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George McEwan
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Mountaineering Instructor (WMCI). Personal account. All views & opinions expressed my own. Native anarchist. He/him.
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The context being Reform is a racist party with fascist leanings, led by Nigel Farage, a man facing multiple allegations of making vile anti-Semitic and racist comments.

#ReformIsRacist
December 15, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Robin has been a vocal supporter since we started earlier in the Summer. Always grateful when men support and share like that
December 15, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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ICE tried to kidnap one man from a local grocery store in St. Paul, MN, but community members used their humanity & their bodies as a human shield to successfully fend them off. ✌🏻
December 13, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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The fact is no presenter has ever had to leave the BBC for expressing conservative views, or even explicitly endorsing a right-wing party.

Was never a problem for Jeremy Clarkson. Was never a problem for Andrew Neil. Was never a problem for Alan Sugar
Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
December 13, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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he-ge-mon-ic un-i-par-ty
"Cross-party consensus" is code for "let's gang up and kill as many trans kids as possible"
December 13, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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"Cross-party consensus" is code for "let's gang up and kill as many trans kids as possible"
December 13, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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There already is cross-party consensus. We are to be silenced, ostracised, unemployed and dead.
"Cross-party consensus" is code for "let's gang up and kill as many trans kids as possible"
December 13, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Yes, yes, but what about economic growth, flying, consumption and parking?
Just for the record

We really should start to take global warming seriously otherwise we are toast...

Or do you think the physics of a water planet know mercy?

#Climate #Earth
A principal short on why we will likely reach 2 °C of warming around 2030
Sadly, we are not able to accept the new reality and are still in denial.
medium.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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December 13, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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In short, more successful autistic creatives than us, people whose income comes from their indie projects, have been paying it forward by investing on very generous terms, sponsoring our stuff & making it so *we* can pay staff. The money has stayed in the community.
December 13, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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Great thread on not just the immorality and hatefulness of institutions/artists bending the knee to fascism, but the mindboggling short-sightedness of it. We should stand up to fascism, but we should also remember who, when subservience was suddenly demanded, immediately said "yeah alright".
It may not feel like it now as marginalised people and their allies are edged out of institutions in the arts - but those institutions are unreliable, antiquated and at this point, bending the knee to fascism. It’s absolutely the best thing artistically and financially to be free of that.
December 13, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Just so we're clear, one incident of alleged anti-semitism by a musician = a major national scandal that should be roundly condemned.

Multiple incidents of alleged anti-semitism from the man leading the race to run the country = a load of nothing that should be completely ignored
December 13, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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Thank you for all the messages and solidarity - I know it could be a strange week ahead so I may be quite quiet - but I am chipper and ready
December 13, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
December 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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They hate on our Black queens because they can’t handle their greatness.
December 13, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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December 13, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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Notorious former football hooligan from a firm that was known for violence & racism when he was active
www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...
Well-known Bristol football fan died in tragic fall from lamppost
City fan Paul Lumber was a published author of books about the days of football casuals in the 1980s
www.bristolpost.co.uk
December 13, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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The line our disgraceful press NEVER quotes from the For (Some) Women Scotland decision finally gets its day in the sun.
This is a real disaster for those - pretty much the entirety of the British media - advancing a maximalist reading of the For (Some) Women Scotland decision.
December 8, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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An important side issue: as someone with intermittent mobility issues, your options when flying are (a) wheelchair or (b) nothing.* If you can't risk having to dash for a departure gate, you need (a).

* Some airlines combine the two options by losing or breaking the wheelchair.
A constant blazing terror that somewhere, somebody might be getting a free cheese sandwich. Or indeed brief use of a wheelchair.
December 8, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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If you are addicted to heroin you can have your blood tested to help you manage the health risks. But if you are a child trying to access healthcare, in line with international norms, Wes Streeting's position is that you "must" be treated worse.
The Times yesterday, on how trans kids, denied the healthcare they need, are buying black market hormones.

Of course, this is *exactly* what everyone said would happen. And its risks are dramatically amplified by Streeting telling GPs they must stop offering blood tests.
December 8, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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Decision in the Sandie Peggie case.

She was not directly or indirectly discriminated against, her claim of victimisation fails entirely, her claim of harassment fails largely and her claim against Beth Upton fails entirely. www.judiciary.uk/judgments/sa...
Sandie Peggie -v- Fife Health Board and another (judgment and summary) - Courts and Tribunals Judiciary
Case number: 4104864/2024 Employment Tribunal, Scotland 8 December 2025 Before: Employment Judge A KempTribunal Member L BrownTribunal Member C Russell Between: Mrs Sandie Peggie -v- Fife Health Board...
www.judiciary.uk
December 8, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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This should not be getting live reporting and it shouldn't be the BBC's headline story (I checked incognito so it's not just that I'm signed in to a Scotland-based account), absolutely damning indictment of our ridiculous media that it is - to say nothing of the complete pish claims about who won.
December 8, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Reform UK are running a 'cash for access scheme in all but name', a senior SNP MP has alleged
'Cash for access' row as Reform UK open 'exclusive' £10k membership club
www.thenational.scot
December 8, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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PSA…
December 7, 2025 at 11:56 AM