Hoolit That Fuse

Scottish Woman. Feminist. Ex-SNP member, now politically homeless.
Still GC after all these years. @WomensRightsNet @WRNScotland

[Hoolit That Fuse @weehoolit]

"The most revolutionary thing one can do is always to proclaim loudly what is happening." Rosa Luxemburg

[Rosa Fund for Women @RosaForWomen]

'The most revolutionary thing one can do is always to proclaim loudly what is happening' Rosa Luxemburg #WednesdayWisdom

[Hoolit That Fuse @weehoolit]

@TomTom61 @WRNScotland @mireille_pouget @LoveWestLothian Ah yes you're right it was a primary school, but as you say puberty is happening at younger ages now, and if they're one of the first to menstruate they'll likely be even more self conscious about it.

[Hoolit That Fuse @weehoolit]

@jk_rowling @LabWomenDec @Keri_J_Russell If you're on your period and you've just emptied a menstrual cup, or changed a non-applicator tampon, then you'll have had your fingers up your bloody vagina and will need to wash your bloody hands away from the presence of boys/men.

[Hoolit That Fuse @weehoolit]

@intel_lady I've just read about the actual Kent Police Brexity Books raid as a result of this! No parody can be too over the top!

[Vincent Alexander @NonsenseIsland]

RIP Marjane Satrapi, the great cartoonist and film director, best known for PERSEPOLIS. She was only 56. A great talent. She will be missed.

[Hoolit That Fuse @weehoolit]

@Baroness_Nichol This has to happen. Publishers take note - there is an eager market for this!

[Hoolit That Fuse @weehoolit]

This is too delicious. Brava!

[Emma Harriet Nicholson @Baroness_Nichol]

A big Trades Union seems ignorant on Employment Law

[Hoolit That Fuse @weehoolit]

@andywightman @boswelltoday Welcome back Andy. Good to have you back.

[Hoolit That Fuse @weehoolit]

@euanmccolm Beautiful 😍

[Hoolit That Fuse @weehoolit]

@Jebadoo2 Yes, can we have more of this please @UKLabour ?

[Hoolit That Fuse @weehoolit]

@MarkMcLaugh1in ...room left in his loft.

[Hoolit That Fuse @weehoolit]

There are so many of us who are desperate for Labour to get back to traditional Labour values. I hope this is a sign that change is coming. And if it does come, I hope that the brilliant @RosieDuffield1, who led the vanguard on this, gets the apology she deserves.

[SEEN in Journalism @JournalismSEEN]

Totally fascinating clip. The 👀 that @Jonathan_Hinder gives Derbyshire, as she actively works to get him to describe ‘trans rights’ as a ‘middle class hobby horse’ - which would be quite a gotcha - followed by her disconcerted silence when he just says ‘men’ instead.

She knew exactly what he was thinking of, and he knew exactly what she was doing. But the work on renormalising natural language has paid off. A couple of years ago he would have had to say ‘trans’ in some form, or ‘gender’, to describe events. Now he can just say ‘men’ and the power of that language trickery drains away completely.

[maggie mellon @maggiemellon]

A paper thin moment ago. My mother had to stop working after marriage. My friend’s mother had to get her husband’s permission for a hysterectomy. Girls’ and boys’ 11+ scores were separated between sexes so that boys with lower scores got grammar school places before girls with higher scores

[Bruce Bowman @boswelltoday]

The monstering of Kate Forbes, at Nicola Sturgeon’s behest, followed by the coronation of Humza Yousaf, was the SNP’s sliding doors moment.

They had one chance to choose seriousness, competence and a clean break from the machine. They chose the machine. Now they are choking on it.

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

50 000 Poles showed up at the main square in Kraków’s Old Town last week to celebrate the promotion of their team Wisla Krakow to the first league.

They cleaned up the square before going home, leaving no garbage behind.

0 arrests, 0 violence, 0 looting

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

A tenant farmer in the Cairngorms says land that sold for £500 an acre a few years ago now goes for £5,000. He is being moved off ground his family has worked for generations, because he cannot outbid the people buying it. The buyers are corporations, and they have no intention of farming a single acre of it.

Here is how the trick works. A company keeps emitting carbon exactly as before. Same factories, same flights, same supply chain, same product. Then it buys a Scottish hillside, plants some trees, and announces to the world that it is now carbon neutral, or, if it is feeling brave, carbon negative. The emissions never fell. It simply bought a landscape to point at.

Take BrewDog. In 2020 it bought a 9,300-acre Highland estate, propped up with public grant money, and promised a million trees and the crown of the world's first carbon negative beer business, removing twice the carbon it emitted, forever. By 2023 roughly half of the 500,000 trees it had managed to plant were dead, killed by drought, with critics noting the planting was drying out the peat and releasing carbon of its own. The advertising regulator ruled its carbon-negative claims misleading. In 2024 it quietly dropped the badge and dismissed the entire carbon credit market as a flood of cheap schemes whose benefit was "questionable, maybe even non-existent." Then it sold the estate to a firm whose actual business is selling carbon offsets.

That is the whole model in one story. Public money in. Dead trees out. A green halo worn for four years and then dropped. The farmer who used to be on that land, gone. The hillside passed to a company that exists purely to sell other people the right to keep polluting.

This is no fringe case. In one recent year, half of every estate sold in Scotland went to investment funds, corporations and charitable trusts rather than anyone who would farm it. A third of the deals for plantable land are now done off-market, in secret, precisely so the local community never gets the chance to bid.

So this is what net zero looks like on the ground. A man who produced food is priced out of his own glen. A corporation that produced emissions buys the glen, calls itself a force for good, and sells the carbon. The land stops feeding anyone. Nobody's emissions actually went down by a gram.

The food was real. The farmer was real. The carbon saving is a line in a slide deck.

And we have somehow decided the villain in all this is the man with the sheep.

[Sex Matters @SexMattersOrg]

Refused service in a pub, barred from a gym or forced to leave an event because of your gender-critical views?

We have published a guide on how to take a “small claim” for belief discrimination against a service provider.

Watch @MForstater and @HJoyceGender discuss the process in our latest podcast ⤵️

[Simon Forrest @SimonForrest11]

It's hard to escape the conclusion that those who failed in governance of the SNP are now governing Scotland.🤔

I can't think of any company, institution or organisation where heads wouldn't roll for this level of mismanagement, be it complicity, cover up or sheer incompetence.

[Hoolit That Fuse @weehoolit]

@WingsScotland "Petter Murrell is and always was a squirming little Iago, one of life’s inadequates, a deeply unimpressive man manipulating and lying and cheating his way to power and wealth, an odious, crawling little horror."

Ooft!

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

A bricklayer in East Yorkshire has spent 35 years putting up barn owl nest boxes on weekends. This year, the region saw 308 owlets hatch.

His name is Robert Salter. He's 56 and does bricklaying full time. In 1990, he saw a piece on the news about a man in Lincolnshire installing barn owl boxes, and decided he'd do the same. He started with five.

He now has more than 350 boxes scattered across fields, farms, outbuildings, and trees in East Yorkshire. Every June, he takes four weeks off from bricklaying and visits them with his wife Sue. Scrambling up ladders, ringing chicks, cleaning boxes, repairing the ones the weather got to. He's a licensed bird ringer for the British Trust for Ornithology.

In 2024, the region ringed 95 owlets. In 2025, the count was 308. The Barn Owl Trust says that nationally, this year was "pretty poor" for barn owl breeding, but east Yorkshire is the exception, and it's the exception because of one man with a ladder.

The barn owl population in the UK was estimated at 4,000 pairs in the mid-2000s and crashed to roughly 1,000 by the early 2010s. The species is still recovering.

Most of conservation is one person who refuses to give up.