God I would read the hell out of this, I always maintain that public executions especially were/are a form of human sacrifice and we only don't label them as such because they aren't like, exoticised

3. ⁠this is not the moment for an incredibly expensive increase in state surveillance infrastructure to be run for profit by private tech firms just before Labour ushers in an (even more) authoritarian right wing government.

FIX THE GODDAMN COST OF LIVING INSTEAD YOU FREAKS.

People love to call everything about Israel and the genocide in Gaza complicated. Stop doing that. It's actually extremely straightforward: Israel is committing genocide, the US is funding it and supplying the weapons. The companies on the BDS target list are financially and materially enabling it.

It is a confected outrage that ignores the actual sources of problems for women and tries to distor every conversation about women's rights and safety into targeting and demonising trans women. It's all lies and it's galling how much of the conversation has been captured by it 4/

It was literally a non issue. The very idea that the central fight for sexual violence against women is about strangers in public bathrooms is absurd and a seemingly almost deliverate distraction from the main source of sexual violence: the family, churches and schools. 3/

I spent a large portion of my childhood in service stations on the side of roads with large public toilets. Men were consistently employed as cleaners in these spaces. It was normal and accepted that there would be a dude with a mop in there sometimes. Women would bring their sons in with them. 2/

My dearly departed old girl Lucy liked to think she was what I was so excited about in the boxes!!