Ed Crooks
@mgwendt.bsky.social
Very tall, East Yorkshire, my life revolves around music, dogs, and world cinema
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I'm betting I'm not the only one done -- I mean completely done -- with Nicki Minaj.
December 22, 2025 at 7:55 AM
I'm betting I'm not the only one done -- I mean completely done -- with Nicki Minaj.
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I've been following the progress of this foal called Rocky who was born with three legs! I've NEVER seen this before, a horse with three legs isn't like dogs or cats with a missing limb, it's basically unheard of. But he's 7 months old and the vet says he's doing great. I love the way he eats grass.
October 4, 2025 at 9:10 AM
I've been following the progress of this foal called Rocky who was born with three legs! I've NEVER seen this before, a horse with three legs isn't like dogs or cats with a missing limb, it's basically unheard of. But he's 7 months old and the vet says he's doing great. I love the way he eats grass.
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Charlie Kirk was a white supremacist who pushed the racist Great Replacement Theory. Kirk was vociferously anti-LGBTQ. Kirk's final words were to besmirch Black people.
Stop this revisionism. People who say bad things don't deserve to be murdered, but they also don't deserve to be praised either.
Stop this revisionism. People who say bad things don't deserve to be murdered, but they also don't deserve to be praised either.
September 11, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Charlie Kirk was a white supremacist who pushed the racist Great Replacement Theory. Kirk was vociferously anti-LGBTQ. Kirk's final words were to besmirch Black people.
Stop this revisionism. People who say bad things don't deserve to be murdered, but they also don't deserve to be praised either.
Stop this revisionism. People who say bad things don't deserve to be murdered, but they also don't deserve to be praised either.
What I’ve been watching, no. 2: Lamhe, dir. Yash Chopra, 1991, India. A classic Yash Chopra romantic Bollywood epic of boy meets girl, boys loses girl, boy falls for girl’s identical daughter, made shortly after Chopra hit on his hit formula of romance, exotic locations, NRI subplots, and wealth.
August 18, 2025 at 11:56 AM
What I’ve been watching, no. 2: Lamhe, dir. Yash Chopra, 1991, India. A classic Yash Chopra romantic Bollywood epic of boy meets girl, boys loses girl, boy falls for girl’s identical daughter, made shortly after Chopra hit on his hit formula of romance, exotic locations, NRI subplots, and wealth.
What I’ve been watching, no. 1: Mayak, dir. Mariya Saakyan, 2006, Armenia/Russia. Mariya Saakyan’s extraordinary debut film about women’s lives in a war zone, depicting the Nogorno-Karabakh conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
August 17, 2025 at 1:23 PM
What I’ve been watching, no. 1: Mayak, dir. Mariya Saakyan, 2006, Armenia/Russia. Mariya Saakyan’s extraordinary debut film about women’s lives in a war zone, depicting the Nogorno-Karabakh conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
One minute of my goat Bertie eating hazel leaves then trying to eat my phone, with one of the pair of kestrels that frequent the garden providing accompaniment.
August 16, 2025 at 3:07 PM
One minute of my goat Bertie eating hazel leaves then trying to eat my phone, with one of the pair of kestrels that frequent the garden providing accompaniment.
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Another open letter.
This time to M&S.
I don’t have any nostalgic desire to protect this brand. Other undies are available.
And back in the 70s my local store had fuzzy, mustard yellow pillars that gave me static shocks every time I went near them.
Anyone else?
This time to M&S.
I don’t have any nostalgic desire to protect this brand. Other undies are available.
And back in the 70s my local store had fuzzy, mustard yellow pillars that gave me static shocks every time I went near them.
Anyone else?
An Appeal to M&S over Transphobia
openletter.earth
August 7, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Another open letter.
This time to M&S.
I don’t have any nostalgic desire to protect this brand. Other undies are available.
And back in the 70s my local store had fuzzy, mustard yellow pillars that gave me static shocks every time I went near them.
Anyone else?
This time to M&S.
I don’t have any nostalgic desire to protect this brand. Other undies are available.
And back in the 70s my local store had fuzzy, mustard yellow pillars that gave me static shocks every time I went near them.
Anyone else?
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“The ‘grown women’ of Ireland remember very well what erasure and control and lack of bodily autonomy feel like and it’s for this very reason that we stand so passionately with the trans community today”
#TransRightsAreHumanRights @independent.ie
#TransRightsAreHumanRights @independent.ie
August 3, 2025 at 7:53 AM
“The ‘grown women’ of Ireland remember very well what erasure and control and lack of bodily autonomy feel like and it’s for this very reason that we stand so passionately with the trans community today”
#TransRightsAreHumanRights @independent.ie
#TransRightsAreHumanRights @independent.ie
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It was when JK Rowling said that the Cass Review was a peer review itself and that's why it didn't need to be peer reviewed I realised she's an idiot.
Anyway, here's a peer review of Cass.
Guess what it finds?
Anyway, here's a peer review of Cass.
Guess what it finds?
Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
May 10, 2025 at 1:47 PM
It was when JK Rowling said that the Cass Review was a peer review itself and that's why it didn't need to be peer reviewed I realised she's an idiot.
Anyway, here's a peer review of Cass.
Guess what it finds?
Anyway, here's a peer review of Cass.
Guess what it finds?
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The thief has been found! His name is Guðmundur Pedro and Nettó gave him a bag full of dried fish.
June 15, 2025 at 12:58 PM
The thief has been found! His name is Guðmundur Pedro and Nettó gave him a bag full of dried fish.
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Money that JKR earns from Harry Potter is used to fund legal actions designed to reduce trans women’s rights, e.g. in the workplace.
The harms from this will affect all trans communities.
Personally, I will do what I can to not line her purse further.
The harms from this will affect all trans communities.
Personally, I will do what I can to not line her purse further.
JK Rowling has emerged from the shadows as a funder of the anti-feminist biology is destiny movement.
May 24, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Money that JKR earns from Harry Potter is used to fund legal actions designed to reduce trans women’s rights, e.g. in the workplace.
The harms from this will affect all trans communities.
Personally, I will do what I can to not line her purse further.
The harms from this will affect all trans communities.
Personally, I will do what I can to not line her purse further.
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It doesn't end with trans people; it never did. www.attitude.co.uk/news/reform-...
Reform UK moving 'at speed' to ban rainbow flags in council buildings
However, Union Jack and St George's flags will be allowed to fly atop council buildings, as per the new rules
www.attitude.co.uk
May 7, 2025 at 12:30 PM
It doesn't end with trans people; it never did. www.attitude.co.uk/news/reform-...
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The best way I can articulate how I know trans women are women is….whenever I’ve met a trans woman I’d have to work extremely hard to see them as anything other than a woman, ya know? I’ve seen GCs call women “HE!!!” and just thought “you’ve had to try SO hard to do that to her”.
Do you think trans women are women in a "gender is fake, words mean nothing" way or in a "trans women are women" way.
April 24, 2025 at 2:16 PM
The best way I can articulate how I know trans women are women is….whenever I’ve met a trans woman I’d have to work extremely hard to see them as anything other than a woman, ya know? I’ve seen GCs call women “HE!!!” and just thought “you’ve had to try SO hard to do that to her”.
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I just want the confidence of a 1920’s ice delivery man
April 23, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I just want the confidence of a 1920’s ice delivery man
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More transphobia in the House of the Commons is imminent as PMQs gets underway.
Badenoch will attack Starmer for not being transphobic enough and he'll responsd by being transphobic to try and prove her wrong.
Badenoch will attack Starmer for not being transphobic enough and he'll responsd by being transphobic to try and prove her wrong.
April 23, 2025 at 11:00 AM
More transphobia in the House of the Commons is imminent as PMQs gets underway.
Badenoch will attack Starmer for not being transphobic enough and he'll responsd by being transphobic to try and prove her wrong.
Badenoch will attack Starmer for not being transphobic enough and he'll responsd by being transphobic to try and prove her wrong.
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Kill a white millionaire, get the death penalty. Kill two black protesters, get invited to CPAC to be celebrated.
April 1, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Kill a white millionaire, get the death penalty. Kill two black protesters, get invited to CPAC to be celebrated.
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We now cross over to political news.
March 31, 2025 at 10:08 AM
We now cross over to political news.
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"I couldn't help but wonder . . . where *is* Yemen? And how did I get in this crazy group chat about the place? At first, everyone was high-fiving each other. And just like that, everyone was talking about dropping bombs. Funny, how chats, like friendships, can turn like that."
March 25, 2025 at 12:51 AM
"I couldn't help but wonder . . . where *is* Yemen? And how did I get in this crazy group chat about the place? At first, everyone was high-fiving each other. And just like that, everyone was talking about dropping bombs. Funny, how chats, like friendships, can turn like that."
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The Scottish have won the AI Wars.
March 5, 2025 at 7:23 PM
The Scottish have won the AI Wars.
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Mikey Madison was great too but Demi Moore losing to a woman in her 20s is very on the nose
March 3, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Mikey Madison was great too but Demi Moore losing to a woman in her 20s is very on the nose
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Zelensky not punching him right in the face is perhaps the greatest act of self-restraint I have ever witnessed.
February 28, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Zelensky not punching him right in the face is perhaps the greatest act of self-restraint I have ever witnessed.
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Trump’s disgusting behavior in our Oval Office in the company of a genuine hero and defender of democracy like Volodymyr Zelensky may be the most disgraceful public behavior by any president in our history.
February 28, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Trump’s disgusting behavior in our Oval Office in the company of a genuine hero and defender of democracy like Volodymyr Zelensky may be the most disgraceful public behavior by any president in our history.
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Zelensky is a wartime leader watching his people suffer and die under Russian attacks every day. To be lectured and lied to by Trump and Vance, as they defend the war criminal dictator committing these atrocities, is unimaginable agony. An everlasting shame for America.
Trump has not uttered a critical word about Putin but he and his VP publicly belittled the leader of the nation Putin invaded.
February 28, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Zelensky is a wartime leader watching his people suffer and die under Russian attacks every day. To be lectured and lied to by Trump and Vance, as they defend the war criminal dictator committing these atrocities, is unimaginable agony. An everlasting shame for America.
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Tesla share price Dec 17 - $480
Tesla share price today - $306
(Location: Tesla Gigafactory, Berlin)
Tesla share price today - $306
(Location: Tesla Gigafactory, Berlin)
February 25, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Tesla share price Dec 17 - $480
Tesla share price today - $306
(Location: Tesla Gigafactory, Berlin)
Tesla share price today - $306
(Location: Tesla Gigafactory, Berlin)