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Really looking forward to seeing this:

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Also: anger vs. emotional withdrawal can be a tool for coercive control perpetrators. You may not even recognise the behaviour as coercive if they never outright say "if you don't do X..." but it amplifies the power imbalance when someone is alternately explosive and cold in that vulnerable context.

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Are you autistic & trans, enby, intersex, autigender, or another non cis person? come join our free monthly discussion & support group on march 19 www.theautisticcoach.com/autism-discu...

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Some extremely good mythbusting here, with sources cited.

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One of the depressing things about literary culture in Britain is that it has always lionised a colossal number of bigoted pricks. And don't even get me started on the publishing industry's idea of solving inequalities generally, but Britain just loves to worship people who think like these guys:

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Stephen Fry has added his name to a letter sent to govt ministers complaining "that literary freedom is being eroded by their failure to stand up to cancel culture on university campuses." Others who have signed include: Ian McEwan, Lady Antonia Fraser, Lionel Shriver & AC Grayling. [Times]

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Stephen Fry is certainly having a week...

submitted 66 days ago • 10 comments

Bingo. It's the people who think equality has gone far enough when they personally are comfortable, and get very suspicious when it threatens to uplift people who have no choice but to shout about their rights because otherwise people don't listen.

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As I said a week or two ago, he's fully on board the train now, last stop Terf Town, no return.

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POLITICAL CHOICES OF A SO CALLED LABOUR GOVERNMENT… Refuse to rejoin the SM & CU and reduce the cost of living. Refuse to end tax threshold freeze Refuse to tax wealth Refuse to repeal Tory protest laws Refuse to build social housing Refuse to end neoliberal austerity ‘Labour’ in name only!

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No one even believes that opt-out is intended to work. It is just a convenient fig leaf that allows the thieves to pretend that they care while ignoring everyone’s opt-out requests.

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Welfare isn't a treat, it's there so everyone can meet their basic needs; we've already stripped it back so far that's not really true, especially for people with complex disabilities. Politicians need to stop testing it like a raidable piggy bank.

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Forged from stars, in fire’s glow, Cosmic whispers softly flow. Silent watcher, wise and true, Made of stardust, just like you. The Owl of the Cosmos whispers of our origins, guiding us to embrace the wisdom within and soar toward the infinite mysteries of the universe. #space #art #stars

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Exactly. And this is why the left needs to be listening to disabled perspectives: people find it baffling and blame Musk's drug use when he utilises very standard techniques against his staff that are daily used against us. You can really tell how little attention people pay to structural ableism.

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TORY ‘CONSCIOUS CRUELTY’ IS BEING PERPETUATED BY LABOUR! How could Stephen Timms, Minister for Social Security and Disability, agree to a £3bn cut in disability benefits? TIMMS SHOULD HAVE RESIGNED Labour say they’re short of money but refuse to tax the undertaxed wealthy! LABOUR IN NAME ONLY!

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No amount of woke scolding from the most annoying people imaginable has ever made me consider abandoning my core principle of seeing all people as equal human beings

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People said that sort of thing about email, and look at us now...

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The "feminism" in Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminism functions the same way as the "socialism" in National Socialism. It's there to convince you that they're addressing material issues of an oppressed class, when they're actually just exploiting said class to hurt others.

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Launched today, our Annual Review 2025 provides stark evidence that we are entering a new era in which governments are using anti-LGBTI rhetoric to justify restrictions on free speech, civil society, and fair elections 👉 www.ilga-europe.org/press-releas...

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If you’re a person who has spent a lot of their life in survival mode, it’s likely you need the reminder: You don’t owe people near what you think you do.

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Just attacking Labour over puberty blockers is really missing the mark tbh. Yes, they've been bad there. However: - planning to ban us from SSS - sports ban - presiding over GPs no longer providing HRT - No fixing of GICs - Cabinet full of GCs - Agreeing with the media against us - betraying GRR

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Blue sunsets, red hues and earthy landscapes, Mars echoes through place and time. This raku pottery vase, 'Mars Echo' invites you to hold the beauty of a world beyond our own. #space #sciart #mars #pottery #astronomy

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I used to do this before COVID (more like three to four hours, but then this is a much smaller city) and I have slowly tried to reinstate it. I particularly enjoy the "I/a friend have a small errand so we dander along in the same direction" variant; you find out where they get their cool shirts.

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We have this conspiracy of silence around grief, so people think they're not normal. I often think of that CS Lewis line: "No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear." We imagine that by middle age one gets used to it, when actually we just get shamed into replying the expected platitutdes.

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Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay “They think they want good government and justice for all, Vimes, yet what is it they really crave, deep in their hearts? Only that things go on as normal and tomorrow is pretty much like today.”

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The reply email inbox for this “what did you do last week” email is [email protected], so, you know, definitely don’t send them any unrelated messages that would interfere with their ability to carry out Elon’s dumbass bullshit

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Discworld QOTD, from Raising Steam “The aristocrats, if such they could be called, generally hated the whole concept of the train on the basis that it would encourage the lower classes to move about and not always be available.”

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It’s not too late to start masking again, and it’s not an all or nothing thing. Maybe you just start masking at the grocery store. That’s something. Your disabled comrades thank you! Your body will thank you too!

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If this isn't a Chappell Roan song, it will be.

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"listen up, you piece of shit" - seven clunky syllables - disrespectful - sets a weird tone "hark, shitpiece" - three sleek syllables - salutation-flavoured - calls listener in to the community of shitpieces

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The UK is forcing Apple to weaken encryption. Such demands have no precedent in democratic countries and would have far-reaching consequences not only for UK residents but for Internet users worldwide, write TechFreedom’s Berin Szóka and Santana Boulton. www.techpolicy.press/uk-encryptio...

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So many British journalists are just pathetically servile when it comes to the political right.

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