Senior Chromatography Wrangler. Doctor of Cruel & Unusual Mass Spectrometry. Personal account. "Progressive activists remain flummoxed by universal suffrage."
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It's here! "Polar metabolomics using trichloroacetic acid extraction and porous graphitic carbon stationary phase". The 2nd paper from Frankie Day's PhD & 1 of only 3 in the literature applying porous graphitic carbon stationary phase for #Metabolomics.
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See you next year and thanks for having us #Nottingham !
#ReclaimTheNight #Nottingham #WomenSupportWomen #EndMVAWG
#EndMaleViolence 11/11
ALT Group of women with banners at the Maid Marion statue in Nottingham for Reclaim the Night female only march 2026
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Those women who were scared left feeling elated. We supported each other. We may have been small in number but we were mighty in power. Our bravery stood out against the cowardly abusers. We won't be silenced, and we won't stop marching. 10/11
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We simply want to be left alone, free from the exact intimidation, violence, and harassment that we were met with last night. Yet despite the shaky start, the second half of the march was very uplifting and we ended on an absolute high. 9/11
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To claim otherwise is a complete rewriting of feminist history. When will these men realise that saying "female-only" is entirely acceptable? It doesn't mean it's about you. Women are allowed to want spaces, events, and moments to ourselves. 8/11
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The UK movement was founded in 1977 in Leeds by women, for women, as a direct response to the serial murders committed by Peter Sutcliffe and the institutional police response that told women to stay indoors under a de facto curfew. It was created to fight male violence. 7/11
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RCG claimed on TikTok: “They @RtnNotts have co-opted Nottingham’s Reclaim the Night women’s march and turned a historically trans inclusive event into a hate march.” Lads, get your history right. Reclaim the Night was never historically trans-inclusive. 6/11
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Violent scuffles broke out in front of the marchers, meaning we were constantly paused as these men actively tried to block women from marching down the street. They hurled a barrage of abuse, screaming "genocidal murderers," "fascist scum," and "you’re not feminists." 5/11
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Massive fail, lads! For several women in attendance, this was their first time facing such a hostile environment, leaving them physically shaking. Once the march set off, the police literally had to use their physical bodies to keep these aggressive men away from us. 4/11
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The protest was organised by the Nottingham Revolutionary Communist Party (RCG). The irony would be laughable if it weren't so terrifying. A march dedicated to letting women walk the streets free from male harassment was targeted by a mob of mainly male protesters. 3/11
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We marched for a simple, vital reason: to demand an end to male violence, harassment, and intimidation against women and girls. But instead of a safe public space to raise our voices, women, including survivors of domestic abuse, were met with a hostile, abusive protest. 2/11
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#ReclaimTheNightNottingham
Police had to escort us through the city. The streets of Nottingham are not safe for women in 2026
The words "female-only" are met with violence, intimidation and harassment
But we stayed strong and finished our march
Power to the women ♀️💜💚🤍
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Last night, our members made history. We stood together in #Nottingham for the first female-only #ReclaimTheNight march the city has seen in well over a decade. In fact, this was likely the only explicitly female-only #ReclaimTheNight march in the entire country this year. 1/11
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We're looking at a Parliament that could be 27% Māori. A second term with two Māori Deputy Prime Ministers, whose respective party deputies are also Māori. Numerous Māori ministers holding warrants, including in constitutionally and economically important portfolios.
However, because relatively few of them are in the John Tamihere orbit, we're likely to continue being told that this is the most anti-Māori government in history, often by people who are themselves very much in the John Tamihere orbit.
Auntie Helen has blocked me for asking why she uses the contested term "gender", otherwise I would tweet this directly to her.
“As we wait to learn the final result of this year’s election, some are already calling into question the fairness or legitimacy of the vote because of the role vote-splitting has played.”
My opinion piece for Law News.
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All i see is patterns everywhere…
"Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted."
-Lenin
"We must turn children, who can be shaped like wax, into real, good Communists... We must rescue children from the harmful influence of the family... We must nationalize them."
— Lilina Zinoviev, Soviet Education Official, 1918
"When an opponent declares, 'I will not come over to your side,' I calmly say, 'Your child has already been won over by us… You will pass away. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community.'"
— Adolf H. Speech in Reichenberg, December 4, 1938
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Trans activists are in a bit of a pickle now, and I’m loving it.
If they give up the sports thing they’re admitting the entire ideology is false.
If they don’t give up the sports thing it will make the public realize they are deranged authoritarians.
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Fans of "gender identity" are freaking out about the ballot initiatives because deep down, everyone understands that if no boys are girls for the purpose of sports, no boys are girls for any other purpose either.
Oddly, even the ACLU's main "gender" lawyer understands this.
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Students circling the building @jtworr is lecturing in, chanting "Fire James Orr!" while loudly banging drums.
Let's hope the University of Cambridge will not allow a repeat of what happened to Prof Kathleen Stock at Sussex.
What is the university going to do about these students who are hounding an academic whose speech they dislike?
No one should have to endure the sort of sustained harassment and intimidation Dr Orr has been subjected to in recent weeks.
It must be extremely stressful and feel like the entire student body is against him. But there are many students watching carefully and hoping this behaviour will not succeed in forcing him out, and further, whether this behaviour will continue to be tolerated.
Whether someone is sacked from their job should never be determined by an angry mob.
James Orr, the former Head of Policy for Reform UK, Chair of the Roger Scruton Foundation and Associate Professor of Philosophy of Religion @CamDivinity was confronted in his classroom whilst teaching yesterday. (He is not suspended by @Cambridge_Uni as some were led to believe.)
Eerrrrrmmmmm, have you seen the birth rate for this demographic? They're not having kids, my dude.
The greens won EVERY university.
EVERY university 70%+ votes left.
In 10 years, the green voters will have kids. 18 years later, those kids vote left.
NZ needs to fix academic political manipulation NOW before it’s too late.
Every class Im taking said “vote left”.
@aniobrien
