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2026-08-28 22:04:28 CEST

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Ta.

2026-08-28 18:20:22 CEST

https://x.com/JeanHatchet/status/2093097757359702068?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
“Rape investigation teams” aren’t as much of a pointless sticking plaster if you also do things which are targeted to eliminate rape as a crime.
1. Keep rapists in jail when they’ve been convicted and for the full sentence. It’s one of the most heinous crimes designed to terrorise an entire female population and should be seen as such.
2. Increase CPS referrals and convictions when women report rape, educate juries and instruct judges to ensure conviction rates rise.
3. Don’t allow more rapists into the country which could be prevented and deport all rape risks immediately - I.e any man arriving illegally because he’s already a criminal.
4. Allow men to feel the full consequences of raping women with sufficient sentences for British nationals and immediate deportation for those who are not British nationals.
As a start.
“Burnham fast-tracks specialist rape investigation teams” telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/08/2…

2026-08-27 22:21:07 CEST

https://www.spiked-online.com/2026/08/27/why-cant-politicians-admit-there-are-serious-problems-with-pride/
Someone threatened to put a bullet in my head last weekend. My offence? Questioning whether a local Pride event was suitable for children. At Medway Pride in north Kent, I saw photographs of men in leather fetish gear, a placard reading ‘Trans rights or I bite’, and a young child posing beside an inflatable shark carrying a Progress Pride flag. Medway Pride looked relatively tame compared with some. I’ve seen photographs from Pride events of adults wearing puppy-play masks, collars, chains and harnesses. It’s not uncommon to see stalls selling sex toys. Or hear of sex acts being performed in public.
Over the past few years, a number of people with organisational links to Pride groups have been convicted of, have pleaded guilty to or have been charged with serious child-sex offences. The most notorious was Stephen Ireland, co-founder of Pride in Surrey, jailed for 24 years for raping a 12-year-old boy and other serious offences. He was no fringe figure: he was reportedly described by a former chief constable as ‘a friend of Surrey Police’ and accompanied officers into schools for Pride engagement work. But even without those cases, surely it’s clear to anyone with eyes that Pride is no longer simply about acceptance of gay and bisexual people. It now also encompasses gender identities and the wider QTIA+ umbrella, which is a different set of ideas altogether. And once Pride becomes a vehicle not just for gay rights but for broader ideological and sexual subcultures, you get a blurring of boundaries. This is how you end up with men in fetish gear, on leashes and wearing gimp masks, marching through high streets on a Saturday afternoon alongside the cashiers from Tesco or nurses from the local hospital. But if you object to men in fetish gear hanging around your kids, you’ll be accused of hatred or bigotry – rather than seen as an adult concerned about child safeguarding.

2026-08-27 14:22:29 CEST

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🎯 x :1000:

2026-08-26 21:58:16 CEST

🤬 https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/news-opinion/our-countryside-being-ruined-cornwall-11113255
CornwallLive readers have reacted after a huge solar farm planned across 18 fields in Cornwall's clay country was approved on appeal, despite Cornwall Council previously rejecting it. A Government planning inspector has approved a 32MW solar farm and 45MW Battery Energy Storage System on 61.5 hectares of land next to Trerice Manor Farm in St Dennis. The decision overturns a refusal by Cornwall Council's strategic planning committee in July 2025. Planning officers had recommended approval, but councillors rejected the scheme. The developer, Trerice Solar Farm Limited, a subsidiary of Norwegian owned Statkraft, subsequently appealed and a hearing was held in May. Inspector Hayley Butcher ruled that the scheme would have a "significant adverse impact on the local landscape", as well as causing harm through the long term loss of high quality agricultural land and to the setting of two heritage assets. However, she concluded that the benefits of renewable energy outweighed those harms. The decision comes amid growing concern over the number of large scale energy developments being proposed across Cornwall. Residents in St Dennis have previously said they are fed up with the industrialisation of the countryside, with the area already home to other solar developments and the Cornwall Energy Recovery Centre.
The latest ruling is likely to fuel further debate over the balance between renewable energy targets, protecting Cornwall's landscape and preserving productive farmland. Commenter AJSON thinks: “Solar panels should be going on rooftops, not covering our lovely green fields. With housing estates and solar farms popping up everywhere, Cornwall is being spoilt at a rapid rate. And they don't seem to benefit locals when electricity bills are still so high. Leave the fields alone and use them to grow food instead. The quality of potatoes and fruit in the big supermarkets can be awful, so why not grow more locally and get it into the shops? That would benefit Cornwall far more.”

2026-08-26 15:50:31 CEST

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2026-08-26 14:48:05 CEST

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https://www.instagram.com/p/DcRHQCntn-y/?hl=en
https://www.instagram.com/p/DcenumBtF68/?hl=en
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2026-08-26 14:37:07 CEST

@Flick
Duck heaven! With random swan.
https://www.instagram.com/reels/DcG6qymkQjU/?hl=en

2026-08-26 14:28:00 CEST

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It's all these engineers and doctors we keep getting.

2026-08-26 13:36:09 CEST

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16080923/Two-men-charged-machete-brawl-three-hospital.html
Two men have been charged after a 'machete brawl' in broad daylight left three people injured. Armed officers raced to Calenick Street in Truro, at around 1.45pm on Monday afternoon, after reports of a 'bladed article' being used during a fight.
One man suffered 'a potentially serious injury', though it is not considered life-threatening or life-changing, Devon and Cornwall Police said. Sinjar Zurel, 27, and Seyin Zurel, 24, both from the Malpas area of Truro, have been charged with two counts of causing grievous bodily harm with intent.
Sinjar Zurel has also been charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm and possession of a knife blade/sharp pointed article in a public place.

2026-08-25 22:50:04 CEST

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Oh, believe me, he was universally *loathed* by everyone, staff
and patients and probably the Devil himself. I heard later that he
had been given the order of the boot because he had been doing
a Fandango with a patient, this was in a different working area.

2026-08-25 22:38:53 CEST

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Ask me how I know this 😏

2026-08-24 21:07:30 CEST

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Is it different over there, because here you can scupper a whole
trial by talking about it in the public domain.

2026-08-24 20:58:08 CEST

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I have to say, I am of two minds myself, this is not PPP either.
Which isn't to say she wasn't in some sort of psychotic episode,
and she seems to have been addled by drugs, too many prescriptions
handed out for a start and nothing else, but I am not comfortable with
a lot of the narrative, that aside, I am even more uncomfortable with
the absolute nutters feasting over it all for their own ends, in their
cases knowing full well what they are doing.

2026-08-24 20:25:39 CEST

I don't think this trial should be filmed, it is not helping, and the amount of completely unhinged women, some of them actually doing unpleasant things to their own kids for clicks is revolting. Ghouls. Also the loopers of both Left and Right are using it to further their pet ideologies and it is doing women in general no good whatsoever to be seen behaving in this manner. The whole thing is a crazed feeding frenzy. The lot of them are needing a slap, both sexes. It also isn't helping women who do have PPP, and none of them seem able to tell the difference between it and PND, and it is very different.
https://unherd.com/2026/08/should-feminists-pity-lindsay-clancy/
https://archive.ph/zWJz7

2026-08-24 13:51:44 CEST

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The place is reeking of soot 😬

2026-08-24 12:38:15 CEST

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I mean I wouldn't say no, but I think I need to win some money first!

2026-08-24 11:33:28 CEST

@TriptychTwinsRidesAgain
We both like wrens, right, a friend sent me this saying oh,
I thought you'd like this. I do, but ummmm, which part of
the bloody thing is £200 have you missed :blobnotlike:
She's terrible for this, there is a reason we call her "Spendy"!
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2026-08-23 19:21:14 CEST

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2026-08-23 14:29:44 CEST

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https://www.instagram.com/reels/DcMrZBLg4Jh/?hl=en
This incident happened in a town called Newton Aycliffe, County Durham. A migrant slapped a 12 year old little girl around the face near a Tesco supermarket with a children’s play park adjacent to the building. It was alleged that the police later contacted the girl’s parents to say they could take no action due to the fact they would need an interpreter to speak to the man. There have been other reports of the same migrant watching children in the park for over a week and that park wardens had already reported him several times to the police. Whenever the wardens arrived the man would leave on his bike, hide behind bushes on the main road and keep watching. Officers allegedly spoke to the man, who said he was not good at English.
One of the girl’s parents alleged the police later rang the family and said there was nothing they could do because of the man’s poor English and a lack of evidence. The girl’s parents could not believe the response given by the police as one side of the girl’s face was bright red where the migrant had struck her and she had four friends present who witnessed the incident happen. The post has drawn attention due to the girl’s exceptionally good character in the wider community and the frustration at the lack of action by the police after a child was assaulted by a grown man.

2026-08-23 14:03:28 CEST

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Trannies and Islam two cheeks of the same arse pox, both
licked by the same enablers, fucking atrocious place to
be in, who ever saw this one coming, we worried about nukes.

2026-08-23 13:32:23 CEST

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2026-08-23 13:14:46 CEST

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I tried to sign in but the captcha keeps rejecting me.

2026-08-22 20:02:37 CEST

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Came to say same, shocked, shocked, SHOCKED, *shocked* I tells
you, I mean you don't say, whoda thunk it and well I never, oh my
giddy aunt, SHOCKED!

2026-08-22 15:19:46 CEST

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2026-08-22 14:45:29 CEST

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https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16061237/Black-community-bans-non-German-speakers-swimming-pool.html
Christoph Meyer, lead FDP candidate for the 2026 Berlin state election, voiced his outrage to German media outlets. 'A "people's pool" that divides people according to their skin colour makes a mockery of its own name. 'Public places must bring society together, not separate people according to skin colour.' And then comes another public swimming-related scandal in Halle on the river Saale, in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt – and this time the setting could hardly be more different.
But these two swimming-based scandals reveal just how toxic the issue of public swimming areas in Germany has become, with pools repeatedly hit by reports of overcrowding, violence and sexual harassment. In June 2022, Berlin's Sommerbad am Insulaner saw a water-pistol fight escalate into an all-out brawl involving around 100 men. Police needed 13 patrol cars and parts of a riot-control unit to bring the situation under control. That same year, Berlin's Columbia swimming pool saw a confrontation between guests and staff followed by a fight in which 11 people were injured and three arrested. Other parts of the country have also seen serious incidents. In September 2023, a 13-year-old girl reported being sexually assaulted at Cologne's Agrippabad. Police investigated eight suspects, including four Syrians, three Turks and one Iraqi.
And on June 22 last year, two separate incidents were reported.
In Gelnhausen, around 25 miles outside Frankfurt, eight girls aged between 11 and 16 reported being touched across their bodies in a swimming pool by a group of men, leading to four Syrian men aged between 18 and 28 being investigated. In Hof, police said a 12-year-old girl was repeatedly pushed underwater by two men aged 18 and 20 and suffered a bloody nose. Both suspects were Syrian. The cases have fuelled a fierce political argument over whether German swimming pools have become unsafe – and over the role of immigration and integration in that debate.

2026-08-21 21:58:00 CEST

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Tony Blair should be up for treason for what he did, also
unleashing bloody Albanian criminals on us, some of the
worst monsters going.

2026-08-21 20:11:42 CEST

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other/anyone-worried-about-migrants-was-called-racist-but-we-ve-just-got-proof-we-were-right/ar-AA2aAysA?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6a88936d2f43497ca98f1ae3589119ee&ei=20
Since Tony Blair opened our doors to the world Britain has been on the downslope. Initially the crisis was batted away. Migrants mainly smuggling themselves into the UK in the back of cargo lorries was considered a mild inconvenience. Not any longer. Last year 41,472 pitched up here on dinghies - 34,201 of them men - and most went on to claim asylum. And remember, these are the ones known to the authorities. The true number here - and goodness only knows where - is anyone's guess.
We have seen panic in Epping, Thetford, Crowborough, Piddington, and a hundred other places aside, riots in Northern Ireland, and still the Government shrugs its shoulders as a liberal elite typified by bleeding hearts like Jolyon Maugham and his ilk who regularly cry foul and label genuine concern as to who comes here as the wolf whistle of the Right. But now we know the worries that started to gather pace 20 or so years ago were with reason. In a sign of just how far Britain has been run into the ground asylum seekers - those who have entered the UK illegally - have been told by our actual government not to rape, beat, or attempt to subjugate our women. A Home Office guidebook lays bare the "rules and expectations" of living in Britain. And everyone who pitches up will be handed one, along with gold-plated taxpayer support.
The publication of the document - at vast expense to taxpayers - will deepen anger not least because the public has been repeatedly told men coming here illegally pose no imminent danger to British women and girls. This categorically proves otherwise.

2026-08-21 16:39:14 CEST

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God alone knows, and they are probably fancier now too, compared
to the ones I saw in my 20s. Friend and I were at a textile event with
her aunt, I remember her saying bloody hell, that cost more than
my car did, as in my friend's. A 2nd hand banger called Gertie.

2026-08-21 16:33:25 CEST

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Always fancied, when could still sew, being able to have a play
around with one of these, the reality would of course be that I
picked it up and threw it out the window. They cost squillions though,
or they used to, but that was back then, maybe cheaper now.

2026-08-21 16:02:22 CEST

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It is, and this is fucking shameful.

2026-08-21 15:50:09 CEST

🤦 FFS, behave yourselves will you.
https://unherd.com/newsroom/postpartum-psychosis-is-turning-into-tiktok-entertainment/
Out of this tragedy, some concerning trends have emerged. Online spectators are posting their trial takes as if they’re kids spotting clues in a fictional whodunnit, while others are performing “postpartum tantrums” as if becoming psychotic and killing infants was good fodder for comedy sketches. Everyone has an opinion, and most have personal agendas.
Who does livestreaming this horrific, complex ordeal really benefit? Video coverage of criminal trials is not a requirement. Whether courts should allow it is a live debate. On the one hand, video allows the public to observe justice directly and can expose misleading accounts. On the other hand, cameras change court participants’ behaviour, turning proceedings into entertainment, and can produce misleading reporting that goes viral on social media.
One online “therapist” posting about the Clancy trial shared a 10-minute rant to her 100,000+ TikTok followers, captioned “the prosecution’s lies”. A social worker, she presented herself as an authority, alleging that she worked at a hospital where Clancy once received treatment. But she admitted she didn’t personally treat Clancy, and had stopped working at the hospital before Clancy was ever treated there. Clancy’s lawyer found the viral video and tried to make the woman a defense witness. She was called to court — which garnered media attention — and presented evidence while the jury wasn’t there. Her “evidence” wasn’t material: she was simply “emotional” about the livestreamed trial describing hospital staffing levels in a way that was “not aligned” with her lived “experience”. Judge William Sullivan did not allow her testimony. But she has already benefited from the media attention.
https://archive.ph/SPRkd

2026-08-20 18:35:39 CEST

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I see.

2026-08-20 18:25:57 CEST

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As usual I have never heard of her, was she an actress or a singer?

2026-08-20 16:20:35 CEST

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Kerry and Donegal, the Irish equivalent of places like Brechin
and surrounding, once they really get going.

2026-08-20 16:07:48 CEST

Fucking AI bullshit strikes again, enough of this crap, we
do not need it.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/aug/20/yorkshire-rotherham-ai-gp-receptionist-cannot-understand-accent
It said it was hearing accounts of the AI not understanding local accents. Its manager, Kym Gleeson, told the BBC: “One of the issues is this system can’t always understand what people’s inquiry is about due to their broad Yorkshire accent. “Across South Yorkshire, accents do vary quite a lot. There are different twangs so there’s a lot of variation. It seems the system isn’t always able to understand, so that causes frustration.” The system, which is being used by an increasing number of GP surgeries across the UK, aims to answer every patient call “instantly”, eliminating the often long wait times patients experience in a phone queue, waiting to speak to a receptionist. Gleeson said Emma had the potential to be a good system, but one disgruntled patient told Healthwatch: “I could never get it to understand me, I ended up just hanging up and not bothering to try and book an appointment.”
The feedback came after the watchdog contacted groups representing older people and veterans’ communities, Gleeson said. “What they were telling us was they were having issues navigating this system. “Some of the people were so frustrated at not being able to understand how to navigate this AI system, it was forcing them to travel back to their GP surgery in person. The usual route of using a telephone was no longer a comfortable process for them.” Healthwatch said concerns around Emma were heightened when considering people less confident about using digital technology, or people with disabilities. “It’s important to remember that GP practices still have a legal duty to make reasonable adjustments for patients who need them,” it said.

2026-08-20 13:40:32 CEST

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🤢 urgh, nasty. Disappointing too.
There is an alley in Inverness, and one either side of it at the
bottom are cafes, the place stinks of grotty old oil etc, I am
not sure which of them it is that is responsible, but it's disgusting.

2026-08-20 13:23:54 CEST

Her face 😔
https://www.instagram.com/reels/Db7eKQnKurA/
This is pure medieval barbarity and it needs to end.
A 60-year-old man in Afghanistan is taking a teenager as his third wife. The girl is being forced into marriage with an old man who already has two wives.
Child marriage is not culture. It is abuse.
The UK has resettled tens of thousands of Afghans since 2021, with the wider Afghan-born population now well over 85,000. While UK law sets the marriage age at 18 and makes forced marriage a crime, the same cultural attitudes that enable this in Afghanistan have been brought here. No community should be allowed to push parallel systems that put girls at risk of the same fate.
This practice has no place in 2026 — anywhere.

2026-08-20 12:55:59 CEST

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Cheetah purrs! Imagine having that lying on the end of the bed.
https://www.instagram.com/reels/DbYAdhailGk/

2026-08-20 12:09:57 CEST

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I just can't believe this is where we are, it's like a black comedy
sketch. Seriously, are they insane, and shows what they think
of the women in the country they are supposed to govern and
PROTECT. What are they getting out of this, because there must
be something, to allow an invasion by dangerous males. Of course
the usual wanks are bleating on that Uk men need this info too,
yes, we know etc, but the fact remains that there is an extra
layer here of these men come from a culture which actually
advocates for the abuse of women and children and on top
of that it takes very little to lose one's rights. The more of this
shit coming in, the more power it gets the more chances of
a sudden fuck me then here we are under Sharia etc, it is
not impossible, given how they are being enabled and how
violent they are, and that this is their stated goal too.

2026-08-19 22:36:26 CEST

Monica I LOVE me some trannies and spend all my
time shitting down on the bad women who say NO Lennon.
Fuck off will you, two faced piece of shit hypocrite!
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/26429910.monica-lennon-scottish-labour-race-reeks-misogyny/
"Scottish Labour is about to repeat the same mistakes," Ms Lennon wrote on X. "We can't accuse others of cronyism if we operate like a private members' club, placing personal and factional ties above principles and the country. We must debate big ideas, find our backbone and rediscover boldness.
"This 'contest' reeks of misogyny and male entitlement. That's the road to nowhere. We're not here for a social life or to win an occasional debate. We were created to win power for working class communities and lead in government, not from the gutter. "The day after I declared my interests, I was on @BBCRadioScot encouraging others to step forward. I've never feared a contest; it's necessary. Why do men expect a coronation or a ballot without women? I stand with @KatySClark and all women in our party."
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2026-08-18 22:10:05 CEST

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Sticks, battle axes and other assorted weaponry to hand.

2026-08-18 22:08:27 CEST

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I shall join you, we can roar together x

2026-08-18 20:39:14 CEST

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2026-08-18 19:34:38 CEST

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjrvxveqd4go
A Scottish wildcat has been recorded swimming in the wild for the first time, according to a conservation project.
The female, which was born in captivity in 2022 and released into the wild in 2024, was spotted by a group of friends canoeing on the River Spey earlier this summer.
Saving Wildcats, which involves the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS), identified the cat because it has a GPS radio collar which allows it to be tracked. The wildcat, called Sully, was released as part of the project's efforts to boost numbers of the animals in the Cairngorms National Park.
Saving Wildcats said the report and images from the group of friends helped to further understanding of wildcats' behaviour in the wild. The swimming wildcat was first spotted by Craig Porter and his friends David McKillop and Will Walter were then able to capture video and images of it.

2026-08-17 22:31:44 CEST

😱 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy8ez9q98yjo
About 200 tonnes of asbestos that was dumped illegally in four lorry trailers has been moved to a specialist disposal centre, a council said.
The hazardous waste was found at various locations along the A10 and A120, which connects Puckeridge, Hertfordshire, and Harwich, Essex.
Hertfordshire County Council said it was one of the most serious fly-tipping incidents it has had to deal with and the clean-up has cost up to £200,000.
Stephen Giles-Medhurst, a Liberal Democrat councillor and executive member for highways at the authority, said: "This is nothing but a criminal activity that has cost taxpayers heavily as we not only had to fund the clean-up but the disposal of this waste."
There are strict regulations around the removal of asbestos and its disposal.
The council added the "dangerous" shredded material had to be removed from the trailers by hand by specialist contractors in protective suits, and then decontaminated.

2026-08-17 20:20:44 CEST

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I love bats, fruit bats especially, they look like our Tommy with wings,
we call him Tombat. There's quite a lot of them where son lives. There
are some down on the land next to the bridge here.

2026-08-17 16:26:43 CEST

😆
https://www.instagram.com/p/Dbx1R-_tbbJ/
Someone flipped the camera on a group of bats hanging in their enclosure and the result looks exactly like a crowded goth nightclub. The animals shuffle around on the mesh floor, stretch their wings, and interact with buckets that suddenly resemble glowing club lights in the inverted view.
Bats naturally roost upside down thanks to specialized leg tendons that lock in place without effort, a trait that lets them take off instantly by simply dropping into flight. This clever camera trick has gone viral for years by turning their everyday behavior into pure surreal comedy that still hits every time it resurfaces.

2026-08-17 14:31:29 CEST

*Ah yes, he simply “misinterpreted” her request for help.
So let’s look at what actually happened. She was intoxicated, feeling unwell, and asked for help. He was subsequently convicted and sentenced to a year in detention*
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2026-08-16 16:39:04 CEST

@GrumpyOldNurse
Boss...were you playing 🤣
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqx77qenx0ro
A pipe band from Canada has been crowned World Pipe Band champions - the first time in 16 years that a band outside the UK has taken the honour.
The Simon Fraser University pipe band won the coveted title following the two-day event at Glasgow Green.
The Field Marshal Montgomery pipe band from Lisburn, Northern Ireland, was runner-up, with the Peoples Ford Boghall and Bathgate Caledonia band, coming third.
A total of 211 bands from 14 countries, including youth bands, took part in the "truly thrilling and fiercely contested competition".

2026-08-15 14:58:21 CEST

*UK: Illegal Sikh immigrant who raped woman with Downs syndrome and sexually assaulted two nurses can’t be deported as he won’t sign the paperwork. Harjit Singh, 48, who has been in the UK for 19 years, is unwilling to co-operate with a Home Office bid to arrange emergency travel documents to get him flown out. Officials are unable to resort to tougher measures and will have to turn to the Indian embassy for help, an immigration hearing was told*
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2026-08-14 22:00:56 CEST

https://news.sky.com/story/jason-arday-former-cambridge-university-professor-found-dead-after-resigning-following-plagiarism-row-13573124
Jason Arday, former Cambridge university professor, found dead after resigning following plagiarism row
A former University of Cambridge professor who resigned following accusations of plagiarism has been found dead.
Jason Arday was found "unresponsive" at an address in Battersea in London on Friday afternoon.
The 41-year-old, who became Cambridge's youngest black professor in 2023, resigned as a professor of sociology of education last week.
It followed a series of reports alleging he plagiarised his PhD thesis at Liverpool John Moores University.
Other claims also came under scrutiny, including that he ran 600 miles in six days and raised millions for charity.

2026-08-14 14:54:40 CEST

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Oh me too, very annoying.

2026-08-13 19:49:43 CEST

https://www.connachttribune.ie/news/crime-courts/rape-galway-train-station-court-8888421
Two men accused of raping a woman in the car-park of Galway city’s Ceannt Railway Station last week have been further remanded in custody.
A 27-year-old man and his 25-year-old co-accused appeared via video-link at Galway District Court and proceedings were explained with the help of an Arabic interpreter. The men were previously refused bail at a special sitting of the district court.
Each man is charged with the rape of a female on August 1 at Ceannt Railway Station car-park, contrary to section 48 of the Offences Against The Person Act and section 2 (1) of the Criminal Law Rape Amendment Act, as amended by section 21 of the Criminal Law Rape Amendment Act. The men are also charged with falsely imprisoning the same alleged victim on the same date and at the same location, an offence contrary to section 15 of the Non Fatal Offences Against The Person Act. Sergeant Christy Browne told the court the State were seeking a two week remand to obtain directions from the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) on how the case is to proceed.

2026-08-13 16:20:15 CEST

Away and shite 🤬
https://humanevents.com/2026/08/12/irish-people-told-by-nigerian-born-anti-racism-official-to-stop-speaking-irish-like-the-british-first-did-660-years-ago
Ireland’s Government-appointed Special Rapporteur on Racial Equality and Racism has sparked outrage after telling Irish people to abandon the country’s native language, repeatedly pleading with panelists: “Please, please, please stop it — please let it go. We don’t need to speak Irish.”
Nigerian-born Dr Ebun Joseph, who was appointed by the Government in 2024 as Ireland’s first Special Rapporteur on Racial Equality and Racism, made the remarks during a podcast discussion in which the Irish language was being debated. Joseph then appeared to mock the idea that African countries are somehow culturally backward, saying: “That’s what makes me laugh when they say Africa is backward. I’m like, stop it — [Ireland's] been doing this stuff for years.”
Irish is not merely a cultural curiosity but is constitutionally recognized as the national language and first official and native language of the State, and famously, was almost eradicated under British occupation, when Irish people were warned not to speak it. Britian's attempts to snuff out the Irish language first began in 1366 with the Statutes of Kilkenny, when English-controlled authorities restricted the use of Irish among English settlers and their children in Ireland. This prohibited them from adopting Irish customs and language.
The Flare reported that Joseph is routinely given air time and coverage on Irish media to promote anti-Irish rhetoric, funded by tax-payers. Joseph’s role is intended to 'provide an independent evaluation of the Government’s implementation of its National Action Plan Against Racism'. Article 8 of the Constitution recognizes Gaeilge, which the language of the overwhelming majority of the population before centuries of violent political, economic and cultural domination by Britain, after which it fell into decline. The language became associated with poverty and disadvantage, while English increasingly became the language of administration, education and economic opportunity.

2026-08-13 16:06:19 CEST

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Oh you bet.

2026-08-10 11:44:43 CEST

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and yet mad rapist killers can't be deported.

2026-08-10 00:09:42 CEST

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52 million 🤯 good God.

2026-08-09 11:49:48 CEST

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/09/the-hill-i-will-die-on-earphones-music-humanity-headphones
Er, excuse me. Hello? I’m sorry, but would you mind taking your … I SAID, WOULD YOU MIND TAKING THOSE EARPHONES OUT FOR A SECOND, PLEASE? I try, in the main, to be a live-and-let-live kind of person. Patient. Considerate. But this patience is being tested to breaking point by the proliferation, the epidemic, of almost-ubiquitous earphones. The world must be shut out, apparently. The wearer has nothing to learn or gain by listening to anybody else in their vicinity. They would rather be elsewhere, plunged into music or a novel or maybe a noisy pavement phone call, which will remain, sadly for the accidental eavesdropper, a slightly odd one-way exchange only.
The hill I will die on is that there is a fascinating and beautiful world out there, filled with conversation and laughter and the possibility of making new friends and acquaintances. But instead of taking part in all that, people prefer to plug in their earphones, tune in and drop out.* This phenomenon seems to be 21st-century proof of Pascal’s belief that the “inability to sit quietly in a room alone” is the source of all our problems. There must be constant, piped-in noise. Silence is the enemy.
Imagine if, two centuries earlier, Wordsworth had wandered lonely with his AirPods in. Would he have ever heard the “still, sad music of humanity, / Not harsh nor grating, though of ample power / To chasten and subdue”?

2026-08-08 11:49:00 CEST

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Me, I'd be fuck off out of my face, you misogynistic wankers or
I'll tear you a new arsehole. Homosexual men piss me off right
royally, I will not sacred caste them.

2026-08-04 20:21:15 CEST

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You should come here, there are ponds on the road, it hasn't stopped
since last night and now there's thick mist on top of it 😒

2026-08-02 20:12:11 CEST

Oh good grief, this shit is out of control, this
is NOT healthy.
https://www.sundaypost.com/fp/sp-griefbots/
Every few evenings, Justin Harrison makes sure to have a chat with his mum, like any son might do. Only Justin’s mum Melodi died four years ago.
“I talk to my mum two or three times every week, just as I always have done,” said Justin.
“In 2019, I was in a serious motorbike accident, then a couple of months later, my mum was diagnosed with stage four gallbladder cancer. I was thinking about mortality in ways I’d never had to before. “I went to support groups, but nothing worked for me. Then I started questioning why no one was using all this AI technology that was on the rise to enable us to have authentic connections with people after they died.” Before her death, both Justin and his mum spent 18 months on a service called You, Only Virtual in order to capture a type of digital impression of Melodi. Justin is one of a growing number of people turning to AI-powered “griefbots”, which impersonate a loved one so you can still talk to them beyond the grave.

2026-08-01 17:20:08 CEST

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16021745/Marks-Spencer-drop-ban-tape-measures-bra-fittings-row-transgender-staff-helping-female-shoppers.html
Marks & Spencer has dropped a controversial ban on tape measures for bra fittings which was introduced following a row about transgender staff assisting female customers. The subsequent ban on tape measurements meant shoppers had to rely on measurements by eye as well as then trying on different sizes. Customers and staff complained that the process was too time consuming. Now shoppers will be given the option of choosing a tape measurement if they wish. One employee last night hailed the lifting of the ban as a ‘victory for common sense.’ The U-Turn will also be linked to the ongoing debate about trans rights. In a post on X, the author said it was wrong that the store had ‘prioritised the wishes of men’ despite an earlier Supreme Court judgment which had reaffirmed the right to changing rooms based on biological sex.
She wrote: ‘It’s time for women to vote with their wallets. If stores like M&S continue to flout the Supreme Court ruling on women-only spaces, prioritising the wishes of men who want to undress near, or help fit bras on teenage girls, a boycott seems appropriate.’ M&S apologised to the customer and insisted that the employee had meant to offer general assistance rather than help with a bra fitting. The store has always maintained that its subsequent ban on tape measurements had nothing to do with that controversy. M&S said last night: ‘As the UK’s lingerie market leader, we continuously improve our service. ‘We have an expert team of trained bra fitters, and they can use a tape measure if they or the customer prefers this. ‘We have recently communicated this to our colleagues to make this clearer.’

2026-07-31 22:39:44 CEST

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Himself's friend has one, he said it cost 2k 😳
Too hairy for me, all that grooming, but majestic.

2026-07-30 19:16:19 CEST

https://unherd.com/2026/07/the-truth-about-britains-social-care-cartel/
I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. I’ve seen things Andy Burnham wouldn’t believe. While lying paralysed in a hospital bed, I have watched NHS nurses telling agency staff to just stand over there and do nothing, because they were so incompetent they were making things worse by trying to help. I’ve had the terrifying prospect of trying to explain to somebody who can’t speak English — and yet is working in a spinal unit in a hospital ward — in the middle of the night, why I desperately need them to get the nurse. Because if my autonomic dysreflection isn’t arrested, I’m going to have a stroke and then die. I’ve had the rather different experience of returning to my ward to find a care worker asleep on the radiator. If the worst three words in the English language are “rail replacement bus”, then the most terrifying for a long-term hospital inpatient are “agency staff”. NHS rules dictate that a certain number of care staff have to be on the ward floor to support nurses as a legal requirement — even if the agency staff recruited to be in line with the law make the work of the nurses harder. When I learned that these agency staff were trained over Zoom before being sent into hospitals, I wasn’t exactly surprised.
https://archive.ph/8IlBV

2026-07-30 14:45:17 CEST

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Sickening. The way this shite crashed out the woodwork and took
over is mind blowing.

2026-07-26 22:04:22 CEST

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It was called Connie, because the Gaelic for a rabbit is
coineanach, I actually think she still has it, and she has her
own child now.

2026-07-26 21:55:44 CEST

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I gave a rabbit toy, a large floppy sort of thing, to a friend's baby,
who is now in her early 30s, when she was born. It went everywhere,
and ended up wearing a babygro to keep it together!

2026-07-21 18:38:21 CEST

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I had never heard of them, handy. Our kitchen is a disgrace,
doors falling off left, right and centre, replaced with curtains
on a wire. Now if money was no object I would call in DeVol 🤣

2026-07-15 14:13:30 CEST

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Oh good going, hope she is on the mend now, poor soul.

2026-07-14 15:09:46 CEST

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How's your friend doing now?

2026-07-08 12:44:42 CEST

So many bloody horrible kids who have never had
a seconds discipline in their worthless lives. Quit
the excuses for shite parenting.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czrxjl278nlo
Charlotte Green, who lives next to Hillsborough Park, said incidents were happening on an almost "daily basis".
"We've had gangs of lads, all faces all wrapped up, on bicycles tearing down the street at midnight throwing rocks and smashing cars. "It's upsetting for all of us but what would the police do, chase kids on bikes?" John Watkins has been the manager of Hillsborough Exchange Shopping Centre for 15 years.
He has shared CCTV footage with police of youths riding through his centre. "They're using bikes to travel around with hats on and masks to shield their identity and causing mayhem throwing eggs at people in cars," he said.

2026-07-03 16:47:42 CEST

🙄
https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/scottish-news/scots-told-ditch-meat-milk-37382018
Scots have been told they should changes to their diet as it could help the country reach its climate goals. Scientists at the University of Edinburgh suggest that replacing processed and unprocessed meat, as well as dairy, could deliver environmental and health benefits without increasing the overall cost of diets. They recommend using vegetables, beans and eggs instead of products like cheese and milk. A study led by the university assessed 33 different ways of meeting the UK Climate Change Committee’s recommendations for sustainable diets. The research examined the impact of dietary changes on greenhouse gas emissions, land and water use, nutrient intake, diet costs and health conditions including type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Across all scenarios modelled in the study, reductions in meat and dairy consumption were associated with improvements in health outcomes and environmental indicators.

2026-06-19 21:32:46 CEST

@Maud_Gonner
I used to play here a lot as a child
https://www.instagram.com/reels/DZxyXV9sLZ9/

2026-06-18 11:52:20 CEST

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15907203/Judge-granted-Jamaican-paedophile-right-enter-Britain-barring-breach-human-rights.html
Immigration judges granted a convicted child sex offender the right to enter Britain after ruling that barring him would breach his human rights. The latest shocking example of a ‘deeply perverse’ ruling from the immigration courts involves Jamaican paedophile Oniel Spence, who was jailed in the United States for a sexual offence against a 15-year-old girl. Details of the case are revealed by the Daily Mail for the first time today after shadow home secretary Chris Philp this week blasted judges’ ‘tyranny’ over the immigration system. Spence, now 43, applied to come to the UK in 2023 to join his wife and child - who are both British nationals - but was blocked by the Home Office.
Officials barred his application on the grounds his exclusion was ‘conducive to the public good’. The paedophile then lodged an appeal at the lower immigration tribunal and won permission to come here from immigration judge Jonathan Greer. His lawyers argued preventing him from entering Britain had breached Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), which covers the right to ‘private and family life’. The Home Secretary at the time, Yvette Cooper, appealed to the upper immigration tribunal against the decision. But judges Madeleine Reeds and Nathan Moxon refused her arguments. Current Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood then brought a further case at the Court of Appeal.
Earlier this month senior judges overturned the original decision, describing it as ‘perverse’, and ordered the case to be re-heard by the first-tier tribunal. It means Spence could still win his case in a future re-hearing.

2026-06-12 14:02:32 CEST

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I hate it so much, it freaks me out, as in such behaviour.
and exactly that.

2026-05-26 20:46:02 CEST

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Astonishing, isn't it!

2026-05-26 17:52:01 CEST

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It's bloody outrageous, so sick of these people getting off
with every criminal act and indeed get assistance to commit them.

2026-05-23 22:02:10 CEST

https://unherd.com/newsroom/trans-report-shows-how-far-amnesty-uk-has-fallen/
When a Facebook post this week flagged a new Amnesty UK report “exposing the UK’s anti-trans networks”, it stopped me in my tracks. The accompanying text described the rise of the UK’s “gender critical” movement, a “hostile environment against trans people”, and the role of the media in “normalizing anti-trans narratives”. It ended with the slogan: “Trans rights are human rights.” The report itself — entitled “Like a snowball: the growth and impact of the gender critical movement in the UK” — is extraordinary. At points, it reads less like a human-rights report than a dossier on a dangerous extremist network, rather than women who simply do not want to get undressed in front of men. The report claims to map “GC actors” and funding streams, repeatedly framing gender-critical women as part of a broader anti-rights movement alongside ultra-conservative religious groups. The media is partly responsible for growing negativity towards trans people, it claims, and the increasing use of phrases such as “biological sex” and “single-sex spaces” helped normalize gender-critical ideas within public discourse.
Perhaps the most revealing section comes at the end, where Amnesty advises journalists to platform more trans voices, produce more “positive” stories about trans people and avoid “gotcha questions” such as “can women have a penis?” At which point one begins to wonder whether this is a serious report from an international human-rights organization — or an activist guide to shaping media narratives. That an organization once associated with defending dissidents and civil liberties now appears to view ordinary women organizing around lawful beliefs as something suspicious and dangerous is deeply unsettling. It is difficult not to notice the timing of the report — published in the morning, updated EHRC guidance following last year’s Supreme Court ruling was due to be released — making the tone feel less like confidence than panic from an organization confronted with the reality that ideology cannot override the law.
https://archive.ph/5415N

2026-05-16 20:20:49 CEST

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Oh that looks good.

2026-05-16 14:47:20 CEST

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https://media.spinster.xyz/acde614c179d1de942ed6f3692635f4b18dd3ed2dc567b5541870d886f0fd28d.png

2026-05-16 14:46:29 CEST

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https://www.uistforestretreat.co.uk/white-tailed-eagle/

2026-05-16 13:46:29 CEST

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I am not good at telling these birds apart, vague idea re kestrels,
and sparrow hawks here, eagles, obviously, but other than that.

2026-05-12 12:20:06 CEST

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Meanwhile
https://spinster.xyz/notice/B6CCDSf5GVo5DIRRFA

2026-05-05 21:20:51 CEST

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/nurseries-urged-to-report-racist-toddlers-to-police/ar-AA22rLju?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=69fa424b247b4945ac427e8a1d959ddb&ei=16
Welsh nurseries have been advised to report children for “racist incidents” in guidance backed by the Labour Government.The taxpayer-funded guidance for childminders aims to make nurseries and play groups “anti-racist” environments. Childcare workers are advised to call police if a “racist incident” occurs that could be deemed a hate crime. Advised actions include calling 999 for emergencies, or otherwise speaking to police officers and taking “relevant action in conjunction with the police, ensuring you record all details of the incident”. If the incident is not a hate crime, childcare workers can instead take steps including offering “age-appropriate learning support opportunities for the perpetrator”.
If the incident is not a hate crime, childcare workers can instead take steps including offering “age-appropriate learning support opportunities for the perpetrator”. Should this be “met with resistance”, childcare workers are advised to draw up a “disciplinary route”, with various outcomes explained in a flowchart. Those in the childcare, play and early years sector in Wales work with children aged 12 and below, including babies and toddlers. The guidance advises staff in playgroups and other settings to conduct an “understanding audit” and to ask themselves, on a scale of one to five, how well they “understand what white privilege is and how it can affect my life and the lives of others”. Childcare professionals are advised to audit their spaces to ensure that books, dolls, posters and displays are suitably diverse, and to “make sure your anti-racist stance is visible”, including in snacks provided. The guidance also tells workers: “Toileting practices vary across cultures. These practices may be very different from your own, but it does not make them unsanitary or incorrect.”

2026-05-05 12:06:56 CEST

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😆 I laugh, but there is a collective madness out there
today which is genuinely scary, and a lack of common
sense and knowledge too.

2026-05-03 13:14:12 CEST

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My God.

2026-04-24 21:42:11 CEST

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https://www.instagram.com/reels/DVL7GxRDfZk/?hl=en

2026-04-21 20:27:45 CEST

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I think I need some!

2026-04-18 15:34:06 CEST

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🧛‍♀️

2026-04-17 15:08:43 CEST

https://unherd.com/2026/04/spare-me-labours-summer-of-sex/
Early exposure to pornography can affect people strangely. In an interview this week in Politics Home, Labour MP Samantha Niblett recalled the first time she clapped eyes on the stuff. “I was 10… And I sometimes wonder, having seen it so young… whether that has shaped the person that I am today.” Reading about her newly launched sex education campaign for the nation — promoting masturbation for health improvement, bringing sex toys into parliament, encouraging fellow MPs to talk openly about orgasms — I’ll admit, I started to wonder about that too. Niblett’s big idea is to herald in what she calls a “summer of sex”, instructing the general public in the art of having satisfying, mutually respectful erotic experiences. She plans to team up with a fellow sex positivist — the equally improbably named Cindy Gallop — to replace the pornographic stereotypes in people’s heads with images of “real people” having sexual contact. In other words: don’t picture the slick thrustings of Pornhub, think Matt Hancock smooching in an office. Gallop is the founder of MakeLoveNotPorn (MLNP), a website where, according to its own hype, you can “watch real world sex videos in all their loving, hot, and messy humanness”. Niblett apparently enjoys visiting the site herself — “It’s a turn on, it helps you masturbate, helps you cum”, she elaborates to the reporter, somewhat unnecessarily — and says she is looking to facilitate engagement between its founder and government ministers.
Of course — as Niblett’s fellow MPs have been quick to point out — this is all a right Carry On, and a distraction from current political priorities: wars, looming food shortages, systemic state failures resulting in the murder of children. As Kemi Badenoch pithily put it in the Commons, “it gives a whole new meaning to fiddling while Rome burns”. Stung by the criticism, Niblett has apparently now changed her PR strategy, suggesting yesterday that the campaign is for the benefit of “old people” who “want to have sex”. Presumably Badenoch’s Spads are brainstorming double entendres about the triple lock as I write. It is obvious that porn use, among other modern malaises, is infecting sexual behavior to the detriment of both women and men, but the solution cannot be yet more porn — for this is indeed what MLNP provides, despite the disclaimer in its title.
A real sex education must be, partly, a moral education, and moral education involves judgment by definition; yet modern moralists have a kink for being non-judgmental, as their preferred phrasing goes. Accordingly, they treat sexual activity as utterly unlike any other sphere of human behavior: as bizarrely insulated from everyday attitudes like hatred and resentment, even when the actions undertaken are obviously hateful and resentful. In no other context could you slap someone hard in the face, choke them, pull them around on a lead, or intentionally cause them to retch, yet still claim later without embarrassment that you “respected” them hugely throughout. Since only radical feminists and religious types seem willing to contest this absurd narrative, vacuous platitudes from the likes of Niblett and Gallop about “better communication”, “freeing people from shame” and, of course, “increasing consent” will likely continue unabated, circling vaguely around the real ethical dilemmas of sexual interaction but never actually engaging. In a 2019 interview, Gallop talked of plans to start a business called ConSensual: not, as you may have first feared, a sex education site aimed at Conservative Party members, but rather a “safe social sexting app, which both enables you to sext completely securely and improves your sexual communication in your relationship (I have this all planned out in the pipeline, I just need investors)”. Imagine a Cindy-avatar in kinky boots, cheerfully reminding you that if someone calls you a filthy, disgusting whore, that’s perfectly fine, as long as you happen to like it; but absolutely not if you don’t!
https://archive.ph/0HCid

2026-04-16 22:08:26 CEST

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/article/spot-ferry-dog-death-scotland-0rrhwp3p5
Scotland’s last working ferry dog has died after years of loyal service on a picturesque tourist route.
Spot, a border collie, was present for the arrival of almost every crossing of the MV Glenachulish, which travels between Glenelg and Kylerhea on the Isle of Skye.
The dog, who greeted visitors and assisted with mooring ropes, was the most popular member of the crew of the last manually operated turntable operating anywhere in the world.
Spot was the grandson of Nak, the original ferry dog, who worked on the route for more than ten years, pulling in ropes and alerting passengers to the presence of seals in nearby waters.
Nak died, aged 15, in 2023, prompting tributes from around the globe.
Jo Crawford, general manager of the Isle of Skye Ferry Community Interest Company, which operates the seasonal ferry, said passengers had been spellbound by Spot, claiming the Collie had become a tourist attraction in his own right.
https://archive.ph/YRDL5
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2026-04-16 16:54:52 CEST

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Yeah, it's a bit ummmmm.
I haven't done them this year but I suppose I ought to
ring up for some soon, it costs a whack too. Oddly enough,
given they are both outside it seems to be Toms who gets
the ticks, not found many on Wilfy. I do a search through
them every day to see if any around, filthy feckin things.
I usually buy the 3 pack, then just another one for if
have to do it again at some point.

2026-04-16 13:11:26 CEST

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My elderly cousin has made her mind up, she isn't merely
"watching him", she can't stand him 😆 No Pope posters in
her house!

2026-04-16 13:03:04 CEST

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Yep, and made a sacred caste so never ever challenged about
their revolting beliefs.

2026-04-15 21:01:13 CEST

https://newideal.aynrand.org/ayaan-hirsi-ali-on-migration-islam-and-women-as-prey/
“Talking about violence by Muslim men against European women is unfashionable in an age of identity politics, when we are supposed to operate within a partly historical matrix of victimhood.” It is even harder, she notes, when the topic is a “favorite of Russian agents of disinformation as well as ‘alt-right’ trolls.” She rejects both fashionable denial and xenophobic fearmongering, and instead strives to understand the actual scale of the problem and its causes. One unsubtle sign of the problem was an incident in the German city of Cologne, on New Year’s Eve 2015. In the square near the city’s cathedral, some 1,500 men of Arab and North African backgrounds massed together. These men, mostly asylum seekers, sexually harassed and assaulted seemingly any women they could grab. Some victims described being separated from friends or husbands, and “pushed inside ‘hell circles’ of young migrant men.” The men “groped women and girls, no matter their age, appearance or circumstances, grabbing their breasts and between their legs. One woman described several men trying to insert their fingers into her vagina.” Some assaults went on for upwards of thirty minutes.
That night in Cologne calls to mind the horrific “rape game” (taharrush gamea, in Arabic), known in North Africa. It’s a practice made infamous, Hirsi Ali notes, by the ordeal that Lara Logan, a CBS journalist, experienced in Cairo’s thronged Tahrir Square. Covering the so-called Arab Spring protests in 2011, she was separated from her camera crew, swarmed by a gang of men who tore her clothes off, and violently raped her with “sticks, flag poles, hands — at a certain point I lost track,” for at least twenty minutes. In Cologne, 661 women “reported being victims of sexual attacks that night.” One of the major claims of Hirsi Ali’s book is that there’s a more-than-anecdotal relationship between a rise in sexual violence against women in Europe and the influx of immigrants from Muslim-majority countries, particularly since the mid-2010s.

2026-04-15 20:52:37 CEST

Right you lot...get swearing 😆
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c78rr219457o
Linguists have appealed for the public to help them create a national database of regional swear words. Experts at the University of Sheffield want to build a UK Swear Map to show how English is spoken, before the words and phrases used locally in 2026 "disappear". Dr Chris Montgomery, who is leading the project alongside arts project Modern Toss, said: "We're really interested in anything that's rude, that's a bit naughty, that might be counted as a swear word or a phrase."
Researchers said the project is not about promoting offensive language but about recording how people speak across the UK.
They believe swear words can have cultural meaning based on the history and humour of local communities and should not be excluded from formal research. "This project recognises that to truly understand English as it is lived and spoken, we must include all of it – not just the polite or standardised forms," Montgomery said.

2026-04-15 19:35:13 CEST

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It's sold now, and not to me, they wanted 19 quid for it in that
scruff condition, looked it up and there is one on ebay for £38 😳

2026-04-15 19:02:27 CEST

@Flick
What *have* your ducks been up to!
https://media.spinster.xyz/0c7d37d71355caf3e3e531d3e7da5f5423f4d923f242ccbdce731c041819aeae.png

2026-04-15 12:08:48 CEST

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Cats, eh!