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Vivian Maier's (1926-2009) photographic self-portraits in mirrors, shadows, reflections, suggest her enigmatic persona, a shadowy presence behind her camera which enabled the capture of candid moments of life #WomensArt
February 11, 2026 at 9:17 AM
Vivian Maier's (1926-2009) photographic self-portraits in mirrors, shadows, reflections, suggest her enigmatic persona, a shadowy presence behind her camera which enabled the capture of candid moments of life #WomensArt
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I'm on feminist podcast Women Are Real. It was immense fun doing it, I have to say.
open.spotify.com/episode/4BVb...
open.spotify.com/episode/4BVb...
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February 10, 2026 at 8:17 AM
I'm on feminist podcast Women Are Real. It was immense fun doing it, I have to say.
open.spotify.com/episode/4BVb...
open.spotify.com/episode/4BVb...
This is quite something to read:
"In total, the Scottish Government spent £766,498.80 of taxpayers money on these two judicial reviews."
I wonder how much they'll spend trashing women's human rights by trying to keep men in women's prisons.
"In total, the Scottish Government spent £766,498.80 of taxpayers money on these two judicial reviews."
I wonder how much they'll spend trashing women's human rights by trying to keep men in women's prisons.
We are pleased to confirm that full & final settlement has been reached with the Scottish Ministers regarding recovery of costs incurred in pursuing the JR.
The money has been retained to cover costs accrued in our JR on prisons & future challenges.
forwomen.scot/10/02/2026/u...
The money has been retained to cover costs accrued in our JR on prisons & future challenges.
forwomen.scot/10/02/2026/u...
UK Supreme Court - recovery of costs - For Women Scotland
We are pleased to confirm that full and final settlement has been reached with the Scottish Ministers regarding recovery of costs incurred in pursuing the judicial review all the way to the Supreme Co...
forwomen.scot
February 10, 2026 at 8:51 PM
This is quite something to read:
"In total, the Scottish Government spent £766,498.80 of taxpayers money on these two judicial reviews."
I wonder how much they'll spend trashing women's human rights by trying to keep men in women's prisons.
"In total, the Scottish Government spent £766,498.80 of taxpayers money on these two judicial reviews."
I wonder how much they'll spend trashing women's human rights by trying to keep men in women's prisons.
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'Another team ...at São Paulo ... included this in a systematic review and - instead of dropping it because of the clear methodological issues and confounding factors - combined it with multiple other studies that can’t be directly compared, and produced a result so incoherent as to be meaningless.'
February 10, 2026 at 8:14 AM
'Another team ...at São Paulo ... included this in a systematic review and - instead of dropping it because of the clear methodological issues and confounding factors - combined it with multiple other studies that can’t be directly compared, and produced a result so incoherent as to be meaningless.'
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'A team of researchers at São Paulo University conducted research at the request of men with a vested interest in being included in female sports, which compared below-average men with low grip strength to national-level female athletes in the top 1% of female performance.'
February 10, 2026 at 8:14 AM
'A team of researchers at São Paulo University conducted research at the request of men with a vested interest in being included in female sports, which compared below-average men with low grip strength to national-level female athletes in the top 1% of female performance.'
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'The authors have taken studies that compared untrained men with supremely athletic women, self-report activity, under-20s with over-30s, less active men than women'.
www.voidifremoved.co.uk/p/beef-trifl...
www.voidifremoved.co.uk/p/beef-trifl...
Beef Trifle
A new review in the British Journal of Sports Medicine insists men are weaker than women, really.
www.voidifremoved.co.uk
February 10, 2026 at 8:08 AM
'The authors have taken studies that compared untrained men with supremely athletic women, self-report activity, under-20s with over-30s, less active men than women'.
www.voidifremoved.co.uk/p/beef-trifl...
www.voidifremoved.co.uk/p/beef-trifl...
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Energy Secretary Ed Miliband has announced today a record £1bn invest in community-owned energy. This is the start of an energy ownership revolution which will see communities and community assets benefit from renewables in their areas.
📺 Watch him explain.
📺 Watch him explain.
February 10, 2026 at 9:07 AM
Energy Secretary Ed Miliband has announced today a record £1bn invest in community-owned energy. This is the start of an energy ownership revolution which will see communities and community assets benefit from renewables in their areas.
📺 Watch him explain.
📺 Watch him explain.
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I have today been informed that, despite personal assurances to the contrary, the Green party have once again used my image and misrepresented my words on a second leaflet circulated in Gorton and Denton ahead of the by-election. I have now lodged an official complaint with the returning officer.
February 9, 2026 at 11:25 AM
I have today been informed that, despite personal assurances to the contrary, the Green party have once again used my image and misrepresented my words on a second leaflet circulated in Gorton and Denton ahead of the by-election. I have now lodged an official complaint with the returning officer.
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Short thread on our new paper. We use face mask efficacy research as a “stress test” for systematic review methods. We analysed 66 systematic reviews of face mask efficacy; they reached widely different conclusions (~half said they work, half said that evidence of efficacy was lacking). 1/
Our new paper:
Synthesis challenges in complex evidence: A critical analysis of systematic reviews of face mask efficacy
#episky #healthpolicy #medsky
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Synthesis challenges in complex evidence: A critical analysis of systematic reviews of face mask efficacy
#episky #healthpolicy #medsky
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Synthesis challenges in complex evidence: A critical analysis of systematic reviews of face mask efficacy | Research Synthesis Methods | Cambridge Core
Synthesis challenges in complex evidence: A critical analysis of systematic reviews of face mask efficacy
www.cambridge.org
February 8, 2026 at 10:18 AM
Short thread on our new paper. We use face mask efficacy research as a “stress test” for systematic review methods. We analysed 66 systematic reviews of face mask efficacy; they reached widely different conclusions (~half said they work, half said that evidence of efficacy was lacking). 1/
Wow. ‘Books’? The article is 58 libraries have *one* book about desisting and detransitioning.
Don’t worry. My local library has 30+ positive fiction/non-fiction books about being transgender and transitioning for adults/children/YA/parents plus ebooks/audiobooks on BorrowBox.
Don’t worry. My local library has 30+ positive fiction/non-fiction books about being transgender and transitioning for adults/children/YA/parents plus ebooks/audiobooks on BorrowBox.
58 UK public libraries have parenting books encouraging 'desistance' and detransitioning
www.wearequeeraf.com...
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
www.wearequeeraf.com...
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
58 UK public libraries have parenting books with advice to encourage children to detransition
An anti-trans book that encourages ‘desistance’, the practice of ‘reverting back to a cisgender identity’, is available to parents all across the UK
www.wearequeeraf.com
February 8, 2026 at 9:09 PM
Wow. ‘Books’? The article is 58 libraries have *one* book about desisting and detransitioning.
Don’t worry. My local library has 30+ positive fiction/non-fiction books about being transgender and transitioning for adults/children/YA/parents plus ebooks/audiobooks on BorrowBox.
Don’t worry. My local library has 30+ positive fiction/non-fiction books about being transgender and transitioning for adults/children/YA/parents plus ebooks/audiobooks on BorrowBox.
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This is a look at how Jeff Bezos is helping destroy our democracy by destroying the Wash Post. The entire thing is nauseating but the firing of the paper's Ukraine reporter "in the middle of war zone" will ranks as one of the most diabolical things Bezos has done to date. Read @us.theguardian.com:
February 8, 2026 at 3:44 PM
This is a look at how Jeff Bezos is helping destroy our democracy by destroying the Wash Post. The entire thing is nauseating but the firing of the paper's Ukraine reporter "in the middle of war zone" will ranks as one of the most diabolical things Bezos has done to date. Read @us.theguardian.com:
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We have put together a summary of the case with background information and all the blogs and media coverage here:
forwomen.scot/07/02/2026/f...
forwomen.scot/07/02/2026/f...
FWS v Scottish Ministers III - the hearing - For Women Scotland
The substantive hearing for the judicial review of the Scottish Prison Service Policy for the Management of Transgender People in Custody - which permits prisoners with the protected characteristic of...
forwomen.scot
February 8, 2026 at 11:46 AM
We have put together a summary of the case with background information and all the blogs and media coverage here:
forwomen.scot/07/02/2026/f...
forwomen.scot/07/02/2026/f...
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The dominant political ideology of this decade is Make All Men Manly Again, or MAMMA.
February 8, 2026 at 10:08 AM
The dominant political ideology of this decade is Make All Men Manly Again, or MAMMA.
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Of course, none of this is about increasing the birth rate or the tax take - it's about punishing women for the fact that white Western men feel a loss of status in a world where some members of other (and Other) groups are allowed limited access to the privileges they used to monopolise.
February 8, 2026 at 10:06 AM
Of course, none of this is about increasing the birth rate or the tax take - it's about punishing women for the fact that white Western men feel a loss of status in a world where some members of other (and Other) groups are allowed limited access to the privileges they used to monopolise.
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People with no children already pay more tax, because we get fewer transfers from the state. Think of just a mother's medical bills, or one year's school tuition. Women without children also do more care work than childless men, so we're probably the biggest net contributors to the welfare state.
Reform by-election candidate suggested people who don’t have kids should pay more tax
Exclusive: The Reform politician’s suggestion would ‘punish millions of women and strip them of their basic dignity to choose’, Labour’s deputy leader has warned
www.independent.co.uk
February 8, 2026 at 10:03 AM
People with no children already pay more tax, because we get fewer transfers from the state. Think of just a mother's medical bills, or one year's school tuition. Women without children also do more care work than childless men, so we're probably the biggest net contributors to the welfare state.
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'Career politicians' have not served UK people best over the decades, because they're detached from 'real life'. Yet there are people moaning that Starmer/others in Labour have no "political nous". Mate, you can't have it both ways. Either you have politicians with life experience or you don't.
February 8, 2026 at 12:25 PM
'Career politicians' have not served UK people best over the decades, because they're detached from 'real life'. Yet there are people moaning that Starmer/others in Labour have no "political nous". Mate, you can't have it both ways. Either you have politicians with life experience or you don't.
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Yeah, I mean… echoing what other people say (e.g this man is not OK and should not have his fingers in our infrastructure), I think we need to ask the question “why does he want to?” And I think it’s not actually the profit… he’s a very dangerous man
February 8, 2026 at 12:27 PM
Yeah, I mean… echoing what other people say (e.g this man is not OK and should not have his fingers in our infrastructure), I think we need to ask the question “why does he want to?” And I think it’s not actually the profit… he’s a very dangerous man
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Chomsky wrote to Epstein. "What the vultures dearly want is public response, which then provides a public opening for an onslaught of venomous attacks, many from just publicity seekers or cranks of all sorts ...
February 8, 2026 at 12:11 PM
Chomsky wrote to Epstein. "What the vultures dearly want is public response, which then provides a public opening for an onslaught of venomous attacks, many from just publicity seekers or cranks of all sorts ...
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Since #bbclaurak is trending, let’s remind ourselves that ONE MONTH ago, the BBC invited Mandelson on for a soft-ball interview on her show. While HIS CLIENT , Palantir’s Louis Moseley appeared as a pundit
Both, as I wrote at time, were ‘abject failures of journalism’
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Both, as I wrote at time, were ‘abject failures of journalism’
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February 8, 2026 at 10:13 AM
Since #bbclaurak is trending, let’s remind ourselves that ONE MONTH ago, the BBC invited Mandelson on for a soft-ball interview on her show. While HIS CLIENT , Palantir’s Louis Moseley appeared as a pundit
Both, as I wrote at time, were ‘abject failures of journalism’
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Both, as I wrote at time, were ‘abject failures of journalism’
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Scot Gov "has spent years arguing that there is no clash of rights between women and trans people and yet here it is expressly, explicitly, arguing that trans murderers’ rights trump those of women. There is a clash of rights and the government has picked a side."
www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...
www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...
Repellent policy on trans inmates shows SNP chooses men over women
John Swinney and his colleagues have made clear they believe the male need for validation is more important than women’s safety and dignity
www.thetimes.com
February 8, 2026 at 11:47 AM
Scot Gov "has spent years arguing that there is no clash of rights between women and trans people and yet here it is expressly, explicitly, arguing that trans murderers’ rights trump those of women. There is a clash of rights and the government has picked a side."
www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...
www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...
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Great report on the case and the male killers in the female estate.
www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...
www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...
Why is the SNP still fighting for a trans killer to be in a female jail?
The women who won the Supreme Court sex ruling are taking on Scotland to ensure no biological men are in women’s prisons. It’s a test of Nicola Sturgeon’s legacy
www.thetimes.com
February 8, 2026 at 11:48 AM
Great report on the case and the male killers in the female estate.
www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...
www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...
I wonder how the ‘Substack is making money from Nazis’ story has changed since 2024. Blocked and Reported investigated this in 2024 www.blockedandreported.org/p/episode-19... as did others www.public.news/p/censors-ar.... I wonder if @jessesingal.com might revisit this issue.
February 8, 2026 at 12:35 PM
I wonder how the ‘Substack is making money from Nazis’ story has changed since 2024. Blocked and Reported investigated this in 2024 www.blockedandreported.org/p/episode-19... as did others www.public.news/p/censors-ar.... I wonder if @jessesingal.com might revisit this issue.