Joy Leese 💙 🇺🇦

Grief is love that has nowhere to go

[Tom London @TomLondon6]

Good and Evil here in this photo

And UK politicians & media support and enable Evil

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

I am gravely concerned by reports of a severe deterioration in the condition of Dr. Abu Safiyah.

We reiterate our demands for his release, along with all other doctors being held without charge.

[Mahdi Hemmat @HemmatMahdi]

در روزهای تشییع تاریخی امام خامنه‌ای، میلیون‌ها نفر با اندوه، وفاداری و احترام گرد هم می‌آیند تا با رهبری وداع کنند که نسل‌ها را شکل داد و در برابر جنگ، فشار و سلطه ایستاد.

این لحظه فقط یک مراسم نیست؛ یادآور عهد یک ملت با ایمان، عزت و مقاومت است.

از تهران تا قم و مشهد، مردم تنها سوگوار نیستند. آن‌ها حافظان یک مسیر، یک خاطره و یک پرچم‌اند.

یاد و راه ایشان در دل مردم ایران ماندگار باد.

دفاع مقدس.

#امام_خامنه‌ای #راه_ماند #ایران #دفاع_مقدس #پرشیا_بوی

[Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy]

🔥 Europe is starting to push Palantir out.

Things are looking rough for Palantir in Europe…

…as they are increasingly seen as a danger to sovereignty with a high risk of structural lock-in and major ethical concerns.

[Tom London @TomLondon6]

BRILLIANT by LUSH!

[Seyed Abbas Araghchi @araghchi]

"Mission Accomplished," Mr. Mullin.

You also accomplished something else: proving to the world that you have no business hosting an international tournament. Your conduct has been a masterclass for how to squander the dignity that comes with being a host.

[Alpha100 @100_alpha]

#GaryLineker has hit out at #FIFA & #US authorities over "shameful" hurdles imposed on #Iran's players.
#Iran has been subjected to restrictions throughout the competition, forced to base themselves in #Mexico & fly into #US under strict 24-hour match-day mandates.
🙏#GaryLineker

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

The UK at the UN yesterday "We are horrified by footage of Israeli forces killing a 7mth old baby"

Horrified enough to take action, like halting all arms exports, imposing sanctions on the Israeli govt & economy, & ending all military ties?

So really you're not horrified at all

[Your Comrade drlearnalot @DrLearnALot]

Capitalism is evil. As a person who has been insulin-dependent for 50 years, I always knew that no corporation would want to cure me.

[Explosive Media @ExplosiveMediaa]

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿⚽ England's team gear was stolen?
I wonder who could've done that.

[SubRosa )✿( Magick @subrosamagick.bsky.social @SubRosaMagick]

She was 57 years old.
White hair. No carefully managed image. No media training designed to make her more palatable. Just thirty years of accumulated knowledge and the calm, unhurried authority of a woman who had spent her life mastering her subject.
She sat on a BBC panel, answered questions about immigration and politics, cited evidence, made arguments — and then went home.
The next morning, her inbox looked like a crime scene.
Her name is Mary Beard — Cambridge professor, classicist, one of the most respected scholars of ancient Rome and Western civilisation alive. And the internet had decided that a woman speaking with quiet authority on television needed to be punished for it.
The messages were not criticism. They were not debate. They were rape threats. Death threats. Coordinated campaigns of personal destruction targeting her appearance, her age, her voice — anything that could be used to remind her that spaces like the one she had just occupied were not meant for her.
Most people would have gone quiet.
Mary Beard went further in.
She did what scholars do when they find a pattern that disturbs them: she followed it backward. Through decades. Through centuries. Through millennia. All the way back to some of the oldest texts in Western civilisation.
And she found it had always been there.
In Homer's Odyssey — one of the foundational works of Western literature, nearly three thousand years old — there is a scene that most readers pass over without registering its quiet violence. Penelope comes downstairs and asks the poet to sing a different song. Her own son, Telemachus, cuts her off. He orders her back to her room and tells her plainly: speech is the business of men.
She goes.
Mary Beard read that scene and recognized it immediately.
Not as ancient history. As a pattern.
In ancient Rome, women who dared to speak in public were not described as orators or thinkers. They were described as noise — disorderly sound, something that did not deserve to be called language or argument. Their voices were not speech. Their thoughts were not thoughts.
In the medieval world, women who claimed public authority were labeled as witches.
Elizabeth I — Queen of England, ruler of a nation — had to rhetorically reshape herself into something masculine just to be taken seriously as the leader of her own country.
The silencing of women who speak with authority was not invented by social media. It was not a modern pathology or a cultural accident. It was built deliberately, over centuries, into the very foundations of how Western civilisation defined who gets to speak, what authority sounds like, and who is allowed to take up space in public life.
Mary Beard had found something important.
In 2017, she published Women & Power: A Manifesto — short enough to read in an afternoon, substantial enough to reframe everything you thought you understood about why this keeps happening.
Her argument was precise and devastating.
The problem is not that women lack the ability to lead. The problem is that the model of leadership itself — the template for what public authority looks, sounds, and feels like — was built by men over centuries and has never been redesigned. When a woman enters public life and doesn't fit that template, she is not failing. The template was never built for her. It was built specifically to exclude her, and it has been doing exactly that, efficiently and continuously, for three thousand years.
The solution, Beard argued, is not to teach women to perform power the way men have always performed it. The solution is to dismantle and rebuild the very concept of what power is allowed to look like.
She kept teaching. She kept writing. She kept appearing on television — white-haired, unhurried, carrying her decades of authority without performing it, without packaging it for comfort, without apologizing for it.
The threats continued.
But other messages began arriving too. Letters from women and girls who had spent their entire lives feeling that every door was slightly too narrow, every table slightly too high, every room slightly reluctant to make space for them. Women who had spent years wondering what was wrong with them — why they couldn't quite fit, couldn't quite belong, couldn't quite be taken seriously no matter how much they knew or how hard they worked.
They read the book and understood, perhaps for the first time, that nothing had ever been wrong with them.
The room had been designed without them in mind.
That is not a personal failing.
That is a three-thousand-year-old architectural decision.
And one Cambridge professor with white hair and a calm voice — who refused to go quiet when the internet told her to — spent her career documenting it, naming it, and handing that knowledge to everyone who needed to hear it.
Telemachus told Penelope that speech was the business of men.
He was wrong then.
He is still wrong now.
And Mary Beard has three thousand years of evidence to prove it.
via The Inspireist

#FeministFriday #HERstory

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

Are you fucking kidding me?

[CAPJPO - EuroPalestine @Europalestine1]

L’IRLANDE INAUGURE UNE STATUE DE HANDALA

Une statue de Handala a été inaugurée en Irlande, en solidarité avec la Palestine.

Tout le monde sait qui est Handala : l’enfant palestinien de 7 ans, réfugié, inventé par l’écrivain et dessinateur palestinien Naji Ali (avant qu’il soit assassiné par Israël). Handala est toujours de dos, car il a décidé qu’il ne se « retournerait » que lorsqu’il aurait le droit de « retourner » dans son pays, la Palestine !

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 WTF?! A USS Liberty survivor drops a massive bombshell.

He confirms they were threatened with prison or worse if they ever spoke about the Israeli attack.

Another veteran explicitly states "Israel owns us" after being ignored by Congress for 59 years. Total betrayal!

[Omar Artan Fanpage @OmarArtand1]

I am deeply grateful for the overwhelming support, encouragement, and kind messages I have received from people around the world. Your solidarity has reminded me that football unites us beyond borders. Thank you to everyone.

[𝕲𝖆𝖊𝖙𝖆𝖓𝖔 @gmf1369]

#GVerse #smokefleet
🇨🇦🎤 THE CANADIAN WAY 🇨🇦🎤

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

What an absolute disgrace. A FIFA-certified referee being denied entry to the United States purely because he is Somali.

The World Cup is meant to bring people together. This is racism, plain and simple. Shameful.

https://t.co/rpSgTmmPU4

[Joy Leese 💙 🇺🇦 @josoutback]

https://t.co/j07C0aCdHC

[Badassmutha 🔞🌏🕊💞♿️🐈‍⬛🐕🤼‍♂️🏉💐 @dodgson_sally]

🚨🚨 NHS PALANTIR OPT OUT🚨🚨

PLEASE RETWEET WIDELY.
#NHSPalantirOptOut

[Tom London @TomLondon6]

I can criticise
The King
UK govt
US govt
Any MP
Capitalism
Religions
UK army
Security Services

I can criticise
ANY foreign country EXCEPT if I criticise Israel ALONE, I risk serious personal consequences EVEN though Israel is carrying out terrible crimes including GENOCIDE