Jan W

Liberal animal lover, happiest at home with the other half & menagerie

[Jan W @JanW51345385]

@melodymlyons Obedience is a word we should only apply to the training of dogs, never women

[Jan W @JanW51345385]

@DrNeenaJha We have lots but garden is designed for them. Sadly we appear to have lost most of our greenfinches but goldfinches, thrush, house sparrows, robins, wrens & dunnocks are plentiful. We are on the edge of the world in the Hebrides.

[Jan W @JanW51345385]

@LoinDuTribu Why do they do it? I think that if they cared about the child they wouldn’t do it.

[Jan W @JanW51345385]

@AndyWoodturner 5 ardox - referencing nails?

[Jan W @JanW51345385]

@LesleyClark11 @FemaleScotlandV The international students decrease by a similar amount, probably coincidence?

[Jan W @JanW51345385]

@JackxJewell @amnesty He has a wet patch on the bottom of his shirt which is of more interest than anything he’s saying

[Jan W @JanW51345385]

@calwokebot Waffles

[Jan W @JanW51345385]

@MinnOrchia @jk_rowling Haha, tell that to my husband

[Jan W @JanW51345385]

@dieworkwear I work a Croft in the Hebrides, consume whichever oil is relevant but never animal fat & tan like a normal person. Weirdo makes up bollocks for content is not new, unfortunately.

[Jan W @JanW51345385]

@andywightman A tad overpriced perhaps

[Jan W @JanW51345385]

@JayC_Hi Working in a pub & pouring pints gave me exactly the same

[Jan W @JanW51345385]

@TweeterReynolds So why do I still hide?

[Matt Dallinson @themattrd]

Scotland play Israel this week. Today Israeli authorities have abducted two members of the Palestine women's national team.

When will it be enough for the Scottish FA/UEFA/FIFA to take a stand?
https://t.co/UndJ5DUVWx

[Diana Alastair💚🤍💜 ⚢ ❌❌✡️ @sappholives83]

That’s your response? I tell you that women and girls are getting raped and you lol? Let me tell you a story, and if you still feel like laughing afterwards, then at least we’ll all know exactly what you are.

See there’s a man named Tremaine Carroll. This man, in fact. He’s imprisoned in California as a third strike lifer. His third offense was armed robbery, but his first two offenses were kidnapping young girls and forcing them to fellate him.

Mr. Carroll does not take estrogen. He does not use a woman’s name, and he does not dress in women’s clothing. Nevertheless, he told the state of California that he was a woman, so they put him in a California women’s prison, even though his prison psychiatrist wrote a report saying that he was a manipulator and a predator, and should absolutely not be placed in a women’s facility.

So not only did they put this man in a women’s prison; they even put him in with a female cellmate. He impregnated her. Legally it’s rape, because by law prisoners can’t consent to sexual activity, and no one is sure whether or not he impregnated her by force.

That didn’t stop prison officials from giving Mr. Carroll a second female cellmate . He flat out raped this one, and when she reported him and they took her to the hospital to get a rape exam, they kept her in chains throughout the entire experience.

When she returned to the prison, she was placed in isolation because while she was gone Mr. Carroll – who is 6 foot two and weighs 250 pounds – had claimed that she had raped him. She went on lockdown, and Mr. Carroll got a third female cellmate.

Whom he also raped.

It was at this point that the prison officials finally decided that it was time to put him back in a men’s facility. He is now facing charges for two rapes, and the judge in charge of the case has dictated that everybody, including the victims, must referred to Mr. Carroll as “she.”

This means that the victims will be forced to sit on a stand and say “she forced her penis into me.” That’s perjury, and it denies the victims the truth of what was done to them.

This is Tremaine Carroll, and if you have any decency at all, you’ll take a few minutes to think about what it must have been like for his victims to be held down and forcibly penetrated. The fear when the cell door slams and the guards walk away. The weight, the smell of his breath, the bruising grip of his hands, and the pain as he jams himself into you. That’s what your movement has facilitated — and not just twice, or three times, but dozens and dozens of times over the past few years. One woman had her sentence extended by five years because she objected to being stared at in the showers. And your movement is responsible for all of it.

So look at this man. Really look at him. Because this is what you and yours are inflicting on women across the western world.

Now here’s my question – how committed are you? Are you willing to look this man’s victims in the face and tell them that their pain is acceptable collateral damage in the pursuit of rights for men like their rapist? Or will you lol again, and show everybody exactly what you are?

[Caolan @CaolanReports]

I’ve been wondering why local news here in Limerick hasn’t been reporting the truth about the russian refinery and just noticed the biggest paper here took 5M € government funding from a minister who has defended the plant. Absolutely disgraceful. You cannot call yourself a journalist if you take government money. Explains a lot

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

This is not a movie about meteor showers before the apocalypse; this is Russia bombing Kyiv last night. A city with several million people in it - children, the elderly, and normal families just like yours.

[Jan W @JanW51345385]

@joannamoncrieff Spent 25 yrs on various anti depressants & other supposedly anti-anxiety drugs. Had some excellent doctors who warned me of the long term effects of stabilisers & stayed away. Now treated by medicinal cannabis & despite stress of the financial cost, symptoms are massively reduced

[Jan W @JanW51345385]

Would you like to burn us pesky women or just throw us under the bus? This is disgraceful

[Fire Brigades Union @fbunational]

The Fire Brigades Union has made a statement on the proposed EHRC Code of Practice on Services.

Our message is clear. Equality matters, solidarity is essential, and we will continue to fight for both.

[Jan W @JanW51345385]

@FondOfBeetles Agree completely - went vegetarian when I realised that I was incapable of driving my sheep to slaughter & I have weird blood

[Conor Gallagher @ConorGallaghe_r]

Micheál Martin said yesterday sanctioning Aughinish would hurt Europe more then it hurts Russia.

However new figures obtained by The Irish Times show that this year 83% (200,619 tonnes) of alumina exports went to Russia.

The amount exported he EU was 149 tonnes (0.6%)