Aisling M
@ashmarym10.bsky.social
She/Her - Just a girl, asking for an algorithm filled with animal photos, British politics jokes and Swifties
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Next time I get a cold, I'm going to betray it by having a Lemsip and some ibuprofen.
May 18, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Next time I get a cold, I'm going to betray it by having a Lemsip and some ibuprofen.
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"Why do you 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 talk about Pakistani grooming gangs? There are 𝙩𝙚𝙣 times as many white grooming gang suspects?"
@maitlis.bsky.social asks ex-Reform MP @rupertlowe.bsky.social why he won't denounce all perpetrators of grooming gangs equally.
@maitlis.bsky.social asks ex-Reform MP @rupertlowe.bsky.social why he won't denounce all perpetrators of grooming gangs equally.
May 15, 2025 at 1:13 PM
"Why do you 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 talk about Pakistani grooming gangs? There are 𝙩𝙚𝙣 times as many white grooming gang suspects?"
@maitlis.bsky.social asks ex-Reform MP @rupertlowe.bsky.social why he won't denounce all perpetrators of grooming gangs equally.
@maitlis.bsky.social asks ex-Reform MP @rupertlowe.bsky.social why he won't denounce all perpetrators of grooming gangs equally.
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🚨 NEW: Louise Haigh condemns ‘misogynistic’ and ‘sexist’ briefings against female ministers
Speaking to BBC Newsnight, the former transport secretary also said it is “unlikely” she will vote for the government's welfare cuts
Full story 👇
www.politics.co.uk/news/2025/05...
Speaking to BBC Newsnight, the former transport secretary also said it is “unlikely” she will vote for the government's welfare cuts
Full story 👇
www.politics.co.uk/news/2025/05...
Louise Haigh condemns ‘misogynistic’ and ‘sexist’ briefings against female ministers - Politics.co.uk
Louise Haigh, the former transport secretary, said she was “really fed up” of reading negative stories about her colleagues.
www.politics.co.uk
May 7, 2025 at 6:48 AM
🚨 NEW: Louise Haigh condemns ‘misogynistic’ and ‘sexist’ briefings against female ministers
Speaking to BBC Newsnight, the former transport secretary also said it is “unlikely” she will vote for the government's welfare cuts
Full story 👇
www.politics.co.uk/news/2025/05...
Speaking to BBC Newsnight, the former transport secretary also said it is “unlikely” she will vote for the government's welfare cuts
Full story 👇
www.politics.co.uk/news/2025/05...
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“A family earning £100k a year will now find themselves on minimum wage after taking part in just two drug binges a week.”
April 30, 2025 at 8:42 PM
“A family earning £100k a year will now find themselves on minimum wage after taking part in just two drug binges a week.”
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Evidence also suggests Labour could lose far more seats at next election from disillusioned leftwing voters defecting, than from its 2024 voters switching to Reform.
And just one in seven Reform inclined Labour voters agree with ripping up net zero agenda.
And just one in seven Reform inclined Labour voters agree with ripping up net zero agenda.
April 30, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Evidence also suggests Labour could lose far more seats at next election from disillusioned leftwing voters defecting, than from its 2024 voters switching to Reform.
And just one in seven Reform inclined Labour voters agree with ripping up net zero agenda.
And just one in seven Reform inclined Labour voters agree with ripping up net zero agenda.
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There's a line connecting Hunt's NI cuts and the electoral system for mayoral races and the BBC management and the EHRC. The Starmer/McSweeney theory of politics just isn't interested in naming, let alone undoing, Tory institutional capture
April 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
There's a line connecting Hunt's NI cuts and the electoral system for mayoral races and the BBC management and the EHRC. The Starmer/McSweeney theory of politics just isn't interested in naming, let alone undoing, Tory institutional capture
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It is this, not arguing, but also this Labour party has been strikingly reluctant to occupy the commanding heights of the discourse. The last government made a bunch of attempts to embed right wing bias in institutions and processes; this government is content to leave them all in place.
The EHRC was captured by transphobes under the Tories and Labour could have appointed a new head but they did not, because they are also transphobic. Bigoted shits, the lot of them.
April 26, 2025 at 12:57 PM
It is this, not arguing, but also this Labour party has been strikingly reluctant to occupy the commanding heights of the discourse. The last government made a bunch of attempts to embed right wing bias in institutions and processes; this government is content to leave them all in place.
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If you know, you know
April 21, 2025 at 8:19 AM
If you know, you know
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Even the officials who originally worked on the EA (who weren't asked their views by the Court) have been expressing their surprise, because they assumed their intent was clear from the legislation (and, indeed, it really was until now):
April 18, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Even the officials who originally worked on the EA (who weren't asked their views by the Court) have been expressing their surprise, because they assumed their intent was clear from the legislation (and, indeed, it really was until now):
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Spare a thought today, too, for lesbian women, overwhelmingly trans inclusive, but who the Supreme Court has presented as exactly the opposite. Sorry but the heterosexual judges on the Supreme Court know better than you what you really think.
April 16, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Spare a thought today, too, for lesbian women, overwhelmingly trans inclusive, but who the Supreme Court has presented as exactly the opposite. Sorry but the heterosexual judges on the Supreme Court know better than you what you really think.
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I remember having my mind blown as a (dim) 16 year old when my history teacher really drilled into our heads that laws are just what enough of a powerful interest group decides is right, that the law isn't infallible, and that it can be moral to oppose certain laws
April 16, 2025 at 10:33 AM
I remember having my mind blown as a (dim) 16 year old when my history teacher really drilled into our heads that laws are just what enough of a powerful interest group decides is right, that the law isn't infallible, and that it can be moral to oppose certain laws
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Having excluded all trans people from proceedings before it, the Supreme Court decides in favour of For Some Women Scotland.
April 16, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Having excluded all trans people from proceedings before it, the Supreme Court decides in favour of For Some Women Scotland.
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wait i'm sorry i scrolled by this headline and thought it was in the USA but then I saw it again and... what the fuck, britain??? what are we doing here??
🚨 Outrage as 20 police officers break into Westminster Quaker Meeting House and arrest six. 🚨
This shocking violation of a place of worship is a direct result of crackdowns on protest and dissent - freedom of speech, assembly and democracy are at risk.🕊️
👉 www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
This shocking violation of a place of worship is a direct result of crackdowns on protest and dissent - freedom of speech, assembly and democracy are at risk.🕊️
👉 www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
Quakers condemn police raid on Westminster Meeting House
Police broke into a Quaker Meeting House last night (27 March) and arrested six young people holding a meeting over concerns for the climate and Gaza.
www.quaker.org.uk
March 28, 2025 at 7:31 PM
wait i'm sorry i scrolled by this headline and thought it was in the USA but then I saw it again and... what the fuck, britain??? what are we doing here??
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some more congestion pricing Ws:
Broadway attendance: up 21%
Restaurant reservations: up 7%
Pedestrian traffic: up 4%
Retail sales: up $900M
Commercial leasing: up 61%
Subway crime: down 37%
Car crashes: down 50%
Honking complaints: down 69%
Broadway attendance: up 21%
Restaurant reservations: up 7%
Pedestrian traffic: up 4%
Retail sales: up $900M
Commercial leasing: up 61%
Subway crime: down 37%
Car crashes: down 50%
Honking complaints: down 69%
March 24, 2025 at 1:33 AM
some more congestion pricing Ws:
Broadway attendance: up 21%
Restaurant reservations: up 7%
Pedestrian traffic: up 4%
Retail sales: up $900M
Commercial leasing: up 61%
Subway crime: down 37%
Car crashes: down 50%
Honking complaints: down 69%
Broadway attendance: up 21%
Restaurant reservations: up 7%
Pedestrian traffic: up 4%
Retail sales: up $900M
Commercial leasing: up 61%
Subway crime: down 37%
Car crashes: down 50%
Honking complaints: down 69%
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Reeves also implicitly confirming that external consultancy spend will increase by about the ‘saved’ amount.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Rachel Reeves confirms 15% cut to Civil Service running costs
Savings will be from back office and administrative roles rather than front-line services, chancellor tells the BBC.
www.bbc.co.uk
March 24, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Reeves also implicitly confirming that external consultancy spend will increase by about the ‘saved’ amount.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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I see Andrew Neil has decided - probably from his seven bedroom villa in the south of France - that only 1.2 million people being immiserated is nowhere near enough.
March 18, 2025 at 10:23 PM
I see Andrew Neil has decided - probably from his seven bedroom villa in the south of France - that only 1.2 million people being immiserated is nowhere near enough.
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An entirely reasonable sentence that once more is completely incompatible with slashing PIP.
No 10 believes that the cost of living and the NHS are the defining issues for Labour.
“If people are better off and able to see a doctor then we will go a long way to winning the next election,” one aide tells me. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
“If people are better off and able to see a doctor then we will go a long way to winning the next election,” one aide tells me. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Keir Starmer’s great gamble
Can the Prime Minister keep Labour’s fragile coalition together?
www.newstatesman.com
March 17, 2025 at 1:53 PM
An entirely reasonable sentence that once more is completely incompatible with slashing PIP.
In the past two weeks, my TikTok algorithm is really pushing me with ‘SkinnyTok’ content. All saying that it’s not that bad to be pushing being skinny, that 16 hour fasts are cleansing, that ‘it’s not heroin chic’, that Snag tights advertising of women size 20+ is ugly etc.
This is the bad times.
This is the bad times.
March 16, 2025 at 12:17 PM
In the past two weeks, my TikTok algorithm is really pushing me with ‘SkinnyTok’ content. All saying that it’s not that bad to be pushing being skinny, that 16 hour fasts are cleansing, that ‘it’s not heroin chic’, that Snag tights advertising of women size 20+ is ugly etc.
This is the bad times.
This is the bad times.
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This.
Those with power do not want others to have human rights - the rights you have because you are human.
That is why they sneer at human rights, use the media and propaganda to deride those rights, and cut off legal aid so the rights cannot be asserted.
And some unwise people clap and cheer.
Those with power do not want others to have human rights - the rights you have because you are human.
That is why they sneer at human rights, use the media and propaganda to deride those rights, and cut off legal aid so the rights cannot be asserted.
And some unwise people clap and cheer.
The assertion of human rights is normally unpopular with those in power. That’s why we have them.
March 13, 2025 at 10:17 PM
This.
Those with power do not want others to have human rights - the rights you have because you are human.
That is why they sneer at human rights, use the media and propaganda to deride those rights, and cut off legal aid so the rights cannot be asserted.
And some unwise people clap and cheer.
Those with power do not want others to have human rights - the rights you have because you are human.
That is why they sneer at human rights, use the media and propaganda to deride those rights, and cut off legal aid so the rights cannot be asserted.
And some unwise people clap and cheer.
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I cannot describe how much this will benefit Russian oligarchs who will be able to hide illicit funds behind US corporate structures. This is beyond shameful and a disgrace.
March 3, 2025 at 11:26 AM
I cannot describe how much this will benefit Russian oligarchs who will be able to hide illicit funds behind US corporate structures. This is beyond shameful and a disgrace.
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Zelenskyy's character can be judge more directly by how he treats others and whether you think he's protected his country. From what I've seen, he has treated Americans with respect. His attire is to remind people he's at war, not unlike Churchill wearing a siren suit to the White House in 1942.
March 1, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Zelenskyy's character can be judge more directly by how he treats others and whether you think he's protected his country. From what I've seen, he has treated Americans with respect. His attire is to remind people he's at war, not unlike Churchill wearing a siren suit to the White House in 1942.