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I like dancing, hiking and moss. Compulsively care about policy and politics. Recovering. Very gay 🏳️‍🌈
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The gerontocracy has consequences, episode one million and three.

submitted 11 days ago • 340 comments

“Spain’s economy expanded by 3.2% last year. This outpaced Germany’s 0.2% contraction, France’s 1.1% growth and was also ahead of Britain, whose total GDP grew by 0.9% last year”. What was crucial to this growth? Immigration and the movement of people. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

submitted 18 days ago • 13 comments

submitted 27 days ago • 22 comments

As both a car owner and a cyclist, drivers should have to correctly cite the rules in the Highway Code for overtaking cyclists before even being allowed to answer this question.

submitted 47 days ago • 2 comments

Trans women are women and no court judgement can change that. Without wanting to diminish the negative effect that legal oppression has on trans lives, there is no reason why lawyers and judges are qualified to make this argument over actual experts in the field.

submitted 47 days ago • 5 comments

One thing I wish people understood about authoritarianism is life often looks more or less the same. Troops aren’t marching down the street every day; people go to restaurants, have their office jobs. But everyone knows that stepping out of line, even slightly, can derail your life with no recourse

submitted 48 days ago • 122 comments

it is a good thing Le Pen has been held accountable. fully agree with this article

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

Too right. It’s obviously different from petrol stations, which are typically completely unobtrusive, fit perfectly with the surrounding environment and are architectural marvels that would make Frank Lloyd Wright weep.

submitted 63 days ago • 10 comments

Proud of journalists & outlets still standing up to power in the face of threats while Big Law, corporations, and other institutions capitulate: Wired, Mother Jones, Rolling Stone, Miami Herald, Techdirt, Marisa Kabas, the Unpoulist, ProPublica, MSNBC. (Feel free to add others in replies)

submitted 66 days ago • 754 comments

This is fascinating

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

This is the most dangerous, irresponsible framing imaginable. Not to mention it is bollocks. The big big winners from positioning Ukrainian security against poor British people & our public services are the far right. TAX THE RICH TO PAY FOR DEFENSE. PROTECT OUR WELFARE STATE.

submitted 88 days ago • 123 comments

Do not underestimate how poverty will prevent people from recovering from illnesses that they otherwise would have.

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

I wish I could repost this a bunch of times for emphasis. The way society is ignoring long covid - and government is defunding support for long covid - is maddening. And then they ask "why are more ppl on disability benefits"? I WONDER COULD IT BE THE MASS DISABLING PANDEMIC?

submitted 92 days ago • 11 comments

Labour and the EU, a Beckett play: Lab: "We want a closer relationship with Europe" EU: "How about this?" Lab: "No, not like that." EU: "How about this?" Lab: "No, not like that." EU: "OK....how about this?" Lab: "No, not like that." Continue to general election and...curtain(s)

submitted 130 days ago • 60 comments

George Osborne remains one of the twenty-first century's greatest villains

submitted 145 days ago • 1 comment

I can’t stop thinking about the Canadian politician who became disabled at 60 and ended up homeless Other politicians came together to raise over 40k in less than 48 hours … because they KNOW you can’t survive on government assistance. So why aren’t we changing policies? 🧵/1

submitted 147 days ago • 9 comments

I don't think we are supposed to individually prepare ourselves 3x meals a day every day for our whole lives I think we're supposed to have community and sharing

submitted 147 days ago • 398 comments

They used to say there was no such thing as gay kids. That it was a choice that could be beaten or tortured out of them through conversion therapy

submitted 153 days ago • 195 comments

Very niche tweet but Dan has reminded me how much it really annoys me when in film and TV at train stations they claim that a train goes somewhere that it definitely doesn’t go to from that station

submitted 171 days ago • 66 comments

Here are some nice mushrooms

submitted 174 days ago • 636 comments

I’m actually a grown adult with fully formed thoughts such as “trans people should be allowed to just exist and have human rights without assholes questioning their humanity” and I don’t need to hear the opinions of anyone who disagrees with that. It’s not a debate and I won’t pretend it is.

submitted 176 days ago • 47 comments

Woof. What a story. Welsh cartoonist Alex Norris is embroiled in a years long ordeal to fend off a US company that claims his strip is THEIR intellectual property. Norris has won several rounds in court, but the suits lurch on w/ crippling legal costs, which is no doubt the strategy.

submitted 183 days ago • 14 comments

"When wealth is passed off as merit, bad luck is seen as bad character. This is how ideologues justify punishing the sick and the poor. But poverty is neither a crime nor a character flaw. Stigmatize those who let people die, not those who struggle to live." Sarah Kendzior

submitted 186 days ago • 14 comments

Just incredibly bleak that when a Labour government is finally in power, disabled people still have to wake up to front pages calling them a blight on society.

submitted 190 days ago • 197 comments

submitted 201 days ago • 15 comments