Esmerelda Scuttlebutt

Linguist, teacher, bookworm, singer, vintage car owner, cricket fan, cross middle-aged feminist. Don't call me cis. Terminally sarcastic. Adult human female.

[Esmerelda Scuttlebutt @EScuttlebutt]

@BradfemlyWalsh I do that too!

[Cats That Make You Go Awww @CuteAdorableCat]

I used to get nagged nonstop by my husband for buying two robot vacuums.
Now he’s gone and turned them straight into tanks 🙂

[Paul Bronks @SlenderSherbet]

"Excuse me, do you have a moment to talk about our Lord and Saviour Winnie the Pooh"

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@crit_gen That's beautiful!

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@runthinkwrite @TurkishAirlines That happened to me too. I did get compensation in the end but the customer service was absolutely appalling, and I would certainly think twice before booking in future.

[Kate Clanchy @KateClanchy1]

' I’m surviving life in Afghanistan
and maybe dreaming is its own kind of freedom'
Shadmana is fifteen, writing, learning and teaching entirely online, mostly in English. Please pass her poem on. @WRNAfghanistan

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@LizaRosen0000 Done

[Liza Rosen @LizaRosen0000]

Dear British people,

Can you flood social media with this statement?

Retweet it, comment “done”, and let’s see how far we can push this.

Your voice matters — let’s make it echo.

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@WDIAfghanistan1 @jk_rowling Yes

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@VividProwess British Catholic. I'm with you.
Am Yisrael Chai!

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@EvaPoen My favourite Tom Lehrer song!

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@mboudry Lobachevsky is my favourite too!

[Sam Morgan @CrunchAlias]

When men who claim to be women say: "How are you going to police it?"

They mean: "How are you going to stop me?"

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

🙄The fringe idea that we all have a 'gender identity' that may or may not match our biological sex is the whole point of this discussion. Trans activists act as though the existence of 'gender identity' is a settled, self-evident point, when to the vast majority of the world it's unevidenced, quasi-religious, pseudoscientific nonsense, which has been imposed top down on our society with serious consequences for vulnerable women and troubled youth in particular.

Meaningful discussion about competing needs and rights cannot happen inside an elitist ideological bubble where everyone is forced to adopt gender ideology's approved jargon, accept its self-contradicting slogans as fact and pretend fact-light assertions and feeble sophistry are critical thinking.

You tell us to 'educate' ourselves, by which you mean, 'adopt our beliefs unquestioningly,' but at this point, most of us know your arguments off by heart. These include, but are not limited to: feelings trump facts and unless we agree we're 'erasing people from existence'; women and girls aren't definable entities, so why should they be entitled to their own sports and single-sex spaces; clownfish and people with DSDs mean sex is 'on a spectrum' and 'woman' is a set of stereotypes associated with the female sex class, so it doesn't matter if you've got a penis, if you identify with those stereotypes you're 'valid'.

The reason we haven't been won over by these talking points and remain so tragically 'uneducated' isn't that we've failed to grasp the sophistication of your world view. It's that we think you're talking unadulterated bullshit and making fools of yourselves.

[Oliver Brown @oliverbrown_tel]

England playing Afghanistan heralds a day of unmitigated shame. For all the Taliban’s obscene misogyny, cricket’s male-dominated governing bodies lack the gumption to refuse to play. My piece https://t.co/gwF77dlZ6a

[Susan Dalgety @DalgetySusan]

Excellent article by Oliver Brown on the cowardice of men’s cricket (share token) https://t.co/aTJuT05R7K

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@HazelAppleyard_

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@VividProwess Shabbat Shalom

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@HazelAppleyard_ He sounds like a lovely kind man.

[Jahanzib Wesa @jahanzibwesa]

Afghan young girls are still fighting for their education and basic rights 🇦🇫

Strong and courageous speech by a young Afghan girls on the right to education for women.

#LetAfghanGirlsLearn #EndGenderApartheid