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@sheacrdngx The way they waited a full 24hrs before hitting you with that

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@jonsiva_ @Delet3itfat No one has a right to demand or expect a reply. Instead of asking why not answer, we should be asking why people feel the need to harass someone.

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@astral_monad Zizek responded faster than my date, what should I look into this?

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@benjrainwrite @FeyeraBender Sorry did you say something?

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@FeyeraBender I wonder how much money could have been spent on helping the homeless rather than printing this shit

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@vegbettycrocker Spelling aside, how does a person go to this much effort to apologise but not go to the effort of putting a condom on?

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@b___nsky @TheRouxgaroux_ They have a family poppers bottle

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@Nigel_Farage Who even are you?

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@TheronC @HipCat32 @katewillett You do realise that is the exact justification abusers have used for years to protect themselves right? “As long as it isn’t visible it isn’t assault/abuse”

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1 year

Thread on Qatar and its disgusting abuses on migrants, women, and LGBT people because I'm getting a tad fed up with people defending this country and the current situation

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2 years

@jonsiva_ @Delet3itfat Yes, that is an option when you get harassed. Alternatively however just don't harass people in the first place.

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6 months

@ysheeblack The aggressive part to me is a bunch of people constantly ganging up on the one housemate that seems to look after and respect others in the house

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2 years

I'm looking to commission some custom fashion pieces but this would be the first time I would be doing so. Does anyone know who to contact/ any art students that do commissions for nightlife/drag type pieces?

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@CEO_TTUK @Nigel_Farage Not a bloke. I’m secure enough to wear whatever I like and not have it impact my sense of self. Unlike people that have to tell everyone they are a CEO of a company for example

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@josh_philosophy @cambridgeunion Any problem on Earth can be solved by Oxbridge students. It hasn't failed thus far!

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2 years

@eaWescott @astral_monad I tried, he said he wasn't interested

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1 year

@smintyd Going to start doing this whenever I feel a bit down

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2 years

@NBedera The moment your partner abuses you they cease to be your partner and become your abuser. You can’t cheat on an abuser.

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@ollieowenn @sainsburys Unexpected item in baggage area

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1 year

@lastpositivist The DSA having drama? That's so unusual for them

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1 year

@sheacrdngx Queer confidence is on another planet

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2 years

@DanyaLagos I guess the article was just THAT good it blew the student away and made them forget about all the other content on the course

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2 years

@RosieDuffield1 @uniofkentlabour The proof has been provided. Are you going to back down and apologise or are you going to block them and run away to your bigoted safe space.

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1 year

@imartscrafts17 @suzanne_moore Imagine thinking you own a human being. How sick.

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2 years

@nuno_gouv @jonsiva_ @Delet3itfat Think I've found Marty's alt

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2 years

@itsbenhood That sentence is going to haunt me until I die

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2 years

@jonsiva_ @Delet3itfat My life isn't dictated by someone spamming me on an app. But yes blocking is an option if someone is insufferable (though as everyone knows especially on grindr that hardly ever helps).

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2 years

@glory102 God may be against sodomy but your dad sure wasn’t last night

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2 years

Does anyone know of any Queer tattoo artists? I need someone queer as fuck to help me with some new ideas that are fruity in nature

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1 year

@loadofmince @DCAdundee Nice incitement to violence there Linda

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1 year

@lastpositivist Du bois? More like du based

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2 years

Ok, this is funny. From:

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@Scott_Oatley_

1 year

Why any international organisation thought it was a good idea to allow them to host anything is beyond me. Why any international representative exchanged morality for money is repugnant. 14/14 #Qatar

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1 year

@swordspoint @MForstater Pretty easy to not be a bigot tbf

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2 years

I wonder if commissioning an artist to create a custom theme for my thesis would be a good idea or not

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7 months

Zak ruined something beautiful #BBUK

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10 months

@r1ngobingo That plus her saying "Females" means absolutely

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@Scott_Oatley_

1 year

It's nice when your morals and your social class align because not only would I not want to visit any of these places, to begin with, I wouldn't be able to afford to anyway

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1 year

wait til british ppl realise qatar own canary wharf, harrods, the shard and half the expensive property in London

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Pizza has taken down Prince Andrew and now Andrew Tate. If your name is Andrew I feel like you just shouldn’t go near pizza. Oh and you should probably not be a nonce and traffic women

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@ysheeblack Trish to cover Lorraine on school holidays when?

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1 year

A lot of the outrage concerning Qatar stemmed from a 2016 guardian article that highlighted the atrocious conditions of migrant workers in the country and just how many of them have died building the infrastructure for the world cup 1/n

Revealed: hundreds of migrant workers dying of heat stress in Qatar each year

As construction boom hits its peak ahead of Fifa World Cup, Guardian analysis shows workers toiling in potentially fatal temperatures

www.theguardian.com

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7 months

@nikicaga The only critique I have for that PowerPoint is the god awful template they’ve settled on

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2 years

@lastpositivist The only reason I'd suck at a STEM job is i'd get neck ache. All those nerds do is look down at a microscope or look up at a telescope.

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I just wish someone would purity test Owen Jones as much as he does it to others because holy fuck how many more important things could he be doing for Palestinians than berating a queer artist in a sing song contest

Owen Jones

@OwenJones84

1 month

Very disappointing. This doesn't even address what's happening: Palestinians who suffered generations of oppression by Israel, now genocide. Russia was rightly booted out. Israel will use this as a PR stunt while committing genocide. Palestinians have asked him to withdraw.

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@FeyeraBender Critical thinking is when I choose a degree based on the median graduate starting salary right? Did I do a STEM?

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@JillDallas13 @Waterstones @OnjaliRauf Puberty blockers are 100% reversible.

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1 year

@femkekuiling @lucy__jacksonx @sssn_edi @EdinburghUni @TheStudentPaper When it's impossible to tell the difference between far right trad cons and you're views on gender you can't really claim to be leftist or feminist

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2 years

@BeerInStemGlass @john_plebeian @SpeechUnion How is reading a story to a child 'adult entertainment'?

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1 year

@WeedenKim And the inevitable feeling of “wait, is water wet?” when you hit the submit button

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1 year

Due to the failing to report specific causes of death ‘’As such, Qatar is also failing to adhere to the procedural dimension of the right to life – the need to investigate potential cases of unlawful deprivation of life’’ 3/n

Qatar: "In the prime of their lives": Qatar's failure to investigate, remedy and prevent migrant...

Over the last decade, thousands of young migrant workers have died suddenly and unexpectedly in Qatar despite passing their mandatory medical tests before travelling to the country. Yet the Qatari...

www.amnesty.org

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2 years

@rochellehd The fact that from this list, it appears that this child is a happy and content person, and the father seems to connect this to being gay rings some major alarm bells.

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1 year

@RealityBender5 @LBC @DavidLammy @DalrympleWill You want to tell the natives that the genocide of their peoples was actually ok because now you get to immigrate to their land?

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1 year

To conclude, Qatar hates migrants, Qatar hates women, Qatar hates LGBT peoples. It abuses them, criminalises them, and on occasion executes them 13/n

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2 years

The single biggest failure of 'the left' has been its irrational and reactionary stance toward nuclear energy.

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1 year

Unfortunately for reasons only the Qatari state know, they have consistently failed to give detailed breakdown of reasons for death of migrant workers. All we know is that between 2010-19 15,021 non-Qataris have died. These numbers are disputed as being non-reliable, however 2/n

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@Euan_A_C How did this not activate all the sugar daddy bots on twitter?

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1 year

@b___nsky This is what the people want when they say 'Gay Twitter'

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2 years

@bencsmoke God forbid this person finds out that certain contraceptives stop women from having periods also

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1 year

In fact, the state apparatus and security force routinely beat and sexually harass LGBT individuals in Qatar – with trans women being forced into conversion camps upon release from prison 12/n

Qatar: Security Forces Arrest, Abuse LGBT People

Qatar Preventive Security Department forces have arbitrarily arrested lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people and subjected them to ill-treatment in detention, Human Rights Watch said...

www.hrw.org

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1 year

They cannot serve in the military, cannot adopt or have children, are not protected from employment or housing discrimination, and can be punished with up to 7 years of imprisonment for non-Muslims. For Muslims the punishment is death. By stoning 10/n

LGBT Rights in Qatar | Equaldex

LGBT Rights in Qatar: homosexuality, gay marriage, gay adoption, serving in the military, sexual orientation discrimination protection, changing legal gender, donating blood, age of consent, and more.

www.equaldex.com

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10 months

Had a really great time at the @EssexSumSchool fantastic course and people. I’m now officially a complete expert on multilevel modelling…

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@Scott_Oatley_

7 months

Conservatives stop trying to insulate that gay people are perverts challenge impossible

Sophie Corcoran

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7 months

So are we just all going to pretend that it's not really fucking weird that Owen Jones is nearly 40 years old and goes around conference finding teenagers and asking them questions to try and deliberately create outrage and smear them to his 1m followers disturbing tbh

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On top of a failure to report or act on these deaths appropriately, those hardest hit are unable to adequately express themselves – and the press cannot act on their behalf thanks to amendments to Article 136 which allows the... 4/n

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Gonna set up a left-wing new media company who is in? Perks include: Bragging about it on your CV when you jump ship for a spin doctor position Going almost exclusively on right-wing media shows Doing nothing for progressive causes

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2 years

@KWebbNurse @DocumentsC @HJoyceGender What does it feel like to pretend to be a perpetual victim?

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11 months

Remember a time when people were saying alt-media was going to be so much better than traditional media? lol

Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️

@LeftieStats

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If this actually happens (and I doubt it will) it would quite genuinely put Sunak far to the left of Starmer's Labour

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@tng_konrad @pmddomingos @timgill924 Gramsci is one of the most influential and popular political thinkers of the 20th century. In what universe is he considered “low-key”

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@bonny_lass_ @two_truths @NicholasPegg Got a whole load of opinions for someone that is asking a whole load of questions there

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1 year

Finally, it has long been established that Qatar treats LGBT people as subhuman. They have no rights at all in Qatar... 9/n

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9 months

@hellohimate Realised a long time ago that the traffic in cities skylines isn't my fault it's the game's fault so I just use traffic light mods to help. Why does every car in the game want to travel in the same lane down a 4-lane highway?!?

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@BiggerBoat177 @ALLIANCELGB ''Guys I'm a bigot, but you let your mask slip here''

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1 year

Apparently I slayed from a young age. Not sure about the Victorian attire tho

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@anitasarkeesian ''Demand does not impact supply'' Excuse me what? Consumption has an impact on production.

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1 year

‘imprisonment of anyone who broadcasts, publishes... stir up public opinion, or infringe on the social system or the public system of the state” 5/n

Qatar: Repressive new law further curbs freedom of expression

A new vaguely-worded law which criminalizes a broad range of speech and publishing activities stands to significantly restrict freedom of expression in Qatar

www.amnesty.org

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1 year

When people have challenged Qatar, thousands of migrant workers have had their employment terminated and forced to return home without pay 6/n

Qatar: migrant workers deported without pay in advance of 2022 FIFA World Cup

Thousands of migrant workers in Qatar had their contracts cancelled and were forced to return home, in many cases without pay, as the Qatari government rolled out its plan to “[maximise] the reduct...

www.marxist.com

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2 years

Looking for flats in Edinburgh still and I’m constantly asked if I earn 30 times the monthly rent to be eligible to APPLY for the property. I’m a PhD student, I don’t earn 30 times the monthly rent of a parking space let alone an apartment.

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#NewProfilePic

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Qatar has consistently been recommended by other states such as France, Australia, and Iceland to address its disgusting anti-LGBT laws with no action being taken 11/n

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@mskatestafford @loadofmince @DCAdundee Why did the event get cancelled genius

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2 years

@jackballs_ Isn’t that every Eurovision host tho

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This practice of guardianship even extends to a woman's inability to say no to sexual advances from their husband – who a male guardian gave permission to marry. These women also have no control over their children or any aspect of their lives 8/n

“Everything I Have to Do is Tied to a Man”

The 94-page report, “‘Everything I Have to Do is Tied to a Man’: Women and Qatar’s Male Guardianship Rules,” analyzes official male guardianship rules and practices. Human Rights Watch found that...

www.hrw.org

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6 months

Do we vote for the rich lawyer who is extremely toxic towards people when he doesn’t get his own way or the bratty Glaswegian who ran with a crowd of bullies for three weeks? #BBUK

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2 years

@nikicaga @lkevdb You better have been simping for the glorious infrastructure instead of the girl. Girls last a few moments, industrial rail lasts forever.

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6 months

Wasn’t expecting to come out to my Nan on FaceTime today but I guess that’s a thing that just happened. Not her saying “I can die happy knowing you’re happy”

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Qatar’s abuse of people does not stop at vulnerable migrant workers. Women in Qatar make up around 25% of the Qatari population. Women are restricted in who they can marry, where they can study, work, and travel 7/n

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2 years

@Ratatwinkie I think I might just love this thread

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1 year

@leftofphil All sociology profs shaking and crying rn

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@Scott_Oatley_

2 years

How utterly repugnant

Grace Dean

@graceldean

2 years

The Holocaust Memorial Garden in Hyde Park has now become a makeshift Queen Memorial Garden

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Is everyone big brother ready? #BBUK

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1 year

Hey all, the report on gender affirming care that I helped create has just gone live at:

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@Scott_Oatley_

1 year

Poor person rant: if you want people to edit journals perhaps give them incentive to do so, perhaps in some monetary form or another, as is commonly the practice when labour is provided

Jamie Gaskarth

@GaskarthJamie

1 year

Editor rant: if you're publishing academic journal articles, you should be reviewing journal articles. Otherwise, you're just freeriding. The number of times we're getting well into double figures before 2 people say yes is causing delays and hurting fellow academics' careers.

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@enzoreds I've always found that by showing excerpts from other French thinkers of his time *cough* Bourdieu *cough* people appreciate Foucault's writing a lot more

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@Scott_Oatley_

5 months

It's quite annoying when people latch on to new words they clearly don't quite understand simply because they want to sound smart. Claiming that Israel being in Eurovision is a form of pinkwashing is really focusing on the hard issues.

Tabby

@TheTabbyLamb

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i love olly, i’ve followed his career for years, from tiny pub theatres to wembley stadium. but this is just pink washing - no queer should be celebrating eurovision when Isreal are still contestants. You’re just normalising genocide.

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1 year

I have never quite understood Blair's complete obsession with IDs

TLDR News UK

@TLDRNewsUK

1 year

🤝 Former rivals Tony Blair and William Hague have joined forces to call for the rollout of digital IDs as part of a "technology revolution".

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2 years

@whippletom @AndreaJPowell2 @R_Hughes1 @mrwbw Is the paper going to publish a full retraction for attempting to spread blatant disinformation? We both know full well that this graph was meant to trick people into thinking the opposite of what the statistics actually show

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1 year

@philoso_foster Only cringe people do experiments. True social scientists make causal claims about observational data with bog standard OLS

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