Naomi McAuliffe
@naomimc.bsky.social
Head of Policy and Research at Amnesty International UK. Scottish Women's Aid Trustee. Scottish by choice. I do swearing and tweed.
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POLIO vaccines should be optional?! POLIO?! Almost nothing about the vileness of this regime surprises me any more, but 'freedom of choice' is one hell of a justification for not mandating a vaccine for a disease that killed and disabled tens of thousands of people between 1900 and 1960.
The leader of the federal panel that recommends vaccines for Americans said shots against polio and measles — and perhaps all diseases — should be optional.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/h...
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/h...
Rejecting Decades of Science, Vaccine Panel Chair Says Polio and Other Shots Should Be Optional
www.nytimes.com
January 24, 2026 at 12:03 AM
POLIO vaccines should be optional?! POLIO?! Almost nothing about the vileness of this regime surprises me any more, but 'freedom of choice' is one hell of a justification for not mandating a vaccine for a disease that killed and disabled tens of thousands of people between 1900 and 1960.
I'm reading the penguin as Paddington...
January 23, 2026 at 11:35 PM
I'm reading the penguin as Paddington...
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Helps confirm my theory that a huge problem with modern politics is that politicians have no clue about administering systems, whereas one think they do (think they) understand is legislating, so - on a “everything looks like a nail” basis - their solution to every issue is passing more laws
NEW REPORT: the gov’s proposals for judge-only trials will deliver only marginal savings and distract from the real route out of this crisis: reversing recent falls in court productivity.
Trial and error?: The impact of restricting jury trials on court demand | Institute for Government
The government’s reforms will unlock only relatively modest reductions in demand.
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk
January 22, 2026 at 9:21 AM
Helps confirm my theory that a huge problem with modern politics is that politicians have no clue about administering systems, whereas one think they do (think they) understand is legislating, so - on a “everything looks like a nail” basis - their solution to every issue is passing more laws
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So far the "Board of Peace" is Trump, Orban, Lukaschenko and Netanyahu.
Which if you wrote in a satire would be considered too outlandish and sent back.
Which if you wrote in a satire would be considered too outlandish and sent back.
January 21, 2026 at 7:16 AM
So far the "Board of Peace" is Trump, Orban, Lukaschenko and Netanyahu.
Which if you wrote in a satire would be considered too outlandish and sent back.
Which if you wrote in a satire would be considered too outlandish and sent back.
PSA: Cafe Nero are selling pistachio croissants.
January 21, 2026 at 5:33 AM
PSA: Cafe Nero are selling pistachio croissants.
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Lord Reed has announced his intention to retire from the Supreme Court on 10 January 2027.
www.supremecourt.uk/news/lord-re...
www.supremecourt.uk/news/lord-re...
Lord Reed announces his retirement from the UK Supreme Court - UK Supreme Court
Lord Reed of Allermuir to retire from the UK Supreme Court
www.supremecourt.uk
January 16, 2026 at 11:36 AM
Lord Reed has announced his intention to retire from the Supreme Court on 10 January 2027.
www.supremecourt.uk/news/lord-re...
www.supremecourt.uk/news/lord-re...
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Last night, we launched our new report, The Rule of Law: Building Resilience through Culture & Practice, in the House of Lords - setting out practical steps to embed rule-of-law principles in everyday governance and public life.
Read more here: bit.ly/49yt8X
Read more here: bit.ly/49yt8X
January 13, 2026 at 5:26 PM
Last night, we launched our new report, The Rule of Law: Building Resilience through Culture & Practice, in the House of Lords - setting out practical steps to embed rule-of-law principles in everyday governance and public life.
Read more here: bit.ly/49yt8X
Read more here: bit.ly/49yt8X
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Nadim Zahawi arrived in the UK from Iraq as a child refugee. His family claimed asylum once they were here. Today he has joined Reform who will stop all in country asylum applications. Under his new party, his own family fleeing persecution would be immediately deported.
January 12, 2026 at 11:25 AM
Nadim Zahawi arrived in the UK from Iraq as a child refugee. His family claimed asylum once they were here. Today he has joined Reform who will stop all in country asylum applications. Under his new party, his own family fleeing persecution would be immediately deported.
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He may be deleting the tweets, but he won't have the authority to remove this article from Con Home website
#wato
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#wato
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Nadhim Zahawi MP: In Farage's Britain, it would be legal to discriminate against me on the grounds of race | Conservative Home
Welfare, skills and immigration policy require deep thought and serious long-term reform rather than angry slogans.
conservativehome.com
January 12, 2026 at 12:29 PM
He may be deleting the tweets, but he won't have the authority to remove this article from Con Home website
#wato
conservativehome.com/2015/03/23/n...
#wato
conservativehome.com/2015/03/23/n...
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Amazingly, Zahawi only got round to deleting the below after the press conference announcing his defection to Reform.
January 12, 2026 at 12:09 PM
Amazingly, Zahawi only got round to deleting the below after the press conference announcing his defection to Reform.
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We've launched an investigation into X over Grok sexualised imagery.
We've opened a formal investigation into X under the Online Safety Act, to determine whether it has complied with its duties to protect people in the UK from content that is illegal in the UK.
🔗 www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safet...
We've opened a formal investigation into X under the Online Safety Act, to determine whether it has complied with its duties to protect people in the UK from content that is illegal in the UK.
🔗 www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safet...
January 12, 2026 at 11:50 AM
We've launched an investigation into X over Grok sexualised imagery.
We've opened a formal investigation into X under the Online Safety Act, to determine whether it has complied with its duties to protect people in the UK from content that is illegal in the UK.
🔗 www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safet...
We've opened a formal investigation into X under the Online Safety Act, to determine whether it has complied with its duties to protect people in the UK from content that is illegal in the UK.
🔗 www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safet...
For Bluesky to truly work; we need more Traitors chat. It is 100% on Twitter right now. This is obviously indicative of Bluesky failing on cultural chat, but that would include football and I'm not advocating for that to move 😂
January 11, 2026 at 2:00 PM
For Bluesky to truly work; we need more Traitors chat. It is 100% on Twitter right now. This is obviously indicative of Bluesky failing on cultural chat, but that would include football and I'm not advocating for that to move 😂
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So, to help illustrate why this thread is so horrifying, Stanford did a study on Lexis+ AI, Westlaw AI-Assisted Research, and Thomson-Reuters Ask Practical Law AI, and found between 17% and 33% hallucinations even though these are supposed to be the retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) tools.
January 8, 2026 at 8:29 PM
So, to help illustrate why this thread is so horrifying, Stanford did a study on Lexis+ AI, Westlaw AI-Assisted Research, and Thomson-Reuters Ask Practical Law AI, and found between 17% and 33% hallucinations even though these are supposed to be the retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) tools.
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I reckon over the past decade I have been sexually harassed ten times more often inside the Palace of Westminster than I have on London streets
January 7, 2026 at 11:21 AM
I reckon over the past decade I have been sexually harassed ten times more often inside the Palace of Westminster than I have on London streets
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lol Palantir sound like psychos, good thing we've kept them at arms length...
In other hell site news billionaire VC and Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale seemingly endorsed the murder of "commies" the other day.
January 6, 2026 at 7:08 PM
lol Palantir sound like psychos, good thing we've kept them at arms length...
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I'm afraid there *is* an obvious answer: it can't.
January 6, 2026 at 7:10 AM
I'm afraid there *is* an obvious answer: it can't.
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The end goal of Grok sexual harassment is to make women afraid to be visible. It’s a punishment for daring to exist in a way the perpetrators can’t control. There’s no one solution to this, because the problem isn’t just technological. It’s cultural. It’s misogyny. This is just one expression of it.
January 5, 2026 at 1:10 AM
The end goal of Grok sexual harassment is to make women afraid to be visible. It’s a punishment for daring to exist in a way the perpetrators can’t control. There’s no one solution to this, because the problem isn’t just technological. It’s cultural. It’s misogyny. This is just one expression of it.
All of this talk about Grok; we also need to identify the fact that it's been driven by a 15 year old boy mentality. It's the sexual aggression of a boy; to humiliate an opponent you make them female, you strip them because they think that's how you humiliate women and dominate them through rape.
January 5, 2026 at 12:41 AM
All of this talk about Grok; we also need to identify the fact that it's been driven by a 15 year old boy mentality. It's the sexual aggression of a boy; to humiliate an opponent you make them female, you strip them because they think that's how you humiliate women and dominate them through rape.
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I think the AI angle of this is obscurant. It doesn’t matter that grok is “an AI” whatever you take that to mean. Suppose X hired a team of guys to photoshop the clothes off of women and children whenever anyone asks. That’s functionally identical what happening here. It’s not complicated.
A functional country would shut Grok down permanently. Like, immediately. Right now. Last week. Whatever. Just flip the switch. Obviously.
January 4, 2026 at 11:25 PM
I think the AI angle of this is obscurant. It doesn’t matter that grok is “an AI” whatever you take that to mean. Suppose X hired a team of guys to photoshop the clothes off of women and children whenever anyone asks. That’s functionally identical what happening here. It’s not complicated.
I have obviously spent too much time around the police (professionally) because Amanda in the Traitors spoke for 2 seconds and I said "She's a cop". The fact that none of the rest of them have clocked it is sus. Especially the secret barrister, she fucking knows and they've edited out her saying it
January 4, 2026 at 11:50 PM
I have obviously spent too much time around the police (professionally) because Amanda in the Traitors spoke for 2 seconds and I said "She's a cop". The fact that none of the rest of them have clocked it is sus. Especially the secret barrister, she fucking knows and they've edited out her saying it
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This poster is one of the best on here and I’m so sad we’re losing her because of the appalling harassment she has been subjected to. Of course she must look after herself. And the rest of us need to do whatever we can to challenge and change this cruel, sick, dangerous, culture.
I‘m discontinuing my social media use for the foreseeable future and I want to explain why.
I woke up in the new year to discover that some guy on here had saved photos I took on New Year’s Eve and used Grok to remove my clothes. I know this because he showed me.
I woke up in the new year to discover that some guy on here had saved photos I took on New Year’s Eve and used Grok to remove my clothes. I know this because he showed me.
January 4, 2026 at 11:26 AM
This poster is one of the best on here and I’m so sad we’re losing her because of the appalling harassment she has been subjected to. Of course she must look after herself. And the rest of us need to do whatever we can to challenge and change this cruel, sick, dangerous, culture.
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Suspending Doctors Without Borders is definitely a thing healthy countries do
Israel says it will suspend several humanitarian groups, including Doctors Without Borders, in 2026 for failing its new vetting rules for groups working in Gaza. Some international organizations have said that Israel’s rules are arbitrary and could endanger staff.
Israel says it will halt operations of several humanitarian organizations in Gaza starting in 2026
Israel says it will suspend several humanitarian organizations, including Doctors Without Borders, for failing to meet its new rules to vet international organizations working in Gaza.
bit.ly
December 30, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Suspending Doctors Without Borders is definitely a thing healthy countries do
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Good interview in the paper, this. I think Sadiq is right: London 'needs' to be less successful than it is for a bunch of political arguments here in the UK to work, hence the fictions being invented about it:
Populists attack London because it is ‘progressive and successful’, says Sadiq Khan
Rightwing attacks on one of the world’s most visited cities at odds with reality, says mayor
www.ft.com
December 26, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Good interview in the paper, this. I think Sadiq is right: London 'needs' to be less successful than it is for a bunch of political arguments here in the UK to work, hence the fictions being invented about it:
With canceling culture... I get it up to Michael Jackson. Then I don't get it.
December 23, 2025 at 2:20 AM
With canceling culture... I get it up to Michael Jackson. Then I don't get it.
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Jeffrey Epstein & David Walliams leading all the bulletins but Kemi Badenoch knows that only men from ‘different cultures’ pose a threat to women.
December 19, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Jeffrey Epstein & David Walliams leading all the bulletins but Kemi Badenoch knows that only men from ‘different cultures’ pose a threat to women.