Phil Edwards 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 @DrSchwitters
Retired academic, former journalist, still a Labour Party member. Not a bullfinch. gapingsilence.wordpress.com Joined October 2013-
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Israelis really aren’t winning any friends. This interaction between an Indian anchor and Israeli spokesperson is deranged
Missing Belfast, Leicester, Teesside (but, unusually, not Stoke).
While I'm retweeting stuff, let me just say that you're missing some excellent material on the other channel. bsky.app/profile/philed…
On the blog: I disagree with @Barristerblog on the Trudi Warner case. Yes, juries have the right to decide a case on conscience (even if they say that's what they're doing). gapingsilence.wordpress.com/2024/04/26/a-c…
just blessed your timeline
YOU HAVE TO BE KIDDING ME
Just consider this & then have a very long hard think about what has happened to our society & politics. 1/3
Just consider this & then have a very long hard think about what has happened to our society & politics. 1/3
May the smug smiles on their faces and the tears of the children whose toys they have looted haunt them
Now (after some hesitation) drinking Vault City DDF Gingerbread (16%). A beer that’s something almost entirely other than beer, in a good way (was the thought that came unbidden to mind).
The Rwanda Bill is a disgusting piece of legislation designed to demonise the world's most vulnerable people. This government has done everything it can to make the lives of refugees even harder. What a sorry and shameful legacy to leave behind.
Passover starts at sundown. I wish many blessings to all who are celebrating! It is a difficult time to celebrate but I keep praying that Palestine will be liberated and Judaism will be decolonized from the menace of fascist Zionism. I pray for all of us to be free.
A mass grave in a hospital. *Another* mass grave in a hospital.
I guess I shouldn't be surprised that stories like this get so little mainstream media traction. Things like this - shootings, evictions, demolitions, destruction of orchards and wells - have been happening on the occupied West Bank for years.
I guess I shouldn't be surprised that stories like this get so little mainstream media traction. Things like this - shootings, evictions, demolitions, destruction of orchards and wells - have been happening on the occupied West Bank for years.
Rafah is being decimated, there is nowhere else left to go. Israel is now bombing more than 1.7 million civilians trapped in Rafah, Gaza's last place of refuge. A massacre is happening in Rafah right now and the world is silent.
Your American science fiction stories are very poor - Westerns in space! In Soviet Russia, science fiction stories are also quite poor, but definitely better than that! New book review - well, a new review of some old books - on the blog. gapingsilence.wordpress.com/2024/04/20/the…
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@DrSchwitters @jkbloodtreasure's will just be Stoke 20 times over
First time watching The Princess Bride. Absolutely transfixed.
"You mean they *don't* drink it there? It's not even available?" - Chris Philp.
Okay bud…i’ll make sure to do a “little reading” about what genocide entails. I suppose it’s simply not enough I hold 4 degrees in various genocide or genocide related studies and am an ICC advisor on the genocide and certainly must not be enough that I actually survived it.
@Rrrrnessa Actually no. I'd do a little reading about what genocide entails. We don't have to use the most superlative terms every time we describe people we disagree with. It simply erodes the meaning of those terms.
@DrSchwitters You were on the Sharpener weren't you? Fair few of us from that still around
If there's an action happening, and a small group of leadership are discussing strategy for next steps, and a stranger comes in starts butting in, they're going to be asked to leave. If they don't leave, things will escalate. That's not new, or confusing.
@metpoliceuk More disorder than all of the pro-Palestine marches combined and this one hasn't even started yet!
@DrSchwitters This one is from the new box set but I have my original copies (missing Decay Music and Budd) from back in the day. They are all a bit noisy now so I indulged in the new set. They sound ace.
I made a pot at a pottery class that I was really proud of. and I've just broken it cleaning the bathroom. and I have had a cry about it. wtaf
As is common with entirely innocent people, they are offering me an enormous sum of money to keep this matter out of court.
In the garden today: with fronds like these, who needs anemones?
Of course what has always "undermined public support for generous welfare provisions" has been spitefulness and mythmaking, and these are wilfully reinforced by politicians who make noises about "benefit cheats" (a phrase that I suspect rather post-dates Judith Hart).
Hart believed that benefit cheats undermined public support for generous welfare provisions and, therefore, it was consistent with her socialist beliefs to crack down on the small minority that cheated the system.
Just used an automated coffee machine whose screen informed me mid-brewing "Your beveridge is being prepared". All I wanted was a latte & looks like I'll be getting a blueprint for reform of the welfare state.
israel is an imperialist outpost, so launching rockets at it is anti-imperialist, almost by definition. it's not rocket science, if you'll pardon the expression
@NicholasPegg Any excuse to play six degrees of DB.
@DrSchwitters Really hard to predict given last time there was an extremely fishy electoral pact struck between the parties, and candidates reporting *during the campaign* that Tory representatives were offering them inducements to stand down.
reminded of when initial reports of the Utøya massacre started filtering in, and exactly the same bunch of wankers started screaming about how this was all the fault of militant Islam and Western appeasement thereof, blah blah blah, and then they went v quiet a few hours later.
I cannot, in good conscience, remain silent. We must not remain silent. When we see such bigotry, Islamophobia, racism & hatred we must call it out. Rachel Riley must be held accountable for these vile & divisive comments.
It's not the day someone dies thats the worst, at least you have something to do, it's all the days they stay dead.
for whatever reason these days i find myself thinking about Roger Sterling not crying when his mom died but silently bursting into tears in his office a few days later when he finds out his shoe shiner passed
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