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Are we gonna pass on the fire bit at the bottom?

My brain socialist

My heart anarchist

My eyes pacifist

My blood revolutionary

My tits: OUT

My teeth SOMEONE ELSE’S

Thanks to a kind Redditor who copied the wild lawyer’s obituary from the Times paywall:

“Alistair Mitchell, 61: Lawyer whose calling was knocked into him at a riot” (2009)

‘Private Eye once described Alistair Mitchell as “the only man in British legal history to be convicted of biting a policeman — with someone else’s teeth”. His surreal, tortuous saga began on March 31, 1990. The 32-year-old Alistair, then a director of a wholefoods co-operative, had been asked by Alexandra, his girlfriend, to photograph the poll tax riots for a film she was making. Shinning up a steel bus shelter, Alistair duly did so. He leapt off when a policeman struck the shelter with a baton.

He had been long separated from Alexandra when, at about 6.30pm, Alistair saw a police officer grip a protester by the neck in a chokehold that he had read could prove fatal. “That’s dangerous,” he cried out. “You could kill in eight seconds.”

In response two police officers pinned Alistair against a nearby shop window, broke his right index finger, and gripped his windpipe. One of them shouted: “In six seconds you’ll be dead.” Unable to move, he fainted.

To his surprise, Alistair was subsequently charged with assaulting two police officers. According to The Guardian, when he was summoned before a magistrate to give his account, it tallied exactly with those of two eyewitnesses who were working in the shop against which he had been pressed by the police.

The novelist Maeve Binchy, a family friend, testified that, far from being violent in character, Alistair was “painfully honest” and “gentle”.

A police officer then displayed bite marks on his left hand, saying that Alistair, “snapping like a dog”, had bitten him. The dental expert who had made a mould of Alistair’s teeth deemed this “highly unlikely”. Speculation followed: could the officer have bitten his own hand?

Although the question was left unanswered, Alistair was found guilty, fined £250 and sentenced to prison. When a judge upheld Alistair’s sentence at appeal, a second, six-day incarceration followed at HM Prison Wandsworth.

Unable to sleep in a cell, Alistair found prison “strange and frightening”. Nonetheless, it produced an unexpected consequence: he was asked to assist in founding a group offering legal help to some of the 500 protesters arrested during the poll tax riots, an event by then known as “the Battle of Trafalgar Square”.

Assisted by the Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers, Alistair helped to form the Trafalgar Square Defendants’ Campaign. He held meetings to collect witness statements, arranged lawyers for defendants, and support for those in prison. Alexandra, meanwhile, logged the television news footage of the day. They developed a system of legal monitoring for use at demonstrations.

In 1993 the High Court quashed Alistair’s conviction at judicial review. By then, his spare time being consumed by legal matters, Alistair decided to begin a law degree at South Bank (now London South Bank) University. The £40,000 Alistair won in 1997 in a civil action against the police would later pay for his studies for the Bar. As a barrister he initially specialised in family and criminal cases, later expanding into civil, immigration and commercial law. Whatever the lawsuit, the gentle Alistair was always happy to work with police officers.

More: https://www.thetimes.com/comment/register/article/alistair-mitchell-61-lawyer-whose-calling-was-knocked-into-him-at-a-riot-3cc8rmfmq

Raven Steals the Sun a glass collaboration sculpture by Tlingit artist Preston Singletary and David…

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Raven Steals the Sun a glass collaboration sculpture by Tlingit artist Preston Singletary and David Franklin.

nevver:Turn up the heat, Matt Schu

nevver:

Turn up the heat, Matt Schu

Because I haven’t shared these here yet, I thought I’d share them all together!

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Because I haven’t shared these here yet, I thought I’d share them all together!

Here are all of my pencil and ink sketches for my solo show at Gallery Nucleus. A number of these original sketches are still available here!

Hey y'all. Here’s something for you.

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Find Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your Claim

Hey y'all. Here’s something for you.

Reblog and Signal Boost for US followers.

extremely cool that the removal of wolf protections in europe are being driven by an eu official…

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extremely cool that the removal of wolf protections in europe are being driven by an eu official having one of her horses killed by a wolf. literal cartoon villain shit

if you own horses you should be disqualified from participation in government

and after this happened, they put that specific wolf on a kill list and then proceeded to shoot the wrong wolf. geniuses

Europe turns its back on the wolf and on science

For anyone who thought this is too stupid to be real, I’ll remind you the year is 2025. The EU official in question is Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission. She is the latest in a long line of idiot Germans to think the CDU disguises her evil.

okay here’s a petition against this

If you are in Europe, for the love of god, please reblog and sign - these are a keystone species

331,604 out of 500,000 signatures as of October 7, 2025.

Stolen from the Electronic Frontier Foundation:

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ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day

Stolen from the Electronic Frontier Foundation:

Here’s a link to the EFF page that contains this information:

How to Disable Ad ID Tracking on iOS and Android, and Why You Should Do It Now

On Android 

With the release of Android 12, Google began allowing users to delete their ad ID permanently. On devices that have this feature enabled, you can open the Settings app and navigate to Privacy > Ads. Tap “Delete advertising ID,” then tap it again on the next page to confirm. This will prevent any app on your phone from accessing it in the future.

On iOS 

To see which apps you have previously granted access to, go to Settings > Privacy > Tracking. You can set the “Allow apps to Request to Track” switch to the “off” position (the slider is to the left and the background is gray). This will prevent apps from asking to track in the future. If you have granted apps permission to track you in the past, this will prompt you to ask those apps to stop tracking as well. You also have the option to grant or revoke tracking access on a per-app basis.

Apple has its own targeted advertising system, separate from the third-party tracking it enables with IDFA. To disable it, navigate to Settings > Privacy > Apple Advertising. Set the “Personalized Ads” switch to the “off” position to disable Apple’s ad targeting.

makerofwounds:The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela...

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The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter

Illustrated by Igor Karash

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tbh i think the funniest phenomena that’s been happening in the last couple years is “youtuber,…

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tbh i think the funniest phenomena that’s been happening in the last couple years is “youtuber, having gone too deep into the research hole, has been made an investigative journalist against their will”

Shout out to the guy who wanted to do some fun & silly little reviews but uncovered an illegal gambling operation

(Review 2)

this guy started out poking fun at australian politicians and ended up investigating the firebombing of his own home, during which he uncovered connections between the same politician he was making fun of + major organized crime

JasperDasper started out just curious why everything had suddenly become about trans people and questioning some of the sources used in a book. He came out of it, 4 years later, with a 5 hour long video that connects all transphobia to less than 60 people. (I’m not joking. literally every single transphobic rhetoric and bill passed is because of these 50 or so people.)

If you wanna watch it I cannot recommend it enough; I just warn that it covers a LOT.