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   The Free Speech Union (speechunion@bird.makeup)'s status on Friday, 10-Jul-2026 01:40:16 JST The Free Speech Union

   📣🚨 METROPOLITAN POLICE OFFER UNRESERVED APOLOGY TO GRAHAM LINEHAN AND PAY HIM £25,000

   The Metropolitan Police have at long last offered an unreserved apology to Graham Linehan and paid him £25,000.

   Last September, the Irish comedian and co-creator of Father Ted was arrested by five armed police officers as he landed at Heathrow Airport.

   His crime? Three gender-critical posts on X.

   He was arrested, taken to a police station and questioned for several hours. In the early hours of the following morning, he was rushed to hospital after his blood pressure rose to dangerously high levels.

   The Free Speech Union is proud to have supported Graham in taking legal action against the Metropolitan Police for wrongful arrest and breaches of his free speech rights.

   General Secretary of the Free Speech Union, Lord Young, has said: “I’m beginning to lose count of the number of cases we’ve fought in which the police have arrested someone for a tweet, decided to take no further action and then had to pay them substantial compensation for wrongful arrest.

   “At some point you’d think the penny would drop: police our streets, not our tweets.”

   While we welcome the Metropolitan Police’s apology and compensation payout to @glinner, this should never have happened in the first place.

   It is high time the police focused on our streets, not our tweets.

   Watch Graham’s reaction below 👇

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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 09-May-2026 00:24:58 JST Paul Cantrell

   in reply to

   ICE is still not out of Minneapolis-St. Paul, but I’m willing to say that we are no longer under •siege•. The Eye of Dumbass Sauron has moved elsewhere. Now it’s more an ongoing threat, usually background-level but sometimes not, that continues through normal life. You know…like the supposed criminal gang activity they used to justify their mass attack on immigrants in the first place.

   It’s not over, but it’s not just MSP. It’s the whole country’s problem.

   /end

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   Jon Park (jonspark@howdee.social)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jan-2026 11:35:47 JST Jon Park

   Our walk along the seafront got rained off but she did very well in her first dog-friendly place.

   It helped that a few people fawned over her and gave her treats.

   #DogsOfMastodon #GermanShepherd

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   Steve's Place (steter@mastodon.stevesworld.co)'s status on Thursday, 28-Aug-2025 04:40:01 JST Steve's Place

   I am taking the plunge and removing the sun screens from the windows. The 90+ temps in the 10-day forecast are gone again. It's just a pain getting them back up without accidentally electrocuting myself with aluminum foil. I have a UPS in the wrong place.

   It also appears that the downtown Weather Underground station was moved to a less hot location. The temps are no longer up to 10F hotter than all of the others, lol.

   #Gresham #ORwx

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   Preston von Gabbleduck (backupbear@aus.social)'s status on Friday, 01-Aug-2025 14:15:08 JST Preston von Gabbleduck

   Hell is not a place.

   It's trying to schedule a meeting with people from Australia, India, East Coast and West Coast USA all in it.

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   Nowhere Girl (gwynnion@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 19-Jul-2025 07:02:21 JST Nowhere Girl

   A question that comes up often in my writing is, "Why do we live like this?" Or rather, "Why do we put up with this?" And the answer is usually: "Because you end up alone and outside of society otherwise." Assuming there is an "outside" in the first place.

   It's like anti-capitalists calling people "suckers." Like, look, I've got bills to pay if I want to eat tonight. I know it sucks. But we either work together to make a better world or we each die alone in the private prison cell in our heads.