I imagine @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social will be getting the usual abuse for speaking out - solidarity with her and all those fighting against hate manipulated by the wealthy right gleefully creating a distracting wedge issue

What has she ever done? Has she ever made the Hyperloop? You did. Has she ever invented self-driving cars? You did that. Has she ever taken humanity to Mars? That is an accomplishment you have pulled off, that she never will.

It's cool how we keep proving over and over and over again that there's a significant market for narrative-heavy, character-driven, single-player experiences in video games and publishers just categorically refuse to believe us

average ICE officer handling their gun in public

We have eaten The pants That were in Your garden

One of the few tangible traits of cool people is that they don’t care what others think about them and he blows the test every time.

this is a real proclamation that Trump made. he really did proclaim that the week of November 2nd to November 8th will be known as "Anti-Communism Week" sorta weird that he announced this proclamation the day before "Anti-Communism Week" ended, but whatever

Surely this is incitement? Surely this is stirring racial hatred? Why isn't Alison Pearson being charged with offences for deliberately spreading dangerous lies about minority groups?

You have evidence of war crimes, kidnapping & murder for organ theft, torture. And an organisation, UKLFI, is openly trying to destroy you and being supported to do so by UK State, its members are lauded and appear openly on TV boasting of their evil. Full solidarity to Dr. Ghassan Abu Sitta.

lol she got his ass and he knows it

The Sunday Telegraph featuring 'left-wing' Sonia Sodha. Sodha currently writes for The Times, or was until the end of October.

I don’t see any reason to defend the Beeb from their erstwhile allies, who are now attacking it. If you slam your dick in a car door, it’s going to hurt: the end. So it is with encouraging and pandering to wingnut cranks: you have richly earned the punishment you brought upon yourself.

It's upset a transphobe, you say? You're damn right I'm going to share it 😉

PLEASE be careful what moderation tools you use @pef-moderation.org claims to want to moderate against hate and misinformation But it's run by a self-proclaimed Zionist who believes that opposing genocide is violence Even if you call me violent I will never stop saying #FromTheRiverToTheSea

They love to claim they speak for everybody.

AI is the future btw

In 2018 Jesse Singal's story about how scary it is that trans kids exist dominated the front page of the Atlantic while stories about the lethal effects of white supremacy and our lack of pandemic preparedness sat up in the corner.

Every day is a good day to say fuck that fucking chaser Jesse fucking Singal and fuck the institutionally-transphobic fucking Atlantic.

Completely beyond why people try to defend Labour record on treatment of asylum seekers. They are awful. They have done terrible things the Tories never even thought of, like denying any refugee who came here through irregular means from EVER becoming a citizen & ENDING FAMILY REUNIFICATION. demons.

When Labour were previously in power they legislated to make asylum seekers homeless and destitute if they didn’t claim asylum immediately, an effort in which they were eventually defeated in the courts. The only surprise is that anyone believed this wing of the party would behave any differently

ding ding ding "adults"!

I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.

it’s almost impressive how they’ve not just gutted the equality act, but actively perverted it so it does the opposite of what parliament intended

In UK political spaces we tend refuse to criticise judges because "they're just implementing the law" but no, not here. It was a judge's personal opinion that led to the belief that "trans people are fake and should be hounded out of public spaces" became considered respectful and legally protected

Imagine still thinking that Suzanne Moore has anything worthwhile to say about anything. Absolutely cooked

Not only is covert white supremacy socially acceptable; critiquing it or even just naming it is increasingly seen as socially unacceptable, or even as a radical instigation to violence deserving criticism or punishment.

'Gender-critical' beliefs protected first. That ruling has now been used to protect 'Islam-critical' beliefs. 'Gay-critical' and 'Race-critical' beliefs will be next. What was that headline this week? "Have women ruined the workplace?" And some eejits believe Forstater, Rowling & Co are feminists.

These are the knock on effects of forcing through acceptance of bigotry against a tiny minority because those bigots shout noisily. It's absolutely driven a coach and horses through any notion of decency.

"On contentious subjects such as slavery, colonialism and the Irish famine, eminent academics claim there has been a rewriting of history." What exactly is contentious about slavery, colonialism and the Irish famine?

I do not understand this. The BBC has been the leading light in the terf movement for years, they hate us and have repeatedly platformed anti trans hate speech. Just what crack is Suzanne Moore smoking?

Suzanne is really losing it

If disabled women are women, why don't we just say 'women'?

Weirdly, this still hasn't been picked up by any mainstream 'news' Editors. You'd think this would be a pretty massive story, right?

They should make a Funko Poppy for Rememberance Sunday, where’s their sense of RESPECT

It’s too late baby, now it’s too late. When I was a kid, it was a sombre and dignified reflection on us getting hundreds of thousands of guys killed in an insane war. Now, the Sensible Moderates have turned it into War Christmas to boost their crackpot politics, and there’s no going back.

You could see this happening in real time too, as the coffins came back to Wooton Bassett and our political/media class - lacking any explanation that wasn’t “we do what America tells us to, no matter what” - increasingly turned to mawkish sentimentality, hectoring and bullying to protect themselves

What I find baffling is that consecutive governments have forefronted an issue that they know they can never "solve" and can only ever lose their grip on, inevitably ceding the narrative to far-right anti-immigration politicians, and never tried to either change that narrative or that focus.

Trevor Philips, "You don't want a rise in income tax?" Zack Polanski, "No, people are tired and exhausted" "How can you take from the hardest working people with extra tax, while allowing multimillionaires and billionaires to continue to not paying CGT?"

Basically, Intolerance of any sort is now a protected characteristic under the equality act. Just straight up putting the paradox of tolerance in the law Incredible

It still seems grossly incompetent to me that Hodge would write an introduction saying there is a purpose in the Equality Act 2010, yet say nothing in the body of the judgment about what that purpose actually is. At the same time, the other Acts and Regulations are taken to have no purposes at all.

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

Interesting thread. As I said, judicial review of guidance is discretionary, and in this case, it appears to be used to sidestep human rights.

The irony of this racist cunt attempting to launder is shit stained reputation by pointing to a different injustice the UK is far less complicit in. As transparent as it is pathetic. Watch Ronay oppose any politician actually willing to do anything about this. Duplicitous scum.

Absolutely right that people should (and most likely will) start protesting against the UAE in Manchester, as they already have in London. The fact that City fans aren't doing it is a result of sportswashing. To try and compare that to Israel, a far more publicised genocide, seems disingenuous