Trans activists smoke bomb protest the metro

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Jim Waterson
@jimwaterson
Trans activists have set off smoke bombs outside the entrance to Northcliffe House, HQ of the Daily Mail/Metro/Independent. Unclear if they're protesting against the Mail - or the Metro taking the advert last week - but staff leaving by side entrance.

Consensus seems to be they're protesting against The Metro, which took an anti-trans ad last week. Unfortunately Metro print edition staff don't work Fridays. (The entirely separate Metro website has also had some trouble over the sister paper taking the ad, apparently.)

It shows what bullies they are.
Scare and intimidate people into doing as they are told.

Just came across this article from 2015 about sisters uncut targeting northcliffe house. ...
www.newstatesman.com/politics/staggers/2015/08/burning-daily-mail-sisters-uncut

"The Sisters' signature smoke bombs"

Another clip I saw they were playing Road Rage by catatonia. They can't have that either. But I think we get it. They're vewy vewy angwy.

Quick poll - far right, extremist, hate group, radicalisation portal-building vipers that we are.

Would any of us go so far as to deliberately burn a bit of toast if we thought the smoke would create fear and alarm in others?

Oh I dunno. On my thread about suffragists, suffragettes and violence, some people were adamant they would have been -ettes rather than -ists.

I would never deliberately burn toast -that smell really lingers.

No. I abhor toast burning. So wasteful.

Sisters Uncut excluded women who don't believe in the mantra 'transwomen are women' from their beginning. So not so much with the 'sisters' really.

Isn't there a Goldsmiths connection or have I remembered that wrong?

Just LOL at people on twitter now desperately screaming about how these were 'safety flares' not smoke bombs

If they mean emergency flares they burn as hot as 1,600 °C. There’s nothing safe about them.

That’s above the melting point of steel.

Apart from mn im not on socisl media, but im not seeing any reporting of this. I hate to be cynical (or naive) but did it really happen? I would have thought if it did the news would have reported it.

Women just want our own women's spaces, because of our women's biology, and our safety. dignity and privacy. And we certainly don't want to be always supervised by men wherever we go.

Blimey, went off at a tangent there!

Yes, why is this not being reported? Smoke bombs are not harmless.

Well that's a hoot innit?
Safety flares?
Are they on the Titanic?

Ok, so I did a little research on the ingredients of common smoke bombs / coloured flares that are available to buy in the UK - that these idiots could have used. (I know... I have no life).

Two things struck me:

1. Both contain Potassium Nitrate, which is hazardous both in skin contact and inhilation - note sections 3 and 4.
   www.sciencelab.com/msds.php?msdsId=9927232

2. Also the general consensus from pretty much all major distributors of said items is that a safety distance from object / smoke should be a minimum of 0.5 meters.

Unless this was a "home cooked" device - they can be purchased very cheaply for around £5 a piece from pyrotechnic / fireworks companies.

So excluding the fact these are pyrotechnic devices and have the potential / capacity to "explode" - the smoke they give off in a confined space IS potentially hazardous .

I feel so stupid and anyone in that office who felt scared should feel dumb as a box of rocks, apparently they were flares to create "a mood" and apparently the whole thing was "super chill"

Potassium nitrate is the oxidising ingredient of gun powder. Flares also require some kind of fuel to burn, such as sulphur, which is also an ingredient in gun powder. If you can make a flare you can make a bomb.

These were probably bought commercially though, rather than made

Threatening behaviour by men. Well well, what a surprise.

Men are not women, fact.

A couple of bored cops show for smoke bombing protesters.

Yet 4 officers, one on fucking horseback come for women handing ut leaflets.

Why am I still surprised by this

They haven't thought this through have they. Reacting like men with their violence shows their very non ladylike true colours and alienating the DM at the same time really isn't the way to go. Women do not behave like this. I predict a riot it won't be long before they will all self combust in a cloud of mananger and smoke. We don't need to do anything to stop this sillyness they are doing a great job all by themselves.

I’m surprised there was so little reaction. Given the authorities are always on high alert for tertorust activities, I’d have expected these fools to be hauled off in handcuffs.

Given London’s tragic history of bombs, just the fear this inane stunt must have evoked should have been cause for legal repercussions.

Had the bad-wigged lot been black or Muslim men, I’m sure the authorities would have responded with real force.

bluetitsaretits

That is an excellent song.
NO! They don't get to have that song.
Just NO!

Is nothing sacred?!
(I know that the answer is no sigh )