Women and members of the LGBTQ+ community face specific and particular harms based on their gender and/or sexuality. The majority of women we support have survived extreme harm, including gender-based and sexual violence, forced prostitution, torture, and trafficking. 2/🧵

Paul Klee Moonshine 1919

Worker choked unconscious by carrot baton machine at Scottish factory theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/n…

Industrial robot crushes man to death in South Korean distribution centre theguardian.com/technology/202…

‘What the heck is going on?’ Extremely high-energy particle detected falling to Earth theguardian.com/science/2023/n…

Britons increasingly turning to food black market, experts say theguardian.com/society/2023/d…

ONS may stop publishing mortality data on homeless people dlvr.it/T16lDd

Best spa towns in the UK 2024 independent.co.uk/travel/uk/best…

Oldest National Trust reserve Wicken Fen - a lovely place, hoping to go back this year. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

Pliers, abscesses and agonising pain: Britain’s dental crisis – as seen from A&E theguardian.com/society/2024/j…

We've waited 38 years for this view! With the scaffolding fully removed from the Cathedral's East End, we can now admire the original beauty of the entire exterior as it would have looked in the 14th century after the Spire was added. 📸: Martin Cook

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Thanks to a shadowy hacker group, the British Library is still on its knees. Is there any way to stop them? theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Many pretty butterflies arrived in my garden today. They are appreciating the huge Buddleia at the back.

Trump’s aid cuts deny one million women a week access to contraception independent.co.uk/news/world/usa…

“Every time you see a headline on “the cost of the benefits bill”, what you are really reading is “the cost of disabled people”.  My col. on Labour’s reported benefit cuts and the toxic narrative of the “moral” virtue of work. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

I know coverage of disability benefits can be very distressing. So, I’ve worked with colleagues to make a range of support visible on The Guardian’s site. If you click on a relevant news story, you’ll see a “drop box” of signposted mental health help as well as benefits advice.

The government has announced the most devastating cuts to disability benefits on record. These plans should shame the government to its core. Here's our initial response to the new Welfare Green Paper 🧵👇

Our night in Basel! 🏆🎊