If hormones, or puberty blockers, were so dangerous, nobody would be allowed them.
That some people are and that trans kids can even, notionally at least, stay on them if already prescribed, tells you all you need to know.
The #GlobalGagRule has been a sad reality for SRHR for decades – now it's so much worse. No one who cares about rights can afford to ignore it, no matter what you work on.
Thanks @michalkojanv.bsky.social for ✏️ with me.
#GenderRights #SRHR #ReproductiveJustice #Backlash
odi.org/en/insights/...
🤳 #TikTok is among the social media platforms on the frontlines of information warfare in northwest #Nigeria. In recent years its short, viral clips have shaped fear, legitimacy, narratives – and even state response. So what does this means for humanitarian actors and policymakers? buff.ly/kV5V9T3
Excellent commentary from my colleague Carmen:
"Ultimately, we cannot understand migration without confronting the weight of history and colonial power. Too often, policymakers frame migration as a matter of ‘choice’ ... This kind of language erases history."
odi.org/en/insights/...
Signing a petition is something small, but it's something. Trump is creating a humanitarian catastrophe in Cuba while we're all distracted by Venezuela, the Olympics, the files and everything else.
Canada needs to act.
The blackouts and shortages are becoming more and more intense. The United States is starving Cuba.
Note that a significant proportion of food and medicine arrives in luggage onboard flights.
What are other countries going to do about it?
www.france24.com/es/am%C3%A9r...
Women leaders in crisis settings around the world are setting the standard for inclusive, effective humanitarian responses.
It's time that donors created a diversified, accessible and supportive funding ecosystem to match.
#HumanitarianFunding #WLO #WomenLed #FundFeminists
“It is our duty to become the welcoming and tolerant society that our own relatives would have hoped to find on the other side of our borders”
The Januaryists
TV Dinner on the Radio
Clamp Your Hands Say Yeah
Harvey Danger to Himself and Others
I tried not to repeat ones already in replies, including some greats such as:
Modest Maus
@angelasebastiana.bsky.social
Iron & Whine
@thehighsign.bsky.social
DHS Soundsystem
@cheatlines.co
my dad didn’t go to university and he was extremely happy to pay taxes for his four children to do so; and, indeed, for the doctors who treated him at Addenbrookes to have gone to university as well.
It's the Ship of Theseus but all the original parts are being used to build a second, crappier ship.
Closing tomorrow! Please share if you can 🙏 #Haiti #SOGIESC
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This US analysis on Canada is doing the rounds today, and I'll simply say that everything is a racist conspiracy when you're stupid
defenseanalyses.org/work/our-can...
Antisemites have long depicted Jews as members of an urban, elite social class.
So when Farage dismisses accusations of antisemitism as the exclusive concern of a London-based “upper middle class”, he’s deliberately invoking that dog-whistle stereotype.
"Predator" is the best Freudian slip/ Kinsley gaffe of 2026 so far.
THUCYDIDES: In my book I invented the Melian Dialogue as a cautionary tale
DIPSHITS TALKING ABOUT IR WHO WANT TO SOUND SMART: At long last, we have done the Melian Dialogue from the classic book Don't Do the Melian Dialogue
A large (maybe 3 feet wide by 5 feet tall) sign on the end of a row of bookshelves that tells the “address” of books that have sensitive content.
Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
“Using generative AI to create original, public-facing content (text, video, audio or images) can be fraught and in our view poses the greatest risk to public trust if not managed carefully. We will be extremely conservative when using it.”
Better than I expected, but how about not using it at all?
You had me at ✨global solidarity✨
So looking forward to an important, critical discussion with these top-shelf speakers. Come join!
@adelinakamal.bsky.social @benphillips76.bsky.social @islamicrelief.bsky.social @newhumanitarian.bsky.social
For anyone in the Liverpool area, we are hosting a conversation and hands-on workshop on abortion rights and creative methods as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science - come join us! Sign up here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/claire-piers...
@livunihss.bsky.social @livunipol.bsky.social
Know any researchers from/in #Syria or #Haiti with expertise in LGBTQIA-inclusive humanitarian action? We want to meet them!
#SOGIESC #LGBTQ #LGBTI #2SLGBTQIA
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Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area
2
Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction
3
Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it
Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…
4
Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely
[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over
5
Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat
[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster
Minister:
I understand your concerns…
6
Nurse:
Are you OK love?
Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters
7
Nurse:
That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian
[Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters]
Nurse 2:
Give us your phone, love
8
Nurse:
At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to
[We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.]
9
Minister:
YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR
[woman looks baffled]
10
woman:
I just want a bus service
Minister:
LOOK AT MY FLAG
[produces a St George's flag]
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1 Nurse: It’s become a real problem in this area 2 Nurse: We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction 3 Show a building sign posted: Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it Nurse: Ministers, Spads, Researchers… 4 Nurse: Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely [Nurse on phone taking a call] Ok - we’ll be right over 5 Nurse: We just have a gentle chat [Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster Minister: I understand your concerns… 6 Nurse: Are you OK love? Minister: Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters 7 Nurse: That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian [Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters] Nurse 2: Give us your phone, love 8 Nurse: At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to [We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.] 9 Minister: YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR [woman looks baffled] 10 woman: I just want a bus service Minister: LOOK AT MY FLAG [produces a St George's flag] [ends]
Scrapped. The one in one out policy needs to be scrapped, not just "suspended". Rather than providing a "safer alternative to channel crossings" it undermines, already weakened, protections for trafficking victims and creates a cycle of people for gangs to prey on
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Our horror at the genocide in Gaza, at the mass murder of civilians on Oct 7 2023, and at today's atrocity in Manchester, comes in each case from the same, inherent part of our shared humanity. We need to assert that shared humanity as loudly as possible, and in as many practical ways as we can.
There has been an utter and continual failure to address antisemitism in recent years. I have seen it repeatedly justified. It's vile, and it has led to this. Solidarity today on Yom Kippur with my Jewish friends, and the wider community.
Scrapping ILR is a catastrophic, small-minded idea on every level. This is where chasing Reform votes and aping their rhetoric has gotten Labour. And it will only get worse until we stop coddling and start challenging anti-immigrant sentiment and racism.
This is why, as soon as I could, I applied for UK citizenship: because I could see this kind of proposal coming. Otherwise, I would have happily remained on ILR. But citizenship is expensive, bureaucratic and not available to everyone.
And, let's be honest, dual citizens are probably next.
It's a racist lie, all of it, every word. The claims it is based on are false in fact, and repellent in morality. Merely having said it out loud without being unanimously howled down marks another moment of shameful descent for us as a nation.
“Debate Me” culture is not organic, endemic, or apolitical. This mode of high jacking discourse is and has been central to a 30-year conservative training program that has produced untold numbers of people to do this for every reason but “civil discourse”
