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Fandom/media thoughts and news/politics (mostly UK, esp NI) commentary. Expect long threads. Queer, survivor, disabled, AuDHD, not here for your transphobia, racism, ableism, or abuse apologism.
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Am still not over the sight of the Agami heron. Bird of all time tbh:

Just a reminder that during Freddie Gray uprising in Baltimore its was revealed afterward that some of the “looting” was done by the cops on the gun trace task force

In Scotland and want a Covid-Safer poetry event? Parallel lines is a poetry event celebrating parallel play in creation, holding space to facilitate poetry writing and sharing whilst centring marginalised creators in a COVID-safer and neuro friendly environment. events.humanitix.com/parallel-lin...

stay safe! avoid kettles!!

Many of the protests in LA have been successful at preventing ICE arrests and detention. “If we organize ourselves, if we resist, we can defend our communities from ICE terror, from the Border Patrol or from any federal agency that wishes to separate our families.”

I've seen a bunch of references to this, but I hadn't seen the post itself until now. The menswear guy intentionally, riskily revealed that he's undocumented—that he's a DREAMer—as an act of public solidarity and witness in the face of our current fascist ascendancy.

Governments (and corporations) are testing and experimenting to see how much they can ignore the public and still get what they want. They are betting that they don’t need general public support as long as public opinion is fractured and the most critical voices are structurally disempowered.

Grudge against these things temporarily on hold.

a Roman follower of Christ named Decimus, who, the night before Christ’s crucifixion, was made a vampire. The book detailed his centuries long life where he struggled with his faith and his natures. I’m gay btw. Can you tell?

Excellent, finally some good news!

There is no mosque on the Ravenhill Road, I am going down to have a word with this grifter tonight

If you want to help the poor Filipinos who have been affected by this weeks shocking racism, then a GoFundMe has been set up for this 👇🏻 www.gofundme.com/f/help-bally...

It's #WerewolfWednesday and I've got a treat - a commission for @paintyourdragon.bsky.social

pleased to make my debut with The Ditch today Naoise Ó Cearúil told me he has no conflict of interest since he declared his shares, which is a very common misunderstanding of what the term "conflict of interest" means, I have noticed

Happy birthday to Ben Daniels! Love that he’s made his way in some of my fav fantasy shows 🥹

TIL that Diego Luna was a Zapatista??? BRO

Also: Despite the poor conditions that the women lived in, they were well known for their generosity and kindness towards each other and for helping each other out in times of distress. Just like today 💚

i've been trying to see what the right wing platforms (even outside of X) are showing people regarding the protests in LA and i am not sure it can be overstated just how much the AI slop is being used to reinforce the idea that downtown is a post-apocalyptic war zone

And further to that last boost, please take into consideration that researchers believe there to be under-recognition of suicides induced by domestic abuse. I am certain there have been suicides locally whose true authors are still seen as "decent men".

Anything less than the full, categorical rejection of the exploitation of the pain and suffering caused by gender based violence in Northern Ireland, in the aim of an anti-immigrant and racist political agenda, is a dishonour to the love and memory owed to it’s victims.

The whole trans girls in sports discussion is absolutely being used to propagandize people into being transphobic bellends. In K-12, the number of trans girls in sports is five. In college the number is fewer than ten, according to the NCAA President. You're being manipulated. Please stop.

"Brian Wilson, he made all his records with four tracks, but you couldn't make his records if you had a HUNDRED tracks today." "That ear – I mean, Jesus, he’s got to will that to the Smithsonian." — Bob Dylan RIP Brian Wilson

So there's a member of the European Parliament being held in solitary confinement after being kidnapped, but because it's Israel we're supposed to act like that's normal?

"Translink holiday timetable"

My train’s just been cancelled. I heard about it in its column in the Daily Mail, its appearances on The One Show & Question Time and it’s book in Waterstones.

As someone said prior, the only reason Greta got released is because people were very loud about her specifically. There are still 8 other flotilla members detained, apparently without fresh water in bedbug infested prison. They all deserve to be fought for, too.

Something I sometimes think about is that there may be extraterrestrials studying Earth millions of lightyears away via technologies we haven't yet imagined, but they're studying the Earth of the distant past and have no idea of our existence.

The right to make a decision about our families and bodies must be protected by law. Write to your MP to put decriminalise abortion 👇 goodlaw.social/f2eef3

Here it is... the smoking gun that should bring down this entire EHRC committee.

Head of the EHRC saying that she doesn't think trans people in the UK should have the European Convention on Human Rights Article 8 right to private life Also worth noting that demanding random cis people "prove" they are cis also violates their privacy rights too

This is a huge scandal. As Foreign Secretary, David Cameron tried to intimidate the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Courts into dropping his Israeli arrest warrants. A violation of international law - ignored by British news outlets.

Further to that last boost, the SC ruling fallout feels so much like the immediate post-Referendum years. Politicians demanded it wothout understanding it, despite warnings about impact on vulnerable affected minorities, and when those consequences hit they just kept repeating meaningless clichés.

It's just absolutely insane watching all the "Gender Critical" people in government repeating the word "clarity" at each other without any of them being able to explain literally anything about how their hateful policies will work

It's interesting to see O'Neill cite Tommy Robinson. Now, Robinson is for sure an influence on UK racism, but I think we really need our First and Deputy First Ministers to acknowledge the role of our local paramilitaries, and often and very specifically the Loyalist ones, in this violence.

. @RachelReevesMP claims to support "working people", yet wants to strip Disabled people who work of the support we need to stay in our jobs. #SpendingReview buff.ly/TD9NxLb

Terrifying to see people responding as if doctors lying to women about what is being put into their bodies during labour (or in any other circumstances) is merely an intriguing notion rather than a violation of patient trust. Medical misogyny is a widely acknowledged and studied problem.

Falkner got a good grilling in the latest women's and Equalities committee meeting. And that was thanks to everyone writing in and getting in touch with their MPs. Let's keep the pressure up. You can find writing campaigns and more and things you can do below: whatthetrans.com/compilation-...

Come see me talk about DC Pride and co-creating the trans character who anchors the whole book: Blue Snowm - wait, no, it's Ethan Rivera

Words on the wave: Tracing Continental connections in early medieval Ireland – The Past Tá sé i gceist agam cúpla cuairt a thabhairt ar an dtaispeántas seo idir seo agus Deireadh Fómhair! the-past.com/feature/word...

Sarah Stillman investigates a widespread crisis of deaths by starvation in America’s county jails. Most of the victims she identified had been arrested in the midst of a mental-health crisis, often on petty charges tied to their psychiatric distress.