Katherine Piper

the stink of gender resentment coming off Silicon Valley has been obvious for a while. these men hate women because they hate being told no.

My 14yo puppy still considers getting a pig’s ear to be one of the best things that’s ever happened to her.

A huge swathe of dark pink magnolia flowers clustered across the branches of a tree with clear blue sky behind

A fan of delicate light pink magnolia flowers on a tree with bright blue sky behind

A close-up of dark pink magnolia flowers clustered on the bare branches of a tree with light blue sky behind

White and pink magnolia flowers on a small magnolia tree on a grassy lawn covered with yellow daffodils

Just a shout out to magnolias. Aren't they the most magnificent blooms?

Impressive that US democracy has managed to replicate the "king so bad in a medieval chronicle you wonder if they're real or a symbolic trope for misrule" effect

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As much of a must read as your timeline is telling you it is

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everyone is extraordinarily desperate to pretend that Donald Trump is a coherent individual with a real plan who understands what is happening in the world and none of that is true

You’d think in this era of “MPs face increasing danger” there would be more outrage at newly elected Green MP Hannah Spencer being assaulted by transphobes but it’s nowhere to be seen on BBC News app even if you search her name

Coin used as Leeds bus fare was 2,000‑year‑old currency The coin was handed down to Peter Edwards from his grandfather in the 1950s.

This is the sort of thing a cashless society robs us of, the opportunity to try to get away with paying the bus fare in Carthaginian currency www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It's 2026.

Puberty blockers have been banned on the basis of a fake study conducted by a generalist paeditrician.

Hormones for under 18s have been banned on the basis of a fake review conducted by a head injury specialist.

Both remain available for cis kids because that's 'different' somehow

The NHS has now stopped all medication - puberty blockers and hormones - for trans minors. For most, unless they get drugs from other sources, this means a lifetime, in an increasingly violent and transphobic society, unable to pass. Under Wes Streeting NHS policy is harm and death for trans people.

a woman holding a cupcake with the words good for her above her ALT: a woman holding a cupcake with the words good for her above her

Watching The Dinosaurs on Netflix, and I do love a stegosaurus, really enjoyed watching one of them properly thagomize (verb form h/t Gary Larson) an allosaurus trying to make them into lunch.

Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.

want to follow the news but can't bear thinking about ordinary Iranians, who've been stuck under such an oppressive regime for so long, who maybe got a flicker of hope, briefly, a few months ago, then watched in horror as their friends and relatives got killed by the state, and now this, unspeakable

I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.

this is like

the thesis statement of our times

Demographically, most progressive defectors are frustrated lower middle class Millennials - not affluent urbanites or a PMC ‘lanyard class'. Though they have liberal social values, many are frustrated graduates; Millennials with a mortgage or rent they are struggling to afford - primary school teachers, IT support or clerical workers. In short, the face of the modern social democratic voter.

Labour is losing voters to progressive parties disproportionately.

And they are not mainly "lanyard" professional or working classes, the oppositional forces of Blue Labour and right discourse.

It's squeezed millennials in service careers. Which our politics ignores.

Little mari with a big black dog with flames by its feet and red eye. Little mari holds a leash

Little Mari and Black Shuck are preparing for Crufts. They’ve decided to enter into the ‘Working’ group (harbinger of doom is a job)

My granny had a funny story about being so incredibly bored and fed up once during the Blitz, when she’d been in a crowded public shelter all day with nothing happening outside, that she and a friend decided to go out for a walk, whereupon a V2 landed in the next street. Lol.

It is the *exact same* in Britain. The mediam voter wants clean water & cheaper bills. Every TERF protest is attended by the same 6 upper middle class idiots.

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

Well this is a fucking disaster, especially for book publishing.

Note: these are the very same companies that publishers are in conversations with, developing projects and selling content to (won't need to worry when they can legally steal it).

I painted my front door purple today and I can highly recommend it.

Not even joking when I say that I learned to read partly on my mum’s Astérix books and my dad’s big books of collected Peanuts cartoons.

The US is not a 'partner'. It's in their National Security Strategy to support far right parties that oppose multicultural liberal democracy here. They are behaving lawlessly at home and abroad, summarily executing their own citizens, and now bombing Iran with no coherent rationale or plan.

Kind of incredible. I was just sitting down to write about how Starmer should be given credit for keeping us out of this mess when he does this. Unutterably foolish and obsequious. Why in God's name should we have anything to do with this shortsighted madness.

This reminds me of that Frankie Boyle joke about how Americans not only come to your country and kill your people, they also come back twenty years later to make a movie about how killing your people made their soldiers sad.

Little mari in traditional womens welsh dress holding a little dragon

Happy St. David’s day to all my Welsh Followers from Little Mari and her dragon friend

Israeli media reporting that the US and Israel have divided up the Iran attack thus: the US is targeting infrastructure, Israel is focussed on taking out Iran's leadership

It should go without saying that the aim here is to collapse Iran - a country of ninety million people - into ungovernable chaos and Mad Max-style warlord catastrophe, much as they have every other country from Libya to Afghanistan that they could not buy off.

I’ve been thinking about this and I think it’s actually a tell that they know that people understanding things like history, logical reasoning, critical thinking, scientific method and so on is a huge threat because it means they are way less likely to believe or accept them or their bullshit.

21 minutes ago Farnaz Fassihi The attacks have come on a Saturday morning, the first day of the week in Iran, with millions of people at work and children in school. Residents in Tehran described scenes of panic and chaos.

Tehran is a city of nine million people, with 17 million in the larger metropolitan area.

Saturday is the first day of the week for Iranians.

Millions of people are at work, and children are in school.