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I believe Bernard Sanders spoke about this

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this is the first i've heard that Peterborough is the worst city in the UK tho

seems kind of harsh its not THAT bad

have to say tho im sitting here trying to think what the worst city in the UK is and struggling to come up with an answer

#maybe swindon

maybe swindon yeah

ok lets settle this. im including all cities that got at least 2 votes in the notes + Peterborough and am including non-cities. no nuance gotta pick one of the nominees.

One of my favourite maps is the Valeriepieris circle which is a circle in the south china sea that includes more than half of the world's population

As of 2015, half of the world's population lived within a 3,300-kilometer (2,050 mi) radius of the city of Mong Khet in Myanmar.

[ID: an image of a globe with a red circle on it encircling india, most of china, and southeast asia and some of indonesia. /end ID]

when we have the world meetup con we gotta do it in Mong Khet, Myanmar for ultimate convenience

Pretty-faced wallaby By: Unknown photographer From: The Grolier Illustrated Encyclopedia of Animals 1994

certainly that can't be the species n-

huh. it IS the species name. lucky.

(Quds) At Microsoft’s 50th anniversary celebration, Ibtehal AbuSaad — a Palestinian employee — interrupted the event in a powerful protest against the company’s complicity in the Israeli genocide unfolding in Gaza.

Facing Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman, AbuSaad didn’t hold back: “Shame on you,” she said firmly. “You are a war profiteer. Stop using AI for genocide.”

Her voice cut through the celebration as she condemned Microsoft’s role in enabling Israeli occupation forces through artificial intelligence technology.

“You have blood on your hands. All of Microsoft has blood on its hands. How dare you all celebrate while Microsoft is helping kill Palestinian children?”

Her act of courage joins a growing wave of tech workers and global voices calling out Western complicity in Israel’s ongoing atrocities in Gaza, where tens of thousands of Palestinians — the majority of them women and children — have been slaughtered under a brutal siege.

Daily reminder: Transphobia actively contributes to sexism. If you don’t fit the beauty standard and are seen as masculine in any way shape or form, you are seen as transgender and as a “problem”

I think it's incredibly important here to not overlook the fact that she is a Black woman. Transphobia, racism, and sexism overlap significantly because of the incredibly eurocentric beauty standards women are judged on.

Funniest fandoms are where the fans are like, "I'm obsessed with this. I don't recommend it even slightly."

Putting a penis pump on my finger so my finger gets bigger so I can touch things better

I get so pissed whenever a terf accuses me of "escaping" womanhood, because I *love* womanhood, I just don't love it for *me*

If I had such an antagonistic relationship with femininity, I would not be as happy as I am today.

If I fucking hated womanhood so much, I wouldn't find women among those who inspire me, much less among my circle of friends.

If I hated womanhood so much to "escape" it, I'd seek to punish it, yet transgender self-determination and bodily autonomy lift all boats to resist this patriarchal hellhole we currently find ourselves in.

word. I still sing in an explicitly feminist treble chorus (which I sang in before transition) even though I am a literal baritone, and a great deal of that is *because* I love women and womanhood and femininity and I want to uplift women's (literal) voices. i may be a trans man singing with a bunch of (mostly) cis (mostly) women, but where we will always overlap is bodily autonomy and the need for self-determination and we will always support each other in that

One of the things I used to do when I lived on the East Coast and went to this one small convention was run Gender Experimentation & Affirmation Hour. All the femmes and former femmes would turn up with makeup and nail polish and all kinds of stuff and we'd sit there for about 3 hours, helping out anybody who wanted our help, and sometimes just leaving someone alone so they could pick up six bottles of nail polish and look at them for a while before setting them down and walking out, because today isn't the right day for them to do that. We had cis guys trying on makeup as well as trans women getting advice or putting on their first full beat.

And that little silly thing that I did for three hours once or twice a year brought me so much joy. It felt so good to use these skills that I picked up while I was cosplaying as a woman to make someone else feel good.

And no, makeup isn't gender, but it can be a fun way to affirm gender. I love seeing people loving being a woman. I didn't, but I'm glad they do.

Or to put it more concisely: I grew up eating pork. I am now Jewish. I no longer eat pork. Does this mean I hate people who eat pork or hating that i once ate pork? No! It just means I don't eat it anymore because I no longer want to for reasons which are my own.

TL;DR people with OCD do infact hyperanalyze every single thing we do or say or think to avoid being bad people, because being a bad person is literally our nightmare and we were born believing we're monsters and must spend our lives repenting for the crime of existing. Don't make it worse by telling someone that openly enjoying a hugely popular genre of art makes them suspicious and will stop them from making friends or being treated kindly unless they constantly repent in the form of saying they don't hate marginalized people. This shit is a nightmare for us, and again, you are hurting marginalized people in your quest to save them and that's really frustrating from the other side. If you care about people in your communities who have OCD you should be cognizant of what might make your spaces incredibly hostile for us. I already have my OCD telling me I'm a disgusting awful person who doesn't deserve to be treated like a human because I'll hurt everyone I love by accident, I don't need real people telling me they think my mental illness is right.

Also I want to make it clear, the main focus for treatment of OCD is not feeding the fear. We have to learn how to not obsess over our fears or soothe with our rituals because the more we indulge the worse they get. The idea is to learn to live with these horrible thoughts by refusing them space in your mind, it's essentially exposure therapy, you want it to eventually stop bothering you when you think about it. For me this means I have to trust when food I opened like two days ago isn't bad and not obsessively smell it and check the expiration date or spend hours googling how long an opened bag of shredded cheese is good for, or not getting up and pacing my house 2-3 times a night because I heard a weird noise and am convinced someone is trying to break in and kill me.

When you tell people that liking a certain thing or not being able to perform goodness to your standard you are feeding the fear, you are actively sabotaging your mentally ill friends' ability to learn to manage their illness by telling them their obsessions about being a bad person are true and they need to compulsively apologize with both words and actions to make it clear they aren't evil. You are reinforcing the OCD, making it harder and harder for those of us with it to take care of ourselves and heal. It's okay if you didn't know, that's why I'm making this post, but I really would love to see this kind of behavior fall out of fashion as soon as possible, so talk to your friends with OCD and figure out how you can support them. Because we really need it, and people with OCD deserve to be treated better.