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Cyclist, feminist, teenage mammy, migrant Brighton via Longford 🇮🇪
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I find this very moving: a 10-year-old Ukrainian boy who moved to the West of Ireland 2 years ago as a refugee, speaking in Irish of his love of playing Irish music

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Where the fck is this going to lead us 🥺

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If nothing else, it's clear that all those Americans who used to bang on about how having guns meant they could protect themselves from tyranny were talking absolute shite

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Note: these are the famous "legal pathways" that those in need of international protection are supposed to take. The sheer cruelty of this is beyond me.

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Did you know that women were being taken to prison ‘as a place of safety’? www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

G'wan the lads!! 💚

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What's a good alternative to Airbnb in the UK / EU?

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

#Tbilisi: On the 80th day of nonstop, nationwide protests, a sea of people has filled Tbilisi’s streets demanding change, justice, new elections, and the release of all regime prisoners. Despite the regime’s aggressive attempts to intimidate and repress protesters—

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

🧵UK immigration department culture I’ve litigated against the dept for most of last 33 years, reading civil service files & witness statmts, sometimes talking confidentially to them. For almost 8 yrs, I sat on Gov Committee that writes rules for immigrt’n appeals & so consults directly with them 1/

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❤️Roses are red ❤️Violets are blue ❤️How much do I have to earn to say I love you? This #ValentinesDay we are calling on the Home Office to scrap Minimum Income Requirements for people to be with the loved ones.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

So the new head of HHS shot heroin all the way through college, eats roadkill, put dead bear cubs in Central Park, a whale carcass on the roof of his car, lies about vaccines, cheats on his wives, had a brain worm and whose only ‘qualification’ is his last name. But DEI is a problem? GTFOH.

submitted 8 days ago • 20 comments

There's been flashier clips of the current insanity, but this quietly demonstrates the current disintegration of US gov't standards like no other. - Did Musk meet Modi as CEO or gov't? - You talking about me? - Musk. - Dunno. Business probly. - Did Modi know which? - Dunno. I'll ask him. 😶

submitted 8 days ago • 31 comments

Pop quiz: People are saying the kid says “you’re not the president you need to go away” — do y’all hear it too?

submitted 10 days ago • 3645 comments

Deceased 🤣💀

submitted 9 days ago • 1559 comments

The opportunities presented by migration (and remigration) have impacted every member of my close and extended family, often a result of economic necessity, but still a privileged choice - it's definitely something to celebrate 🥰

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It’s International Day of Women and Girls in Science. Last year the wonderful Stemettes released a White Paper that demonstrates the invisibility of women scientists in the school curriculum. It’s time to end sexism in STEM and end sexism in schools. #WomenInScience #GirlsInSTEM

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We're officially not on Twitter anymore but we have <10% of the followers we had there, so please give us a follow. Here's the latest from the Wild Gees blog - a guest post about some midnight #SheelaNaGig activism: The Banksy Sheelas of Sussex thewildgees.com/guest-post-t...

submitted 32 days ago • 2 comments

Happy #Lawyercat Anniversary for all who celebrate! It's been four years since the kitten appeared in my Zoom courtroom, and I released the 48 second video that made the whole world laugh. Here is the full video showing the big reveal at the end (in two parts because Blue sky). Enjoy!

submitted 13 days ago • 63 comments

Every woman knows how much she restricts her activities after dark, which is the afternoon for much of the year. We deserve the same freedom to get around that half the population can take for granted

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Oh

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I'm aware of course of the general decline in crime in the 1990s, but just looking at the scale of it is jaw dropping. Our best estimate is that there were 2.4 million burglaries in 1993, which fell to 400,000 in 2023 www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...

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Make St Brigid's Croissants a thing

submitted 22 days ago • 7 comments