Kellie Turtle

God if the outcome of all this is a discovery that a specific type of black mold makes you a weird bigot I'm gonna have a hearty chuckle then fill my pockets with stones and walk into a lake. We are now living in the mold age. The mildew years. The roaring fungis.

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On the day the public consultation on our first climate action plan closed, politicians are falling over themselves to put their names to the decision to reopen flights between two cities on a tiny island that would take less than 3hrs to travel between if we had a train line.

Kemi Badenoch blames those crossing borders for our problems. It’s a lie aimed to distract.

The real issue is a system protecting the super-rich while nurses & carers can’t make ends meet. Tax wealth fairly, fund public services properly. This is how we give Britain hope again.

Humphreys' campaign reuploads video after German parliament building mistake On Wednesday, Ms Humphreys campaign uploaded a video of the visit, but in place of footage of Belfast City Hall, the video used a clip of the Bundestag in Berlin, with a German flag visible flying abo...

My advice to campaign managers in the south right now would be, maybe don't drink til the election is over.

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I love the sound of this. It's the faith research nerd + trade unionist crossover book that I didn't know I needed in my life.

Jimmy Seales is by all accounts an evil man who has caused other families immeasurable pain but the biggest tragedy in his story must be that both his sons are dead. They didn't stand a chance with him as a father and that's the cycle of intergenerational male violence at its worst.

I joined the Greens in June. Conference last weekend felt like a kind of homecoming. I’ve been adrift these last few years, mourning Alice, despairing at a ruling class that seems intents on heaping misery on all minorities. In the depths of grief hope wasn’t enough, but now it breaths life into me.

Male? ✅
White? ✅
Local? ✅

Same profile 99 times out of 100 but immigrants...

UK govt to introduce 'Brit-Card' digital identity scheme The UK government is set to introduce digital ID cards to tackle illegal migration.

Okay, not the main issue, but imagine being an Irish person living quietly in the UK, and then one day they're like, "okay, here's your Brit Card." www.rte.ie/news/world/2...

What could be more Starmer/McSweeney than reheating the useless Tory 'levelling up'?
Universal Basic Income is the answer. Has passed every trial. Transforms communities.
Drop that on Clacton and other deprived places and watch Farrage turn to dust.

In 2018 in a mtg with then Perm Sec in the Department for Communities I complained that Irvine was recruiting for the women's leadership course they funded from the 1st round of Fresh Start money for 'tackling paramilitarism'. A lot of bums shifting in seats but no accountability for this hypocrisy.

Important thread on the reality of civil disobedience in the UK compared to elsewhere in Europe.

I am disgusted by Reform UK's threats to people who have built a life in this country.

They are coming for our neighbours. They are coming for our colleagues. They are coming for our friends.

We are at a dangerous moment. This hatred cannot be appeased. It must be defeated.

I say this as a Nordie: only a fellow Nordie could have delivered this line without a hint of irony. While we went through hell up here, I think we were largely shielded from the depth of repression the south experienced for the best part of the last century. RTE is still paying off homophobes FFS!

Farage claims Reform would detain women and children asylum seekers on arrival but can’t name any location to house migrants

Oh my fucking Christ stop with this empty 'but how?' retort. You can't oppose fascism by pulling apart the logistics. It doesn't matter that it would be impractical, or expensive.

The cruelty is the motive, payment and reward. Everything else is irrelevant.

The debate around what is or isn’t “cancel culture” really just obscures a simple truth that it’s BAD to be massively racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic and it’s GOOD to speak out against injustice. Some things are good and some things are bad and it’s okay to say which you think are which.

This reminds me of the time we called for an anti-choice campaign launch to be pulled from a human rights festival & centrists were like 'why don't you go and make your case' & the answer was because the organisers wanted all questions submitted in advance so they could vet them 🤦‍♀️

Photo of Elon Musk at the Unite the Kingdom rally

The richest man in the world giving a speech to a mostly working class anti-migrant protest to tell them to hate migrants more is quite an on-the-nose demonstration of how racism was invented by the elite in order to serve elite interests.

The meme from The Office where two pictures are held out for an employee to view with the caption 'Corporate needs you to find the differences between this picture and this picture' Underneath is an image of the employee smiling with the caption 'They're the same picture'. In this version, the first picture is The Duke of Windsor and his wife meeting Hitler in 1937. The second picture is Donald and Melania Trump meeting Prince William and Kate today.

History makes so much more sense to me now.

Although, I've definitely met people who burn every bridge they encounter so maybe they meant it 😆

Just FYI to fellow rapidly aging academics attempting to hold onto cultural references our students understand. College seniors this year were born after all three Lord of the Rings movies.

*activists

The faith leaders and communities involved in reproductive justice work are some of the most inspiring activities I've ever encountered, so I totally agree.

This 'patriot' protesting against immigrants in Manchester is actually Irish far right thug Paul Rock, who got eight years for tying up and robbing a 76 year old woman. But yeah, just concerned parents.

I am genuinely confused by all this pageantry. He was not an elected official. I cannot think of another time a regular citizen being killed garnered this response. It’s perverse.

Don't be surprised if whoever killed Charlie Kirk has no coherent political ideology, didn't do it for any particular reason, and doesn’t fall anywhere neat on the left/right paradigm.

This is disgusting from Deane. He might as well head down to McDonald's and jump on a car bonnet cause he seems to share the ideology of the thugs who are at that.

Killing people we disagree with is wrong in every way, whether it’s Melissa Hortman or Charlie Kirk. This is especially true in a country awash with guns and run by fascists looking to amplify their already militarized policies.

No thoughts and prayers. Down with fascism and up with gun control.

"I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights" - Charlie Kirk, 2023

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I'm sure this massive payout to farmers has NOTHING to do with meeting the demands of tech companies. Just like I'm sure increasing water extraction from the Shannon to cool data centres will be totally fine...