Married, Atheist, Sarcastic. #dissolvetheunion #FBSI Gaidhlig learner @eilidhexmo.bsky.social
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Read this if you've not read it before, & re-read if you have!
Other charges include -
2 sexual assault,
2 assault by penetration,
8 assault occasioning ABH,
2 making indecent images of a child,
1 distributing an indecent image of a child, and also stalking, threats to kill & false imprisonment.
Reform UK councillor George Madgwick charged with 35 offences, including 12 counts of rape
bbc.in/4izAAXe
Helen Alexander 🏴 retweeted
NAO usem. NAO peçam pra remover as fics de vocês. as minhas tão lá também, isso é golpe pra roubar os dados de vocês. avisem diretamente o ao3 sobre isso, não coloquem dado algum nesse site. deixa o ao3 tomar as medidas legais pra derrubar.
Helen Alexander 🏴 retweeted
The Republican Party is the party of Donald Trump.
A vote for Mike Rogers IS a vote for Trump.
I stand with Dr. @AbdulElSayed.
Helen Alexander 🏴 retweeted
I spoke with Haley Stevens yesterday.
Feeling a bit absurd in pointing out the obvious and being far kinder than I should have been, I reminded her that the outcome of this senate race will be viewed in the light of a future Supreme Court vacancy, and I expressed a hope that all of us understand the stakes.
She assured me she's supporting Dr. El-Sayed, sent me a video of a recent speech she gave blasting Mike Rogers and said this: "Still stands. I promise."
She also said she's been sending this video to other folks to make it clear where she stands on this race.
Again: that was yesterday.
I have known Haley Stevens for years. I have counted her as a friend and an ally. We've had many thoughtful conversations about this country, and she has never failed to remind me that her mother is a fan of my writing.
Whatever other political differences we have, she has always made it clear to me she would stand with LGBTQ people. It was a red line she refused to cross.
Instead, she has made the inexplicable decision to endorse a man who views LGBTQ Americans as second-class citizens unworthy of full equality.
I can't help but wonder what her mother must be thinking right now.
I have no idea what has happened to the person I thought I knew, but clearly, she has completely taken leave of her senses in endorsing a Republican who is little more than a Trump sycophant -- less than 24 hours after promising me that she has not wavered from the bigger picture.
I am disgusted with her cynicism and cowardice in this moment. God forgive me for trusting her.
If you're a Michigan voter and as disgusted as I am, get to your polling place and vote for Dr. El-Sayed.
Helen Alexander 🏴 retweeted
UPDATE on ao3(.)life:
OTW is aware of the site and is already taking action. They’ve asked people NOT to send personal information, and they do not need additional reports about this right now — more reports may only bog things down.
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Helen Alexander 🏴 retweeted
The Pilot who crashed that plane was MALE. The woman on the radio was the co-pilot, she was NOT flying the plane. She did what she was supposed to do. And stayed as composed as one can when they're facing emminent death. People look for any excuse to be disgusting and sexist.
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Repost so everyone stays informed:
DO NOT email them
DO NOT sign up
DO NOT give them money for audio books
DO NOT sign up for monetisation of works
DO NOT download
This seems to be a huge data scrape of deleted & available works uploaded to Ao3 only. Just DON'T INTERACT!!
Helen Alexander 🏴 retweeted
Let's make this the biggest poll ever conducted on Twitter; to do this, everybody needs to share and vote: Scottish independence, yes or no?
86%Yes
14%No
3,128 votes • 4 days👏👏👏
I see some people talking about deleting their fan fiction when AO3 comes back online. You're not comfortable with the fact people have been downloading them and sharing them with others who clearly loved them enough to want to save them?
Okay, cool, that's your prerogative. Me? I've always written for the fandom, for the fans. Read my stories! Download them, share them, maybe even find me on socials and let me know if you enjoyed it if you so wish. All I ask is you do not repost them as your own, as they do not belong to anyone else in that way.
The point is, they might be stories written by me, but they're not my characters and I didn't just write them for me, I wrote them for the fandom to enjoy. It boggles my mind that people are all "when AO3 is back I'm deleting everything"
Okay. You do you, boo. Your fandom won't miss people like you who are clearly only in it for engagement. I personally want my stories to live forever! Some I don't even have the original copies of anymore (RIP laptop of 2012-2019) so if people have downloaded them and are sharing them now, that makes my heart happy. They live on, as I wanted them to, one way or another 🫶
I have 5 of my most recent stories on Drive in EPUB format. Are they perfect? No, but they're readable at least!
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Helen Alexander 🏴 retweeted
We are ONE FUCKING USER to claim they have copyright rights from their TRANSFORMATIVE FANWORK to get OTW nuked from Earth legally.
Your fanwork is only allowed to exist becase OTW argued is fair use AS A DEFENSE FROM INFRINGMENT OF COPYRIGHT.
I'm going to eat my entire fist.
Helen Alexander 🏴 retweeted
Tomorrow marks the start of fox hunting season.
The Hunting Act 2004 banned the hunting of wild mammals with dogs in England and Wales, including fox hunting, deer hunting, and hare coursing.
@Nigel_Farage says the ban is “an abomination” and “monstrous”.
Make no mistake, he opposes the ban on hare coursing and tearing foxes to pieces with hounds.
That’s what he means when he says ‘country sports’.
Helen Alexander 🏴 retweeted
WHAT TO DO WHILE AO3 IS DOWN - MASTERPOST
i am adding every google drive of every ship i can find (with a direct link to the author of the drive obviously) as well as two options for you to find other ships not listed. just open this document: docs.google.com/document/d/1…
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What a heartbreaking week it has been. Sir Patrick Stewart was a friend, a colleague, and a magnificent actor. From the stage to the bridge of the Enterprise, he brought intelligence, grace, and a deep sense of humanity to everything he did. Captain Picard stood for the best of us, and so did the man who played him. I was filled with affection and admiration for him and his work.
My heart goes out to Sunny and his family. He will be deeply missed.
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These motherfuckers didn’t just screw over a Pope with cancer. The whole Oleshky story is a Putin information operation designed to save that old orange ass from electoral defeat.
Guys, this needs to become an atomic bomb for the bastards in the White House. If you haven’t written about it yet, share this post. As many people as possible need to know this story.
What I had previously only suspected on instinct has now been confirmed.
It turns out that the absurd “Melania Trump ceasefire” in Oleshky was literally Putin’s idea. He personally “very much wanted” Melania to act as mediator, her senior adviser Mark Beckman told the Kyiv Independent.
Well, you could have guessed that, and I did immediately. A person who can barely string two words together was hardly going to organize something like this better than the Pope.
More than that, Putin sent her a special letter saying that Russia officially recognized Melania as its “exclusive intermediary.”
Do you understand what that means?
Russia has occupied Oleshky for four and a half years, blocked the city, prevented humanitarian aid from getting in, and driven the remaining residents into an acute shortage of food and medicine.
And then Putin picks Trump’s wife as the person who will be allowed to “solve” the problem.
And he does it right before the elections, when Trump’s collapsing ratings desperately need saving. Trump, the politician who is now effectively helping Putin force Ukraine into capitulation.
The White House has already announced that it was Melania who “secured the ceasefire,” while four journalists from Newsmax, Trump’s pet TV network, have been sent to Oleshky as “neutral observers” to present the entire operation to an American audience in exactly the right light.
You can bet your ass they won’t just advertise the orange ape as the greatest humanitarian genius in human history. They’ll advertise Putin right alongside him.
John Foreman, the former British defense attaché in Moscow and Kyiv, is calling this exactly what it is: a deliberate Kremlin operation. “They know exactly what they’re doing.” According to him, allowing Melania to take credit for the ceasefire gives Russia a way to present the Trumps to the MAGA audience as peacemakers immediately before the midterms.
In other words, Moscow first creates a humanitarian catastrophe, then allows the family of the U.S. president to stage a spectacular “rescue” of that catastrophe in order to save themselves from political disaster.
Fuck, I genuinely don’t have enough words to express how unbelievably vile and disgusting this is. I’m choking on the hatred of it.
They have turned one of the largest man-made humanitarian catastrophes of the 21st century into a fucking medal pinned to an orange ass.
OMG 😱
We estimate that service restoration for #AO3 will take around 2 weeks but it could be up to 4 weeks. We are hopeful that we will be able to bring the site back up in a degraded state sooner. Refer to our status page for updates: otwstatus.org/
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These are just four of the many ‘Christmas Wishes’ that have been found at Dunelm stores - customers can pick up these tags, purchase the items, and then return them to the store so they reach the local child who made the wish for Christmas. Please consider doing this if you have a branch near you.
These wishes are honestly heartbreaking when you consider that we live in the sixth wealthiest country in the world.
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Russia has finished using the civilians in Oleshky as human shields. They will now be relocated further into the occupied territories with this Administration’s blessing. Children will be vanished into Russia as gifts for oligarchs. Women who survive the rapes in the filtration camps will be sent to Siberia to work in military industries. Men will be shot if they have the slightest connection to the Ukrainian military, or if purely civilians, put into Russian prison camps to be tortured around the clock until they are eventually traded for well-fed, well-cared-for Russian POWs captured while committing war crimes in Ukraine.
Are you proud of your “humanitarian” work, @MELANIATRUMP @FLOTUS ? Will you sleep well in a soft bed knowing you looked serious and useful while the cameras were rolling?
If you do not personally learn the name and follow the path of every civilian removed from Oleshky by the Russian war criminals with whom your husband conspires — you will be just as guilty as he is.
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"Within days, Russian soldiers poisoned their dog, an Alabai, along with all the other large dogs in Oleshky. They killed Liudmila’s nextdoor neighbor and raped his wife. A local butcher disappeared; no one knew whether he was also killed. Some neighbors were detained and beaten. Armed, masked soldiers searched Liudmila’s home three times, confiscating the couple’s Ukrainian passports and leaving them with no documents. And yet, Liudmila and Andriy stayed. They got a new puppy, also an Alabai. Russian troops started to move into civilian houses, parking tanks in what once were gardens."
