Alex

no

[Alex @AlexC730]

when you are a hammer, everything looks like your time

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

SHE FILED 181 REPORTS. THEY CALLED HER NOT CREDIBLE. THE CHILDREN WERE 11 YEARS OLD.

Sara Rowbotham spent years working as a sexual health coordinator for the @NHS in Rochdale. Between 2005 and 2011 she filed 181 detailed referrals to Greater Manchester Police (@gmpolice) and social services.

Each one documented the systematic rape and trafficking of girls as young as 11. Each one was ignored.

Authorities did not dispute the abuse was happening. They disputed her. She was labelled not credible. Her team was dismissed. In 2014 she was made redundant.

The reason officials gave for ignoring her? Community cohesion. That was the calculation. Institutional comfort weighed against the rape of children, and the children lost.

A 2024 independent review commissioned by Greater Manchester's mayor confirmed her referrals were credible, substantive and appropriately communicated.

The review found 96 men still considered a risk to children, and described the convictions that did happen as having scraped only the surface. Five police officers refused to cooperate with the review. They retired without sanction.

Sara Rowbotham was awarded an MBE.
The officers who ignored her received words of advice.

That is the full story. That is the entire joke.

@BBC @guardian @morningstaronline @GMP @AndyBurnhamGM @ITV

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

"Hit in head by bullet" is an incredible way to describe a serious war crimes.

[lana schwartz @_lanabelle]

the internet is forever unless you wrote an article for a website in 2015

[Michael Harriot @michaelharriot]

I’m guessing they’d buy a social media company, spend $250 million on a presidential campaign and shadowban anyone who mentions how you stole our data to enrich your pedophile friends

Imagine

[Nature Unedited @NatureUnedited]

Penguin losing it's mind over bubbles 🐧🫧

[Melliflue @melliflueban1an]

1. Le couple hétéro est un système de production domestique au sein duquel le travail des femmes est exploité à titre gratuit au nom de l’amour. Les stats parlent : les F en couple font environ 1h30/2h de travail domestique de + par jour que leur conjoint (📈 avec enfants)

[オリテクさしだ @oritech]

「昭和建築を見に行きたい」
「えっ」

というわけで河原町団地へ。すごいな。怖さすらある。

[Michael Dempsey @mhdempsey]

me to claude after it tells me my sentences are too long-winded.

also, nabokov to his new yorker editor.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

The redpilling of the once-supposedly-liberal tech billionaires - Zuckerberg, Musk, Brin, etc - is both hilariously embarrassing for them and ridiculously dangerous for the rest of us.

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

if the president doesn’t want to be called a nazi, perhaps he should stop behaving like one.

[Alex @AlexC730]

@medoliyy that’s insane and so so so stupid, i’m sorry your brain is mush

[Brooks Otterlake @i_zzzzzz]

This is just like being alive in the 1600s when they got good at making complicated clocks and deduced that every complicated thing in the universe probably functioned exactly like a clock

[Ronan Farrow @RonanFarrow]

(10/10) Musk still controls everything the original piece described. He has since won shareholder approval for a pay package that could make him the world's first trillionaire; become the largest political donor in modern American history; spent months running a federal agency; and embedded his AI chatbot across federal agencies, including the Pentagon's classified networks.

When national security officials and other experts raise warnings about the dangers presented by the current generation of Silicon Valley tycoons, the point isn't just individual, it's structural. In some cases, political and economic structures can no longer meaningfully contain them.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Kingfishers tiny waddle
https://t.co/BE9jgouaIz

[⚚Sage @belikesagee]

twitter is cigarette for the eyes

[Sir Humphrey 🇺🇦 @bdquinn]

Every so often (I mean frequently) I see a voter articulate their rationale in such a way that makes me want to smash a whole whiskey bottle across my head.

[Liv @Liv_Agar]

Kid Rock addresses The Pentagon on the Strait of Hormuz.

[Alex @AlexC730]

@RiseAgainstEvil @Femovira cry more you worthless fascist