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The Abortomat is open! It's a self-built, DIY machine designed to put abortion care literally into people’s hands - and finally, into the 21st century. Brought to you by Women Help Women’s Feminist Abotech in Poland. Pics: www.instagram.com/p/Dd3gMh7AKFK/ News story: l1nq.com/0xkcphu

And like, I honestly have no fucking interest in persuading libs. The work will get done, they'll try and stop us, and then as soon as we win they'll claim it was them all along anyway. Fuck em. But the transmission within the movement is also badly affected and that is a problem.

When direct action is partially successful it is repressed so hard it becomes difficult to speak about without getting yourself a knock at the door. The successes of the Animal Liberation movement are all terrorism now. The wins of green movements unspeakable.

Botley Road has reopened at the railway bridge after 1,258 days. The new bridge includes cycleways on each side and enough headroom for a full-height double decker to pass. An extra rail span on the western side will give access to a forthcoming Platform 5 at Oxford station.

The number of cases of cervical cancer reported in Scotland among women given the HPV vaccine at 12-13 years of age is now zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. www.bbc.com/news/article...

I won't post the video, but this weekend, three leaders of an anti-migrant protest in Bicester held down and choked a Black guy until he was barely conscious, and only stopped after the cops told them to. None of them were arrested, and they were allowed to lead a march through the town afterwards.

sry i fridgemogged u or w/e i fw them tho frfr plummaxxing

you've got to be kidding me

I used to be quite good at navigating digital sources and now I'm another idiot trying to negotiate with the nightmare anthropomorph machine to get to information

Not also trying to say that these forms of mutual aid are the ideal form either. Tbh the whole practice is more diverse and experimental than people give it credit for: trying to meet needs through community solidarity building, technology and distribution in new ways, learning from past efforts.

In slight defence of the left here, there's been a long current on the left of criticism of "mutual aid" as GFM appeals being just the widely criticised charity model under a rebrand. A lot of actual mutual aid (not personal GFM appeals) is about organising socialised aid organisations.

Love Camille's mention that abortion can actually be more accessible via community infrastructure to support self managed care, vs countries where it's theoretically legal but requires dealing with hostile clinicians, delays, 'papers please', ££££ costs to go private Trans healthcare 🤝 abortions!

Currently, if you don't have a passport, the ferry is your only route from Ireland into the UK to access an abortion. We've supported several people over the last few weeks who didn't have a passport and so had to travel by ferry.

2016-ass couple of days

Professor Michael Biggs, first on this list, is an Oxford Sociologist most notable for his work attacking the trans community after he was outed for running an anti trans troll account. Work he's done has been influential in British trans health and legal policy.

It's interesting and positive to see the ongoing understanding of how crime and punishment based models of safety and harm are bad at dealing with both because they treat the criminal as an aberrant outlier to be exceptionalised while overlooking how road deaths aren't just down to individuals.

This video is so good for looking at the way that the focus on "dangerous" drivers and criminal justice punishments for motorist error has obscured the way that cars make roads systematically unsafe while discouraging safer modes of transport. youtu.be/dHRfClVJg70

free, safe, legal, LOCAL!! (also I thought NHS was supposed to cover travel in this situation?)

Nonbinary intersex activist Jim Sinclair on Sally Jesse Raphael's show in 1989

Hyde Park is looking lush, finally a nice summer 😎

FINALLY (yes I know I'm probably the one you all want to turn off reposts for)

Oxford University’s weather station has published its summary for July 2026, which was the hottest, sunniest, and third driest month on record at the Radcliffe Observatory. The average daily maximum exceeded previous decades (1991-2020) by a full 5 degrees Celsius. www.geog.ox.ac.uk/sites/defaul...

ok i'm most definitely not living there now so please enjoy my spectacular AI apartment catfish!! featuring the mysteriously bigger paved backyard and magical extra space for a bedroom armchair. this needs to be sooooo illegal

A new essay for all my trans siblings and our allies. "As the UK enters a new era of state-mandated segregation, I find myself asking: was it all worth it?"

Bede's World! Bede's World! Party time! Venerable!

One highways manager told the High Court she had been placed on medication after becoming “fearful of being followed home, tracked and exposed on social media”. Highways staff now wear unbranded PPE, work in unbranded vehicles, wear face coverings to hide their identity, and do not travel alone.

Leaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.

Since February 2020, access to Women on Web has been blocked on multiple networks in #Spain. Although the Spanish Supreme Court ordered the partial unblocking of Women on Web in October 2022, OONI data indicates that block remains in place on several networks. ooni.org/post/2026-wo...

Abortion Access Denied: Investigating the Global Censorship of Women on Web ooni.org/post/2026-wo... We joined forces w/ @womenonweb.bsky.social to investigate the blocking of their domains around the world based on OONI data. 🧵 Learn more 👇 #ooni #censorship #opendata

❗️Starting in mid-February 2026, at least 6 ISPs in #Italy started blocking access to the Women on Web and Women Help Women reproductive health websites. OONI data shows bogon IP responses, NXDOMAIN errors, and DNS responses directing users to block pages. ooni.org/post/2026-it... #ooni #opendata

🚨 BREAKING: Jericho Wharf, by the Oxford Canal, has been sold to Worcester College. The site has been derelict for 20 years. Worcester says it is “committed to bringing the site back into productive use through a carefully considered redevelopment that respects its heritage”.

Well well well between this and the call to proscribe Bash Back we really are through the looking glass where property damage is now “terrorist violence“, PA proscription really did open the door to the authoritarianism knocking

This sucks. It’s likely due to the fact that our division began this policy, not the overall university. The division wanted to keep the policy but it placed pressure on the overall uni to roll out a good policy uni-wide. Instead they decided to make MPLS reverse a good thing, shafting ECR parents

A friend of mine spat a giant smokers green lugie into this man's face in 2011 (and got nicked for it, but they were ok) and I cling to this beautiful fact every day.

Botley Road rail bridge's reopening has been delayed by up to six weeks – pushing it back to mid-October. Three leaks were unexpectedly discovered in a gas pipe at the site, which now has to be replaced. Network Rail says "the pipe has not been damaged by our work".

if there's been one key theme for me of the last decade, it's been "wow, a lot of people with power and influence seem to care way more about worrying about hypothetical threats than doing anything about or understanding very real and non-hypothetical threats that are happening right now"

Harry Braverman: "[capitalist society dictates] that the ignorance of the great masses of the workers and the concentration of all engineering knowledge in a few specialists are desirable and, in fact, essential conditions rather than, as it would seem from a human point of view, an abomination."

BREAKING - Emmeline Pankhurst LOCKED UP 24hrs after a video showed the suffragette alongside supporters of Palestine Action, she has been caged off. While counter-terror police struggle to keep up with pensioners, they have managed to catch this particular “terrorist”. /s