MsNessa
@msvcolquhoun.bsky.social
comforter, philosopher and lifelong hater (she/her)
Yeah we'd only still be waking up to genocide
Walz says Harris "would have been a fantastic president... we wouldn't wake up every day to a bunch of shit on TV. We would wake up to an adult w/ compassion & dignity doing the work, not a manchild crying about whatever is wrong with him. May his fat ankles find something today. Petty as hell."
August 26, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Yeah we'd only still be waking up to genocide
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me on @cmatbaby.bsky.social’s EURO-COUNTRY and why it gives voice to a distressingly normalised post-recession malaise. i hope you read!
The emblem of modern Ireland? Not fiddles and Guinness but a soulless shopping plaza | Emer McHugh
The singer CMAT dances around a retail centre in a video for her new album. It is the elegy those of us who grew up in the post-Celtic tiger recession have been craving, says Irish writer Emer McHugh
www.theguardian.com
August 25, 2025 at 7:38 AM
me on @cmatbaby.bsky.social’s EURO-COUNTRY and why it gives voice to a distressingly normalised post-recession malaise. i hope you read!
People on the ground, stopping ice from disappearing people? No. Shitposters.
Liberals.
Liberals.
August 23, 2025 at 10:19 PM
People on the ground, stopping ice from disappearing people? No. Shitposters.
Liberals.
Liberals.
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The UK is about to ban access to Wikipedia, just remember this bill was originally pitched as a means to protect kids from accessing porn.
Wikipedia has lost a High Court challenge against the UK Government over verification requirements in the Online Safety Act
Wikipedia loses Online Safety Act legal challenge
www.thenational.scot
August 11, 2025 at 12:32 PM
The UK is about to ban access to Wikipedia, just remember this bill was originally pitched as a means to protect kids from accessing porn.
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Pointing out how safe DC by showing the low crime rates isn’t going to convince conservatives because “people breaking the actual law” isn’t what they mean by “crime”. To them, “crime” includes merely seeing black people, unhoused people, and anyone else the bigots clutch pearls about as “crime”
August 11, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Pointing out how safe DC by showing the low crime rates isn’t going to convince conservatives because “people breaking the actual law” isn’t what they mean by “crime”. To them, “crime” includes merely seeing black people, unhoused people, and anyone else the bigots clutch pearls about as “crime”
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When loyalist paramilitaries say they want to work with 'landords' but not the local council or Housing Executive, that means forced expulsions under threat.
Just been told they were throwing people out of houses last night over Ravenhill area.
They are 'patrolling' areas and harassing people they deem a problem.
They protect nobody but their drug dealing, child abusing mates.
They are 'patrolling' areas and harassing people they deem a problem.
They protect nobody but their drug dealing, child abusing mates.
The prize for the worst article on the North goes to this. Was the journalist present? Do they live in the North? Are they black /ethnic minority/ POC? Do they face down the far-right and see first hand who is amongst them? [1/3]
www.thetimes.com/world/irelan...
www.thetimes.com/world/irelan...
August 11, 2025 at 7:09 AM
When loyalist paramilitaries say they want to work with 'landords' but not the local council or Housing Executive, that means forced expulsions under threat.
What the fuck are we doing man
This abuse happened between the mid 1990s and early 2000s. In 1997 the South Yorkshire police had a case thrown out of court, after it transpired that they had made the Black male suspect stand in an identity parade alongside *eight white men in blackface*.
July 30, 2025 at 12:10 PM
What the fuck are we doing man
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God, the number of people who were willing to believe that the South Yorkshire police were too woke to prosecute sexual abuse cases, when in fact the police force was itself an instrument of patriarchal sexual violence. It’s like a case study in the worst excesses of the British press.
Five survivors of Rotherham grooming gangs say they were also raped by police officers
Three former South Yorkshire police officers arrested in investigation into claims by the women, as young as 12 at the time
www.theguardian.com
July 30, 2025 at 9:57 AM
God, the number of people who were willing to believe that the South Yorkshire police were too woke to prosecute sexual abuse cases, when in fact the police force was itself an instrument of patriarchal sexual violence. It’s like a case study in the worst excesses of the British press.
This would work on me
I had forgotten about this completely, but I enjoyed this exchange on twitter back before I abandoned it completely
July 29, 2025 at 6:26 AM
This would work on me
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For the entire political establishment, including the Dems and the media, being wildly and predictably wrong is seen as more correct than being left-of-center.
July 27, 2025 at 6:30 PM
For the entire political establishment, including the Dems and the media, being wildly and predictably wrong is seen as more correct than being left-of-center.
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Same thing happened with the Iraq War! So many savvy Responsible Adults later admitted it was a huge tragic mistake, but that somehow they were still right for supporting it when they did. Who did they still think WAS wrong, though? Those dumb filthy hippies who opposed it too early!
It is pretty noticeable that even as mainstream opinion on Israel and Gaza finally shifts, you don’t hear the Responsible Adults apologizing for punishing all the college kids protesting the atrocities. Quite the opposite in fact!
July 27, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Same thing happened with the Iraq War! So many savvy Responsible Adults later admitted it was a huge tragic mistake, but that somehow they were still right for supporting it when they did. Who did they still think WAS wrong, though? Those dumb filthy hippies who opposed it too early!
If you believe that'll happen I've got a bridge to sell you so I can afford some healthcare
Hopefully this will end the platforming of Stella O’Malley, director of a hate group who are proud of contributing to the widely debunked Cass report
The Cass report directly contributes to discrimination against trans kids in the north of Ireland & other places
www.thepinknews.com/2024/06/10/a...
The Cass report directly contributes to discrimination against trans kids in the north of Ireland & other places
www.thepinknews.com/2024/06/10/a...
Two anti-trans organisations listed as 'hate groups' by civil rights charity
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has listed two anti-trans organisations as "hate groups" in its newest report.
www.thepinknews.com
July 23, 2025 at 11:41 AM
If you believe that'll happen I've got a bridge to sell you so I can afford some healthcare
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This is all I needed to see from Pokemon Presents.
(But also the park is cute too)
(But also the park is cute too)
July 22, 2025 at 2:43 PM
This is all I needed to see from Pokemon Presents.
(But also the park is cute too)
(But also the park is cute too)
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"people John Brown would've shot" is a dangerous oversimplification. he also used at least one sword
yeah sorry to be a killjoy but my thing with jubilee (the channel not the X-man) is that it’s a net negative to argue with anyone John Brown would’ve shot.
July 21, 2025 at 8:27 PM
"people John Brown would've shot" is a dangerous oversimplification. he also used at least one sword
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I am so glad Aisling wrote this because I am so tired of men like GW and Neil Gaiman and Elon Musk who have used autism as an excuse to defend their behaviour. For multiple reasons I find it deeply dehumanising. You can read via the link in the post and there’s an archived link in the replies x
In the print edition I'm sharing a page with Ireland's premier reactionary David Quinn 😱, but if you want to skip straight to the good stuff you can go here: www.independent.ie/opinion/aisl...
Aisling Walsh: Autism must not be a ‘get out of jail free’ card for men like Gregg Wallace
I haven’t owned a TV in about 12 years, so I remained oblivious to the phenomenon that is the BBC’s MasterChef until last week when host Gregg Wallace made headlines for all the wrong reasons.
www.independent.ie
July 20, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I am so glad Aisling wrote this because I am so tired of men like GW and Neil Gaiman and Elon Musk who have used autism as an excuse to defend their behaviour. For multiple reasons I find it deeply dehumanising. You can read via the link in the post and there’s an archived link in the replies x
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The feminine urge to spend my feelings away 💸
July 20, 2025 at 4:46 PM
The feminine urge to spend my feelings away 💸
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I think Zohran Mamdami could win a lot of points by single-handedly beating up all the bad guys in NYC like Mike Haggar in Final Fight.
July 12, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I think Zohran Mamdami could win a lot of points by single-handedly beating up all the bad guys in NYC like Mike Haggar in Final Fight.
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In 1946 the Superman Radio series broadcast the story “Clan of The Fiery Cross” where Superman brought down a Ku Klux Klan stand in using actual Klan codewords and rituals, and made it look really silly to kids and killing off a post war resurgence from which It’s never recovered.
The right-wing backlash against #Superman this week got me thinking: Has this happened before?
That led to the discovery of these headline — from April 1940, when the official newspaper of the SS took umbrage at the comic book hero and ridiculed its creators.
My how times change ...
That led to the discovery of these headline — from April 1940, when the official newspaper of the SS took umbrage at the comic book hero and ridiculed its creators.
My how times change ...
July 12, 2025 at 8:24 AM
In 1946 the Superman Radio series broadcast the story “Clan of The Fiery Cross” where Superman brought down a Ku Klux Klan stand in using actual Klan codewords and rituals, and made it look really silly to kids and killing off a post war resurgence from which It’s never recovered.
Alright I'm out
Starting July 25, Bluesky will require users in the UK to scan their face, upload an ID or verify their identity with a bankcard.
I realize that platforms feel they have no choice but to comply with the government surveillance schemes, but shocking nonetheless.
I realize that platforms feel they have no choice but to comply with the government surveillance schemes, but shocking nonetheless.
Bluesky is rolling out age verification in the UK
Bluesky users in the UK can verify their age using their face, ID, or payment card.
www.theverge.com
July 11, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Alright I'm out
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This is controversial for her career but the extent of the controversy, the extent of the provocation to anyone, is showing children being bombed as kids who deserve to live instead of faceless statistics, and if someone argues against that? Idk maybe that viewpoint should be the controversial one
Miss Rachel continues to have more of a moral backbone than 99% of public figures
July 10, 2025 at 10:08 PM
This is controversial for her career but the extent of the controversy, the extent of the provocation to anyone, is showing children being bombed as kids who deserve to live instead of faceless statistics, and if someone argues against that? Idk maybe that viewpoint should be the controversial one
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This was a good read. I recommend it.
Uncomfortable Labels, my memoir of growing up at the intersection of being trans and autistic, is available as a DRM-Free Audiobook.
Right now, it's the best way to purchase one of my books that directly supports me during "publisher nonesense season".
laurakbuzzstore.com/products/unc...
Right now, it's the best way to purchase one of my books that directly supports me during "publisher nonesense season".
laurakbuzzstore.com/products/unc...
Uncomfortable Labels Audiobook
Emailed out manually every weekday at 9am UK (or sooner if I am at my PC and not too busy). "So while the assumption when I was born was that I was or would grow up to be a neurotypical heterosexual b...
laurakbuzzstore.com
July 10, 2025 at 10:12 AM
This was a good read. I recommend it.
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This is more terrible news. Following the news about @uglymugsie.bsky.social it just adds to the deep sense of despair. What are we doing?
The Sex Workers Alliance Ireland (SWAI) is in immediate danger of closing due to lack of funding.
SWAI is running on fumes at the moment. Thanks to your support and the generous donors to our crowdfund, we have been able to continue operating until now.
SWAI is running on fumes at the moment. Thanks to your support and the generous donors to our crowdfund, we have been able to continue operating until now.
July 8, 2025 at 8:32 PM
This is more terrible news. Following the news about @uglymugsie.bsky.social it just adds to the deep sense of despair. What are we doing?
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Here's how you remove Google AI from your mobile devices.
June 21, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Here's how you remove Google AI from your mobile devices.