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[mark mark @markrocks6]

@CatholicSat Peer pressure at its worst 🤦🏻‍♂️

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

Richard Burgon just exposed the most glaring double standard in British policy

"Imagine if this weekend in London there was a Russian real estate event selling Ukrainian land. The government would ban it immediately.

Instead, we have an Israeli real estate event openly advertising the illegal sale of land in occupied Palestinian territories. The government recognizes Palestine. Why isn't this banned?"

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

This might sound cynical, but I’ve always wondered why no billionaire has single-handedly used their wealth to fund the eradication of poverty, or reverse climate change just for the narcissistic satisfaction of being able to say they saved humanity.

[mark mark @markrocks6]

@TheLaikYobaz Free because some of its citizens never seem to pay for anything.

[Volcaholic 🌋 @volcaholic1]

The entire planet when they think about the World Cup.

[mark mark @markrocks6]

@fesshole Organise a regular online quiz/catch up night

[poorly drawn lines @PDLComics]

This comic depicts a real event.

[Crazy Vibes @CrazyVibes_1]

November 1971. Chiswick, West London.
Erin Pizzey is 32 years old. She is not a lawyer. Not a politician. Not a doctor.
She is a woman who talked Hounslow Council into lending her a cold, rundown building on Belmont Road — a former community hall — for almost nothing. Her original plan was modest. A warm room. A cup of tea. Somewhere for mothers with young children to simply get out of the house.
Then the door opened.
A woman stood in the entrance. She was covered, head to foot, in bruises. She was holding two small children. She was shaking.
She didn't want tea.
She needed somewhere to hide.
Erin let her in. She didn't turn her away. She didn't tell her to call the police.
Because Erin had already called the police. They told her the same thing they told every woman in Britain at the time: they could not enter a private home over a "domestic dispute." That was the law. The home was private. What happened inside it was a family matter.
When Erin contacted a female civil servant to report what she was seeing, the response was astonishing. The woman told her flatly: "There wasn't a problem of battered wives until you made one."
Erin put down the phone. Then she went back to her residents and made sure they were fed.
Within weeks, 40 mothers and children were sleeping in four tiny rooms. No funding. No staff. No legal authority.
She didn't stop.
By 1973, word had spread through quiet whisper networks — one woman telling another, "There is a place. Go to Chiswick. She won't turn you away." That same year, Erin hosted the first National Women's Aid Conference in the UK. Women from across Britain arrived, and they all recognized the same thing at once: what she had built needed to exist everywhere.
In 1974, the council set a maximum of 36 residents. At peak times, 150 women and children were living inside those walls — sleeping on floors, on chairs, in hallways. The building smelled of cooking, fear, and something else entirely: relief.
Erin was taken to court for overcrowding. She appealed all the way to the House of Lords.
She kept the doors open the entire time.
That same year, she wrote a book. Scream Quietly or the Neighbours Will Hear. It was the first published account of domestic violence in British history. It used real stories from real women inside the shelter. Overnight, a problem that had no official name was on front pages from London to New York.
The movement spread. Refuges opened across the UK. Then Australia. Then Canada. Then the United States. The pattern she created in four small rooms in West London — no blueprint, no permission, no funding — had been replicated in hundreds of shelters across the Western world.
MP Jack Ashley stood up in Parliament and said: "It was she who first identified the problem, who first recognised the seriousness of the situation and who first did something practical."
She was ranked 14th in a poll of the 100 women who shook the world. She was awarded the Italian Peace Prize. She received a CBE. The charity she founded — Chiswick Women's Aid, which became Refuge — grew into the largest domestic violence charity in the United Kingdom, with over 460 employees and an annual income of more than £33 million.
Erin Pizzey passed away on October 4, 2025, aged 86.
She never stopped.
It all began with one woman, one borrowed building, and an absolute refusal to say no.
Forty women and children showed up with nowhere to go.
She made room.

Share this if you believe one ordinary person, refusing to look away, can build a shelter that holds the whole world.

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[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

Trump has just destroyed the US beef industry. No country in their right mind is going to import US beef.

After Trump cut funding for Screwworm monitoring programs, the dangerous flesh-eating parasite has been found in US cattle for the first time since 1966.

[Johnny Midnight ⚡️ @its_The_Dr]

Sounds different but Good

[Thomas H. 💙 @THemingford]

If your unavoidable costs rise by £500 a month and your income rises by £100, you haven't moved forward.

You've moved backwards while working just as hard.

That's the reality millions face.

[mark mark @markrocks6]

@anders_aslund Many parts of the US appear to cheer on the corruption 🤷🏻‍♂️

[Earth Hippy 🌎🕊️💚 @hippyygoat]

“We are now 716 days into a genocide and yet Israel are allowed to participate in footfall tournaments.
WHY ARE THERE DOUBLE STANDARDS!!!”
-Eric Cantona

[mark mark @markrocks6]

@SaulStaniforth When does it go one step further? Nothing showing a persons religion either 🤷🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Explaining to children that they shouldn't worry about a career because the world will be completely unlivable in 15 years and that death will be a sweet relief from living in a nuclear wasteland is probably the hardest part of working at Build-A-Bear.

[mark mark @markrocks6]

@alexshams_ It's going to be a shit world cup for everyone.

[mark mark @markrocks6]

@fesshole Weird angle... Just be happy for him? 🤔🤔🤔

[Nadeem Ahmed @Muqadaam]

“When is the British government going to impose sanctions on Israel for its endless violations of international law?”

Retweet if you agree with Corbyn

[mark mark @markrocks6]

@DaniMayakovski Good ending!

[Pulp Librarian @PulpLibrarian]

Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, played on kids TV show Animal Kwackers in 1975.

Yorkshire TV had a big hit with the Kwackers, four musical animals who flew in a UFO and played psychedelia or glam rock, before reading you a story. It's all the kids really wanted!