<unnamed>

Public Key

npub1lmksrgs7e5w5gz53fgq38py0dw3yfjdyur2nv0vg7rspce6sr4lqqn85vl

Profile Code

nprofile1qqs0amgp5g0v682yp2g55qgnsj8khgjyexjwp4fk8ky0pcquvagp6lsprpmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt0d4hhxarj9ecxjmntqyqqu2674t

Publishing to

relay.momostr.pink

Last Notes

2026-08-22 21:55:44 CEST

https://spectator.com/article/bonds-identity-crisis-mirrors-britains/
> Sometimes I wake up in the night disturbed by dreams of James Bond. Surely, you might say, that’s the point of him; a man of such raw sex appeal that he can break the somnial boundary of women all over the world. But these aren’t sexy dreams about Bond’s past; they’re nightmarish visions of his future – Bond in the modern British public sector.
> Picture it, 007 walks in for his briefing with M. The process is not the quick-witted sparring of classic Bond but a long PowerPoint presentation complete with a quiz at the end to show he’s been listening. Miss Moneypenny doesn’t ‘feel comfortable’ booking Bond flights because of the carbon output, so he finds himself on a rail replacement bus service. It transpires that his mission, the highest use of the British deep state’s most dangerous asset, is to eliminate someone suspected of misgendering the employee of a Citizens Advice Bureau in Broadstairs.

2026-08-22 14:33:11 CEST

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/asian-communities-told-wash-rice-37574542
> Asian and Muslim communities have been told to wash their rice and feet less in a bizarre water-saving bid by the UK's water regulator.
> A whopping £270,000 of billpayers' money funded the scheme that used a famous chef to teach southeast Asians how to wash rice with less water.
> People from the Muslim community have also been encouraged to use only a litre of water when performing “wudu” – washing the body – before prayer.

2026-08-21 21:08:08 CEST

- reply

I’m only on three: here, NAS and poast. Well, and Nostr (which is an option. I’m not sure how the other side of Fediblock views it, but if they are ok with it then that would be a way to see past the Wall).
Poast is compatible with Spinster in that it’s a free speech instance and there is no mutual block, but the content and tone are very different (the main rule there is “no visible nipples” and you get a lot of hard R) and a lot of individual users on both have the other blocked.
I’m not sure why NAS is closed to new registrations, you could try messaging eriner there to ask him to open them for you.
Did you have a look at shitposter.world?

2026-08-21 13:25:10 CEST

- reply

I know you’re not a Mac user, but any idea what it’s complaining about here?
“Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)”
https://media.spinster.xyz/02ba590a7e8920ae71de301147160d73125b381c9331eb48f9ad24447683d8c4.png

2026-08-20 13:47:01 CEST

- reply

It can be kinda tacky, and it’s a PITA to remove.

2026-08-20 13:37:25 CEST

New hire at the chippy, and when she took the chips out of the fryer she just sort of shook the oil off, rather than slamming the basket on the edge like the other women do.
Only managed half of them, disgustingly greasy.
:(

2026-08-18 22:38:28 CEST

Adverts have never appealed to me, but they are so bloody weird now that I can’t see them appealing to anyone….

2026-08-17 23:31:52 CEST

- reply

I basically just check Spinster when they start, so I’m not desperately bothered. Just annoyingly stereotyped.

2026-08-17 22:27:30 CEST

I’ve just twigged, whilst watching *Reacher* and getting ads for nappies, cleaning products and sanpro, that Amazon has clocked that I am female and is serving me personalised ads.
Bleh. I think I’d rather see the boys’ adverts.

2026-08-11 19:21:07 CEST

- reply

If Spinster does become usable, I’m hoping at least some people will be able to make posts pointing to the new place.
Hopefully won’t be needed, though!

2026-08-11 11:50:44 CEST

Spinsters, please read.
I’m increasingly worried about the errors we’ve been having. We’re running on software that’s not been maintained or patched in years, the owner and the maintainer of the site have moved on to other things, and eventually something is going to fall over.
Although some of us (me included) have alts on other instances, a lot of us don’t. I’ll miss (some of ;) you tremendously if Spinster vanishes.
As a very much just-in-case back up, I’m going to create a new instance, running on up-to-date software, and strongly encourage everyone to make an account on it. You don’t have to use the account, but it will be there for emergencies. You’ll be able to import your follows, so if the worst happens we’ll all be able to find each other.
Before Feart asks, no: there will not be an old.version. It’s just not possible. But we can make it look less like a tampon packet.
Thoughts/comments?

2026-08-09 22:26:54 CEST

- reply

It’s both sweet and savoury. Hard to describe.

2026-08-06 15:15:20 CEST

- reply

Jesus.

2026-08-04 20:00:51 CEST

Strange meteorological phenomenon! What does it mean?
https://media.spinster.xyz/d9208a5e0d0278d64848d100104e555323e65dbcaa0177613f2f5bbf3c059f23.jpeg

2026-08-01 11:22:54 CEST

- reply

I got bitten by a tarantula once, in Wales.

2026-07-29 20:12:25 CEST

https://media.spinster.xyz/261880f1f08ce50aca9ba0d5321acc55895e6da7f7dac1f370a14a45f7042b60.jpeg

2026-07-23 21:06:19 CEST

- reply

There are at least four that I know of.
I did tell him to put it in his bio!

2026-07-23 20:56:46 CEST

- reply

See, Birch Boy, told you this would happen!

2026-07-23 16:45:04 CEST

https://media.spinster.xyz/fcedf91707795fa5d2771a7cf04a3a1d7131350c67c27de0fa58f5da9f64481f.jpeg

2026-07-21 12:13:05 CEST

I’ve just learnt that kitchen plinth/baseboard drawers are a thing, and I really wish I’d known before I had my kitchen re-done!
The company I bought it from even does them, I wonder why the designer didn’t mention them?
https://media.spinster.xyz/4d0f17a4d8fe6f2eb1d4e1540e3ddb9841fd2d13bdecf63e93511cca24e31924.jpeg

2026-07-11 20:13:09 CEST

https://media.spinster.xyz/e8049d5ea5bde164e5aa9fa2ae7a9de0cc8f2f8327dc7514d3347de9acab6768.jpeg

2026-07-11 17:54:31 CEST

- reply

Pesto. Thanks for the reminder!

2026-07-11 14:01:34 CEST

Proto-tomatoes, and a teeny tiny flea beetle on a rocket leaf.
https://media.spinster.xyz/dc5b72431491df945332f9a58e7af4da8d29624b7d401a128ab386451f2f5d69.jpeg
https://media.spinster.xyz/47a24671efc45ceb4a54a42c949340d27419934a45c8a6185defade5286d40bc.jpeg

2026-06-13 22:55:07 CEST

- reply

When Dog’s having a wobbly day, I follow him up the stairs with a wide-spread arm, just in case. Never needed it yet, thankfully.

2026-06-13 13:23:04 CEST

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/net-zero/miliband-underfloor-heating-in-net-zero-drive/
> Ed Miliband will ban the sale of underfloor heating systems deemed to be using too much power in his latest net zero drive.
> The Energy Secretary has also set his sights on electric towel rails, gas fires and storage heaters, with plans for new market controls designed to cut carbon emissions.
> He wants to bring in new energy efficiency requirements that will result in more than a third of so-called “space heating systems” becoming illegal to sell.
> New rules will make temperature controls mandatory, while other regulations will mean some towel rails will only be allowed to operate for six hours a day.
> It will push consumers to more costly modern alternatives that use smart functions to help limit energy use, such as restricting heating to certain times of day, or cutting a heating system off completely, for instance when there is a draught that would make it inefficient to continue running.
Or, indeed, when there is a power shortage coming….
https://archive.ph/CmMpt

2026-06-10 20:21:44 CEST

- reply

Ah, he’d already had the stalks from the ones that went into dinner!
I know the ducks will leave him the stalks, and he would not leave them the leaves.

2026-06-06 23:06:17 CEST

- reply

Yikes. With the current Ebola outbreak I can only think of the disease risk.
(Heard a story on the news that one of the early Ebola cases this time around was a respected Islamic scholar. Not only did they meticulously wash the body as usual but they saved the wash water and gave it to children to drink so that they would imbibe his religious knowledge. Yikes.)

2026-05-26 17:09:08 CEST

Random orange plastic thing taped inside my new printer. Any ideas?
https://media.spinster.xyz/7d95fa7285d9251e2091c705f75fc88d14c1185cf48e97883dadf281799b5ccd.jpeg

2026-05-16 20:57:03 CEST

- reply

Finally getting bits from the garden!

2026-05-16 20:23:02 CEST

https://media.spinster.xyz/a0e12fe80f23d7561b7ba79238ed741292568ebb2874b25ce8109306b045bbb3.jpeg
https://media.spinster.xyz/2aae089fa9d4a0c4abc184e5e1569a35f066dfb2462f929f9c9530d15db0fcca.jpeg

2026-05-16 14:08:58 CEST

- reply

When he’s groping for the name, Mr DT calls red kites “Welsh hawks”, I think they hung on there in pockets.

2026-05-16 12:23:44 CEST

Red kite, looking for nests:
https://media.spinster.xyz/602f8986fb3d4f3a416d32e80a30e9f7c3345f839ec6223676d4c3a551de05bb.jpeg
https://media.spinster.xyz/e15db52993ac09f1af915f4e342690617322a5ff40c58f9cf5e0bac330c75825.jpeg

2026-05-10 12:26:16 CEST

- reply

Kittens, ponies, sheep, goats….

2026-05-10 11:51:26 CEST

https://www.agenzianova.com/en/news/Rome%3A-A-kitten-raped-in-Tor-Tre-Teste.-The-Metropolitan-City%27s-environmental-delegate-announces-a-complaint./
> A kitten, known as Rosi, belonging to a feline colony in Tor Tre Teste, was found dying in a condominium garden. According to the animal rights groups that reported the incident, the kitten was apparently raped. The Metropolitan City of Rome's Delegate for the Environment and Animal Welfare was involved in the case. Rocco Ferraro, who will file a complaint with the prosecutor's office. Meanwhile, the kitten is being cared for by veterinarians and local associations.

2026-05-10 11:36:13 CEST

https://www.express.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/2203443/dwp-increases-benefits-husbands-2
> The DWP has confirmed in its benefits uprating list that ‘additional spouses’ in ‘polygamous marriages’ are being given a 4.8% boost to their benefits from April, which would most likely be for husbands with multiple wives.

2026-05-07 18:48:35 CEST

Just when I think I have this car figured out…
Any guesses why this little triangle on the wing mirror randomly flashed orange at me?
Not the indicator, that’s a different light on the side of it.
It did it twice, both on empty and pretty wide (lane and a half) roads. Both times, I was under heavy tree cover: changes to the brightness of the automatic headlights?
https://media.spinster.xyz/987c190a6901725b95bf3dac974608cc1d0e7728242ae2b44034c4b0a344b2b4.jpeg

2026-05-07 11:49:31 CEST

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyp4kp687go
> Prior to the war, Ukraine was widely cited as the world's second commercial surrogacy hub behind the United States.
> While the conflict significantly impacted surrogacies, they have nearly bounced back to pre-war levels, experts have told the BBC World Service.
> But Ukraine's parliament is now considering a bill that would introduce stricter oversight of the surrogacy industry and effectively ban access to foreigners, who make up 95% of the intended parents. The proposals have widespread support across Ukraine's parliament.
> The bill aims to regulate more tightly an industry that has been accused of turning reproduction into a commodity and exploiting poor, vulnerable women. Supporters of the bill also argue that Ukrainian women should not be having surrogate babies for foreigners at a time when birthrates have plummeted due to the war - though the number of babies born through surrogacy is a small proportion of births.
> "Because of the war the number of women who are desperate is growing, and clinics offer them this opportunity because Western couples want to buy babies cheaply," says Maria Dmytrieva, a women's rights activist who opposes all surrogacy on ethical grounds and argues the proposed law does not go far enough.

2026-05-06 18:43:18 CEST

- reply

Apparently it can take up to eight weeks to show symptoms, so it’s plausible that they were all at the same place in Argentina (eg hotel the night before departure) and got infected, then got on the ship.

2026-05-04 16:07:34 CEST

Finished my mum’s beach bag. Hope she’ll like it!
https://media.spinster.xyz/22d2cb5ecfe21e4c8412555f11e55a1618674001483000752e3d50871a145035.jpeg
https://media.spinster.xyz/8e0878783326048f94e3963f7a189c217702e0ef8e23b5203dd2be49618089bb.jpeg
https://media.spinster.xyz/e34fb716f5a5f55324c7c3e5c9864198df8a743c1b3956fdbcbf07c91f3c4b8e.jpeg
https://media.spinster.xyz/97e2707cc7621264ced893858ce834126a68e694fceb0b29ab39a38f2429e142.jpeg

2026-05-04 11:14:56 CEST

I can’t imagine why there aren’t any walkers around on this fine bank holiday Monday.
https://media.spinster.xyz/b91b190134b53ac59167bd72b42e74220c64a41f1879ef40d445e23f57d3f737.jpeg

2026-05-02 22:46:55 CEST

https://media.spinster.xyz/5af83d03b16e208e7eb888d72a03da2c3a5f1cc583db8f4f5419749a2316fdcd.jpeg

2026-05-02 22:31:07 CEST

https://spectator.com/article/the-sensible-class-is-losing-control-of-the-house-of-lords/
> At the height of Tony Blair’s reign of terror, there was a consensus among his revolutionaries that the Lords ought to be elected. But it has become increasingly clear in recent years that the public will not vote as their leaders tell them to. And so the post-Blair establishment reconciled itself to the lack of democratic accountability in the Lords by making the case for its existence as ‘a chamber of experts’.
> The Starmer government was to be the chamber’s apotheosis in this regard. That is why, despite the parlous state of defence and the economy, the ejection of the hereditary peers became a matter of legislative urgency as soon as Sir Keir was in No. 10. Once the Lords had rid themselves of the descendants of people who had done things like been Lord Protector for Edward VI or won the battle of Waterloo or El Alamein, and replaced them with people who ran the DVLA or were related to Labour MPs, they could ascend to their perfected form: Britain’s council of elders. Comfortably smug and comfortably numb. The chamber could be the last resting place for the institutionalist progressives after a lifetime of wearing down the sinews of Britain.
https://archive.ph/SaGVY

2026-05-02 14:22:45 CEST

- reply

Yeah, the spray bottle would be annoying but doable, but you can’t control when and where they wee.

2026-05-02 13:39:21 CEST

How do you remove the woody ends of asparagus spears?

2026-04-30 14:18:40 CEST

I’m making some progress in decoding the car.
1 beep is “the speed limit is about to change” (this is woefully inaccurate: over the course of two miles on a national limit road it told me the limit was national, 30, 50 and 80. 80 is never legal here.)
2 beeps has only happened once, not sure.
3 beeps is definitely speed related, and tends to coincide with the displayed speed limit icon flashing red. Only it does it a lot when I’m under the limit but accelerating and not when, say, I’ve been sitting at the limit but accidentally creep over it. You know, when it would be useful. Plus, see above re: accuracy of speed limit.
4 beeps, I *think* is lane assist. It did it earlier when I overtook a tractor. It also does it when I’m on roads with no lane markings and lots of potholes to avoid.
5 beeps seems to be the speed camera warning.
(I downloaded a copy of the manual, hoping it might have a handy little table. It does not, and the text just repeatedly refers to “an audible warning” without saying what that consists of.)

2026-04-30 11:15:04 CEST

It’s a bit breezy today, so you’ll have to excuse the shaky camera: my phone was doing all it could to compensate!
https://media.spinster.xyz/3f7a53598dd01a3892b03156aca683f7b318eeb33d529a368774d2d770e63c2b.jpeg
https://media.spinster.xyz/2132ac6434130baf595a5b300d89e1600ce6cbaf612d3a046dee4faa04c0d07e.mov

2026-04-29 13:08:39 CEST

- reply

I used to, until I finally convinced them that I don’t drink tea!

2026-04-29 12:50:24 CEST

- reply

Dog Treats. Elderly couple who live up on the moors, I first met them when they started coming outside with a treat for Dog when we walked past the house, and now try to pop in at least once a week to have a natter and let them give him lots of fuss.

2026-04-29 12:35:00 CEST

Went to see the DTs: “Nephew says there was a fancy big car on your drive, have you had a visitor?”

2026-04-28 22:46:13 CEST

- reply

Home vs commercial, thin vs thick crust: (I do not pre-bake!)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ll-gH4Tpg3U
(I wish he’d said the temp of the home oven, but given he had to put the grill on as well I’m guessing significantly less than mine reaches.)

2026-04-28 21:29:55 CEST

- reply

Pizza is 130g bread flour, 1/4 tsp salt and sugar, 1 1/4 tsp yeast, about 75-85 ml blood temp water. I let it sit for about ten minutes, then roll it out (tip: onto baking parchment that’s had a drizzle of olive oil; roll the roller onto that before you add the dough to avoid anything sticking) then prep and add toppings. As hot as your oven gets; mine goes up to 280°C and it takes 6-7mins. Preheat your baking tray.

2026-04-28 20:54:04 CEST

- reply

It’s not pizza, pizza was last night!
But as it happens, I typed it out for someone else this morning: https://spinster.xyz/objects/361749d6-6551-4802-9d4d-6cdb42dd9462

2026-04-27 20:14:37 CEST

- reply

It’s an offshoot of hobby horsing. Only madder.
You can buy special leads with wire to stiffen them so that they stay out in front of you.

2026-04-27 11:49:08 CEST

- reply

No, it’s some sort of air freshener that the hire company use when they clean it between rentals.

2026-04-27 11:34:09 CEST

- reply

I do not doubt that most people campaigning for online age restrictions are doing so in good faith. We can all agree that children deserve a childhood where their online experiences are as safe as their offline ones. Having grown up on the internet myself, I know first-hand that the online world has real dangers. But just as we expect parents to teach their children how to cross a road or to call 999 in an emergency, we must expect more from parents when it comes to teaching children online safety too. Currently, only a third of parents use parental controls on their children’s devices, and it is not uncommon to see children as young as 2 experiencing their first years in front of the flashing screen of their very own iPad.
Banning children from social media by putting everyone’s privacy at risk will not solve the fundamental reason why young people spend so much time online. They do so because generations of adults above them have eroded away their youth centres, libraries and parks; have created a school system rife with impossible pressures; and have turned the offline world into something inaccessible, unaffordable and filled with chronically ‘unprecedented’ political and economic events.
Rushed, sweeping laws like those being voted on tomorrow are the result of a political landscape too keen to impose restrictions based on a gut feeling to do ‘something’ rather than the result of well-thought-through policy. Our children’s digital safety and the security of our democracy are too important to fall victim to this kind of self-congratulatory lawmaking.
Whatever form of restrictions MPs pass tomorrow, make no mistake: this is the end of anonymity online and the birth of a digital nanny state.

2026-04-27 11:34:02 CEST

- reply

This week parliament will attempt to conclude legislation allowing the government to ban young people from social media. It’s taken weeks of ‘ping-pong’ to land on the specific form that these restrictions will take, and there has been no shortage of ideas. Tory peer Lord Nash’s proposals would introduce a blanket ban on all social media for under-16s, while the government is angling to implement restrictions on features and even introduce online curfews.
We’ll soon find out what the final compromise will be. But from an online safety, privacy and civil liberties standpoint, the details hardly matter. The wave of a legislative wand will not magically banish children from social media. The only way to do this is to force every single user to submit to invasive biometric face scans or digital ID uploads.
It is not hard to see that for all the good intentions, age-based restrictions to social media amount to a Trojan horse for a de facto mandatory digital ID system. Biometric face scans, often falsely presented as a privacy-safe method of age verification, will fail for millions of people: no algorithm can tell the difference between a 16-year-old on the day of their birthday and the day before. Many more users – adults with facial disabilities, young-looking women, or anyone who isn’t white – will face a significantly higher risk of being prompted to upload an ID document because the algorithm cannot accurately verify their age. And so, a biased and inaccurate algorithm will be the arbiter of who does – and who does not – need to upload their ID to unlock huge swathes of the internet.
Many people across the UK, particularly teens, don’t need or have IDs. But conveniently, the government’s national digital ID scheme is waiting in the wings. This multi-billion-pound solution in search of a problem may have just found one to solve.
Monitoring and managing children’s internet use is vital to keeping them safe. But children’s online safety includes more than protection from harmful content or addictive algorithms – it includes their cybersecurity, data protection and freedom of expression as well.
Since the introduction of the Online Safety Act, there have been many examples of just how vulnerable age-verification platforms are to data breaches and cyberattacks. Only this week, the government confirmed that the medical details of 500,000 participants of Biobank, one of the UK’s landmark scientific programmes, were offered for sale in China after a massive data leak. This data included full body scans, medical records and even DNA sequences. The mass gathering of biometric and ID information by age-verification platforms would mean that similar breaches, now on a national scale, would become more common. One can only imagine the devastating impact of such a breach on national security and democracy itself.
Rather than taking these risks seriously, it is all too likely that the government will present a national digital ID system as a ‘safer’ alternative. But any giant database full of sensitive ID information is simply a honeypot for hackers and hostile states.
It really is remarkable, watching hundreds of parliamentarians talk about how dangerous it is when children put personal information about themselves online and then, in the same breath, create a system that asks everyone in Britain to do just that. Even if banning social media would benefit children – which an alliance of 42 children’s charities and bereaved parents strongly dispute – the truth is there is simply no privacy-friendly way in which it can be done.
Comparisons are often made with the requirement to present an ID when buying items like kitchen knives. But in those cases, you flash your ID to the cashier, who checks your age and that’s the end of that. But social media is connected to a personal account, which means that ID information you submit risks being linked to your online activity. A more accurate analogy then, would be that the cashier checks your ID, follows you home, stands in your kitchen, and carefully logs every time you chop a carrot.
By relying on age-verification technology, all proposals to restrict social media for children pose an acute threat to the freedom of expression upon which our democracy rests. A future government could easily age-gate online spaces based on what political content they host, requiring users to pay for their right to free speech along with their right to privacy.

2026-04-27 11:32:46 CEST

https://spectator.com/article/a-social-media-ban-for-kids-puts-all-our-privacy-at-risk/
> It is not hard to see that for all the good intentions, age-based restrictions to social media amount to a Trojan horse for a de facto mandatory digital ID system. Biometric face scans, often falsely presented as a privacy-safe method of age verification, will fail for millions of people: no algorithm can tell the difference between a 16-year-old on the day of their birthday and the day before. Many more users – adults with facial disabilities, young-looking women, or anyone who isn’t white – will face a significantly higher risk of being prompted to upload an ID document because the algorithm cannot accurately verify their age. And so, a biased and inaccurate algorithm will be the arbiter of who does – and who does not – need to upload their ID to unlock huge swathes of the internet.

2026-04-25 21:48:41 CEST

Despite having had the windows open all the time today, my clothes again stink and my eyes are sore.
One has to wonder what is in that stuff.
#note1nq8…tqw7

2026-04-25 21:45:26 CEST

https://media.spinster.xyz/f11178d4053e5d0a79df63969aa293b0c037f120d9e2741240dc8ca7d985b08e.jpeg
https://media.spinster.xyz/410c570e5a6334c465a231aff801cb0776a758955afda0835c6f57388749b55b.jpeg

2026-04-24 21:28:05 CEST

- reply

Brighton beach, swelled by sun-seekers on hot summer days, becomes one big after party after dark. Revellers from the seafront nightclubs will spill out on to the shingle to smoke, or share another drink, before staggering home, arm in arm. When it’s warm enough, they might go for an ill-advised dip in the briny. But on a cold autumn night last year, the hum of drunken chatter gave way to the screams of a poor, unsuspecting victim, and the depraved cackling of her tormentors.
Yesterday, three men were found guilty of ‘repeatedly raping’ a woman on the beach in the early hours of 4 October. Iranian Abdulla Ahmadi, 26, Egyptian Ibrahim Alshafe, 25, and Karin Al-Danasurt, 20, also from Egypt, were ‘on the lookout for women’ to use ‘for sexual purposes’. They went to bars and clubs. They came across a woman in her thirties at a fast-food joint. She had been separated from her friends. She was ‘highly intoxicated’, vomiting on her hands and knees. She couldn’t stand or walk unaided. They took her to the beach and raped her. They laughed. They filmed it. ‘Frankly, to these defendants, the complainant was meat’, prosecutor Hanna Llewellyn-Waters KC told jurors. ‘They wanted sex and that could be achieved by being with someone who was in no state to resist them.’
The victim sobbed as she gave evidence behind a screen: ‘It’s the filmer’s face I see every time I close my eyes, laughing at me.’ That was Karin Al-Danasurt, who tried to claim he was only recording to help the woman, to provide evidence of her ordeal. The court also heard he spat in her mouth, and called her a ‘dirty bitch’. His demonic grin is now burned into the nation’s psyche, too: a photograph of him leaving Hove Crown Court is splashed across today’s newspapers. A sweatshirt is draped over his eyes. He is smiling from ear to ear.
The three men were ‘asylum seekers’, a euphemism we should probably no longer indulge. They were staying in a Home Office-approved hotel in nearby Horsham. Ahmadi and Alshafe actually met on a dinghy, as they entered Britain illegally in June 2025. Al-Danasurt had arrived a year earlier. The prosecution claimed he had been convicted of murder in Egypt. After the verdicts were handed down, the judge heard that the three men were in the process of appealing against their refused asylum applications. It is ‘not a foregone conclusion’ that the defendants will be deported following their convictions. Welcome to Britain, where we import rapists and struggle to get rid of them.
Yes, we have plenty of woman-abusing scum of our own. But that’s all the more reason not to throw open our doors to anyone with the cash to pay a people smuggler and the will to weather the Channel. Britain is routinely offering refuge not only to those fleeing war and persecution, but also those fleeing charges in other countries; not only to those looking for a better life, but also warped men who have been floating around Europe looking for the softest touch. Horror story after horror story, from the Clapham acid attacker to the Hartlepool terrorist to the Afghan teens who raped a girl in Leamington Spa last year, have made this grimly clear.
We do not have women’s toilets because all men are rapists and sex pests, just as we do not have borders because all migrants are murderers, or jihadists, or gang-rapists. We have them because some of them will be. Arguably more so if no documentation is needed and a bed in taxpayer-funded accommodation is offered. Arguably more so if they hail from nations in which sexual violence is rife. Nations like Egypt, in which the sexual harassment and assault of women by mobs of men at protests, and even Eid celebrations, periodically scandalises the international press. Nations like Afghanistan, in which a rape can result in the victim being punished, even killed, and which sits at the bottom of the table on every measure of women’s wellbeing.
A free, secure society is a fragile thing. It requires a state willing to enforce laws, patrol borders, draw lines. A beach. A park. These are places in which women should not expect to encounter evil, even if they have had one too many. But safety long ago took a backseat to phoney virtue and the diktats of international treaties. The Brighton beach gang rape is what happens when the walls of the walled garden come tumbling down.

2026-04-24 21:27:05 CEST

https://spectator.com/article/the-evil-of-the-brighton-beach-gang-rape/
> We do not have women’s toilets because all men are rapists and sex pests, just as we do not have borders because all migrants are murderers, or jihadists, or gang-rapists. We have them because some of them will be. Arguably more so if no documentation is needed and a bed in taxpayer-funded accommodation is offered. Arguably more so if they hail from nations in which sexual violence is rife. Nations like Egypt, in which the sexual harassment and assault of women by mobs of men at protests, and even Eid celebrations, periodically scandalises the international press. Nations like Afghanistan, in which a rape can result in the victim being punished, even killed, and which sits at the bottom of the table on every measure of women’s wellbeing.

2026-04-23 11:55:22 CEST

Signs of spring….
https://www.derbyshiretimes.co.uk/news/emergency-incident/fire-crews-from-across-derbyshire-called-to-scene-of-wildfire-near-peak-districts-ladybower-reservoir-with-people-warned-to-avoid-area-this-afternoon-7170256

2026-04-22 17:10:12 CEST

Well, lost my never-had-an-accident driving record.
(Assuming we don’t count the time I drove into a hospital.)
Am ok. Car is a bit sad. Other driver ok, car sadder.
On hold while my insurance checks local garages, very much hope my usual is on their approved list.

2026-04-20 09:13:54 CEST

Points for trying, I guess.
https://media.spinster.xyz/ac1bf8b1f932991ece9068d198ca1c13ff70ea6dbe12890b5d5a3c882638b584.jpeg

2026-04-19 17:46:49 CEST

- reply

Older people who aren’t confident using the internet, or younger people who are perfectly capable but lazy?

2026-04-18 21:21:12 CEST

These Iranian LEGO videos are incredibly good. I’d not seen this one before: “tiny hands, tiny everything”!
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXC3G2SDe5o/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjd8jrd1vnyo

2026-04-16 21:18:42 CEST

- reply

I reposted it, probably my fault ;)

2026-04-16 17:55:37 CEST

- reply

Fortunately she’s pretty safe as an indoor (and balcony) cat.

2026-04-16 16:41:47 CEST

- reply

It is horrible stuff, but it also kills ticks which is why I use it on Dog.
This is very worrying in that context:
> only if there is an infestation of a pet's fur

2026-04-14 20:34:02 CEST

- reply

x all the time if I’m not in bed or the shower
(I ticked the most maximalist option.)

2026-04-13 21:28:19 CEST

USA, 1959, military speaker.
Does “seven-carbon” mean “faint and a poor quality copy of the real thing”, as in the result you would get if you had seven sheets of carbon paper in the typewriter?
https://media.spinster.xyz/b46e1a1ccc18f19b02e4975ec14c0ddfa72f8691b20aa6e1741c3669f8c45b4f.jpeg

2026-04-13 20:16:18 CEST

- reply

https://www.thetinnedfishmarket.com/

2026-04-13 20:10:08 CEST

I was worried this might be too spicy for me, but once I pulled out the actual chillies and put it in white sauce it was fine.
https://media.spinster.xyz/85bee188ce81be654cd73d0af64d16ce54a8a46c093616a21f6ed90ab015d125.jpeg
https://media.spinster.xyz/3461977ff5e9e47c00241c33c62f7505df539d8c27af1ee50b11dca558ba5ee8.jpeg

2026-04-13 18:55:22 CEST

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/04/13/farmers-threaten-protests-unless-reeves-cuts-fuel-prices/
> Farmers for Action, a campaign group, has warned ministers of protests unless the Chancellor cuts tax on red diesel.
> The threat comes after similar protests in Ireland crippled the country, forcing Dublin to send in the army.
Farmers for Action were instrumental in organising protests against Ms Reeves’ family farm tax.
> The group wants the Chancellor to cut the price of red diesel, which farmers use to fuel their tractors. It has soared since war broke out in Iran and is currently as high as 135 pence per litre, up from 60 pence per litre before the war.
> Howard Cox, the founder of the campaign group FairFuelUK, told The Telegraph: “I am in discussions with farmers and others to hold fuel protests in London and other places as drivers and businesses are sick to death of being used as Labour’s cash cows.
https://archive.ph/gsaRO

2026-04-12 22:06:16 CEST

Does the Catholic Church still do this kind of thing? It seems so bizarre to me.
https://media.spinster.xyz/41182e9b03e3425c30ce062611672bcdef3b7b8df56c878bdf36d5c987daa328.jpeg

2026-04-11 22:45:08 CEST

- reply

I have seen this in videos but never encountered it irl.

2026-04-11 22:22:14 CEST

https://media.spinster.xyz/5bf501482f54325419811ec6ccfda132e6776eed7c2973f3da7480a6c8e65593.jpeg

2026-04-10 22:54:05 CEST

- reply

It’s not a meme, it’s an infographic from a magazine that I generally trust.
And: you could just have looked it up.
https://antisemitism.org/extremism-rife-as-antisemitism-rises-to-highest-levels-on-record
> The YouGov survey was designed in collaboration with Campaign Against Antisemitism using the Generalised Antisemitism Scale, more on which below.
Raw data: https://d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/CAA_Results_250902_w_EJU8Eud.pdf

2026-04-10 21:49:16 CEST

https://media.spinster.xyz/a76a65221b3ea0f5b48b847c042ff8c030734e27a51e9bdc6d19a463f6388e2b.jpeg

2026-04-10 20:36:04 CEST

Oh ffs. Give it less food!
https://media.spinster.xyz/8f8d29ac14ba8838b5d755344019eb18cf3c5ab914b157334522e018bf17daaa.jpeg

2026-04-07 11:58:11 CEST

https://www.spiked-online.com/2026/04/06/sacked-for-tackling-a-shoplifter-britain-is-so-lost-right-now/
> We have decommissioned heroism. We have made it tantamount to a crime – or at least a sackable offence – to feel a sense of social responsibility. Self-preservation has become the most celebrated virtue. You don’t have to be a sociologist to see how savagely such fretful hyper-individualism tears at the social fabric. A society where shop assistants are taught to let shoplifting happen, where Tube workers watch as entitled shits leap the barriers, and where even police and medical staff hold back from the site of terror attacks until a risk assessment has been carried out, is a society in name only. Our ‘betters’ have birthed a post-social hellscape where standing up for your fellow citizens is now seen as the maddest thing you can do. Won’t you think of yourself!
> Yes, confronting a thief or telling anti-social arseholes to behave themselves is risky. It has consequences we cannot always predict. But you know what else has consequences? This ceaseless discouragement of bravery. It alienates us from one another. It tells us other people aren’t worth the effort. It elevates the self over the citizenry. And it green-lights crime. Today’s virtual decriminalisation of shoplifting and fare-dodging and phone-snatching – not to mention bike theft and even burglary, crimes that are rarely solved – emboldens the lowlifes who want to make the most dishonest of livings. We aren’t safer by being dutifully anti-social – quite the opposite.

2026-04-06 14:02:53 CEST

https://media.spinster.xyz/b0d76f2c235d32fd5d892e72417d6aeccd2645ea6e354342d612df98600671db.jpeg
https://media.spinster.xyz/59c89b74925fe6e3b5f6d313e6fb5af914f661e4da321891009cc6075bc85432.jpeg

2026-04-03 16:09:31 CEST

I win the “stupid hotel toilet/bathroom door” contest!
(It is a single room, in their defence.)
I’m away this weekend, behave yourselves.
https://media.spinster.xyz/ed55c879a19ae56a2cc88a630129a0c01aff67e2711039f5a66dc4c97c527b42.jpeg

2026-03-31 14:38:45 CEST

I love how they’ve tried to make it cheerful with the little flowers.
https://media.spinster.xyz/e0846127ea1d5ee4699b2b35ba2d963456bbc324eefc3d6c41aa639d20e43461.jpeg

2026-03-31 09:51:11 CEST

https://spectator.com/article/canada-wants-to-make-quoting-the-bible-illegal/
> But the most controversial part of all is the removal of the hate-crime exemption for good-faith interpretation of a religious text, which was previously enshrined in the criminal code to prevent religious persecution and harassment.
> The Bible is certainly in the government’s crosshairs. Marc Miller, the minister of Canadian identity and culture, testified in parliamentary discussions about the legislation that he believes there is ‘clear hatred’ in the Bible, particularly in Deuteronomy, Leviticus, and St Paul’s Epistle to the Romans. He said he didn’t understand how the concept of good faith can be invoked in quoting certain passages from the Bible, and there should be discretion for prosecutors to press charges for criminal hate speech.
https://archive.ph/CdDAW

2026-03-28 10:32:34 CET

- reply

I’ve signed up for a tinned fish subscription, it’s making me have to think!
I have a tin of chilli mackerel in the cupboard. I’m not a fan of hot food, so I’ll have to get creative with that one to cool it down.

2026-03-27 20:23:01 CET

https://media.spinster.xyz/cb4512a3b42ee46f5390aec442f63479a7cd3a2ce6d4483897531ea9dd6f39ed.jpeg
https://media.spinster.xyz/1b049f81f349657cdcc7b12f7280331a72aff4ab5bb5c503c4b5f735f694163a.jpeg

2026-03-27 17:03:41 CET

https://spectator.com/article/its-easy-to-blame-big-tech-for-the-results-of-parental-neglect/
> If a child found Mr. Kipling cakes particularly addictive and began overindulging to the point of becoming overweight or unwell, would we be right to sue the baker? Or would it make more sense to ask whether the parent had enabled the behaviour by leaving the packets within easy reach, refusing to set limits or using them as a convenient babysitter?
> A Los Angeles jury has just delivered a landmark verdict against Meta and Google, finding both companies negligent for designing addictive platforms that harmed the mental health of a young user, known as Kaley. The £4.5 million awarded in damages, with Meta shouldering the lion’s share, has been hailed as social media’s ‘Big Tobacco moment’. Tech firms, it’s argued, acted recklessly in knowingly hooking children with infinite scrolls, auto-play and algorithmic dopamine hits, and so they are therefore fully responsible for the depression and anxiety that ensued.
> It is a seductive narrative. It’s also a comforting one, because it shifts responsibility away from the place it is most uncomfortable and most necessary to look at: the home.
(Archive still down, sorry.)

2026-03-27 11:42:17 CET

- reply

It’s mined, not from the sea.
But: quite.

2026-03-25 08:34:38 CET

- reply

That’s why I don’t use them.

2026-03-24 23:21:49 CET

- reply

I’m afraid I buy it! Slow dehydration, maybe?
https://www.frejabonebroth.com/collections/instant-bone-broth

2026-03-24 20:15:57 CET

https://media.spinster.xyz/32e1808066a8fa211326d632cca72f8eace223a46e72e45219003a8d9b2bcc56.jpeg

2026-03-20 22:51:46 CET

- reply

We, otoh, have just retired our last mine clearing ships: instead, we now have shiny new drone technology.
Which — coff — hasn’t been tested.

2026-03-10 09:29:02 CET

https://media.spinster.xyz/3342d73a31924ed3d2eca472ee1b335af8fac58bf5c497b24d7a3fc90aacb038.jpeg

2026-02-27 22:21:10 CET

- reply

I didn’t realise it was so complex, never having done more than a handful.

2026-02-17 20:58:10 CET

Me: I’m going to send you some fabric pictures, I was thinking of making you a quilt…
Mum: Oh, I don’t need one.
Me: I was thinking you could have it over your legs in the evening…
Mum: I have a big furry throw for that.
Me: What about when it’s less cold?
Mum: I have a fleecy one. And if I’m cold at night, I have the one you made for your father.
Me: Oh. Ok then.
Mum: I’m not being ungrateful, I just don’t want you to do all that work when I don’t need it.
Me: I’ll be making it anyway, it’s just whether to do it in your choice of fabric….
Mum: No, really, thank you for the offer but no.
Oh. Ok, then. Thanks for telling me, I guess?

2026-02-06 20:34:32 CET

- reply

I can probably do tomorrow afternoon, if you want? I know basically what’s going in it, so I can give you a list.

2025-10-26 22:33:09 CET

- reply

While I agree with the words she was saying, wtf is with the ludicrous over-emoting?

2025-10-25 22:33:42 CEST

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/prince-andrew-from-playboy-to-playstation/
> Oh God, not that. That’s all we need, I thought, reading in a long account of Prince Andrew’s current travails that ‘according to visitors to Royal Lodge’, he now ‘spends much of his time playing video games’. […]
> In that case, we can say that this situation is decipherable – that if you were watching the only life you have known crashing around your ears, you might like to escape into another world. A defining quality of good video games – which makes them as addictive as other things that share this property – is that they are deeply absorbing. They take you out of yourself and into another place. That is not in and of itself a bad thing. Humankind cannot, as a wise man said, bear very much reality. […]
> All those titles and honours he collected, cherish them as he did, arrived by accident of birth. They were imaginary honours – no more substantial than pixels on a screen. Yet there’s something to be learned from that. Even if the wider world now disdains him and the titles he hoarded are gone, he can acquire some new ones in the virtual world. Better ones, in fact.
https://archive.ph/xtKKy

2025-10-11 14:36:40 CEST

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/10/10/asylum-seekers-pay-taliban-to-write-fake-death-threats/
> A Telegraph investigation can reveal how corrupt officials in Afghanistan produce government letters threatening to kill asylum seekers. The letters are then used as evidence in asylum applications.
> To demonstrate how easily such documents can be obtained, an undercover Telegraph reporter paid Taliban officials £40 to produce three fake letters from different regional offices on official headed paper, signed by local administrators. […]
> The official offered two versions: a standard letter for £40 and a “premium” version — complete with an official stamp and a “100 per cent approval rate” — for £200.
https://archive.ph/vYSKN