple sexual assaults and rapes after this, it has been incredibly important for me to feel safe when I have reached out and engaged with women only services to help me with the short- and long-term impact of these experiences. I have a 16-year-old daughter, growing up in a time of escalating misogyny. It is extremely important to me that should she ever need it, she is able to access women only services with the confidence that they are genuinely for females only. It is incredibly upsetting to see female MPs, and particularly my own MP actively seek to undermine single sex services for women. For myself, if I had not been able to access women’s groups that enabled me to open up and receive support and nurture, I am unsure if I would still be alive today. I have been a lifelong Labour supporter, but I currently feel very betrayed by the left. I urge you to reconsider your position on this and take a stand on the rights, dignity and safety of your female constituents." @RosieDuffield1 @jo_bartosch @Jonathan_Hinder @KishwerFalkner @LesbianLabour @TracyEdwardsMBE @jo_bartosch @robjessel16 @_ConnieShaw @jan_murray @JuliaHB1 @BoozeAndFagz @KemiBadenoch @AllianceLGB @JeanHatchet @LightninLex @OnChairs

Very few understand this