Melissa Russell

Full of ideas, fascinated by ideas - let's use them for positive change!!!

[Melissa Russell @IdeasForChange]

Thanks Chet Faker for spending 3,710 minutes with me in 2022. I couldn’t stop listening to Talk Is Cheap. #SpotifyWrapped https://t.co/oFy1YOb3CF

[Melissa Russell @IdeasForChange]

@mselizabethr Stop telling women what they should and shouldn't do with their bodies.

[Melissa Russell @IdeasForChange]

@samanthamaiden Stop grubby journalism. Just stop it. Do better.

[Melissa Russell @IdeasForChange]

@taraashli Sceptical. Evidence?

[Melissa Russell @IdeasForChange]

@JerryColen 2/2 And how about you then do some deep reflection on your own behaviours across your lifetime, and the many ways you might have perpetuated racial inequalities. And when you've done that, look me in the eye and tell me you have nothing to apologise for.

[Melissa Russell @IdeasForChange]

@JerryColen 1/2 How about you just start with acknowledging it in a meaningful way. Acknowledging the impacts and the ways in which that history had afforded you opportunities and privileges that many POC don't have, simply because of the colour of their skin.

[Melissa Russell @IdeasForChange]

@carmenllywelyn Yeah. That wasn't the question I asked. But also, no. It doesn't work that way. Meanness is meanness and trolling is trolling.

[Melissa Russell @IdeasForChange]

@carmenllywelyn So we agree. In this case yes, you are simply perpetuating meanness, in the same way those you criticise do.

[Melissa Russell @IdeasForChange]

@carmenllywelyn I don't understand how, in your obvious rage against someone's poor treatment of others, you can then justify your choice of demeaning labels and insults. Meanness is meanness, and if you perpetuate it, how are you any better?

[Melissa Russell @IdeasForChange]

@JulieCollinsMP Unless that tweet was edited, the nos had it.

[Juanita Phillips @Juanita_Phillip]

Girl Teen: I’ve found the dress I want to wear to the formal.
Me: Is it nice?
Her: Yeah it’s very classic. You’ll love it.
Me: ok text me the link.
Her:

[Melissa Russell @IdeasForChange]

@MColvinMcKenzie @emmadegotardi We care because he's not alone. Because there are many, many more - including women - who think as he thinks. And that's precisely what #rapeculture is.

[Melissa Russell @IdeasForChange]

@shortyljm @emmadegotardi Trolls typically agitate for sport. Whereas Seth, and many others like him, genuinely believe what they're saying.

[Melissa Russell @IdeasForChange]

@Carolin35724834 @AstraKate @emmadegotardi The IG page PD protect, run by amazing woman, finds and reports child abuse pages. She can't get most of those banned on platforms like this, so Seth will be around for a long time. Interestingly, Russia has taken the lead in social media laws around child abuse material.

[Melissa Russell @IdeasForChange]

@Richo602 @emmadegotardi And also, a child is a child and the minimum age of sexual consent laws exist for a reason. People - like Seth - seem to simply not want to understand the dynamics of grooming, predation, fear, shame, guilt etc that predators use to maintain control of their victims.

[Melissa Russell @IdeasForChange]

@Elizabe21895764 @emmadegotardi This 100% is how I also feel.

[Melissa Russell @IdeasForChange]

@markdas70 @muso1947 @emmadegotardi Kudos to your son for his efforts. It will take an army of men to turn the tide.

[Melissa Russell @IdeasForChange]

@cowcumbla @wgavinh @emmadegotardi It's a lot more common than people want to acknowledge.

[Melissa Russell @IdeasForChange]

@Bethenny You know what else is a choice? Being a bitchy mole. You could just choose not to. Just don't. It's that simple.

[Prof Francois Balloux @BallouxFrancois]

Additional 'UK lineage' (B 1.1.7) genomes have been uploaded today on #GISAID for The Netherlands, Hong Kong, Israel and Australia. Its global presence should make it easy to work out whether it is intrinsically more contagious.
https://t.co/oz1ljLCE6m