Thread by @soundmigration

We like to think we live in a part of the world that isn't *too* fucked up, given how fucked up things are.

Yet I'm seeing images and intel from a live murder investigation shared via phone devices on the same day a report is out on widespread police murder collusion in Ireland

These two are in my mind together relating to horriblle real aspects of society, history and power that, we tend to only get space to think about when life makes it unavoidable. Like now

Struck again but how recursive and endless male violence is, how 'flat' and 'hopeless'...

& 'dark' are the words my women friends are using the last few days. This hurts

'Not all men' is a culture war device, deeply rooted in online discourse. But it speaks also to power's power to ensure denial.

And that is why collusion is still about 'reports' and not truth....

It forces what many if us know to be objectively true to be the subject of debate. Something to be discussed and abstracting argued about.

Rather than the reality of lives snuffed out, other futures killed, and always always wider systemic justice denied.

Apologies if this...

Seems to conflate to things that most might see seperate.

But in trudging through the sewers of the far right trying to exploit a murder, the anniversary at this time of year if neighbours murdered, the report release say what we already know, yet just still refused.

And....

..alongside that, the casual voyeuristic vitality of intel about a current investigation of a young life snuffed out, facilitated entirely by platforms that do not give one fuck about you or your community and society beyond what can be extracted and sold to advertisers, is heavy