an ill-made knight

librarian, language magpie, fannish nonsense man, not a good quaker, flute-wielding chaos merchant.

| he/him | art: | may get nsfw | 30s

[an ill-made knight @windhounded]

@Vorvayne @thedreadvampy my greatest ambition in life is to be able to grow a beard in time for it to start going grey

[Taleed El-Sabawi, JD, PhD @el_sabawi]

We have confirmed with multiple patient reports that in the last 1-2 weeks the Israeli government has unilaterally & sneakily begun forcing patients who medically evacuating from Gaza to sign paperwork at the exiting checkpoints saying they cannot return to Gaza. None of the NGOs helping with the coordination of the medical evacs were informed by the entity or any governing body this would happen.

Ethnic cleansing aside, mothers are being forced to leave their children behind to travel with a sick child and almost every family is being forced to leave family members behind. And now they are being told that they will not be able to see them again.

Not that the Israeli government cares, but this violates international law and given the document was signed under duress it is unenforceable—meaning it is not worth the paper it was signed on.

Further this jeopardizes the entire medical evacuation enterprise in multiple ways. (1) Countries will be much more reticent to accept medical evacs from Gaza’s (2) All aiding countries will now be accused of being guilty of collaborating with Israel’s ethnic cleansing crimes. (3) This will upend Jordan’s commitment to accept 2,000 patients & be blowback against Pres. Trump.

This can stop as quickly as it started. Israel thinks we aren’t paying attention, but we are. Pressure is needed on Israel to stop this illegal & sneaky practice.

Thanks to @AbubakerAbedW and @sameerproject for sounding the alarm.

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

The UK government’s calls for a ceasefire are empty words while they continue to arm the very regime that indiscriminately bombs civilians, disregards international law and enables illegal settlements to proliferate.

End all arms sales to Israel NOW.

[Red @thedreadvampy]

5 people sentenced for 4-5 years for association with a nonviolent protest today

10 people arrested for allegedly thinking about doing a nonviolent action yesterday

11 injured by Police Scotland attacking them at the subway as they went to LEAVE a nonviolent protest

[Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas]

This is the critical decade for climate action. Political failure in the next Parliament is not an option. The media has a responsibility to scrutinise how parties will respond to the global emergency of our era.

[an ill-made knight @windhounded]

@sqiouyilu Quora will let me print but all the posts are collapsed by default so the actual useful content isn't visible on the printout unless I go through and expand everything first which is also grrr

[an ill-made knight @windhounded]

Linda Smith, who, incidentally, before she was busy up north being racist while campaigning for her husband Luke Akehurst, was campaigning on her own behalf in the local elections and telling people on doorsteps how pro-Palestine she, their local Labour councillor, totally is

[Dr Hosnieh Djafari-Marbini حسنيه جعفرى ماربينى @HosniehMarbini]

I say this as an Iranian Brit…

We belong right here.

What foul racism on show from Linda Smith - a fellow councillor on Oxford City Council.

[Red @thedreadvampy]

Abortion is STILL not legal here in the UK (there are lawful means to access abortion but those require specific exemptions, abortion per se is criminalised). So it's not so much a new assault on women's rights as a continued one. Hope this helps 😘

[an ill-made knight @windhounded]

oh to be a dog, have no responsibilities, and be blissfully ignorant of current affairs

[an ill-made knight @windhounded]

could vote for the greens, could vote for the local independent socialist, probably won't make a difference whichever because this is a labour safe seat regardless, everything sucks

[an ill-made knight @windhounded]

so the labour party, having refused to do any actual opposing while in opposition, seize the opportunity of a probable landslide election win-by-default to...get rid of all their candidates who might actually have a principled left-wing stance on anything.

why is this country

[an ill-made knight @windhounded]

AND NOW THE INTERNET IS IN OUR PHONES AND IT SCREAMS AT US

[Xianyang City Bureaucrat @XianyangCB]

🚨 NEW: Qin Shihuang believes there'll be high compliance with the Imperial Army Frontline Conscription plan because of the "diversity of opportunities that we're putting forward" for non-military options

[Bamboo Annals]

[Non-Ironically T.V.'s B. Dave Walters - EVERYWHERE @BDaveWalters]

Chaucer would be proud

[Oxford PSC @OxfordPSC]

Join us in Oxford on June 1st for our next big march for the Palestinians. Leaving from Manzil Way or Brookes University, March to the student encampment. Let’s make this bigger than ever!

[ProtectTransKids @TransKidsRule]

My daughter and ourselves had our first appointment in the new gender services set up as a result of the Cass Review outlined here https://t.co/qsPJyXAXu4 Here are my reflections: 1/12

[worms cited @christapeterso]

How the opening of Nazi concentration camps, at that point for communists, was covered in the press. From Robert Gellately’s ‘Backing Hitler’—

[Lex @lexgabrielhyde]

Both anti-trans and pro-Israel politics in the UK work in terms of form rather than substance.

JK Rowling can’t be transphobic bc she’s brave & has been abused, regardless of her *policy aims*; just as what Israel is *doing* matters less than who Israel is compared/equated with.

[UCU @ucu]

We condemn Oxford vice chancellor Irene Tracey in the strongest possible terms for bringing in police to violently arrest her own students, engaged in peaceful protest against genocide.

@UniversitiesUK must make clear to university leaders that this repression is unacceptable.