How to get weird guys out of your DMs, a free online course by Lady Catherine de Bourgh. #janeausteninthedms

Dr Rachel Morris 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇨🇦🇪🇺 Thanks for finding my col revealing Tory secret extreme austerity plan back in 2005.Cameron was one of them, but wore sheep's clothing to win. Kruger was fired as candidate after I quoted his public service 'creative destruction' plan: he's an MP now, views unchanged.

Walking home at the end of a long day, and this is just what I needed to see. A winding path, the sun sinking over the hills, lighting the treetops pink, knowing that the kettle's on and the fire is lit. Some might think it unbearably quiet but I wouldn't swap it for the world.

In January, when I published my femicide map, a few of my Welsh followers asked could I do it for Wales.

I quickly realised it would be exceptionally difficult but I've worked on it every day since.

This is for 500 women and girls killed in Wales. /1

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Latest toon for the excellent Byline Times - from all good outlets next week!

Since I'm away on local election day, we've just applied for postal votes, if you want to do the same, you have until 5 PM next Wednesday (17th). It's particularly useful if you don't have any form of voter ID.

'Covid is just a seasonal winter virus', we were told. And yet infection levels are *increasing*, in April. Maybe Covid is seasonal in the sense it's around in all four seasons? Like you'd expect in a continuing pandemic?

Should the Monarchy be exempt from the Law?

The 'cost of living crisis' was big businesses like Tesco and British Gas spotting an opportunity to rob us in plain sight while clocking up record profits. These corporations do not deserve your loyalty, they deserve boycotting until they remember they are nothing without the…

Domestic violence is a kind of small-scale terrorism. What OJ Simpson did to Nicole Brown Simpson was not the event of one night—it was a years long campaign that thousands of women suffer at other men’s hands. Read Andrea Dworkin’s memorial to Nicole: evergreenreview.com/read/in-memory…

Instant follow of Ashley James

like many other people, my other tiktok hole this week has been thai military conscription where the fiercest divas you’ve ever seen find out if they have to literally serve

*apply to everything ever now*

Michelle Donelan libel case.
'The legal fees racked up by the cabinet minister after wrongly accusing an academic of supporting or sympathising with Hamas cost the public an additional £19,000, on top of the £15,000 libel settlement.'
Tory lies yet again
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What could possibly go wrong?
#UselessUK

About a month ago I reported on a French citizen Gabriel Temin, who bought and sent thousands of drones from Finland to Russia. Most of these were sent via Turkey and Kazakhstan, and the US authorities believe that these transfers were part of a GRU operation.

One of the…

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We are on a mission to get every single young person REGISTERED TO VOTE.

We #GiveAnX , do you?

The jokes just write themselves now.
Or form political parties.

We paid for death after death.

Meanwhile, industrial-scale tax evaders are more likely to receive a seat in the House of Lords than a fine.
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