Mel

Armchair Rights Activist. Lover of the usual things: photography, people, books, current affairs, and my pets

[Kaitlin Rawson @KaitlinRawson]

apartheid helen. apartheid

that is what stopped others from taking advantage of the same opportunities afrikaaners did

[Charlotte’s Mum @RobynPorteous]

For whatever reason, @helenzille's bigotry ended up on my newsfeed. And while I usually avoid engaging with such nonsense, her post leans heavily on anecdote, misrepresentation, and a selective understanding of both science and trans experience. Here's where she's wrong:

[Ryan Cummings @Pol_Sec_Analyst]

And here i thought white people are being excluded from the economy in the new South Africa?

[John Pavlovitz Official @johnpavlovitz]

Sodom and Gomorrah is trending.

A good time to remind the Bible thumpers:

“Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed, and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy.” Ezekiel 16:49

The abomination was “anti-wokeness.”😉

[Mel @melstwtr]

@EveD It's abt grooming. Allegedly Schofield specifically sought him out and got him an internship at the show at age 14, then "mentored" since. So it's alleged grooming, then lying to work and wife when allegations first started to swirl and people were uncomfortable with it

[Mel @melstwtr]

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[Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @MayorofLondon]

To those who say that millennials and Gen Z need to stop complaining and start saving, my message is this: get real!

[Vivian @suchnerve]

“the mainstream media radicalizes people’s beliefs about gender”

actually for me it began with seeing male relatives sit on their asses doing nothing while all the women and girls were running around doing all the work like unpaid servants at every single gathering

[Jay Kirell @JasonKirell]

So you can buy $3 million in medical debt for $15k and I’m sure some economist can explain how this makes sense but I’m just gonna default to money only being real for poor people.

[Matthew Hodson @Matthew_Hodson]

“Orlando had become a woman… Their change of sex, though it altered their future, did nothing whatever to alter their identity… but in future we must, for convention’s sake, say ‘her’ for ‘his’ and ‘she’ for ‘he’.”

Virginia Woolf having no problems with pronouns in 1928.

[Mel @melstwtr]

Petition: Make school uniform VAT exempt https://t.co/StlVjiJ2e8

[Jenn Forster 🇿🇦🇵🇸🇨🇩🇸🇩🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @JennMForster]

Here's a question for those in favour of privatising Eskom.
When we add completely unaffordable electricity to the mix of poverty, high food prices and unemployment - when only rich people have power - what do you think that will do to social stability in this country?

[Mel @melstwtr]

Beautifully told story.
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[MS Society UK @mssocietyuk]

#HopeReborn is here! 🎬🎶

Classical music composer @FabioDandrea has released a single to help raise awareness of MS, and vital funds for us and @OvercomingMS.

The accompanying music video stars our supporter Rose Leslie!

Watch the full video: https://t.co/6tk30lkjFz

[Evie Breese @EvieBreese]

Boys will be boys

[Pippa Crerar @PippaCrerar]

Fab project fr @SkyNews & @tortoise - compiling all publicly avail data on MPs' earnings.

More than £17m raked in fr 2nd jobs since 2019: £15.2m to Tory MPs.

Top 3 Theresa May (£2.5m), Geoffrey Cox (£2.2m) & Boris Johnson (£1m) who earns £32k an hour.

https://t.co/mDKzUirNAc

[Mel @melstwtr]

An important thread