i'm so sick of hearing about this goddamn tent

No, we can’t just agree to disagree on our opinions and live peacefully together when one person’s opinion is that the other can’t live in peace. Everyone already knows this, yet people pretend otherwise when it inconveniences them

Interesting how Ariel from “the little mermaid” and the aliens from “aliens” wanted to “be where the people are” but for very different reasons

Keir Starmer for several years: "If you don't like the Labour Party you can fuck off out of it lol yolo" Keir Starmer now: "What you look at the Greens for that's fucked up man I'm literally right here wow just wow"

The gap between the government, opposition and national press unifying over some ludicrous, wildly irresponsible, insultingly idiotic bullshit and that then exploding in their faces now appears to be down to about two days. I reckon they could manage same-day meltdowns, if they tried.

People think if you’re disabled your family must support you They don’t understand how many folks are on their own How many have families who can’t support them for various reasons Everyone deserves help Having your basic needs met is not “frivolous” Lacking family shouldn’t be a death sentence

Saying you are nonviolent will not protect you from the violence of the state. Saying you “don’t break the law” doesn’t matter when the law is whatever the state says it is. That’s not wisdom. At best, it’s naïveté. And being naive about this has killed more people than a bullet ever could.

Are the Israeli police antisemitic now too? It’s quite funny to see this backfiring on people who jumped on the bandwagon.

People who tell me “You’re an extreme case, we’re not talking about you” when it comes to disability benefits… I don’t care. When you come for one disabled person, you come for us all. I’m not as selfish as you to do the “Oh I’m alright then”. I actually care about others.

“They can’t discriminate against you for being disabled!” In theory this is true. There are protections in place to prevent discrimination In practice they don’t work. Especially with rising fascism and eugenicist sentiment We are denied accommodations. Denied jobs. Denied housing. Denied support

Conflating Jews with violent Israeli football hooligans seems like a bad strategy

When you say only the “genuinely disabled” should receive support, you’re aiding fascism. When you say people are scamming the system, you’re aiding fascism. Many disabilities are invisible and it’s hard to get support. People aren’t scamming. That’s “useless eater” rhetoric designed to divide.

Disabled people are more likely to be victims of financial abuse. And the Universal Credit system makes that even more likely by not allowing them to have money if they live with a partner who earns/has some savings. It's a horrifically abusive system.

This is a dreadful article. It is heavily framed to infantilise the "victim". It demonises trans people by heavily quoting from the case in a way that frames trans people as not real woman but men pretending. metro.co.uk/2025/10/10/t...

Please remember that many disabled people won’t be at the No Kings rallies tomorrow. A lot of the planned events are not accessible and/or disabled people are not safe or well enough to attend. Anything you can do to increase accessibility and inclusion will help the resistance!

You have people for whom stress can quite literally kill them, having stress piled onto them by cruel Government policies and “reforms” of disability benefits. I don’t think people understand just how serious even the worry and anxiety can be.

"Quick let's put the focus on disabled people having cars so that we can push the benefits cuts through the back door and create rhetoric to go even further next year". This is what they're doing. It's sickening.

Folks are very quick to say they don’t want their taxes to support disabled people. They assume we’re fakes. That we could work if we “really wanted to”. The system is punishing as heck. It is very hard to qualify for support. It’s dehumanizing. It can take years. No one is doing this for fun.

When you think of iconic movie posters, you think of his work. RIP Drew Struzan, you will always be the gold standard.

Nothing really puts the lie to the idea that capitalism is the most efficient and innovative economic system like inventing an entire swathe of jobs that can be done at home cheaper and more efficiently, then throwing a tantrum and insisting everyone drive to the office to use the computer instead

@bphillipsonmp.bsky.social has mandated that male traffic police officers can strip search any woman they ‘suspect’ of being trans.

neurotypicality is a myth as in an ideal concept that cannot exist in material reality but it is also a social construct that does exist in material reality because nothing is just one thing everything is lots of things

For decades, the ADL hid behind a cover of civil rights while collaborating with the most repressive forces in the American state and society - from the FBI, DHS and the police to vigilante supremacist groups.

And yet, people will continue to listen to the people who were wrong about this and call the people who were right hysterical about whatever the next thing is.

Marie McGowan, 89, has died 3 years after a brutal assault during which she was put headfirst into a rubbish bin. Her attacker, Alex Bailey, believed she was "a man dressed as a woman." This is the world the transphobes are creating "to protect women." RIP Marie. share.google/PFaI5YTh9tBw...

how many times does the met need to be found to be full of sexists, homophobes, rapists, and racists? disband it. it can't be reformed.

The UK did 'we've had enough of experts' a decade ago

I've been thinking about this quite a bit and the idea Labour factionalisms are intellectual traditions is quite funny. I've never known any institution as introspective and narcissist as the Labour Party, and I worked in the House of Commons.

but because so few spend any time actually analyzing how protests function, they see viral moments and seek to replicate them, believing this to be what solidarity is. would they replicate the shadowy figures throwing gas cans back? no. they don’t want to get their hands dirty.

this is where movements become moments & die: people see the display of a radical tactic and, not comprehending the tactical purpose, adopt only the display as an echo of the fight. it becomes an empty, consumerist meme: buy an inflatable and dance around and that’s how you fight ICE!

turns out AI "art" wasn't actually the brave new frontier in fighting copyright regimes so much as it was an extremely obvious enclosure scheme hoovering up artists' work, regurgitating it & claiming i ownership of it while regulators secure its market control by driving the artists out

Drew Struzan, the King of the Movie Poster, Has Died

These are the people they want you to compromise with, these are the people they say you "have to live together" with. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Israel does this "despite ceasefire". If Palestine did it, it would be reported as "breaking the ceasefire".

israel has already broken the ceasefire

And since so many of you, even some philosophers with massive accounts seem not to understand why doing this is exploitative and problematic, here is one example of this being done to Monroe in life. Of all the people @sciam.bsky.social chose, it’s Marilyn Monroe. www.biography.com/actors/maril...

In her life, Marilyn Monroe was exploited and abused by so many men. Studio executives, so many people. After she died, men continued to exploit her for their pleasure: trying to get themselves buried near/above her. What your writer did here is obscene, nonconsensual and makes me feel slightly ill

"a test"? you mean...a violation?

This is a natural consequence of the EHRC’s policies and the anti trans culture war. It’s literally what was being asked for in the name of “sex based rights”. What’s be so infuriating is that “sex based rights” were supposed to have been abolished because they were sexist AF.

Anti-LGBT extremists were warned repeatedly that "sex based rights" don't exist for a very good reason, but other extremists told them it was a useful vector to target innocent trans people, so they simply couldn't help themselves... This is their "sex based rights" in action 👇

Even The Times seemed quite moderate and facture (all things relative!) than their usual offerings! "He also said trans people should not be forced to gain a gender recognition certificate in order to comply with the ECHR." www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

There does appear to be a change in how this is reported in the media today! "Trans people ‘have had their human rights breached’ after Supreme Court ruling" metro.co.uk/2025/10/14/t...

I wrote about trans visibility in a time of rising transphobia for @theverge.com www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

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Yes, disabled people deserve nice things too. They deserve to have whatever social life possible for them. They deserve to have holidays if able. They deserve to have support, entertainment, and hobbies. All of these can be fundamental to a good quality of life.

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Help out our Turkish pro-Palestine ally Berrak who had to leave Germany and is trying to stay afloat please

People get so weird about blocking, as though it's punishment for something. And I understand. But also: People have the right to curate their spaces. If someone needs to NOT have me in THEIR space for their peace, good for them! I don't have the right to be in someone else's space.

Fascinated how the guy who made superstars of Matt Walsh, Candace Owens, Jordan Peterson, and Michael Knowles thought that unfettered racism and every phobia in existence wouldn't eventually include anti-semitism