Dr Carole McCartney 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️

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Professor of Law & Criminal Justice interested in INjustice. Research #forensics #AI science/tech in criminal justice. Also crazy about anti-fascism, atheism, Prince, professional cycling, politics, the news, live comedy and music. #academicsky (1st-gen)

South Park character shouts "you're just showing off"
Letter by Rob Rinder MBE to MPs urging them to reject the removal of juries from lots of trials.
Picture of President Trump. Text states: When asked whether Americans should be worried about retaliatory attacks at home, Trump says "I guess... like I said, some people will die. When you go to war, some people will die".
2 posts - one after other. First is discussing the racist term used by Tourette's suffered John Davidson, the second is about Restore Britain's racist language.
pics of two tubs of zinc cream. One is Sudocream - owned by Israeli company since 2016. Next is Ovelle - made by a family based company in Ireland with its own research and manufacturing facility (who is also great to its employers who include my cousin!)
Comedian Stewart Lee, famous for his monologue on "these days"
Embroidery reading: nobody thought the revolution would start in Minneapolis except Prince
Pretend frame with embroidered letters saying: "nobody thought the revolution would start in Minneapolis...except Prince."
a building site of a garden with a huge trench around the outside.
Picture of Humpty Dumpty from Lewis Carroll's 'Through the Looking Glass' who had exchange with Alice: “When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’ ’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’ ’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.”
Text message saying "dad save my new number".
New book by amazing children's author Lisa Thompson, called The Skeleton Puzzle.
A sign on a plaza saying "you are in the purple zone"
The Scarman Lecture 2025 opening at Leicester University
The plane with bullet-holes that demonstrates 'survivorship bias' (those planes survived - the others ones didn't - unvaccinated children probably die at a higher rate so cannot be studied for later health implications.
picture of a Trojan Horse
a colourful coaster saying :A wise woman once said 'fuck this shit' and she lived happily ever after
A really quite substantial spider for England sat on the end of my toilet paper roll, disabling my ability to use said toilet roll.
Mr Ben - an old children's cartoon in English where a man went to a costume shop each day and dressed up in an outfit and then had an adventure. Much like a lot of the US cabinet are now doing.
front page of Boris Johnson on holiday painting during the Covid pandemic crisis.
the two Americans who pointed guns at protestors on their front lawn.
Picture with label underneath stating "I'm sorry I can't determine specific details about individuals in pictures.
picture with quote "It's always darkest before the dawn" (by Joshua Spacht)
Google map showing walk, with a shop called Happy Endings Ice Cream.
Clip of statement on website: This Nature Research Intelligence Topic is one of 30,000 created with GenAI and the cited refs. We take care to ground generative text with facts, and have systems in place to gain human feedback on the overall quality of the process. We however cannot guarantee the accuracy of every summary and welcome feedback.
The traditional Aboriginal flag, a black horizontal too half with red bottom half with a central yellow circle