Moll

Rescue dog mum. Gig lover. Wednesdayite. Ⓥ

[Moll @mollgrohl]

Following everyone else onto Bluesky as an alternative to X 🦋
Follow me: https://t.co/iwhvE16jse

[Moll @mollgrohl]

Selling 1x weekend tramlines ticket 🎫 #tramlines https://t.co/xpmvorS647

[Mark Chappell Gig Vids 🎥 @MarkChappellino]

Outstanding from Oasis tonight in
Wembley 🏟️🔥

🎥 ‘Don’t Look Back In Anger’

[JGT @JGTownley]

Wembley was bouncing! What a night @oasis #oasis #OasisLondon #Wembley

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

@SkyNews Hey Sky News. You probably shouldn't use an image of an Israeli attack on Gaza to illustrate an Iranian strike on Israel.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

Iran's attack on Israel was a) aimed at military targets and b) didn't kill any Israeli civilians.

The result? The UK imposing sweeping sanctions on Iranian officials and organisations.

Israel wipes Gaza from the face of the earth.

The result? The UK keeps arming Israel.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

Here is a young man like any other.

He had hopes, dreams, fears, worries.

His crime? Being a Palestinian born in Gaza.

His last hideous moments on earth: being burned alive by an Israeli missile while attached to an IV drip.

Don’t look away

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

In years to come, students in university departments around the world will be studying the propaganda embedded in this headline.

As someone who regularly lectures in sociology, journalism and media studies, I could teach an entire lesson on the title alone.

For example:

1. Treating the 4 Israeli soldiers as more important than the 23 Palestinian children (by leading the story with their deaths and just chucking in the others at the end) implies their lives are of higher value.

2. Infantilizing active duty soldiers as "teenagers" while not emphasizing the age of the schoolkids, despite many of them being demonstrably younger.

3. The classic use of the passive voice: Israelis are "killed" while Palestinians merely "die".

4. Putting scare quotes around "23 die" subtly undermines the credibility of that claim. Maybe no one died, and the Palestinians are just lying?

5. Using the word "attack" for Hezbollah actions, but choosing a more neutral, clinical word like "strike" for Israeli aggression.

6. Allowing Israeli sources to dictate the framing of the story ("Israel names teenage soldiers") etc.

7. Actually naming the Israeli soldiers, but not doing the same for the far greater number of Palestinians, again sends the message to the reader that Palestinian lives don't matter nearly as much, if at all.

It's truly incredible how much propaganda has been packed into 16 words. We are swimming in an ocean of propaganda. That's why it is crucial to deconstruct it and critically assess everything you read, see and hear.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

Why are the names of four Israeli soldiers killed while engaged in armed warfare shared on national British television, but not Palestinian civilians?

What possible answer is there, other than that Palestinian life is judged to have very little worth?

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

Will we ever know the names & stories of 118,000+ people killed by Israel in Gaza?

Or the people burned alive after Israeli strikes on Al Aqsa Hospital, where displaced Palestinians sheltered?

The UK is complicit in these war crimes. End ALL arms sales & diplomatic support NOW.

[Faiza Shaheen @faizashaheen]

I keep checking our PM’s, the human rights lawyer, Sir Keir Starmer’s twitter, for condemnation of any of the atrocities Israel has committed in the last few days, including the Al Aqsa hospital tent burnings. Nothing. Imagine if it wasn’t Palestinian lives but Israeli’s? Is this the change he promised?

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Does the UK government oppose genocide?

An urgent letter to the Foreign Secretary from the Independent Alliance.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

If the sight of human beings burning alive won’t stop the UK government supplying arms to Israel, what will?

[Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas]

When leaders like Starmer blather on about “tough choices”, why is it *always* code for hitting some of the poorest hardest? Where’s the “tough choice” of a wealth tax on the super-rich? Why do shivering pensioners have to pay the price for “fixing the foundations”? #bbclaurak

[daniel @itmedg]

the saddest thing about the transition from primary school disco to going out clubbing is the loss of the tuck shop

[Ollie @olliejustwanks]

Ticketmaster at 9.01 Saturday

[Rikus @HeyRikus]

This is exactly why Labour lost my vote. This is a politically motivated decision that is not supported by the vast majority of the medical and scientific community. This will cause harm to a vulnerable community who already have tremendous difficulties accessing care.

[Sally Hines @sally_hines]

Hugely disappointed and very confused by @AngelaRayner @UKLabour statement that JK Rowling “supports trans rights”. A quick glance at her X account shows this is as far from the case as could be. Her main source of entertainment seems to be deliberately misgendering trans women