Jo O'Reilly

You know what’s a chilling exercise? If you go to the wiki list of the journalists killed in Gaza since Oct 7th and scroll down, and then scroll down, and then scroll down some more, then keep going, and then you eventually realise it’s not even updated yet.

Jesus fuckin Christ

Ah, I see the Met finally have the resources to arrest people. Funny that when a man knocked me out and broke my nose, they were too busy to collect the CCTV - then claimed they couldn’t anyway because of GDPR. They also blamed me for washing my blood off my face 👍🏻

The reason Israel has killed journalists with impunity throughout this genocide and continues to do so even as famine sets in and world opinion turns against them because it is in the interests of them, their political allies and their backers in the media to destroy as much evidence as possible.

Al Jazeera Media Network condemns the targeted assassination of its correspondents Anas Al Sharif and Mohammeel Qraiqea, along with photographers Ibrahim Al Thaher, and Mohamed Nofal, by Israeli forces.

#JournalismIsNotACrime

Letter of the day (in the Times)

I am so sick and tired of seeing MPs and the media shit themselves over refugees arriving in small boats over the channel.

If your initial reaction to seeing these boats is anything other than “those poor bastards, I hope they make it across” then you have failed as a human being.

OK, I get it already, the new ChatGPT can't spell Blueberry. You've made your point everyone.

I am Sober app message for UK users when you try to access the community feature: 6 Aug 2025 Custom • Day One Community access temporarily unavailable. Due to the UK Online Safety Act, community features are currently unavailable for UK users. Your personal tracking, daily pledges, milestones, and all other app features remain fully accessible. We expect to restore community access soon once we implement the required age verification systems.

I decided I want to go back to not drinking, I use this great app I Am Sober a huge part of which is the community feature where you can make friends and get support and motivation, it’s now unavailable for UK ppl due to the online safety act….in case teenagers are illicitly trying to get sober?

Response to anodyne thread explaining how the criminal law operates in relation to “dangerous offenders”:

BlueSky Twitter

Respect for our emergency services’ campaign against kink shaming.

PUT IT INTO YOUR BUSINESS CRITICAL WORKFLOWS ITS FINE

MPs should not be landlords.

Our goths sat on a wall outside Mcdonalds, the McGoths if you will.

"Even your God cannot protect you"

takes a lot to position yourself to the right of Essex Police, I feel

Hiroshima A hundred thousand people were killed by the atomic bomb. Survivors wonder why they lived when so many others died.

This by John Hersey for the New Yorker on Hiroshima is one of the greatest pieces of journalism I have ever read, if you've not read it, worth finding the time today: www.newyorker.com/magazine/194...

I prosecute and defend the most serious sexual offences in our courts.

The overwhelming majority of offenders are British-born. Overwhelmingly the victim is someone known to them, either a partner or relative.

Anybody purporting to care about protecting women might start there.

They seem genuinely shocked that people are standing in the aisles for a two hour plus train journey. Sweet summer children.

Witnessing some Americans experience their first ever Avanti West Coast train journey.

Naturally zero pre-planning for the summer holidays and there being two Liverpool home friendlies being played today.

WHEN IS IT NOT SMALL BOATS WEEK THO??
😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

When is it wealth inequality week, eh?? WHEN DOES THAT COME AROUND?

Just heard someone refer to their self tan as their pride and joy. It’s time to take my leave of Essex.

I’ve watched the film maybe a hundred times and that scene still makes me jump out of my skin.

I swear to god If my train back North gets cancelled on Monday because of something called Floris.

Griddled with hot honey is my current faves but I’ve also seen people grate it and cook it and I need to give that a go!

They’re always so disappointing, lesser than the sum of their parts.

I’m sorry to say this but, halloumi fries are not the best way to eat halloumi and as a society we need to move on.

Went to the Cartier exhibition at the V&A and now Instagram keeps advertising me watches that cost more then a yacht.

Five survivors of Rotherham grooming gangs say they were also raped by police officers Three former South Yorkshire police officers arrested in investigation into claims by the women, as young as 12 at the time

God, the number of people who were willing to believe that the South Yorkshire police were too woke to prosecute sexual abuse cases, when in fact the police force was itself an instrument of patriarchal sexual violence. It’s like a case study in the worst excesses of the British press.