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Idealist, feminist, parent, scientish. I bang on about equality, climate change and biodiversity, and compassionately questioning gender ideology 💚🌎

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@TheKentAcorn Has oak leaf shape evolved over time to be more lobular, or is this part of a normal variation in shape such as we see today?

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Dear @JeremyClarkson I saw this on my feed on another platform and instantly thought you needed to see it.

"Jeremy Clarkson thinks people who receive benefits should have to send a weekly thank you email to a randomly chosen working person, explaining what they did with the money, or have their payments stopped.

So here is mine. If you’d like to give it a share to help Jeremy see it, that would be great.

Dear Jezza,

Thank you for your concern about my contribution to society.

I should say first that you were aiming this at young people you believe are sitting at home doing nothing.

But you wrote it as a blanket rule applying to everyone whose benefits are paid.

That includes more than thirteen million pensioners, millions of people who receive benefits while working, who may find themselves being ordered to thank another benefit claimant, and me.

I receive PIP.

That money goes towards the Motability car I use to travel to work.

It is not a free car. It is not even my car. I exchange the mobility part of my PIP to lease it.

The car takes the lot.

Which is awkward, because that same payment is also meant to help cover the additional costs of being disabled, including a wheelchair that is actually usable for my job and hearing aids that allow me to do it.

There is nothing left for either.

I chose the thing that gets me to work.

That car enables me to work and, because I can work, I now pay considerably more in tax than I have ever received in PIP.

But my contribution does not end with my own tax bill.

I have built programmes that hundreds of people now use to earn a living.

They pay tax too.

Those programmes have helped thousands of people overcome anxiety, return to their lives and, in many cases, return to work.

Then there are all the people supported by the coaches and practitioners I have trained.

That is what disability support can do when it is designed to enable people rather than humiliate them.

My PIP did not disappear into some great benefits black hole.

It helped provide the transport that allowed me to work, build a business, create opportunities for other people and contribute far more than I could ever have done without it.

But as we are exchanging thank you letters, perhaps you could send me one too.

I paid my television licence throughout the years the BBC gave you the platform that made you famous.

I now pay for Amazon Prime, which helps fund the television programme about your farm.

I do not choose to watch it.

But that is how society works, Jeremy.

We all contribute towards things we may never personally use because the entire country would fall apart if every payment had to provide us with an individual benefit.

Perhaps you could also thank the taxpayers whose public services and infrastructure support your businesses.

And while you have the stationery out, perhaps you could explain the farm.

In 2021, you told The Times that avoiding inheritance tax was “the critical thing” in your decision to buy land.

In 2024, when that became rather inconvenient, you said it had never been true. You claimed you had actually bought the farm because you wanted somewhere to shoot and that tax avoidance had simply sounded like a better story at the time.

I am not sure which version helps your argument.

It is funny how public support and clever tax arrangements are treated as perfectly respectable when they benefit wealthy people.

Yet when a disabled person receives help to leave the house, go to work and participate in society, you think they should be made to perform gratitude.

So thank you for your concern, Jezza.

I hope my licence fee, Amazon subscription, taxes and contribution to the economy have all been gratefully received.

Please send your thank you letter weekly, along with a full breakdown of how you spent the money.

If it is not sufficiently fulsome and effusive, I assume your income will be stopped.

That is only fair."

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@fitomics @SaulStaniforth Isn’t the supposed point of a nuclear deterrent that you never need to launch one?

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@TweetToHeat I can’t see the scheduling tab on my app. There’s no option for it. I have just tried to contact you but your contact form says there is no Customer Service over the weekend. That’s really not great at all 🥶

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@Hamzasharif5750 🙏🏻

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@TylerBarella @jeremycorbyn If you really want an answer to that, you could read this https://t.co/yAF7C1WVzx

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Yep

[Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas]

Why isn’t this headline news? The implications are horrifying … https://t.co/oji3PT6mhX

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@FionneOrlander It sounds like @jeanmicheljarre

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#WATO There’s been no violence on so many Pro #Palestine or #Climate marches over recent years @TrevorPTweets you should not be normalising violence at protests. @BBCWorldatOne Call it out!

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@adamfleming I’ve just watched a video of that red carpet moment at the #grammy and she looks so uncomfortable and terrified. It’s a shame your guests hadn’t seen it first, as feminists I think they would have *both* denounced what happened with compassion and concern for Bianca

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@MENnewsdesk I’m disgusted at the comments, (from people who mostly haven’t even read the article)
The men, being offered a safe bed until their claim is processed, don’t want to be in an hotel or unable to work either.
Many are traumatised and all will be missing loved ones.
#refugeeswelcome

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Doctors need to hear detrans stories so they can make informed healthcare decisions - but they’re being silenced by the @AmerAcadPeds

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

BREAKING: The @AmerAcadPeds has kicked out a detrans group that included Chloe Cole, Abel Garcia, Soren Aldaco, and Nicolas Flowers from their annual conference. Why is the AAP preventing doctors from hearing these stories?

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@Brsk_uk any estimate as to how long it will take before anyone gets back to me? I reported my Wi-Fi not working over 12 hours ago by logging a ticket, and I haven’t had any response yet - I am supposed to be working and can’t get online..

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@RosieisaHolt @JustStop_Oil Seem to be full when it comes to the real climate criminals tho eh. https://t.co/xOsiYUukRq

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@JustStop_Oil Thank you 🙏🏼 they mocked the suffragettes too, and imprisoned them. It’s shocking how blinded people in the comments are to reality. I’d be proud if you were my child, as I am of my own who fights for climate justice alongside me and her Dad ✊🏼💚

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@JamesEsses To be fair, she has a point. It’s like saying “I treat everyone the same” in a system that is inherently sexist (and racist and classist) intentionally or not, because it was powerful white men who built it from their perspective. If women tell you #sexmatters, it probably does.

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@rich_toronto @THEREALJEW613 Sorry what? I think you said ‘Muslims’ when you meant to say ‘islamaphobic white people’
I’ve seen peaceful multiethnic counter demos, whilst the racists shout racist chants, throw bricks through people’s house windows, and attempt to set fire to hotels housing brown people.

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@ShayWoulahan @PerosteckAgain Presumably these women are FGM ‘practitioners’ ie the women who carry it out on children?

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@mikeymagnetic @traffordgreens So angry at this @TraffordBlue - you’re whipping up an artificial culture war and blocking life saving policies for the sake of the Party over the people. That’s seemingly the modern @Conservatives all over though 😒

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This is disgusting, framing moves to improve everyone’s health and quality of life as a ‘war on motorists’ - once again @Conservatives playing politics with people’s lives 😡Fumin’!!
@MumsForLungs #schoolstreets