Important thread on the reality of civil disobedience in the UK compared to elsewhere in Europe.

I am disgusted by Reform UK's threats to people who have built a life in this country. They are coming for our neighbours. They are coming for our colleagues. They are coming for our friends. We are at a dangerous moment. This hatred cannot be appeased. It must be defeated.

I say this as a Nordie: only a fellow Nordie could have delivered this line without a hint of irony. While we went through hell up here, I think we were largely shielded from the depth of repression the south experienced for the best part of the last century. RTE is still paying off homophobes FFS!

Oh my fucking Christ stop with this empty 'but how?' retort. You can't oppose fascism by pulling apart the logistics. It doesn't matter that it would be impractical, or expensive. The cruelty is the motive, payment and reward. Everything else is irrelevant.

The debate around what is or isn’t “cancel culture” really just obscures a simple truth that it’s BAD to be massively racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic and it’s GOOD to speak out against injustice. Some things are good and some things are bad and it’s okay to say which you think are which.

This reminds me of the time we called for an anti-choice campaign launch to be pulled from a human rights festival & centrists were like 'why don't you go and make your case' & the answer was because the organisers wanted all questions submitted in advance so they could vet them 🤦‍♀️

The richest man in the world giving a speech to a mostly working class anti-migrant protest to tell them to hate migrants more is quite an on-the-nose demonstration of how racism was invented by the elite in order to serve elite interests.

History makes so much more sense to me now.

Just FYI to fellow rapidly aging academics attempting to hold onto cultural references our students understand. College seniors this year were born after all three Lord of the Rings movies.

The faith leaders and communities involved in reproductive justice work are some of the most inspiring activities I've ever encountered, so I totally agree.

This 'patriot' protesting against immigrants in Manchester is actually Irish far right thug Paul Rock, who got eight years for tying up and robbing a 76 year old woman. But yeah, just concerned parents.

I am genuinely confused by all this pageantry. He was not an elected official. I cannot think of another time a regular citizen being killed garnered this response. It’s perverse.

Don't be surprised if whoever killed Charlie Kirk has no coherent political ideology, didn't do it for any particular reason, and doesn’t fall anywhere neat on the left/right paradigm.

Killing people we disagree with is wrong in every way, whether it’s Melissa Hortman or Charlie Kirk. This is especially true in a country awash with guns and run by fascists looking to amplify their already militarized policies. No thoughts and prayers. Down with fascism and up with gun control.

"I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights" - Charlie Kirk, 2023 www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...

I'm sure this massive payout to farmers has NOTHING to do with meeting the demands of tech companies. Just like I'm sure increasing water extraction from the Shannon to cool data centres will be totally fine...

🏳️‍🌈 Want to read the research on experiences of LGBT pupils in NI schools which Minister Paul Givan says has been removed from Department of Education website 'to ensure the information is up to date'? You can still (at least for now) download it from the Department website: tinyurl.com/4dh78t78

I read the descriptions of the kind of ridiculously bigoted and hateful ideology these men are promoting and find myself muttering 'and these are real people that actually exist in the world?'

Today is World Suicide Prevention Day. I’m in Leeds with Baton of Hope, campaigning to raise awareness of suicide and prevent further deaths. I’m walking to promote Alice’s story and the particular risks facing trans people. I haven’t been fundraising but Peter has. If you’ve any spare pennies…

The solidarity between the trade union movement & the queer community is resolute. Our trans friends & comrades are in danger & we are saying no. We will fight for the rights of all minorities & vulnerable groups. Together we stand united & undefeatable 🌹🤝🏳️‍⚧️ leftfootforward.org/2025/09/tuc-...

These guys keep complaining on social media about how few people turn up to their patrols and rallies, trying to shame their community for not doing enough. Maybe the reason is that the vast majority of people know what they are and wouldn't want to be associated with them.

High energy prices leave 1m UK households behind on bills. Energy debts doubled in 12 yrs. 6.1m households in fuel poverty. 128,000 people die in fuel poverty. Energy companies made £514bn operating profit since 2020. Can't build economy on poverty and death. End profiteering. Nationalise.

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

I'm assuming we'll have vigilante groups patrolling outside scout meetings now and a big protest in Portadown... Oh no wait we won't because he's a middle aged white man who has lived here all his life just like the vast majority of men who are actually a risk to children and women.

✨ One year ago today ✨ The Milky Way rising over the hauntingly beautiful ruins of Kilwirra Church and its old graveyard. A moment of wonder stitched into the night sky on the Cooley Peninsula. #milkyway #astrophotography #kilwirra #cooleypeninsula #irelandsancienteast

Kitty O'Brien: "The video of me being beaten went viral because I’m white, but the violence I experienced is just a drop in the ocean compared to what my Palestinian, Arab and other racialised comrades have endured at the hands of the German state police over the past two years.”

Never has anyone cared less about whether something is legal.

Liberals are starting to say shit like, "trans people asked for too much too fast," and I'll remind your souless asses that we actually didn't ask for anything. we were minding our own business and quietly improving our healthcare and you (cis) decided to do a pogrom against us for no reason.

For all the years that Linehan had been *obsessively* targeting trans people (such that he’s been in court over it, he’s been warned be police over it, he’s lost his career and family over it…) the media have never shown *any* interest in speaking to his victims. None. Zero. They simply don’t care

Words have no meaning at The Guardian anymore. Linehan is a “gender activist” in the same way that the Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan is a “race activist”

Am sure the “362,000 litres of wastewater, with ammonia levels 30 times above the legal limit, and orthophosphate levels two-and-a-half times above the limit” released into river by creamery in TEN hours had NOTHING whatsoever to do with this massive fish kill. www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

Adnan Hussain is listed as the Your Party Secretary on Companies House. He is an MP who wants trans people segregated out of public life. Sorry to say, but if Corbyn/Sultana's new party is happy to have him on board like this, then materially it does not care about trans people.

You'd hardly know the Guardian had partnered with an AI company 🙄

Soon to retire judges often find their voices in the final months, like Mark Hamill has in slamming the PPS on how they prosecute #ViolenceAgainstWomen. I hope this can have meaningful impact for future cases: www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/courts/...

As a parent, as a human, this family deserves a settlement against ChatGPT that should put them out of business.

Had to explain to my mum today that when you ask Google a question, the AI Overview at the top of the results is not factual information but an AI's best guess at the answer based on interpretation of a limited dataset it has self-selected. Hence why Google gave her an inaccurate answer. 1/3

Love to discover that the Lemkin Institute (which identifies nations taking steps towards genocide in an attempt to recognise and prevent it) has issued the UK with a Red Warning for Genocide because of recent law changes around transgender people. That's very fun and cool and nothing to worry about

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but painting St George’s flags on mini roundabouts won’t make your kids want to talk to you

Petition to have a new* criteria added to the ADHD assessment called there is toothpaste and/or food on all of my clothes and I don't know why. Cause seriously, WHY? HOW? WTF? *This may well already be on the list but since it's impossible to get assessed in Northern Ireland I wouldn't know 😭

James Dobson dying is a staring into the middle distance type of event. You have likely directly suffered bc of him. Few have done more to harm humanity at large in the past few decades. A principal architect of our current nightmare. No redeeming aspect. He was a rat made entirely out of plague.

Really delightful how much the media in NI focus on asylum seekers who have been forced to live in hotels (as if they’ve chosen to be there) and how much they love platforming Unionist parties who don’t seem to want to be British when it comes to fulfilling their refugee responsibilities.

Been banging on about this for a while.

I just put some money in this fund after a day spent neck deep in legal analysis around the potential implications of the SC ruling in Northern Ireland. Nice to be able to do something practical about it! Solidarity to Victoria. Share and donate if you can.

** The Official crowdfunder link for my case commenced in the European Court of Human Rights ** A legal first: trans and non-binary lawyers leading the case: Oscar Davies, Olivia Campbell-Cavendish and me as client. Trans Legal Clinic in partnership with W-Legal. www.translegalclinic.com/mccloud

Now that's range. RIP Terence Stamp.

Britain 2025

🎗️✋ Tens of thousands protest to end Gaza war with hostage deal ahead of countrywide strike www.haaretz.com/israel-news/... Article in 🧵👇

BREAKING: Police have confirmed they did not arrest the protesters holding a "kill 'em all" banner outside an asylum hotel because it's not like they did something really bad like object to genocide x