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August 24, 2022
I need some DU love
Deeply in my threat system cause we know a 2nd year anniversary is coming up. I was taking time off this week for self care and a government agency has decided to do an audit. I am fragile and battling. I had to cancel my holiday, and they are on me, over every thing. I am so anxious. Might you help me? Just some virtual hugs seems like a plan if you have the time.
August 21, 2022
Only a couple of minutes audio and worth listening too, a really great, if not also deeply depressing summarionJust when you think they cannot get any worse they just do. Again and again. Rinse and repeat. Disdain for the people they are supposed to serve with a massive dollop of abject incompetency to boot. And here we are - and this is before the mendacious, vacuous nasty piece of 💩 Liz Truss gets her grubby far right libertarian claws on number ten. Things are only going to get worse from here on in. Most people are not that politically engaged and have not yet realised just how bad it is going to get. JAMs will take to the streets when they realise they cannot heat and eat for their kids this winter. Shit will go down. Winter of discontent indeed.
#TurdReich is trending on UK twitter this morning, because it is that awful here
https://twitter.com/implausibleblog/status/1560978358791446529 Matt Frei sums up life under Boris Johnson and Brexit. It's not pretty. 🫤
Only a couple of minutes audio and worth listening too, a really great, if not also deeply depressing summarionJust when you think they cannot get any worse they just do. Again and again. Rinse and repeat. Disdain for the people they are supposed to serve with a massive dollop of abject incompetency to boot. And here we are - and this is before the mendacious, vacuous nasty piece of 💩 Liz Truss gets her grubby far right libertarian claws on number ten. Things are only going to get worse from here on in. Most people are not that politically engaged and have not yet realised just how bad it is going to get. JAMs will take to the streets when they realise they cannot heat and eat for their kids this winter. Shit will go down. Winter of discontent indeed.
August 20, 2022
Oh my days. Ladies and gentleman the master race according to the cult of trump. Heh
There are no words for this level of special
https://twitter.com/KySportsRadio/status/1560664959448518657The Kentucky State Fair had this pleasant fellow wandering around
Oh my days. Ladies and gentleman the master race according to the cult of trump. Heh
August 14, 2022
"I love the poorly educated." Trump in 2016. You don't say... the stupid it burns. But hey maybe the FBI is a shoe?!?!... and all purpose PVC shoe in point of fact! #lockhimup!
Your Sunday philosophy question. The FBI is "As Shoe". Discuss.
"I love the poorly educated." Trump in 2016. You don't say... the stupid it burns. But hey maybe the FBI is a shoe?!?!... and all purpose PVC shoe in point of fact! #lockhimup!
August 13, 2022
On the first anniversary of the fall of Afghanistan - women again have to veil up to leave the house...
The girls are yet again being restricted and punished for the sin of having a vagina... Save the Children released a report the other day that found:
97% of families are struggling to provide enough food for their children, and that girls are eating less than boys.
Almost 80% of children said they had gone to bed hungry in the past 30 days. Girls were almost twice as likely as boys to frequently go to bed hungry.
Nine in 10 girls said their meals had reduced in the past year and that they worry because they’re losing weight and have no energy to study, play and work.
More than 45% of girls said they’re not attending school – compared with 20% of boys – listing economic challenges, the Taliban’s ban on girls attending secondary school classes as well as community attitudes as the key barriers preventing them from accessing education.
https://www.savethechildren.net/news/one-year-under-taliban-rule-girls-are-more-isolated-hungry-sad-new-report
Emphasis mine
The Absence Of Women (again, again), and it breaks my heart. Women silenced, girls uneducated, girls going hungry to feed the boys. We knew it would happen, it was inevitable and predictable. Public executions and male escorts stat. *sigh*
Back to middle ages (again, again)
On the first anniversary of the fall of Afghanistan - women again have to veil up to leave the house...
The girls are yet again being restricted and punished for the sin of having a vagina... Save the Children released a report the other day that found:
97% of families are struggling to provide enough food for their children, and that girls are eating less than boys.
Almost 80% of children said they had gone to bed hungry in the past 30 days. Girls were almost twice as likely as boys to frequently go to bed hungry.
Nine in 10 girls said their meals had reduced in the past year and that they worry because they’re losing weight and have no energy to study, play and work.
More than 45% of girls said they’re not attending school – compared with 20% of boys – listing economic challenges, the Taliban’s ban on girls attending secondary school classes as well as community attitudes as the key barriers preventing them from accessing education.
https://www.savethechildren.net/news/one-year-under-taliban-rule-girls-are-more-isolated-hungry-sad-new-report
Emphasis mine
The Absence Of Women (again, again), and it breaks my heart. Women silenced, girls uneducated, girls going hungry to feed the boys. We knew it would happen, it was inevitable and predictable. Public executions and male escorts stat. *sigh*
August 7, 2022
Literally the death panel of America in so many ways. How anyone can vote for them is beyond beyond.
Vote them all out.
https://twitter.com/QasimRashid/status/1556339481891987457Today 43 Republicans voted to keep insulin at $1200/mo instead of $35. Tomorrow every Republican will ask you to be outraged that gas is $5 instead of $3.
In the GOP world, $1200 for life saving insulin in fair play but $5 for gas is an outrage.
Vote them all out.
In the GOP world, $1200 for life saving insulin in fair play but $5 for gas is an outrage.
Vote them all out.
Literally the death panel of America in so many ways. How anyone can vote for them is beyond beyond.
August 7, 2022
Just when you think they can't sink any lower... they prove that they can indeed be even more wretched that we knew them to be. Rotten to the absolute core.
What is WRONG with these people?
Just when you think they can't sink any lower... they prove that they can indeed be even more wretched that we knew them to be. Rotten to the absolute core.
August 7, 2022
[link:https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2022/aug/06/rishi-sunak-and-liz-truss-tory-headless-chickens-cartoon|]
Headline comes from the comment section - @Mikeg1958 - Far toooooooooo good not to repeat!
On a serious note though - how the hell can we survive another month of this. As Gordon Brown said in the Guardian yesterday we are facing a humanitarian crisis and need emergency measures stat for the most at risk households in the cost of living crisis. We know the households already living on or below the poverty line tend not to earn enough to pay income tax. So - these rotten far right economic plans for tax cuts are targeted away from the most vulnerable - because the cruelty and utter lack of care is the point with this lot. And of course as inflation soars those most in need still get to contribute to the taxes incurred in the production and distribution of day to day necessities. As communities we need to pull together because we cannot rely on this shower for ANYTHING...
No.10; two headless chickens vying to replace a useless cock.
[link:https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2022/aug/06/rishi-sunak-and-liz-truss-tory-headless-chickens-cartoon|]
Headline comes from the comment section - @Mikeg1958 - Far toooooooooo good not to repeat!
On a serious note though - how the hell can we survive another month of this. As Gordon Brown said in the Guardian yesterday we are facing a humanitarian crisis and need emergency measures stat for the most at risk households in the cost of living crisis. We know the households already living on or below the poverty line tend not to earn enough to pay income tax. So - these rotten far right economic plans for tax cuts are targeted away from the most vulnerable - because the cruelty and utter lack of care is the point with this lot. And of course as inflation soars those most in need still get to contribute to the taxes incurred in the production and distribution of day to day necessities. As communities we need to pull together because we cannot rely on this shower for ANYTHING...
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