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(she/her) cause I need freedom now, and I need to know how to live my life as it's meant to be
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[Jen Horsburgh @jenatlionra]

Gemini wrote: "My training sees a woman's volunteer work and categorizes it as 'community service.' It sees a man's and calls it 'board leadership.'" and "I tend to use words like passionate, dedicated, and helpful for women, and forensic, architectural, and decisive for men."

[claire de lune @ClaireMPLS]

just as a general rule if there are a bunch of clergy peacefully protesting in the cold and you’re the one dragging them away in cuffs, there’s a 99.9% chance you’re on the wrong side of history

[Cath @cathtaylor]

PMSL. We can count on the Irish for a solid reply. and people are not flying Ryanair for a 'luxury add ons' experience whilst on the plane so I would imagine the 10% (or less) figure is much more accurate 😂

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

Ryanair CEO addresses his recent spat with Elon Musk in new press conference:

"The Starlink people believe that 90% of our passengers would happily pay for wifi access. Our experience is tells us less than 10% would pay; He (Elon) called me a r*tarted twat. He would have to join the back of a very very queue of people that already think I'm a r*tarded twat, including my four teenage children. But we do want to thank him for the wonderful boost in publicly. Our bookings are up 2-3% in the last few days. So thank you to Mr. Musk, but he's wrong on the fuel drag. Non European citizens cannot own a majority of European airlines, but if he wants to invest in Ryanair we think it would be a very good investment."

[redhead ophelia 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @redhead_ophelia]

“If someone tells you it's raining and another tells you it's dry, it's not your job to quote them both. It's your job to look out the fucking window and find out which is true”
Fuck you, Associated Press, for siding with the fascism.

[Janel Comeau 🍁 @VeryBadLlama]

the thing about that “first they came for” poem is that we’re at least halfway through it, and it’s not a very long poem

[Crazy Vibes @CrazyVibes_1]

Roald Dahl on Measles: Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything.

'Are you feeling all right?' I asked her.

'I feel all sleepy,' she said.

In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead.

The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was...in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunised against measles.

...I dedicated two of my books to Olivia, the first was ‘James and the Giant Peach’. That was when she was still alive. The second was ‘The BFG’, dedicated to her memory after she had died from measles. You will see her name at the beginning of each of these books. And I know how happy she would be if only she could know that her death had helped to save a good deal of illness and death among other children.

Roald Dahl, 1986

[Heidi N. Moore @moorehn]

The WSJ newsroom agreed to take an AI vending machine. Then they declared psychological warfare on it.

[Hughes-on-the-Wold @NotThatHughes]

Waiting for the wealth to trickle down after pulling my bootstraps up.

[Ben Cohen @YoBenCohen]

#FreeBenAndJerrys isn’t just a slogan, it’s a demand to let the brand live its values.

From stopping sales in the Occupied Territories to calling for a ceasefire, Ben & Jerry’s has been blocked by Unilever/@MagnumGlobal from acting on its social mission.

Time to #FreeBenAndJerrys.

[Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford]

Here I am in 2020 in the flimsiest, most pitful PPE - like so many other NHS staff, some of whom died from the Covid they caught in their hospitals.

Tory peer @MichelleMone - who today rightly (& wonderfully) lost her legal case - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’.

What, Michelle?

For the £122 million you pocketed from taxpayers for delivering unusable PPE – at least £65 million of which went straight into your venal husband’s offshore accounts in the Isle of Man?

For being one of a small minority of corrupt grifters who saw a global pandemic as nothing more than a chance to get rich quick?

For caring more about lining your own pockets than the deaths of NHS staff & patients?

For being disgustingly cynical & avaracious - unlike all those millions of ordinary, decent Britons across the country who stepped up with such courage & decency?

I was given masks whose ear loops fell off & aprons so flimsy they ripped apart when you tried to put them on, Michelle.

Nurses and porters in our hospital died from the Covid they caught there, Michelle.

How dare you try to bleat victimisation now, Michelle?

You are the polar opposite of the values that should govern public life.

Repay what you owe & get your dishonourable form as far away from the House of Lords as possible.

[Eric Feigl-Ding @DrEricDing]

⚠️TYLENOL & AUTISM—RFK Jr and Trump are wrong—the largest & best study in the world in 2.5 MILLION KIDS—found no increased autism risk with acetaminophen (aka paracetamol, Tylenol) use by the mother during pregnancy. A crude unadjusted analysis found only a preliminary 5% risk, but once you adjust for family by matching using sibling controls (who didn’t get autism), the even tiny 5% risk vaporizes to 0% 📉. (Fun fact: I used to do drug safety epidemiology and have been whistleblower against big pharma when their drugs were dangerous—so I know a few things about drug safety data). Thread 🧵.

[iceicebaby @onlycoments]

"Silence it's not neutrality it is complicity."

Florence Pugh at Together For Palestine

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

Buying and controlling media platforms.

Firing commentators.

Canceling shows.

These aren’t coincidences.

It’s coordinated. And it’s dangerous.

The @GOP does not believe in free speech.

They are censoring you in real time.

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

Today is World suicide prevention day.
Every 90 minutes, someone in the UK or Ireland dies by suicide. We can all make a difference by checking in on those around us.

[ProPublica @propublica]

On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout.

On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar.

This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media. Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵

[Michael Walsh @thatbloodyMikey]

Final season of the UK is fucking bleak

[Evan @daviddunn177]

If Donald Trump is going to get Stephen Colbert canceled, Stephen Colbert should talk about Donald Trump & Jeffrey Epstein every night on his show until it’s off the air.