lyra

🏳️‍⚧️ it/its ⚧ 23 🚂 ferroequinologist 💚

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[lyra @exit_everything]

had this lovely picture taken of me :3

[lyra @exit_everything]

Anyone got any recommendations for scenic smoke spots in London to watch the sunset from

[lyra @exit_everything]

@Dykeocletian unemployed

[katie_moder 🕷️ @kat_moder]

do NOT put a vent channel in your discord server trust me

[lyra @exit_everything]

@pissbait if oomfs wanna see

[lyra @exit_everything]

My tits are so heavy it's making my back hurt honestly

[lyra @exit_everything]

this will also get rid of bus passes and railcards for disabled under 25s which is fucking insane

[lyra @exit_everything]

Under 24s unable to have disabilities - UK government

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: The Government is set to ban 16-24 year olds from claiming PIP and the health element of Universal Credit after a review into unemployment

They will instead receive a new "youth allowance" paid at the standard rate of Universal Credit

[lyra @exit_everything]

@hound_moder it's okay to admit you just can't spell

[lyra @exit_everything]

I knew I was bisexual and polyamourous at age 13 lmfao

[Akua Reindorf KC @akuareindorf]

Furthermore, please stop describing CHILDREN as "lesbian, gay or bisexual". Children do not have sexual orientations. They are children. If you mean young people whose sexuality is emerging, make that clear. You of all people should have learnt to be extremely careful about this.

[lyra @exit_everything]

I gotta uninstall that app man what even is this

[lyra @exit_everything]

@LesbianBiting braun s5 has been solidly saving my life for last 4 years

[lyra @exit_everything]

@SharkNymphPunk not falling for the 2ft long shrimp

[lyra @exit_everything]

@mealdealliar also like lower wage and 28 days off is way better than higher wages but only 7 days off a year

[lyra @exit_everything]

im far too poor to love food as much as i do

[lyra @exit_everything]

In what world is changing my name a medical issue it's a fucking deed poll bro it's like the most basic shit ever

[lyra @exit_everything]

7 months since I sent my provisional license for a name change and they sent it to the "medical group", I still haven't gotten it back, lmao

[Paul Holden @pauleholden]

Sagal Abdi-Wali has just filed her first register of interest in Parliament, revealing who funded her election campaign in the Holborn & St Pancras by-election where she defeated Zack Polanski.

And they stink.

They are from sources with strong historical ties to Labour Together. And through one of her key donors, Sagal is linked to investments in companies like Palantir and Elbit Systems and Boeing. There is something completely broken about how the reporting regime for donations works that we're only finding this out now, after the election.

The returns show that Abdi-Wali had two big donors: Daniel Luhde-Thompson and his wife Cressida Pollock who donated jointly, and Green Britain Group Ltd, the holding company of Dale Vince's Ecotricity. Both donated £50k to the campaign.

Daniel Luhde-Thompson is mega-wealthy. He is one of the co-founders of the quant-trading hedge fund Quadrature Capital. Quadrature, whose holding company is registered in the Caymans, donated £4m to the Labour Party during the 2024 General Election.

It was the single largest donation Labour had ever received. But nobody knew this fact during the election itself, as the donation was only declared after the election as it was made in a specific week-long window that was exempt from immediate reporting.

As I revealed in OpenDemocracy in October 2024, Quadrature had held shares in companies connected to the genocide in Gaza in late 2023 and early 2024. It held an average of $121m in shares in companies linked to the genocide in Gaza between December 2023 and July 2024. This included shareholdings in arms companies like the lead contractor on the F-35, Lockheed Martin.

I've just checked Quadrature's most recent SEC filings submitted at the end of June 2026. They show that Quadrature still has investments in arms companies like Boeing and Lockheed. The June fillings show it held $9m in Elbit shares and an astonishing $117m in Palantir.

What is it with the Labour Party and connections to Palantir?

Luhde-Thompson also donated to Labour Together. He donated £50k at the end of November 2023: smack-bang in the middle of the period when Labour Together hired APCO to investigate journalists (including me and my family) who had exposed Morgan McSweeney's failure to report donations in violation of the law between 2018 and 2020 (of course there is no indication Luhde-Thompson knew about this).

Dale Vince, Sagal's other donor, was also a big donor to Labour Together. He has, most recently, strongly supported approving drilling at Jackdaw and Rosebank oilfields.

We found out about Dale Vince donating to Sagal during the campaign because it was leaked to the Independent. But voters in Holborn & St Pancras had no idea that she was also being funded by Daniel Luhde-Thompson, linking her to Quadrature and, through that, investments in companies complicit in genocide.

There is really something deeply wrong here. Voters were deprived of key information before they cast their vote. Our electoral laws around donations, which allow the mega-rich to dominate our politics, have to be reformed.

[Spooky Ellie 🦇 @TheSpookyEllie]

Being a cinephile sucks she gets to be the movie and I'm supposed to what, fuck the movie?