Fiona Robertson

I love this so much.

Aberdeen's fascists are some of the densest motherfuckers on the planet, seriously. I know hypocrisy and disingenuousness is built into their ideology but I fear some of them actually believe their victim nonsense.

Shavua tov

Let’s learn together

I prefer “anti-fascist“ for a host of reasons and this is a nice practical one.

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It's only fairly recently I've discovered that a bunch of people don't feel joy when people around them feel joy.

I understand a level of sadness at losing out (I'm a writer, I know professional jealousy) but this is just weird.

I love seeing other people be happy. It makes me happy.

He did want Turkish Delight and to be a prince (and later a king) and to pay Peter out for calling him a beast. As for what the Witch would do with the others, he didn't want her to be particularly nice to them - certainly not to put them on the same level as himself; but he managed to believe, or to pretend he believed, that she wouldn't do anything very bad to them, 'Because,' he said to himself, 'all these people who say nasty things about her are her enemies and probably half of it isn't true. She was jolly nice to me, anyway, much nicer than they are. I expect she is the rightful Queen really. Anyway, she'll be better than that awful Aslan!' At least, that was the excuse he made in his own mind for what he was doing. It wasn't a very good excuse, however, for deep down inside him he really knew that the White Witch was bad and cruel.

Ok, did not expect “The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe” to feel quite so relevant to this moment.

Here’s Edmund, deciding to side with the leader who he’s been told disappears people.

A Visible chart showing lots of red spikes from 6pm onwards

I hope the Hotel Shouters get a new hobby soon. Even leaning on the barrier almost all the time, this is my visible chart. The recovery days suck. I either have to stagger which ones I go to or I need to start taking my wheelchair, which puts other people at risk if the fash kick off.

Useful reminder for when you next hear a politician talking about derogation from parts of, or withdrawing completely from, the #ECHR.

silhouetted trees backed by a strange, glowing yellowy purple overcast sky

Strange stormlight tonight

I know I talk about this quite lightly, but that's a coping mechanism. They are weird and pathetic, but I am genuinely scared. Nazis being so open is a terrifying step, and we don't know who they're linked to. They followed me to my car yesterday to film me. We don't have the numbers we need here.

Yeah, like they'll still kill a lot of people but god they're just cringe AF

Any other crip protesters got recommendations for gear or solutions? My stuff is mainly kludged together but willing to invest a wee bit in things that might actually help.

(weird moment from today: a fash with a megaphone yelling 'you need a stick to walk! You are a disabled human!'
..... Yes?)

If these protests are going to keep going I'm going to need to get a lightweight folding chair and adapt my signs - my hips and shoulders are absolutely fucked and I'm going to need the strong pain meds tonight. The colder it gets the more supports I'll need.

It's all very Kylo Ren - they're a long way from the scary monsters they're trying to imitate.

So the other guy immediately pivots to 'I'd rather be a Nazi than one of you'. And then they tried to complain about our sign again.

So that's where things are in Aberdeen.

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Then they moved venue and yelled at us that we just call people we disagree with Nazis, and we pointed at the actual Nazi they'd welcomed in, who immediately started shouting '1488! 1488! "The future belongs to me!" [Hitler youth song from the Sound Of Music]' and then a whole speech in German.

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So of course they sent the police over to us to try to get us to take down the Nazi scum sign because it was... Wait for it... a hate crime. Because they still think hate crime about insults and not harm.

So we added 'Nazi is not a protected characteristic'. And they got even more upset.

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a cardboard sign saying Nazi scum with another sign taped below it saying Nazi is not a protected characteristic

After last week's Hotel-Shouting Team put up the 14 Words, this week one of us had a sign saying 'Nazi scum'. Their speakers this week included a man who was fired from the military for his neo-Nazi links and a fake priest who's been posting 88 in response to 14 online.

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BREAKING: The Home Office is giving police new powers to restrict repeat protests like pro-Palestine marches.

Police can consider the ‘cumulative impact’ of protests on an area and could ban the protest / force it to move elsewhere.

Do you have a recommendation?

Covid aware people - what's the current field of portable mini air filters I can take out with me? Looking to upgrade.

Zombies, they're making themselves zombies

There’s also a big distinction between harassment of vulnerable people on social media & protest to powerful people on social media about how power is being wielded — and you’ve conflated that here. People complaining to you on this platform is almost always the latter. (I know there are extremes.)

It's been so weird lately - trying to get people to understand that not everyone opposing Israel is doing it because they believe in liberation and oppose genocide. People in general are so bad at working with any complexity.

Solidarity with my Jewish friends and comrades today ❤️

So if the Nazis could give it a rest for a while, I'd appreciate it.

I'm wrestling with an activism decision and really could do with a clear head. I'm also wrestling with a professional decision. I nearly cried during my panel when I began to make my standard point about how only two people ever see my bad days and realised it's down to one now.

God I am not emotionally stable enough to be meeting this moment right now. I started crying in the supermarket, had a panic attack at a protest, almost missed a panel appearance because I lost track of days. All my standard protocols are on the fritz.

"These cars don't have a driver, so they don't have a driver's license and so we're really going to have to rethink who's the responsible party, who's going to be responsible for being in control and who's going to be the operator of that vehicle"

I AM GOING TO BECOME THE BUTLERIAN JIHAD