Ghost Dog 🍳 💚🤍💜

I have gender ennui. My pronouns identify as verbs.

[Ghost Dog 🍳 💚🤍💜 @DrD0gg]

Let me tell you why what Sarah is doing is so important and why you should help her do it.

In every street in every city, town and village in the UK there are women who have experienced male violence and power. Many of these women have persistent 1/22

https://t.co/Cx35Nx5kez

[Ghost Dog 🍳 💚🤍💜 @DrD0gg]

@JeanHatchet Justice for George!

[WRN Scotland @WRNScotland]

Our FOIs to Police Scotland, published today in @Sunday_Post, show almost 100 sexual crimes at swimming pools and leisure centres — including rape, sexual assault and 51 voyeurism offences.

81 female victims. 57 male perpetrators. Zero offences attributed to male staff.
11 offences involved girls under 13. More girls under 13 were among the additional victims.

Every recorded offence was at a venue with mixed-sex, village-style shared changing. Not one was recorded at a centre with single-sex facilities.

Councils cannot keep calling these spaces “safe” while girls are being filmed, and sexually assaulted in them.
Local authorities must provide single-sex changing, designated family spaces, proper risk assessments, and stop treating women’s and girls’ safety as secondary.
Changing areas have to change.

#ItsTime
Thank you @ladymcbeth2

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

WHO SILENCED DR DAVID KELLY

Most people scrolling past this have never heard the name Dr David Kelly. They should.

He was one of the world's leading weapons inspectors, a quiet Ministry of Defence scientist who spent years checking Iraq's chemical and biological arsenal for the United Nations. Nobody understood that file better than he did.

In 2003 Tony Blair's (@InstituteGC) government published a dossier claiming Saddam Hussein could deploy chemical weapons within 45 minutes. That one line helped justify sending Britain to war, a war that ended up killing hundreds of thousands of people.

Kelly knew the intelligence behind that claim had been stretched. He said so privately, off the record, to BBC (@BBCNews) journalist Andrew Gilligan (@mragilligan). Nothing more than a conversation.

Somebody in government made sure his name reached the press anyway. Within days a respected scientist with decades of service was dragged in front of 2 parliamentary committees and questioned like a suspect on live television. His wife later said he came home a broken man.

On 17 July 2003 he left his house in Oxfordshire for a walk. He was 59. He never came home. His body was found the next morning in nearby woodland, a knife beside him and a shallow cut to his wrist.

Now here is where the story stops making sense.

Instead of letting the standard coroner's inquest run its course, Tony Blair's government suspended it before it properly began and replaced it with a private inquiry led by a judge the government appointed, Lord Hutton.

It was never resumed.

To this day Dr David Kelly is the only person in England and Wales in living memory to die in unexplained circumstances without a full coroner's inquest ever taking place.

Hutton concluded suicide within months. Officially, that was that.

Unofficially, a group of senior doctors reviewed the medical evidence and said the conclusion was unsafe. In letters to The Times (@thetimes) and The Guardian (@guardian) they explained that the artery involved is so small that cutting it rarely causes fatal blood loss in a healthy person, that the painkiller level found in his body was well under a lethal dose, and that the amount of blood at the scene was too small to account for the death recorded.

In 2011 those doctors formally asked the government to finally allow a proper inquest. Attorney General Dominic Grieve (@dominicgrieve_) reviewed it and refused. Hutton's inquiry was declared sufficient. The matter was closed, again, by the people who opened it.

Think about what actually happened here. A civil servant quietly raised concerns about the most consequential political deception in modern British history. He was exposed, humiliated and found dead days later, and the same government that needed answers made sure a proper, independent investigation never happened.

Tony Blair went on to become a Middle East peace envoy. He was later knighted.

Dr David Kelly got a rushed private inquiry, a sealed post mortem report kept from public view for years, and a grave that campaigners are still fighting over more than 2 decades on.

Nobody has ever been held accountable. Not for the dossier, not for the leak, not for what happened next.

This story deserves to be told every single year, not forgotten. If you think that too, share it.

Sources @BBCNews @guardian @thetimes @PrivateEyeNews

[Ghost Dog 🍳 💚🤍💜 @DrD0gg]

@tuiteBTN @Jebadoo2 So is your preferred response to that to a) improve funding for palliative care so they can live out their lives with dignity or b) put pressure on impoverished sick people to "opt" to die?

[Ghost Dog 🍳 💚🤍💜 @DrD0gg]

@GJobbing41782 @sharrond62 Correct, most of them don't, they just tick the female box for some races, male box for others without changing a damn thing except maybe their pronouns

[Grace Hawthorn @grace_hawthorn]

Gloria Steinem has died, and i am posting her dedication from her autobiography. I think De Sharpe would be extremely proud

[François Camé @FrancoisCame]

Certes, cela concerne la moitié de l'humanité. Mais c'est un sujet mineur qui ne mérite sans doute pas un post, puisque personne ne manifeste vraiment pour cela.
Quelques mots quand même. Vite fait.

-En Afghanistan, les islamistes enterrent les femmes vivantes, à la maison.

-En Iran, les islamistes violent et pendent les femmes pour les enterrer sous un tchador.

Comme on les enterre au Nord Yemen, en Arabie Saoudite, et dans le reste de la péninsule arabique...

-Au Mali, Somalie, Guinée, Egypte, Erythrée, Soudan... on excise plus de 90% des femmes. Plus de 50%, dans une trentaine d'Etats africains.

-Quand on ne les infibule pas (les petites et/ou grandes lèvres sont coupées, puis la zone est cousue ou collée ensemble, parfois à l'aide d'épines ou de fils. Pour que le mari tranche cette barrière au couteau, lors de la nuit de noces.)

Sans parler du viol - notamment utilisé, partout, comme arme de guerre; sans parler des mariages forcés; des inégalités absolues...

- Environ 1 femme mariée sur 5, dans le monde, l'a été avant ses 18 ans.

- 1 femme sur 8, dans le monde, a subi un viol ou une agression sexuelle avant 18 ans.

- Environ 1 femme sur 3 dans le monde a subi au cours de sa vie des violences physiques ou sexuelles d’un partenaire intime ou des violences sexuelles d'une autre personne.

-Selon le rapport "Women, Business and the Law" publié par la Banque Mondiale, il reste 18 pays dans le monde où une femme ne peut travailler sans le consentement explicite de son mari.

Bref, on peut estimer qu'un quart des femmes dans le monde sont asservies, humiliées, battues, mutilées, etc.

Sans compter le doux machisme qui règne encore dans nos pays "égalitaires".

A priori, on pourrait penser que c'est le scandale principal de notre belle Planète.

La cause essentielle à défendre.
Voire même : le problème crucial de l'humanité.

En termes de souffrances; de violences; de névroses transmises, y compris aux hommes.

Et même : en termes de développement économique...

Mais c'est un sujet mineur, puisque les hommes ne sont pas les victimes. Juste les bourreaux.
Et que personne ne manifeste ni ne boycotte pour cela...

Désolé de vous avoir fait perdre votre temps.

Source : WPS Index (Women, Peace and Security Index) - Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security - Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)

[Parnia @wilynuu]

🔴Urgent:

Sagher Gholami is only 19 years old, and her death sentence has been confirmed.
Her mother has asked us to be her voice.
Please help and share her photo and her name.
#saghargholami
#ساغرغلامی

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time. Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain "all the books in the world."

My Take
This got to me. A bookseller told 404 Media that rare books with almost no surviving copies are being fed into this pipeline. Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email.
ISBNdb's website literally says "'AI company destroys two million books' is not a headline that generates sympathy," and they still built an entire business around making it happen quietly. They offer NDAs as a feature. They coach clients to call it "digital preservation."

I've covered AI companies scraping the internet, torrenting libraries, and stealing music. This is worse because it's irreversible. You can re-upload a website. You can reprint a bestseller. You can't replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data. And the judge said it's legal. So it's going to accelerate.
"We shred rare books and offer NDAs so nobody finds out" is a legitimate business model in 2026. What a timeline.

Hedgie🤗

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

The attempt to redefine women as a loose collection of superficial stereotypes, often drawn directly from pornography and regressive ideas of female passivity and submissiveness, benefits only the sex who imposed those stereotypes on women in the first place.

[נועה מגיד | Noa magid @NoaMagid]

These are Shakila Ghasemi, 26, Mahdieh Yousefi, 19, and Diana Taherabadi, 16.

They have been held captive by the Islamic regime in complete isolation and subjected to severe torture for nearly six months. Their lives remain in immediate danger.

No headlines. No protests. No rights.

The world remains silent.

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

This broke my heart. 💔
The Islamic Republic of Iran hanged Gol-Mohammad Mohammadi this morning, a 23-year-old Afghan refugee who had fled to Iran seeking safety, and whose only crime was opening his door to let terrified protesters in as they ran from security forces.

He was arrested, thrown into a show trial alongside 58 others. All proceedings were compressed into three one-hour sessions. Lawyers were denied access to case files. Confessions were extracted under torture. The Supreme Court confirmed the sentences in a rush. This morning, they hanged him.

He was a refugee. He came to Iran because Taliban ruined, his life, Iran was supposed to be his refuge. Instead, the Islamic Republic executed him for the most human thing a person can do; open a door for someone who is afraid.
I am his voice. Please say his nam, his family is under pressure to keep quiet.

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

I wish musicians all over the world got together to support this young Iranian woman who received 74 lashes for singing.
In 21st-century women are not allowed to sing because Islamic Republic believes men cannot control themselves and they get aroused if a woman sings.

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

Two of the young men in this photo have been executed‌ today in Iran.

The other ten have been transferred to solitary confinement, they are next in line to be hanged.

These are the same prisoners president Trump publicly announced that, the Islamic Republic had promised not to execute.

That promise was a lie. You all watching war headlines but no one talks about the war being imposed on us Iranians by our own regime that hanging its own people in silence.

They are people who said: we want freedom.

If no one speaks, the regime will kill more protesters.
Please join me and help us to #StopExecutionsInIran.

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

Ten more Iranian protesters scheduled to be executed tomorrow. Two protesters were hanged in Iran today.

You all watching war headlines but no one talks about the war being imposed on us Iranians by our own regime that hanging its own people in silence.

They are people who said: we want freedom.

If no one speaks, they kill more people.

Share this. Scream.

#StopExecutionsInIran

[WDI.Afghanistan @WDIAfghanistan1]

🔊To those asking, “How can we help Afghan women?” — the answer is simple, but powerful:

First, share their voices. In a time when even speaking puts women at risk, being heard means hope, visibility, and survival.

Second, support our online education program. Despite fear and restrictions, Afghan girls are secretly continuing their studies. You can help by sponsoring internet access so students can attend online classes, or by volunteering as a teacher and sharing your knowledge with girls who have been denied education.

This month and next month, our focus is on one of our students who urgently needs surgery. You can read her story on our GoFundMe page and help if you are able.

We have also launched a new initiative called Sister Care, which supports 20 vulnerable women, who live inside Afghanistan. Please read about this new initiative, share your feedback and ideas, and support it if you can.

Third, support food aid or urgent medical assistance for widows and women living alone who have no male provider in the household and are often too afraid to go outside.

These small acts can change lives.

❤️ Donate:

Online Education Program & Student Surgery Support

Stripe:
https://t.co/cG4nhPgSC5

GoFundMe:
https://t.co/vqtSrTzTil

New Sister Care Initiative

GoFundMe:
https://t.co/y4jAQrZMSh

Please let us know if you have any questions. 🙏

[Helen Saxby @helensaxby11]

If, as women are always told, there is NO CONFLICT between 'trans rights' and women's rights then Amnesty are wrong to characterise 'gender critical' women's rights groups as 'anti-rights'.
If there IS a conflict between 'trans rights' and women's rights then Amnesty has taken the side of 'trans rights' and is therefore anti-women's rights.
This would make Amnesty itself 'anti-rights'.

[WDI.Afghanistan @WDIAfghanistan1]

💔🚨It’s been four years since the Taliban banned girls and women from universities in Afghanistan.
Today Taliban announced the Konkur (university exam) results — for the fourth consecutive year with zero female participants. The world continues to stay largely silent while millions of girls are denied their basic right to education.
Afghan women need real action.
Please enough is enough 🙏🌿

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

While the world's cameras are fixed on the five-day state funeral of Khamenei, the Islamic Republic is silently killing this 23-year-old girl with a slow death.

Raheleh Moeini, a biomedical engineering graduate of Amirkabir University, had traveled back to Iran from Italy to visit her family. On January 18th, in Saadatabad, Tehran, she was shot by security forces and at that very moment, bleeding and wounded, she was abducted and transferred to Qarchak Prison. Her family spent weeks not knowing where she was. Whether she was alive or dead.

Now Branch Tehran’s Revolutionary Court, has issued its verdict. One year for being on the street where they shot her. One and a half years for having a Twitter account. Two years banned from leaving the country. This regime first put a bullet in her, then put her on trial.

Be the voice of Raheleh Moeini.

#FreeRahelehMoeini