functioning idealist. @artsemergency, also hard art and resort studios🌱
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6 Nov 2024
To my progressive comrades and kind friends in the US and globally: Like you, empathy is what made me want to organise. You can’t watch little kids, already with odds stacked overwhelmingly against them, go hungry, live in fear, (1/4)
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6 Nov 2024
a world where the very air we breath and water we drink is bloodied and muddied and poisoned - this is not a world worth growing up for. And to think, the preposterous alternative is right here within touching distance. A breath away, a black cat’s whisker. (3/4)
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6 Nov 2024
And maybe it always will be, but we’ll never know if we don’t keep reaching for it... love and solidarity with you all ❤️
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2 Aug 2024
Tweets about Palestine no longer go viral. The genocide is no longer trending. Back to business as usual. The normalization of our people’s slaughter is sweeping across the West, whose leaders provide the nails being driven into the hearts of our children.
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24 Jul 2024
The fetishization of the vote in a managed democracy like the US is bad. If you want real change, yes; you should vote. But it’s nowhere near the top of the list of what you should be doing. (If you truly care)💫
Chomsky on the quadrennial extravaganza. 👇🏼
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24 Jul 2024
🚨 BREAKING
Hundreds of workers and trade unionists have blockaded the Foreign Office to demand the new Labour government ends its complicity in the genocide in Gaza and immediately suspends all arms to Israel.
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23 Jul 2024
82,000 children in the UK are looked after by their local authority. In today's podcast, @thatdunleavy is talking to @RebekahPierre92 about the new anthology she edited, #FreeLoavesOnFridays, and what life is like for those children growing up in care. bit.ly/3VZrRm2
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22 Jul 2024
Clean Up The Internet's founder @Kinsellas sets out how tackling harm from fake and anonymous social media accounts would contribute to several of the new Labour Government priority "missions" - and why failing to could create obstacles to delivery.
cleanuptheinternet.org.uk/po…
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16 Jul 2024
just coming out of my worst Covid bout since early 2020 - any other folx feeling this? 11 days and still really nauseated and foggy.
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16 Jul 2024
genuinely thought it was GE24 related at first but glad I still test before mixing if I feel that ill😷
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13 Jul 2024
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20 Nov 2017
Oh look - someone who's actually gone to the trouble of talking with trans people when talking about trans issues! It can be done! x.com/ed_miliband/status/932…
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11 Jul 2024
Took all of 5 seconds💦💩
10 Jul 2024
URGENT: Last chance to act 🚨
Water companies are lobbying hard to increase your bills to inflation-busting levels.
Tell Ofwat's CEO that polluters, not the public, must pay to clean up our water ⬇️
actionnetwork.org/letters/wa…
ALT A screenshot of an article from the Financial Times. The headline reads as follows: Planned water bill rises ‘unaffordable’ for most customers, says UK watchdog
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8 Jul 2024
Because it's important, here's a thread of the Lancet's letter about Gaza death toll.
thelancet.com/journals/lance…
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ALT The Lancet: "Counting the dead in Gaza: difficult but essential" Rasha Khatib Martin McKee Salim Yusuf
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Breaking: @OldhamColiseum has been saved from permanent closure and will reopen its doors in time for the pantomime season in 2025. It follows a high-profile campaign to reopen the beleaguered venue led by actor Julie Hesmondhalgh (@juliehes)
👉 thestage.co.uk/news/victory-…
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Neil Griffiths (he/him) retweeted
8 Jul 2024
This is so important, but a Stuart Hall reading of representation and essentialism brings nuance to the representation = outcomes equation. Representation matters, but its the actual policies, rather than the personalities, that will ultimately make that representation material.
7 Jul 2024
🚨 The most state-educated Parliament on record 🚨
Our new analysis reveals that there is a record number of MPs now in the Commons who were educated at comprehensive schools.
Read our breakdown of the backgrounds MPs elected at #GeneralElection2024 ⤵️
suttontrust.com/our-research…
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8 Jul 2024
For elites, there is a symbolic market for downplaying privilege. But it’s pernicious, perpetuating the myth of meritocracy obscuring very real divides in power and influence. Nice piece by @emmavj drawing on a key argument in our new book Born to Rule in @FT @aaronsreeves
8 Jul 2024
Why playing down a privileged background might be a savvy career move on.ft.com/4cMUCci | opinion
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