CommonPerson1052

'Shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder' Leon Kass.
Not all 👍 or reposts are endorsements. l am just interested in cultural shifts & views.

[Women's Rights Network - WRN @WomensRightsNet]

Two weeks today! Our first ever national conference on Sunday 5th July in central London promises to be a lively and sometimes controversial day.

Our speakers will be discussing a wide range of topics including: violence and exploitation; the future of women’s sport; feminism and young women; women and the Law.

Tickets for Feminism: What’s the Point? available via the link in our pinned post.

Here’s reminder of the speakers on our four panels at Feminism: What's the Point? 1/6

[Diana Alastair💚🤍💜 ⚢ ❌❌✡️ @sappholives83]

So it turns out that when the boy was thrown to the crocodiles yesterday, both of the carers were on their phones. Furthermore, in spite of the fact that the suspect was a large man, both carriers were female.

I would argue that if a large disabled man is dangerous enough to throw a child over a 4 foot safety barrier into a crocodile pool - and the boy was in fact bitten - then perhaps he should be attended by caregivers who are also large men. Or, you know, and I’m just spit balling here, he could be kept in a secure facility where he can’t get to vulnerable children. It’s a crazy idea, but I think it just might work.

[Seán Ako 🇮🇪 @TheAkoFiles]

Met a straight American girl last night with bright yellow hair, a septum ring and enough bad tattoos to keep the laser removal clinics alive during the Great Depression.

She was all over me and my gay friend right up until I mentioned our conservative views.

Within seconds we were being told we hated ourselves.
No conversation, just bizarre assumptions being made about us because we happen to think for ourselves.

The irony is that the people who talk most about acceptance are utterly incapable of accepting a gay person who disagrees with them.

Diversity ends where independent thought begins.

The funniest part is, she had “I Forgive You” tattooed on her neck, but she couldn’t forgive us for being individuals.

And fair play to @GayCardDeclined, who told her exactly where to stick it 😂

[CommonPerson1052 @CommonPerson50]

@JPMasters There's no such thing as a 'transgender' man. They are confused women who have been caught up in a social contagion. Any human being that promotes the removal of healthy body parts is a sick fuck.

[Ozor Ndi Ozor @OzorNdiOzor]

This Nigerian traveler claim he’s 15 years old, and has been working as a security guard in London for 10 years? 🤷🏾‍♂️ A 15 years old security guard in London?? Like How??🤦🏾‍♂️

WTF is going on here??

[Maxi @AllForProgress_]

On a stretch of the River Roding in Barking strewn with waste and detritus, a barrister named Paul Powlesland did something the British state has spent decades failing to do: he cleaned it and made it look like a river again. He now faces legal action.

Yep. He and a group of volunteers hired a digger for £1,000 of their own money and hauled more than 200 bags of filth out of the water - packaging, broken appliances, used needles, even weapons. By any sane reckoning it was a small act of public good, civic spirit at its most potent and wholesome.

For his trouble, he received a letter from the Environment Agency informing him that he is under investigation for working without a permit, an offence that carries up to two years in prison.

The same Environment Agency that found the will to come after a volunteer for cleaning a river without the right paperwork has not, on that same river, prosecuted a single one of the illegal sewage spills that have fouled it for years. Not one. It's too fat, scrofulous, and indolent to fight the sort of people who'd do this. But it has energy to spare for the man with the digger and the bin bags because they expect he's likely to be a reasonable sort of Englishman who pays his taxes and honours procedure, however unreasonable it may be, when levied upon him.

Protecting rivers? They have no interest in that.

This is the thing about our institutions that the public grasps in its bones and the people who run them never will. Our institutions fail, and the manner of their failing is the worst part of it - the bloodless, box-ticking, permission-withholding callousness of bodies that have forgotten they exist to achieve anything at all.

They should all be cleared out; every decision-making body in the building responsible for the dereliction of duty, and for daring to persecute a member of the public, must be hollowed out. The whole thing started from scratch.

Better yet, I'll tell you what an outfit like Progress will do once it gains power; we'll put people like @paulpowlesland in charge of the very body now threatening to jail him. The institutions meant to look after this country - the Environment Agency and a dozen like it - are dying of exactly the defensive, do-nothing culture that sent that letter. They need to be run by people like him who actually give a toss. People with the brains to understand the problem and the plain human instinct to go and fix it themselves, while the rest stand on the bank writing their little sociopathic missives to the ones who already did.

I don't know the first thing about Paul. I've never met him. I don't know what his political preferences are, the shape of his beliefs, what else we would agree or disagree on. None of that means a thing to me. He's a good man, and the right kind of man to make things work; and Progress is an attempt to make the country work, not a club made to serve a certain type or belief profile. A country is made to work by the people who, whatever their politics, cannot walk past a problem without trying to solve it. There are such people everywhere in Britain - on the rivers, in the schools, the wards, the workshops - and almost none of them are running anything, because the institutions have been built to keep that exact kind of person out.

Drop the case against him. Then go further: find the hundred other Paul Powleslands the country is currently ignoring or threatening, and give them the keys. Put the responsibility and the authority, together, in their hands. Britain will be cleaned up - its rivers, and a great deal besides - in no time. It will be done by the people willing to get in the water, not by the ones writing letters about permits from the bank.

[S A M M Y Woodhouse @officialsammyuk]

Due to the Sentencing Act 2026, Arshid Hussain – the man who abducted and raped me as a child, and who did the same to dozens of other children – is being considered for early release. He was sentenced to 35 years in prison in early 2017 and was described as one of the most dangerous men in the UK. He was later convicted of further offences.

His brother, Basharat Hussain, is also being considered for release.

I honestly can’t put into words how disgusted I am with the British government.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

You might find it difficult to do two things at once, Paul, but I find it remarkably easy to enjoy the millions I've made while continuing to care about women's rights.

[Count Dankula @CountDankulaTV]

They don't want people to figure out that if they just get off their arse they can fix their own community in 2 weeks. They want you to keep paying them taxes so they can fix your community for you. In 3 years. Maybe. Probably not.

[Coinvo @Coinvo]

INSANE: 🇬🇧 A U.K. lawyer who cleaned up 200 bags of waste from a polluted river now faces up to 2 years in prison for doing it without a permit. 🤯

Paul Powlesland says wildlife fish and dragonflies have returned to the river since the clean-up began.

[CommonPerson1052 @CommonPerson50]

@johnmcdonnellMP https://t.co/m1hKNToMTV

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Man assumes his fellow men won’t take ‘no’ for an answer, will break the law, will transgress women’s boundaries unless physical force is used against them, and wants to make it clear that he’s entirely on the men’s side.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Man assumes his fellow men won’t take ‘no’ for an answer, will break the law, will transgress women’s boundaries unless physical force is used against them, and wants to make it clear that he’s entirely on the men’s side.

[Morgan 🦋 @MorganPCALLB]

Tracey Johnson is a hero.

She jumped into that crocodile enclosure and saved that child.

[Renée Hoenderkamp @DrHoenderkamp]

Listening to @PeterTatchell on @GBNEWS once again speaking utter medical nonsense. Let me correct you Peter;

1. Dose for precocious puberty lower and used for a medical condition which would have harmful effects if not treated
2. They are for the shortest possible time to allow puberty to go ahead as a benefit risk ratio in a medical condition.
3. The trial protocol says they will discuss egg and sperm freezing; pre-pubertal boys DO NOT HAVE SPERM TO FREEZE.
4. There are multiple decent trials that show these kids get osteoporosis after 2 years of use, height loss, fertility loss, IQ loss and more
5. 98% of them go on to cross sex hormones - it isn't a pause or time to think
6. Lots of decent evidence to say; let puberty commence and in up to 95% of these kids get through it and most are gay.

They are children; an 11 year old has no concept of any of these side effects that will affect them for life.

Peter Tatchell you should either go to medical school or back away from something you clearly don't understand.

[Andrew Doyle @andrewdoyle_com]

I still can’t quite get my head around this.

An executive agency of the Scottish government has just openly admitted it intends to continue breaking the law.

At the very least, it is in contempt of court.

What are the consequences for this?

[Genevieve Gluck @WomenReadWomen]

Brazilian feminist Isabella Cêpa @CepaIsabella was facing 25 years in prison in her home country for “misgendering” a “transgender” politician before she was granted political asylum in Europe.

Cêpa first came under criminal investigation after she made a social media post about Erika Hilton (Felipe Santos Silva) – a male politician who “identifies” as a woman.

Hilton was elected to São Paulo’s municipal government in November of 2020, winning his seat by a landslide that gave him the title of the most voted-for ‘woman’ in Brazil.

Cêpa commented on social media that she was “disappointed to hear that the most voted-for woman in São Paulo – later found out that it was in the entire country – was a man.”

Hilton reported Cêpa to the police, prompting a criminal investigation. Cêpa learned she was being charged with five counts of “social racism” and that she was facing up to 25 years in prison.

Earlier this year, Hilton was appointed as president of the Women’s Rights Committee for Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

The BBC's refusal to cover our rape gang inquiry report is a disgrace - I told them exactly that live on BBC.

[Diana Alastair💚🤍💜 ⚢ ❌❌✡️ @sappholives83]

Yesterday while everyone stared in frozen horror at the toddler who’d just been thrown into a crocodile pit, Tracey Johnson, one of the zoo’s owners, jumped 15 feet down into the pit, putting herself in serious danger in order to rescue the child. I think some kind of award would be appropriate - I don’t know much about British awards, but there has to be some kind of suitable way to recognize her bravery.

[Samantha Smith @SamanthaTaghoy]

“I will do whatever it takes to keep children safe”.

As a grooming survivor, I only have one thing to say to Keir Starmer:

How dare you pretend to care about us when you’ve silenced, gaslit, demonised, and exploited us at every turn.

How dare you.

[Progressive Misogyny @JustMisogyny]

GOVERNMENT: Men are women.

FWS: Men are not women.

GOVERNMENT: We're confused.

FWS: See you in court.

THE COURT: Men are not women.

<later>

GOVERNMENT: Men are women.

FWS: Men are not women.

GOVERNMENT: We're confused.

FWS: See you in court.

THE COURT: Men are not women.

<continues forever>