Ali McG is putting her head above the parapet

Woman, mother, still a librarian at heart, feminist, pro EU, politically homeless, don’t call me cis

[Colin Wynter KC @QcWynter]

Key words from manager are "breaching this policy will result in misconduct proceedings".
It is that simple.
Man sashays into women's toilets.
Report him.
Disciplinary.
Warning.
Man does it again.
Report him.
Final warning.
Man does it again.
Dismissed.
No "harassment"
Man gone.

[Billboard Chris 🌎 @BillboardChris]

The entire premise of ‘gender transition’ is a fraud.

After cross-sex hormones and surgery, the share of young Finns needing psychiatric care went from 19% to 49%!

Finland tracked every young person sent to its gender clinics, for up to 25 years. Among those given cross-sex hormones or surgery, 19.2% had needed specialist psychiatric care before their first clinic visit. After their last procedure, 48.9% did. Their matched peers stayed flat.

We were told cross-sex hormones and surgery would fix these young people's mental health. Finland checked. After the drugs and the surgery, far more of them needed psychiatric care, not fewer.

What Finland found

Finland sends every young person who wants a medical "gender reassignment" to one of two university hospital clinics, in Helsinki and Tampere. Researchers led by Dr. Sami-Matti Ruuska, an adolescent psychiatrist, and Prof. Riittakerttu Kaltiala, a professor of adolescent psychiatry at Tampere University, pulled the national health records for every one of them.

That's 2,083 people under 23 who went to those clinics between 1996 and 2019. Each was matched with eight people of the same birth year and hometown, 16,643 in all. Some were followed for up to 25 years.

The new numbers

Critics claimed the first analysis might have counted people who hadn't had their drugs or surgery yet. So in September the authors ran it again, starting the clock only after each person's last step: cross-sex hormones, breast removal, or genital surgery.

•Before their first gender-clinic visit, 19.2% had needed specialist psychiatric care.
•At some point after their last procedure, 48.9% did.
•Their matched peers, counted from the same dates, went from 14.4% to 13.2%.

After their last procedure, these young people were about six times as likely as the general population to need specialist psychiatric care. That held for both males and females.

https://t.co/wclRpKfR30

[Shamboooooolic Woooooootral🎃👻💀🦇🕸️🧟⚰️🧙 @BradfemlyWalsh]

I'm thinking of setting up a new organisation, called something like Straight Women Who 100% Support The Rights of Lesbians To Be Repulsed By Dick And Never Want Anything To Do With Men Because Policing How People Perform Their Sexuality Is Rapey As Fuck

[Devin Duke @sirDukeDevin]

JD Vance says Ukraine shouldn't be bombing Russian diesel plants, but I'm pretty sure it's Russia who shouldn't be killing Ukrainian children.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

Katherine Langrish, in her book From Spare Oom to War Drobe: Travels in Narnia, argues that Prince Caspian is built around the classic fairy-tale trope in which people step “into fairy rings or disappear into a fairy kingdom for what seems a few hours or a few days, only to find on their return that a hundred or more years have passed, and no one now remembers them.”

That sense of loss haunts the book. The golden chess-knight discovered by Susan in the ruins of the castle is a nod to the Golden Chessmen of the Aesir in Norse myth, which the sons of the gods will find lying in high grass after the destruction of all things at Ragnorak (as told in the Icelandic tale The Deluding of Gylfi). Susan’s horn draws inspiration from one of Lewis’s favorite medieval romances, Huon of Bordeaux, featuring an enchanted horn worn around the neck: “whosoever heard it, if he were a hundred days journey off, should come at the pleasure of him that blew it.” There are also echoes of Hamlet running all through the story: Caspian’s father is deposed by his murderous uncle and, as Langrish notes, Caspian learns the truth and embraces his vocation on the tower roof, like Hamlet on the ramparts of Elsinore.

This, by the way, is what makes the Narnia books so enduringly resonant: Lewis was one of the best-read people, maybe the best-read person, of his generation.

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

Baby Anhelina and her mom Inna were killed by Russia yesterday.

Anhelina was just over a year old. Her mom, Inna Mariukhna, was a primary school teacher. They were in the park in Nova Vodolaha, Kharkiv region, when a Russian drone attacked.

Little Anhelina was killed in her stroller. Her mom died of her injuries in hospital.

Another girl killed in the strike was just 11 years old.

Six people lost their lives from that Russian strike. All of them had simply been spending time in the park. At least 15 more were injured, including seven kids.

Deepest condolences...

[Jessie J 🇺🇸 @cashsmama08]

‼️Penny was just given her final extension and will be euthanized today 10/20 at 2pm😓💔
Please Rescue step up for this precious girl today and save her life🙏🙏🙏

[Freyja. Missing Children Advocate🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @FreyjaBakke]

URGENT. Hes only 12 We’re appealing for information to locate 12-year-old Rory, who is reported as missing.
Rory was last seen at around 1.15pm on Friday 16 October in Abertillery, Blaenau Gwent.

ℹ️ Rory is described as white, around 4'8" tall, slim-build with dark brown hair.

[Animal Adoptions UK 🐕‍🦺🐈🐎❤️ @AdoptionsUk]

Please retweet to help find the owner or a rescue shelter space for this stray/abandoned dog found #MENDIPS #CHARTERHOUSE #SOMERSET #UK
MONDAY 19 OCT 2026.
Original Posted in the facebook group
Lost dogs/cats in WSM/North Somerset.
https://t.co/RKQNHTkn1R
Update: Safe and sound with local vets. Wasn’t injured- just cold and very hungry.
'Found. Mendips between Charterhouse and Beacons batch. Cold and unsure if injured. Secured and comfortable with me'
Possibly now with Somerset Dog Warden .

Proof of ownership required.

@missingdogwales @MissingPetsGB @NewmanDian1426 @LurcherSOS @Holly_Hedge @ASPolice #Hounds #Lurchers #adoptdontshop #England #Rescuedogs @DogLostUK @rosiedoc666 @scanme_tukslaw @Tukslaw_scanme @daisys_voice @Jan_Leeming @rickygervais @JaneFallon @AlistairCarns #dogs #halloweeg

[Colin Wynter KC @QcWynter]

She uses the term "assigned at birth".
This means that she, for all the fine qualities she may possess in other areas, is essentially a numpty.
To use such an idiotic term provides irrefutable proof that one's critical faculties have suffered catastrophic insult and damage.

[MJ Murphy @hothingsgirlsay]

“Identity” does not override material reality.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

The historic Limoges Town Hall in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of south-central France.

A bunch of masked cowards burned down a 143-year-old civic landmark that survived two world wars. That’s not a protest. That’s moronic cultural vandalism. They torched the shared memory of a city, then scurried off into the night. Despicable.

[Urbanponds101 @urbanponds101]

A universal truth, it's hard work being a Mum!

[Nimco Ali (OBE) @NimkoAli]

Yesterday, I came face to face with a non-African who proceeded to lecture me, an African woman, about the benefits of China in Africa and how much Africans apparently love it.

When I pointed out the exploitation, abuse and damage China has caused across parts of the continent, I was told that the benefits outweigh even the rape and destruction.

Imagine telling an African woman that the abuse of Africans is an acceptable price for supposed economic benefits. And let’s be clear, China has not developed Africa.

Honestly, sometimes I wonder why I bother.

[Prof. Paul Brown, PhD @pbrown4348]

Scientists Urge Consumers to Stop Buying Products Made From Antarctic Krill. A new global boycott comes as major retailers withdraw krill products from their shelves to protect whales and other marine life. https://t.co/CEzp30cET7

[Alan Ferrier @alanferrier]

One of those rare photos that makes you stop in your tracks and whisper, "Wow..."
"Lochaber at Night" - wintery scene of Loch Linnhe, Caol Shore and Ben Nevis, taken from Corpach Pier by Mark Gillies.

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

An amendment to the sporting events bill was defeated by Labour voting against it. @louie_french (and I as I suggested it in The Lords) Conservative shadow sports minister wanted int. events brought to this country to insist the female category is protected as the ioc does, & the uk Supreme Court ruling stipulates .. sadly Labour doesn’t seem to care if our girls get fair sport

[Women o' Scotland @WomenOScotland]

Well worth reading from @JamesEsses. We totally oppose the trial. No child should be experimented on and all children need to grow up unharmed by experimental and unnecessary medical interventions.

[Beatrice Groves @beatricegroves1]

Stunning medieval tiles for #tilesonTuesday
Winchester Cathedral & the largest surviving English medieval tiled pavement (c1260-80)
Geometric designs flanked by lions, eagles & griffins. Red clay was stamped with the pattern, the indentations filled with white slip & then fired.