Strong Female Character- Fern Brady
Hysterically funny, a soothing balm to the constant rhetoric of “neurodivergence is over diagnosed” & “what’s the point of a diagnosis?” Nonsense from the right wing (and in that I include Wes Streeting & his private health pals)
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Stone Blind by @nataliehaynes.bsky.social
If you liked Stephen Fry’s books about the ancient gods, you’ll love this.
It’s fast-paced fun, which remains committed to great storytelling whilst shining a light on the patriarchal gaze we view our heroes through.
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With the Covid enquiry coming to a close, a reminder of a time we so quickly push aside and minimise.
As a new doctor in 2020, thrown into work early and with the nhs in chaos, this book by @drrachelclarke.com is a must read, we can’t improve if we forget.
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My apologies!
A lesson in why making the arts further inaccessible to working class people ultimately costs us all.
As someone who had council subsidised music lessons and benefited from those in ways that cannot be counted (including becoming a doctor) this is a call to action.
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A hymn to life - Gisele Pelicot
Probably the most powerful book of the century thus far. Her bravery and absolute, unapologetic fearlessness is inspiring to both survivors and allies.
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Here’s some books by women which I’ve loved.
The Her Majesty’s Royal Covenant series by @junodawson.bsky.social
Fun, magical and mainly based in Hebden Bridge/Manchester.
Trans women are women and #IWD2026 absolutely includes them.
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Mindblowing story. The UK met most of the costs of a key propaganda tool used by the Israeli Government to launder its genocide in Gaza - then tried to cover up the fact it had done so.
ED particularly dogshit (even more than usual) for everyone today or is my department an anomaly?
21:30 on a Friday night and I’m in bed with a book and a decaf tea.
It’s been Quite A Week.
Manchester says “fuck terfs”
Congrats!
Everyone around you can enjoy admiring your fresh crown when you have your head in your hands this evening.
Lucy and yak dungarees with pictures of boobs on.
Went to the shop in my excellent dungarees.
Got called a “fucking fat dyke” by a man I’ve never met or spoke to, I simply had the audacity to be in the same carpark at the same time as him
Men are getting worse, aggression as their primary language is increasing.
I’m so done with humans this week.
On a local fb group for recycling unwanted stuff.
A kind person has put up a post giving away some pregnancy vitamins & tea. They’ve asked if any “pregnant people” could make use of them.
They’ve been attacked by TERFs accusing them of “erasing women” etc.
Since when are women not people?
I cannot overstate how absolutely thick as mince this is.
"I say! Are you Georgina?" The child in the opposite bed sat up and looked across at Anne. She had very short curly hair, almost as short as a boy's. Her face was burnt a dark-brown with the sun, and “Famous Five 01 - Five On A Treasure Island” By Enid Blyton 7 her very blue eyes looked as bright as forget-me-nots in her face. But her mouth was rather sulky, and she had a frown like her father's. "No," she said. "I'm not Georgina." "Oh!" said Anne, in surprise. "Then who are you?" "I'm George," said the girl. "I shall only answer if you call me George. I hate being a girl. I won't be. I don't like doing the things that girls do. I like doing the things that boys do. I can climb better than any boy, and swim faster too. I can sail a boat as well as any fisher-boy on this coast. You're to call me George. Then I'll speak to you. But I shan't if you don't." "Oh!" said Anne, thinking that her new cousin was most extraordinary. "All right! I don't care what I call you. George is a nice name, I think. I don't much like Georgina. Anyway, you look like a boy."
To give you an idea of how deranged the UK has become about gender stuff, here's Enid Blyton - the absolute avatar of classic English conservatism and a huge fan of racist "gollywogs" - casually describing a gender non-conforming kid in the 1940s and having their friends be totally cool with it.
Eric Cantona always had a way with words.
He is Manchester United, not a smarmy billionaire who moved to Monaco so he could avoid tax.
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Strap in, gang, we’re watching the figure skating and having Bisexual Feelings again.
“I realise someone is stamping on your head with their boot, but there’s simply no need to call them a cunt”
Good to see the police are as on it as ever.
Not like there’s been any overwhelming evidence or journalists doing their job for them or anything 🙄
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Social media post from a man whose identity I have covered. It is a picture of three shelves in a hospital shop. On the top shelf are boxes of tampons The lower two have sweets and chocolate. The post states "what does everyone think about this tambox next to the chocolate 🤮"
I am once again reminding men they are not sold used.
A bookcase where the books are stored with their pages facing outwards, so there's no way to tell what they are, and all you know is that the owner is a criminal.
If I went to someone's house and saw this was how they kept their books I would leave immediately and call the police, safe in the knowledge that they are a full serial killer.
I need my ego stroked as much as the next elder millennial, however, if you’re going to compliment an interaction we had in a professional setting, it would be optimal if it weren’t in a changing room whilst I had my tits out.
Difficult to be a humbly gracious doctor with my nips pointing north.
Think my cats have a shit fetish, they now both wait for me to come home from work before having a poo in their respective robot litter trays whilst making really intense eye contact.
ScatCats.
Lovely stuff. Silly little Wes better stop hanging out with Peter Mandelson and get his best negotiating hat on.
Hopefully this is the last time we have to do stupid postal votes and the law is changed to reflect society as it is now, not 25 years ago 🙄
I'm gutted cos all the people who I thought were just a bit conspiracy theory nuts banging on about the group of paedophile elites running the globe apparently turned out to be fucking right.
@cullobsidian.bsky.social I heard this now you must too
Man either has the dementia or the lyingcuntitis. Who's to say which?
People who use nitrous oxide (laughing gas) - if you start to get weird symptoms like not being able to feel your hands/feet/legs/arms, difficulty walking or problems peeing/pooing please be honest about your gas use.
We may be able to help more quickly and treat more successfully if we know.
JK Rowling and her team "protecting women and girls" by inviting convicted sex offender Epstein to the opening of her Harry Potter play.
It certainly is an interesting approach to child protection.
