Sophie Lawson

Dear Auntie
You will be surprised to hear that I am going to prison tomorrow.

Holds up

This is amazing.

www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com

"I’d promised the tenants that we would not let up on this story, especially when many of them got in touch to ask us, in the absence of any clear communication from their landlord, whether they still had a place to live."

Journalism is a public good.

a thing the writer of 99 luftballons didn’t take into account is that one day a world superpower would get so dumb that the object it’d fire on would be its own

a sombre morning for british columnists as they move their "The electorate has spoken, we must listen" articles to the recycling bin and upload their "the greens victory shows just how far the west has fallen" articles instead

sex matters trustee charlotte cadden

gorton and denton by-election result: she gets 706 votes, 1.9% of the total

underappreciated but very funny gorton and denton sideplot: the conservatives nominating literal sex matters (uk terf group) trustee charlotte cadden, only for her to get the worst result for the conservatives in by-election history and lose her deposit

Exhibit F bsky.app/profile/dpdo...

America's media consolidation nightmare.

CBS, CNN, HBO, MTV, Warner Bros, Paramount, TikTok, SpongeBob ... How much media can any one billionaire family control? And what happens when so much culture gets captured and politically reshaped?

Laura Wienroither, Kaylan Marckese, Beth Mead and Vivianne Miedema in the Arsenal gym.

“I want to go somewhere I’m valued as a human being, and it just felt like in soccer I wasn’t getting that.”

Former Arsenal keeper Kaylan Marckese speaks in detail publicly for the first time on retiring from playing at 27. In our new @hergoalmagazine.bsky.social

Free access to follow below. #awfc

the Greens keep saying the kinds of things that people who vote Labour agree with and Labour keep calling it dangerous extremism, and I’m not sure you could plan a better voter alienation strategy

Hannah Spencer walking into Westminster, sucking her teeth, tutting, and muttering "tell you what, you've had some cowboys in here."

Hahaahhahah

Also, when Reform told us last week that men needed to have more control over women's bodies, they meant only their freedom to control their fertility and select who they sleep with, not their inalienable right to vote for the far-right.

Threat of further violence looms after Mexican cartel rampage The BBC speaks to Guadalajara residents days after cartel members sought to avenge the killing of Nemesio

Marina Casillas, member of the Jalisco Congress: "the people here don't want the World Cup. They want security, they want clean water and they want their disappeared relatives back."

I've just woken from a ten-year coma and, thanks to this statement I now understand the state of play perfectly: our multiracial country is deeply into crack.

“Two officers were treated for minor injuries, including a bruised eye and headache, police said earlier this week.”

Absolute losers.

How Brothel Workers in Nevada Just Made Labor History The courtesans at Sheri’s Ranch were staring down a horrifying new contract. So they did what workers everywhere do: They got organized.

When faced with a shockingly exploitative new employment contract that would’ve forced them to sign away their IP, their likeness rights, and their power of attorney, Jupiter Jetson and her coworkers at Sheri’s fought back—fast.

They organized a union in SIX DAYS. www.thenation.com/article/econ...

We've all been calling him Mamdaddy in our heads since last year, right?

Fun fact, US passports did not have a gender marker until 1977, when a rising trend in unisex fashion started freaking the government out.

One of the most painful things in recent months has been speaking with friends who rolled their eyes at these warnings and are now fully terrified for themselves and their kids. No-one wanted those warnings to be true, I get it. But ignoring them altogether, for years?…
We could have stopped this.

worth reading the whole story for all the awful details - including literal bounties for other people to rat out trans people using the “wrong” bathroom

Yes, I know they sell the sauces, but I'm not going to drop a ton on ten bottles of sauce I may not ever open again

Not wanting to be famous or noteworthy in any way, shape or form, but wanting to be a guest on Hot Ones

Wrong lyrics Xtina: “Hold me closer, Tony Danza”

And just because I still think about it