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[Elly Arrow @EllyArrow]

Devil's Wheels are a popular attraction at #Oktoberfest:

A group of people hold onto a spinning plattform until they're thrown off. Bavaria's answer to mechanical bulls if you will.

Problems is: There are men trying to film under women's skirts and zooming in on their crotches

[Scott Bryan @scottygb]

There was nobody like Dame Maggie Smith

[Sgt Joker @TheSGTJoker]

Trump’s Project 2025 explained hilariously, terrifyingly, and perfectly.

Trump’s Project 2025 will end America as we know it and turn it into the White Christian Nationalist version of Afghanistan.

https://t.co/ylHBIjZW1H

[Alexandra Lange @LangeAlexandra]

If you want to feel the despair for contemporary architecture I often feel, just scroll through these Helsinki Museum of Architecture and Design entries

[Goodable @Goodable]

On this day, a tiny town in Canada opened up its hearts — and its homes — to 7,000 stranded passengers in a desperate time of need.

They didn’t care about politics, or who the President was. They did it because it's what Canadians do best.

A Goodable 🧵

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Thread on the beauty of Pareidolia, our brain's tendency to see familiar shapes in random patterns 🧵

1. Tavolara Island, the sleeping cat

[Matt Green @mattgreencomedy]

Elon Musk buys a pub

[Faye DSouza @fayedsouza]

https://t.co/O8Nq6oJKki

[Dr. Jessica Taylor @DrJessTaylor]

This is your regular reminder that if committing murder, rape and abuse was truly related to mental health diagnoses, women would be the majority offenders of all crimes globally.

Being female positively correlates with almost every psychiatric diagnosis in the DSMV, and in some cases, women are 7-10 times more likely to be diagnosed than men.

The Mental Health Foundation claims that women and girls are 3 times more likely to ‘experience mental health issues in any given week’ than men and boys.

Women are more likely to be labelled. More likely to be diagnosed. More likely to be pathologised. More likely to be abused themselves. More likely to have trauma histories. More likely to be heavily medicated.

And yet… women and girls are not committing anywhere NEAR their proportionate share of violent crime.

The exact same pattern is found when we look at trauma. If men and boys are committing crime and ending up in prison due to childhood trauma and ACEs, why are the vast majority of prisoners and criminals male?

Arguably, it’s girls who are more likely to be abused in childhood. The NSPCC states 1 in 4 girls versus 1 in 20 boys will be sexually abused in childhood in the UK alone which, (whilst both stats are horrific) would suggest that it’s women and girls who should end up the majority offenders of abuse (if we claim to believe that those who abuse do so because of their own abuse histories).

The reality is, these explanations don’t stand up. They take a few minutes to deconstruct.

If MH, trauma, abuse or ACEs caused people to become violent offenders, murderers, abusers and rapists - we should see much higher levels of violent and fatal offending from women and girls than we do.

The question here then, is what I always ask my students to consider:

If we believe women and girls are capable of serious and fatal violence (which I believe we are), then why don’t we do it? What stops us? What socialises us not to? Why don’t we commit as much violent crime as men? And why do men disproportionately commit such high levels of fatal and violent crime?

The answers are not MH, abuse, trauma or ACEs. The answers lie in hierarchies in society, socialisation, sensationalisation, media exposure, parenting, grooming, and gender role stereotyping.

[Dr. Jessica Taylor @DrJessTaylor]

WAKE UP EVERYONE.

I’m not gonna mince my words on this.

We need to call for urgent legal reform and to stop murderers, rapists, and abusers from claiming they committed crime because they are ‘suffering from mental health issues’

There is NO evidence that these mental disorders even exist outside of theoretical concepts, there are no biomarkers - these criminals don’t require a brain scan, a blood test or a single fucking shred of evidence that MH caused them to commit crime. Their lawyers know this. All they need to do is pay someone to ‘assess’ them, and claim they have a ‘mental disorder’.

It’s total subjective opinion. ‘Expert opinion’ is nothing more than someone giving their personal opinion that the criminal who did something terrible must be mentally ill cos they will not look at our violent society and cultures.

It’s all BOLLOCKS.

Don’t you notice that mental health charities, the APA, the BPS, the BACP etc - none of them would ever sign a document or a statement to say that mental health issues cause murder, rape or abuse.

Not a single one would put their names to it - and yet as soon as these people commit these crimes, the way to defend them is to claim MH caused it?

Prove me wrong. Get them all to sign a document or a public statement that MH causes people to murder, rape and abuse. Go on. I’ll wait. They won’t - they’ve spent decades saying that MH DOESN’T cause people to commit crime and that it’s a harmful myth.

A bit of critical thinking wouldn’t go a miss. CPS should be demanding biological and irrefutable evidence that the criminal has a mental disorder which causes crime - instead of a fucking psychometric questionnaire and a chat. No one can provide that. We don’t have biological evidence of these ‘illnesses’.

Everyone needs to step their game WAY up here. Psychiatry and mental health is heavily misused in law and we all bear witness.

[Eric Mahieu @mahieu]

@NPORadio1 @pointer_kroncrv @AdFaasse @DirkStraalen @arjenlubach @deavondshowvpro Vanavond, 4 juli, valt de hamer. De laatste bijeenkomst, nu wordt er gestemd. Gaat Kamperland 21 hectare extra Roompot toestaan?

Eerst een menselijk lint voor de deur van het gemeentehuis als burgerprotest, dan de raadszaal in.

https://t.co/YB3rFpNJWZ

[Genevieve Gluck @WomenReadWomen]

Boys are watching porn of actual women being choked, slapped, bound, drugged, and spit on by men who call them "whores" and worse - but a woman saying words you disagree with is "grooming an entire generation".

[Salon @Salon]

"I wasn't dead enough for an abortion": Texas mom blames Trump for almost losing her life https://t.co/RWTONPwPvQ

[wim boevink🐦‍⬛ @wimboevink]

Niet zo feestelijk.

[Chris Aalberts @ChrisAalberts]

Liever liegen over migratie dan de toorn riskeren van kassenbouwers en uitzendbureaukoningen. https://t.co/3WqI4JMS4z

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

On 27 April 1942, the first transport of 127 Polish women arrived in Auschwitz from prisons in Cracow and Tarnów. Among them was Helena Panek (b. 1922, no. 6892), who recalled the moment of transport as follows:

"On 27 April, at about 3 a.m., about sixty female prisoners were led out of the Tarnów prison and we were rushed under a strong escort of gendarmes to the train station, where we were driven into a prison wagon. It was later joined to another train. Around nine o'clock, escorted by gendarmes, we set off into the unknown. The guards repeatedly asked us where we were going and we remained silent. We reached Cracow around noon, and somewhere on a sidetrack the train stopped, waiting to join another train. Finally, we were on our way, but not for long, and again we stopped. It turned out that this was the border between the Generalgouvernement and the Reich. Again we stopped at a large station. Through a barred window, we could read the name of the town on the station building: Auschwitz. We already know that it is Oświęcim. We get on a siding. We are not allowed to go near the window. Finally, the train stopped. It was 6 o'clock in the evening.

We could hear wild screams from the outside. The door of our carriage opens. Someone from outside shouts in German, everyone get out! - Hurry up, you damned bandits. The guards hit us on the back with rifle butts. We all rush together to one exit. The shouting made our heads spin. One by one, we jump from the wagon straight into the screaming SS women and SS men who form a line around the wagon. Amidst the shouting of the Germans and the barking of trained wolfhounds, they line us up and lead us into the camp. After passing through a gate, they stopped us in front of some building, counted a few times, and after a short stop, they directed us in rows to a bathhouse, where ice-cold water was waiting for us. There they take our things, our clothes, and after the bath, they give us striped summer uniforms. And dirty grey underwear. And on our feet, wooden Dutch clogs, a few sizes too big. We were also given numbers written on a white piece of cloth, which had to be sewn to the dress.

Late in the evening, we were led into Block 8, into a very large hall, where mattresses with some kind of chaff or straw lay on the floor. Each received a thin blanket. The next day, already in our camp clothes, we did not recognise one another. During the first roll call, the Germans asked us who could speak German. Standing at the first roll call, we observed young female prisoners who had been transported to the camp earlier. As it turned out, they were Jewish women from Slovakia. They were strangely dressed, because they wore prisoners of war uniforms, with shaved hair and very skinny. The sight of them shocked us, and for many it was a reason to have a mental breakdown.

Terrified by the sight, we talked with Marysia Fleckowa and Stefcia Łącka about what was waiting for us, how long we could live in such conditions and for what such an injustice had happened to us. After the morning roll call, we were taken to the men's camp for photography. The photographing of prisoners took place in the photographic studio of the camp Gestapo reconnaissance service, which was located in Block 26. We were not tattooed right away. We had numbers sewn onto our striped uniforms. On the third day, everyday camp life began: getting up at dawn, roll call, then working beyond our strength combined with beatings and mistreatment."

Helena Panek survived the war. She passed away in 2020.

[Dr. Jessica Taylor @DrJessTaylor]

Here is my article for The Independent today about Joel Cauchi

https://t.co/9eEbwbECet

[Dr. Jessica Taylor @DrJessTaylor]

So which ‘ideology’ underpins the deliberate murder of women and girls?

The one we won’t mention.

The ‘m’ word.

Here is my article for @IndyVoices today about Joel Cauchi.

[Moira Donegan @MoiraDonegan]

Domestic violence is a kind of small-scale terrorism. What OJ Simpson did to Nicole Brown Simpson was not the event of one night—it was a years long campaign that thousands of women suffer at other men’s hands. Read Andrea Dworkin’s memorial to Nicole: https://t.co/MnZ1p62Quv