Rowena Pagdin 💙

Clinical psychologist . Comments and retweets are my own. Retweets/ Follows are NOT endorsements- just curious. views all mine in my capacity as a human bean

[We Can't Consent To This @Wecantconsentto]

1. Call it STRANGULATION

[Tim Worstall @worstall]

Dolly's obituary in The Telegraph.

No one does have subeditors any more, do they?

[Heroes Of Britain @HeroesOfBritain]

I cannot stop thinking about Jack Lees choosing to swim back into the rip for the third student.

On 4 June 2024, at Northcott Mouth in Cornwall, three young women were caught in a powerful rip current. Jack and his friend Zaid Anfoka helped two out of the rip. Jack then went back for the third.

He stayed with her for about 40 minutes until she escaped the current. All three women made it back. Jack, 20, did not.

I feel heartbroken by what his courage cost him. I think Britain should know his name (I wish more people did).

Had you heard Jack’s name before?

[Greg Lukianoff @glukianoff]

This idea sits at the heart of The Coddling of the American Mind, and I think it matters even more now than when @JonHaidt and I wrote it.

A free society requires people who can hear things they dislike and resist treating offense as harm.

[street lifer @streetlifer1]

I'm 47. When I was 3 my older cousin let go of my hand for maybe ten seconds near a lake and I went under. Another cousin, 11 at the time, pulled me out.

Family's told that story my whole life exactly one way, the 11 year old was the hero, the other cousin was careless and nearly got me killed.

Nobody ever asked why a 3 year old was standing at the edge of open water being supervised by a child barely old enough to supervise herself.

That cousin carried the blame for decades, still brings it up sometimes at holidays like she's confessing something. I finally told her two years ago it was never her fault, she was eight, she should've never been the one responsible for me in the first place.

She cried. Said thirty nine years and I was the first person in the family to say that part out loud.

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

The Iranian regime went to my sister’s home and made her to sit in front of their cameras and disown me. She did that publicly.

Then they went after my mother. My tiny mum prepared a gallon of gasoline and told them: “If you force me to disown my daughter, I will burn myself before I do that.”

So, they arrested my brother Ali, in order to punish her, to punish me, to punish our entire family.

I am the daughter of this beautiful Muslim mother. So listen carefully! I am not against Muslims. How could I be? My beloved mother is Muslim.

I am against Islamists who weaponize religion to silence dissent, punish Muslims, and tear families apart.

Criticizing Islamism is not hatred of Muslims. It is standing up for Muslims who are often its first victims, like my own family.

I miss my mum. Every single day. And my dream is to hug her soon.😔💔
#LetUsTalk

[Rowena Pagdin 💙 @RowenaPagdin]

@Futurewor1d @novaramedia I agree.

[Rowena Pagdin 💙 @RowenaPagdin]

@mancunianmedic God I loved Quincy. The beginning credits when he’s examining a dead body… wait a second, it’s just a beautiful lady on his yacht. Quincy!

[Rowena Pagdin 💙 @RowenaPagdin]

@GrenadaLoyalist It is a rather lovely voice

[SprintForge @Tweeterfinger1]

🚨 🇬🇧 HISTORY FOR DINA ASHER-SMITH

Dina Asher-Smith 🇬🇧 is the most decorated athlete in European Championships history 🏆.

She's earned ELEVEN (11) medals in total.

🥇 8 Gold

🥈 2 Silver

🥉 1 Bronze

The greatest female British sprinter of all time.

Congratulations Dina! 👏😮‍💨

[Rowena Pagdin 💙 @RowenaPagdin]

@stellaomalley3 @TTExulansic Congratulations!

[Lara Terry @LaraRixon]

Women supporting women...We love to see it 💛 (after winning the 4x100m relay)

[James Dreyfus @DreyfusJames]

When I’m finally Emperor of The Universe, my first act of mercy will be to banish the scourge of tweeness from pole to pole .

Only then, may we begin to live, really LIVE, free from the curse of waking up each day having a little bit of sick…

[Iain Strachan @from_dove]

My young lad, who loves movies and going to the cinema more than anyone in history, was at a posh cinema in Edinburgh tonight seeing The Odyssey (for the fourth time). He went to the loo and on his was back he thought he recognised a guy at the bar...

[SEGM @segm_ebm]

🚨 WPATH has conceded in court that its "Standards of Care" is merely an opinion. WPATH says it represents one side of an unsettled scientific debate marked by uncertainty — and physicains & orgs that rely on WPATH as the standard of care must bear "independent responsibility."/1

[Oxford Gender & Wellbeing Research Group @oxgenderstudy]

NEW @UniofOxford RESEARCH! 📢📢📢 Help us test a new questionnaire to understand gender-related emotions. Anyone can take part who is UK-based, aged 18 years or older, and fluent in English. Link to find out more & take part here: https://t.co/vq5uVJUQD6

[Laura✡️Marcus @MissLauraMarcus]

2/2 gift link. Jason Arday is merely a symptom of the Left’s corruption of excellence
https://t.co/uEw66hB86G

[Rowena Pagdin 💙 @RowenaPagdin]

@Futurewor1d Ha!

[Beci Carver @becimay]

Learnt today that all but one of Exeter’s rich crop of Fellows of the British Academy is in the risk pool for compulsory redundancy. Material for a dictionary definition of cultural vandalism?