Rachel

it sure is upsetting to like doing research and exist in late-stage capitalist academia

I’ve just added my voice to this consultation saying I don’t want a situation in which staff and fellow swimmers might scrutinise or judge my body, or anyone else’s, when I use the ponds. The current policy of trans inclusion works perfectly well. You can fill out the consultation linked below.

there was an attempted arson at a migrant hotel near here the other week. its absolutely fucked

Eventually, the police withdrew and demanded Mosley turned around. Anti-fascists celebrated the collaboration between Irish Catholics, Jews, Orthodox Jews, dockers, Somali seamen and more inhabitants of the East End. Fascists portrayed the event as their freedom of speech being denied.

Barricades were effectively used by anti-fascists to stop the police advance through Cable Street.

Protesters attempted to block the route of the march by obstruction. Marching though the East End, which had a large Jewish community, was an obvious provocation. Barricades were erected in Cable street. The Metropolitan Police then tried to clear the way leading to various clashes.

The mounted police conduct a charge against the dense crowd to clear the way to Cable Street.

89 years ago, on the 4th of October 1936, antifascist counter protesters stopped a British Union of Fascists march through London’s East End. The Metropolitan Police tried to clear the way for the fascists resulting in violent clashes known as the Battle of Cable Street. #otd #history 🗃️

The thing to know about Trump's autism and paracetamol claims is that the cruelty is the point. They want women in pain and disabled people stigmatised. And they enjoy showing they can lie outrageously without accountability. I worry that debating the science is to play their game, by their rules.

lol ok

It’s just incredible that the police can shoot two bystanders while responding to an attack on a synagogue, kill one of them, and then violently arrest forty people that evening for protesting in the wrong place “because we have to keep Jews safe”. Who keeps us safe from you and your guns?

One of the victims killed in yesterday's synagogue attack was hit by police gunfire as they shot the attacker, Greater Manchester Police say Two Jewish men were killed when a man drove a car at members of the public before stabbing people. They are named as Adrian Daulby, 53, and 66-year-old Melvin Cravitz Three people remain in hospital, with one also being treated for a non-life-threatening gunshot wound, police say

Miserable fucking news in this miserable fucking country. Yeah let’s step up policing in response. I feel safer already.

Mahmood: Pro-Palestinian protests 'un-British' after terror attack The home secretary told BBC Breakfast she was disappointed pro-Palestinian protests went ahead.

Labour or Conservative, governments always find a way to demonise Palestine solidarity protests – this time Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood's version of Suella Braverman's "hate marches" is "un-British" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

If the government doesn’t want people to protest about it, they are welcome to do what the protestors are asking: protect the civilians kidnapped by Israel, including British citizens; sanction israel to break the siege; and stop selling them the arms components that let them commit genocide.

Mahmood: Pro-Palestinian protests 'un-British' after terror attack The home secretary told BBC Breakfast she was disappointed pro-Palestinian protests went ahead.

It’s also deeply disingenuous to act as though yesterday’s demo (which was brutally repressed, by the way) was just some random thing that could have been done any time. The reason it happened yesterday is that the flotilla carrying aid just got intercepted. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Jews in the Palestine movement are grieving two ways now: for the people murdered, and over the violence the state perpetrates against our friends in our names afterwards.

Speaking as someone with Jewish heritage: if you think that increased police powers cracking down on Palestine protests will keep Jews safe, you are deeply wrong and probably deeply racist.

I would. but what if I am equivalently loathed

ME TOO but also it will live in my nightmares as the "everyone hates you and you don't know it" intrusive thought forever

THE MEME IS REAL

*laughs in UK*

What is leucovorin, the drug the FDA approved to treat autism? This week the FDA approved the generic drug as a treatment for autism – a move that shocked health experts

It’s not really the point whether leucovorin “works” to “cure” autism. The point is if you think I need curing, you’re a eugenicist and fuck you www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...

Hi thank you I love her

We are not all left standing Rachel Rowan Olive CW: suicide, iatrogenic abuse and neglect Zine-in-progress by Rachel Rowan Olive There is a poem by Clint Smith which opens: When people say “we have made it through worse before…

It's #worldsuicidepreventionday so here is one of the best pieces of mad writing on suicide and loss I've read, by @rrowanolive.bsky.social

madcovid.wordpress.com/2021/06/02/w...

Thank you so much friend

Once again struck by the similarity between parents talking to babies and me talking to the dog

A white floppy eared rabbit chillin' on an orange carpet with the words "become ungovernable" where ungovernable is crossed out & replaced with 'floppy'

This is hilarious on many levels AND ALSO, my guy: people might not make such an effort to show they aren’t moving under their own steam if you didn’t try to get assaulting an emergency worker charges added every time an arrestee trips over an officer’s foot

"We have asked them to stop being floppy"

stay floppy, pals

Normally not massively into writing to mps because mine is fuckin. Starmer. But I trust @transsafety.network to assess when and how it’s useful

Anyway this is blowing up, check out this handy template letter to send your MP.

bsky.app/profile/tran...