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Ross Sayers @rosssayers.bsky.social · 18h

Corbyn and Lineker were thoroughly smeared and I'm sure the media aren't happy Neville and Polanski haven't learned the lesson. Similarly - the way Imane Khelif was treated (when she wasn't even trans!) was clearly meant to show what will happen to a trans athlete if they ever dare compete.

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Ross Sayers @rosssayers.bsky.social · 18h

The British media collectively goes after anyone who starts telling the truth a bit too loudly. Corbyn, then Lineker, now Zack Polanski and Gary Neville. What do they have in common? 1) are popular/likeable 2) point out what's wrong with the UK. You can do one or the other but you can't do both.

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Ross Sayers @rosssayers.bsky.social · 1d

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Ross Sayers @rosssayers.bsky.social · 1d

Just listening to the first couple of episodes of our podcast before they go live next week. At one point I say that the Denmark flag is red and blue and don't correct it for a good 7 or 8 minutes. I want to scrap the whole episode. Not sure I can live like this.

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 5d

I mean, this is just pathetic really.

Dave Chappelle is already extremely rich. He didn't even need Saudi money.

But not only did he do it anyway, he wants to holier-than-thou this shit on top of it?

Just say you're a coward who doesn't care and move on

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Ross Sayers @rosssayers.bsky.social · 1d

The main problem with protein bars is the flavours have names like 'Caramel CHAOS', 'Banana BONANZA', 'Kinder KUMBLASTER' but they all have the same flavour: protein bar flavour

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Ross Sayers @rosssayers.bsky.social · 1d

If Taylor Swift doesn't release a new variant of her album called, like, 'The Backlash Edition', within a month, I'll be surprised

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 5d

MSF staff are universally understood to be engaged in an essentially sacred form of work. For a state to nonetheless continuously murder them is a testament to a truly unthinkable degree of depravity.

msf.org/msf-denounce...

This morning, an attack carried out by Israeli forces killed Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff member, Omar Hayek, and seriously injured four others. The attack took place on a street where our teams were waiting to take a bus to the MSF field hospital in Deir al Balah, Gaza.

All staff were wearing MSF vests, clearly identifying them as medical humanitarian workers.
We express deep sorrow and outrage over the killing, which occurs less than two weeks after another MSF colleague, Hussein Alnajjar, was killed by the Israeli forces, in Deir Al Balah.

Our thoughts are with Omar’s family and colleagues at this tragic time. Omar, 42 years old, is the fourteenth MSF colleague to be killed in Gaza since 7 October 2023.

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Ross Sayers @rosssayers.bsky.social · 2d

MIRANDA: the new Taylor Swift album is boring

CHARLOTTE: I think it's a little unseemly how many men she's been with

SAMANTHA: oh please those are rookie numbers

CARRIE: Big is performing at the Riyadh Comedy Festival

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 2d

Greta Thunberg, deported to Greece, says the targeting of the Sumud Flotilla is "not the story" @teenvogue.com — instead, she says:

"Israel once again violated international humanitarian law by preventing aid from getting into Gaza while people are being starved.”

Greta Thunberg On Her Detention: I'm "Not The Story" — It's Israel Violating International Humanitarian Law

“I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me. But that is not the story.”

www.teenvogue.com

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Zara Gladman @zanyzaz.bsky.social · 2d

Aileen’s Southside expedition sold out in 72 hours so I’m keeping her there a little longer than planned: just added a second Glasgow Comedy Festival show at 9pm! 12 March, tickets here: glasgowcomedyfestival.seetickets.com/event/zara-g...

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 3d

*gasp*

“Everyone thought we’d come in and there were going to be these huge costs we could cut away but there just aren’t,” said a third senior Reform cabinet member in Kent.

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 3d

Today I learned (on the Nazi site) that the first attempt to break Israel's siege on Gaza via a flotilla took place 15 yrs ago, in 2010. Israeli forces boarded the Mavi Marmara & killed 10 people. The youngest, 19 yr old Furkan Dogan, was shot five times from close range. He was an American citizen.

Furkan Dogan
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Furkan Dogan (20 October 1991 - 31 May 2010) was a Turkish American who was residing in Turkey permanently, 21 He was shot to death by the Israeli Defense Forces on the MV Mavi Marmara, in the 2010 Gaza flotilla raid. Dogan was the youngest person killed in
the raid, and became a political symbol after his death. 131
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Early life Furkan Dogan was born to ethnic Turkish parents in Troy, New York 516 in the United States and moved to Turkey at
the age of two." He was a high school student at Kayseri Özel
Hisarcikloglu Fen Lisesi in Kayseri, Turkey [8119[101 H wanted to study medicine.''! He had planned to visit New
York in the summer of 2010.112) His father, Ahmet Dogan, who graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with an MBA in accounting, is an
assistant professor of accounting at Erciyes University. 51

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 4d

The Times of Israel reports that Greta Thunberg & her fellow Flotilla crew are being held in a special "terrorist" section of Ketziot prison—or in "terrorist conditions," as Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel's Minister of National Security put it.

www.timesofisrael.com/thunberg-sai...

On Friday, the ultranationalist minister suggested that Israel would be better off throwing the flotilla participants in prison for several months
rather than immediately deporting them back to their home countries. Security prisoners - those incarcerated for offenses that intentionally harm national security - are housed separately from criminal prisoners and are not eligible for many of the benefits available to the general prison population. The term is a catch-all term applied to detainees, convicted prisoners and terrorists, and administrative detainees who are held
without charges for extended periods, without trial.

"We are in Ketziot prison, and as I promised, those flotilla members,
supporters of terrorism, are here in a security prison," Channel 14 reported
Ben Gir as saying. "They receive conditions for terrorists here, for everything, terrorist sweatpants, terrorist conditions. This means, there is a minimum of the
minimum, that's what I promised and that's how we are fulfilling it."

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Ben Whitham @drbenwhitham.bsky.social · 3d

Men in balaclavas set fire to a mosque in East Sussex last night. It's only appearing on the BBC's local coverage, rather than its main national headlines, despite coming just a week after the (also under-reported) firebombing of an asylum hotel in London last week
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Peacehaven: Fire at East Sussex mosque probed as 'hate crime'

Video appears to show two people in balaclavas at the mosque before a large blaze spreads.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 4d

An Israeli prison guard deliberately slammed a metal door on the already broken leg of a 70-year-old Scottish woman who was abducted from the flotilla.

Torture.

THIS IS SAD ❗❗

"That prison was awful. No food, no water. My broken leg, the girl said to me, "Ah, what happened to your leg?" I said, "it's broke." She slammed the metal door on it and went, "Oh, sorry"

Margaret Pacetta, 70, from Glasgow, Scotland, is one of four Scots who participated in the Global Sumud Flotilla. Pacetta arrived in Istanbul Airport on Saturday afternoon along with 136 other activists.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4d

When you drag a woman by the hair, beat her and force her to kiss your flag, that’s how you tell the world you are the Good Guys

Jordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 4d

Absolutely heinous.

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 4d

Over 400 arrests of protesters in London thanks to the government’s refusal to admit that their decision to proscribe Palestine Action as a terrorist group has been a disaster

The Labour gov has so far arrested well over 1,000 people for holding up signs

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...