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We want neither clean hands nor beautiful souls, neither virtue nor terror. We want superior forms of corruption.

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Kate Clanchy (@kateclanchy1) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The internet shutdown in Afghanistan happened in real time in my online poetry class on Monday. The women's accounts dropped out one by one. The last to go was Neda. Just before her image froze, I promised to put her poem on Twitter. She's 11. Online was her last hope of

The internet shutdown in Afghanistan happened in real time in my online poetry class on Monday. The women's accounts dropped out one by one. The last to go was Neda. Just before her image froze, I promised to put her poem on Twitter. She's 11. Online was her last hope of
Dr Rachel Clarke (@doctor_oxford) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Here I am in 2020 in the flimsiest, most pitful PPE - like so many other NHS staff, some of whom died from the Covid they caught in their hospitals. Tory peer Lady Michelle Mone - who today rightly (& wonderfully) lost her legal case - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’. What,

Here I am in 2020 in the flimsiest, most pitful PPE - like so many other NHS staff, some of whom died from the Covid they caught in their hospitals.

Tory peer <a href="/MichelleMone/">Lady Michelle Mone</a> - who today rightly (&amp; wonderfully) lost her legal case - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’.

What,
Dr Farbod is on Bluesky (@emergencybod) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Here I am in March 2020, wearing the flimsy PPE frontline staff were given, bracing for an influx of desperately sick people with SARS-CoV-2 — what we now call COVID-19. I watched patients die. Our colleagues die. Michelle Mone should be in jail. And she should only be the

Here I am in March 2020, wearing the flimsy PPE frontline staff were given, bracing for an influx of desperately sick people with SARS-CoV-2 — what we now call COVID-19.

I watched patients die.
Our colleagues die.

Michelle Mone should be in jail.
And she should only be the
Armand Domalewski (@armanddoma) 's Twitter Profile Photo

It is very frustrating to engage with critics of abundance who refuse to ever say “here’s why I think this regulation has benefits that outweigh the costs” and instead just fall back on “you want to reduce this regulation? you must HATE the poor and want them TO DIE”

Duncan Stott 🏗️🔰🇺🇦 (@duncanstott) 's Twitter Profile Photo

West Oxfordshire District Council's planning department doing its upmost to keep us hooked up to fossil fuels. This decision is deranged. x.com/OxfordClarion/…

Démi DeVito (@snifflypanda) 's Twitter Profile Photo

US state propaganda arm advertising a US funded religious fundamentalist group to harass and attack the LGBT community needs to be a huge fucking alarm bell right now!

András (@andrastimot) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Occasional reminder that Tower Hamlets Council is controlled not by Labour, or even the Greens, but by a Bangladeshi-only sectarian Islamist party whose leader was previously convicted of electoral fraud, struck off as a solicitor, and disbarred from politics 2015-2021.

Midwest Antiquarian (@eric_erins) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Middle class people love to yearn for past societies with no broad middle class under the delusion that they would in this society be at the top for some reason

MidAtlantean (@midatlantean) 's Twitter Profile Photo

as any of my year 12 politics students could tell you, the separation of powers is not, and has never been, a meaningful part of the British constitution

Ava-Santina (@avasantina) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Slow return on investment is the exact reason Nick Clegg gave in 2010 against building nuclear power. He estimated they wouldn't be running until 2020/2021. Now I'm not a scientist but that probably would have been helpful during the energy spike/Ukraine headwinds era..

Steven Godofsky (@sgodofsk) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I used to rule the world Seas would rise when I gave the word Now every evening I queue alone Teabagged by n00bs I used to own

Will Saletan (@saletan) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Here's a neat trick they teach in authoritarianism school: If you purge the people who measure the effects of your policies (BLS, MMWR), you can just claim everything's great, and nobody can prove how much damage you're doing.

Stefan Schubert (@stefanfschubert) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Whenever you read a claim like this, you should ask yourself "to what extent is that a matter of empirical fact, and to what extent is it a matter of definition?"

microplastics envelope filter (@diabolicalspuds) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Do right wing evangelicals have some sort of insane theological explanation for why it's Actually Good that their figurehead thinks he's Damned?