Julie Benson

I think we need to stop calling it empathy and go back to calling it decency. It isn't a favour you're doing someone else, it's you proving that you aren't a fucking ghoul

If anyone wants to help. Water is shut off. Electric will be soon. Without electric I can’t charge my phone often without going to my car which I can’t leave my kids alone in the house to do so. I also can’t cook and we will have no heat.

Dear GOD if you want to save money in the asylum system

1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK

2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc

3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today

Of course the right to work isn't a silver bullet which solves all the issues of human trafficking, exploitation, and actual criminals, but it does go one hell of a lot further than this government's policies of weakening modern slavery protections, and, primarily, targeting those being exploited 4/

Once you provide people seeking asylum with the right to work they are less likely to become victims of exploitation, which directly impacts the genuine criminals, making it harder for them to sell illegal vapes etc, so you combat actual crime, while protecting people. 3/

I do also find it ironic that some of the most hated people on the Internet are people who like being around people. But I think some people confuse being introverted with being a misanthrope.

It's mad how much people care about immigration when it is so proportionately unimportant compared to healthcare, cost of living, poverty, climate change, wealth inequality, war etc. How easily people are convinced to rage about the wrong things by charismatic manipulators and social media posts.

A lovely mossy boulder with a face. I walked past this venerable stone gentleman on Dartmoor when I was beginning to write my first novel, Villager, and it whispered all 104,000 words of the book to me. So now I have to pay it all of my royalties. Unfortunately my ex-publisher stopped paying me royalties last year. Understandable, the boulder was not happy. But now I have a new publisher and the book is being republished this Thursday. So remember if you purchase a copy you will be helping a boulder to eat, pay the rent on his riverside moss garden, and feed his boulder family.

Yes it could be argued that keeping up with world events is important but alternatively can I interest you in hugging an ancient mossy boulder that looks like a face and quietly listening while it tells you stories from centuries cloaked in mist.

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

What are these wacky hourly posts??

- Link was our daily sharer yall - join in!

- Six families & a camp are still starving in thin tents in the cold, their homes destroyed

- Each day we have a big goal because we’re sending rapidly for food & shelter

- We’ll match £250

19 hours left 🚨 61/1000

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

Please share: 1.97 million Palestinians in acute hunger, over 90% of buildings gone: the slow genocide, and one we can fight.

The deal may say “aid trucks,” but they haven’t entered, and food will STILL cost money. Our attention + boldness still matter ‼️

7 hours left 🚨 398/1000 for six families.

*sighs*

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You don’t have a Special Needs child.

You have a DISABLED child who has regular ass needs like you but requires additional support/aides/etc.

Peacehaven: Fire at East Sussex mosque probed as 'hate crime' Video appears to show two people in balaclavas at the mosque before a large blaze spreads.

It shouldn't be as hard as some people seem to make out to recognise that islamophobia, anti-semitism, hate in general, all needs to be absolutely, unconditionally, condemned every time without any form of whataboutery or "but this..." etc.

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Highlighting this for the weekend crowd 😊 #booksky 📚 💙

Short version: You AREN'T paying your state pension. You paid for your parents' pension.

The 'kids today' and 'those immigrants' are paying your pension.

You should fund @blackskyweb.xyz, even if you don't plan on using their services, because there's a high likelihood that a social platform you use in the future will utilize their work or at least be inspired by it

Treatment of disabled panellist shows just how much contempt Labour has for disabled people At Labour's conference, a fringe event failed to provide basic accessibility for a disabled panellist so he could join speakers on stage

Treatment of disabled panellist shows just how much contempt Labour has for disabled people

At Labour's conference, a fringe event failed to provide basic accessibility for a disabled panellist so he could join speakers on stage, writes @rachelcdailey.bsky.social
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People forced to migrate “tend to go where they have existing ties”.

Confirmed by all sorts of records on migration from Europe to the U. S. the past 200 years (I saw this in manuscript Census records 1790 - 1880, as just one example.)

Stockport Mosques statement of solidarity

About time consequences were faced for the PPE scandal…

But why only Michelle Mone?

£15b worth of contracts were flagged with a corruption risk

So where’s the rest of them?

And what about the Tory ministers who greenlit that institutionally corrupt VIP lane?

what's v cool [horrible] about being a professional creative is that now days you have to be a creative in all lanes*

*i have spent an hour doing video editing, i am not a video editor, i don't want to be a video editor

Is there a reason I ask that the Times are using a picture of asylum seekers in a boat to describe rules for migrants who came on legal routes such as skilled worker visas for doctors?