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It's Rowling's birthday so I've just donated £25 to Mermaids to support trans kids.

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1. Racism and travellers in the UK: (tags:UK racism )

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1. Trump Still Polling Well With Working-Class American Pedophiles: (tags:USA politics satire )
2. The case for memes as a new form of comics: (tags:meme comics )
3. 29 years ago today, 4 Liverpool women were acquitted after damaging fighter jet to stop genocide: (tags:UK history military protests genocide )

andrewducker

Two days ago Sophia told us her thoughts about death. She had clearly thought about it a lot, worked through various things, and come to some interesting conclusions.

Unfortunately she told us all of this in front of Gideon, who has now spent two days bursting into tears intermittently and telling us he doesn't want to die.

I'm sure he'll also work through it, but in the meantime it's hard not to feel sorry for him. I suspect that starting school in two weeks and being away from home for a week aren't helping, as he's also intermittently telling us he wants to be back home.

andrewducker

I'm possibly being dim here, but I can't see what "Recognising Palestine" does for the current humanitarian apocalypse.

(I'm not against it, but the government seem to be presenting it as somehow connected and I feel like I'm missing something.)

andrewducker

It's raining outside and Sophia was looking bored so I suggested she have a dance party

At which point she grabbed her cousin and they've spent the last half an hour decorating the dancefloor and designing tickets.

No dancing has yet occurred.

andrewducker

We've gone on holiday on purpose!

(Us, my brothers, our families, my parents, and their dogs. Seven adults and five kids altogether. Staying in a rented house half an hour out of Southampton for a week.)
Original is here on Pixelfed.scot.

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The invader has been captured!
Original is here on Pixelfed.scot.

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1. Tom Lehrer Dead: Influential Musical Satirist of '50s and '60s Was 97: (tags:music history comedy obituary )
2. The farce of the Online Safety Act. YouGov tweets are now being censored: (tags:censorship identity children UK )

ailbhe

I'm partway through book 3 and I just want to note that Hippocampi is a terrible, terrible, terrible pun.

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1. In less than two decades, Earth has tilted 31.5 inches as a result of pumping groundwater: (tags:water earth )
2. Svalbard winter warming is reaching melting point: (tags:globalwarming doom winter Norway )
3. Europe as a template for modern fantasy: (tags:Europe fantasy history )

dancefloorlandmine

Having been required through force of circumstances to find a new venue and, as a result of Whitby's shortage of venues, a new day, too, Kat, Jaye, and I were running the night on a Monday for the first time. And also on the other side of the river for the first time, in the welcoming embrace of the Friendship Amateur Rowing Club (one of Whitby's two ARCs, which are confusingly close to each other). Some way up the cobbles of Church Street, and through a subtle doorway. A combination of April, Monday, and the new venue conspired to result in lower numbers, but those there seemed to have a good time.

The playlist is below ...

( The 80s Night (1900-2300) )

Next event is Monday 3rd November, again at the Friendship ARC on Church Street.

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Nice day to walk in to work.
Original is here on Pixelfed.scot.

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Talked to Sophia about Wicked. Apparently she kinda enjoyed it, but isn't a fan of revisionism and prefers The Wizard of Oz.

"The good people should stay good and the bad people should stay bad."

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1. Labour has brought back Section 28, here's how it will harm children: (tags:children education Labour OhForFucksSake bigotry transgender UK )
2. The Louder the Monkey, the Smaller Its Balls, Study Finds: (tags:monkeys genitals science )
3. Labour ministers lying about Scottish water quality to make it look like privatisation isn't the problem: (tags:Scotland UK England Labour lies water privatisation )
4. French Press Association journalists in Gaza are starving to death: (tags:Israel gaza Palestine OhForFucksSake journalism food )
5. metabolite produced by gut bacteria is a driver of atherosclerosis, the disease behind most heart attacks and strokes.: (tags:heart disease microbiome )
6. Why Facts Don't Change Minds in the Culture Wars—Structure Does: (tags:belief discussion communication )
7. The US is erasing women from the top ranks of the military: (tags:usa military misogyny OhForFucksSake )
8. Why you can't color calibrate (deep) space photos: (tags:space colour photography )
9. Countries across the world see food price shocks from climate extremes: (tags:food prices doom globalwarming )
10. If somebody is doing a good thing, and you try to force them to do a different, better thing, they usually end up doing neither: (tags:communication management organisation )
11. Whites-only communities are spreading in the USA: (tags:USA racism )

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