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Last Notes npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 See, told you you’d know by the follow requests! #nevent1q…ll5v npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/asian-communities-told-wash-rice-37574542 Asian and Muslim communities have been told to wash their rice and feet less in a bizarre water-saving bid by the UK's water regulator. A whopping £270,000 of billpayers' money funded the scheme that used a famous chef to teach southeast Asians how to wash rice with less water. People from the Muslim community have also been encouraged to use only a litre of water when performing “wudu” – washing the body – before prayer. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Oh, lovely. Dozed a bit and came down to find I need new outdoor slippers. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Not something I actually own at present, other than as part of my solar lantern. I figure charging cables are very purchasable, and I have a pretty new (this year) phone that still has decent battery life. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 All backed up In The Cloud. Cash is a good point. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 I’ve never really thought about a bug-out bag (I live in bug-out land), but these fires have me thinking about at least making a five minute packing list. Other than the obvious, what should be on it? This is loading into car to go to a hotel, house may burn down, rather than EOTWAWKI. The obvious: Dog’s lead, food and meds; passport, wallet, phone, my meds. Secondary (important but buyable): laptop, some clothes/toiletries, chargers. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 I am so much stress:) Not anyone’s’ fault. Look to your notifications, follows will be the tell. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 He’s very hot and stressed, but he’s back where he’s meant to be. Sadly no test results yet: they’re short staffed. The vet will call me tomorrow. https://media.spinster.xyz/a66fa933a39f59ff4bae2bedd2c9beb405879913df4496c789759300812ff082.jpeg npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 He has finally been fed! More tests to do, still. Going to get him in a couple of hours. #nevent1q…zexh npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 I just called the vet for an update and he’s not even been done yet! “It’s been a bit chaotic this morning.” Poor boy will be ravenous, unless they realised how long he was going to wait and gave him the breakfast I took along for him to have afterwards. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 More on my sister: per her husband via our aunt, he called the police because he knew that they needed separating before something worse happened. He answered the door to the police, told them what was going on. They asked if there was anywhere local she could go, and he said our mum. They went upstairs, where she was in bed, and said they wanted to take her to mum. She refused (I’m going to assume swearing and yelling), so they arrested her. She denies that the police made this offer. I know who I believe. Mum is starting to sound a little sick of the company, although not yet coming out and saying it. He says she needs therapy. I told him that four years ago. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Spinsters, please read. I’m increasingly worried about the errors we’ve been having. We’re running on software that’s not been maintained or patched in years, the owner and the maintainer of the site have moved on to other things, and eventually something is going to fall over. Although some of us (me included) have alts on other instances, a lot of us don’t. I’ll miss (some of ;) you tremendously if Spinster vanishes. As a very much just-in-case back up, I’m going to create a new instance, running on up-to-date software, and strongly encourage everyone to make an account on it. You don’t have to use the account, but it will be there for emergencies. You’ll be able to import your follows, so if the worst happens we’ll all be able to find each other. Before Feart asks, no: there will not be an old.version. It’s just not possible. But we can make it look less like a tampon packet. Thoughts/comments? npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Months ago, someone asked me to write an article. I said “sure, just let me have a word count” and never got a reply. She’s just asked me if I was still up for writing it, and I said “yes, just let me know a word count”, and she’s replied: I am working in pages rather than a specific word count, as this allows space for any photos / artwork that you’d like to include Anywhere from 4 pages of a5 to 8 pages of a5 is great for an article. And I’m like… that is incredibly, deeply unhelpful. What font size? How big are your page margins? What proportion of it should be illustrations (which you have never previously mentioned)? I’m going to have to find a similar-page length article in a previous edition and OCR it to get a word count, aren’t I…? npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 https://spectator.com/article/healey-shouldnt-repeat-the-price-gouging-dog-whistle/ The truth is that supermarkets are a miraculous innovation whose praises are not sung enough. Far from being profit factories British supermarkets are so competitive and so efficient that cheap food in Britain is more affordable than anywhere else in the world. https://archive.ph/OlrcC https://media.spinster.xyz/5dcda108e6c9d0dc6b841d685cda14363fca7d7e432646add1d693caa3cfa4f4.jpeg https://media.spinster.xyz/a660a9f22e9d0938aff73eb2566dc5c05f172b33a794ce29a360f13ea34b5075.jpeg npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 https://media.spinster.xyz/7ee82ef928f50955c92363f4c18e5bdb7168811a5e3d23fcdc1a89d569254e30.jpeg npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 At least over here, Bravissimo was an absolute game-changer: they only do (iirc) D and over, and they made the other retailers up their game. Good for you making the effort for her. (I misremembered, I walked out a FF, same as your Mrs. GG now, which isn’t too bad for twenty-odd years of getting older.) npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Yeah, that’s why I will never go to M&S again, they used to only go up to an E cup, and I (with hindsight) outgrew that in my mid teens. They “compensated” for it by just giving me bigger and bigger back sizes until I was something like a 40E. The middle of the back was between my shoulder blades and the straps forever falling down even when I sewed them shorter. Then Bravissimo launched just after I moved to London, and I trekked across town (two hours each way) to go to the shop. Walked out wearing a 30GG, had about a week of back pain as I adjusted, never looked back since. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Tape measures don’t work over about an E cup, you need properly trained fitters. The Bravissimo ladies just do it by eye and it takes about fifteen minutes. I struggled on with insanely badly fitted M&S bras for years because I didn’t know any better. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 What is it? npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Woohoo! https://media.spinster.xyz/86c3a51926542c6f67123c95a06a7d424c97bed93ca06297ef1a8afd252ee9b6.jpeg npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 https://media.spinster.xyz/29a3cef264ffafab8e9797809aeac387b4d3d36f979b2d7d89346ed519e45db9.jpeg npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 I have a similar weird one: I’m fine with dairy (as long as I don’t go nuts) and with wheat, but cook to two together and I’ll be on the loo in half an hour. I’m fine with, say, biscuits baked with cheese on top, but if you mix the cheese into the dough…. I’m particularly bad with synthetic “cheese product”, like you get in cheap ready meals. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 I am very glad I am not coeliac! npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Pie somewhat lacking in structural integrity (had to cut the foil away rather than turn it out), not bad for GF pastry (ie, not great); filling tasty. Wouldn’t buy again. Have a feeling I made a very similar post three or four years ago. https://media.spinster.xyz/6b7dddee9b1ba72044683c8d9cec6457f31f7e7899d35b5df8802bcfe8c7e6c0.jpeg npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 I looked at it when it came out, but I’m not a big fan of RPGs and I think I decided that the gameplay would get on my nerves. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Yeah, I liked Wonder. FWIW, I don’t think Skyward Sword has aged very well. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Ah, pretty much all the genres that I hate! I believe Clair Obscur is very good if you like that genre. You might like Limbo and Inside, and the Little Nightmares series. Hogwarts Legacy, I guess (I didn’t like it much, but again: not my genre). Lots of Mario/Kirby/Zelda games, too: you can catch up on a lot of the Game Cube ones as well as Switch ones. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 FWIW, I bought my Switch pretty much on release day, with a pro controller, and I only got stick drift…. About four years ago, maybe? Bought a new pro and it’s been fine. I already said Chants of Sennaar. What kind of games do you like? Yoku’s Island Express, Animal Well and Tinykin are games I go back to a fair bit. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 These really random questions are usually based on a minor news story: anyone know what’s behind this one? https://media.spinster.xyz/2067833e7c49b9a5b2248e4d6851fd18b63afdcd374c8075a1a9520f46d5f7a8.jpeg npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 https://spectator.com/article/its-time-the-tory-party-got-properly-nasty-again/ So, yes, bin net zero. Curtail public subsidies for renewables that prop up the fiction that windmills save families money, halt the paving of productive farmland with solar panels manufactured with coal in China, and resume drilling in the North Sea – because the UK’s deindustrialisation and popular penury have no effect on the weather. And, yes, quit the ECHR, ditto the Refugee Convention and any other treaty or legislation that protects murderers, rapists, thieves and fraudsters from deportation. While you’re at it, Kemi, stop putting young men who break into your country in hotels or any other agreeable accommodation, stop giving them phones, stipends and free dental care and start stuffing them in detention facilities, which they can tell all their friends in Calais are unpleasant. Better yet, prevent those boats from landing in Kent to begin with, and tow them somewhere other than the British mainland. Not necessarily Rwanda; how about retired cruise ships, so long as there’s no all-you-can-eat seafood buffet. Consider eliminating asylum altogether. Making foreign-born non-citizens ineligible for social housing would be a start. Be mean. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 They seem all-in, though. How can they be spending so much? npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 “We grow 80% of our food, we only buy grains like oats and wheat.” “We only spend about £50 per week for food in the two of us.” wtf?? How do you spend that much with an admittedly fabulous garden? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KRILhkSPD9Y&ra=m npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 There’s some stuff further down about it being so that disabled people who can’t carry a watering can can water the garden, but it’s very thin as a reason imo. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 I am definitely no bee expert, but I think they might have decided that they’re sick of getting stuck in the house…. Will see what the bee man says! https://media.spinster.xyz/a73bb203ee6e2c0adb4df50fc8b5b8b0aa205bd3af8c4e8d5f966fd55f32ec4d.jpeg npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 https://order-order.com/2026/07/06/labours-social-media-crackdown-consultation-doesnt-let-people-oppose-state-control-of-platforms/ Labour’s consultation does not even allow people to say they are opposed to state control of algorithms: https://media.spinster.xyz/41619a4a34d84780d92a51334d7126474f07783eaf6ba2c1d49c381318c3fe61.webp npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 I think it’s fascinating that the women in these recordings have the same accent: I do not think that they are representative. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 https://spectator.com/article/labour-wont-be-able-to-quota-its-way-to-a-female-leader/ I put it to a few Labour MPs that I thought the whole idea [that half of ministerial jobs to women and that 50 per cent of No.10 staff are female] was absurd. One, a man with a government job, was plain: ‘Not interested. I want the best person for each job.’ A woman with a government job didn’t endorse it entirely but saw the point: ‘I do think bad decisions are made when women aren’t in the room. I also think it is important we don’t go from having three women in the great offices of state – Treasury, Foreign Office, Home Office – to three men, and that should absolutely be a 50-50 split at least.’ Stunning bit of maths there…. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Ear vacuuming. This morning, I went to see the ear lady at the chemist. She had a terribly fancy little device, basically a smart phone with a tiny trumpet on the back, into which she entered my details. Then she stuck the trumpet in my ears and took photos, and declared that my right ear was completely bunged up and my left mostly so. She also had a teeny tiny high suction vacuum cleaner, which she proceeded to poke in my right ear: slightly uncomfortable, but very quickly I could hear and shortly after she pronounced it all cleaned out. The sensation of having gunk sucked out of your ear canal is most peculiar. On to the left ear: again very quick to get me hearing but rather more uncomfortable. She went back in to try to finish the job but it was absolutely excruciating, so she left some of the gunk in there. No sign of any infection or damage. I’m not sure if not being able to hear properly for the best part of a week has me hyper-sensitised or if I’d been gradually getting gunked up for a while (or both) but everything is now terribly loud. It’s lovely! Unfortunately, I’ve just blown my nose and my left ear has gone slightly crackly. Fortunately, I get free follow-up in case of any further problems (presumably within a certain time frame, I didn’t think to ask), so I’ll see how it is over the next few days. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 I haven’t a clue, did you think to check the other responses? npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Watch the video. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Holy cow. One, kudos to him doing that. Two, even allowing for the presence of bumbling noisy USians, that is an insane amount of effort for a tiny amount of meat. Three, some humour is apparently universal: https://media.spinster.xyz/480465832a2226f74856b1277eb4477baeff9b4eaeaa9e3e53adad81bb8f341f.jpeg https://media.spinster.xyz/f7326029f20d9423dfb44b796e2743e8fe25280a91f32fe08a2c895208462efa.jpeg https://media.spinster.xyz/0738cfa43a7a683388bfb133010113287ff6e3f35c27c8c2211f527fb8768236.jpeg npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Bloody hell! https://media.spinster.xyz/891c0251c782e3a448ec6b8f6a3434fcd07ca6fd4b63b69a6a870a37822e42af.jpeg npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 I had never heard for them, and am now obsessed. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Fuck knows, I get it all the time. Forever telling Paypal to remember this device and it never does, I assume it’s the ad blocker. (I’m not that tech savvy, I’m just really good at translating geek language into normal) npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 https://thecritic.co.uk/on-travellers-and-trail-hunting/ It is from Western civilization that the very idea of respecting other cultures arose. However, the principle of tolerance has morphed into something much more dangerous. Something which privileges minorities over the majority, which wilfully emphasises our differences and eschews assimilation. What else could explain why the law requires planning authorities to make provisions for travellers’ caravans, but not for churches, village halls, cricket pavilions or football pitches? Nowhere is the different approach to our cultural inheritance starker than in the Left’s hatred of trail hunting. Whilst so-called progressives will bend over backwards to defend burqas, cousin marriage and gender segregation, they have just finished a consultation on ending this centuries-old countryside tradition. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgjxlvp58zgo Dartmoor hill ponies have been on the landscape for 4,500 years but numbers have declined - there were 6,000 on Dartmoor 25 years ago but now there are less than 1,000. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 How many ponies would a herd of 300 horses produce in two years? Zero. But if you meant foals, apparently wild herds typically increase by 20% per year. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 No, fog for me is low cloud and usually cold/wet. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 June. https://media.spinster.xyz/131dee7d917f025c3c2ba6b7bcc183e8591b24cfb731d7af68e920efca4068eb.jpeg npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 One of the tests of a non-arse vegan is whether or not they will eat my ducks’ eggs. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Jesus, just use an egg! https://media.spinster.xyz/f70f371d568c2796597e754774a3b160a52ced353ec1214775cb98bb8394231e.jpeg https://media.spinster.xyz/36debd495c230b4f6c5693e17632fc397d99e0ab8263de9e093e45d6672104be.jpeg npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15879879/Andy-Burnham-accused-chilling-attack-free-speech.html Firefighters who support Reform UK have been cautioned over their views by bosses under the command of Labour leadership hopeful Andy Burnham. Senior figures at Manchester’s Fire and Rescue Service said they have had words with employees who backed the party, saying it was a cause for “concern”. And in an Orwellian move described as a “chilling” attack on free speech, staff were also urged to inform on any Reform-supporting colleagues. Bosses also said they were seeking legal advice on what to do about firefighters who decided to stand on a Reform ticket in last month’s local elections. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Been out for lunch with my mum, and came home to find Dog curled on the sofa and no puddles, phew! (It’s her birthday on Tuesday, so I took her presents over: her beach bag, a box of eggs, a bag of chard and a loaf of bread. I do hope she likes her bag!) npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 I am genuinely shocked that you did not know. Nothing on you, but wtf on US news providers. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Actually, Caffs, could you send me a link to the pattern? I might see if one of my sewing ladies would make it for me. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Yikes. With the current Ebola outbreak I can only think of the disease risk. (Heard a story on the news that one of the early Ebola cases this time around was a respected Islamic scholar. Not only did they meticulously wash the body as usual but they saved the wash water and gave it to children to drink so that they would imbibe his religious knowledge. Yikes.) npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Whatever it is, I like it! npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 https://media.spinster.xyz/d4b6fe162cefa8e9f1bafa848719e0c806cd177c2e7b305f0ebdc0a3cd458ca4.jpeg npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Cranes? Huh! https://media.spinster.xyz/8f00b2d8179c584e00e0c3de5dc7b166c9b1c0a12edc9dfe8c4e66bbc73f24a1.jpeg npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 I know, but… npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 It’s been a bloody miserable day. Stew with masses of tarragon was just the thing. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 https://media.spinster.xyz/30c7dfe704fd93306c064a41a63643dd86ef8b57b047842d3539618209e603e2.jpeg npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Oh ffs. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/06/04/hampstead-heath-to-keep-bathing-ponds-trans-inclusive/ Biological men who identify as women will still be able to use Hampstead Heath’s ladies’ pond, despite official guidance saying women should have single-sex spaces. The City of London Corporation (CLC) decided on Thursday that its bathing ponds would remain “trans inclusive” to ensure the facilities were “welcoming to all”. This is despite guidance from the Equality and Human Rights Commission stating that single-sex services must be provided on the basis of biological sex. The guidance followed the Supreme Court ruling in April 2025 that the words “woman” and “sex” in the Equality Act 2010 refer to a biological woman and biological sex. Women’s rights groups said the CLC’s decision was “unlawful” and have vowed to challenge the policy in the courts. https://archive.ph/OVUwo npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 The media angst over Farage’s ‘rage’ was superbly exposed by Zia Yusuf in his clash with Cathy Newman on Sky News. She badgered him about Reform’s stirring up of anger over Nowak’s death. But he’d done his homework. He reminded her she once wrote a column on the ‘fury’ of 2020. It’s fab, she wrote, to see ‘the fury over Floyd’s death’ being transported to ‘all four corners of the globe’. Got that? Fury over Floyd – good. Rage over Nowak – don’t even think about it. Some are putting this down to the fact that Floyd was black, and thus sympathetic, while Nowak was white, and thus ‘privileged’. I think it’s more to do with the different social make-up of those who are ‘raging’. In 2020, it was primarily bourgeois leftists who broke out of lockdown to mourn Floyd. It became mandatory in polite society to join their orgy of performative virtue. ‘Silence is violence!’, they yelled at any sinful mortal who refused to bend the knee in the fashion of the liberal establishment. Now it’s mostly working-class non-Londoners who are fuming about what was done to poor Henry. Some are even wrapped in the St George’s flag, and nothing is more alarming to our betters than a swarm of patriots. The elitism is rank. It feels as though some people are more unnerved by the growing rumble of working-class anger than they are by what happened to Henry. You can feel the wheels of the discussion turning, away from that horror in Southampton and towards the supposed horror of ordinary people saying: ‘We’ve had enough.’ Yes, there were ugly scenes in Southampton on Tuesday night. A breakaway mob threw bins at police officers. I have no doubt that the decent mourners for Henry gathered at the police station would condemn such behaviour. And you know what? Their condemnation counts for a hell of a lot more than the hypocritical bluster of leftists who whooped when their mates threw bottles at cops after a man died in Minneapolis. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 I see that the people who took the knee and tore down statues after a man was killed 4,000 miles away from Britain are now yelping ‘Don’t politicise Henry Nowak’s death’. The same leftists who poured onto the streets to rage over the death of George Floyd are barking at the rest of us not to rage over the death of young Henry. ‘Don’t stir up tensions’, says an activist class which in that heady summer of 2020 happily hurled missiles at British cops and danced like Taliban-lite loons on a monument to a slave trader they’d just toppled. What a festival of cant we have endured since the conviction of Vickrum Digwa for his savage slaying of Nowak. It reached its peak on Tuesday during the eruption of working-class fury at Southampton Police Station. Angry men and women gathered to roar ‘I CAN’T BREATHE’ – Henry’s last words. How crass, said snooty leftists all over social media. But you did the same thing, lads. You marched to the US Embassy in London in May 2020 crying ‘I can’t breathe’, which were Floyd’s last words too. There’s more than hypocrisy at play here. We are witnessing the drawing of a line between the well-informed, righteous fury of the middle classes and the apparently low-information rage of the lower orders. If you are from leafy London, have a university degree and use phrases like ‘structural racism’, you’re allowed to vent your fury. If you read a tabloid newspaper, have never darkened a university door and say ‘Nigel Farage is the dog’s b*llocks’, you are not. This is a campaign to pathologise working-class anger. Fear of the masses is in the air. You can almost smell the establishment dread that the wrong sort of people are about to hit the streets – not graduate leftists in keffiyehs but gammon-hued blokes in white t-shirts. The front page of Wednesday’s Independent is a classic of this fretful genre. ‘Family’s plea for calm ignored’, wails the headline over a photo of the protest in Southampton. But the people in the pic are perfectly calm. It’s just rows of mournful folk carrying the England flag. Are you okay, Independent? The Guardian, too, seems consumed by foreboding. It says there are ‘fears’ that ‘the populist right’ will ‘whip up racist resentment’. Demagoguery is always the chief dread of the bourgeois left, given their view of the little people as a coiled spring of bovine fury that might be unsprung at any minute. The Guardian blasts Farage for calling for ‘pure, cold rage’ in response to Nowak’s death. It’s a complaint that would carry more weight if the Guardian hadn’t published pieces in the wake of Floyd’s death saying ‘We need the rage that abolished slavery’. So it’s okay to ‘rage’ over the tragic demise of a career criminal a whole ocean away but not over the horrendous death of a sweet kid right here in Britain? The theatrical gasping over Farage’s use of that r-word is absurd. Leftists love a ‘rage against Israel’ or a ‘rage against the Tories’ or, indeed, a ‘rage against the police’. Yet the minute Farage-supporting oiks propose a new ‘rage’ against Southampton’s sloppy cops, the left is dashing for the fainting couch. Their rage is noble, you see, while yours is scary. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 https://new-app.spectator.co.uk/article/667184/content.html There’s more than hypocrisy at play here. We are witnessing the drawing of a line between the well-informed, righteous fury of the middle classes and the apparently low-information rage of the lower orders. If you are from leafy London, have a university degree and use phrases like ‘structural racism’, you’re allowed to vent your fury. If you read a tabloid newspaper, have never darkened a university door and say ‘Nigel Farage is the dog’s b*llocks’, you are not. This is a campaign to pathologise working-class anger. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 If you can grow onions and garlic then I would have thought you could grow leeks. Odd! npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Chard and some leeks that were in the way of what I was planting out. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 https://media.spinster.xyz/0e680f50f301ac9598b6cc5d11ef37e0bb590c5fbec3607b92be9ecba88b01f8.jpeg https://media.spinster.xyz/7959ef292684461434d6121f7b5dafd46153f0a645ab5f40a594a6392e30df32.jpeg npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 I’m on millstone grit, but I have very similar-looking stone around the beds. If it is microclimate, I recommend dousing them in ice and setting up an industrial fan next to them! A week ago it was horizontal, hence that kink in the stem. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 They are corten steel, so maybe. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 @nprofile…ctu6 Those potato onions throw one hell of a flower spike! Getting on for 5’! https://media.spinster.xyz/6cf534cecf4f58e41bd62fb98135a95a34a5463e2410d5636bfc208a137fcc87.jpeg npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 I think Zil was saying she doesn’t know what the weeds are called, not the lupine. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 They were just tiny buds a week ago! https://media.spinster.xyz/5444948057c4feca8df1307f4ef8fecf1882a9edd650eafb4ce11aee695622d8.jpeg npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 They certainly don’t seem to do any harm to my lavender, nor to my rosemary if they get at it when I’m not watching. They’re both about the same age, I’ve not been in this garden that long. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 I’ve oddly only ever found them on my lavender! npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 It must be hot outside: nearly 19C in my very-temperature-stable living room. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 https://media.spinster.xyz/e884c273b2b86bf2f489c09dcbc98f3f0089aba3891f1545c41861fc8b52e1ee.jpeg npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Oh, FFS. We really are fucked. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 https://spectator.com/article/when-teenage-rapists-walk-free/ Almost all civilised societies that have ever existed would execute these rapists without a second thought. They have committed crimes of surpassing evil, which they clearly took great pleasure in. Two of them raped on more than one occasion, escalated to using a knife, sought to degrade their victims and even filmed their crimes, meaning their guilt cannot be in question. Their relative youth is no excuse. If they are old enough to rape girls at knifepoint, they are old enough to be sentenced as men. A just Britain, which actually cared about the safety of women and girls, would send these boys to the gallows. […] Putting aside the questions of whether having ADHD or being stupid make or excuse a rapist (because of course they don’t), this case reveals a deeper rot in how we approach justice and sentencing. Characteristics which make someone more dangerous and more likely to offend are officially defined in the sentencing guidelines as mitigating when they are aggravating. Those criminals who are low IQ, don’t understand the concept of consent and are easily led are much more likely to continue committing crimes. As noted criminal barrister Adam King said to me, ‘given their disproportionately high rates of reoffending, young, impulsive criminals can be seen as precisely the people law-abiding citizens need protecting from.’ https://archive.ph/6djIF npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 https://media.spinster.xyz/9525a9cf6b5383406acc7e8cd1b7b5e66b83c55fccb175dc289c5f1aa1758b1e.jpeg https://media.spinster.xyz/feb6e6a966e73af4ce6218cee4814a971789ee58ebe6d895ca99855d5d58b3b9.jpeg https://media.spinster.xyz/6b9de79fd992582b71d2ab8daeb2a08cba1d30493e3e89eefa24731bdc0d901e.jpeg https://media.spinster.xyz/325a4348b5f2b3cd3627ef79d3401e28c8f3b0c8b48725199d0852c66fcbe8c4.jpeg npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clypw9w907zo Kikuo Hatakeyama, 72, has served as the mayor of Hachirogata in north-east Japan since 2008, but fell ill in February and suffered a brain hemorrhage. The town assembly unanimously passed a no-confidence motion against the mayor meaning he will automatically lose his position on 19 May. Japan's national association of town and village assemblies says it's rare for a no-confidence motion to be filed against a mayor due to illness. The motion said removing Hatakeyama was a tough choice, but administratively necessary. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 When he’s groping for the name, Mr DT calls red kites “Welsh hawks”, I think they hung on there in pockets. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 It was hovering right above me, almost felt like I could touch it. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Red kite, looking for nests: https://media.spinster.xyz/602f8986fb3d4f3a416d32e80a30e9f7c3345f839ec6223676d4c3a551de05bb.jpeg https://media.spinster.xyz/e15db52993ac09f1af915f4e342690617322a5ff40c58f9cf5e0bac330c75825.jpeg npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 If you don’t want rugs, you can get stick-on felt pads to put on the feet of the furniture. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 A day for seeing my neighbours from afar: Sue, walking the dog by the stones; her husband Dave, off for a day of cheffing; Jane and John, out for a hack. https://media.spinster.xyz/3992d5609c82cadc01b3a786dca00ade8f8c8bf34ffcf046241b1e74060ea321.jpeg https://media.spinster.xyz/ef4d834aef792f28580ffc76d6915ed02f2023e7779e1f4d4c9a9a57a5567ee9.jpeg https://media.spinster.xyz/7c93c6dca3903fe76f36e70559e3e8bf0b7ea4d92aee0706f65f75ae6a9c31be.jpeg npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 In my head, cow parsley is a biennial, although the internet tells me it can be a short-lived perennial. This one is at least four years old. Technically a weed, but I like it! https://media.spinster.xyz/2733263a0ef4ddcae755fc67146b6062f7dcdd51c103d137965acdfa64de18ae.jpeg npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 https://media.spinster.xyz/3eb3b2ba6a2a52514af47eb324267f2a6dad6726f23bcec736055fa74468b002.jpeg https://media.spinster.xyz/41c770ea02354e0c56e2c22d5729f3f60541d59e2cf813855dc2a92b9332f809.jpeg npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Come on, rain, just a bit further west! You can do it! https://media.spinster.xyz/09150625b76d37bfc0f47fa6b742dabbed776bc5fd548520176d78e4c923a9ee.jpeg https://media.spinster.xyz/1380c0b93a26e6b8aa89862259fbd9033720ade3d203234f442fdd11c50ba528.jpeg https://media.spinster.xyz/91de9ac59738e6b6c4143be4b9cc8e3063be18a269374ffa517e6acfa8d38f98.jpeg https://media.spinster.xyz/f9590c53c419eabe1d2a7e8114a89fb97beb6f6f4e4efe88527a3aceba7cc014.jpeg npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Only the cars were hurt, and that’s what insurance is for. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Not really because of narrowness, but poor visibility on a bad junction. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 https://spectator.com/article/mockery-is-the-best-way-to-engage-with-zack-polanski/ Robinson asked him about his actual plans for the police should a collective succession of catastrophic head injuries among the electorate see Mr Polanski anywhere near actual power. Apparently, funds would be put towards ‘community prevention’ to stop crime. Again, it was unclear what this meant – arming the Neighbourhood Watch? Gangs of vigilante WI Members roaming the countryside? (Although, this might actually be more effective than some police forces). Robinson also pushed Polanski on why some would-be Green councillors were making a big deal about Palestine in their literature: ‘you’d think it’d be about bins,’ he said. It’s going to be hilarious when some of these people get elected and find that their intrays are bin laden, just not in the way they were hoping. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 It guarantees a good sauce to pasta ratio in each bite, and you can use a thicker filling than would work for regular pasta and sauce. Yeah, the standard cooking instructions are 16mins, I give them nine before I fill them so they’re not too floppy. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Pasta shells stuffed with mushrooms and broccoli. npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Doorbell went at exactly the wrong moment :( Still tasty, though! https://media.spinster.xyz/4bcab7e86bb6651fed933835fc0ffd56cef7d2f10885bf5ae6430191955c1cf9.jpeg npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 https://media.spinster.xyz/bb3dddfa4a8b8078a5cd2def2ade2ec0629ecad1775f6a5cb44151c1c39f38ea.jpeg https://media.spinster.xyz/11266a994239f1df6fb4aae882801af26ef25a78d437e0b1edcc32754fe14a72.jpeg https://media.spinster.xyz/dfad51d29e68e99425ad8b35836470f0917ccc2461a55a7620fde1f963351016.jpeg npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Skylarks do make a tremendous racket for such tiny wee things. https://media.spinster.xyz/4ebaf843950dce8e2e849814dd40f0aa5811381f8608c16a34030f6d563f3316.jpeg https://media.spinster.xyz/b53678ef88baf0c73485204175d52e1a95086e999eb696eb145e90e8ee422afc.mov npub1uxmmyz2nw8ys8npflt93m9yu5c8ewckp00xsu5g3aykvn836jt7qyxujtm Flick 🇬🇧 Eh, it would have been my game on his account from last time I went to replay this and hit the same thing!