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HKers fought because we had to. Otherwise it would be giving up, giving in, accepting the cruelties inflicted on the city as right and fair. And none of it is right or fair. "Don't persist only when you have hope. Persist so that there can be hope." Source: TG, Anon (Nov 2019)

So I made this video 4 years ago - and somehow things have got worse since then… youtu.be/bJnT2yL66Kw?...

the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever

I for one will welcome our Chinese overlords #Beerjacket #China #Tsingtao

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There‘s only one person who can be Director General of the BBC

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Is it all finished then? Can I take Fergs out for his evening walk without him being scared?

So another year to wait for the 2nd #RiotWomen series?

“Over the past year British media organisations have started noticing things that they spent 14 years ignoring & ignoring things that they spent 14 years noticing…In the last year of the Conservative Government alone, 115 prisoners were released in error…” www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-great-...

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Woken up by so many noisy LHR planes before 6am grrr.

Flag removal costs the taxpayer over £11,000 - The people who put them up should be billed. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Call me controversial, but technology that leads vulnerable people into crisis and even holds their hand as they die by suicide should not be endorsed by schools and universities, we should not be giving discounted subscriptions to this monstrous tech to young people AT ALL

Do not terrorize people!

It shouldn’t be forgotten that a big piece of Mamdani’s campaign was simply “cities are cool and lots of people enjoy living in them” which in and of itself dismantles alot of rightwing talking points

Just heard this on an insta reel “I recently got gifted… [scented candle] …” wtah?

Printer out of toner Dog was sick Just tipped my morning coffee all down myself How's your morning so far?

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Aren’t they all? This is how Tories and Reform really think. Convinced of their own superiority and right to power, they’re quick to be sneering, racist and bitter when they fail. Always blaming. Never taking responsibility. Or feeling any shame. Cummings is nothing. But god he’s furious about that.

Cllr Evans (Ref) is now reading out what Grok, X's AI system, thinks about the various local government reorganisation options. Remarkable. Unsurprisingly, Grok is a big fan of KCC's one unitary model.

Cllr Daniel Taylor, currently on bail pending trial over allegations that he threatened to kill his wife, has attended today. Given he missed every other meeting since his arrest, he would have been disqualified as a councillor had he not arrived today.

Anti-black racism 'baked' into Met, review finds. This is 26 years after the Macpherson report which concluded that the Metropolitan Police was "institutionally racist". Little changed. Leaders of major political parties incite hatred. None charged.

Is there a prominent Brexiter left who hasn’t torn off their mask to reveal the rancid racism beneath? Boris Johnson’s chief fluffer accusing anyone else of being over-promoted is peak process. The bitterness of insanely privileged men with empty souls knows no bounds.

I’ve never seen Traitors.

I was petting a woman's dog on the train today and thought her dog was called Rue after the Hunger Games character but no, much more expectation placed on this dog, Ruth Bader Ginsberg.

To the right, a medical emergency. To the left, the Republican response to healthcare needs

Dominic Cummings has this racialised take on David Lammy There is an increasingly prevalent kneejerk online rightwing trait to call the presence of any black or Asian person a diversity hire

Private Healthcare

Get your jabs, folks, if you possibly can.

Always remember that Tories/Reform wanted Brexit so that they could ignore rules that everyone else followed. A race to the bottom. Deregulation. A bonfire of *our* rights and protections. Exploitation and consumer risk so that the wealthy and the powerful could grab more wealth and more power.

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BBC News bulletins leading on the story of an Algerian man being mistakenly released by the prison service. Funnily enough I don't remember these cases ever leading the bulletins when an average of ten prisoners were mistakenly released a month in the final year of the last Government

Spray tan = $150 Waxing = $100 half leg, $200 full leg Complimentary prosecco 🥂 Walk-ins accepted!! 💝

A 34-year-old as a politician: My god he's like a baby. It's like they just elected an infant to be their mayor. A 34-year-old as an athlete: You have to admire the bravery of him attempting that dunk, knowing full well the grim reaper is right behind him.

Spot on Terry Christian

I know I say this every year, but you can't beat flagshagger poppyganda by oversimplifying shit to the other extreme. You beat it by actively encouraging people to understand that narratives around war and remembrance are COMPLEX. And that this is GOOD. Because it makes them interesting.

Khan talks projects a London is Open story about the benefits of migration, diversity and inclusion. He does not identify as an immigrant leader of London, as he isn't. He talks about being Tooting-born & bred to migrant parents. He identifies as a Londoner, a British and English south Asian Muslim

There goes Zohran Mamdani, trying to plot a course between the Scylla and Charybdis of unhinged attacks from the right and unrealisitic expectations from the left. You have to wish him well.

I am sick of the constant diet of Refuk and Tr*mp. Let’s have more of this sort of thing, please.

Someone who loves New York, it’s extraordinary diversity & energy is its new Mayor Someone who loves London, it’s extraordinary diversity & energy is its Mayor Both overcame racist & anti-Muslim campaigns agst them fuelled by the very rich & privileged Congrats to #ZohranMamdani

Perhaps so, but using it as the main impetus to get people into the booth is a vote killer overall. Hate is always a bit niche. Look at the last GE here - sure, Labour won a landslide based on everyone being fed to the back teeth with the Tories ... but the turnout was bad.

In retrospect saying "religion or belief" instead of just "religion" was just waiting for bad faith exploitation

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This person took this when they called the race

What happens now is that every dropped piece of trash, every inch of graffiti, every broken down subway train, every disappointing sandwich, every rat in Central Park, and every single crime gets blamed on Zohran Mamdani... by racists who never go near NYC. My tip as a Londoner. Shrug and carry on.

Fascism is not inevitable. There is hope.