One of the biggest shocks of my adult life was realizing there's a hidden division in society between people who think certain acts - cruelty, torture, murder - are inherently wrong, versus the majority of people who think there are no wrong actions, just incorrect targets.

mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one

Shabana Mahmood casually saying they're gonna take migrant's jewellery off them has got me thinking about that scene in Schindler's List where the Jewish family wrap family heirlooms in bread and swallow them. What the fuck are we?

Rosalind Franklin Leaving her notes in a pile That she keeps by the door Who is it for? Awful James Watson Stealing the credit And snaffling all the awards Misogynist bore

Every disabled person is "genuinely disabled". It's pretty simple really. And yes a significant proportion of the UK population are disabled. Poverty, inequality, NHS underfunding, aging population, a Pandemic all have a significant impact on that. They're all still disabled.

Anyone who makes bullshit claims like “the most vulnerable will be protected”, simply doesn’t understand how things work in reality. When you add restrictions into a system, the most vulnerable are the FIRST to be harmed.

3 things Starmer could do instead of camps in old barracks that would actually WORK👇 1. Create safe, regulated routes to apply for asylum in the UK 2. Let asylum seekers WORK & support themselves 3. Fast track status for people from obviously unsafe countries metro.co.uk/2025/10/29/k...

My mum’s cousins are absolutely my aunties and have been since I was tiny. What else are you meant to call them?!

Many seem to think #disabled people "should just work", but they don't understand/care that: 1. Workplaces systemically discriminate against us 2. We're often paid less than the non-disabled 3. Accommodations that would enable us to work are often denied and it makes me mad. #DisabilityJustice

openai are disgusting freaks

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness

Without downloading where are you mentally right now?

“If that disabled person can do this job, then you can work too” By that logic…. Where’s your Olympic medal? Why aren’t you a brain surgeon? Oh… yeah… because not everyone can do everything… even if you’re not disabled.

Once you have called disabled people a burden, you have facilitated the devaluation, dehumanization and death of disabled people.

every young Republican staffer is a Nazi, it's that simple www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

As a disabled person I am not “insulted” by the tiny number of folk circumventing the system… I’m insulted by disability benefits being less than a liveable amount. By the process being inaccessible and harming vulnerable people. By ableists making ableist assumptions.

Back in A&E (kidney problems this time). A woman turned to me earlier and said - out of nowhere - "are you afraid of getting old"? I'm in a Beckett play.

“What’s the charge? Eating a seal?”

This is such a clever idea on taking kids to museums/galleries www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

it's not FOR us

Jfc the ignorance of the majority of the public disability benefits is truly off the scale… Instead of listening and learning, they just spew hate and then get defensive when called out. They believe the clickbait headlines rather than the actual disabled people…

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

Every time there’s a video of a “tiny house” I watch it for advice to apply to my small house. The kitchens and bathrooms are ALWAYS bigger than my kitchen and bathroom. 😭

Yknow not to be dramatic but officially seeing ill health and disability as a problem to be seen in terms of labor is a sign of core principles of your society falling apart it seems to me

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Truly autumn is in full swing because I am making the first tartiflette of the year.

As someone with a boyfriend who’s wildly allergic to cats, an allergy vaccine would enormously help my relationship

😭 IG newberlinlibrary

Disabled people have been warning of forced institutionalization for years. They want to lock away anyone they see as “less than”. Homeless people are just the first targets. We need affordable housing, healthcare & a basic income. Help people meet their basic needs & homelessness goes down

Radical left millennials have killed another company soon after it was taken over by private equity.

Become ungovernable

it’s really good when “technology of the future” treats you leaving as if you were leaving a cult

(solemnly) You've had mail.

“Ah," said Mr Pin. "Right. I remember. You are concerned citizens." He knew about concerned citizens. Wherever they were, they all spoke the same private language, where 'traditional values' meant 'hang someone'. - Terry Pratchett, The Truth

This suddenly reminded me of seeing a little trivia quiz on my windows 11 screen at work "what did Watson co-discover?" My answer was the old line: "Rosalind Franklin's notes!"

So I may not be the best at cake decorating and I may have forgotten to buy candles so my 15 year old stepdaughter had to settle for being 2, but I made coffee cake with caramel cream and apparently it tasted good so parenting success? She ate the whole thing herself over two days - legend.

This is horrible but also I misread the headline as “hundreds and thousands” and thought Farage had lost it even further and was going after cake decoration. 🤦🏻‍♀️

A disabled person shouldn’t ever feel they have to “prove” themselves to random ableists online (or in-person). Whether that be about their health conditions, or how they spend their money… it’s none of their business, and the person only need share what they choose to.

the kimmel thing is bad but as long as they arent rounding people up indiscriminately based on race, building concentration camps and talking about eradicating those they deem sexual deviants, i think we’ll be ok

Sometimes it's nice to remember that even Marcus Aurelius was like "you don't have to comment on everything bro"

Everich rose hath its þ

As times get weird, there's a Doctor Who audio drama from 2002 that I think about a lot called Neverland. In it the Doctor discovers that his own people, the Time Lords, used to have a method of execution called "the Oubliette of Eternity" which erases the convicted person from time completely.

Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74

reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle

Charlie Kirk got what he wanted. He just wanted it to happen to someone else.

Tragic. In the sense that his ideology caught up with him, in the true sense of a Greek tragedy.

Etsy witches are powerful as hell. I will not be messing around with them

If the dead don’t want to be spoken ill of, maybe they should have been better people when they were alive.

what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.