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These new proposals are pretty horrendous. If you have time/energy to respond - the deadline is Dec 4! See also: genderedintelligence.co.uk/static/pdfs/Co… ruthpearce.net/2022/11/23/nhs…

‼️BLOOD ON BOEING'S HANDS‼️ ⚡️Call to action! ⚡️ The Turkish State is bombing Kurdish & Syrian citvilians with Western weapons. It's time to take action in solidarity with those struggling from freedom in Rojava. Wherever you are, on Thursday 1st December. 🪡

@NathonC_05 @AaronBastani Rewatched, wasn't as bad as I remembered. Also, TBF, both A and NM have put out some better articles/tweets since.

@NathonC_05 @AaronBastani Started watching, stopped pretty quickly. I was hoping for a powerful antidote to the rotten tripe coming out of the radio/TV and it just seemed pretty weak instead. I felt sickened. I will give it another chance later when less angry!

Lost on raging twitter leftists, I know, but this was my point yesterday. 😁 Edgerton’s hypothesis is a compelling one in my view.

@f_longfield @AaronBastani That's not what I meant, and I think you know that.

@HydraBooks @AaronBastani You're right, of course, twitter is usually the forum for displaying your latest confected emotional response to world events, but sometimes its more interesting when people aren't competing to be hot take edge lords.

@The_TUC ugh wtf

We send our condolences to the King and the Royal Family on the death of HM the Queen. As a mark of respect, we have decided to postpone Congress 2022, which was due to begin this Sunday, until later this autumn.

@hoot_little any chance of a RtD episode about 👑?

@ToniScottSays @peta_ivy_ "Who are you to tell people how they should feel? You can speak for yourself and no-one else." Um, you might want to mention that to... the entirety of the UK media establishment right now?

We’re not being insensitive, we’re decolonising your grief.

During the 1980s, the queen tried to stop Princess Diana's work in HIV advocacy, telling her to do something "more pleasant." But Diana ignored her, instead using her platform to tackle stigma and offer comfort to terrified people sick with what was then a terminal illness.

@NathonC_05 @AaronBastani As for distinction between accounts, I think A does use his main account for his work as a media personality? I don't have a problem with him tweeting it - I have a problem that this type of thing is his only/main response as someone who claims to stand against media hegemony.

@NathonC_05 @AaronBastani Of course he can. But if the claim is 'media for a different politics', then that requires having the guts to explicitly take a stance against the prevailing narrative being churned out by the rest of the media right now. To me that seems absent here.

@HydraBooks @AaronBastani It’s his Twitter, if he wants to make a point about something which he finds interesting, he can. I personally find what he’s saying on this quite interesting as well

@AaronBastani Where's your anger? Or joy? What happened to 'media for a different politics'

@AaronBastani Depressing that your instinctive response when the leader of a racist colonial power structure dies (+ the entirety of the UK media then goes into full state propaganda mode) ..is to make an obscure academic point which at first glance seems to boil down to 'wow such STABILITY'

“If there is really life and justice after death, may Elizabeth and her ancestors get what they deserve.” #BlackLivesMatter ✊🏿🇿🇦

Protest tomorrow in Solidarity with #ChrisKaba ‘s family organised by them. He was recently murdered by British police. London, please attend

The met police fatally shot a 24-year-old Black man four days ago and I don’t think we should just allow ourselves to forget about it

Every TV and radio station in the UK: non-stop state propaganda attempting to gaslight us into believing ‘the nation is in mourning’ Trending on twitter: ‘Oh FFS’

@CWUnews ffs 🤦

Following the very sad news of the passing of the Queen and out of respect for her service to the country and her family, the union has decided to call off tomorrows planned strike action.    Further information and communications will follow.

Yes, and she was 31 when her military had 1.5 million people in a network of concentration camps in Kenya.