Holly McKenna
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this has been a LONG time coming and I’m full of joy and relief that we’re finally, finally here! Scotland has BUFFER ZONES!
no more braving a gauntlet of zealots harassing service users and employees while trying to seek healthcare or just go to work. what a momentous day!!
And the Abortion Services Safe Access Zones (Scotland) Bill has passed...
😀😀😀👏👏👏
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I’m really confused as to how a sign/flag saying ‘everyone is welcome here’ is unwelcoming to anyone
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So, just to confirm, Diane Abbott drank a mojito on a train and was demonised; and Michael Gove does cocaine and it's just laughed off. I WONDER WHY Abbott was subjected to more online hate than Gove, it's truly a mystery.
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THE BORIS JOHNSON BIRTHDAY CARD
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Just to confirm:
@PoliceScotland
will arrest you for holding a sign disagreeing with the monarchy, but won’t arrest you if you’re standing outside a sexual health clinic screaming scripture into a megaphone and harassing patients?
NEW: The 22-year old woman who was arrested after holding up this anti-monarchy placard at St Giles' Cathedral has now been CHARGED “in connection with a breach of the peace",
@PoliceScotland
confirm.
Will appear at Edinburgh Sheriff Court at a later date.
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Your political views don't change the fact that public health is a DEVOLVED matter. Whether you like Nicola Sturgeon/the SNP or not, your feelings don't change an actual fact. If you live in Scotland, the Scottish Government sets your rules for this. End of.
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new £85 grinch just dropped
Police were called to an 'immersive event' inspired by Willy Wonka in Glasgow after furious parents complained about the quality of the event.
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It’s because we’re so irritated by our glasses constantly steaming up that we just stay home
Coronavirus: Glasses wearers less likely to get COVID, study says
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Meghan Markle is a perfect example of how removing yourself from a toxic situation and doing what’s right for you makes you glow differently. She’s radiant, it’s wonderful to see
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GCs wanting to scrap the whole concept of Gillick Competence, a decision initially handed down to ensure young women could get access to contraception despite their parents’ views, shows - once again - that feminism is the absolute least of their concerns.
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Your child isn’t ‘losing’ a university place to a student from a deprived area. The playing field has been levelled a bit so that everybody has more equal access.
Sorry that rich kids need to work a wee bit harder for things that used to be handed to them.
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God damn my pwriod, making me unattractive to such absolutely wonderful men
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Hello Scots speakers!
My mammy calls spring onions ‘sybies’, my brief reading tells me the actual Scots word for them is ‘syboes’ - I’ve never heard either in my life!
Anybody who has heard either before, let me know! 🌾
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GCs will say, with a straight face, that trans rights are the biggest threat to women’s rights, whilst ONE HUNDRED people stand outside a maternity hospital in Glasgow to harass and frighten people accessing healthcare.
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Jeff Bezos could end world hunger and still be a billionaire.
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I’m being SILENCED, I scream from a national news article.
I’m being CANCELLED, I scream from a national radio interview.
In the words of Ms Swift, I’ve never heard silence quite this loud.
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@Risen_Bylyl6
Literally 🤣 the sign says WELCOME and they’re so adamant they’re going ‘no I am NOT welcome’
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TELL me I’m hallucinating and the LABOUR leader didn’t just quote Margaret bloody Thatcher.
Labour leader Keir Starmer quotes Margaret Thatcher and says she was “right” in speech on crime.
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Well, I don’t know about the rest of ye, but I am not enjoying this 3.30pm sundown
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Just so we’re crystal clear:
Things BBC employees can’t do: go to Pride marches or openly show support for the LGBTQ+ community
Things BBC employees can do: mock someone’s pronouns on a public platform to hundreds of thousands of people
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I spent a day yesterday being called stupid and a misogynist, having people tag my uni/place of work, saying I shouldn’t be an NHS employee, and one whipping up a bizarre conspiracy that I’m actually male - because I dared say something negative about a prominent GC.
“No free speech in Britain for gender-critical feminists,” except for the tv interviews, the radio shows, the newspaper articles, the blogs… GCs have the loudest voices, while people are driven off twitter for merely suggesting we listen to trans people.
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If my own lawyer had referred to me publicly as a sex pest, I’d maybe pipe down on playing the victim. Idk that’s just me 🤷🏻♀️
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‘Legitimate concerns’ huh?
Even quoting a trans person’s words has them rolling their eyes and pulling faces like playground bullies. Pathetic.
Vile responses from Joanna Cherry, Rosie Duffield and Neale Hanvey to Kirsty Blackman quoting a trans constituent.
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If you can’t see the marked difference between a crowd wearing masks and peacefully protesting the detainment of their neighbours and a crowd of thugs destroying memorial benches and necessitating a clean up operation, I simply don’t know what to say to you.
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My great aunt: oh you have to watch the Big Scottish Book Club! There was a lovely lassie on it with long red hair sharing poetry in Scots! Thank god there’s people preserving the language now!
Me: ah, you mean
@Lenniesaurus
🥰
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HOW CAN THEY GET THE VACCINE WHEN YOU’RE NOT OFFERING THE VACCINE TO THEM, STOP TELLING THEM TO DO THEIR BIT WHEN THEY LITERALLY CANNOT
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I got to see my (Scots-speaking) grandparents yesterday before the snow hit and they were absolutely buzzing to hear about
@Lenniesaurus
’s Scots Word of the Day and how so many of the words from my childhood are making a comeback (skiddle, breenge, skelp, pernickity - our favs)
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Every woman who has ever sat in a college or uni seminar has met this man
there’s a man on question time, whose qualifications include a philosophy degree, attempting to school a professor of immunology on the yellow card system.
fascinating viewing
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The way that police are all too keen to use violence against people literally sitting down doing nothing should shake everybody to their core. It’s sickening, disgusting, there is no place for it in our communities.
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TW: transphobia, suicide
‘…underline my support for equal rights for trans people’
By saying ‘what rubbish’ when trans constituents share their suicidal thoughts because of the violently hostile social and political landscape YOU had a hand in forming? Laughable.
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Using only food, where did you grow up?
Using only food where did you grow up?
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@beauvoirbaddie
I would like one day where a woman can express something she enjoys and a man doesn’t go ‘OH HAVE YOU READ/SEEN THIS’ like some kind of primal display of mating superiority
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I spoke so much Scots as a young child thanks to my grandparents, and when I started school I was told it was ‘slang’ or ‘improper’ so I couldn’t use it, and it’s only now that I’m in my mid-20s that I’m reconnecting with that part of my identity that shouldn’t have been removed.
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Anyone who has lived or worked in Partick knows this street
What's something that ISN'T a sport, but still FEELS like a sport?
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Some of the replies to this are disgusting so let me just say - taking someone's information, whether it's "just their name" or not, which you have access to as part of your job, is a breach of GDPR. Especially if you're in the medical profession and have access to sensitive data
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I am livid.
@HumzaYousaf
you pledged to enshrine buffer zones in law during the leadership race - now you scrap the working group on buffer zones!?!
I wish I could put forward more eloquent words right now, but I am so, so angry about this.
The Scottish Government have scrapped the ministerial working group on buffer zones. ❌
A statement from us:
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I gotta say, sitting around waiting to hear if the next leader of your country is going to be a religious zealot who thinks your sexuality is a sin and that you shouldn’t have rights over your own body is categorically Not Fun
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Hi, as someone who was the first person in my family to go to uni and therefore had no exposure/experience in addressing people in that context, this is incredibly elitist and pointlessly alienating.
I also delete every email that first-persons me on a first email. Them’s the rules. You can decide how you want to be addressed, but I’m the one who decides how *I* want to be addressed.
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The POINT of strike action is to be disruptive and affect day to day societal functioning. If you’re inconvenienced - it tells you that these workers are an essential part of your day, and therefore deserving of at least liveable pay and conditions.
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This is why the prospect of KF becoming Scotland’s FM was so terrifying. Behind her spin-doctored avoidance of a direct answer lies this: she would delight in outlawing abortion and denying bodily autonomy to every pregnant person in Scotland. She wants to remove choice.
Kate Forbes at the
@edfringe
yesterday 😳
This rhetoric that is straight out of the same playbook used by anti-abortion groups in the US responsible for the downfall of Roe v Wade. Shocking.
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Because there were no vaccines available for anyone at the beginning of the pandemic, Sophie
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Funnily enough, if a group of people came into my workplace wearing T-shirts and putting leaflets/stickers in the bathrooms that made my staff and customers uncomfortable or offended, I’d also ask the group to leave. That shouldn’t be controversial.
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Putting young people in danger to dunk on trans people isn’t anything to be proud of at all, actually.
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Today, I have written to UNISON's General Secretary and National Officer for LGBT+ Equality, as well as my own Branch Secretary, raising my concerns regarding the retweeting and liking of anti-trans content by the
@unisonscot
account. The full text of my email is below:
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Let me get this straight - when a Glasgow football team wants to vandalise property and sing sectarian songs in the streets, they’re happily escorted by the police, but women protesting the streets being unsafe for them are threatened with prosecution??!
URGENT UPDATE: police want us to pull the event and are threatening to prosecute organisers. We're working with human rights lawyers to challenge this, but we need your help 👇👇
#ReclaimTheseStreets
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Now that’s over, can we focus on improving internal processes for complainers to come forward please?
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TW: abortion
I cannot believe there is even a CHANCE that we could have an anti-abortion FM. What YEAR is this please?
(And that’s just one of her very concerning views, without even touching on how anti-trans she is. Absolute disgrace).
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Your leader went to a pro-conversion therapy church like five minutes ago, pipe down
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📍Join us in Birmingham, Brighton, Manchester & London.
Check your emails for more information on how to sign up to march with us!
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I am absolutely shocked to say that I'll be graduating this month with a First Class Honours degree in Law from the University of Glasgow!!! 😭 It has been an absolutely wild 4 years, but I am so proud of myself and all my incredible friends who also excelled themselves! ❤❤👩🎓
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Not my dad, who’s had an HGV licence for 8 years and worked as an HGV driver for almost as long getting a letter from the UK gov asking him to ‘consider coming back and using his licence to help his country’. HELP HIS COUNTRY give it a rest
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STOP CLAPPING TO THANK NHS WORKERS STOP CALLING US ‘HEROES’ STOP GIVING US EMPTY GESTURES THANK US WITH MONEY AND BETTER SUPPORT FOR THE WORK WE HAVE TO DO AND THINGS WE HAVE TO SEE
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Add to the list of things Joanna Cherry claims are about her: islamophobia
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It's all official! I signed my contract today and I'm now an NHS employee, starting on Monday! I'm so excited to get stuck in and do my bit in clinical psychology at such a crucial time.
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TW: rape, attempted rape, sexual assault, acquittal
Since I'm a legal researcher currently looking at Scotland's frankly alarming state of affairs for complainers in jury rape cases, I thought I'd give those of you who find yourselves asking 'why didn't she report?' a lesson.
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I understand this might be an uncomfortable truth for some, but you know, speak to, and walk past people who have made plans or attempts to end their life every day. They don’t always cry, they don’t always talk about it, you might not even know. That’s the truth.
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In Scots law, SPUILZIE (pronounced the same) also means:
1. taking away another’s property
2. the action to recover that property as well as profits made with it or damages for unjust dispossession (so you can raise an action of SPUILZIE in the courts!)
#ScotsLawWords
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May 2020 I started my job with the NHS. One of my first tasks was to cancel a load of elective surgeries, to speak to people who had their hopes taken away because of Covid. Some of them are still waiting. While Downing St partied, laughed, made a mockery of us.
What were you doing in May 2020 while
@10DowningStreet
were 'enjoying the sunny weather' at the
#DowningStreetParties
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I often think about the absurdity that I could get, for instance, a kidney transplant for free in this country but it costs me 30p to take a piss in Buchanan bus station
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As a
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member I’m deeply concerned by this. The thread also contains other transphobic tweets liked by the Unison account. I don’t believe that can be put down as an error.
The union should represent EVERYBODY - you are telling trans members that they are not safe.
Why is
@unisonscot
retweeting an an anonymous anti-trans Twitter account called Males In Disguise?
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I’m once again asking
@theSNP
why, especially when the Safe Access Zones Bill is soon being introduced, you are tacitly accepting this behaviour from a member of your own party toward people seeking healthcare? This member becomes more emboldened by your inaction.
Surely John Mason hasn’t been picketing this Glasgow hospital AGAIN???? Is this acceptable to
@theSNP
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Screaming. Crying. Throwing up.
Not the self-proclaimed tsar of “biological reality” now backtracking because it actually affects her. What did you THINK was going to happen when you spouted fascist rhetoric and allowed it to spread? It was never going to stop at one group.
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BREAKING: I have The Fear
BREAKING: Kate Forbes has been made Deputy First Minister in John Swinney's new Cabinet.
Story to follow.
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I’d like to make Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater a wee cuppa and a biscuit, maybe a wee hot water bottle and a cosy blanket, and give them a wee cuddle. It can’t be easy or pleasant arguing against bigots and climate change deniers every day but they do it so gracefully
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I didn’t even name the person in my tweet - I pointed out the hypocrisy of claiming cancellation/silencing from multiple MSM platforms. And I got a day of abuse for it.
GCs aren’t lacking in voice - if anything, they become more and more emboldened as the moral panic continues.
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Stop killing us.
Stop assaulting us.
Stop blaming us.
Stop scrutinising us.
Stop questioning us.
Stop abducting us.
Stop harassing us.
Stop catcalling us.
Stop threatening us.
Stop terrifying us.
I am so sick of us mourning another sister because you won’t listen to us.
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You can be relieved that the more progressive, egalitarian candidate won the SNP leadership while simultaneously being concerned about how close the results were between said candidate and the other with very worrying views. Two things can coexist!
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I so rarely see GC people fighting that fight; amplifying campaigns for buffer zones or speaking out against these attempts to undermine bodily autonomy.
Because, when it boils down to it, they’re not ‘pro-women’. It’s a smokescreen for their fascistic anti-trans hatred.
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I can’t believe we had the £35 Glasgow Willy Wonka immersive event, H*len J*yce reading HP fanfic porn on a train, and ‘Kate Middleton is secretly recovering from a BBL’ all on the same day. What a time to be alive.
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Mental how dead men get more protection in this country than living, breathing women
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Hi
@theSNP
@ScotGovFM
- the longer this forced-birther is allowed to harass people seeking healthcare, the more he is emboldened to continue. The SNP cannot call itself progressive with this in its ranks. It’s an embarrassment and very dangerous rhetoric.
Hey SNP, come get your Da, he’s protesting abortions again 🙄
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Trans people are among those fighting back against the bigoted zealots crowding outside clinics seeking to deny bodily autonomy to, among other groups, women.
But yes, trans people are the issue here. Clearly. 🙄🙄🙄🙄
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If you want to elect a man to public office who openly admitted to sexual misconduct and whose own lawyer referred to as a ‘sex pest’, all you’re telling me is you hate women. What else are we meant to infer from that action?
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HAPPY VALENTINES DAY I GOT A JOB OFFER THIS MORNING FOR AN AMAZING JOB THAT I INTERVIEWED FOR ON TUESDAY AND THOUGHT I'D NEVER STAND A CHANCE FOR!! TAKE THAT IMPOSTER SYNDROME I'M GONNA BE WORKING FOR THE NHS!!!
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‘We don’t want women to be silenced’ yet they send pretty nasty and very personal abuse to women who don’t agree with them, attempting to shut them up because they don’t agree with their ‘hero’.
So imagine how awful it is for trans people to see this - DAILY.
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How lovely of the police to violently remove women peacefully protesting against police violence. Way to restore our confidence in you.
To the folk saying ‘call the police!’ when women are threatened - here’s part of why we don’t.
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Streets aren’t safe. Lights don’t keep us safe. Police don’t keep us safe. Our homes aren’t always safe. Taxis aren’t safe. Public transport isn’t safe. Crowds aren’t safe. Being alone isn’t safe.
Please, tell us, what should we do in a world where nothing keeps us safe?
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I'm really, really delighted to say that I'll be working at
@UofGLaw
as a Graduate Teaching Assistant this coming term, teaching Intro to Legal Studies and Criminal Law & Evidence! I'm so excited to get started and hopefully impart some legal wisdom 👩🏻⚖👩🏻🏫
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To all the folks saying ‘but I do X job and I’ve worked 14 days in a row for years!!’ you should also not have to do that!!! Nobody should be working a fortnight straight with no rest time!!
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Alright, so, after the horrible Twitter events over the weekend, I feel it’s important for me to say - as a teacher and an early career academic in law, I’d feel absolutely disgusted if I incited, whether intentional or not, a barrage of abuse against a law student.
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Not to go ✨tooting my own horn✨ but I’ve got a first-class degree in Law and I literally research Scottish criminal law at LLM(R) level - but would this help me if the police decided to stop/restrain/search me? Absolutely not.
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Getting reeeeal sick of having to walk past ‘pro lifers’ with horrid signs when I’m just trying to get in and out of my work of a day. I just want to be able to do my job without being traumatised, is that too much to ask?
cc.
@backoffscotland
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Solidarity with every single pupil on
#SQAResults
day being told that their hard work means less because of where they live and that a postcode defines them. It is disgraceful, classist, and the SQA and government should be deeply, deeply ashamed.
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‘I support a ceasefire. That’s why I abstained from voting for a ceasefire’
Alternatively: ‘I support a ceasefire, just not when the SNP brings the motion’
Today I made my position absolutely clear. I support a ceasefire in Gaza
I did not vote for a divisive amendment by the SNP but I will continue to represent the views of my constituents on this issue and to call for a
#CeasefireNOW
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People holding signs outside a clinic saying ‘abortion is murder’ is intimidation. Of course it is. Nobody should have the right to do that directly outside of a healthcare facility.
I've been observing this debate for a while and I'm increasingly concerned about the rebranding of prayer vigils as 'intimidation' or 'harassment'. If you oppose prayer vigils then make your case but pretending they're the equivalent of a mob is not only lazy, it's dishonest.
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TW: sexual assault
I am horrified by this article. It hurts that a university I work for, study at, and have cherished my time at, cares so little for the safety and well-being of survivors.
@UofGlasgow
you have let so many people down and caused immeasurable harm.
Glasgow University students 'let down' over sexual harassment reports
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It’s probably a good time to say I’ve been a proud member of
@scottishgreens
for years now, I fully believe they’re the most progressive and representative party, and they have all of my votes. 💚
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Shout out to the people like me who, upon hearing the news about travel/the 6 people rule, were not filled with joy and were instead filled with anxiety and dread. The very idea of being around lots of people again makes me feel so panicked, and then angry about feeling panicked.
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I am NOT, in any way, claiming I’m a victim - I’m not. I felt a little anxious but blocked the nasties and had support from people who care about me. It’s just a clear example of how you only need to be a tiny bit negative about or question a GC and the abuse floodgates open.
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Another day working for the NHS where I didn't violate a patient's privacy by messaging them on social media using information I accessed through my job! Who knew it was possible!?
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I’ve made the most gorgeous, delectable, simply divine lemon drizzle cake, who’s wanting a slice? 🍋
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The person who claimed I was actually a man was especially telling - they assume that anybody disagreeing with them must be trans, refuse to believe there are cis allies out there, and use trans as an insult.
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Those of us who didn’t get to say goodbye to loved ones and had to watch their funerals on a video call feel sick right now. One rule for them, one rule for the rest of us.
Prince Charles has arrived at the central London hospital treating his father, the Duke of Edinburgh
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Also if you use this traumatic event to forward a TERFy agenda - please, from the bottom of my heart, fuck off. NO woman is safe and by dividing us up you put us in even greater danger.
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“You deserve to engage only with people who are considerate of your boundaries, and if someone does not put in the effort to accommodate you, they do not deserve your time, or access to you”
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
@Lenniesaurus
Never forget the importance of setting your boundaries | Lennie Pennie
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They are categorically not without a platform, and they actively use that platform to demonise trans people and their allies. I’ve had enough of this ‘I’m being silenced’ chat when it clearly isn’t true.
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How, pray tell, is rubbishing the lived experience of trans people ‘protecting’ women’s or lesbians’ rights? How is shaking your head and rolling your eyes as trans people are driven to suicidality defending anybody? It’s disgusting.
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Very very hard not to feel completely deflated and sick to your stomach every single day when you live in the UK. Every day is more awfulness, and just when you think it can’t get worse - they pull out a shovel and dig us deeper into the gutter of no hope.
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