TwoTonTessie

Eccentric old bat. Cut-glass English, my dear. FSSR fan.

[TwoTonTessie @Moleswuff]

@TransalpineRed Perfect! A match made in Heaven of wonderful wetlands and marvellous Mascagni.

[TwoTonTessie @Moleswuff]

@TransalpineRed Catholics: this is an amazing interview that is genuinely worth watching.

[ukvillafan @ukvillafan]

I am no longer surprised at the degree of intellectual vacuity contained in your posts, but this one is especially worthy of comment.

“We have a responsibility to our trans constituents to resist it.”

Actually, you have a responsibility to your female constituents to fully support it. Yjis is because it is a code of conduct specifically written to assist in the effective implementation of settled law.

“The Code will exclude trans people from services and facilities that they have long used without issue ”

The Code will do no such thing. This statement is either a deliberate lie or a further example of legislative incompetence. Both explanations are probably in play here.

Trans people are not ‘excluded’ from any services. They are specifically included in all services provided based on their birth sex. There isn’t a single-sex service that trans people are excluded from.

If a trans individual has previously used services designated for the opposite sex, they have done so in contravention of the law, in which single-sex services have always been segregated by reference to biological sex. It is the responsibility of the trans individuals concerned, and those who have been advising them erroneously; if they have been acting unlawfully.

It is false to claim that these historical abuses of single-sex spaces has passed ‘without issue’. There are countless examples of detriment to women and girls and a long history of trans infiltration being challenged.

There is no evidence that using correct-sex facilities will make trans individuals more likely to be the victims of violence.

Trans individuals will not be ‘pushed out of public life’ as they have the right to access public facilities appropriate to their sex.

“It ushers in an era of enforced segregation for trans people.”

This is another lie. Any ‘segregation’ that occurs is a) the result of the proper interpretation of the Equality Act and b) based on the material reality of sex. It only requires any ‘enforcement’ due to the insistence of, in particular, trans identifying men that they are entitled to ignore the law, transgress women’s boundaries and infiltrate female spaves for the purpose of validating their identities and exercising their fetishes.\

”The Code represents a profound rollback of rights,”

This is also a lie. No ‘rights’ have been ‘rolled back’. The Code implements the law as clarified in the For Women Scotland Case, which found that it has ALWAYS been the law that single-sex spaces are segregated by biological sex, meaning that it has never been a ‘right’ for a male person (whatever his ‘identity’) to invae and colonise female spaces.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Brown rice is what you order when you want the waiter to know you have made peace with joylessness in exchange for health points. The arsenic is the twist nobody puts on the menu.

Rice has a problem unique among grains. It grows in flooded paddies, sitting in standing water for months, and it draws arsenic out of the soil roughly ten times more eagerly than wheat or barley. That arsenic concentrates in the bran, the grain's outer layer. White rice has the bran polished off. Brown rice keeps it, because the bran is where the fibre and minerals live. It is also, inconveniently, where the arsenic lives.

A 2025 analysis found brown rice carries around 24% more total arsenic and 40% more inorganic arsenic, the form classed as a known human carcinogen, than white. You upgraded to the wholegrain and quietly upgraded your carcinogen dose along with it.

Then the ecology, which nobody ever pins on rice, because rice looks so very innocent. Those flooded paddies are anaerobic, and the microbes thriving in them belch methane on an industrial scale. Rice cultivation produces something like 10% of all human methane emissions and roughly a fifth of agricultural methane. Cattle get filmed for documentaries about their burps. Rice quietly produces a tenth of the world's methane while flooding entire landscapes and hoarding arsenic, then takes its place in the salad bar wearing a wellness halo.

Cows are dragged through the climate courts every week. The rice paddy, doing serious damage of its own, sits in your grain bowl with the expression of something that has never done anything wrong in its life. Curious, isn't it, which foods we decide to interrogate.

[TwoTonTessie @Moleswuff]

@IngrameThomas @DavidLammy @drivebylawyer5 Absolutely right: ALL men should be offered the opportunity of being tested for prostate cancer.

[TwoTonTessie @Moleswuff]

@BruvverEccles @GeoffreyBoycott Aww, dust off your whites, Bruvver Eccles, and give it a go!

[ukvillafan @ukvillafan]

Being a civil-law-trained lawyer (no capitals required) does not necessarily make you a competent lawyer. Allowing ideology to cloud one’s critical faculties, as you clearly do, is anti-intellectual in the most basic way.

Your post makes a generic claim that lacks any precision, something that one might reasonably expect not to be seen from an ‘academic’. Understandably, this has already led many to ask you for clarification and I am about to add my voice to theirs.

For the sake of clarity, I am a ‘common-law-trained lawyer‘. The difference is that my training was in the UK, where I also practised for approximately 35 years as both solicitor and barrister. That’s arguing real-life cases in proper court rooms before actual judges In a common law jurisdiction.

Rather than simply add to the requests for you to clarify what you say are ‘anti-trans talking points’ and why they are allegedly ‘unreasonable’, I intend to take a different approach. Feel free, of course, to respond to those other queries too.

It is, I believe, a fair assumption that by ‘anti-trans’ you mean ‘gender critical’, or, as I prefer to term it, ‘pro-women and girls’. Your terminology is, thus, not academically dispassionate, which renders your post nothing more than incoherent polemic, deserving of nothing more than instant dismissal. However, I am going to indulge you, despite that.

The following are some core, fundamental elements of the ‘gender critical’ position. I would be grateful if you could clarify which you consider to be ‘anti-trans’ and why.

1. There are only two human sexes, male and female, defined by reference to the reproductive pathway a specific individual is organised to follow. These categories are mutually exclusive, immutable and objectively definable and observable.

2. It is thus impossible for any male human to become ‘female’ (and vice versa) as an individual’s sex is coded into the DNA at a cellular level in every nucleated cell in the body.

3. The terms ‘man’ and ‘woman’ are not ‘gendered identities’ but sex-based descriptors for, respectively, an adult human male and female. They are akin to the terms stag and hind, stallion and mare, bull and cow, ram and ewe etc. used for other species.

4. Irrespective of whether one accepts whether the concept of ‘gender identity’ has any validity, for all Equality Act purposes, no male person can ever qualify as a woman nor a female as a man.

5. As a discrete sex-class, defined in biological terms, women are entitled to the privacy, dignity, comfort and security afforded to them by single-sex facilities that exclude ALL males, irrespective of how any individual man might ‘identify’.

6. Any man who accesses, or seeks to access, a properly constituted female single-sex facility is at least one of a coloniser, a bully, a pervert, a misogynist, an invader, a narcissist, an abuser and an oppressor. It is likely more than one of those things.

These are not fringe or “unreasonable” positions. They are grounded in biology, statute, and decades of established case law. If you consider any of them “anti-trans” or “unreasonable”, then the defect lies not in the propositions but in your own ideological capture.

The floor is yours, my friend. I look forward to your precise, point-by-point response rather than more vague hand-waving about “reasonableness”. In my 35 years in court, I learned that bluster and appeals to authority rarely survive rigorous cross-examination. I doubt yours will either.

[Cranberry Pointy Toes Kazi54 🌸🧚🏻🙂 @KarenJukes2]

@PolitlcsUK @anti_two_teir Huh !?

Shouldn’t ALL men get the screening !?

[Transalpine Redemptorists @TransalpineRed]

Our Fr Anthony Mary's recent interview with Mr Thomas Caffrey on WQPH radio's show "The 13th Apostle". (WQPH serves Shirley-Fitchburg, Massachusetts, and the world).

Inspired by the father of all monks, Saint Antony of the Desert, a group of Irish Catholic monks set sail more than 1,400 years ago to discover a “desert in the pathless sea.” They sought an island that, while physically set apart could also be made holy—made Catholic—by God working through those willing monks and their life of worship in the language of the ancient Church, through contemplative prayer and by a life of service via the Great Commission, to spread the Gospel to lands far and wide. They found that island: Papa Stronsay, or “Little Priest’s Island.” Today, the island is home to the spiritual descendants of those men and of St Alphonsus Liguori: the Sons of the Most Holy Redeemer, also known as the Transalpine Redemptorists. This order has been in the news lately because of their “Open Letter,” a document published last fall that protests the modernist changes in the Church. Listen as Fr. Anthony Mary, FSSR, Rector of Golgotha Monastery, provides some history of both the order and their controversial “Letter.”
#TransalpineRedemptorists #PapaStronsay

[Transalpine Redemptorists @TransalpineRed]

Ahoy! The St Alphonsus launched and in the water again. Crossing at evening. We hope you enjoy a site and sound from the daily life of the monastery.
#TransalpineRedemptorists #PapaStronsay

[Crewkerne Gazette @CrewkerneGaz]

Keeping Up with the Sturgeons continues

After escaping Gordon Brown’s Cave of Despair, Nicola and Peter cross the Scottish border and flee to the familiar comfort of London’s Savoy Hotel.

But they weren’t counting on The Proclaimers.

{satire}

[Transalpine Redemptorists @TransalpineRed]

Thank you... https://t.co/zQulds5FlD
#TransalpineRedemptorists #PapaStronsay

[In Otter News.... @In_Otter_News2]

The otter keeper gave this baby otter a sock to keep warm. She later turned it into a onesie with holes for the hands, feet, and tail

[TwoTonTessie @Moleswuff]

Save the jpeg (L), then open with Google Drive pdf Converter.
Magnifica Humanitas in short.

[MindBranches @MindBranches]

@Pontifex Magnifica Humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence

summary in 4k

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

A tenant farmer in the Cairngorms says land that sold for £500 an acre a few years ago now goes for £5,000. He is being moved off ground his family has worked for generations, because he cannot outbid the people buying it. The buyers are corporations, and they have no intention of farming a single acre of it.

Here is how the trick works. A company keeps emitting carbon exactly as before. Same factories, same flights, same supply chain, same product. Then it buys a Scottish hillside, plants some trees, and announces to the world that it is now carbon neutral, or, if it is feeling brave, carbon negative. The emissions never fell. It simply bought a landscape to point at.

Take BrewDog. In 2020 it bought a 9,300-acre Highland estate, propped up with public grant money, and promised a million trees and the crown of the world's first carbon negative beer business, removing twice the carbon it emitted, forever. By 2023 roughly half of the 500,000 trees it had managed to plant were dead, killed by drought, with critics noting the planting was drying out the peat and releasing carbon of its own. The advertising regulator ruled its carbon-negative claims misleading. In 2024 it quietly dropped the badge and dismissed the entire carbon credit market as a flood of cheap schemes whose benefit was "questionable, maybe even non-existent." Then it sold the estate to a firm whose actual business is selling carbon offsets.

That is the whole model in one story. Public money in. Dead trees out. A green halo worn for four years and then dropped. The farmer who used to be on that land, gone. The hillside passed to a company that exists purely to sell other people the right to keep polluting.

This is no fringe case. In one recent year, half of every estate sold in Scotland went to investment funds, corporations and charitable trusts rather than anyone who would farm it. A third of the deals for plantable land are now done off-market, in secret, precisely so the local community never gets the chance to bid.

So this is what net zero looks like on the ground. A man who produced food is priced out of his own glen. A corporation that produced emissions buys the glen, calls itself a force for good, and sells the carbon. The land stops feeding anyone. Nobody's emissions actually went down by a gram.

The food was real. The farmer was real. The carbon saving is a line in a slide deck.

And we have somehow decided the villain in all this is the man with the sheep.

[Henry von Blumenthal @PaulinusOfTrier]

Magnifica humanitas has the following sentence which bothers me:

"The Church actively participates in the processes by which society grows and is organized, and she offers her own contribution to the creation of a more just and fraternal society."

I do not think that the Church "offers contributions" to anything. The Church's mission is to preach the Gospel and save souls. Whatever she has to say about society must be decisive, not contributory, but if it is not concerned with salvation she should be silent.

The phrase "more just and fraternal society" is particularly bothersome. The Church deals in absolute truth, not relative truth. She is not concerned with something that is "more just" but with justice itself. "More just" implies a direction; what are we talking about here? Better obedience to sovereign law? More socialism? Less socialism? The phrase is undefined. And what is meant by a "fraternal society"?

[TwoTonTessie @Moleswuff]

@LMSChairman Recommended read about the treatment & current situation of the Franciscan Friars.
Noted is the lack of support from those in authority, all of whom are struggling with the dearth of N.O. parish priests.

[Transalpine Redemptorists @TransalpineRed]

Dear Friends,
After the last two terrible months we are slowly returning to life and works. Thank you to all of you who so kindly wrote to Br Ignatius' family and to ourselves - from the most unexpected quarters. Brother, in his self effacing way, would have been so touched too, and would have most of all hoped that his death and holy example brought you yourself somehow closer to Heaven. Once again, written words seem very inadequate to express all we would want to say. Your lovely cards stood at his place in the refectory that remained set and with us with a lighted candle for the 30 days of his Gregorian.
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In these past weeks our Rector, Fr Anthony Mary, https://t.co/gn6I6x9o3X.R., has spent many hours in the depths of the boat, fixing cables and engine in very unpleasant surroundings, and from there he has moved to the roof of the library. Here he has begun to install the solar panels we bought last year in a bid to get heating into the library and to reduce the ever rising generator diesel costs. Thank God that in our Congregation we have such wonderful confreres who sacrifice themselves at these practical tasks to keep this Holy Work up and running. Thankless, dirty, grueling work - crawling around in an engine cavity or on a roof. What a difference the boat is going to make to the summer's works!
Please may I, as Procurator General, by means of this little note, let you know that if you were able to help us with some of these works in any way at all - we would at present be very grateful for that help.
Some of the needs:
- Materials to further repair the boats, building blocks, some bricks, cement, and all sorts of things for the summer's works. Electrical fittings. In many cases replacement for many of our heater boilers that after nearly 25 years are giving up the ghost. Paint for boats, as well as for the interior and exterior of the monastery. We have at least three completely rotten doors that need replacing. We need to buy and ship a large quantity of fuel now that that boat is working and the summer is here. We have limited manpower and an absolute plethora of maintenance to do and small improvements to make.
- Thankfully over the winter your kindness was enough for the diesel we needed. The other burners you have helped us with likewise kicked into action.
- We need to wall the cemetery. Eventually we need to build something larger than our two little churches into which we are pretty much crammed at present, but this seems a bit of a way away.
- Thankfully we have some food supplies and thankfully you are so generous to us via the Benefactor's Page, but likewise our daily bread takes some providing too.
- We have always tried to help any soul at no request for any remuneration, for God always provides. There are many souls for which your kindness does and would provide our ability to go to and help.

We are always very much aware that in the world at this moment it would be extremely unfair to request of you help to provide the superfluous. On the other hand the necessities are so very mundane it likewise feels silly to request them, especially when those kind souls who help us are often working hard to support themselves and their own family.
In this spirit please may I make known to you that if you are able to help us at this point we would very much appreciate it, and a lot could be done with anything you may be able to spare. We are alright, thank God we are not in trouble, so please make sure first that you are alright. But, if after that you would like to help we would thank you very kindly. Many good things could be done for God's glory.
I have put up our new Wise bank details in a prominent place at https://t.co/5MqAns1lGQ. There is also information and links to many other things there.
Likewise there are other possibilities here https://t.co/KzVH8uy0eD to make a gift.
With many thanks and our kindest wishes. You are every day in our prayers before our lunch when we say the Litany of Loreto, "pro eis", "for them" for all those who help us. May God repay you and give you the Kingdom of Heaven.
I am always very respectfully yours,
Br Nicodemus Mary, https://t.co/gn6I6x9o3X.R.
Procurator General

#TransalpineRedemptorists #PapaStronsay

[TwoTonTessie @Moleswuff]

@marianfriars 🙏🙏🙏