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[Rikali ✨🏳️‍⚧️ @Rikalii_old]

Trans girl: I want HRT because I don't want to go through testosterone puberty.

Transphobes: No, it's probably just a phase and you will grow out of it.

Trans girl as an adult: It wasn't a phase, and I want to be an athlete.

Transphobes: No, you had testosterone puberty.

Trans girl as an adult: Estrogen reverses the advantage and actually gives me a disadvantage because-

Transphobes: No, idc.

[Trades Union Congress @The_TUC]

Reform-led Durham council cut off funding to the annual Pride celebrations.

So trade unions launched a fundraiser to save it, eventually raising more money than was cut.

Which means this year's Pride will be bigger than ever.

In the 1980s, the LGBT+ community raised thousands of pounds to help striking miners and their families.

When we stick up for each other, we can achieve anything.

[Miffy @miffythegamer]

JK Rancid and her flying monkeys will be FUMIN’!

[Dr Andy 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ ally 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 indie @AndieforIndie]

This is an example of @DreyfusJames interacting like a performing seal, with an overly homophobic arsehole.
There are many such examples in his tweet history. His internalised homophobia is at mental illness levels.

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

“My name is Amos Goldberg. I am an Israeli Professor of Holocaust Studies. For nearly 30 years I have researched and taught the Holocaust, genocide and state violence.

And I want to tell whoever is willing to listen that what’s happening now in Gaza is a genocide.

A year ago when October 7th happened, like all Israelis I was in shock. It was a war crime and a crime against humanity. 1200 people - more than 800 of them civilians - were killed in one day. Children and the elderly were among those taken hostage. Communities were destroyed. It was outrageous, traumatizing, personal. Like most Israelis, I know people who were killed, who lost loved ones or whose loved ones were taken hostage.

But immediately afterwards came Israel’s response and within weeks thousands of civilians were killed in Gaza. It took me some time to digest what was unfolding before my eyes. It was agonizing to confront that reality. I was reluctant to call it a genocide.

But if you read Raphael Lemkin – the Jewish-Polish legal scholar who coined the term ‘genocide’ and was the major driving force behind the 1948 United Nations Genocide Convention – what is happening in Gaza now is exactly what he had in mind when he spoke about genocide.

It does not need to look like the Holocaust to be a genocide. Each genocide looks different and not all involve killing of millions or the entire group. The United Nations Genocide Convention explicitly asserts that genocide is the act of deliberately destroying a group in whole or in part. Those are the words.

But there does need to be a clear intent.

And indeed, there are clear indications of intent to destroy Gaza: Israel’s leaders - including the prime minister and the minister of defence - and many high-ranking military officers, media personalities, rabbis, as well as ordinary soldiers were very open about what they wanted to achieve. There were countless documented incitements to turn the whole of Gaza into rubble and claims that there are no innocent people living there.

A radical atmosphere of dehumanization of the Palestinians prevails in Israeli society to an extent that I can’t remember in my 58 years of living here.

Now that vision has been enacted. Tens of thousands of innocent children, women and men have been killed. Over a hundred thousand were wounded. There is a near total destruction of infrastructure, intentional starvation and blocking of humanitarian aid. There are mass graves and reliable testimony of summary executions. Children that were shot by snipers. All the universities and almost all hospitals are gone. Almost all the population is displaced. There have been numerous bombings of civilians in so-called ‘safe zones’. Gaza does not exist anymore. It is completely destroyed. Thus, the outcome fits perfectly with the stated intentions of Israel’s leadership.

Lemkin - that scholar who coined the term ‘genocide’ - described two phases of a genocide. The first is the destruction of the annihilated group and the second is what he called ‘imposition of the national pattern’ of the perpetrator. We are now witnessing the second phase as Israel prepares ethnically cleansed areas for Israeli settlements.

And therefore, I have come to the conclusion that this is exactly what a genocide looks like. We don’t teach about genocides in order to realize it retrospectively. We teach about it in order to prevent it and to stop it.

But like in every other case of genocide in history right now we have mass denial. Both here in Israel and around the world.

But reality cannot be denied.

So yes, it is a genocide.

And once you come to this conclusion you cannot remain silent.”

- Statement to Led By Donkeys, December 2024
- Photo: Parliament Square, London, 8.40am, 4th December 2024

[astrology owl (the kinger enjoyer) @krang0r]

@TPointUK See as another concerned parent, id be really disturbed if i saw a pissed up shirtless man committing vandalism that close to a primary school. How do we know hes a parent of kids in that school? He looks dodgy as fuck and not someone who should be near kids

[Mwirigi Wa Kibaki @KingOfMeru]

@TPointUK Why is he naked outside a school though? He is more dangerous to the kids than those flags...

[ManchesterSalfordLGBTQ @LGBTQPrideUK]

@TPointUK That’s not the trans flag. Thats the Pride flag representing all LGBTQ’s including those we have lost.

This is not a concerned parent. This is another far right Neanderthal damaging property that is not his all because he’s homophobic.

Why is he at a school with his top off?

[www.TransLucent.Org.UK @TransLucent_Org]

STATEMENT.

Please share widely.

[Gyll King Post Skip Diplomacy @GyllKing]

Caroline Litman’s daughter died the day after Helen Joyce published her sinister film calling for the elimination of trans people. She’ll never know if Alice saw the film but she wants you to think about why our government takes this cruel ghoul seriously. https://t.co/2NsTWXVuAu

[nyara @nyaraVT]

This is the same nonsensical, fearmongering bullshit that is now used against trans people.

We don't want to make straight kids gay. We want gay kids to live.
We don't want to make cis kids trans. We want trans kids to live.

Stop falling for the same lies over and over again.

[Nithya Shri @Nithya_Shrii]

If you poured a gallon of poison in a CEO's pool, you'd be arrested, for attempted murder.

They pour 10,000 gallons into your drinking water, that's just business.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

"Poverty is the leading cause of all ill health.. so austerity had a major role to play in spiralling mental illness since 2010"

Natasha Devon on the hypocrisy of the Tory leader blaming social media for a surging mental health crisis.

[🌼🌹Raquel🌹🌼 @eternallyRaq]

Israel: commits a genocide

Also Israel: why does the world hate us? All we did was repeatedly violate international law and attack every single one of our neighbors while our military live-streamed their bombings of churches, mosques, schools & aid workers!!! It makes no sense!

[The Daily Britain @dailybritainonx]

Lord Sugar says Boris Johnson and Michael Gove should be 'in jail' for 'lies' they told about Brexit.

In an interview with the Sunday Times, the businessman said Brexit was the 'worst thing I have experienced in business.'

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Nigel Farage wants to normalise working over 40 hours a week because he plans to turn the 36 hour week back into the 60 hour week.

And you are going to be paid the same for 60 hours as for 36.

[Ve 🏳️‍⚧️🇮🇹🇺🇦🇪🇺🇹🇼🔯⚛️ @RinascitaVe]

UK 🇬🇧 wasn't 'TERF Island' 20 years ago. It was a decent place for LGBTQ, not Genital Obsessed Middle Aged Bigots Central. What happened? How did this TERF movement emerge? It delights in sadistic cruelty and obsessive degradation towards a tiny 1% minority of trans people.

[Thomas Willett @ThomasWillett9]

Glinner uses “twink” as a homophobic slur because he’s too much of a coward to use the word f*g.

[Lance Lachlan ✌🏻 @lancelachlan]

The Reform policy is basically a massive £75k tax cut for the wealthy. Other countries tried similar schemes and shut them down because lawyers, accountants and stockbrokers started classing huge chunks of their salary as “overtime” to avoid tax.

It’s the same playbook Trump uses - sell it to working people, while the biggest gains go to those already at the top.