There was a two-day pause in the press terrorising the public with tales about a horde of orcish scum swarming towards us like World War Z, long enough for a short period of very awkward whoops-have-we-maybe-fucked-it-a-bit, and then it was right back to all day hate wall to wall.
Aside from anything else, this is how you behave if you’re the guy at work people keep sending to the shop to ask for a tin of tartan paint and a long stand
I know we have goldfish memories now, but it really is only a few months since the US vice president stood up before Europe’s leaders and told them they were a bunch of Muslim-loving Marxist homosexuals who deserved to get rammed by Vladimir Putin, and that does feel somewhat relevant here
Trump’s big state visit will be clarifying for everyone, I think
How did something this crazy happen within 14 months of a landslide election for politicians everyone agreed were shit hot and in tune with the public? The guys with excellent policies, Sensible positions and the down to earth no-nonsense patriotic whatever that people love and want
I can tell you exactly which conspiracy theory / disinformation campaign the assholes who passed this nonsense have chosen to believe. It's an American narrative about "welfare recipients buying steak and lobster." So that's who is inspiring them: right-wing American conspiracy theories
The case of a trans man currently before a U.K. court is part of a long fascist history of restricting bodily autonomy.
“Trans people being denied the very same medication that cis people are given without question. Many of the refusals are for people that are already on HRT" ✅ Restricting legal recognition ✅ Restricting freedoms ✅ Restricting health care www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
So people who’ve fled death & torture are going to be denied the chance to live with their families- who may themselves consequently be exposed to the same dangers- and I’d suggest not a single Reform voter will vote Labour as a result while other Labour voters will abandon them in disgust
Again - the reason that the Good Friday Agreement locks in the ECHR is that the UK had repeatedly been held accountable by the European Court of Human Rights for human rights breaches during the Troubles - while national courts had failed to do so, even upholding miscarriages of justice
The report also glosses over - in a single paragraph! - how the GFA refers to the ECHR (not 'ECHR righs') as being a key 'safeguard' of the Agreement. That's the single most relevant clause in the whole text, and the report just wriggles away from it.
I have to say as a human rights lawyer, the lack of any sort of platform for genuine expert voices pushing back on this sophistry is making me irate.
This is actually one of a number of reasons why Brexit was so urgently important and made to happen
And people wonder why I don't trust Labour on human rights.
'Trans people should have access to safe third spaces' is the weasel lie of a transphobe convinced they wriggle their way through appearing moderate to uninformed cis people while winking to their fellow transphobes. 'This percentage of the population should disappear to an imaginary solution'
There are a whole raft of other reasons why 'force people to out themselves and go to their separate area' is bullshit, but this is the most pressing one for me. Very few 'safe third spaces' exist (and there's been a whole political/media war against them existing.)
It's an old, old tactic for eliminationists of all kinds. 'I don't hate [group I hate] - I merely think they should be removed from normal society and placed in [undefinable/nonexistent/monstrous] place away from the rest of us.'
BREAKING: A federal judge has *blocked* the Trump administration from abruptly deporting 600 unaccompanied Guatemalan children — perhaps within a matter of hours — granting an emergency restraining order after advocates called the plan illegal + dangerous. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Trump's contribution to our politics was exposing that conservatives don't care about any of the principles they've said are sacrosanct for 100 years, and all they wanted was to be openly evil instead of circuitously evil. The Democrats who win will be the ones who understand this and act like it
Article 8 covers things like preventing the government from controlling who you can have sex with, and what hobbies you have; from spying on your mail and phone conversations; and so on. The UK government wants rid of it. They will claim it is necessary to “protect women” from the likes of me.
This is terrifying. It's impossible to overstate what an immense threat to our human rights this Labour government poses.
I’m seeing anti-immigrant accounts on bluesky, and people interacting with them. Come on, here we block and move on. No space here for Nazis.
Corbyn: This is Your Party. Me, getting excited: Really? *My* party? This guy after checking my birth certificate: No.
Impressive to have the stench of both moral foulness and insincerity coming off you, and what the fuck is the BBC doing?
"it's what the british people want" the 'british people' elected a labour government with manifesto commitments to make trans people's lives easier & end 'hostile environment' for immigrants
we can get those polling numbers lower. we can get that approval rating lower. I believe in us as a nation. we can make them stare dumbfounded at their screens as all the lines go down.
Me at 11 watching the X-Men movies: Xavier is doing his best in a difficult world! Me now: Magneto should be allowed to hunt every senator that supported the mutant registration act for sport
What a great day to learn about wheatpasting
bsky.app/profile/cnle... honestly I don't understand not wanting to lift up others. no-one is immune to criticism - but the crabs-in-a-bucket mentality is immensely destructive of communities, and of creativity
Resistance MATTERS - massive thanks to @hopenothate.org.uk, and a reminder that every act of pushback helps
His trans daughter is on another magazine cover today
starmer is doing all the anti-immigrant and anti-trans "popularism" stuff the centrists are demanding US dems do and this is the predictable result:
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its really fucked up how hard you get punished for being disabled in the US!! i dont think a lot of people realize how much medical equipment isnt even close to being considered by insurance in a lot of cases
I feel so depressed when people say “corn” or 🌽 I know it’s to evade censorship but it just hollows out my soul
This goes for magazines and books as well. Send me stuff to digitize. I have a backlog of over 50 digitized VHS tapes to upload, some good and some bad. I have a ton of magazines scanned too. Regardless of artistic merit, I don't want these pieces of our history to be lost.
Something you can do for my birthday would be to send me gay/porn VHS tapes; anything you think should be archived. I'll put what I digitize on archive dot org and send the original tape[s] back if you want. Just email me and I'll send you my PO box info. cartaxxx at protonmail dot com
Disabled people deserve so much better than this, and prisoners deserve so much better than this too. Fuck the police and fuck companies that market to them.
Like it's literally the exact same products with different marketing. Special needs kids and adults are being treated like prisoners and the company that makes these products isn't trying to hide it whatsoever.
It's not like this is rare though. Companies that make 'safety gear' for special needs kids and adults sell the exact same gear to cops to use on prisoners. (This company is headquartered where I live.)
It makes me very sad how easily assistive tech is adapted by cops in order to restrain and imprison people. Something liberating that allows me to walk turns into a limiting machine designed for cruelty
He knew how far to push things; highlighting the line between authenticity and stereotypes (especially in the comedy roles like Red Green). Even when he played stereotypical parts (i.e. the "noble savage") he brought a gravitas that gave greater depth to the cliche, showing how inadequate it was.
Adding to this now that the initial shock has worn off. On top of being a great actor in general, the way he represented Natives/First Nations on screen was important. He captured our culture in an authentic way, while leaning into the tropes in a way that exposed how ridiculous so many of them are.
RIP Graham Greene. Every time he popped up on screen when I was a kid, my mom would excitedly point him out for being an actual Native on the screen. Able to be deadly serious and infinitely hilarious (even in smaller roles like Last of Us), he ate up the screen. Nʌki’wah brother.
Akram was one of the first accounts on here from Gaza ❤️
You don’t say.
I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Darin. Darin was studying business administration and her husband Fesal was studying accounting. Darin gave birth to their little girl Lareen during the war. They’ve lost everything and Lareen was injured by shrapnel recently. They need help ❤️
censorship serves some kind of abstruse shareholder-value purpose but the pitch for it is always "rich people seething forever that anyone is allowed not to love them"
Apologies! You have reached the end of your free trial period of America
Honestly, this is a not inconsiderable reason people don't like Dems/libs. It's impossible to respect anyone that is this cringingly servile.
i think this is easier to accept than “they just kind of don’t care about us.” they do! they just don’t understand what’s at stake here
ive said this before but even well-intentioned cis people see transition as a luxury that is painful to revoke the rights for but not existential. i bet these hospitals would file lawsuits about this if it was about literally any other evidence-supported medical procedure
rolling up to the tournament with this
hey question what the fuck is wrong with you & why do you think it's appropriate to talk to an artist like this
i think if some of you people talked irl to strangers and especially bipoc ones the way you see fit to do here in antisocial rude and bad faith ways you'd get slapped in the face and deserve it actually
they couldn't handle the truth
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surprise i just dropped a new article! i had a lot of thoughts about how people don't know how to engage with fiction, which ties into chatgpt delusion & book bans among other things. big thanks to @cxorlando.bsky.social for telling me to write about it when i posted a throwaway insta story
beautiful
Rome after Sulla announces the proscriptions
you should care about trans rights because you should care about trans people, but even for those who don't, it's all basic rights to bodily autonomy and self determination
Idaho kids can't call suicide hotlines in crisis because someone might affirm their gender to save their life.
We tried so hard to explain that the anti-trans panic wasn't just going to hurt trans people. Whether through recklessness or intent it resulted in extremely weird, broad, harmful laws. I'm not mad, but I'm telling you, we really tried.
One of the most life-changing things my therapist ever taught me is to stop responding to emotional subtext from others. You are not obligated to meet needs and feelings that others refuse to acknowledge even exist on their end. Others have to use their words to get their needs met.
According to the results, for every 5,400 doses of COVID-19 vaccine administered, one death was PREVENTED. That adds up to 2.533 MILLION deaths AVERTED across the globe from 2020 to 2024. Most importantly, vaccines preserved 14.8 million years of life- about one year of life saved for every 900
The research offers the first global estimate of both lives saved and life-years gained through COVID-19 vaccination between 2020 and 2024. The study has been published in JAMA Health Forum. YES, it is PEER-REVIEWED • jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... 🧪🧵⬇️
WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive GLOBAL study revealed COVID-19 vaccines utilizing mRNA technology PREVENTED OVER 2.5 MILLION deaths WORLDWIDE between 2020 and 2024. It reveals that vaccinations didn’t JUST protect against illness. They PRESERVED nearly 15 MILLION years of human life.
I will die on this hill: it isn’t hard to say “at the height of the pandemic” or “at the start of COVID” during a podcast interview. Producers, hosts, don’t let your guests say “during COVID” like this thing is over. Correct them. Ask them to say the sentence again. This is your job.
Of course establishment Dems are incapable of handling a fascist coup. You’re asking a group of people who come from obscene privilege to have a backbone and integrity they have NEVER been required to have because the world has always bent to their will.
This kind of thing was a huge controversy during the so-called War on Terror and now it's barely a blip in the news. So the federal government has fully moved into granting itself the authority to kill foreign civilians anywhere, anytime as long as it nods to some sort of criminal activity, I guess
I’m not personally aware of any legal authority for the federal government to just shoot a torpedo or whatever at someone suspected of a crime?
Capitalism is a scourge on the solar system
finland has been getting away with it for too long! i’m sick of it!
Artist’s painting of a hippo on a flake of limestone 🦛❤️ Perhaps a practice sketch, or just for the joy of painting 3,500 years ago! From Deir el-Bahri, Thebes, Egypt, c. 1479–1425 BC. 📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti... #Archaeology
“I think it is an act of terrorism that happened here,” Robbie Thorpe said at the camp on Monday. “It was a premeditated attack on our people; it has been allowed to happen. “Where were the police at that time? There was a group of armed people walking around. Why weren’t they monitored?”
This looks suspiciously like Mr Sewell is taking a swing at somebody at Camp Sovereignty eh.
"Far-right groups across England are transforming extremist activism into premium lifestyle services, offering everything from personal safety escorts to lifestyle mentorship through apps, QR codes and subscription models." #fcknzs #fck14
Media outlets have staged a front page protest to highlight the killings of more than 200 journalists in 22 months.
It's me, I'm the special boy journalist who can solve fascism once and for all by platforming so many fascists and letting them say so many fascist things that people will finally decide not to fascism after all
The best quote I’ve ever seen about this is that every Democratic leader of the 21st century is ideally suited by temperament and mindset to be in congress in 1995 debating the v-chip.
they did that during the Obama admin idk what you mean by "precedent"
we need a leftist guan yu. we need a leftist campaign against dong zhuo. we need a leftist king of wei.
99% of all issues on here are solved by 1) follow at least 500-600 people 2) block annoying people Once you do it it’s a wonderful experience
Like sorry but if your solution to any problem on here is that everyone needs to be nicer to New York Times people and not that we need more music recommendations and sports clips and general talking about random shit you are just living in a fantasy world, I disregard you.
The flaw in everyone who makes a Bluesky bad post is that they come to the conclusion that making the site better involves importing people with centrist politics to talk politics when the actual truthful answer is that we need less politics and more goofs but that’s difficult when the world sucks
Really good tips here
Still seems to be a little confusion over how to report on nazis, yet it is simpler than almost any other reporting: 1. DON'T publish particular words or images they want you to publish 2. DO publish words or images they don't want you to publish
Truly wild the special envoy against antisemitism still has made zero statements about all the Nazis violently running around the streets across the country yesterday.
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Do Germans ever feel like shit that they're not like this? You never hear international praise for Italy's "Culture of Remembrance" but here they are actively trying to stop a genocide while Germany BLOCKED sanctions on Israel. Can we finally agree that Germany's guilt has always been performative?
❤️ Wouldn't surprise me one bit if Italians are the ones finally doing it
I'll never forget when my movie screened at the film festival in Rome & this Palestinian flag popped up as the first frame. I started crying & thanking them...they said "oh we didn't do this for you...this flag comes up and stays up for one minute of silence before every movie we screen" ❤️ Italians
So many problems here, but if you are a therapist doing this, why wouldn’t your client just drop you and use a chatbot. You’re just the bot’s puppet at that point.
i met anubis in the realm of the underworld, big strong guy by the way, had a dog’s head, i’m not so sure about that. and he said to me, mr president, you’ve got the heaviest soul we’ve ever weighed down here. can you believe it? they’ve never seen a soul that heavy in all of duat
Thirteen in 24 hours 😢
We were horrified by the rhetoric around the housing crisis displayed at rallies across the country over the weekend. We stand with and for renters, whether you’ve been in Australia for a day or your entire life.
Hi, just woke from a coma, can anyone give me a quick update on how this rehabilitation went?
awesome robots 𓅃 
