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chantal freeman 🌱♻️🪚🔨 retweeted
Being in your 50s is honestly hilarious. 😂
One friend is a grandma, another still has a 10-year-old at home. One is celebrating 25 years of marriage, while another is dating someone who’s 25. One looks like they haven’t aged since 35, and another threw their back out just by sneezing.
Some are planning retirement, others are starting over after divorce. Some are becoming empty nesters, while others are still attending school meetings and making lunches. Some are booking cruises, others are discovering dating apps for the first time.
Half of us are saying, “Life is just getting started!” while the other half need three business days to recover from sleeping in the wrong position.
We’re all the same age, yet somehow living completely different lives. 😂
Nobody warned us that our 50s would look this chaotic, unpredictable, and entertaining. Honestly, we deserve a group discount on therapy, multivitamins, and heating pads. 😭
chantal freeman 🌱♻️🪚🔨 retweeted
I am personally 100% prepared to fight and die to secure the existence of Britain and a future for the British people. In my opinion, virtually every British person in this country feels the same way. The tepid public reaction to General Sir Roly Walker’s call to arms, and the apparent hesitancy around his warning, does not reflect any absence of resolve among the British people themselves. It reflects profound and justified doubt about what he and the current and previous governments actually stand for—whether they are committed to the defence of this nation and its people as they truly are, or to other priorities that undermine that commitment.
A powerful intervention from the head of the Army. Something is coming, and government needs to wake up.
He says the public will have to make sacrifices so we can prioritise defence and security.
This is no time for “national security can’t come at the expense of social security”. Hard choices are coming whether ministers like it or not.
I have been clear where I would start: cut welfare spending and put the money into defence.
chantal freeman 🌱♻️🪚🔨 retweeted
FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NHS finally bans trans women from female spaces telegraph.co.uk/politics/202…
chantal freeman 🌱♻️🪚🔨 retweeted
One of the most shocking stories of #surrogacy #exploitation I've ever read:
- A single mother of three working as a waitress and struggling to feed her kids
- Living with a physically abusive ex-boyfriend
- Answered a wealthy gay couple's Facebook post. They agreed to pay her a measly £60-£90/month and promised to help her move out of her abuser's home (they didn't)
- Paid her own travel to clinics for nearly two years
- So poor she couldn't buy her children Christmas dinner
- Once pregnant, the monthly payments never came save one lump sum of £500
- Lost her job after time off to recover from bleeding during the pregnancy, had nothing to eat
- Gay couple blamed her hormones when she cried about her broken radiator
- After ultrasounds they took her to expensive restaurants, then sent her home to feed her kids rice. Her therapist: they are "buying you with that food."
- The men swapped in a new therapist who scolded her for not trusting them and exploited her childhood abandonment and homelessness to manipulate her
- Never saw a single test result. The men even dictated the postpartum underwear in her hospital bag
- In her seventh month she was bleeding and the baby wasn't growing properly. The buyers didn't come, they extended their month-long European vacation
- After her C-section, she was shut in a back room while they showed off the baby to visitors
- When she refused to sign the discharge, both fathers and both grandmothers screamed at her as she lay in bed, called her a baby thief, and threatened to take her other children and send her to jail. A lawyer threatened criminal charges. After six hours, she signed
- The biological father got that signature by promising her money. She never received it
- Left on the street with her C-section wound and a dead phone, and had to charge it at a café to call an Uber home
- They promised she would always be part of his life. She hasn't seen him in two years.
But she says the worst part is… she only got to hold her baby for 10 minutes.
This is surrogacy. Shut it down.
dailymail.com/news/article-1…
chantal freeman 🌱♻️🪚🔨 retweeted
Goes to show you how inefficient and incompetent the civil service is. And now they're demanding more pay and less working hours.
chantal freeman 🌱♻️🪚🔨 retweeted
Apparently, I’m an “individual of childbearing potential (12–55)”.
I think you’ll find the word is WOMAN.
And in its bid to be “inclusive”, this NHS Trust appears to have overlooked the fact that some girls start their periods before the age of 12, and some women continue after 55. While pregnancy at those ages is rare, the age range isn’t an absolute boundary.
So WOMEN AND GIRLS might be clearer still.
In healthcare communications, clarity should always take priority over ideology.
Familiar words like "women" or "girls" are easier to understand than “individuals of childbearing potential”, particularly if English is your second language.
And before anyone tries the “what about pregnant children?” argument - yes, people really use that to justify removing women's sex-based language 🙄 - it is widely understand that, while less common, a young woman i.e. a "girl" could also be pregnant.
chantal freeman 🌱♻️🪚🔨 retweeted
An absolute banger of a TripAdvisor reply from follower Catherine, from her time at The Fat Seagull Cafe in Sandilands, Lincolnshire …
chantal freeman 🌱♻️🪚🔨 retweeted
We really need to educate the MPs.
Folic acid is not a vitamin and not a natural folate.
The efficacy claims might be true for high risk women but the evidence base is not there for ordinary women.
There has never been a safety trial yet the safety signals have mounted up.
chantal freeman 🌱♻️🪚🔨 retweeted
VASTLY IMPORTANT!
UK Column exposes the fact that the UK Food Standards Agency has NO IDEA who produces the folic acid going into all out food.
Folic Acid is produced by DMS FIRMENICH
The SAME company that made BOVAER!
AN APPEAL!
As my posts are sometimes invisible to people who do NOT follow me, can someone, please ask UK Column, if I can have their permission to USE this VERY IMPORTANT VIDEO to get this information out to good people?
I will ALWAYS CREDIT UK Column.
The Food Standards Agency has put out guidance on the introduction of folic acid to non-wholemeal wheat flour, what does this mean and why have they done it?
To watch the full news broadcast, click the link:
ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column…
#FolicAcid #Flour #Health #Food
chantal freeman 🌱♻️🪚🔨 retweeted
Gov says that there is not enough data to set a "safe upper limit" for folic acid exposure.
Same gov then puts it into our flour without a single safety trial!
Sign the petition.
chantal freeman 🌱♻️🪚🔨 retweeted
Separating a newborn from its mother to stick him/her onto a man's hairy chest is an act of psychic vandalism and unparalleled cruelty.
I call it the 'Shadow Hour'.
Because this single act will cast a shadow over the baby's entire life.
chantal freeman 🌱♻️🪚🔨 retweeted
POST OFFICE BANKRUPTED A MAN AFTER HE ASKED FOR HELP 91 TIMES
Lee Castleton @CastletonLee did not hide the problem.
He reported it 91 times in just 12 weeks.
He kept telling the @PostOffice that Horizon was showing losses he could not explain.
Their response was to audit him, suspend him, demand around £25,000 and eventually bankrupt him.
In 2003, Lee Castleton and his wife sold their home and bought a small Post Office branch in Bridlington, hoping for a quieter life by the sea with their two young children.
Within a year, Horizon was showing unexplained shortages.
When the case reached the High Court, he could not afford a lawyer and represented himself.
He lost.
The Post Office then pursued him for about £321,000 in legal costs.
He was bankrupted.
His children were bullied at school. His daughter was spat at because people believed her father was a thief. His wife's health suffered.
In 2019, he was one of more than 550 former postmasters in the group litigation that ended with a £58 million settlement.
His share was around £20,000.
Years later, former Post Office chief executive Paula Vennells told the Horizon IT Inquiry that his treatment had been unforgivable. She also accepted that she had probably signed off the legal costs that helped bankrupt him.
He is now pursuing the Post Office and Fujitsu for up to £8 million, arguing that the original 2007 judgment was obtained by fraud.
In May 2026, the Court of Appeal ruled that his claim should proceed as one trial.
Almost two decades after those first calls for help, he is still fighting.
91 calls.
No solution.
Then bankruptcy.
Sources @BBCNews @lawsocgazette @ComputerWeekly and others
chantal freeman 🌱♻️🪚🔨 retweeted
A robot is cleaning rivers completely autonomously. 🌊
Meet Hebao H3, an autonomous surface-cleaning boat developed by Dongfang Water.
Using onboard AI vision and GPS, it can detect and collect floating waste such as plastic bags, bottles and leaves while avoiding obstacles.
When its collection bin is full, the H3 can automatically return to its base.
Would you trust robots to keep our rivers clean? 👀
⚠️ This content is shared for informational purposes only. CTO Robotics Media is a media platform and does not own or develop the technology shown. Credit belongs to the original creators.
#HebaoH3 #DongfangWater #RiverCleaning #Robotics #AutonomousRobots #AI #EnvironmentalRobotics #CleanTech #Sustainability #Automation #CTORoboticsMedia
chantal freeman 🌱♻️🪚🔨 retweeted
Devastating fact. Incredible that it seems not to play the slightest role in policy considerations
Nearly all women who try to reach UK in small boats are raped during their journey, home secretary says trib.al/C03wjt3
chantal freeman 🌱♻️🪚🔨 retweeted
In 1979-80 the cost of local authority elderly residential care was £63 per week, which was 58% of an average wage. In 2026 it is £1298, or 184% of an average wage.
Privatisation of care is basically a letter of marque. Licence for the depraved to prey on the desperate.
chantal freeman 🌱♻️🪚🔨 retweeted
Just had a guy on a bike almost crash into me on Marsham Street (maybe 8 mins walk from Parliament) as he was speeding along the pavement on an electric bike. 20s probably, Asian-looking
I tell him to not ride on the pavement as I walk away - angrily, but no shouting or swearing etc
He throws the bike down and comes after me and says "do you want me to shank you?" (aka stab). Tucked into his belt he has a longish piece of metal - seemed to be some sort of blade but I can't be 100% sure what it was in truth. Enough to scare me anyway
I very hurriedly walk away and he yells "yeh run you posh cunt", and at some point he (I think) stops following
I call the police (was in two minds between 101 or 999 ; ended up going for the latter). Operator asked me my name and then how to spell it (hardly seemed the priority)
Tell her what happened. She asks if I am still in danger - I say well I've walked away but the guy is still around I think
She says it's not an emergency so I need to fill out a form on the police website. She says she'll text me the link
I say - there's a guy threatening to stab people and is that not a priority? She says no and to fill out the form. I try to interject but mid-sentence she cuts the call
That's it
Not sure what to think really but as someone who doesn't have many interactions with the @metpoliceuk I just didn't really expect it to be so..dismissive? Maybe they were having a busy Friday night who knows
chantal freeman 🌱♻️🪚🔨 retweeted
My ‘baby’ turned 21 this week.
Born 11 weeks early, weighing just a few pounds.
I still remember the paediatrician coming to see us after I went into early labour at 28 weeks. He gave us a long list of things that could go wrong in neonatal intensive care.
Worst case: she might not come home at all.
This is the first time I held her - a few days after she was born. A rare few moments without the ventilator. Afterwards, she would need help to breathe for many weeks to come.
Although I look happy here, my heart was broken. And I was full of fear. Any mother would be.
Infertility, ectopic pregnancy and baby loss were part of my story too - along with premature birth and everything that followed.
No exam result or professional achievement will ever rival this moment - bittersweet as it was.
Which is why I refuse to be erased - or to see other women erased - from the language we use to describe what our bodies are made to do.
Not every woman wants to have a baby. Not every woman is able to.
But women should not have to disappear from the language of pregnancy, birth and our own bodies in order for others to feel included.
Which is why I say no to “birthing people”, “menstruators”, “cervix havers” and every other reductive term for women.
There is nothing inclusive about making women disappear.
