Daughter: ‘hope the funeral goes ok’.
Me: ‘it’s a wedding rehearsal actually, but thanks anyway’.
Daughter: forgets conversation, moves on with life.
Me: spend 4 hours terrified I’ve somehow overlooked a funeral booking so failed to do family visit, write script or turn up...
People have lost their jobs for saying hateful, cruel and inaccurate things about Charlie Kirk’s murder, but the president of the United States can repeatedly, unambiguously, unabashedly and shamelessly FALSELY blame an entire political party for his death, and somehow it’s fine.
I am getting a lot of heat for having eaten 2 Easter eggs that weren’t mine before Easter Sunday. I think people should be celebrating that I managed to leave two.
I rode a camel in the Sahara today and it has changed my life. In a good way. Here’s my post-ride sunset glow. Camel pics will follow once I’ve got some. (Wasn’t the time to have no battery, but at least it kept me hanging on).
@PT_Foundation Disappointed to see such deliberate over-simplification of a truly complex issue. We all know that the use of any drug comes down to weighing up risks and benefits.
We need nuanced consideration of these issues for everyone’s sake.
@PT_Foundation Note: not pretending to be a scientist. Happy to be challenged on the facts of how I’ve understood this.
Not so interested in purely ideological objections, though I understand there will be many.
@PT_Foundation Because
a) they’ve got a hormonal issue that can be mitigated by the drugs
b) they’ll be on them to delay puberty not stop it
c) they’ve got a physical condition, not an important identity issue that may or may not be permanent.
d) clinical trials have proven safety