Jenny

Specialist clinical pharmacist in oncology; loves food, books, films, dancing; talks too openly for own good; tweets randomly & sporadically. Own views.

[Hysteroscopy Action @HysteroscopyA]

Barbaric! Medieval! We've 5,000+ accounts of needlessly cruel @NHS outpatient #hysteroscopy.

The story in tonight's BBC Wales News at 6.30pm is far from being unique.

@RCObsGyn admits that 1 in 3 will suffer SEVERE pain during awake womb endoscopy. @lynbrownmp @JanePlumb

[Paul Mason @paulmasonnews]

What an amateur Sunak is! Large parts of British society inc inside the Tory party support the unconditional return of the Parthenon Marbles. Do the right thing and cement a lasting 🇬🇧 🇬🇷 alliance - give them back! 🐴🏛️🏺 https://t.co/9wM6Wmgv6W

[Jean Hatchet @JeanHatchet]

Barely able to type for the noise of my internal screaming. @kent_police have just told women that Rape and Domestic Abuse are “non-emergency” crimes and not to bother ringing them in to free up call handlers! No wonder women are dying at the hands of men. For shame!

[Antonia @flaminhaystacks]

Aged 38 I applied to be a firefighter

Driven to make a difference

My partner strangled me in rage when I was accepted & left me

I've subsequently endured 12 years of harassment in the fire service for daring to be a woman

Do we still need #InternationalWomensDay

YES WE DO

[Gender Pay Gap Bot @PayGapApp]

In this organisation, women's median hourly pay is 40.9% lower than men's. The pay gap is the same as the previous year.

[Rachel Hewitt @drrachelhewitt]

The shrinking of teenage girls’ access to public space correlates to reduction in girls’ ability to exercise. In Texas, teenage girls do 65% less physical activity than boys. Girls drop out of sport clubs in adolescence at far higher rates than boys. This sets a trend for life.

[Janey Godley @JaneyGodley]

Women’s bare arms can derail an investigation. Welcome to Britain where we need to cover up our bodies to please the right wing factions

[Paul Fairie @paulisci]

A List of Things People Blamed on Women

🧵

[Ashley James @ashleyljames]

In the last couple of weeks I've learned from the police / media if I want to avoid going missing or being murdered I need to:

Not be too ambitious or high-achieving.
Not earn more than my partner (too late)
Not go to a park.
Not to drink alcohol.
Not to go through menopause.

[CountingDeadWomen @CountDeadWomen]

5 February 2023: Emma Pattison, 45, and her daughter Lettie, seven, were found dead at their home in Epsom, Surrey. Police believe Emma was shot dead by her husband, George Pattison, 39, before he killed their daughter and then himself.

[M @harriet1969]

We live in the countryside. My 14yo daughter who loved riding her bike to feel freedom, solitude and nature, no longer wants to do it. A car load of blokes drove alongside her yelling about her 'tits and arse.' She came home crying and terrified. No more bike rides. I am irate.

[Bob Roberts @BobRobPolitico]

So I've been messing around with chatgpt, the AI system, and asked it to write a scene in the style of Shakespeare about refugees being turned away by Braverman but the Dalai Lama steps in. That's all I gave it. In under five seconds it produced this...

[Liam Thorp @LiamThorpECHO]

This is Aintree Hospital where sockets have now been installed in the corridors, with signs marking out different bed spaces

This is the new normal for hospitals and no one sees it ending any time soon

[John Simpson @JohnSimpsonNews]

My erudite classicist daughter tells me that the Arctic is so called because there are bears there; ‘Arktos’ being the Greek for bear. ‘Antarctic’ means ‘no bears’, she says.

[Jenny @JPSTG]

“Britain gave rise to the productivity revolution that changed the world, and now it has some of the worst productivity statistics of any major economy”

[Nicolas Chinardet @zefrog]

How the U.K. Became One of the Poorest Countries in Western Europe

Britain chose finance over industry, austerity over investment, and a closed economy over openness to the world.

https://t.co/jxSYKH5TNv

[Khurram Iftikhar @K_Ifti]

Prob the worst Monday I've ever worked. 17 years in EM. 12 as a Consultant.

[Jenny @JPSTG]

The f*cking audacity of a mediocre man strikes again.
I can’t believe we still have to deal with this sh!t in the 21st century. Beautiful responses from both.

[SBS News @SBSNews]

Watch NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern pick apart this reporter's question during a joint press conference with Finnish PM Sanna Marin. He asked the pair 'are you two meeting because you're similar in age and got a lot of common stuff there?'
Read more: https://t.co/eTtJEqJoFZ

[Patrick Strudwick @PatrickStrud]

EXCL: A gay man in Qatar reveals he was lured to a hotel room through a dating app, and when he arrived Qatari officials were there waiting for him. They raped him one by one, arrested him and deported him. And he’s not alone. LGBT people are being hunted. https://t.co/r7o4xasZrI

[Neena Jha @DrNeenaJha]

School asked my sister to explain WHY she had put the Dad as first contact instead of herself for their child?!

She said she felt really taken aback that she had to justify it.

When will we start seeing both parents as having EQUAL responsibility?! It’s 2022!!