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evan loves worf
@esjesjesj29 Dec 2024
Both these series are about how awesome communism is. I’m losing my mind. They literally have never understood any piece of fiction
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To be clear, I’m not being singled out: fully one third of Guardian & Observer staff are on either zero hours or sham ‘freelance’ contracts. The Guardian issued notice on all these this week. If you’re an employment lawyer, feel free to slide into my DMs!
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The Guardian is cancelling my contract after 19 years continuous employment with no pay-off so totes happy to go to the Indie to continue my investigation into Evgeny’s dad, the ex-KGB spy. The UK media: so many fine choices. theguardian.com/media/2019/n…
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FEMINIST GIANT Daily Dose: 42 feministgiant.com/p/daily-do…
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For sale: ship of theseus Condition: used, like new
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pickwick retweeted
New gender neutral bathroom just dropped
Do you think J.K. Rowling deserves a bronze statue in Edinburgh for her incredible contributions to literature?
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X spy cop Andy Coles became Cambridgeshire Deputy Police & Crime Commissioner, currently president of Peterborough Conservatives.  A woman branded undercover cop Coles “an absolute liar” after he denied having sex with her while spying on her. She was 19. hackneygazette.co.uk/news/24…
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Filmed over a century ago, a rare and fascinating look at the Cornish coast and its people. A beautiful film from 1916.
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Just Stop Oil protesters got jailed for 4 and 5 years for planning to block roads. I assume now that every constabulary in the country is carrying out mass arrests accordingly.
🚨BREAKING: Farmers will block EVERY road in Britain if Labour doesn’t listen to them on Nov 19th, claims lead organiser. The farmers are not messing about.
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The more I reflect on what happened in Amsterdam the stranger it seems. A racist team who have a reputation for hate speech come to Amsterdam during a genocide and engage in acts of racism and violence against the local population. They are accompanied by Mossad agents. All this happens under the increased success of Islamophobic Geert Wilders and the PVV. The media, not just in the Netherlands but in Europe and North America publish what looks like an Israeli press release using incendiary language about pogroms and Kristelnacht. Politicians around the world immediately and uncritically embraced this rhetoric and say nothing of pro-genocidal chants. They media mislabel on the ground journalism by Dutch photographer @iAnnetnl to minimise Israeli violence. They ignore evidence from other Dutch journalists like @OmeBender. Channels like Sky News even re-edit packages to maximise the narrative of antisemitism and minimise examples of anti-Arab racism. Dutch parliamentarians then wield propaganda by the Israeli diaspora affairs as if it constitutes evidence. Many media outlets still haven't corrected the record about what happened, from the BBC to WSJ and Sky. It's disturbing and sinister, and shouldn't be allowed to slide.
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Sky News Editor on call with Mark Regev (currently charged with advocating for genocide)
🚨Sky News Editor using the term ‘WE’ to describe Israel. Asks - what NEEDS to be done to show the BEST of Israel? What the hell is going on?🤬🤬🤬
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"poppies are woke" might be an all timer. we are witnessing take artistry here. i can only watch in awe.
I’m not wearing a poppy this year because the Royal British Legion’s ‘Head of Diversity and Inclusion’ earns roughly £65,000 a year while many ex-servicemen struggle for support. I’ll still honour and remember the brave souls who served and sacrificed for our freedom.
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When a new generation of journalists (digital natives born amidst the decline of established media) look back at the last 72 hours it’ll be a photo journalist, a Sky News reporter & a 14 year old boy that they’ll laud as role models. @iAnnetnl @OmeBender @AlicePorterTV
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Another very important thread on Amsterdam incidents and FULL context to have in mind — such as FIFA evading its responsibilities by allowing Israel to continue being part of international competitions which has lead to a violent, racist and unsafe atmosphere in football.
THREAD: It’s now pretty clear what happened in Amsterdam this week. But first some background.
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Apparently calling an obvious genocide what it is "cheapens antisemitism" but calling some football hooligans losing a fight THEY STARTED a fucking "pogrom" is measured and serious. Absolutely absurd, the entire western journalistic class deserves to lose their jobs.
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In my first piece for @Mondoweiss, I look at the media spin and fabrications of what happened in Amsterdam and how this is an explicit example of how Israeli Jewish ethnosupremacist claims & violence against Arabs & Muslims - Palestinians - are justified. mondoweiss.net/2024/11/no-th…
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It really is astonishing that Adrian basically created an English idiom. Face eating leopards is beyond an internet joke by now. It’s just a saying.
'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.
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"The sacrifices our four bears made"
I can’t get over the amount of people on the Bbc not wearing poppies as if to say the sacrifices our four bears made are not still recognisable they should be ashamed of themselves.
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