Sam
@irishwol.bsky.social
Escaped from the rubble of Twitter. Feminist, recovering medievalist, LGBT+activist, loves her family, animals and art. She/her
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You’ll never guess how the IDF decided to talk about killing these two kids, 8 and 11 years old, in its official statement
Two brothers killed in Israeli drone strike on Gaza
Fadi Abu Assi, 11, and Goma Abu Assi, eight, were gathering firewood at the time, their uncle said.
news.sky.com
December 2, 2025 at 6:49 AM
You’ll never guess how the IDF decided to talk about killing these two kids, 8 and 11 years old, in its official statement
Very important thread for anyone in the UK. Be nice if anyone in the Labour Party bothered
Here is a list of reasons why some of my hearings and trials this year have been delayed and kicked off into the long grass, stuck in our record court backlog. Serious allegations which will now be tried *years* after the event. 🧵👇
December 2, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Very important thread for anyone in the UK. Be nice if anyone in the Labour Party bothered
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Today, in The Times, there is an attempted hit piece on my employer – Good Law Project.
It is *incredibly* weak, and perhaps the biggest compliment really is just how little they have to accuse us of. But it also promotes the Trans Mission concert – to which you should buy tickets!
Thread 🧵👇
It is *incredibly* weak, and perhaps the biggest compliment really is just how little they have to accuse us of. But it also promotes the Trans Mission concert – to which you should buy tickets!
Thread 🧵👇
December 1, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Today, in The Times, there is an attempted hit piece on my employer – Good Law Project.
It is *incredibly* weak, and perhaps the biggest compliment really is just how little they have to accuse us of. But it also promotes the Trans Mission concert – to which you should buy tickets!
Thread 🧵👇
It is *incredibly* weak, and perhaps the biggest compliment really is just how little they have to accuse us of. But it also promotes the Trans Mission concert – to which you should buy tickets!
Thread 🧵👇
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There's not a single anti-trans campaigner or group with a major platform on twitter who haven't posted *horrifying* things and it's a stain on our entire media ecosystem that not a single major outlet has done even basic reporting of it.
I thought I could not be shocked by what prominent transphobes feel able to say about me. Turns out I was wrong.
Here is Richard Dunstan, a prominent commentator closely associated with the Sex Matters charity, speculating that I enjoyed being sexually assaulted as a child.
Here is Richard Dunstan, a prominent commentator closely associated with the Sex Matters charity, speculating that I enjoyed being sexually assaulted as a child.
December 1, 2025 at 1:56 PM
There's not a single anti-trans campaigner or group with a major platform on twitter who haven't posted *horrifying* things and it's a stain on our entire media ecosystem that not a single major outlet has done even basic reporting of it.
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Today is #WorldAIDSday and I have seen absolutely nothing from any of the local political parties here. Nothing from any of the NI Exec parties or the SDLP, PBP or Greens. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think as queer people we need to remember who stands up and shows up for us when it counts.
December 1, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Today is #WorldAIDSday and I have seen absolutely nothing from any of the local political parties here. Nothing from any of the NI Exec parties or the SDLP, PBP or Greens. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think as queer people we need to remember who stands up and shows up for us when it counts.
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“The girl protecting her toys — that’s all she has. This is my cry for help. As an artist, I can speak about it through my work.”
On November 19, six children were killed in the Russian strike on Ternopil.
On November 19, six children were killed in the Russian strike on Ternopil.
November 29, 2025 at 9:48 PM
“The girl protecting her toys — that’s all she has. This is my cry for help. As an artist, I can speak about it through my work.”
On November 19, six children were killed in the Russian strike on Ternopil.
On November 19, six children were killed in the Russian strike on Ternopil.
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Prime example of why if we don’t stand up for the most marginalized in society, the attacks will continue to erode more freedoms.
👉 “But perhaps even more worrying than one family's grasp at transphobic grift is how conservatives are using trans people to attack the university system nationwide.”
👉 “But perhaps even more worrying than one family's grasp at transphobic grift is how conservatives are using trans people to attack the university system nationwide.”
For my newsletter, I wrote about that college essay scandal that's gone viral and what everyone is seeming to miss:
It's about ATTACKING TRANS PEOPLE!!!
www.burnsnotice.com/that-viral-e...
It's about ATTACKING TRANS PEOPLE!!!
www.burnsnotice.com/that-viral-e...
That Viral Essay Scandal is (SURPRISE!) Actually About Trans People
A shoddy Oklahoma University essay went viral. Cis people think this is about conservatives whining for better grades. Trans people see a planned attack on a trans academic.
(Note for free subscriber...
www.burnsnotice.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Prime example of why if we don’t stand up for the most marginalized in society, the attacks will continue to erode more freedoms.
👉 “But perhaps even more worrying than one family's grasp at transphobic grift is how conservatives are using trans people to attack the university system nationwide.”
👉 “But perhaps even more worrying than one family's grasp at transphobic grift is how conservatives are using trans people to attack the university system nationwide.”
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Katelyn and others have made the point that this attack on academic freedom is inseparable from the simultaneous attack on trans identity. This is becoming a routine part of the playbook. They want to take everything from trans people, academics is just the latest front.
For my newsletter, I wrote about that college essay scandal that's gone viral and what everyone is seeming to miss:
It's about ATTACKING TRANS PEOPLE!!!
www.burnsnotice.com/that-viral-e...
It's about ATTACKING TRANS PEOPLE!!!
www.burnsnotice.com/that-viral-e...
That Viral Essay Scandal is (SURPRISE!) Actually About Trans People
A shoddy Oklahoma University essay went viral. Cis people think this is about conservatives whining for better grades. Trans people see a planned attack on a trans academic.
(Note for free subscriber...
www.burnsnotice.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Katelyn and others have made the point that this attack on academic freedom is inseparable from the simultaneous attack on trans identity. This is becoming a routine part of the playbook. They want to take everything from trans people, academics is just the latest front.
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All the regulators are useless:
August 21, 2025 at 4:24 PM
All the regulators are useless:
Very well put
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Very well put
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1 December 1942 | A transport of 532 Norwegian Jews deported from Bergen arrived at #Auschwitz. SS doctors sent 186 men to be registered in the camp. The remaining 346 people were murdered in a gas chamber.
Among them were Olga Wulff and her daughter Doris.
Among them were Olga Wulff and her daughter Doris.
December 1, 2025 at 1:00 PM
1 December 1942 | A transport of 532 Norwegian Jews deported from Bergen arrived at #Auschwitz. SS doctors sent 186 men to be registered in the camp. The remaining 346 people were murdered in a gas chamber.
Among them were Olga Wulff and her daughter Doris.
Among them were Olga Wulff and her daughter Doris.
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a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit
December 1, 2025 at 4:42 AM
a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit
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Artist, member of Cumann na mBan, revolutionary and an Irish Jewish woman - rename that park after the wonderful Estella Solomons #speirgorm jewishmuseum.ie/jews-of-irel...
Estella Solomons – Irish Jewish Museum
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jewishmuseum.ie
December 1, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Artist, member of Cumann na mBan, revolutionary and an Irish Jewish woman - rename that park after the wonderful Estella Solomons #speirgorm jewishmuseum.ie/jews-of-irel...
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This is a wonderful, even spectacular, thread.
Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.
December 1, 2025 at 7:09 AM
This is a wonderful, even spectacular, thread.
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every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades
December 1, 2025 at 12:04 AM
every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades
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Normal and great
> Microsoft triggered a viral furor when it revealed a Teams update to tell your company when you’re not at work. Now Google has done the same. Forget end-to-end encryption. A new Android update means your RCS and SMS texts are no longer private.
www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...
> Microsoft triggered a viral furor when it revealed a Teams update to tell your company when you’re not at work. Now Google has done the same. Forget end-to-end encryption. A new Android update means your RCS and SMS texts are no longer private.
www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...
Google Starts Sharing All Your Text Messages With Your Employer
Warning — what happens on your Android phone, doesn’t stay on your Android phone.
www.forbes.com
November 30, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Normal and great
> Microsoft triggered a viral furor when it revealed a Teams update to tell your company when you’re not at work. Now Google has done the same. Forget end-to-end encryption. A new Android update means your RCS and SMS texts are no longer private.
www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...
> Microsoft triggered a viral furor when it revealed a Teams update to tell your company when you’re not at work. Now Google has done the same. Forget end-to-end encryption. A new Android update means your RCS and SMS texts are no longer private.
www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...
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Unsolicited writing advice, no. 287287:
You have the same words at your disposal as any other writer. It's what you choose to do with them that makes you unique and interesting...
You have the same words at your disposal as any other writer. It's what you choose to do with them that makes you unique and interesting...
November 30, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 287287:
You have the same words at your disposal as any other writer. It's what you choose to do with them that makes you unique and interesting...
You have the same words at your disposal as any other writer. It's what you choose to do with them that makes you unique and interesting...
Yup. Sorry Corbyn but you're really showing your arse here. You're done
I have never seen a backside as bare and on display to the public, as #YourParty 's transphobic POLICY currently is, at conference.
4 comperes, 2 of whom have pulled a speaker up on using the word "transphobic" to describe transphobia.
So it's policy.
This ain't socialism.
4 comperes, 2 of whom have pulled a speaker up on using the word "transphobic" to describe transphobia.
So it's policy.
This ain't socialism.
Hour and 19 minutes into the stream
November 30, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Yup. Sorry Corbyn but you're really showing your arse here. You're done
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More from Jenny Watson on the sexual-abuse cover-up in the LGB Alliance.
November 30, 2025 at 4:15 PM
More from Jenny Watson on the sexual-abuse cover-up in the LGB Alliance.
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We are over halfway to the goal for my winter fundraiser for our local animal shelter! This place is very dear to my heart and they do amazing work in our community. Please consider a donation if you can! givebutter.com/n5l31M
Molly's Holiday Fundraiser 2025
Make Winter Merry and Bright in Honor of Fergus
givebutter.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:57 PM
We are over halfway to the goal for my winter fundraiser for our local animal shelter! This place is very dear to my heart and they do amazing work in our community. Please consider a donation if you can! givebutter.com/n5l31M
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I'm at my limit, right now my friends,I wish I could give Mitqual and everyone all that they need, but I am only one person devoting my time to this every day.
If you can follow him at
@mitqallp.bsky.social
Donate any amount and share. Don't let him down, I feel I have already.
If you can follow him at
@mitqallp.bsky.social
Donate any amount and share. Don't let him down, I feel I have already.
If you want to know what Palestinian men are like, then you should talk with Mitqual, there are few gentler, kinder & better people out there.
He needs help for the coming harsh Winter, he has a new campaign, so even a share can be of help. Small donations add up ❤️🙏
Be kind 🤝
shorturl.at/eYNlI
He needs help for the coming harsh Winter, he has a new campaign, so even a share can be of help. Small donations add up ❤️🙏
Be kind 🤝
shorturl.at/eYNlI
Donate to Help Mitqal's Family Through Winter, organized by Chiel Kooijman
Hello, I'm Chiel from the Fediverse, and I am making a new fundraiser on behalf of … Chiel Kooijman needs your support for Help Mitqal's Family Through Winter
shorturl.at
November 29, 2025 at 8:48 PM
I'm at my limit, right now my friends,I wish I could give Mitqual and everyone all that they need, but I am only one person devoting my time to this every day.
If you can follow him at
@mitqallp.bsky.social
Donate any amount and share. Don't let him down, I feel I have already.
If you can follow him at
@mitqallp.bsky.social
Donate any amount and share. Don't let him down, I feel I have already.
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“I don’t think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you’re dead.”
📸 Mark Gerson (June, 1969)
📸 Mark Gerson (June, 1969)
November 29, 2025 at 7:40 PM
“I don’t think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you’re dead.”
📸 Mark Gerson (June, 1969)
📸 Mark Gerson (June, 1969)