So, #Exeter has just told students to not meet with people from other households inside for the next 14 days, and social media is already awash with people trying to figure how to squirrel round it. My message to those people: don't. Don't ignore or refuse to follow instructions. This measure has been put in place to prevent community spread. It is a stopgap, to reduce pressure and prevent more extreme measures in the future.

I s2g... Can we go 1 week without some scandal? I know there was heavy campaigning from the 'Free' Speech Union (run by Toby Young, which says a lot about the speech they're intending to protect), but this is really not what a supportive institution looks like.

https://twitter.com/nehies97/status/1306878858940084224

Yes, visitors with different views should have the chance to speak but transphobia isn't a different view, it's a lack of empathy and morality. A few days ago, the uni affirmed #TransRightsAreHumanRights, but this makes it seem just for show.

#AgentsofSHIELD 1x04 Live-Tweet (part of #aoslives) And we start in a crowd in Europe, both things that Brits are missing right now, also I don't think that group understood the meaning of face mask 😜 #aoslives

I knew that going into a senior committee position would mean having some days where something goes wrong or reality gets in the way of plans, especially given the lockdown, but I never thought that trouble would come from such an important figure, let alone repeatedly... #IStandWithJKRowling continues to trend on twitter, with a blog post by the author herself yesterday. Now, I won't outline how exactly her points can be perceived as transphobic bc, as I'm cis, I can't fully grasp what damage it can do and even then, this thread would be massive.

I was holding off on shouting my thoughts on the grade adjustments, but fate conspired otherwise... This country has brilliant minds across it, especially in state schools (just by laws of probability), and today's actions by those in leadership are an affront to that. It's classist, selfish and unfortunately expected by a government who has shown disdain not just to the ideals of a significant number of its citizens, but to the citizens themselves, unless it serves their interests.

Any person who knows the slightest thing about student media knows the amount of fact-checking and discussion ahead of publishing a factual story, in any medium. It isn't on our habits to report unfounded rumours;

https://twitter.com/nehies97/status/1287722761159421954

however, even with deliberation and diplomacy, there are those who get enraged by the act of informing other students of their own/their colleagues' actions, and the vilification of student journalists, as if we're doing it to purposefully impugn the character. (We aren't.)

Britain First (which frankly shows again+again they're part of the country's festering evil) are using the image of a murdered child in a racist message. Morality has become an ideological enemy to them, though evidence may say that was one to begin with. A CHILD was murdered. The murderer has been charged and is currently in court (hence why little info, but what conspiracy theorist/tragedy manipulator cares about that?).

Just got home from helping with coverage of #GeneralElection2019 and honestly I don't know how to feel... I'm currently between sick and angry (or some mixture of the two). Apart from f-ing Brexit, which the conservatives will try to do with no deal messing up this country even more, I see no AND I TRULY MEAN NO reason why the Tories could possibly win such a majority.

OK, as ever when there's a terrorist incident, people IMMEDIATELY get political... Conspiracy theorists on the left (yes, they exist) are saying #LondonBridge is a false flag on the part of Boris and the Tories, and members on the right are running with this... (1/4) to make it seem it's a representation of the left, and that this shows a wider incompetence, to the point that there seems to be more tweets with the hashtag #FalseFlag about London from people on the right than on the left... (2/4)

A 16-year-old climate activist, backed by scientific was recently belittled by the President of the United States, who has in the past sided with those sceptic of climate change (and science more generally). The fact that sentence needs to be written is worrying... (1/5) As a society, you would hope we would be lead by those who use trustworthy, accurate sources, instead of dubious or blatantly disproven conspiracies. Yet, again and again, these dubious sources win out because it aligns with some political agenda or leaning... (2/5)

Today was a day of two halves for me. It showed both the best of humanity, and some of the worst. Starting with the worst, The news of the shooting in Christchurch was a dark reminder that there is no corner of this world where you can escape hate. 1/? The killing of others, no matter what cause you claim to follow, or who you target, is wrong on so many levels. The Canadian in me is reminded of the attack in Quebec City back in 2017, and I have a similar feeling of both anger and sadness, 2/?