My computer crashed. I was using it as usual and I was interrupted by a popup informing me that my device encountered a problem and needed to restart. I had three windows open at the time. It proceeded to restart and never came back. I'm currently on a backup computer and have no access to word processor or the files produced by it..

So I'm reduced to lurking and the occasional comment or blog entry.

We just do not get decent weather on Bank Holiday weekends!

What is happening?

Well not quite but it has made the last few days less pleasant.

When talking about your gender identity is there a difference between using comfortable and not uncomfortable?!?!?

His Department of Education, a misnomer if ever there was one (especially in light of who he chose as his Secretary of Education), has apparently opened an investigation into whether or not Smith College has violated Title IX by admitting transgender women.

When I got online today, suddenly this site is displaying a shrunken version of the screen. It is roughly one third the size of the normal screen.

Any clue as to why this is happening? Is anyone else seeing the same thing? Any ideas on how to resolve the problem?

of 2026 gone already!

which is a bit annoying given the sunshine!

update as i've got some web time!

the fields and hedgerows are filled with song and colour!

on the way to the forum!

She wanted to watch it as it was Savannah Guthrie’s first day back. Apropos of nothing, I was sitting and reading as she watched the show, and a segment with Terry Crews and his wife, Rebecca King-Crews, came on; she suffers from Parkinson’s and underwent a new procedure to treat her illness.

to this week

bad day today it would have been my 33rd anniversary if my wife and i were still together .coming out has cost me so much .my wife my son and 3 daughters ,was it worth it im not so sure anymore. I used to be living before i got so sick now im just surviving .

Yessir, good ole’ Donny has that tar baby right where he wants it!

Trump started a war with no true justification and no real goal in mind. Nothing beyond distracting voters from all of his other problems and scandals, plus the ability to thrust out his chest and brag about how “no one has ever done anything so great before”. His usual claim to fame.

And now every time he hits the Iranian tar baby, he just gets stuck deeper and harder and has no idea how to get loose.

but what is normal?

When I checked the site today, I found a message sent to me regarding an attempt by multiple anti-trans organizations to get the FDA to create restrictive regulations on the prescription and use of estrogen for the treatment of transgender women. The request is of course based on pseudoscience, and when reviewing the petition it becomes readily apparent that many of the justifications for their petition are being twisted to reflect a viewpoint not originally cited within the referenced materials.

or how things didn't go quite to plan!

is now live!

So here i am, trying not to lose this post!

That i posted a blog entry on Wednesday but it seems to have vaporised, please tell me i'm not losing it!

Maddy

Notwithstanding Trump’s repeated lies about not getting the US involved in another endless war in the Middle East, he has now attacked Iran for a second time in conjunction with his buddy Netanyahu. This is obviously all about regime change, with the added advantage that it distracts voters from his domestic failures - not to mention the fact that his administration continues to bury multiple documents related to him and Epstein.

Named Haolong Dongi.

Haolong (lit. 'spiny dragon') is an extinct genus of hadrosauroid ornithopod dinosaur known from the Early Cretaceous (Barremian age) Yixian Formation of Liaoning, China. The genus contains a single species, Haolong dongi, known from a nearly complete, articulated skeleton with preserved integumentary structures.

The generic name, Haolong, comes from Mandarin Chinese and translates to "spiny dragon," in reference to its integumentary structures. The specific name, dongi, honors Dong Zhiming, a prominent Chinese paleontologist.