Alison

Alison

@alicemerray.bsky.social

Knitter, reader, swimmer & walker. Avid podcast listener (often on the walks!) But mostly layabout. Loves to sing. Atheist. She/her. 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇪🇺 🇺🇦

1,007 Followers 1,235 Following 1,748 Posts Joined Dec 2023
9 hours ago

Come on. I know you can do it.

JUST. CALL. HIM. A. LIAR.

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9 hours ago

America needs to stop giving TV talking heads difficult jobs they are not qualified to do.

This crisis is metastasizing. We are a joke.

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17 hours ago
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Do Not Go Gentle by Kathleen Stock review – the case against euthanasia The philosopher offers a measured and reasonable argument against assisted dying

It is REMARKABLE the number of things on which Kathleen Stock is now apparently an expert.

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9 hours ago

It is extremely difficult to construct a practical case against this position. Net Zero is now as much about patriotism as it is about climate change.

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9 hours ago

He couldn't even be bothered to buy them good shoes made in the United States.

Instead he bought them a tacky, poorly-dressed rich asshole's idea of what a good dress shoe is.

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9 hours ago

She’s (a) running against Ilhan, and (b)probably counting on people not figuring out that she was an ICE prosecutor before signing up to imprison people at DOJ. Her candidacy comes with a free laugh track.

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US Navy tells shipping industry Hormuz escorts not possible for now The U.S. Navy has refused near-daily requests from the shipping industry for military escorts through the Strait of Hormuz since ​the start of the war on Iran, saying the risk of attacks is too high f...

Whoa. This is big. "The U.S. Navy has refused near-daily requests from the shipping industry for military escorts through the Strait of Hormuz since the start of the war on Iran, saying the risk of attacks is too high for now." www.reuters.com/world/middle...

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UPDATE: Trump's cabinet officially becomes a cabal of cowardly clowns. A photo resurfaced of Marco Rubio wearing oversized shoes the day after a story broke that Trump is "scaring" his staff into wearing his favorite footwear. We wish we were making this up.

open.substack.com/pub/defiance...

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I asked President Trump about the FBI reportedly seizing election records in Arizona. He said they must have done that because it was a “rigged” election. I pointed out to him that his own AG said there was not measurable voter fraud to overturn that election. Then he called me a rotten reporter.

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13 hours ago

What transphobes call "sex" is entirely based on the genitals observed at birth while they stick their fingers in their ears and go "LA LA LA NOT LISTENING SHUT UP I'M IN CHARGE" when it's explained to them that's not how sex works.

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It shouldn't fall to trans people to explain to cis people why creating laws that effectively amount to "If you have or ever had a penis, you must behave this way; If you have, or ever had a vagina, you must behave this other way" is horrifically dangerous for everyone's rights.

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9 hours ago
Billy Bob Thornton from Landman looks spectical.

"Sail through? You out of your god damn mind, Donnie? We ain't on speedboats out there. Sure as shit ain't on frigates. We're talking slow, fat sea cows just waiting for a spark. Now that Strait's sportin' mines, missiles, drones, and crazy sons'of'bitches ramming us with boats full of semtex?"

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9 hours ago

The Bank of England has only put non royals on bank notes since 1970.

Farage and Co. losing their minds over a relatively modern tradition.

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9 hours ago
The Bank of England is replacing
Winston Churchill with a picture of a
beaver on our bank notes.


This is the definition of woke.

Last Post on this.

Churchill has only been on the £5 since September 2016. Before that it was Elizabeth Fry the prison reformer.

Did Farage call her removal woke too?

This isn't some ancient tradition but Farage is ridiculous. And that statement is timeless

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9 hours ago

MORE. OF. THIS. PLEASE.

If you are a reporter and not following up on questions this aggressively....quit...and go knit a pair of socks, play in the sand. Anything but pretend you are a reporter.

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A clever person knows their limitations … Kemi believes she has none | John Crace There was time for Kemi to embarrass herself again as she explained how we were both at war and not at war

She was awful today. We’re at the point where you wonder why they’d continue to put themselves through this

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10 hours ago
Old farthing with bird on it

Animals on money?

Perish the thought that patriotic British people would ever countenance such a thing.

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14 hours ago
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Officers Must Demonstrate Four Leadership Tenets Senior military officers are entrusted with critical responsibilities demanding the highest standards of leadership, impacting national security an

“Next, board file photos must be submitted in a tight-fitting T-shirt tucked into pants to ensure a visibly fit appearance.”

And this is not even the most insane recommendation in this piece that I can’t believe AUSA published (unless they did it for the lolz).

Enjoy.

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17 hours ago
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Not the big story from the Mandelson files, but I just find this astonishing.

Here is Peter Mandelson, having been fired as US ambassador in September (and presumably knowing what else could come out re Epstein), making threatening noises about employment rights and how he "expects to be treated"

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He keeps describing injured troops as ‘people walking around without legs,’ — as if they’re scenery in his story, not human beings who sacrificed everything. If you’re tired of the way he uses wounded veterans to sell his Iran narrative, boost this so people hear his words for themselves.

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Starmer was warned Mandelson was 'particularly close' with Epstein before ambassador appointment The first tranche of documents revealing what the government knew before Lord Mandelson was appointed have been released.

Starmer was warned Mandelson was 'particularly close' with Epstein before ambassador appointment

news.sky.com/story/starme...

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2 days ago
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Andrew O’Hagan · Stay Classy: Mummy’s Favourite The late queen can be held responsible for much, but nobody could accuse her of seeming to enjoy her role. For the...

The finest take down of the institution of monarchy and "class" and the grasping, greedy, venal, entitled, and very stupid people it enables that you will read today or any day.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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13 hours ago
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Spain fines Yoti €950,000 over biometric data and consent failures Spain's AEPD fined Yoti Ltd €950,000 for three GDPR violations involving biometric data, invalid consent, and excessive data retention in its age verification app.

Age-verification provider Yoti has been fined over $1M for unlawful processing of biometric data and excessive data retention.

ppc.land/spain-fines-...

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15 hours ago
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Exit Condition On Alderson Loops, Billionaire Cruelty, and Living Inside the Trap “Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.” — Antonio Gramsci, Prison Notebooks[1] I. The Loop In computer science, there ...

I spent the last week writing up this essay on what it means to be trans in this moment. What it means to live under authoritarianism as the scapegoated minority of the moment and how it feels inescapable as an infinite loop.

www.thedissident.news/exit-conditi...

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14 hours ago
The image presents a report indicating significant media bias against Muslims in the UK, highlighting negative portrayals and specific outlets.

We have a real problem in this country with how the press portrays and writes about Muslims.

This story is just another example of that.

It will be no surprise if you follow my work that the Telegraph and Daily Mail are two of the worst offenders🙄

cfmm.org.uk/resource/th...

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Because guess what: the guidance covers ALL Religions, not just Islam.

You wouldn't know that from the headlines, would you!

The articles focus exclusively on the Muslim children until the final paragraph, where they say, "Oh yeah, other religions also have accommodations made"

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Basically, in the UK, we have children in schools who follow different faiths, and none.

And it's quite a good thing for teachers to understand what is important to children and families from faiths they may not be familiar with.

Particularly regarding food, clothing, and activities...

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Document from Essex Standing Advisory Council on Religious Education focusing on accommodating pupils' religious obligations. Hampshire SACRE advice for schools
A teacher assists a group of children engaged in a creative activity, emphasizing topics related to religion and faith.

Yup, under the previous Tory government.

"But it was published by LABOUR councils!"😤

Yes, that particular document was.

However, Essex and Hampshire - both Tory councils - also have the same types of guidelines, both published in or before 2017

This is nothing new and nothing "Labour" driven

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Six characters representing diverse faiths and beliefs, surrounded by colorful shapes, promoting awareness in schools by Calderdale Council.

Firstly, you are definitely supposed to blame Labour for this

After all, it is something Labour councils are telling schools while a Labour government is in power

Right?

This is the "offending" document causing the outrage in the RW media today, in March 2026

A document published in 2023...

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14 hours ago
Daily Mail Headline:

Pupils' drawings could be blasphemous under Islamic law, Labour councils tell schools - while music and dance classes may go against the teachings of Islam

Oh boy! What a headline...

Ask yourself:

"What am I being asked to believe?"

"Who am I being told to blame?"

Take a few seconds to imagine what the Daily Mail (And Telegraph, GB News and Express) WANT you to think is going on.

Let's see what's ACTUALLY happening...🧵

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