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She/They Hobbies include books, history, video games, writing and a bit of witchcraft. Am rather fond of cafés, forests, libraries and ruins. Let's try to make things better for a change. PFP by Art of Jexion.
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I'm no political strategist but "our candidate lost because by doing [thing they never did]" does not seem like a winning formula if the goal is to learn from the mistakes of the previous candidate.

submitted 11 hours ago • 15 comments

The Free Speechers are at it again. "When i say trans women are men, that's free speech. When Paris Lees says trans women are women that's an affront to the moral integrity of the nation that should be censored"

submitted 15 hours ago • 4 comments

I can’t help but notice that every single time an LGBTQ+ person is killed in a high-profile hate crime, masses of people immediately rush in to explain why it could not possibly have been a hate crime, actually.

submitted 15 hours ago • 36 comments

I am seriously considering getting a tattoo of the Golgari Swarm's symbol. The swarm's eco/necro-anarchist nature speaks to my heart, and I positively adore overgrown ruins. The question is which one. The original has clearer symbology, but the modern one is far more stylish.

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

Where Rowling's wealth goes to; she could feed and educate children, house the homeless, rehabilitate people with drug problems, but nooo... It had to be the [masturbation = terrorism] lady. The upper class is not healthy.

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

I talk about this all the time and people think it's just a fake idea I made up in my head to scare people with, actually. We trans women discuss it frequently! It's kind of a point of contention, because other trans women say "There's no way people actually think that," but I maintain it is real

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

“I asked Chat GPT…” dude, just get a tarot deck.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Jonathan Joss’ murder is not the news it should be. Happy pride, I guess. It hurts that he wasn’t invited on a king of hill panel and stood up anyway to speak, informing the show runners and the audience that he was in big trouble (the very situation that killed him.) Days later, dead. Just sayin.

submitted 1 day ago • 39 comments

We won! Am thrilled to say that the High Court has refused EHRC's Landlord's application for an injunction against protestors outside the EHRC's offices. Reasons to follow later.

submitted 1 day ago • 51 comments

"Most of the victims were children"

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

When discourse is confined to a single “moral” and “legitimate” position, and anyone who disagrees is labeled as engaging in “ideological dictatorship” or “tyranny”,the truth is stolen from those who live it. I speak from the heart of genocide in Gaza: these accusations are nothing but

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

It is rather macabre that the question "Who is John Galt?" has the answer- William Hickman. John Galt is William Hickman, the horrific child slayer.

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

So… Abrego Garcia… still down there huh?

submitted 23 hours ago • 151 comments

Video title: "What's wrong with the Labour Theory of Value" Oh? Channel: "Ayn Rand Institute" Aaaaah... Of course. The famous economist Ayn Rand, who was definitely sane.

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

Alas, that would require them to have ethics, and not just donors.

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

I hate to keep warning science about the dangers of an ursine cloning machine, but it does bear repeating.

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

This post roars from the depths of my mind anytime I see bioshock infinite get mentioned

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

[THE LAST EMPEROR OF WHATEVER DYNASTY]: "Fuckin... who gives a shit about crops or, like, making them grow better? No one wants to waste money on that shit... bring on the Kama Sutra girls!" <distant cannon reports from beyond the passes>

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

"Thou shall not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind." I do not even agree with the commandment, but people keep insist on exporting their own agency to machines. Unthinking machines owned by the worst of humanity.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

The older I get the more I feel sad looking at the world, realizing there's enough for everyone, and that there are people who can't stand the idea of not having more than other people and will work like hell to prevent that from ever happening.

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

“Ireland is full” there are still less people living on the entire island now than there was 180 years ago before the Great Famine

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments