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Peter Collins

@peter.polari.com

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Founder of @polari.press queer publisher and design studio. Using this as a personal/professional account so let's see how that goes (expect mild chaos). 🏳️‍🌈☮️🏳️‍⚧️🍉

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Peter Collins @peter.polari.com · 7d

Got these up on my website finally! I would love them to sell out so I can transfer a bulk of money in one go to the Sameer Project who are providing food to people in Gaza.

The red colourway is so far proving the more popular so get ‘em quick! Limited edition of 50 in each colour. £15 each.

Polari Press @polari.press · 7d

After launching them at Queeriosities last weekend, the A3 Risograph posters are now up on our website with all profits going to the Sameer Project in Gaza: polari.press/throw-sand-i...

A poster that says “Throw Sand in the Gears of Genocide” against a monochrome image of a bunch of poppies in red.

A poster that says “Throw Sand in the Gears of Genocide” against a monochrome image of a bunch of poppies in green.

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Peter Collins @peter.polari.com · 8h

Also, me, the neighbour:

Mrs Mangel from Neighbours peering around a brick wall. She’s very concerned about whatever’s going on.

Hyacinth Bucket (it’s Bouquet!) looking shocked from behind a topiary bay tree outside her front door.

Peter Collins @peter.polari.com · 8h

“A nation of neighbours, not strangers.”

I love that.

The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 1d

“Britain is a nation of neighbours, not strangers — and it’s time we built a politics of hope that reflects that.”

Zack Polanski with a message of unity and hope having been out door knocking Handsworth today.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Greens growing. Reform ratttled.

PS - I changed my name back to my family's original Jewish name because I'm proud of being Jewish. If Tice think that makes me a weirdo, I think that makes him an antisemite.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Tice "green party leader Zack Polanski is a weirdo. Changed his name, claimed hypnosis could increase women's breast size, thinks me should compete in women's sport, thinks women can have a penis. Other than that he's fine. Vote Green. Get weirdo."

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.bsky.social · 2d

If this ceasefire happens - and I hope it does - Western media will talk about 'peace'. This will be inaccurate. What they will mean is 'quiet', a reversion to the background level of violence that Palestinians have faced for decades. Peace can only come with the end of the occupation and apartheid.

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 2d

Sending love to journalist Motasem A Dalloul, on what should have been a celebratory day.

US-Israel had killed more than 270 journalists. But, importantly, the colonizer has stolen something important (home, career, loved ones) from each and every journalist in Gaza.

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 2d

Israel has killed the third son of Gaza journalist Motasem Dalloul.

Motasem A Dalloul
@AbujomaaGaza
Israeli occupation forces have just killed my third son, Ibraheem..
RIP my dear son.
6:06 AM • 10/9/25 • 186K Views

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 3d

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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SpryOldLorax @spryoldlorax.bsky.social · 17d

Some amazing gay history. Listen up kids.

I'm watching that documentary "Before Stonewall" about gay history
pre-1969, and uncovered something which I think is interesting.

The documentary includes a brief clip of a 1954 televised newscast
about the rise of homosexuality. The host of the program interviewed
psychologists, a police officer, and one "known homosexual". The
"known homosexual" is 22 years old. He identifies himself as Curtis
White, which is a pseudonym; his name is actually Dale Olson.
So I tracked down the newscast. According to what I can find, Dale
Olson may have been the first gay man to appear openly on television
and defend his sexual orientation. He explains that there's nothing
wrong with him mentally and he's never been arrested. When asked
whether he'd take a cure if it existed, he says no. When asked whether
his family knows he's gay, he says that they didn't up until tonight, but
he guesses they're going to find out, and he'll probably be fired from
his job as well. So of course the host is like ... why are you doing this
interview then? and Dale Olson, cool as cucumber pie, says "I think
that this way I can be a little useful to someone besides myself."

1954. 22 years old. Balls of pure titanium.

Despite the pseudonym, Dale's boss did indeed recognize him from
the TV program, and he was promptly fired the next day. He wrote into
ONE magazine six months later to reassure readers that he had gotten
a new job at a higher salary.
Curious about what became of him, I looked into his life a little further.
It turns out that he ultimately became a very successful publicity
agent. He promoted the Rocky movies and Superman. Not only that,
but get this: Dale represented Rock Hudson, and he was the person
who convinced him to disclose that he had AIDS! He wrote the
statement Rock read. And as we know, Rock Hudson's disclosure had
a very significant effect on the national conversation about AIDS in the
U.S.

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Greens Organise @greensorganise.bsky.social · 3d

The rhetoric of the far right is escalating.
Look at ICE in the US. Armed militias kidnapping people off the streets.

We’ve seen this before.
It’s fascism. Imported from the US to British shores by the likes of Farage and Tommy Robinson.

Will you help us fight it?

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Peter Collins @peter.polari.com · 3d

Sounds like that industry isn’t viable then. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 3d

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.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Quinn Norton @quinn.yoyodyne-it.eu · 4d

The number of "resistance" authors publishing on Substack remains dissapointing. They were pro-nazi back when that was unpopular. I'd mutter something about the master's tools and the master's house, but y'all are actively donating lumber.

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Peter Collins @peter.polari.com · 4d

“Our boots may be on their necks, but those same boots also shackle our feet.”

Sarah Schwartz @sarahschwartz.bsky.social · 4d

A letter to those who taught me my Jewishness, and who now sit on the other side of a deep chasm.

When you first heard me speak against this genocide, you heard my words as betrayal. But they were meant as love

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

When you first heard me speak against this genocide, you heard my words as betrayal. But they were meant as love | Sarah Schwartz

Not speaking would go against everything I was taught to honour: the righteous among the nations – those who refused to be bystanders to injustice

www.theguardian.com

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Count Melancholia @lillyh.bsky.social · 7d

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Peter Collins @peter.polari.com · 5d

I want this to be the work of a malicious graphic designer. 🤭

Dean Craddock @dean5150.bsky.social · 5d

They love Britain so much 🤣🤣

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 5d

Keir Starmer’s spokesman asked about Israel detaining British citizens who were on the Gaza aid flotilla, while in international waters, replies that it is a “matter for the Israeli Government”

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 5d

The Greens requested an interview on the Laura Kuenssberg Show with Zack Polanski when he was elected leader, but were denied, with a promise to interview him during Green conference instead.

This was then scrapped citing the Manchester synagogue attack. Polanski is both Jewish and from Manchester

BBC Laura Kuenssberg Show Accused of Anti-Green Bias After Cancelling Zack Polanski Interview

The new Green Party leader was the only major party leader not to have been granted a conference interview on the flagship BBC show

bylinetimes.com

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 6d

The UK had by my calculations, per capita, twice the number of fatalities as the Republic of Ireland. Ireland wasn’t exactly gold standard. Experts were begging the UK govt & opposition to follow basic science, to no avail. The UK scientific establishment was silent. Only Independent SAGE spoke out

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Wear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social · 6d

Turkish Global Sumud Flotilla member, Semanur Yaman, says her and fellow hijabi crew members were forced to take off their hijabs, a common illegal practice done by the occupation to Palestinian woman for decades.

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Peter Collins @peter.polari.com · 6d

I look forward to using my government-allotted “freedom time” to take part in my chosen government-approved protest. 😬

flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 6d

Not the most “I can definitely be trusted with power” kind of statement I’ve ever heard

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Wear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social · 7d

Four Members of European Parliament have been abducted in International waters and the President of France has not made one public statement demanding their return.

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Wear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social · 7d

Illegal Israeli squatters stormed Palestinian land at dawn, assaulting them, destroying their trees, and leaving their mother severely injured. These attacks are not isolated, they are part of the ongoing violence settlers carry out with impunity, backed and protected by the occupation government.

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Bright Light Bright Light @brightlightx2.bsky.social · 7d

Hello! I’m a voting member for the recording academy as of this year, so if you have songs for consideration - make them known! I’m excited to amplify the work I believe in this year!

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Peter Collins @peter.polari.com · 7d

Polari Press @polari.press · 7d

After launching them at Queeriosities last weekend, the A3 Risograph posters are now up on our website with all profits going to the Sameer Project in Gaza: polari.press/throw-sand-i...

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Peter Collins @peter.polari.com · 7d

That Labour feels confident to criticise anyone—but perhaps especially a gay Jewish man, a product of immigration—for sowing “division and grievance” after Starmer’s “island of strangers” speech is head spinning stuff.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 8d

Rattled, much?

A speech about unity, community and cohesion.

About the 99% Vs the 1%.

I'm not surprised the Labour Party didn't quite get that....

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Labour party response to Zacks speech. Guardian.com/livefeed

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Peter Collins @peter.polari.com · 8d

If you haven’t ever seen the Alan Bennett Talking Heads with Patricia Routledge then do. ‘A Lady of Letters’ is great but ‘A Woman of No Importance’ is one of the most quietly devastating pieces of television. (It was recently on iPlayer but not anymore.)

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

BBC Two - A Woman of No Importance

Alan Bennett's award-winning one-woman drama starring Patricia Routledge.

www.bbc.co.uk

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