A wee thread. On why I'm an ally.

When I was 19, my best friend at work was called Christopher. He was 21. He spent a lot of time looking at my boobs, which were pretty epic, but not in a leery way.

So I asked him why. And he finally felt safe enough to say /🧵 That he felt he was born in the wrong body. That he always felt that he was female. And explained that it wasn't the same as homosexuality or lesbianism. Not that that would have been a problem.

We talked until 4 am that night. It was the late 80s. The HIV and Aids bashing /🧵

For 29yrs I was a project/programme manager. It annoys me every time that Sunak has a plan. He doesn't. He has 5 pledges which are possible positive outcomes of A plan. A plan is a series of timetabled risk managed actions (the how) which should lead to known outcomes /🧵 (the what ). He currently has the (wrong) outcomes, but not the plan. Which is why they are focusing on the wrong things.

Any sensible business knows that if the directors set the target, they hand it off to the subject matter experts to deliver (for the project /

The British - Benjamin Zephania

Take some Picts, Celts and Silures
And let them settle,
Then overrun them with Roman conquerors.

Remove the Romans after approximately 400 years
Add lots of Norman French to some
Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Vikings, then stir vigorously.

🧵 Mix some hot Chileans, cool Jamaicans, Dominicans,
Trinidadians and Bajans with some Ethiopians, Chinese,
Vietnamese and Sudanese.

Then take a blend of Somalians, Sri Lankans, Nigerians
And Pakistanis,
Combine with some Guyanese
And turn up the heat.
🧵

I wasn't going to do this... But the conspiracy theories are exhausting.

So. Rape. A thread

About the stuff we blindly refuse to think about. 1. Rape is not about sex. It's about power, domination and anger.
2. Most rapes happen within a domestic violence setting or a relationship. Let's not forget that rape in marriage was still legal until 1991.
3. 7% of reported rapes are stranger rapes. 59% acquaintances