Matthew
@mtthwrly.bsky.social
comms, public health and chatting shit 💡
london via liverpool
he/him
london via liverpool
he/him
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🚨 Large far-right demo in central London today, organised by Stephen Lennon (aka Tommy Robinson) under the banner Unite the Kingdom. HOPE not hate will be monitoring closely. Follow this thread for updates throughout the day.
September 13, 2025 at 2:15 PM
🚨 Large far-right demo in central London today, organised by Stephen Lennon (aka Tommy Robinson) under the banner Unite the Kingdom. HOPE not hate will be monitoring closely. Follow this thread for updates throughout the day.
When we last saw aid being parachuted in, we also saw crushes of desperate people trying to get it, and instances of people being crushed by faulty drops. This is not a win in any sense.
Ok Keir Starmer, let’s see the RAF leading the way.
Israel allows foreign countries to parachute aid into Gaza
July 25, 2025 at 12:34 PM
When we last saw aid being parachuted in, we also saw crushes of desperate people trying to get it, and instances of people being crushed by faulty drops. This is not a win in any sense.
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Update: actual input to the EHRC's consultation on gender/trans issues was even bigger, when you also take in partial responses. It saw 51,599 responses in all. 41,066 from individuals; 2,504 from organisations; 387 from legal professionals. Totals don't add up as not everyone specified this.
The Equality and Human Rights Commission's six-week consultation into its guidance on how to implement the supreme court's ruling on gender closed last night - and had *25,825* responses, the EHRC says.
July 1, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Update: actual input to the EHRC's consultation on gender/trans issues was even bigger, when you also take in partial responses. It saw 51,599 responses in all. 41,066 from individuals; 2,504 from organisations; 387 from legal professionals. Totals don't add up as not everyone specified this.
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Hungary banned anything that “promotes homosexuality,” which means Pride.
However, today over 500,000 people in Budapest told the government to fuck off. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
However, today over 500,000 people in Budapest told the government to fuck off. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
June 28, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Hungary banned anything that “promotes homosexuality,” which means Pride.
However, today over 500,000 people in Budapest told the government to fuck off. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
However, today over 500,000 people in Budapest told the government to fuck off. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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Tapper writes this without acknowledging that Milk himself served in the US Navy during the Korean War, or that Milk was assassinated while serving honorably in public office
June 27, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Tapper writes this without acknowledging that Milk himself served in the US Navy during the Korean War, or that Milk was assassinated while serving honorably in public office
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Jaw-dropping reporting by Haaretz www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
June 27, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Jaw-dropping reporting by Haaretz www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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you know when I really could’ve used inclusive language? when I was being called a woman, medically, when I was eleven on the gynae ward. I was still a child!!! with a period! Not a woman, yet!
Other people have made this point more eloquently but inclusive language is for all of us
Other people have made this point more eloquently but inclusive language is for all of us
June 23, 2025 at 9:21 AM
you know when I really could’ve used inclusive language? when I was being called a woman, medically, when I was eleven on the gynae ward. I was still a child!!! with a period! Not a woman, yet!
Other people have made this point more eloquently but inclusive language is for all of us
Other people have made this point more eloquently but inclusive language is for all of us
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at the heart of the ‘pregnant person’ furore is a lot of people who cannot comprehend that the world does not revolve entirely around them.
when I was pregnant I was a pregnant woman! nobody ever, in three pregnancies, erased that!
but I am not the only person who’s ever been pregnant lmao
when I was pregnant I was a pregnant woman! nobody ever, in three pregnancies, erased that!
but I am not the only person who’s ever been pregnant lmao
June 23, 2025 at 9:17 AM
at the heart of the ‘pregnant person’ furore is a lot of people who cannot comprehend that the world does not revolve entirely around them.
when I was pregnant I was a pregnant woman! nobody ever, in three pregnancies, erased that!
but I am not the only person who’s ever been pregnant lmao
when I was pregnant I was a pregnant woman! nobody ever, in three pregnancies, erased that!
but I am not the only person who’s ever been pregnant lmao
Haven’t seen a campaign from any politician like this in years. The mobilisation is incredible. His messaging couldn’t be sharper. Led by hope not fear.
On Friday night, we walked the length of Manhattan, from Inwood Hill to Battery Park.
New Yorkers deserve a Mayor they can see, hear, even yell at. The city is in the streets.
New Yorkers deserve a Mayor they can see, hear, even yell at. The city is in the streets.
June 24, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Haven’t seen a campaign from any politician like this in years. The mobilisation is incredible. His messaging couldn’t be sharper. Led by hope not fear.
🤦
June 21, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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My current rabbit hole is (I'm assuming) straight men reacting to pop girl albums.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Vrp...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Vrp...
First Time Hearing Britney Spears – Blackout… I’m SHOOK 😳 | REACTION
YouTube video by blackboybenjii
www.youtube.com
June 20, 2025 at 6:08 PM
My current rabbit hole is (I'm assuming) straight men reacting to pop girl albums.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Vrp...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Vrp...
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ik a lot of ppl are loathed to give stephen fry any due but this, i think, is the first time a mainstream figure has been all over the british press straight-up saying jk rowling has been radicalised.
this is actually unusual, and blanket, coverage.
this is actually unusual, and blanket, coverage.
June 19, 2025 at 7:26 PM
ik a lot of ppl are loathed to give stephen fry any due but this, i think, is the first time a mainstream figure has been all over the british press straight-up saying jk rowling has been radicalised.
this is actually unusual, and blanket, coverage.
this is actually unusual, and blanket, coverage.
THIS is how you do it 👊🏼
🚨 Last night JK Rowling attacked The National as an "anti-woman newspaper". I think that is absolutely ridiculous chat.
Here's my open letter setting out why this kind of attack does not work on our team.
www.thenational.scot/news/2525321...
Here's my open letter setting out why this kind of attack does not work on our team.
www.thenational.scot/news/2525321...
JK Rowling called our newspaper 'anti-woman'. Here's my response
THIS week JK Rowling launched an attack on The National, describing us as an "anti-woman newspaper" ...
www.thenational.scot
June 19, 2025 at 9:13 PM
THIS is how you do it 👊🏼
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The sudden normality of this in recent months is incredibly frightening
Feels like quite a few people have been waiting their whole lives for the moment when being openly racist in print is no longer career ending and are determined to make the most of it.
June 19, 2025 at 8:41 PM
The sudden normality of this in recent months is incredibly frightening
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Much welcomed guidance from the Chief Coroner of England and Wales.
I wrote a number of years ago saying that, based on my assessment of the law, you don't need a GRC to get an accurate death certificate.
Judicial guidance has now been published which agrees with me, and which confirms there is no change post-FWS.
www.judiciary.uk/guidance-and...
Judicial guidance has now been published which agrees with me, and which confirms there is no change post-FWS.
www.judiciary.uk/guidance-and...
Chapter 19: Trans people and the Coroner's Court - Courts and Tribunals Judiciary
This is a resource for coroners to help them locate key principles, practical information and precedents when dealing with inquests
www.judiciary.uk
June 18, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Much welcomed guidance from the Chief Coroner of England and Wales.
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Hearing this from quite a few people in Reform UK-controlled councils. From a local reader:
"There are rumours as in other Reform UK controlled councils that a number of those elected stood to ‘make up numbers’ & never thought they would be elected & now don’t feel able to commit the time required"
"There are rumours as in other Reform UK controlled councils that a number of those elected stood to ‘make up numbers’ & never thought they would be elected & now don’t feel able to commit the time required"
June 13, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Hearing this from quite a few people in Reform UK-controlled councils. From a local reader:
"There are rumours as in other Reform UK controlled councils that a number of those elected stood to ‘make up numbers’ & never thought they would be elected & now don’t feel able to commit the time required"
"There are rumours as in other Reform UK controlled councils that a number of those elected stood to ‘make up numbers’ & never thought they would be elected & now don’t feel able to commit the time required"
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For the past two years some of the largest voices on Twitter, including some elected Republicans, have been playing a fun game called "post a photo of any trans person minding their own business and see how quickly we can ruin their entire life"
It is genuinely unsafe for average people to use Twitter and speak freely. It appears to be this administration's primary intelligence gathering operation.
this is genuinely insane. we’re going to need to jail people involved with this administration
June 9, 2025 at 5:36 PM
For the past two years some of the largest voices on Twitter, including some elected Republicans, have been playing a fun game called "post a photo of any trans person minding their own business and see how quickly we can ruin their entire life"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEiL... excellent from @matthewcassel.bsky.social
‘God gave us Israel, all of it’ | Along the Green Line: episode 1
YouTube video by The Guardian
www.youtube.com
June 5, 2025 at 8:06 AM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEiL... excellent from @matthewcassel.bsky.social
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Kate Nash really is an ally, damn.
May 30, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Kate Nash really is an ally, damn.
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"Ethnic cleansing has become the official policy of Israel. The nation’s leaders are admitting it, without apology. There was barely a pretense before. But now there’s not even that. And these admissions, combined with mass killing on the ground, point to something even more horrific: genocide."
Opinion | A genocide is happening in Gaza. We should say so.
We can no longer hide the uncomfortable truths of Israel’s destruction of Gaza.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 28, 2025 at 7:01 PM
"Ethnic cleansing has become the official policy of Israel. The nation’s leaders are admitting it, without apology. There was barely a pretense before. But now there’s not even that. And these admissions, combined with mass killing on the ground, point to something even more horrific: genocide."
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Which is exactly what me and @amandacomms.bsky.social have been saying for two years. You won’t please everyone, you won’t quiet any mis, dis, mal or gas - all you can do is stay authentic and transparent and legally compliant in your comms
The speedier response from Merseyside Police outlining the profile of the arrested Liverpool driver does not appear to have dispelled the conspiracists on Twitter.
Alas there seems to be no good strategy for countering disinformation in an age when social media takes no responsibility for content.
Alas there seems to be no good strategy for countering disinformation in an age when social media takes no responsibility for content.
May 27, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Which is exactly what me and @amandacomms.bsky.social have been saying for two years. You won’t please everyone, you won’t quiet any mis, dis, mal or gas - all you can do is stay authentic and transparent and legally compliant in your comms
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They really are being bold about their desire for ethnic cleansing these days (also Ant can read wikipedia about mayor’s powers the ignorant prick)
BREAKING: Ant Middleton vows to deport anyone in the UK who is vaguely brown when he eventually becomes London mayor. No one tell him he won't have this power. I don't want you knocking his confidence, bless him x
May 27, 2025 at 8:02 AM
They really are being bold about their desire for ethnic cleansing these days (also Ant can read wikipedia about mayor’s powers the ignorant prick)
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To mark the 1st day of my 4th year without Alice I have an announcement:
I’ve joined up with a determined group of women working to change the narrative around trans people. Women standing in solidarity with our trans siblings.
Our first step is to ask cis women to read and sign our open letter ⬇️
I’ve joined up with a determined group of women working to change the narrative around trans people. Women standing in solidarity with our trans siblings.
Our first step is to ask cis women to read and sign our open letter ⬇️
Not in our name: Women in support of the trans+ community
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
chng.it
May 27, 2025 at 10:22 AM
To mark the 1st day of my 4th year without Alice I have an announcement:
I’ve joined up with a determined group of women working to change the narrative around trans people. Women standing in solidarity with our trans siblings.
Our first step is to ask cis women to read and sign our open letter ⬇️
I’ve joined up with a determined group of women working to change the narrative around trans people. Women standing in solidarity with our trans siblings.
Our first step is to ask cis women to read and sign our open letter ⬇️
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When someone has their boot on your throat, the important thing isn't that they apologise, the important thing is that they take their boot off your throat.
Apologies come long after it's over. This is all a long way from being over.
Apologies come long after it's over. This is all a long way from being over.
May 27, 2025 at 6:05 PM
When someone has their boot on your throat, the important thing isn't that they apologise, the important thing is that they take their boot off your throat.
Apologies come long after it's over. This is all a long way from being over.
Apologies come long after it's over. This is all a long way from being over.
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Still think something hasn't shifted at the Guardian?
When even the Guardian has to call your statements anti-trans instead of "women's rights"...
May 27, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Still think something hasn't shifted at the Guardian?