Imogen Forster

Poet living and working in Edinburgh. MA in Writing Poetry, Newcastle University, 2017. Her second pamphlet, Adverse Camber, is looking for a good home.

[MFEA Slovenia @MZEZ_RS]

Welcome to the new 🇸🇮 Minister of Foreign and European Affairs, @TKajzer, a long-serving career diplomat.

In his presentation to the 🇸🇮 National Assembly, he highlighted the importance of a proactive, pragmatic and credible foreign policy – strengthening relations with neighbouring countries and Central Europe, supporting the transatlantic alliance, promoting security and prosperity, and reinforcing #Slovenia’s international standing.

We look forward to working together to advance these priorities and further strengthen Slovenia’s role in the #EU, @NATO and the wider international community.

We wish him success in his new role.

[Sketch Engine @SketchEngine]

From the ELEXAI kick-off meeting in Ljubljana. Lexical Computing is now part of this EU Horizon project, alongside 24 other partners. #ELEXAI builds on the previous @ELEXIS_EU project to improve #LLMs with lexicographic data and apply LLMs in #lexicography.

[MFEA Slovenia @MZEZ_RS]

Na @MZEZ_RS danes pozdravljamo novega ministra, dolgoletnega kariernega diplomata @TKajzer.

V svoji predstavitvi v @Drzavnizbor je poudaril pomen proaktivne, pragmatične in verodostojne zunanje politike, ki krepi vezi s sosedi, Srednjo Evropo, podpira transatlantsko zavezništvo ter deluje za varnost in blaginjo in utrjuje mednarodni položaj 🇸🇮.

Veselimo se sodelovanja pri uresničevanju teh ciljev ter nadaljnji krepitvi vloge Slovenije v #EU, @NATO in širšem mednarodnem prostoru.

Ob prevzemu funkcije mu želimo uspešno delo.

[POTC - Peace Operations Training Centre @POTC_Slovenia]

✅ Another training successfully delivered together with @MZEZ_RS experts 🇸🇮🤝
This week, we hosted Slovenian diplomatic personnel for a training on personal security.

🔗 Read more about the training here:
https://t.co/Wlsi16JNvr

[Andrée Frieze 💚🌍🐝🌳🚂🚶🏽‍♀️🚌🚲🔯 @andree_frieze]

The @LondonAssembly Transport Committee is investigating #autonomousvehicles. Respond to the Call for Evidence here
https://t.co/t74wcn4fRh

[Catharine Cellier-Smart - FR to ENG Translator @Smart_Translate]

🇺🇦 The Drahomán Prize, which recognizes #translators of books from #Ukrainian into other #languages, has named Nina Murray as its 2025 winner
https://t.co/KYACYukVjh
via @ChytomoE

[Mayor of London's Culture team @LDN_Culture]

Resonant Matter explores how London’s underground culture is powered by the music and fashion born from its diverse communities✨

From pirate radio and street protests to sound‑system culture and club nights 🪩

📆ends 14 June

Free entry!

https://t.co/yCfx16CB8J

[Jaka Bartolj mediahistorynow.bsky.social @MediaHistoryNow]

@RobCJournalist A large chuck of Slovenia was also annexed by Germany. Here's an article about Slovenians who were forced to serve in the Wehrmacht--and how they were stigmatized after the war: https://t.co/IidLtSsvjH

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

If you spray chemicals on every pest, you're guaranteeing that you'll always have pests.

Pests reproduce fast. Their predators reproduce slowly. After a broad pesticide application, aphids can rebuild a full population in a week, but the ladybugs that were keeping them in check will take a season to return, if they return at all.

A yard that gets sprayed regularly is always one warm week away from a pest outbreak.

[Keith Jebb @keith_jebb]

All the nice boys love a well-spoken misogynist.

[Roger Gall @Shambles151]

On 12th June -10am–5pm.

After never having been charged with - & never having been found guilty of terrorism - Pro-Palestine activists will be sentenced for terrorism.

A first in UK history.

Please RT this until this travesty of justice is ended.
Thank you.

[Dr Rahmeh Aladwan @doctor_rahmeh]

To make sure British citizens realise what's going on, Palantir can now:

• Build and run the National Firearms Registry, tracking the addresses and medical files of 500,000 gun and explosives holders across all 43 police forces.

• Map your digital footprint by trialling police systems (like Project Nectar) that pull your texts, call logs, emails, and social media data into a single profile.

• Track your physical movements by linking live number plate trackers, CCTV locations, and mobile phone tower pings.

• Process unverified intelligence by feeding anonymous tips and police notes about who you meet into automated linking models.

• Profile police officers using data-matching tools that actively scrape the device logs, vehicle uses, and system logins of a force's own employees.

• Access direct NHS data through a £330 million contract, using admin privileges that let engineers view patient environments before the files are scrambled (pseudonymised).

This is the same Palantir used to coordinate the largest simultaneous terrorist attack in history by the IOF in Lebanon.

This is the same Palantir used by the IOF since 2014 and actively being used in Gaza.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

Yet more greenwashing from Ofwat. Welsh Water were caught. thanks to the efforts of the public, illegally dumping sewage into the enforcement, on a mechanised industrial scale.

Where are the investigations into executives, where are the prosecutions?

Nada, nothing, zero, zilch. What a joke.

[Ben Goldsmith @BenGoldsmith]

The European factory fishing industry and its political sponsors now accusing *birds* of causing the collapse of fish stocks says it all really.

This is what the conservation movement is up against.

‘European fishing nations call for cormorant cull’

https://t.co/OZHbJvNZ9D

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is so insanely corrupt, I can’t even believe it.

More than half the donors to Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom just won over $50 billion in new federal contracts in six months.

And here’s the part that should make your blood boil.

Sixteen of these 27 donors were facing federal enforcement actions, antitrust reviews, labor cases, securities charges. Many of those cases have been quietly dropped or scaled back since Trump took office. You write a check, your legal problems disappear. That’s not a coincidence.

The White House won’t even release the full donor list. They’re hiding it on purpose, because daylight is the one thing pay-to-play can’t survive. A federal judge already ruled ballroom construction has to stop until Congress authorizes it.

Government is supposed to serve the people, not auction itself off to the highest bidder. When access goes to whoever pays the most, working families always end up paying the price.

We either end the corruption, or the corruption will end us.

https://t.co/4MGFzSseFl

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

The idea that in recent days whole towns and villages were blatantly, deliberately cut off from the public water supply because water companies haven't invested in enough equipment to treat and supply water is utter madness.

[Imogen Forster @ImogenForster2]

@spanish_nature But 'albubilla' is an outlier among common names for the bird, no? 'Puput' more expressive.

[Imogen Forster @ImogenForster2]

@spanish_nature ¡Upupa epops!

[Reform Party UK Exposed 🇬🇧 @reformexposed]

Reform UK’s #Makerfield Candidate @RobKenyonReform can’t answer a simple question.

This isn’t new politics, it’s dodging simple questions.

Share far and wide!

[Valeria Bradley @ValerieEBradley]

@docrussjackson @RitualofLuv The account in question is inciting violence against UK police, it is bordering on incitement of terrorism.
https://t.co/cDcRLzJMDU

[GET A GRIP @docrussjackson]

The cowardly anonymous racist US-based account @RitualofLuv pushes disgusting explicitly racist, accelerationist, white-nationalist propaganda: it posts almost exclusively obsessive anti-non-white content.

It uses repeated slurs ("brown sub race," "3rd world subhuman," "cunt," "phagget"), calls for whites to "embrace our racism" because "we are better," and frequently posts graphic violent fantasies including multiple "swinging from the end of a rope" lynching-style threats: textbook accelerationist white supremacist ideology.

The tone is compulsive and repetitive, as if the user is locked in a feedback loop of scrolling, seething, and discharging venom - much like Trump, who the account holder supports.

Likely traits of the user include chronic online radicalisation, possible real-life social/sexual frustration, and a need to feel powerful through anonymous cruelty. It's a sad, isolated figure channeling personal failures into racial hatred.

No prominent cases exist of an American @X user being criminally held accountable in the UK for racist threats, such as lynching references, made against a British citizen. There is no publicly documented evidence of a low-profile American X user being fully identified, prosecuted, and convicted in the UK for this type of content.

Such posts cause significant harms by inflicting direct emotional distress, fear, and anxiety on the targeted individual, particularly when invoking graphic racial violence like lynching against a named British citizen; for public figures such as journalists, they heighten personal safety concerns, disrupt daily life, and contribute to long-term mental health impacts including trauma and hypervigilance.

This creates a chilling effect on public speech when fear of further harassment or violence leads targeted individuals and others in similar positions to self-censor, avoid certain topics, or withdraw from platforms altogether, which is precisely what these evil cowardly anonymous racists want.

Such content may also encourage copycat harassment, amplify racial intimidation, deepen community divisions, and erode trust in online spaces.

UK authorities have issued general warnings about pursuing overseas online offenders, including potential extradition, but no high-profile successful actions have occurred in this specific category.

UK law does allow for extraterritorial application in theory for offences affecting British citizens, yet enforcement against US-based anonymous users remains rare due to legal, practical, and diplomatic barriers.

The most effective immediate steps continue to be preserving evidence, reporting the post and account to X for violent threats, and submitting a formal hate crime report to UK police via True Vision or 101, which can trigger data requests to the platform.

Full identification and prosecution of low-profile anonymous accounts is possible but uncommon in practice for this type of content, with prosecutions for online racist threats happening in the UK but overwhelmingly against UK residents, while cross-border enforcement against low-impact US accounts remains theoretical.

Elon Musk bought a social media platform and turned it into a racist hate amplification machine - not because he believes in free speech, but because the rich and powerful have always depended on ordinary people being divided.

The rich and powerful have long used "divide and rule" because it effectively maintains control at low cost. By pitting ordinary people against each other along lines of race, religion, ethnicity, class, or ideology, elites prevent unified collective action against them, distract from wealth concentration and systemic issues, and position themselves as arbiters.

This political strategy succeeds by exploiting natural in-group/out-group psychology, being cheap to sustain through propaganda and selective policies, and becoming self-reinforcing: while unity of the many threatens elite power, engineered division preserves it.