Carolen

Dorset resident but don't hold that against me

This is an alt account, my primary fedi account is Carolen 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 (npub12yf…ecna)

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2026-05-31 07:48:44 UTC

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Yikes, I thought that was Charlotte Rampling (who is currently 80) before I saw who it was 😮

2026-05-22 14:24:01 UTC

I should bloody think so 😡
The government is to review the sentencing of three teenage boys who raped two girls in separate attacks, after receiving multiple requests to appeal the decision.
Prosecutors said the assaults in Fordingbridge, Hampshire, in 2024 and 2025, were "brazenly filmed" on phones and showed the boys laughing and encouraging each other. They later shared some of the footage online.
The boys, two aged 15 and one aged 14, were given youth rehabilitation orders (YRO) and the two older ones were also made subject to intensive supervision and surveillance (ISS).
A government spokesperson said it shared the public's shock at the details of this "horrific case" and its thoughts were with the young victims, adding "the Law Officers are urgently reviewing the case with the utmost care and attention".
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy2x7wxjego

2026-05-21 19:35:59 UTC

I see Johnathon 'I'm a biological woman' Willoughby is taking the EHRC guidance well 🙄😂
https://x.com/IndiaWilloughby/status/2057540379562680616#m
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2026-05-16 13:15:40 UTC

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pointy 😁

2026-05-16 12:34:59 UTC

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well I'll be, I didnt know that! I had thought they were extinct in the UK before their reintroduction but you're right, there were some left in Wales
https://naturalengland.blog.gov.uk/2020/07/21/a-conservation-success-story-the-reintroduction-of-red-kites-30-years-ago/
@HebrideanHecate

2026-05-16 11:52:09 UTC

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Red Kites are everywhere around Berkshire and the A40 corridor, it's where they were reintroduced. Good to see them making their way North
Red Kites and Buzzards are the two big raptors down here, the easiest way of telling them apart when they are in the air is the shape of the tail; Kites are forked, Buzzards not
They are big buggers, too - I came across buzzards and kites squabbling over a dead sheep a few years ago, they were HUGE, certainly wouldn't want to mess with them

2026-05-03 11:33:03 UTC

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welcome to the club 😁
@HebrideanHecate @TriptychTwinsRidesAgain

2026-04-27 10:51:22 UTC

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oh dear, how sad, never mind 😐

2026-04-07 12:06:29 UTC

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number 6, but that is pretty much permanent

2026-03-22 06:06:32 UTC

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I gave up on Woman's Hour even before Jenni Murray left 😒

2026-03-20 19:04:15 UTC

At least the bastard is going to be kept in a male prison, hope he suffers 😡
A Metropolitan police special constable who raped a girl and a woman after “systematically” grooming them both online has been jailed for 24 years.
James Bubb, who now identifies as a woman named Gwyn Samuels, first sexually assaulted the girl when she was just 12 years old after befriending her online in 2018
The 28-year-old was also found guilty of raping a woman who the defendant first met online while posing as a 16-year-old girl, when the victim was 18.
On Friday, Samuels, a former volunteer special constable, was sentenced to 32 years, made up of 24 years’ imprisonment and a further eight years on extended licence.
In his sentencing remarks the judge, Jonathan Cooper, said: “You abused the most intimate trust of each of your victims. In each case you systematically groomed your victim, first to befriend them, then to abuse them, finally to bend them to your will.”
Throughout the trial the defendant was referred to by their biological sex but during the first sentencing hearing last week, the judge said that since they have transitioned, they should be known by their new identity of Gwyn Samuels.
The judge said he understands the defendant, who has been in the male prison estate while in custody, will remain there.
Cooper said: “The key point is that you are a very significant risk to women. This is not predicated on your trans status, but on your criminal status.”
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/mar/20/former-met-officer-systematically-groomed-raped-girl-woman-jailed
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2026-02-27 21:25:05 UTC

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It all depends on just how hard the puzzle is
Most 'beginner' puzzles can be solved using logic and the lessons that can be learnt online or by asking more knowledgeable friends
The 'Intermediate' puzzles can be solved by the above plus patience and a little intuition
The 'Expert' ones - well, only get so far and then is just guesswork unless you have a PhD in theoretical mathematics

2026-02-27 21:05:51 UTC

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It's nice to have the basics but the serious theory (ancient magic) is beyond me

2026-02-17 21:42:43 UTC

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{screams inside}

2026-02-17 08:53:31 UTC

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😳 you're braver than I am
@EmmaFaber

2026-01-19 15:20:53 UTC

Lucky Dutch people 🙄
‘I was afraid for my life’: the transgender refugees fleeing Trump’s America
Fear, abuse and eroding rights for trans people have created a hostile environment in the US – can they claim asylum in the Netherlands?
Ter Apel, a small, unassuming Dutch town near the German border, is a place tourists rarely have on their itinerary. There are no lovely old windmills, no cannabis-filled coffee shops and on a recent visit it was far too early for tulip season
When foreigners end up there, it is for one reason: to claim asylum at the Netherlands’ biggest refugee camp, home to 2,000 desperate people from all around the world.
Some, like the Eritreans and Somalis, are fleeing war; the Syrians insist it remains unsafe for them to return home after the fall of Assad. But in the last year they have been joined by a curious new cohort: a bunch of Americans, who say they have feared for their lives ever since Donald Trump returned to the White House.
Many of the American refugees, like Jane-Michelle Arc, a 47-year-old software engineer from San Francisco, are transgender. In April last year she flew into Schiphol airport in Amsterdam and, sobbing, asked a customs officer how to claim asylum. “And they laughed because: what’s this big dumb American doing here asking about asylum? And then they realised I was serious.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/19/i-was-afraid-for-my-life-the-transgender-refugees-fleeing-trumps-america
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2026-01-16 18:15:38 UTC

Oh FFS, here we go again
"NHS trans case ruling will be closely analysed - but impact not straightforward"
Yes it is, keep the bastards out of women's spaces 🤬
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj0ny0r5q1mo

2026-01-15 06:27:37 UTC

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leave, and find an apprenticeship somewhere

2025-11-27 22:53:37 UTC

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accept male pattern baldness

2025-11-26 06:09:12 UTC

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I'll take one of the 80s please as long as I don't have to perm my hair again

2025-10-24 13:57:21 UTC

Oof, made the mistake of doing my circuit training exercises first thing this morning. Turns out now that what would normally have been a fairly straightforward box-shifting exercise earlier has crocked me
Getting fitter sucks

2025-10-07 06:01:19 UTC

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almost as if there was some significant population change beginning around 2013-2015 🤔
https://www.statista.com/statistics/283100/recorded-rape-offences-in-england-and-wales/
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2025-10-06 12:16:35 UTC

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how typical, the difference in reaction between the men and the women. And the wish of the mayor to draw a line under it
I had a sudden flash of memory when reading this report, not realised until now but I cycled through Mazan back in 2008, was a lovely little place that was holding a 'fete de la cerise' so everyone was out celebrating and being happy
Terrible now to think about what was going on 😢

2025-08-28 18:07:16 UTC

"Girls: Have one of these in your bag wherever you go. You never know when you'll be struck with period pains etc. Be careful not to get any in your eyes though, it's almost like being pepper sprayed- which you MUSTN'T carry because that's illegal in the UK."
https://x.com/intel_lady/status/1960763528186315242#m
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2025-07-25 06:50:36 UTC

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has George calmed down at all yet? Hoping Momo can adjust 🤞

2025-07-06 21:12:23 UTC

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that's good to hear, hope it stays clear for you and that it doesn't affect others too badly. Looks very dramatic, though!

2025-07-06 21:09:33 UTC

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Courage et bonne chance 🤞

2025-07-02 08:18:15 UTC

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not *another* chicken shop? Doesn't this country have enough already? 🙄

2025-07-01 06:57:53 UTC

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2025-06-30 19:20:09 UTC

'I'm a sleep expert - here are four reasons why you should never turn the fan on at night'
Bollocks to that. If I don't have the fan on, I won't be going to sleep. End of.
https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/health/1898199/health-risks-sleeping-electric-fan

2025-06-26 05:51:59 UTC

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And yet the chattering classes love to spout dreck like 'trans women themselves are not, and indeed never have been, a threat to anyone' in the last issue of Private Eye 🙄
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2025-06-24 08:32:51 UTC

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In a rare example of (possibly) good news, it appears that the BBC may not sanction her on the grounds of 'honest language'
I am sure that some people there would have been baying for her to go, though, let's hope that saner voices eventually win
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/06/23/bbc-backs-martine-croxall-pregnant-people-women/

2025-06-19 04:37:16 UTC

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" I just punched her in the nose. It felt SOOO good! She
dropped like a bag of potatoes LOL. "
Words that tell the world just how much a MAN you are, you pathetic, worthless, mentally unstable piece of crap 😡

2025-06-18 06:35:41 UTC

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I always loved Calvin & Hobbes (sniff)... When Bill Watterson briefly came out of retirement to do a few strips in Pearls Before Swine (another favourite of mine) back in 2014 I was so happy
https://stephanpastis.wordpress.com/2014/06/07/ever-wished-that-calvin-and-hobbes-creator-bill-watterson-would-return-to-the-comics-page-well-he-just-did/
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2025-06-14 05:36:00 UTC

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wow this post just made me realise I just flew home on Friday 13th from gate 13 of the airport
I didn't give it a second thought yesterday, now I am thinking I dodged a massive bullet 😅

2025-04-29 21:19:49 UTC

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down sinkholes at least
Never been that far South myself, hope to find out some day

2025-04-29 21:08:38 UTC

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doesn't that depend if you're in the Northern or Southern hemishphere?

2025-04-17 21:56:02 UTC

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would like to agree but the Conservatives are irrelevant now

2025-02-26 17:29:37 UTC

"Mentally-ill man, accused of rape of a girl under 13 and causing a girl aged five to engage in sexual activity, hangs himself before he can face justice"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y920n0zj4o
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2025-02-19 21:19:28 UTC

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(soupir) J'aimerais aller dans un endroit chic, aucun endroit comme ça ici

2025-02-19 21:16:13 UTC

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makes it sound like you actually *want* a civil war zone 😆

2025-02-08 12:28:37 UTC

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they are f*cking obsessed with this stuff, trannies and drag 🤬
Maybe now they have less income from USAid they might tone it down some, not holding my breath though 😒

2025-01-21 20:04:05 UTC

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can't find corroborating links yet but I really hope this is true 😂
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2025-01-21 18:31:57 UTC

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Here you go, Is Paywalled though
https://www.zeit.de/kultur/2025-01/elon-musk-hitlergruss-amtseinfuehrung-donald-trump

2025-01-17 08:10:53 UTC

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I never thought much about character selection back then, being able to have a female avatar was a 'nice to have' but often as not I just picked a male one as was fewer button presses and decisions to make
That said I have never played MMORPGs so having to create a character that reflected who I wanted to represent myself as being, in a game has never been an issue

2025-01-10 06:30:12 UTC

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I can only imagine the stress and uncertainty you must be feeling 😢. Thinking of you and your loved ones. I hope you stay safe and that you are able to find any support you need to get through this
Wishing you strength and the best possible outcome
@Lady_Penelope

2024-11-18 21:20:10 UTC

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what even *is* that!?

2024-11-16 22:41:48 UTC

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I agree that texting a code to your mobile is broken but how are authenticator apps?

2024-11-08 10:44:01 UTC

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Hmmm hunny
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2024-10-19 19:09:14 UTC

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how dare they assume those people's gender?

2024-09-29 17:34:13 UTC

Hello cardigan, wasn't expecting to be wearing you quite this early, this year

2024-09-19 06:13:51 UTC

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yeah capybaras are cool. Have heard they stink, though but I don't know if that is a fact

2024-08-08 06:56:47 UTC

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