Elizabeth Liddle

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Part-time boat-dweller, cognitive psychologist / viol player, aging cat lady with ADHD. Trans Inclusive Cis Feminist. Pronouns she/her.

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Elizabeth Liddle@pingu1· 8d

Lock screen with Socks, a tuxedo cat with black face, white whiskers and an upside down white heart over his chest, very up close and personal

Elizabeth Liddle@pingu1· Jul 4

Tentacle pots from the abyssal plain!

The world’s largest amphipod, Alicella gigantea, feeding at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. Credit: Alan Jamieson, CC BY-SA 4.0

Elizabeth Liddle@pingu1· Jun 28

Sounds right on trend. So if she sold in 2023 she'd have to pay the equivalent of what she paid in 1980 to get an equivalent house. www.cladco.co.uk/blog/post/hi...

House price graph showing that house bought in 1980 for £20,000 would sell for about £260,000 in 2023.

Elizabeth Liddle@pingu1· Jun 17

It’s nicer on a summer evening!

Edale from the train - blue skies,green fields, distant hill

Elizabeth Liddle@pingu1· Jun 11

The EHRC seems to think so. www.equalityhumanrights.com/media-centre...

The EHRC's action followed the Supreme Court judgment in For Women Scotland v Scottish Ministers (April 2025), which confirmed that the terms "man", "woman" and "sex" in the Equality Act 2010 refer to biological sex. Trans people continue to be protected from discrimination under the protected characteristic of gender reassignment.

Elizabeth Liddle@pingu1· Jun 10

And "vote counting" studies isn't how you evaluate evidence anyway - it's statistical malpractice. From the 2025 critical appraisal of Cass in BMC Medical Research Methodology: doi.org/10.1186/s128...

In the synthesis section in the review on HRT [13], the authors conclude that low, or even moderate, quality evidence indicates that there is insufficient evidence for recommending GAC practices. For example, the authors argue that no conclusions can be drawn regarding any relationships between HRT and psychological health. However, this minimises their own data where one study showed an improvement in gender dysphoria [47], one showed an improvement in body satisfaction [48], four studies showed a reduction in depression-related outcomes [47,48,49,50], three studies showed an improvement in anxiety-related outcomes [47, 48, 50], and three studies indicated a clear decrease in self-harm and suicide attempts [49,50,51]. So, five distinct studies on 415 trans youth show positive psychological outcomes, and no study demonstrated “consistent” evidence for harm. To avoid reliance on vote-counting of these studies, and the limitations of this as a basic method of evidence synthesis, we can look to a recent meta-analysis that found benefits of HRT for young people experiencing gender dysphoria for several psychological outcomes including gender dysphoria, depression, and global function, though there was low certainty regarding the evidence [52]. Therefore, it appears that the body of evidence, despite its limitations, is at least suggestive of a benefit of HRT for mental health among adolescents experiencing gender dysphoria. At a minimum, the lack of evidence for harm resulting from carefully prescribed HRT should have been clearly identified by these authors. Had this been done, the authors might still have concluded that more research is required to elucidate the impacts of GAC, but it would have been less likely that their conclusions would have implied that GAC is harmful. See Table 4 for a summary of the ROBIS decisions for this domain.

Elizabeth Liddle@pingu1· May 2

No I don’t think l so. It’s saying that the question Chalmers posed isn’t so much Hard as incoherent. It begs its own question by assuming that “experience” _accompanies_ as those other functions as a functionally superfluous freebie, rather than being what they evolved to DO.

. . .even when we have explained the performance of all the cognitive and behavioral functions in the vicinity of experience—perceptual discrimination, categorization, internal access, verbal report—there may still remain a further unanswered question: Why is the performance of these functions accompanied by experience?
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— David Chalmers, Facing up to the problem of consciousness

Elizabeth Liddle@pingu1· Apr 29

Better to have protected bike lanes. www.eta.co.uk/news/50-year...

Bicycling commuters in the Netherlands. They have their own lane protected by a kerb and rumble strip. Only a couple of small children in a trailer are wearing helmets.

Elizabeth Liddle@pingu1· Mar 7

Also it’s hideous. If you are going to do Corinthian at least do Corinthian proportions, not this squat vulgar monstrosity. If you want squat do Doric, it can take it.

Drawing of the classical orders from the plain sturdy Doric through the taller more slender Ionic with restrained and elegant volutes to the tallest supermodel Corinthian with the its extravagant coiffure of acanthus leaves.

Elizabeth Liddle@pingu1· Feb 17

A fluffy tuxedo cat who knows he should not be on the kitchen counter and does not care.

Elizabeth Liddle@pingu1· Jan 26

Our jaguar is just regular soft but my daughter’s is the softest jaguar in the world.

A super soft longhaired tuxedo mini jaguar sleeping belly up on a chair with soft white paws nose and belly showing.

Elizabeth Liddle@pingu1· Jan 11

It’s time.

In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility:
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger;
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,
Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage

Elizabeth Liddle@pingu1· Jan 10

www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

“This is OUR hemisphere,” the state department declared on X above a black and white picture of Trump looking grimly determined.

The White House deputy chief of staff, Stephen Miller, went on CNN to provide the rationale for Trump’s new approach to foreign policy.

“We live in a world, in the real world, Jake, that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power. These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time,” he said.

Elizabeth Liddle@pingu1· Jan 1

Socks the tuxedo cat back in possession of the kitchen divider now that the varmint interloper Picciotto has gone back home after his Christmas visit.

Elizabeth Liddle@pingu1· Dec 16

Wow. All I have is a VERY soft cat.

A VERY soft grey tuxedo cat asleep on a blanket on a green velvet chair.

Elizabeth Liddle@pingu1· Dec 9

A cat.

Picciotto, a fluffy shadow-coloured tuxedo cat, neatly curled on a round black cushion. He looks innocent but he is not.

Elizabeth Liddle@pingu1· Dec 6

Also Stevie Smith:

Away, Melancholy
Away, melancholy,
Away with it, let it go.

Are not the trees green,
The earth as green?
Does not the wind blow,
Fire leap and the rivers flow?
Away melancholy.

The ant is busy
He carrieth his meat,
All things hurry
To be eaten or eat.
Away, melancholy.

Man, too, hurries,
Eats, couples, buries,
He is an animal also
With a hey ho melancholy,
Away with it, let it go.

Man of all creatures
Is superlative
(Away melancholy)
He of all creatures alone
Raiseth a stone
(Away melancholy)
Into the stone, the god
Pours what he knows of good
Calling, good, God.
Away melancholy, let it go.

Speak not to me of tears,
Tyranny, pox, wars,
Saying, Can God
Stone of man's thoughts, be good?
Say rather it is enough
That the stuffed
Stone of man's good, growing,
By man's called God.
Away, melancholy, let it go.

Man aspires
To good,
To love
Sighs;

Beaten, corrupted, dying
In his own blood lying
Yet heaves up an eye above
Cries, Love, love.
It is his virtue needs explaining,
Not his failing.

Away, melancholy,
Away with it, let it go

- Stevie Smith

Elizabeth Liddle@pingu1· Nov 26

The frost really brings out the detail of the steelwork! Lovely to feel cosy at the same time.

Prow of my boat on this frosty morning, picking out the detail of the nonges of the gas locker.

Elizabeth Liddle@pingu1· Nov 14

This part is absolutely bang on (as is the rest, but this sums up the mechanics):

They keep on doing the supposedly popular thing, or the easiest thing, and are then surprised to find that it does not lead to a popular outcome. But there is a reason for that: the decision has unpopular effects.

They must choose between an unpopular decision and an unpopular effect. You see this across the policy landscape. Universities need more money. Will that be popular? No, so they don’t do it. What is the effect? Universities collapsing. Will that be popular? No, it’ll be even less popular than the policy which would have prevented it.

Immigrants boost economic growth. Is immigration popular? No, so they try to reduce it. What is the effect? Reduced growth. Will that be popular? No, it’ll be even less popular than the policy which would have prevented it.

This is the cowardice trap. And Labour is currently caught in it.

Elizabeth Liddle@pingu1· Oct 22

Potter Paul Smith’s entry for the competition at Potfest in Hutton-in-the-Forest this, back in July. potfest.co.uk/potter/paul-...

A ceramic White House, roofless. with Nelly the Elephant going “Trump trump Trump” as she demolishes it from within.

Elizabeth Liddle@pingu1· Oct 22

It's completely out of scale, quite apart from involving destruction of the East Wing. The Palladian "pavilions" at the end of colonnades extending from an important building are supposed to be SMALLER:

Houghton Hall, an eighteenth century Palladian mansion built for Britain's first Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole. It is flanked by two curving colonnades with smaller "pavilion" buildings at the ends.

Elizabeth Liddle@pingu1· Oct 22

I don't know why nobody noticed this. It was on the renderings and especially obvious in this view: www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-st...

Rendered view of the planned White House ballroom, clearly showing that it replaces the East Wing.

Elizabeth Liddle@pingu1· Sep 17

Socks the cat sitting in a patch of sunlight.

Elizabeth Liddle@pingu1· Sep 15

I’d forgotten Michale Rosen’’s poem “Fascism: I sometimes fear…” was posted in 2014. Needs posting everywhere, every day, now.

Fascism: I sometimes fear...

I sometimes fear that
people think that fascism arrives in fancy dress
worn by grotesques and monsters
as played out in endless re-runs of the Nazis.

Fascism arrives as your friend.
It will restore your honour,
make you feel proud,
protect your house,
give you a job,
clean up the neighbourhood,
remind you of how great you once were,
clear out the venal and the corrupt,
remove anything you feel is unlike you...

It doesn't walk in saying,
"Our programme means militias, mass imprisonments, transportations, war and persecution."

Elizabeth Liddle@pingu1· Sep 3

Also (transcribed to send to my trans daughter):

Zack Polanski in leadership victory Q&A: "You don't need to agree with me on everything. There are red lines though. We are a broad church party, but broad churches have walls. And human rights are one of those walls. … The same people who hate the LGBT community are the same people who hate the Muslim community. It is not insignificant that the Green party now has a Jewish leader, and a Muslim deputy leader. We absolutely recognise that antisemitism and islamophobia are two sides of the same coin, and ultimately, when communities ask for solidarity, including the trans community, the only response, the only authentic response, is to give that solidarity"

Elizabeth Liddle@pingu1· Aug 28

But it’s not even apt for Europe.

Interior of the 6th century Basilica of Sant'Apollinare Nuovo, Ravenna, Italy.

Elizabeth Liddle@pingu1· Aug 22

Palestinians are a national group, right? Looks like genocide to me: www.un.org/en/genocidep...

Article II
In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with
intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as
such:
(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its
physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

Elizabeth Liddle@pingu1· Aug 21

We can still post weird cats though.

Socks sitting under a sofa table as though he is in a box but it is an entirely conceptual box.

Elizabeth Liddle@pingu1· Aug 17

And the coast line is lovely.

Grange-over-Sands station with cast iron canopy and view over Morecambe Bay.

Elizabeth Liddle@pingu1· Aug 8