If you've not read Persepolis, I have three copies to give away. It's a phenomenal books. UK only.

Meanwhile yesterday and last week MLAs abused anti-racism experts giving evidence at Stormont.

Very sad news, her work was incredible and that's no age at all.

Can you search your own posting history on bluesky, and if so does anyone know how?

A reminder of what Nigel Farage said following the murder of Sarah Everard by a serving police officer.

BBC news on the left, Financial Times on the right, offering two different reports of what Farage said. One, you might reassonably argue, is consciously inaccurate. www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp...

As well as EVERYTHING ELSE: 1. screening is not a drug 2. they're not removing screening for men who aren't Black, they're just offering an expanded age range to these men who are demonstrably more at risk 3. the NHS often target screenings where there's evidence. For example, some men get targeted

I washed some jeans as normal and put them on this morning fresh from the wardrobe, and they smell awful to me. Kind of chemical and biological at the same time. What do?

"Ireland’s media has covered the death of Sakila, but in a strangely muted way: its language is often passive [...] as though this horror [... ] was a mysterious accident and not a cruel overpowering." Very important article. Have a read. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Every time someone resigns from the Ulster Unionists

OK, so Helen Whately and the Express are doubling down and going all out hysterical at this point...🙄 They've actually "calculated" the state benefits a man with ELEVEN WIVES could claim!! And this time, they've done it behind a paywalled article🤷‍♀️ But don't worry, I got behind it!🤓 🧵1/20

Let's see the good ol' boys park their tractors on the motorway about this.

I'm quoted in this piece, but still think people should read it - thank goodness for the journalism Luke is doing.

I'm glad at least one journalist pays attention to the committees. I caught up with this committee last night and had to stop it several times because I could feel my heart racing just watching it. As well as the misinformation and disinformation being spoken by members, the aggression towards

THIS. Do I worry about the effects of social media on my 11-year-old? Obviously yes. Do I think she should be banned from it any more than young men falling into the manosphere on Reddit, middle-aged ladies being dragged into transphobia on Mumsnet, or pensioners radicalised by Facebook? 100% no.

if we're arguing social media is too dangerous for kids 16 and under, we're basically saying it impacts the brain and potentially body like an addictive drug. this IS kinda true. people seldom carry that logic to its end. doing that would mean admitting every adult online is getting fucked up 24/7

This is the kind of slop that results from consuming too many American podcasts and British op-eds and forgetting that not only are there lots of nuns, but women a few generations back routinely covered their hair.

I feel these two headlines should be shown together more

News presenters talking delightedly about the current record-breaking heat wave feels like a scene straight out of Don't Look Up. The asteroid is well on course for a direct hit.

Please understand this: they are selecting these people on purpose. Not despite this stuff. Not in ignorance of it. Because this plays to their brand. They are seeking these people out and selecting them ON PURPOSE.

Solidarity is where it’s at. ✊🏽🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Leaving aside that he seems to think that any party could or should dictate where transfers go, this is an example of "vote till you boke" in action. Yes, FG are less fascist than II, so they get more transfers from more people. "Demanding change" doesn't mean any and every change is good.

Good morning! Jeffrey Donaldson's trial begins today. Please resist the urge to see this as a trial of his party or of his politics, it is about the victims. Think you know who the alleged victims are? Good for you - now can it. Do not believe for a second that yapping online can't collapse a trial.

Before me too there was the humiliation of seeing men celebrated whose sexual violence was wisely known but had not yet cracked the ceiling into public acknowledgement. And after me too there is still that actually 🙃

*squints dubiously in West Belfast

SUNDAY SOFA ACTIVISM Solidarity request from Causeway Pride 'We are now asking people, especially allies, to write short letters of support that we can present to the local council. If the Mark Ashton Memorial matters to you, please email your letter of support to: [email protected]'

The idea of Vote Left, Transfer Left was pretty strongly adhered to in Dublin Central as the count went on. What happened was that the voters didn’t consider SF to be left. The SF candidates big transfer moments came from Steenson and Hutch.

Charles Haughey! Brian Cowen! Éamon de Valera! Micheál Martin! vi har slått dem alle sammen, vi har slått dem alle sammen! Bertie Ahern, can you hear me you big racist? Bertie Ahern ... your boys took a hell of a beating! Your boys took a hell of a beating!

Happy Friday to everyone except

Excellent thread. Makes really clear that the focus on the notion of trans people as a *threat* is the real social contagion.

Feministly judging other people based on their looks. Such a victory for women's rights.

Maybe Jimmy is just looking for better quality drugs

Doing this the day before recess, to make sure there is as little scrutiny as possible for their campaign of hatred. I cannot overstate how much anyone connected to the Labour party is my enemy.

The dispute here is that OP is framing cooking as something that isn't work, when in fact reproductive labour very much is work, even if you don't get paid for it and it is performed by a woman.

One of these things is not like the others. And not in a fun way.

And yet some people want to tell the Greens to stand down because Burnham is so left wing.

I've watched this several times and what's incredible is that there isn't another state on this earth that could do this openly and not have sanctions and more land on them. Vile.

Not media, but I will never call a seahorse anything but a seasource ever again, after both my kids mispronounced the word the same way independently of each other.

Still hurt by Bertie Ahern singling out Congolese people, loss of a community member opened a fresh wound, they say. Read more here www.dublininquirer.com/still-hurt-b...

People who think summary execution is an appropriate response to petty theft are unfit to participate in civilised society

41 years of EastEnders and someone finally said it.

Got a notification from a medieval copyright lawyer

Evergreen.

It's interesting how it is always the left wing's fault that fascists rise to power, as opposed to the centre's. This is, of course, despite the fact that the centre are the ones in power who have declared that racism is 'reasonable', transphobia is acceptable, and the disabled don't need money.

Micheál taking his concept of a Government that can't do anything to strange new places

Men in roles like this, for approx. 4 decades: "Society is not subsidising your reproduction! Can't afford to raise kids, close your legs!" People: close their legs These men who somehow sre taken seriously: no, not like that

One of the most shocking things I found while reporting this story was that there is a statutory defence for children who commit offences as a result of exploitation, but it has never been used in the 10 years since it was introduced.

Only just clocked the excellent attribution IrelandAM used for me during my appearance on Monday. 10/10. No notes.