Hugely important in-depth exposé of how the far right are grooming victims and survivors of child sexual abuse. With powerful & brave testimony from “Lara” & a really sharp, thoughtful look at various factors contributing to this brutal mess. By Andrew Kersley for Byline Times 1/

Absolutely grim to see a parliamentarian argue that a fertilised egg has more value than a living, breathing, thinking, sentient human being with a uterus. This position is not only misogynistic but it’s absurdly abstract and incredibly immature.

Please remember this the next time you’re entering a public space without a mask. Or tempted to mock a vulnerable person for wearing one. Or accessing healthcare. If it’s easy for you access care - try and imagine how scary it would be if it wasn’t. /10

Even in hospitals - the one place we have no choice but to go - masking is not required & you run the risk of being labeled difficult or anxious for requesting a HCW mask in your presence. We’re expected to just go along and risk our health & baseline for the comfort of others /4

Disabled people are not ok. The pandemic has turned society against us (even more than before).

People were quietly ableist before. Now they’re openly hateful.

It was hard to access healthcare before. Now it’s impossible.

It was lonely before. Now it’s a pit of despair /1 🧵

samuel l. jackson (that one) was expelled from morehouse for helping take over a college building and locking college administrators (including martin luther king sr.) in a room for two days to protest the lack of black ppl on the governing board during the civil rights movement

no one in gaza is sitting any exams this year, because they are running for their lives and their schools were all blown up. just for a little sense of perspective

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If you're gay, if you're a woman who likes having control over your own reproductive system, if you're trans, Kate Forbes having more political power is a bad thing because she wants bad things for all of us and it wouldn't be any better if she wanted bad things but secularly.

I hate to say it but we need to be focussing on far more than just the fact that the DWP are targeting mental health with PIP and UC.

Mental health is something everyone feels passionately about but millions of disabled people are under attack. What about our mental health?

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Ben Ryan's new thread on Jack Turban MD is perhaps worse and more deceitful than even his other threads.

He starts off by constructing a narrative that Jack is just jealous and should be wary of the effects to his career.

im the trans person leaving the hall in this video because i dont like transphobes, especially at my uni! is a relief to see from the slew of misgendering and hate such as susan’s that this “gender critical” event definitely wasnt transphobic or bigoted in the slightest! /s

Spoke to my daughter, my nephew, two nieces and four of my colleagues today, all of whom are under 30. If Kate Forbes gets in they won’t be voting SNP. She would wipe out the young electorate votes for the SNP. We’re a socialist country, right winged policies belong in England.

As someone who receives PIP and has a job as a journalist, I would very much like to know why the Labour Party is going round the media perpetuating the myth PIP is an out of work benefit. Does Reeves know it’s not? Or does she not actually care?

There are now TWO different active DWP consultations on benefits so here's a pinned thread where you can find links to both 📌🧵

And trans women are women, it’s in the name.

Tomorrow will be Rainbow Pet Day. A day to remember pets that we have loved and lost but will never forget as they live on in our hearts.
We can share photos and memories. A day to celebrate the joy that pets bring in to our lives 🌈❤️🌈

Applications for EHF close today. But applications have just opened for GrimFest 2024 if you've missed our deadline. Horror theatre in haunted pubs is something we love to see more of.

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