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Laurie Penny
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Writer of books, essays, columns and tv shows. Credits: The Haunting Of Bly Manor, The Nevers and more. They/them/ Public Universal Friend with Benefits.
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Jeremy Hunt chose Holocaust Memorial Day to deliver a speech in front of a Stop the Boats logo. No words.
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You know you're on Twitter when #StopTheBoats is trending at the same time as
#HolocaustMemorialDay
#HMD2023
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Someone just showed me a picture where it looks like their baby doesn't have real hands.
Told them that's what happens when you generate your baby using Kidjourney.
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They did exactly the same to me almost exactly a year ago. It is about ableism, transphobia and the sense that you don't know your 'place'. twitter.com/BootstrapCook/
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Perfect.
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I’ll never forget the first time I accidentally waded into a discussion on trans issues. It was a few years ago, I hadn’t really encountered the transphobic crowd before. Someone posted complaining about the term “people who menstruate” to describe, well, people who menstruate 1/
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I have family in #MontereyPark so this is close to home. My heart is with the victims and families.
Donate to & . Support anti-gun legislation.
AsAm fam, go have the most fucking exuberant Lunar New Year. We stand together & nothing can stop us.🧧✊
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Still great. No notes.
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Now that the Labour Party believes that 16 is too young to know your gender identity- is it the plan that all children are brought up non-gendered until they reach 18?
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It's not that "no one wants to work." It's that work doesn’t pay people enough to live.
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Have you been diagnosed with autism in the past 5-10 years? How did that happen, and how did it change your life? Would you like to talk to me about it for a giant massive feature I'm writing? You don't have to be quoted directly, and self diagnosis counts. Get in touch here x
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Jeremy Clarkson:
I GET KNOCKED DOWN! BUT I G-
Every former member of Chumbawamba, on behalf of the British people:
Stay the fck down.
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So anyway today we turned down £30,000 for our song to be used for a trailer for Jeremy Clarkson’s new TV series. I can’t tell you how much satisfaction that gave us.
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Jeremy Clarkson:
I GET KNOCKED DOWN! BUT I G-
Every former member of Chumbawamba, on behalf of the British people:
Stay the fck down.
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So anyway today we turned down £30,000 for our song to be used for a trailer for Jeremy Clarkson’s new TV series. I can’t tell you how much satisfaction that gave us.
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I will always have mad love for Chumbawamba (and all who sailed in her).
Going to guess the song was 'Give The Anarchist A Cigarette'?
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So anyway today we turned down £30,000 for our song to be used for a trailer for Jeremy Clarkson’s new TV series. I can’t tell you how much satisfaction that gave us.
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People think they want a wife but what they actually want is an Engels.
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Fay Weldon. One of the great prose stylists of her age. Ave atque vale.
If you haven't, do yourself a favour and read 'the Life and Loves of a She-Devil.'
#rip #fayweldon
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Fay Weldon. One of the great prose stylists of her age. Ave atque vale.
If you haven't, do yourself a favour and read 'the Life and Loves of a She-Devil.'
#rip #fayweldon
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Desperate British Government, amid ongoing public support for the strikes:
'a generation of passengers will just write off the railways'.
The British Public:
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I'm aware that it's embarrassingly earnest. Ten years on I'm still embarrassingly earnest. But strangers have been giving me shit for writing this one tweet for a decade? Wtf?
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Seriously still no idea why this tweet keeps coming back around.
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Desperate British Government, amid ongoing public support for the strikes:
'a generation of passengers will just write off the railways'.
The British Public:
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I try not to jump into Twitter fights or add to the noise around people who thrive on it. But if Julia Hartley-Brewer really did tweet something to Greta Thunberg, about the value of her life as an autistic person, I would beg my media colleagues to reconsider giving JHB airtime.
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Happy new year everyone. Let 2023 be the year of neurodivergent marxism - of neurodivergent consciousness raising, multitudes, and contradictions.
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Whenever I tweet about Greta Thunberg, I get non-disabled people replying they “find it difficult to see her as disabled.” It’s meant as a compliment but what they’re really saying is: “I equate disability with weakness and failure so can’t see a brilliant woman as disabled.”
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Wherever you are, and whatever you're leaving behind in the old year, have a good one:
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Wherever you are, and whatever you're leaving behind in the old year, have a good one:
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Step 1: arrive at awesome warehouse music thing full of interesting people
Step 2: realise you are totally out of XP and have Become Odd again
Step 3: locate kettle, make tea
Step 5: locate hiding spot behind curtain
Step 6: hide, drink tea, read novel until capacity returns. :D
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This, by is by far the best text on that now famous car crash of a party conference in Birmingham.
It was exactly like that.
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When your sister makes a taxonomy of your romantic tastes and it's a savage read
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Oh no
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When your sister makes a taxonomy of your romantic tastes and it's a savage read @eleanorkpenny
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The greatest boy band ever
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Tag yourself, frankly.
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When your sister makes a taxonomy of your romantic tastes and it's a savage read
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