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Man City Women supporter. Can't believe women are still having to fight for their rights! #sexnotgender

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Another letter to add to @AmnestyUK's overflowing mail box, this one from women-only rape support service, Beira's Place. 1/3

[Carl Bovis @CarlBovisNature]

Good morning everyone, please read;
The last few days here on X/Twitter have been bizarre to say the least.
Most of you will have seen what has been going on, but now is the time to put an end to it, for everyone's sake. 🙏
What has made this particularly difficult is the fact that the other account involved runs a hedgehog rescue charity. Many of my followers also follow this account, and vice versa.
We're all supposed to be on the same side!
All my correspondences during this are easily visible by clicking my 'replies' tab, I've not deleted anything and I maintain I have done nothing wrong and have nothing to hide.
I was going to address every hurtful thing I've been accused of, but I'm tired of defending myself, and just want all of this unpleasantness to stop.
To that end, I won't be replying anymore to trolls, and I ask all my followers, from now on, please do the same, for my sake. 🙏
I'll be ignoring and blocking any negativity. Some have suggested that I mute instead, but that only means I can't see the replies, but all my followers would still be able to.
It's upsetting that I've lost followers because of all this, but those that know me and have followed me for a while know the truth. Most of the people who have blocked me never followed me, don't know me, and just believed everything they've read from elsewhere.... and I get it..
If I were new to this drama, and I clicked on the profiles of the 2 main protagonists and saw a male bird photographer on one, and a female who runs a hedgehog rescue charity on the other, I'd probably side automatically with the hedgehog charity too!
The really sad thing though, people shouldn't have to be choosing sides, this is the thing that has upset people that have followed both our accounts for years...
I just want to get back to sharing my birds and other wildlife, and I'm sure the other account wants to get back to helping hedgehogs.
A couple of days ago, I sent the same videos of my visiting hedgehogs to a lady who runs a hedgehog rescue near me in Somerset. Enclosed is her full reply.
I love hedgehogs, the same as I do any other wildlife (except horseflies!) and will always do my best and always take advice from people more knowledgeable than I am... but there are ways and means of addressing people, especially when original assumptions are wrong.
I'll be keeping an eye on the hedgehogs, supplying food and water as usual, and I have my local hedgehog expert close by if there are any further concerns, so please don't worry about them. 🦔
I hate all the stress and drama, my account is supposed to be an escape from all that, and I apologise to all my followers if any of this whole sorry saga upset you.🙏 I had to defend myself....but now that's done.
Thank you so much to everyone who has stuck up for me these last few days, I really appreciate it. ❤️
From now on though, I'm asking you all to please stop... let the other account get back to helping hedgehogs, because hedgehogs need all the help they can get! 🙏
Hopefully, they will also ask the same of their followers, and we can all just move on peacefully! ❤️
Thank you for reading.. this will hopefully be my last post on the matter.

[Fiona goddard @fionagoddarduk]

So just wanted to let everyone know whats been happening.

Thursday night an asian man was dropped off outside my house and was seen by neighbors walking up and down outside for aprox 30 mins then was picked back up outside my house in a car. The neighbors didnt think much until the police did door to door friday morning about what had happened earlier in the week. After that they were more aware and they noticed an asian man park out of site of the cameras and also walk out of view.
He walked half way up the stairs either on facetime or recording my children and my house. They came to me immediately and I rang the police. They took 18 hours to respond even though I have an immediate response marker.
Then 8.15 pm yesterday my mum spotted a black audi driving around with asian men inside that she made me aware of, which I didnt think much of as its not unusual.
At 1am my partner came down stairs to say a black audi had been circling our street for over 45 mins.... this carried on until 4am. I ended up taping all my letter box up at 2am and warning my daughter if anything happened to get her baby brothers and lock herself in the bathroom. The police were ment to be patrolling the area around my house between 12 and 3am yet in all the time this audi was speeding around and around my streets, not a single police car was seen. My neighbor went out to walk her dog and have a nosey for me because i kept seeing the car and the first thing she saw was a black audi speeding down the main road then turning off in the same places I had said it would.
We are packing up and going away for the week, I wont be telling anyone where we are going but we will be safe for the week and I can try and push things to be done while being able to relax knowing noone knows where we are.
This exact pattern happened in the lead up to my trial and it climaxed once they knew where the cameras were and what the lay out was. I ended up with them trying to get in the house and having to lock my kids in a cupboard while I fought them off till armed police arrived. I stayed away for 6 days then within hours of returning, they were again trying to gain access to the house. Even after moving to another city they again got access to my house in attempts to pour boiling water on me. The police know all of this and they know whats going to happen, yet keep failing to act appropriately to prevent it.

[Care Champions Ireland @CareChampions2]

This is 79-year-old Robert Thompson from Bray. Robert is completely blind, but until recently, he has managed to live a highly independent life with the help of his brilliant guide dog, Rhona.

But right now, Wicklow County Council is failing him, and the entire visually impaired community.

For years, the audible signals at pedestrian crossings across Bray have been faulty. Recently, things have gone from bad to worse. The critical audio signals that tell Robert where the crossing pole is (the "wait" sound) and when it is actually safe to cross (the "go" sound) have stopped working entirely on busy routes near his home.

"There’s no way I would cross that road without the sound," Robert says. "It’s just too dangerous."

To make matters worse, recent changes to the local Dublin bus network (replacing the old 145 route with the E1 spine) mean his usual handy bus stops are gone. Because the council has left the nearby pedestrian signals broken, Robert can no longer cross the street safely at his local stop.

Robert is now forced to get off the bus early and walk a massive, grueling 1.5 kilometers EACH WAY along a highly dangerous, busy stretch of road just to find a single working crossing.

Robert has contacted Wicklow County Council repeatedly. They have acknowledged his complaints, but they have met him with absolute silence regarding any actual repairs.

Basic mobility and safety should be a right, not a luxury. By ignoring these broken signals for years, the council is effectively trapping vulnerable residents in their own towns and actively stripping away their independence.

Please SHARE this post! Let’s get the word out and force Wicklow County Council to do their job, fix the audio signals in Bray, and restore safety and freedom to Robert and others who rely on them!

#WicklowCountyCouncil #AccessibilityMatters #Bray #Inclusion #GuideDogsIreland #RobertThompson

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[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

'Who does it hurt if we make every space mixed-sex?'
This is who it hurts: the most vulnerable, those without power and influence, the invisible people politicians don't bother to consider when chasing likes and photo ops. If this girl or an adult acting on her behalf wants to take legal action, contact https://t.co/EQnwivL9hW

[Alastair Hilton @London_W4]

I’m home now. Rick Rowe, the Green Party candidate has been given my personal information by the police. He let it slip tonight, when he deliberately came to the Chiswick pub that he sent the police to who acted on his orders (see my previous video). If I do not post on here in the morning, it means that the police have again acted on the orders of a Green Party candidate and have arrested me. I hope that I am able to post tomorrow morning, but seriously, please kick up a fuss with whoever you can if you don’t see a post from me by 9am British time. Really appreciate your support in these difficult times. Thank you.

[Higgy @higgyboson]

I've just been informed by Devon and Cornwall Police @DC_Police that the stone mason company who stole the concrete slab from my Sons grave and moved it to someone elses grave where they cemented a memorial stone to it have not committed any crime.

This is despite the fact they disturbed the structure of my Sons grave, STOLE a component part of it and walked away from the cemetery leaving my Sons grave completely uncovered.

I'm absolutely astounded at this decision.

It was discovered in this state by my Grand Children who went to lay flowers on Fathers Day.

(I've blurred out the name on the memorial stone).

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

Six of these ten Highland Councillors voted to allow a taxi driver who raped a passenger to keep his operator’s license — even though senior police officers urged them not to.

Please note that although we’re constantly told it’s women who grease the wheels for rapists, every single councillor who voted in rapist David Brown’s favor is a man. Take a good look at them, Scottish women: these 6 men would put you, alone and unwarned, in a taxi with a man who has already raped at least one passenger.

Brown has been put on the register for life; he raped an 18 year old girl and dumped her outdoors on a sub-zero January night in the Scottish Highlands; but these 6 men - Chris Birt, John Grafton, Ruraidh Stewart, Sean Kennedy, Willy MacKay, and Duncan MacPherson - are more concerned about his finances than they are about the safety of local women.

https://t.co/Rq2jzLJ9P3

[Marjorie Hutchins @leakylike]

"A lot of us think it could never happen to us. She, a 57-year-old strong-minded, middle-class professional, thought the same.

“Sadly, I think many of us are mistaken,” she says."

[teresa smith @treesey]

So isn’t this film, a form of conversion therapy aimed at tomboy girls in primary schools?

‘Accompanying worksheets reinforce the born in the wrong body narrative and encourage allyship framed around immediate affirmation of the declared identity’

Extract:

[Sarah Phillimore @SVPhillimore]

Say a family has three children, 14, 12 and 10. The 14 year old complains that her parents have destroyed her stash of testosterone and have removed her phone so she can’t order more. The parents are charged re criminal conversion therapy.

This will trigger an immediate statutory investigation by the local authority into the risk of harm for all children in the family. We know that children’s services have been captured: note CAFCASS guidance and the belief of SWE that a GRC changes your biological sex.

There are no family members to take the children in. The LA seeks interim removal of all three children pending final hearing or determination of criminal charges.

I do not think this is a fanciful or remote situation. If I act for one of the parents, how am I going to argue that a potential criminal conviction in this field is NOT significant harm?

We currently have a foster care crisis in this country. Increase the numbers of looked after children by even a few percent and the whole system will fall over.

[Dennis Noel Kavanagh @Jebadoo2]

The Conversion Bill is Labour's Section 28.

It is now illegal to tell your teenage daughter she should grow up to be a happy lesbian instead of securing puberty blockers and testosterone

That's the real conversion therapy.

Telling gay teens they are sick and need fixing.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

She’s right 👇

[Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland]

Dear @EnvAgency.

In February this year, after 4 years of asking you to look after the Aldersbrook, I led a team of volunteers to do your job for you & clean out tonnes of silt & leaves, as well as hundreds of bags of rubbish. Through the effort of community volunteers & donations, & at zero cost to the taxpayer, we turned a forgotten silted up ditch back into a river again.

Last nights intense rain storm showed why our actions are the very definition of “strengthening water resilience”. A huge amount of rain fell in a short time, but the restored section of the Aldersbrook has been able to hold 100’s of thousands of litres more water, stopping this water running into the Roding, & thereby *reducing* local flood risk. The first photograph below is of the Aldersbrook after the rains this morning- a big contrast to the area before we did the work.

Perhaps more importantly, this water, instead of running straight off into the Roding & hence the sea is now being held in the Aldersbrook & gradually released so it can be used by nature. It is feeding marshes, trees & wildlife, topping up groundwater & helping to reduce our flood/drought cycle. If you want to strengthen water resilience, we need thousands more projects like the Aldersbrook around the country.

So the question I ask you, Environment Agency, is why you are threatening me with two years imprisonment, rather than offering to meet & discuss how we can work together to restore the Roding & its tributaries, which could become a blueprint for you cooperating with local river guardians nationwide?

[Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland]

This is the worst “strong support” I’ve ever received.

However, the malevolent uselessness of @EnvAgency is not limited to the recent incident on the Aldersbrook. Over the last 10 years I have been battling, along with hundreds of dedicated local volunteers, to protect & restore the River Roding against all the odds. The Environment Agency has not lifted a finger to help in these actions & indeed has often been a blocker to our work on the river.

Here’s some examples of the “strong support” we’ve received from the Environment Agency over the years… 🧵

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

It is NOT ok to experiment on kids as young as 11 and make irreversible changes to their bodies.

We must protect children from dangerous ideology.

Conservatives will not just sit back and let this happen. I refuse to believe MPs, if given the chance, would let this continue. That is why we will force a vote, not just to pause this trial but to stop it completely.

[Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland]

I’m sorry, this is total bollocks. I have been looking after my river for a decade and you have done absolutely nothing to support me and the other hundreds of volunteers who give up their free time to do your job for you and to stop the river we love from dying.

This picture is the part of the Aldersbrook that we haven’t yet restored. Do you agree that allowing one of the ancient rivers of London to disappear beneath a layer of sewage, silt, rubbish & knotweed is a disgrace? If so, when can we expect EA teams down in the river to sort it out?

[Nick Timothy MP @NJ_Timothy]

Labour are letting rape gang members out of prison early.

They promised the early release scheme would not apply to those guilty of “the most serious, heinous crimes.”

We need urgent legislation to keep all rapists, child sex offenders and rape gang members locked up.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

135 British MPs are fighting guidance that would deny ‘Paula’ the right to enter women’s and girls’ changing rooms.

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

This is total madness from another unaccountable quango. The government must overrule Natural England and stop it immediately.

Keir Starmer is on his way to making his last acts in office the shameful underfunding of our military and the mass slaughter of Dartmoor ponies.