Today a coroner has ruled that 2-year-old Awaab Ishak died as a result of a severe respiratory condition caused due to prolonged exposure to mould in a home environment. Action to treat and prevent the mould was not taken. Awaab Ishak, from Rochdale, died in December 2020. 🧵
1. I don’t expect much from the Saudi government when it comes to human rights.
But there is a horrific violation of human rights that I want to bring attention to.
This is Salma al-Shehab and she's just been sentenced to 34 years in prison for tweeting and retweeting.
Today is the anniversary of the Stonewall riots, the reason Pride is in June.
In 1969, it was illegal to wear clothes that were considered inappropriate for one's sex and when the police raided the Stonewall Inn's gay bar, they started to do a genital check (as was procedure).
This will be my most sincere tweet ever.
I am pleading with anyone who will listen. I’m begging you, as a nurse, from the bottom of my heart…please get vaccinated. Today.
I’m so tired. We’re all so tired. And we’re running out of resources and people. Please…please help us.
This is a statement written by Sarah Everard’s mother. It’s beautifully written, the pain is palpable, and the content is poignant. It’s heartbreaking to read, and yet it barely even scrapes the surface of the agony she must be feeling. RIP Sarah. #SheWasJustWalkingHome
One should think of gender the way we think of genre; as a largely arbitrary category with badly defined boundaries that mostly exists to sell you things.
Drinking when you're 18: eating's cheating!
Drinking when you're over 25: if I drink on an empty stomach I will genuinely not live to see another sunrise