Soph 🦋

27, She/Her, sí/í #BlackLivesMatter #TheNorthIsNow #FreePalestine 🇵🇸

[kaylee ♡ @zany_zeglian]

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[Sarah Creighton 🍂 @Saraita101]

A late take from me @SluggerOToole. Economic conditions provide important context for the violence of the past week. However, this is also about racism and we shouldn't shy away from saying so.

https://t.co/iR4fmishMd

[Diane Abbott @HackneyAbbott]

There is a myth, very widely held in Labour, that we achieved an huge popular victory in 2024 under Starmer.
In fact we won 9.7 million votes, over 3 million fewer than in 2017 and half a million less than the 'disastrous' 2019 poll.
We won because the Tories imploded in 2024.

[Grusha🕯 @decadentquill]

You can lead an ordinary life and be an extraordinary writer. And even if you're a mediocre writer, please write. Someone will resonate with your words. We need long form content in this world of slop. I want to see people being earnest and thoughtful.

[sarah hagi @KindaHagi]

diane keaton… yea i don’t accept that i simply don’t

[Shirley Carter’s Pussy @shirlpuzz]

Heathcliff it’s me I’m abysmal

[Annalise Keating @Ariannnyy_]

I’m never wrong.

[SAREL 🌼 @Sarel_x]

This series is a real reflection of dating in the UK. #Loveisland #LoveislandUK

[rachel tensions @halfsaiid]

i feel like 27 is such a chic age… shame about the club

[Shirley Carter’s Pussy @shirlpuzz]

I’m literally shaking. Our beautiful Kim Woodburn. Fly high my dorlin, her impact on Twitter and British pop culture especially should be studied. A British legend.

[Michael Magee @michaelmagee__]

remember the burning of Bombay Street

remember that over 3000 catholic families were forced out of their homes / made homeless between August and September 1969

remember how the Northern state was initiated and sustained by pogroms against the minority Catholic population (1920-22, 1935, and 1969) and remember how those pogroms were orchestrated and encouraged by unionist politicians who used Catholics as scapegoats for the rampant poverty and social inequality suffered by working-class people across the six counties

mostly importantly, remember how the broader political and media establishment spent the best part of 50 years (leading up to the beginning of the conflict) portraying Catholics as belligerent, distrustful, lazy, base, and perpetuated the idea that our place in society was conditional, provided our parents and grandparents were accepting of and subservient to the structures of power that oppressed and discriminated against them in every facet of their daily lives

nothing about what we’re seeing in Ballymena and other areas across the six counties has anything to do with protecting women and children, it’s the natural outgrowth of a reactionary ideology based on fear and hatred of ‘the other’

that fear has been redirected away from Catholics (for the most part) and on to people of colour, and the blatant racism we’re seeing isn’t happening in isolation, it has been stoked and facilitated by figures within loyalism and unionism (and the media, under the cloak of ‘genuine concerns’) and compounded by far-right agitators across the 32 counties who have preyed upon and exploited peoples fears and insecurities in the face of deepening inequality

(important to keep in mind that since covid, we’ve seen the biggest transference of wealth from the poorest to the richest people in society in decades)

all this is to say we have a responsibility towards our history and understanding the structural forces behind the racist attacks we’re seeing today

our neighbours are our neighbours, they are our people regardless of the colour of their skin or their religious beliefs, and they have as much a right to be here and make lives for themselves as anybody else

[Sara O'Neill 🐚 @SaraONeillArt]

I remember going to the launch of a report by @WomensAidNI last year, featuring this map.

I remember being struck by the number of dots over my home county, Antrim.

I remember hearing about the murders of many of these women over the years.

I don’t remember rioting. 1/

[Rhys @rhysrmann]

The Brockwell Park Association when they faintly hear gays dancing to Kesha at 10pm on a Sunday night:

[putasinghonit @putasinghonit]

mighty hoopla survived covid, the mud last year and the residents of lambeth council this year. they stay winning actually

[Nelly V @whenwehaveeyes]

Unless you’re descended from pure aristocracy, your female ancestors worked harder than many men do today. Smarten up, you’re not a wilting flower.

[count dykecula 🦇 @gothesbian]

do you guys not have friends who love you or what

[Soph 🦋 @SophESea]

Shameless plug but idc. Long live Connswater. East East East Belfast ✊

[Soph 🦋 @SophESea]

If, like me, you’ve been rattled by the news of Connswater Shopping Centre closing its doors, you might resonate with my most recent Substack article :) https://t.co/LxbXsZ6oWc