Lia Phipps

Peinture animalière, bonne vivante and soi-disant beauty expert

[PROTECT ALL WILDLIFE @Protect_Wldlife]

Scotland has just done something quietly brilliant for its birds 🐦

New buildings across the country will now have to include "Swift bricks", hollow bricks built straight into the walls that give birds a safe place to nest.

It sounds like a small thing but it isn't. Swift numbers in the UK have fallen by around 60% since the mid-1990s, and one of the biggest reasons is heartbreakingly simple: modern buildings have nowhere for them to go. Swifts have always nested in the nooks and gaps of our houses, and as those disappeared, so did they.

The birds themselves make it worse by being loyal to a fault. Swifts return to the exact same nest site year after year, having flown thousands of miles from Africa to get there.

When they arrive to find it sealed up, some will keep flying at the spot again and again, sometimes injuring themselves in the process.

The bricks cost about £30 each. They need no maintenance, they don't affect insulation, and once they're in the wall, you'd never know they were there. Sparrows, Starlings and House Martins use them too, all species in trouble for the same reason.

One RSPB conservationist put it starkly. In his part of Glasgow, not a single Swift bred in 2025, the first time in his 30 years there. He called it "nothing short of heartbreaking."

Scotland is the first country in the UK to write this into law. Campaigners are now hoping the rest follows.

[Ricky Gervais @rickygervais]

This wasn't allowed in public incase it offended anyone. So please don't retweet it. Thanks 🙏https://t.co/1stbtsNZG1

[Wholesome Side of 𝕏 @itsme_urstruly]

A Scottish Highland cow born just two hours ago
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[Catturd ™ @catturd2]

Cow farts aren’t destroying the planet.

The people who claim cow farts are destroying the planet, are destroying the planet.

[Maxine Pye @LiveAncestral]

What the doctor says vs what it actually means.

“Your LDL is high.”

What it means: Your body is producing more of the molecule it uses to repair tissue, make hormones, and carry fat-soluble vitamins to your cells. That is biology doing its job.

“LDL is the bad cholesterol.”

What it means: LDL is a lipoprotein. A transport vehicle. It carries cholesterol to the cells that need it. There is no bad cholesterol. There is only cholesterol doing its job.

“You are at increased cardiovascular risk.”

What it means: A population-level risk calculator produced a percentage. It does not know your insulin level, your inflammation markers, or your LDL particle size. It knows your age and your total cholesterol number.

“Statins will reduce your risk by 50 percent.”

What it means: Your relative risk drops by 50 percent. Your absolute risk drops by around 1 percent. These are not the same number. One of them is used in the consultation. Malcolm Kendrick documents this distinction in Doctoring Data.

“Statins are well tolerated.”

What it means: Known side effects include muscle damage, fatigue, memory problems, and raised blood sugar. Well tolerated means most people stay on them.

“This is the standard of care.”

What it means: This is what the guidelines say. The guidelines were written by committees where financial conflicts of interest with pharmaceutical companies are well documented.

The doctor is not lying. They are following a protocol. The protocol is the problem.

Did your doctor explain the difference between relative risk and absolute risk before they wrote that prescription?

Share this with people who need to hear it 🙏🏻

[Dr. Lynn Fynn-derella (ret) 🐭 @Fynnderella1]

@IfindRetards All the clown had to do is enter a contest!

[Concerned Citizen @BGatesIsaPyscho]

Just imagine the amount of Propaganda it took to convince Humans that the Sun was bad for them…

[Lia Phipps @LiaPhipps]

@sappholives83 Good riddance!

[Sisters of Aquinas @ QAS Online Academy @sistersaquinas]

The beautiful chant of the Easter sequence, Victimae Paschali Laudes.
#easter #chant #sistersofaquinas

[Your Best Version @YourPrimePath]

Dear old people, waking up at 6am, tending to a garden, eating dinner at 5pm, reading books, and going to bed at 9:30pm feels amazing.

I was wrong. You were right.

[Wolf of X @WolfofX]

The dog at the shelter holds the reporter's hand and refuses to let go. In the end, the reporter adopts the dog

[Lia Phipps @LiaPhipps]

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[Lara Briden @LaraBriden]

Benefits of iodine for metabolic health.

[Lia Phipps @LiaPhipps]

@JenniferSey That was an exercise in futility!

[Concerned Citizen @BGatesIsaPyscho]

“The Red Cross says that anyone who has had their Covid 19 Vaccine cannot donate convalescent plasma”

“The vaccine wipes out those anti-bodies”

[Lia Phipps @LiaPhipps]

@elonmusk Happy Birthday Marvin!

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@simonateba @SpeakerPelosi Sot

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@elonmusk @DrEliDavid 🤣🤣🤣