lol so labour’s plan is “cops and surveillance” while saying *hmrc* and *foreigners* enough times that pensioners vote them in oki doki

The NHS has just banned puberty blockers for children. You’d be forgiven if you heard that and thought “oh, maybe they were being over-prescribed.”

Do you know how many children were prescribed puberty blockers on the NHS last year? 83.

83.

This is a moral panic.

Faced with new technologies to gather police intelligence on protest movements, it's our collective responsibility to protect ourselves. Until the police stop treating everyone as a threat, wear a mask. Better still, everyone wear the same mask. theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/f…

deleting in 5 mins but anatomy of a fall is at its core, a more unflinching feminist narrative than barbie is if you wanna go there

It’s hard not to think about this kind of political & ethical integrity - & for some of the actors, potential career risk - in contrast to former IDF soldier Gal Gadot’s Imagine video, where wealthy celebrities desperate for attention hollowly beseeched us to remember they exist.

🧵Why wear a 😷at demonstrations?

We'd STRONGLY ENCOURAGE anyone attending a protest to wear a mask! This is not just for your safety, but the safety of your friends and comrades.

I’m not here very often anymore (because sick) but sometimes I log back on and am greeted by a tweet so ridiculous, arrogant, incorrect and damaging that I shriek with horrified delight that everything on the left is still exactly the same and I’ve missed nothing.

People now saying 'Free Palestine' is a call for genocide. As an actual genocide continues. The legitimacy of all nation states must be questioned, and calling for a secular one-state solution instead of Zionist, settler-colonial apartheid is sane, humane and just.

My favorite part of the essay is introducing what I call “traumatic literalism,” or the way that turning trauma into a biological entity has provided the perfect concept for American liberals to grasp at in a desperate attempt to break their free fall back into history.

OPPENHEIMER is a film about how dealing with ethics and morality in theory does not absolve you when your philosophies are put into practice. The 'it only focuses on white guys' crowd are completely missing the point the film's making: they were guilty the second they signed on.

The wild thing about this is that everyone I know within 3 degrees of separation to the Old Vic at the time knew and had heard what he was up to and has a distinct anecdote about it. So he might be “cleared” but thousands of people know he did it and believe those men.