Claire Tucker

[The Bee Guy @the_beeguy]

You’ve been seeing very large #bumblebees on the wing for the past while.

Why?

Okay I’ll tell you why in this quick thread if you promise to #retweet as the more people who know that these are queens the more likely that someone will help some out meaning more colonies next year.
Deal?
1/15

[Stop The Bollocks with Mirabel @MirabelTweets1]

@TfL @AsherStern Hi @TfL

I’d like a detailed explanation of why you’ve removed this poster, the grounds for it’s removal, who signed off on its removal (name of the staff member) & a list of which other posters you have removed on the basis of one post on X

Consider this a Stage 1 complaint.

[Daniel Lismore @daniellismore]

The Reason Men Have Nipples Is the Same Reason Transgender People Exist. No, Really.
Men have nipples because every human embryo starts identical.
For the first few weeks in the womb there is no male or female. Just a human being in development. Nipples form during that early identical stage before any sex differentiation has begun. By the time the biological process that creates male anatomy starts, the nipples are already there. So men keep them. They serve no reproductive function in males. They exist because the body built them before it knew which direction it was going.
That is not a design flaw. That is how human development actually works.
And it is exactly the same reason transgender people exist.
Here is the biology.
Around week six of pregnancy, if there is a Y chromosome, a gene called SRY switches on. This triggers the developing gonads to become testes. Those testes then produce testosterone. That surge of testosterone is what shapes male genital anatomy over the following weeks. Without it, female anatomy develops by default. This entire process, from the SRY gene switching on to genital formation being complete, happens between roughly weeks six and twelve of pregnancy.
Then the process stops. The genitals are done.
The brain has barely started.
Brain development continues throughout pregnancy and the sexual differentiation of the brain, the process that shapes whether your neurological architecture develops along male or female lines, happens in the second half of pregnancy. It is driven by a different hormonal environment at a different time. The hormones reaching the developing brain are not identical to the ones that shaped the genitals weeks earlier. The levels differ. The timing differs. The specific brain regions being shaped differ.
This is not one process. It is two entirely separate biological events happening weeks apart under different conditions.
And here is the part that changes everything.
Those two processes can be influenced differently. The hormonal environment during genital development and the hormonal environment during brain development do not have to match. Genetics, the mother’s hormone levels, the sensitivity of the fetal cells to hormones, chance variations in the biological cascade, all of these can produce a situation where the genitals develop one way and the brain develops another.
When that happens you get a person whose neurological sex does not match their anatomical sex.
That is a transgender person.
Not a choice. Not a trend. Not social media. Something that happened in the womb before the person had a name, before they had a single thought, before they had any awareness of the world they were entering.
This has been published in Nature since 1995. Confirmed by multiple independent research teams across three decades. Over 100 genetic links documented. The World Health Organisation agrees. The Royal College of Psychiatrists agrees. Every major medical institution on earth agrees.
You already accepted that male nipples make sense once you understood how human development works.
Transgender people make sense for exactly the same reason.
The biology was always there.
It just never got explained this simply.

[Miffy @miffythegamer]

The Pride flag has precisely nothing to do with sexualising children, but that hasn’t stopped washed up pop moppet, @roisinmurphy, from dredging up old homophobic tropes from the 1980s.

[Mike O'Brien🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @Mikeo56977865]

Jeremy Vine’s broadcasting has caused significant harm to disabled people, chronically ill people, and unpaid carers. The show’s sustained pattern of amplifying extreme or inaccurate claims, without scrutiny, challenge, or responsible editorial balance has fuelled a public climate where our communities are blamed for structural failures we did not create.

This repeated misinformation shapes how institutions treat us, how policies are justified, and how the wider public perceives our lives. It reinforces stigma, legitimises hostility, and gives cover to narratives that portray disabled people and carers as burdens rather than citizens navigating systems that routinely fail us.

The consequences are not abstract. They are lived daily in assessments, interactions, and decisions made by people influenced by the rhetoric the programme chooses to platform.

It is long overdue that this pattern of harmful broadcasting is confronted directly and held to account.

[Ms Insomniac Free Palestine🐟🇵🇸FBPE #FBPPR @Hermione1963]

A sobering list of all the programmes @theJeremyVine show has ‘discussed’ disability benefits. Shows like this are the reason disabled people are subject to physical and mental abuse and daily threats. There is no balance, no disabled panellists. Our voices need to be heard.

[PenScribbler @ScribblerPen]

The backlash to Jeremy Vine comes after years of abusive behaviour by his eponymous show. Some of the nicest, kindest disabled voices here, that never engage in personal abuse, are now #BlockedByVine. Is silencing disabled people @BBC @channel5_tv policy?
https://t.co/A96sz0mXNo

[Novara Media @novaramedia]

Loyle Carner rapped "F*ck Nigel Farage and free Palestine" live on the BBC during his set at Reading Festival on Sunday.

The twice Mercury-nominated artist called on the crowd to "make some noise for the NHS", attacked "toxic masculinity bullsh*t", and shared that his song Speed of Plight was “in direct opposition [to] the far-right”.

"I don’t really like JK Rowling, do you know what I mean?" Carner added.

[Miffy @miffythegamer]

This is a total lie.

How did such a dim, reactionary and unserious person get anywhere near the House of Lords?

That this total airhead is helping to shape the laws which govern all of us is frankly terrifying.

[Kev Brown @TheKevBrown]

@LBC @ShelaghFogarty you need to screen your callers better as this man is clearly lying to you and you've allowed it to be broadcast nationally with zero pushback

[India Willoughby @IndiaWilloughby]

Terf pop-up. Trans hate front. Three biddies and a lap-top. Define women by periods and pregnancy. On the same page as anti-abortionists and the Religious Right. Consider c!s women being confronted about their looks collateral damage. 84% of lesbians disagree with their views (YouGov). Teamed with the same entities threatening to sue the Women’s Institute, Girl Guides, Hampstead Ladies Pond and any girl/women’s group who do not adopt their hate. Completely unrepresentative of women. They are not a “women’s rights” org. They are an anti trans people stalking horse.

So that’s a hard no.

[Novara Media @novaramedia]

This is who's behind the AI character fighting a civil war against the “Islamist Front”.

https://t.co/e7chyb2PY8

[Quackers She/Her🏳️‍🌈 @treweeseanne]

@PopOffShow @JeremyVineOn5 He really is blocking us even though we were just talking about our fears over the shows rhetoric and how it could be fairer.

[Atlanta Rey 📚 @areyoflight]

If Jeremy Vine is coming after this person for the petition I’ve started…

Why don’t you come for the correct person, Jeremy?

Is it because you blocked me and can’t communicate with me, so you harass another prominent disability campaigner?

Clearly, he didn’t read it because it states clearly who the organiser is.

Absolutely despicable narcissistic behaviour.

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

The costumes of the Notting Hill Carnival, London, which celebrates the Black British Community, are designed months in advance #WomensArt (image by P.Jordan)

[Tiberius @tiberiusfiles]

Everyone not baby-brained (including Craig, of course) knew this at the time

A good rule of thumb is to look which group an attack truly serves

The attack clearly served Zionist interests, not Iranian

Israel continues to wage a psychological war on Western societies

[Paula Peters @paulapeters2]

Sainsbury’s won’t be the only ones “benefitting” from free labour. So will Boots, B&M, Toby Carvery and many more.
Exploiting younger people while the CEOs get bonuses & pay increases. @unitetheunion @UsdawUnion time for you to step up and fight this #WorkPlacements

[Phil Humber @PhilHumber1]

Is it time to hold politicians and the media directly culpable for harm caused by rhetoric?. I'm disabled, the absolute shit I get from people has increased SO much because of people like Whately, Nick Ferrari, Tom Swarbick, Jeremy Vine who can spout total lies with impunity..

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Sainsbury's usually hires about 17,000 extra workers at Christmas.

Instead they will have 10,000 people on 'Work Experience' paid for by YOU.

The result a massive, up to 10,000, DECREASE in the amount of actually jobs available.

Oh and it costs about £30m to YOU, and nothing to Sainsbury's.

[Gyll King Post Skip Diplomacy @GyllKing]

If you aren’t horrified that the people now supporting race realist Nathan Cofnas have just succeeded in getting adult trans health care in the Welsh NHS shut down you’re really not understanding the direction of travel. It’s not too late to start supporting trans people.