Duncan Hothersall is now on Bluesky instead
@dhothersall
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Elon Musk has turned Twitter into a haven for misinformation and hate, and is a clear and present danger to democracy. Find me at https://t.co/U6RKjlu6GN
Scotland, United Kingdom
Joined November 2009
Supporting trans rights does not mean opposing women's rights. Supporting women's rights does not mean opposing trans rights. Please think about whose interests it serves to turn those who should be allies against misogyny and transphobia into each others' enemies instead.
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Musk calling for violent insurrection in the UK, and endorsing racist thugs. Anyone still actively engaging on X, which he not only owns but games to ensure far-right politics is promoted above all else, is helping him. Official bodies still using this platform is unconscionable.
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What the hell are you all doing still here? This site promotes disinformation and monetises terror. It did so again last night. Governments, journalists, politicians - by posting here you are legitimising an infrastructure of distortion and hatemongering. Please leave now.
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Dear MPs, MSPs, official government accounts, official council accounts: it's time to leave this platform. It is corrupt. https://t.co/S6dLuAiPR0
bylinetimes.com
Analysis shows Reform UK representatives benefit from half of all MP engagement on Twitter despite holding just 3.5% of seats in Parliament
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Dear MPs, MSPs, official government accounts, official council accounts: it's time to leave this platform. It is corrupt. https://t.co/S6dLuAiPR0
bylinetimes.com
Analysis shows Reform UK representatives benefit from half of all MP engagement on Twitter despite holding just 3.5% of seats in Parliament
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I understand that Twitter/X helped to create important networks for many of us which are a wrench and a hardship to leave behind. But leave them behind we must, or our presence here becomes tacit approval of the fascist who owns it and the hate-promoting algorithms it uses.
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There are now 30m users on B*uesk*, right and left wing politics, unionist and nationalist, etc. Feels like Twitter in the old days. There is now zero excuse for anyone to keep posting on this site other than to encourage others to stop. So please, make the move!
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I understand that Twitter/X helped to create important networks for many of us which are a wrench and a hardship to leave behind. But leave them behind we must, or our presence here becomes tacit approval of the fascist who owns it and the hate-promoting algorithms it uses.
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Keir Starmer this morning: "We’ve seen this playbook many times. Intimidation, threats of violence, hoping the media will amplify it. When the poison of the far right leads to serious threats to Jess Phillips and others, my view is a line has been crossed." So it's time to act.
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Elon Musk has turned Twitter into a haven for misinformation and hate, and is a clear and present danger to democracy. I'm calling on the UK Government and the Labour Party to stop using this platform for official comms. Doing so only empowers those who seek to do us harm.
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Wouldn’t it be great if the energy and resources poured into creating needless moral panics around trans women could be spent on productive interventions such as working with young men to challenge rape culture, misogyny and toxic masculinity?
Who could possibly have foreseen this?* *Women who attended mixed sex schools. For years, we've warned unisex facilities made voyeurism and harassment laughably easy, and argued that girls deserved privacy and dignity. In return, we were called pearl-clutchers, bigots and Nazis.
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As ever during unfolding tragedy, Twitter is the number one source for unfounded theories reported as facts, deliberate misinformation designed to provoke anger and hatred, and pig ignorant opinion greeted as insight. #Magdeburg
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Excellent piece by my colleague @TorstenBell: “The political contest of the 2020s is now between those of us trying to fix the loss of trust in politics and those hoping to exploit it.” 100%
Build homes. Mend potholes. Restore trust. https://t.co/ZWbPhzk75d
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Reminder: I'm not posting here very much any more, but you can find me more regularly at the alternative link in my bio.
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> trans people have been vilified and their rights to healthcare, access to public services and ability to live free from abuse have been stripped away. It is a damning indictment of a politics apparently no longer able to stand up against bigotry as it once did. Shame on us.
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10 years ago today the Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act came into effect, meaning that same sex couples could get married in Scotland for the first time. It was easy to believe then that LGBT equality and inclusion was here to stay. Instead in the intervening years >
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I hardly even log in here any more. Find me at https://t.co/w602ie2rnR.
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Whenever I drop by this place, which is increasingly infrequently, it's just adverts for Premium interlaced with transphobia. The good conversations - between with people with strongly differing beliefs - are all happening on Bluesky now, with no algorithm to skew them.
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It was a public vote, most likely voted on predominantly by women's football fans, and the result was widely welcomed by women footballers. The untrammelled spreading of this sort of hate on Twitter is why I have moved to B1uesky. Account in bio.
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@dhothersall There must be a bar chart for "shortest time between election and resignation" ? Although it's probably not even a two horse race.
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