THREAD: Verified videos of anti-establishment protests currently unfolding in Iran Protesters push back police and security forces on Tehran's Jomhouri Street. Location: maps.app.goo.gl/LKZH6YbnT2WE... @geoconfirmed.org

Feeling a bit judged by this Caledonian Sleeper passenger survey

Late entry here to the "ratio of 2025" competition. A strong contender at this stage.

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It was all a long time ago and anyway, the BBC used to be racist too

kid cad, magazine screenshot, pc (1994) archive.org/details/Elec...

The people of the DRC must be punished until their government becomes sufficiently enthusiastic about the UK‘s obsession with expelling people

One year on, Gaza doctor Hussam Abu Safiya remains forcibly disappeared by Israel—kidnapped from Kamal Adwan Hospital after refusing to abandon his patients. Held without charge under the “unlawful combatant” law, as his health deteriorates.

Me (red anorak) watching MVDP on the way to victory in Antwerp 6 days ago

Great action, although the Evading Standards' assertion that shoppers at Stratford Westfield in east London would feel in any way "puzzled" by the meaning of a giant Palestine flag is, frankly, laughable www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/pale...

Great soundtrack! Phil Liggett in Partridge-esque raincoat also www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZEJ...

The key thing I note here is that Tony Blair felt quite secure looking millions of people in the eye and telling them to fuck themselves over the Iraq War. Our current leaders feel intensely and intolerably threatened by literally one guy saying they’re complicit in genocide.

this isn’t just about academics as a whole. this teacher was trans and she was targeted for being trans.

I’ll be at Cambridge Museum of Zoology @zoologymuseum.bsky.social on Wednesday, 11 February, 19:00-20:00, to talk about encountering #extinction in museums with lots of reference to their exhibitions! Book your free place: www.museum.zoo.cam.ac.uk/events/talk-...

Letting hunger strikers die, arresting Greta Thunberg — this is not incompetence or even indifference. The UK state is deliberately making examples of people to ramp up the crushing of basic civil liberties and silence opposition to genocide

So, just to confirm, the BBC can’t keep Robin Ince on the air because his trans allyship brings the organisation into disrepute, but they can keep David Walliams, who performed Nazi salutes at the recording of this very show, on the air despite him being predatory towards women. Cool. Very normal.

20 years from now when your kids ask you about hunger strikers, what will you say?

The Palestine Action ban has completely changed what legally defined terrorism in the UK looks like People arrested for terror offences are now much more likely to be women and dramatically older - arrests linked to Palestine Action had an average age of 57 compared to 30 for other groups

Imagine running a higher education system/country so badly that you actually can't afford, or refuse to fund, research that is *literally defined as* "internationally excellent". Stupid, stupid, stupid country.

As ever, there is just no analysis at all of why things happen in politics that cannot be quite fairly summarised as “just soap opera”: personalities, who’s up, who’s down. There is simply no theory at all from these lads of why this year has been yet another repellent, despicable shitshow.

I am outraged that people are taking photos of endangered frogs, says endangered frog photographer www.theguardian.com/environment/...

what would you have to do to get a lifetime driving ban exactly

"I wouldn't want to take away the right to strike at all but..." Govt minister Sarah Jones defending a group of workers not being allowed to strike and attacking another group of workers for striking in order to restore their pay. Jones is an MP for the party of organised labour.

GAZA IS DROWNING IN RAIN WATER AND THEY ARE ALL IN TENTS AND ISRAEL IS STILL FIRING ON PEOPLE AND THIS ISN'T A MAJOR NEWS STORY BECAUSE OF RACISM

Just ordered some more of these for my dad, who has declared them "a nice flavour, best drunk quite cold". thealcoholfreeco.co.uk/product/free...

it's taken me a while to put this together. but I hope, if you've never heard of her, or even if you have, this tribute to Alice Wong buoys your heart and gives you a good sense of who this incredible person was. www.coyotemedia.org/remembering-...

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What are the chances Brian Cox, married to one of the prime initiators of the British anti-trans movement, has very little to say on his co-presenter being forced out of his job for his pro-trans rights views?

Are they seriously going to let the Palestine Action hunger strikers starve to death

This is from a BBC article by Kuenssberg - now I know these pieces are meant to be more opinionated, but still. It was studiously neutral on Reform but frames this fight as straightforwardly "Labour leadership wanted to do a good thing but Labour MPs were opposed to doing this good thing". Wild.

I knew Bluesky would delete this page today because they’ve deleted all my shares this week- this was Dina’s first page ever here and here’s what it looked like this morning- no tags, no spam, following only 45 people.

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

cool that they are trying to make flu season into a pandemic-esque national crisis to try and discipline organised labour www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

I’ve been asking this on & off ever since the the “muslim ban”. A near decade of tumbleweed from employers and funders 🤷‍♀️ bsky.app/profile/hpsv...

You think the democrats will roll this back or do you think they'll love the intrusive spying on gross foreigners?

It’s finally clicked that the flurry of headlines are scare stories to throw guilt and blame onto striking doctors (the stats are no worse than most years & we didn’t have these stories last year so 🤷‍♀️)

My friend's son was hit by a car whilst cycling yesterday outside Swindon. He is seriously injured. The car sped off and the police are looking for witnesses, particularly those with dashcams. Please do share the article below if you're local to that area:

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Bilal. Bilal was a software developer before this who worked on sites like Upwork. He is living in tents with his family of 19 including many nieces and nephews and his children Muhammad, 6, Hour, 2 and little Fares who is just 40 days old.

Kishwer Falkner in The Times talking about the rights of "biological people". As compared to trans people, who are, of course, non-biological.

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Note how these awful people are getting exactly the exclusions of children that they demanded and *that still isn’t enough for them*: they demand everyone be delighted about it and kiss their arses for being brilliant.

I could pull out so much in this thread but “ah but that was bad science, we’re doing good science so we don’t need to learn any lessons” is a perpetual STEM bro problem.

If only “under the threat of legal challenges financially and politically supported by anti-trans activist and billionaire JK Rowling” was part of the automatic text

BBC policy of presenter scripts saying “biological males who identify as women” as an addendum to every mention of “trans women” really is sickening

If I was on PIP, I would be worried that every single "good" day would be used to push me into poverty. I would probably never leave my home. I suppose, really, that's half the point.

I am almost certainly eligible for PIP (see the wheelchair in my header pic, amongst other disabilities). But I have never applied for it, even when I have been very poor, because I am terrified of being subjected to this level of surveillance. I preferred to eat cornflakes and keep the heating off.