Ellen

Feminism, socialism, kindness. Toddler mum. Views only partly influenced by lack of sleep.

[Barry Malone @malonebarry]

When you try to remove a piece of art and accidentally make it better.

[Margaret E Atwood @MargaretAtwood]

Here's a piece of literature by me, suitable for seventeen-year-olds in Alberta schools, unlike -- we are told -- The Handmaid's Tale. (Sorry, kids; your Minister of Education thinks you are stupid babies.)

John and Mary were both very, very good children. They never picked their noses or had bowel movements or zits. They grew up and married each other, and produced five perfect children without ever having sex. Although they claimed to be Christian, they paid no attention to what Jesus actually said about the poor and the Good Samaritan and forgiving your enemies and such; instead, they practised selfish rapacious capitalism, because they worshipped Ayn Rand. (Though they ignored the scene in The Fountainhead where “welcomed rape” is advocated, because who wants to dwell, and also that would have involved sex and would de facto be pornographic. Well, it kind of is, eh?) Oh, and they never died, because who wants to dwell on, you know, death and corpses and yuk? So they lived happily ever after. But while they were doing that The Handmaid’s Tale came true and Danielle Smith found herself with a nice new blue dress but no job. The end.

[Margaret E Atwood @MargaretAtwood]

Hi kids .. #HandmaidsTale (the book not the series!) has just been banned in #Edmonton…don’t read it, your hair will catch on fire! Get one now before they have public book burnings of it.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

I thought this was parody but he really did say this. Beyond sickening.

[Adil Haque @AdHaque110]

Apparently IDF soldiers are blood-libeling themselves by telling journalists what they did and were ordered to do.

[Ellen @ebrmcd]

@richardpbacon We need to disagree with him but also desperately need to stop sharing his views. Remove his platform as a polemicist and he’s done.

[Laura Elliott @TinyWriterLaura]

i want to break down some disability stats because i see a lot of people balking at the idea that there are 16 million disabled people in the UK (only 3.6 million of those on PIP, and only 37% of those claimants on the highest amount of £737 a month)

let’s have a 🧵 shall we?

[Jon Sopel @jonsopel]

Jeeeez

[Nick @nkc____]

I can’t wait for the eventual Dr Ally Louks book tour, every event is going to be like a few grad students, a handful of confused bookstore event regulars, and two hundred of the most online people on the planet

[a @aallleeexxxxxx1]

if anyone ever startles Emma again i’ll freak the fuck out and set everything on fire

[Alison Burke @TiredActor]

Happy 4 year anniversary to this random video I made at 2am on New Year’s Day

[Florence Lox 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @floboflo]

I’d be fucking amazed if it’s you.

[Ben Smoke @bencsmoke]

you will never in a million years guess what this is in response to

[Ellen @ebrmcd]

Absolutely obsessed with this highly educated woman replying constructively and politely to every person who objects to her PhD. I dare everyone with a PhD to post the title on here so these idiots can see how many other educated people wrote about things they don’t understand.

[Dr Ally Louks @DrAllyLouks]

Wait until they hear there’s an entire field and decades of research on this subject. I do appreciate that this sounds implausible, but just because you’ve never heard of/thought about something doesn’t mean it’s not a valid or interesting thing to engage with.

[Ellen @ebrmcd]

@DrAllyLouks Please don’t even drawn attention to this guy’s comments! Your PHD (clearly in English literature) sounds fascinating and hugely relevant. I’d love to read it. Congratulations

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

Farming tax row - BBC Verify on which figures are more reliable and why

“Our analysis found that the figure was likely to be somewhere closer to the number provided by the government - about 500 estates per year. That remains our assessment”

https://t.co/HbEasueLVr

[Ellen @ebrmcd]

But how is everyone going to get to work? You’re probably stopping people getting to the airport! Or hospital! But that’s cool now yeah?

[ITVPolitics @ITVNewsPolitics]

'Do you accept that some farmers will have to sell their land?'

@SteveReedMP: 'The only ones that will be affected - it'll be around 500 - will be the very wealthiest or the biggest farms. They can plan their tax affairs just like any other business'

https://t.co/lmXKGfhoZw

[Ellen @ebrmcd]

@marieclaire Think he was last seen in the vicinity of Woking…

[milo edwards @Milo_Edwards]

twitter is undeniably getting worse every day and yet whenever someone announces they’re leaving i simply see that they are not a true sicko. staying is like being in the string quartet on the titanic but for some reason we’re playing hoobastank.