It’s a bloody epidemic telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/08/2…

Her name was Samantha Holden and she was someone. Give her the dignity of using her name you absolute fucking ghouls.

Massive protests in New York, London, Paris, Berlin after Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers ban women showing their faces or speaking in public. edition.cnn.com/2024/08/22/mid…

I’d start by not calling trafficked and raped children “sex workers” ⁦Guardian news⁩ ‘I miss home’: 13-year-old Nigerian girls trapped as sex workers in Ivory Coast | Nigeria | The Guardian theguardian.com/global-develop…

I prefer living in a society where men have to control their ugliest thoughts and actions towards women, than one that controls women so that men don’t have to control themselves.

"After 16 minutes of sitting at King's Cross, no-one in sight... I decided that I'd crawl off the train." Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson describes the moment staff failed to assist her in getting off a train in London last night. #R4Today

I saw this dreadful interview this morning - why is it ‘tough decisions’ always land on the poor and working class - where are the ‘tough choices’ affecting the wealthy, the corporations, the media barons, the hedge fund managers, the bankers?

The arrogance of these men, they see the inclusion of them in womanhood as ‘polishing the blurry edges’ of women Women are not blurry edges to be polished by fucking men Piss off woman hater

It is 2024 and in Manchester the Girl Guides march alongside adult men in nappies Manchester Pride Girlguiding Andy Burnham do none of you see the problem with this? 🚩🚩🚩

So many companies get behind Pride/LGBT+ groups because it’s frankly a cheap & easy way to virtual signal. Very few do the actual hard work of making services & spaces accessible & usable for people w disabilities even though that would significantly shift the dial on inclusion.

Many women have joined the protests rallying behind the phrase "My voice is not private." They sing as a powerful act of defiance using their voices as a symbol of resistance against the oppressive rule of the Taliban Their demonstrations serve as a courageous stand for freedom.

🇦🇫 Afghan women have been uploading videos of themselves singing in defiance of draconian laws imposed by the Taliban which order them to be silent in public Read more here 👇 telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…

The Labour government plans to restrict Winter Fuel Payments to those on pension credit. It will cause suffering to many elderly people. But was it a choice they were forced to make or something that the Labour Party had planned for years? Hansard, March 2014 is interesting.

T. S. Eliot, The Cocktail Party (1948).

On X, likes mean little, the replies are where the account boosts are coming from. Watch out for engagement farmers - they tweet infuriating things to get you to respond. If they’re monetised, this is making them money. Screenshot and discuss their nonsense, but don’t engage.

Maram’s stunning piano performance in Kabul. Under the Taliban, music is now illegal. The Afghanistan National Institute of Music empowered talents like her, but one of the Taliban's first moves was to ban the school.

Imagine living like this, never being able to properly see the world. Being denied the most basic experiences, like feeling the sun shine on your face or the wind blow through your hair. It's torture.

Ms. Gisèle Pélicot is a hero. She asked that her trial be made public so every single piece of shit that raped her will have their name & face shown. - Man drugged wife's dinner then invited more than 50 men over to rape her whilst she lay unconscious. mirror.co.uk/news/world-new…

We made a tough decision to take away money from the elderly and disabled. We wept as we made the decision, it was the only way we could think of to help kill them off sooner. 😢