We're not far from recognising the KKK as credible Christians if this article is anything to go by www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The fact that asymptomatic Covid cases can lead to Long Covid IMO probably leads to more people attributing illness to vaccine complications than what could actually occurring, when the underlying problem could be a Covid infection.

Announcing this on TDoR. The fucking nerve of this govt.

To be clear: Labour are not protecting Britain from our future posh fash rulers. They are actively rehabilitating the politics that will bring them to power and they’re creating the tools that the fancy National Front will sharpen and use, and Reform and other fascists cannot believe their luck.

This excuse would be pretty grim even if Labour were now very popular thanks to their flag-saluting foreigner crackdowns, which they really are not.

Suddenly thinking of those pictures of rosaries that the Border Patrol/ ICE have stolen from people they’ve detained.

This makes me feel physically sick. No MP should support any of these measures until they have spent a month each working in asylum detention and with unhoused people. How dare she call this 'moral'? It's disgraceful.

MTG's sudden "change" shows that her toxic behavior was a conscious choice that she continuously made until it no longer benefited her. Don't fall for her grift.

This is heartbreaking, immoral and disgusting. These stories expose the lie at the heart of every claim to be opposed to children's healthcare in the name of those same children's safety.

NHS Sussex are forcibly detransitioning trans people. These patients need full restoration of their healthcare, and everyone involved in doing this needs to be sacked.

Look if you're trans, you have to live. Do whatever you need to do to make it.

I confess to having complicated feelings about this, but ultimately, it's better for right-wingers to understand that leftists are not all peaceniks who won't pick up a firearm to defend themselves.

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Beautiful! And Trier is such a fascinating city. If you like Roman stuff (get me with the technical terms) it's well worth visiting.

Fascinating world of ancient #glass ! A small-scale but colourful mosaic glass inlay depicting an Ibis. This inlay, originating from a workshop in Roman-era Egypt, was discovered in Tawern, near Trier, Germany. The ibis was considered a sacred animal of Thoth, the Egyptian deity...🧵1/2 📷 me 🏺

Medical Republic: 'Fibromyalgia finally gets a genetic fingerprint' 'Additionally, certain risk loci overlapped with long covid (BPTF) and ME/CFS (OLFM4, RABGAP1L/GPR52), two poorly characterised disorders, albeit with different lead variants.' www.medicalrepublic.com.au/fibromyalgia...

Remember all my mad book drama? (If not, buy me a pint and I'll sing you the ballad of the dodgy ex-publisher...) Well, I'm absolutely delighted to say it's over! An enormous thanks to my wonderful new publisher @manchesterup.bsky.social Queer As Folklore will be back in the wild! 🧜🏼‍♂️

Prosperity gospel is absurd, though it’s also worth remembering it’s directly downstream of Christianity’s inability to adequately address the problem of evil and the relationship between God’s will, human actions, and salvation. Those problems persist even with less gonzo responses.

Inspired by The Jase's video, I realised that the Mr Blobby song also works quite well with the John Lewis advert. But then it took a dark turn...

Mood. I have only just started and some have come to me in a rush as soon as I look away (hi there, dog fren), some are wildly frustrating

Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops

I don't think we talk enough about the fact that what underpins their belief is a corruption of the bible - prosperity gospel. They think because they are rich , they are blessed by god. also for people who are going to say, I'm saying they aren't really christian - I'm not. /1

Thatcher's government did this with Section 28, banned the "promotion of homosexuality" as a danger to children, while actively protecting Jimmy Savile and who knows how many other pedophiles. It's the same damn playbook.

he won an absolute majority in a 3 person race. the 100k or so people in those neighborhoods don't all have substacks.

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Name the ‘moderate position’ on literally any issue. Quickly.

I know this is pedantic, but Kim Davis was not "jailed for refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses." She was jailed for contempt of court because she refused to follow a court order (she had stopped issuing all marriage licenses). NYT makes it sound like the Woke Police broke down her door.

And weirdly, dozens of studies over the last several decades have proven that having a candidates name, picture, race, gender, or even address/phone number introduces incredible amounts of bias into the hiring process. Women are far less likely to pass initial screens when their gender is known.

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

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This is becoming quite alarming. I hadn't noticed how much safer I felt in a university now than in 2004 when I started UG study, but recently I've noticed the old creeping dread showing up. The OfS is using the threat of unreasonable fines to extort an underfunded sector.

I wrote on the UK’s new policy of enforced free speech at universities, how it’s being enforced, and whether government-mandated “free speech” can ever be anything of the sort. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/fre...

This is VERY revealing about the “Office for Students”. A clear example of academic freedom being stifled. Yet “crickets” from the OfS. Why has Sheffield Hallam not been fined £500,000 like Sussex? Why has the OfS refused to take action. Is it because this case is not transphobic archive.is/ihVT3

Mamdani: "My message to ICE agents & to everyone across this city is that everyone will be held to the same standard of the law. If you violate it, you must be held accountable. There is sadly a sense growing that certain people are allowed to violate that law, whether they be POTUS or ICE agents."

This is a welcome riposte to the narrative in the BBC (for example) that the Democrats cannot win by showing any solidarity with minoritised people.

Anyway, I wrote a whole article about this last year www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...

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Welcome to #TraitorsGreekMyth Part 1! Alan Carr: Odysseus. He could betray his closest friend without hesitation. He’s clever, plausible, entertaining and ruthless. His greatest liability? Running his mouth off and getting himself into trouble...

As somebody with asthma who uses inhalers - SHUT THE FUCK UP. THIS ARTICLE IS SHAMING PEOPLE WITH A CHRONIC CONDITION. "Significantly" My ass. You know what else does? AI Data centers - corporations - cows - asphalt - THOUSANDS OF OTHERS THINGS THAT ARE NOT MEDICINE. Fuck you - fuck you again.

Please, God, may there be a ceasefire agreement soon, and may it be the beginning of a new, more whole future for everyone in the region. May new leadership rise that eschews slaughter and helps to chart a new course. May there be repentance and repair, insofar as it may ever be possible.

Human rights are not conditional. Human safety should not be conditional. The ability of human beings to exist in conditions that permit their flourishing should not be conditional.

Mourning those murdered by Hamas isn't incompatible with mourning those murdered by the Israeli state. Demanding that the hostages return isn't incompatible with naming & demanding an end to genocide. Naming the power imbalance & impact thereof doesn't desecrate those murdered two years ago today.

"Bucking tradition and legal precedent" is a weird way to spell "The President of the United States is breaking the law"

Gender Identity Clinic's Waiting Lists from Shortest To Longest

It's funny because when people were out causing criminal damage and urinating on war monuments Oluwafeyikemi wasn't talking about communities fragmenting, was she?

It's not just that they're going to strike down a law against conversion therapy, it's that they're going to do it on behalf of made-up claims from a straw plaintiff who can't honestly show the law affected her at all

Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns