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How Repression Became Routine cover that includes a photo of police officers with batons drawn

You can read more about this in "How Repression Became Routine", our latest State of Protest report netpol.org/2026/03/25/h...

The Bristol ‘dance’ – a case study: In Bristol, legal observers have documented the repeated use of Section 50 at anti-fascist counterdemonstrations as part of a carousel of low-threshold powers employed against protesters, referred to as the ’34-60aa-50-35 dance’. This sequence is not random, but a deliberate tactic of layering legislation to ensure data capture and control of protests. • Section 60aa (Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994) requires the removal of face coverings and creates a pretext for stopping people without reasonable suspicion. • Section 34 (Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014) provides authorisation for police to disperse protesters for up to 48 hours, effectively criminalising protesters for assembling once deemed as ‘likely’ to cause disorder. This, in turn, sets the precedent for the steps that follow. • Section 50 follows, criminalising non-compliance and providing an easy arrest mechanism while also acting as an intelligence-gathering model which allows police to identify movement actors. • Section 35 (Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014) is then evoked, allowing the police to clear out protesters once data collection has been completed.

First used by Avon and Somerset Police and dubbed the "Bristol Dance", it creates grounds for intervention against anti-fascists by demanding personal details and ends with dispersal powers. Even where no arrests are made, protesters have face masks removed, details verified and movements logged

Greater Manchester Police has told the media it intends to use powers that previously have been adopted in a planned sequence – layered on top of one another to confuse protesters and make arrests easier – not just to control a protest, but also to maximise data capture and intelligence gathering

God, I only come on here to moan, what a muppet

I fucking hate risperidone

Still trying to keep hope alive for anarchocommunism and do what I can round my area, but liberals fascismising doesn't help

My estate is sadly very reactive and trying to get ppl to understand that the council aren't their friends is a big un

Tldr: I miss my bestie feline child immensely, and it's all complicated and a lot

As PM Dawn says 'that's the way it goes, I guess'

Bye

And I don't want to expose anyone involved cos we're all vulnerable ppl and accountability is so often performative (various flavours of autisticness also complicate communication) but yeah, it sucks to have ur life fade into obscurity and horror after going hard on organising round ends for decades

It's hard when your brain won't let you move on, sure so many others can relate

Idk, just wanted to put this glimpse somewhere

I'm hurting and maybe the small few ppl in my life now won't see that cos I mask and hide my inability to cope with life and the world (on me). I have to keep going somehow, with work, paying bills, dealing with my poor health, managing my own horrors

I said to a friend back in 2022 that I'll never get over what's been done, and my cats death last yr compounded that

I'm angry at the person that killed my cat but have compassion, I'm sad for my ex after what she went through, but I'm also angry at how both of them treated me and what's happened

I've not healed. With ravens death anniversary tomorrow and the way it ended, I'm desperately beyond anguish and it keeps bringing up intrusive memories, voices, over and over, every fucking second of everyday. Ravens death is inevitably tied to my relationship with my ex which hasn't helped

I've tried to do right by ppl, even when they've hurt me so deeply, but I'm sad, exhausted, existentially nonhuman now

I've given grace when others would've noped out

And all I've got is a path to poor health and aloneness

Ending the r/ship was hard, some say a brave positive step to healing

It's the one yr anniversary of raven's death in fire.

I've only told my experiences to 4 ppl about mine and my ex's lives together, how she treated me, things I fucked up on, and what happened with ravens death in April 2025

Some of them already knew before I did and weren't surprised

With help from some, I finally ended the r/ship 4yrs ago cos of the abusive way she treated me, but she rolled hard on a bad faith ID politic victimhood which left me isolated and utterly gobsmacked

Im still utterly traumatised by the r/ship and how it ended. I feel used but keep quiet on stuff

Idk how to communicate in a way that viscerally expresses how I feel about 20yrs in a monog r/ship where I don't think my ex actually loved me, at least not in the way she came to feel about the 'younger model' she met during the lockdowns (yes, when we were together), who killed my cat in a fire

Talk about loneliness epidemic, lol

My Dr says I'm fine, but lord christ in fuck sake
Being in a certain age bracket is not helping 😭

Ha, sorry 🫡

I don't think I qualify as asexual anymore 😅😂 The frustration, honestly

For the love of jeeb, I haven't had sex in years and I think I'm dying, pls, I don't want to do dating apps 😅

Also me googling: do ppl die if they haven't fucked in nearly half a decade 🫴🏻

Vibe in the gaff tonight is Scooter's Friends 😅

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It's been 4 yrs since I ended a 20 year r/ship with my partner & comrade under extremely sad and upsetting circumstances

Life has hit and keeps hitting (80s kids shout!) This is what capitalism and its associated conscious-making does to people

I'm now seriously considering heroin

Police unit in England to monitor online signs of anti-migrant disorder Intelligence team could track social media and flag early signs of civil unrest in response to renewed demonstrations

The Home Office has confirmed the existence of a new "national internet intelligence investigations team" set up to "maximise social media intelligence" on public disorder www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Met a new kid on the block earlier on the way to work

A bruiser kid I think, gonna call it Meebz

No, I'm not going to get obsessed and try to get too connected now I've spotted Meebz on the estate 😅

But look at that one thumper position 😻

Thank you 💝

I miss my beautiful bean so much. She was just going to turn 12 before she was killed.

I haven't been the same since, it's like a deep part of my whole essence has been so unfairly and horrifically taken from me because ppl don't know how to ask for fucking help and stop harming others

One day, I'm going to tell a story about my experiences of the most skillful abuser I've ever met