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Peter Collins

@peter.polari.com

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Founder of @polari.press queer publisher and design studio. Using this as a personal/professional account so let's see how that goes (expect mild chaos). 🏳️‍🌈☮️🏳️‍⚧️🍉

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Peter Collins @peter.polari.com · 14d

Got these up on my website finally! I would love them to sell out so I can transfer a bulk of money in one go to the Sameer Project who are providing food to people in Gaza.

The red colourway is so far proving the more popular so get ‘em quick! Limited edition of 50 in each colour. £15 each.

Polari Press @polari.press · 14d

After launching them at Queeriosities last weekend, the A3 Risograph posters are now up on our website with all profits going to the Sameer Project in Gaza: polari.press/throw-sand-i...

A poster that says “Throw Sand in the Gears of Genocide” against a monochrome image of a bunch of poppies in red.

A poster that says “Throw Sand in the Gears of Genocide” against a monochrome image of a bunch of poppies in green.

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Izzy Kamikaze @izzykamikaze.bsky.social · 2d

Marie McGowan, 89, has died 3 years after a brutal assault during which she was put headfirst into a rubbish bin. Her attacker, Alex Bailey, believed she was "a man dressed as a woman."

This is the world the transphobes are creating "to protect women."

RIP Marie. share.google/PFaI5YTh9tBw...

Woman, 80s, dies three years after Dublin attack

A woman in her 80s who was attacked in south Dublin just over three years ago has passed away.

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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 3d

I feel like Ben Gvir personally being in the room when Greta Thunberg was being tortured should be bigger news

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Peter Collins @peter.polari.com · 3d

It’s gorgeous. Very much recommend. Published by @valizbooks.bsky.social

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A living room of a cottage with a wood burner and chimney breast, in front of it, a low table with a cup of tea and the book ‘Let’s Become Fungal! Mycelium Teachings and the Arts’.

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Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 3d

Julie Bindel is so feminist she does an interview with anti-abortion Christian institute.

The Christian Institute. Council apologises for 'unlawfully cancelling feminist speaker over trans views

The Bible teaches that all human life is created in God's image and so is intrinsically valuable from conception. At The Christian Institute we therefore seek to defend the sanctity of life.
Abortion -destroying life somewhere between conception and birth -is wrong. The Bible states that the deliberate taking of an innocent human life breaks the sixth commandment: "You shall not murder".
In total,there have now been more than 10 million abortions in Great Britain since the 1967 Act was passed.

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 3d

that didn't take long

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Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 4d

ONLY migrants though, no one else is to study English because it's a rip off and a waste of time, am I getting this right.

András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 4d

Well this will certainly do it www.gov.uk/government/n...

Migrants will be required to pass A Level standard of English

Migrants will be required to pass tough new English language requirements under a law introduced in Parliament today.

www.gov.uk

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Peter Collins @peter.polari.com · 4d

Another example of cruelty from this Labour government.

elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 4d

(UK) “It’s really bad, I won’t lie to you” is what the pharmacist told me as she had to deny me the covid vaccine. I got the flu one, no problem. A 74 year old got denied bcs he isn’t 75, so he said he’ll do it next year bcs he cannot afford to pay for private. It’s really bad. 1/4

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 4d

The Regime's goal is to grind everyone down. Plain & simple. Our goal is to refuse this by taking turns to fight where and how we can. When one group needs to bow out, then another group needs to step in and so on. We don't all have to do everything. We can all do something though. Stay in the fight

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Peter Collins @peter.polari.com · 5d

If these events happened in the UK, our Home Secretary would probably report them to the police for incitement to violence. 🫠

Kelley Skovron @kelleyskovron.com · 6d

Yesss www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

‘Death to Spotify’: the DIY movement to get artists and fans to quit the music app

Musicians have long criticized the streaming service’s paltry payouts, but a new wave of boycotts is emerging

www.theguardian.com

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Peter Collins @peter.polari.com · 6d

Also, me, the neighbour:

Mrs Mangel from Neighbours peering around a brick wall. She’s very concerned about whatever’s going on.

Hyacinth Bucket (it’s Bouquet!) looking shocked from behind a topiary bay tree outside her front door.

Peter Collins @peter.polari.com · 6d

“A nation of neighbours, not strangers.”

I love that.

The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 7d

“Britain is a nation of neighbours, not strangers — and it’s time we built a politics of hope that reflects that.”

Zack Polanski with a message of unity and hope having been out door knocking Handsworth today.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 7d

Greens growing. Reform ratttled.

PS - I changed my name back to my family's original Jewish name because I'm proud of being Jewish. If Tice think that makes me a weirdo, I think that makes him an antisemite.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Tice "green party leader Zack Polanski is a weirdo. Changed his name, claimed hypnosis could increase women's breast size, thinks me should compete in women's sport, thinks women can have a penis. Other than that he's fine. Vote Green. Get weirdo."

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.bsky.social · 8d

If this ceasefire happens - and I hope it does - Western media will talk about 'peace'. This will be inaccurate. What they will mean is 'quiet', a reversion to the background level of violence that Palestinians have faced for decades. Peace can only come with the end of the occupation and apartheid.

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 9d

Sending love to journalist Motasem A Dalloul, on what should have been a celebratory day.

US-Israel had killed more than 270 journalists. But, importantly, the colonizer has stolen something important (home, career, loved ones) from each and every journalist in Gaza.

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 9d

Israel has killed the third son of Gaza journalist Motasem Dalloul.

Motasem A Dalloul
@AbujomaaGaza
Israeli occupation forces have just killed my third son, Ibraheem..
RIP my dear son.
6:06 AM • 10/9/25 • 186K Views

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 10d

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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SpryOldLorax @spryoldlorax.bsky.social · 23d

Some amazing gay history. Listen up kids.

I'm watching that documentary "Before Stonewall" about gay history
pre-1969, and uncovered something which I think is interesting.

The documentary includes a brief clip of a 1954 televised newscast
about the rise of homosexuality. The host of the program interviewed
psychologists, a police officer, and one "known homosexual". The
"known homosexual" is 22 years old. He identifies himself as Curtis
White, which is a pseudonym; his name is actually Dale Olson.
So I tracked down the newscast. According to what I can find, Dale
Olson may have been the first gay man to appear openly on television
and defend his sexual orientation. He explains that there's nothing
wrong with him mentally and he's never been arrested. When asked
whether he'd take a cure if it existed, he says no. When asked whether
his family knows he's gay, he says that they didn't up until tonight, but
he guesses they're going to find out, and he'll probably be fired from
his job as well. So of course the host is like ... why are you doing this
interview then? and Dale Olson, cool as cucumber pie, says "I think
that this way I can be a little useful to someone besides myself."

1954. 22 years old. Balls of pure titanium.

Despite the pseudonym, Dale's boss did indeed recognize him from
the TV program, and he was promptly fired the next day. He wrote into
ONE magazine six months later to reassure readers that he had gotten
a new job at a higher salary.
Curious about what became of him, I looked into his life a little further.
It turns out that he ultimately became a very successful publicity
agent. He promoted the Rocky movies and Superman. Not only that,
but get this: Dale represented Rock Hudson, and he was the person
who convinced him to disclose that he had AIDS! He wrote the
statement Rock read. And as we know, Rock Hudson's disclosure had
a very significant effect on the national conversation about AIDS in the
U.S.

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Greens Organise @greensorganise.bsky.social · 10d

The rhetoric of the far right is escalating.
Look at ICE in the US. Armed militias kidnapping people off the streets.

We’ve seen this before.
It’s fascism. Imported from the US to British shores by the likes of Farage and Tommy Robinson.

Will you help us fight it?

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Peter Collins @peter.polari.com · 10d

Sounds like that industry isn’t viable then. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 10d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Quinn Norton @quinn.yoyodyne-it.eu · 10d

The number of "resistance" authors publishing on Substack remains dissapointing. They were pro-nazi back when that was unpopular. I'd mutter something about the master's tools and the master's house, but y'all are actively donating lumber.

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Peter Collins @peter.polari.com · 10d

“Our boots may be on their necks, but those same boots also shackle our feet.”

Sarah Schwartz @sarahschwartz.bsky.social · 10d

A letter to those who taught me my Jewishness, and who now sit on the other side of a deep chasm.

When you first heard me speak against this genocide, you heard my words as betrayal. But they were meant as love

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

When you first heard me speak against this genocide, you heard my words as betrayal. But they were meant as love | Sarah Schwartz

Not speaking would go against everything I was taught to honour: the righteous among the nations – those who refused to be bystanders to injustice

www.theguardian.com

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Count Melancholia @lillyh.bsky.social · 14d

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Peter Collins @peter.polari.com · 11d

I want this to be the work of a malicious graphic designer. 🤭

Dean Craddock @dean5150.bsky.social · 12d

They love Britain so much 🤣🤣

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 12d

Keir Starmer’s spokesman asked about Israel detaining British citizens who were on the Gaza aid flotilla, while in international waters, replies that it is a “matter for the Israeli Government”

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