Neil Anderson

@rmmbr.bsky.social

Artist | Musician | Lapsed TTRPG GM| Scotland-based. Fact: I own the full evolutionary line of charmander to charizard as pairs of socks Portfolio: https://www.neiljganderson.com

Looking for something to listen to with the kids over the summer break? Try Galaxy Fest, a podcast made with a cast of children, and written by a very large child (me) It's funny, weird, educational, and features a sentient alien goo gurgling about the place www.rte.ie/radio/podcas...

Episode 1 - Signals

The crew of the Big SISS are back for another season of interstellar adventures! And first up, they have to figure out how to broadcast the show across the entire Universe, after a shocking revelation...

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Last december, I treated myself to a 6 week painting course by @paulscottcanavan.com and this was the piece I made. I learnt a lot and my classmates were awesome x) 10/10 recommend Also I was procrastinating on finishing it and Paul said if I didn't he'd fire me lmao. please don't fire me

An archer flying on a giant heron among sunny cliffs, taking aim at one of the small yellow birds surrounding them

Then, when the defendants have been convicted of ordinary crimes and the jury's gone home, the judge decides to sentence them for something else entirely. Because it seems to me, when you come down to it old boy, that these revolting little people are really terrorists. Judge, jury and executioner.

What this means is that anyone involved in direct action protests could be sentenced as terrorists, whether or not they belong to a banned group and whether or not terrorism is *even mentioned at the trial*. Without informing the jury, the judge secretly marks the case as "terrorism connection".

Who knew that this could happen? I didn't. But it turns out that the Sentencing Act 2020 allows judges to send people down for crimes for which they have not been tried or convicted, with far longer sentences and far more draconian conditions than they would otherwise face. It gets worse - read on.

Even more disturbing is what happened at Woolwich Crown Court last week, where the Crown prosecutors chose not to try Palestine Action protesters as terrorists, as the jury would be unlikely to convict. They were convicted as ordinary criminals. But then the judge *sentenced* them as terrorists.

A massive shift is taking place here. Well-organised far-right terrorism is being treated as ordinary criminality, while conscience-driven protests against genocide are treated as terrorism. A highly conservative (and deeply weird and fantastical) Court of Appeal ruling embeds this shift.

Both the government and the Court of Appeal now treat protesters as terrorists and terrorists as protesters. It's hard to accept that a "Labour" government is imposing rightwing authoritarianism on the UK, but please read this column to see what's happening.+🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Belfast riots, Palestine Action protests. What is terrorism now – and why the hypocrisy? | George Monbiot

The right is obsessed with ‘two-tier policing’. This is indeed a two-tier government – but the real victims are progressives, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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