Gavin Harris
@gavinwharris.bsky.social
Dance like you’ve never been loved
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People are convinced that “politics” is just gossip about the personalities of politicians and not, y’know, how we care for each other and allocate resources as a society
Every business saying they're offering people a meal and adding "let's not make this political" deserve their asses on platters on social media. It is 100000% political. ENTIRELY political. There is nothing not political about the withholding of food money from citizens.
November 2, 2025 at 6:18 PM
People are convinced that “politics” is just gossip about the personalities of politicians and not, y’know, how we care for each other and allocate resources as a society
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Every video you make with Sora 2 costs OpenAI $5. This year they’ve spent the best part of a Trillion Dollars (one thousand billion) and brought in $12bn revenue. For them to be able to *break even* they’d need to increase the cost of every monthly subscription 10 times. They are so fucked.
October 19, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Every video you make with Sora 2 costs OpenAI $5. This year they’ve spent the best part of a Trillion Dollars (one thousand billion) and brought in $12bn revenue. For them to be able to *break even* they’d need to increase the cost of every monthly subscription 10 times. They are so fucked.
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imagine being arrested just for posting! out of curiosity though, what did they post? because i notice you haven’t seen fit to quote them. was there a lack of space?
September 2, 2025 at 5:57 PM
imagine being arrested just for posting! out of curiosity though, what did they post? because i notice you haven’t seen fit to quote them. was there a lack of space?
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And if you're wondering whether someone getting killed is what it will take for the media and political class to come to their senses, I would just remind you that Jo Cox was murdered in a similar moment of demagoguery and hysteria 9 years ago, and if anything things have got far worse since then.
People’s homes are being stormed by far-right groups. The govt. Is saying nothing about how violence like this will not be tolerated. Where is Starmer’s “law and order” now? They’ve no control and we are moments away from someone being killed. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Five arrested after masked men try to enter west London asylum hotel
Two anti-asylum groups marched to Crowne Plaza before attempting to enter building at rear, Met police say
www.theguardian.com
August 31, 2025 at 9:56 AM
And if you're wondering whether someone getting killed is what it will take for the media and political class to come to their senses, I would just remind you that Jo Cox was murdered in a similar moment of demagoguery and hysteria 9 years ago, and if anything things have got far worse since then.
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There's no better poster child for the mess the UK is now in than the fact that the Financial Times - home to the "how to spend it" supplement on luxury geegaws - is now one of the most left-wing media channels in the country simply because it's still interested in reality.
August 27, 2025 at 10:41 AM
There's no better poster child for the mess the UK is now in than the fact that the Financial Times - home to the "how to spend it" supplement on luxury geegaws - is now one of the most left-wing media channels in the country simply because it's still interested in reality.
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Perhaps the real ‘two tier justice’ is that the foot soldiers who do the racist tweets get jail time, whilst the lieutenants in journalism who write the racist articles and the colonels as editors who spew out the incendiary headlines, and generals who own the papers, just get lots of money.
August 24, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Perhaps the real ‘two tier justice’ is that the foot soldiers who do the racist tweets get jail time, whilst the lieutenants in journalism who write the racist articles and the colonels as editors who spew out the incendiary headlines, and generals who own the papers, just get lots of money.
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Dolly Parton has sent my daughter a new book every month for years as she does for thousands of children. She help fund the development of the Covid vaccine. She’s not a billionaire. I think as non wealthy people it’s hard to even imagine how much billionaires *could* be doing with their money.
August 13, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Dolly Parton has sent my daughter a new book every month for years as she does for thousands of children. She help fund the development of the Covid vaccine. She’s not a billionaire. I think as non wealthy people it’s hard to even imagine how much billionaires *could* be doing with their money.
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I often say that reporting on sex testing in sports is like reporting on a really twisted, 100 year game of wack-a-mole where we see the same things happen over and over. This is a great example. (A short thread, if you'll indulge me.)
World Athletics says that "The SRY gene is a reliable proxy for determining biological sex." The guy who literally discovered the gene and has spent the last 35 years researching it says they're wrong. theconversation.com/world-athlet...
World Athletics’ mandatory genetic test for women athletes is misguided. I should know – I discovered the relevant gene in 1990
World Athletics says its genetic test for women ensures ‘the integrity of women’s sport’ – but science does not support this overly simplistic idea.
theconversation.com
August 4, 2025 at 3:27 PM
I often say that reporting on sex testing in sports is like reporting on a really twisted, 100 year game of wack-a-mole where we see the same things happen over and over. This is a great example. (A short thread, if you'll indulge me.)
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the juxtaposition of these headlines is maddening. Woman has to investigate her own abuse case but they can investigate people for speaking out against PEOPLE BEING BOMBED FOR GOING TO THE BEACH
June 30, 2025 at 7:11 PM
the juxtaposition of these headlines is maddening. Woman has to investigate her own abuse case but they can investigate people for speaking out against PEOPLE BEING BOMBED FOR GOING TO THE BEACH
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"biological sex" is the idea that being born with a vulva makes you female, until it doesn't because you were too good at sports.
June 3, 2025 at 4:49 PM
"biological sex" is the idea that being born with a vulva makes you female, until it doesn't because you were too good at sports.
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Not sure why you need to chase Reform voters when there are millions of disaffected voters who would quite honestly make do with a Labour party that showed a bit of compassion and vision.
June 2, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Not sure why you need to chase Reform voters when there are millions of disaffected voters who would quite honestly make do with a Labour party that showed a bit of compassion and vision.
The only way the uk has progressed in any sense in the last 15 years is that we no longer need to sort our glass recycling by colour
May 11, 2025 at 7:05 PM
The only way the uk has progressed in any sense in the last 15 years is that we no longer need to sort our glass recycling by colour
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Every interview with Yvette Cooper
May 11, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Every interview with Yvette Cooper
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I wish I was a little bit taller
I wish I was Pierbattista Pizzaballa
I wish I was Pierbattista Pizzaballa
May 6, 2025 at 8:16 PM
I wish I was a little bit taller
I wish I was Pierbattista Pizzaballa
I wish I was Pierbattista Pizzaballa
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Ideally, a robust democracy should have roughly three insanely right wing parties.
May 3, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Ideally, a robust democracy should have roughly three insanely right wing parties.
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the whole thing demonstrates how little public support you need as long as the establishment has decided. there is ~zero grassroots public terfism. no one cares. it hasn't mattered because the dinner party elites decided to hate us for shits and giggles.
It's more that it's concentrated in very visible media and political circles than anything else, as most of the population don't really have much of a view either way (though constant anti-trans propaganda is starting to shift that for the worse, unfortunately).
April 16, 2025 at 5:30 PM
the whole thing demonstrates how little public support you need as long as the establishment has decided. there is ~zero grassroots public terfism. no one cares. it hasn't mattered because the dinner party elites decided to hate us for shits and giggles.
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UK Sensible Culture is always "Break the taboo! Get that mate to have a chat about their MH problems over a brew and a bikkie! NO, NO DIAGNOSIS, NO MEDS, WOKEY just taaaalk about it! Bikkie! Bikkiewick! It's on you! Bikkiewikkie!!"
March 16, 2025 at 11:45 AM
UK Sensible Culture is always "Break the taboo! Get that mate to have a chat about their MH problems over a brew and a bikkie! NO, NO DIAGNOSIS, NO MEDS, WOKEY just taaaalk about it! Bikkie! Bikkiewick! It's on you! Bikkiewikkie!!"
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No there isn’t we just all live in the UK hope that helps x
Wes Streeting: there is overdiagnosis of mental health conditions
Wes Streeting: there is overdiagnosis of mental health conditions
Health secretary says too many people are being ‘written off’ and that is driving ministers’ changes to welfare
The health secretary, Wes Streeting, has said he believes there is an “overdiagnosis” of some mental health conditions as well as “too many…
www.theguardian.com
March 16, 2025 at 1:01 PM
No there isn’t we just all live in the UK hope that helps x
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evergreen
March 9, 2025 at 1:48 PM
evergreen
La capolista se ne va 🌋
January 25, 2025 at 7:36 PM
La capolista se ne va 🌋
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The failure to reckon with transphobia as a currently central motivation of the far right will continue to plague those disturbed by its rise for a decade or more
Rather than standing with trans people many liberals have pursued appeasement and helped the wider shift to the far right in the process
Rather than standing with trans people many liberals have pursued appeasement and helped the wider shift to the far right in the process
January 23, 2025 at 8:45 AM
The failure to reckon with transphobia as a currently central motivation of the far right will continue to plague those disturbed by its rise for a decade or more
Rather than standing with trans people many liberals have pursued appeasement and helped the wider shift to the far right in the process
Rather than standing with trans people many liberals have pursued appeasement and helped the wider shift to the far right in the process
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Today in Milan, a student activist group hung a trash-filled effigy of Musk upside down on a gate outside of piazzale Loreto, where Mussolini's body was displayed in 1945.
They left the message: "C'è sempre posto a piazzale Loreto, Elon" (There's always room in piazzale Loreto, Elon)
They left the message: "C'è sempre posto a piazzale Loreto, Elon" (There's always room in piazzale Loreto, Elon)
January 21, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Today in Milan, a student activist group hung a trash-filled effigy of Musk upside down on a gate outside of piazzale Loreto, where Mussolini's body was displayed in 1945.
They left the message: "C'è sempre posto a piazzale Loreto, Elon" (There's always room in piazzale Loreto, Elon)
They left the message: "C'è sempre posto a piazzale Loreto, Elon" (There's always room in piazzale Loreto, Elon)