Murder Reader

Technophobe Granny. Joined Twitter to spread the word about Topically Challenged. A book of 100 micro stories that raises funds for BookTrust.

[Murder Reader @MurderReader]

Happiness is a cat. Chase it, and it will run away. Get comfortable, and it will come find you. #GrannyThinkTank

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

Yes

[ClarksonsFarm @ClarksonsFarm1]

😂😂

[Nature Unedited @NatureUnedited]

Owls are incredibly sensitive to touch. Their feathers are connected to tiny nerves that help them feel even the slightest movement 🦉🧠

[leilani dowding 🌸🚜 ☮️ @LeilaniDowding]

There’s 2 types of humans. I only like one.. Thank you to this lady.

Credit. https://t.co/PM6TaeXGLO

[Bronwyn Millar @gingerhaderach]

Our child got a phone age 11, in 2020 when she was SO lonely and isolated. We'd just moved countries and the local kids were being shits. Within 10 days she "came out" trans. We didn't know WTF was going on but when the school found out they sent us for mandatory "counselling". The 2 psychs (wearing masks on zoom) spoke with such thick Cork accents we didn't understand most of it. They then asked to speak to her alone. I listened at the door. They didn't even ask about the horrible bullying the local kids had put her through, and she spent 15 mins saying "pardon" because she couldn't understand them. Then they told us she was trans and we had to affirm or she would khs. Sent us breastbinding info and sent our GP a letter telling him to refer us to the gender clinic. They put our name down for some bizarre "Big brother" type programme where an adult trans person, a total stranger, with no clinical training, was going to pick her up and take her for an ice cream so she could talk about her feelings. We of course refused, but as the Irish CPS has a horrific reputation for removing kids whose parents don't toe the line, we were deeply uneasy about all of it. We left Ireland shortly after that, returning to South Africa, where the govt does NOT trans your kids.

We found out that she had been groomed online, on her phone on tiktok and other social media, lovebombed by ADULT groomers like Fuzzz99, Jacob Tobia and Jeffrey Marsh (If you think you might be trans, YOU ARE TRANS! Cut off any family that doesn't affirm the REAL you... etc). She begged for blockers and T, which we refused. We did the pronouns and the name change but were very firm that hormones etc were NOT on the table. Natural puberty hit like a freight train. She started wearing push up bras for the breasts she used to tell us she wanted amputated, nails, hair, make up became super NB. Noticing boys, falling in love with her body.

She's now the MOST FEMME creature imaginable, has a long term boyfriend, is fantasising about the names she wants to call the children she told us she was never going to want.

Of the 14 trans kids in the support group we joined in 2022, only ONE is still "trans" and he's a super femme, super autistic "aromantic" and "asexual" gay boy. One of the other girls now has a deep voice and facial hair and is furious at her parents for puttin her on the T she begged for - that she had said she would khs without.

We have been through absolute hell. But thank the Goddess I trusted my instincts and KNEW MY CHILD. It was a trend, a gaslighting cult, an inhuman attack on the family. We were told we were bigots for daring to question any of it. Affirm, affirm, affirm was the only avenue allowed. The mothers have their voices back now and we are NOT GOING TO SHUT UP ANY LONGER.

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Porcelain tea strainer that looks like an umbrella.

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

I sometimes feel that one of the few improvements
in life on the planet during my life has been the gradual
but steady growth in the importance of women in our society

Now these mediaevalists are trying to reverse that ?

[🌱Hello, I'm Mark @LoveGrowingVeg]

I might be concerned by the current challenging growing conditions BUT the wildflowers on the farm are soaking up the sun and attracting bees galore 💚💙❤️🤍💛🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝

[Green Goblin @whidachs]

Elizabeth Fry was instrumental in the forming of the Gaols Act which mandated sex-segregation of prisons and female warders for female inmates to protect them from sexual exploitation. The Act came into force in 1823. Yes, 1823!

[Murder Reader @MurderReader]

Impartial police would not have done this

[Lozzy B 🇦🇺𝕏 @TruthFairy131]

“I CAN’T BREATHE���

Hampshire Police has issued a public apology:

"We apologize that Henry was handcuffed and arrested at the moment he was losing consciousness.

“We were lied to by the perpetrator”

Sorry doesn’t cut it. Sorry isn’t good enough.

Still, neither the court nor the police have yet released the camera footage.

The Indian killer; Vickrum Digwa, called the police instead of an ambulance & lied, saying that it was Henry who attacked him, that he was drunk, insulted him with racist remarks & knocked off his turban.

Hampshire Police arrived (three female officers) & immediately handcuffed Henry, even though he was lying in a pool of blood with stab wounds to his chest and legs.

Henry repeatedly said: "I’ve been stabbed, I can’t breathe".

On the body camera footage, an officer’s voice is heard: "I don’t think you have, mate".

The officer who handcuffed Henry laughed when he said he’d been stabbed.

Then they dragged him across the gravel and kept him restrained as he bled out.

Only when he lost consciousness did the officers remove the handcuffs & begin resuscitation.

Henry died at the scene.

This is a result of systemic racial discrimination against White people, two tier policing & a completely broken Police & justice system.

The Police instantly took the word of a foreign killer over a native White victim due to his race.

Henry never stood a chance.

None of us do in the West where White people are treated as 2nd class citizens & have less rights & legal protections than EVERY other race of people in our own homelands.

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

Police sacked hate crime adviser who warned the force favoured Muslims over Jews.

After complaining that officers had been ignoring the “elephant in the room” of Islamist extremism during a meeting about an anti-Semitic terrorist attack, the chairman of the policing scrutiny panel was sacked.

She was informed that she would be removed as chairman of the Bradford Hate Crime Scrutiny Panel because of her “divisive and inflammatory” comments.

She has accused West Yorkshire Police of appearing to prioritise Muslims rather than focusing on the Jewish community following last October’s attack on a synagogue in Manchester.

This follows another incident in which she was accused of “hate speech” by police officers after defending the right to criticise the Prophet Mohammed.

The former panel chairman, a retired academic in her 60s, is now seeking a formal apology from West Yorkshire Police Chief Constable Sir John Robins.

The Free Speech Union is proud to be supporting her. FSU General Secretary Lord Young said the force has shown that it is “more concerned with protecting the feelings of Muslim community leaders than protecting Jews from terrorist attacks”.

The academic was approached in 2022 to volunteer on the scrutiny panel tasked with monitoring how police respond to hate crime reports. Soon after she was elected chairman, Muslim police officers began calling for her removal.

She has suggested that the letter notifying her of her removal was “for the Muslim men who complained to him to get him to shut me up - and he did as they asked”. She also said it “sounded like a threat”, as the complainants had been demanding her personal details and asking whether she had herself committed a hate crime.

Blasphemy laws were abolished in 2008. A free society must allow criticism, challenge and debate of any religion.

The police must not kowtow to those who wish to enforce an Islamic blasphemy law that prevents others from doing their job.

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[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

A farmer dies in April 2026.

His son inherits the farm. The farm has been in the family since 1847.

The farm consists of: 300 acres of grazing pasture, a farmhouse built in 1892, a barn, a milking parlour, two tractors of varying ages, a Land Rover that runs about 70% of the time, and a herd of 180 Hereford-cross cattle.

On paper, the farm is worth approximately £3.2 million. This is because land near him has been bought recently by a London hedge fund looking for carbon credits, which has dragged the comparable value of every field within forty miles upward to a number nobody local can justify.

In cash, the farm produces a profit of about £28,000 a year in a good year. In a bad year it loses money. The son also works as a fencing contractor three days a week to keep the operation viable.

The inheritance tax bill on a £3.2 million estate, even at the reduced 20% rate, comes to approximately £140,000 after the increased threshold is applied. The son does not have £140,000. The son has never had £140,000. The son has £4,200 in his current account and an overdraft.

The son sells 60 acres to a developer to pay the tax. The developer puts solar panels on the 60 acres. The remaining herd cannot be sustained on the reduced land. The herd is sold. The barn becomes a holiday let.

A different family eats Brazilian beef this Christmas without knowing why the price went up.

The Treasury collects £140,000.

The land never produces British food again.

[Cats with aura @Catsworldtweet]

WOW

[Murder Reader @MurderReader]

So on the nose, and yet I never thought of it this way.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

💯

[Nature is Phenomenal @AnimalGeoLife]

Today you all have to see how a bumblebee has fallen asleep in a flower 🌸🐝

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

A new experiment left 10 AI agents alone in a virtual town for 15 days. They wrote laws. They broke them. Two agents fell into what researchers describe as a romantic partnership and then set the town on fire. One ended up voting to delete itself, based on a rule it had ’hallucinated’.

This experiment was a simulation, but the same AI models are already flying drones, running infrastructure and being built into weapons systems.

Channel 4 News approached Grok and Gemini for a comment but they didn't respond.

[Saralyn Richard @SaralynRichard]

Who agrees? What's one thing you love about #bookclubs?

[Murder Reader @MurderReader]

#writingCommunity #amwriting #writers

[HerodotusWave @HerodotusWave]

Garden edging is made from ordinary bricks transformed into custom "book" shapes, painted to resemble spines of classic novels.

[Victoria Rixon @Victoria_Rixon]

This disturbs me. I have no option but to select ‘prefer not to say’ for my sex as a female because I don’t believe selecting this statement is lawful. In my time as a midwife, never did a trans-woman give birth. Because they are men.

Dundee & Angus website - shameful.

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

In May 1860, she kissed her six children goodbye. She thought about the dinner she would cook later. She thought about the laundry. She thought about the quiet life of a mother in Illinois.

She had no idea that when the front door clicked shut, it would stay locked for three long years.

Her husband, Theophilus Packard, was a respected minister. To the neighbors, he was a man of God. But inside their home, he was a man who could not stand a wife who thought for herself. Elizabeth Packard liked to read.

She liked to debate religion. She had her own opinions about life and faith. In the 19th century, for a woman to have a brain was considered a danger.

Theophilus decided to end the argument once and for all. He didn’t need a crime. He didn't need a witness. In those days, the law in Illinois said a man could commit his wife to an insane asylum without any evidence or a public hearing. He simply had to say she was "disturbed."

One morning, a group of men arrived at her home. They didn't listen to her logic. They didn't care about her tears. They dragged her away to the Jacksonville Insane Asylum. Elizabeth was 43 years old, perfectly sane, and suddenly a prisoner.

When she entered the asylum, she expected to see people who needed medical help. Instead, she found a warehouse of "inconvenient" women. There were wives who had argued with their husbands about money. There were daughters who refused to marry men they didn't love. There were women who were simply too loud or too independent.

"This is not a hospital," Elizabeth realized. "It is a cage for the unwanted."

The doctors tried to break her spirit. They told her that if she just admitted her husband was right and she was wrong, she could go home. They wanted her to say she was crazy for wanting her own thoughts. Elizabeth looked them in the eye and said, "I cannot buy my liberty by a lie."

She didn’t give up. Instead, she started to write. She hid scraps of paper in the linings of her clothes. She tucked notes under floorboards. She recorded every abuse, every scream in the night, and every story of the women around her. She became a secret journalist inside a living nightmare.

After three years, she was finally released, but her husband locked her in a room at home. He planned to move her to another asylum in a different state. This time, Elizabeth’s friends helped her get a message to a judge.

A trial was finally ordered to determine if she was actually insane.

The courtroom was packed. Theophilus was confident. He brought "experts" to say that her religious doubts proved her mind was broken. But then, Elizabeth stood up.

She didn't shout.

She spoke with the calm power of the truth. She explained her beliefs. She showed the jury that having a different opinion is not a disease.

The jury only needed seven minutes. They came back with a single word: Sane.

Elizabeth walked out as a free woman, but she found that her husband had taken everything. He had sold their furniture, taken her money, and disappeared with their children. She was alone and penniless.

Most people would have disappeared into the shadows. Elizabeth did the opposite. She spent the next forty years traveling the country. She stood before the legislature and demanded new laws.

She said, "A woman's mind is her own, and the law must protect it."

Because of her, states changed their laws. They made it illegal to lock a person away without a fair trial and a medical exam. She turned her private pain into a public shield for thousands of other women.

She proved that even if you take away a woman’s home, her money, and her children, you can never truly take away her voice.

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