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black_flag, 2 days ago to trans

A woman gains nothing when JK Rowling is gratuitously cruel to random trans women on the internet. It doesn’t gain a woman equal pay, opportunities in sport, protection from sexual violence or protection from misogyny. In fact, many women would say their experience of misogyny has increased markedly at the hands of Rowling fanboys. She is hurting real people, people who just want to live their lives in peace in order to claim some hollow victory by destroying all around her.

#trans #lgbtq

black_flag, 4 days ago to random

Cabin in Alaska for rent. Usually peaceful.

black_flag, 5 days ago to trans

If the same people go after trans rights, gay + lesbian rights and women's rights, and if these people are always traditionalists working in the cause of a strictly defined social conservatism, then isn't the problem that a patriarchy wants to control the sexual lives and gender expressions of others, to restrict personal freedoms and to create incarcerating and incarcerated lives?

The fight is between freedom and unfreedom.

#trans #gay #lgbtq #women #queer #lgbtqia #lesbian #nonbinary #pride

FiStitchWitch, 5 days ago to mentalhealth

Okay, its a terrible picture and its not ironed cause its way too hot to iron. The pattern is straight, fabric is just bundled up under it.

#DeathByCrossStitch by #LongDogSamplers. Stitched on white 16ct aida fabric, using approx 370 metres of black DMC thread, 6 needles used. Final stitched area is - 55cm wide and 69cm high.

This was a labour of love, a challenge, a reward to myself, part of my #MentalHealth journey.

Its done now.

#CrossStitch #MentalHealth

@crossstitch

black_flag, 6 days ago to movies

Have lined up a Nicolas Cage Fest for the weekend featuring the following recent films in which he appears:

Color Out of Space
Pig
Prisoners of the Ghostland
Renfield
The Flash
Dream Scenario
Mandy

#movies #film

Nicolas Cage meme. He gets off the bus in Con Air and his mullet blows in the breeze.

MadeyeTheCarnaptious, 7 days ago to random

SUCKERS!

#NatalieElphicke
#Captain_UTurn
#ToryContinuityParty
#LabourInNameOnly

markmccaughrean, 7 days ago to climate

Nothing else matters.

Almost 80% of IPCC climate scientists believe we're heading for 2.5ºC of warming this century; 50% say 3ºC.

These are objectively disastrous numbers.

Over 70% say that lack of political will is to blame; 60% also blame vested corporate interests.

I'd add the demagogues, populists, & their cronies, weaponising denialism for their own short-term selfish gains.

History will judge our generation very harshly.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/08/world-scientists-climate-failure-survey-global-temperature

#ClimateCrisis

black_flag, 7 days ago to politics

Possible new defections to Starmer's Labour Party include Satan, Laurence Fox, anyone who wants to drown migrants in the sea, that batty Headteacher woman, Nigel Farage, the child catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Zippy from Rainbow.

#politics #ukpol #uk

black_flag, 10 days ago to mentalhealth

Physical wounds leave scars for life. So why wouldn't psychological ones too?

#mentalhealth

black_flag, 10 days ago to politics

A certain kind of man who thinks he is an "alpha" or a "lone wolf" should stop digging.

Other men aren't safe with men.
Bears aren't safe with men.
Women aren't safe with men.
The gender divergent aren't safe with men.

The common problem is a kind of man and the culture of that man.

#culture #criticism #politics #men #bear

black_flag, 10 days ago to random

"In the confrontation between the stream and the rock the stream always wins; not through strength but perseverance."

(Buddhist proverb)

Wen, 14 days ago to UKpolitics

Lord David Frost: Scottish Government should be 'policed' more closely

https://www.thenational.scot/news/24290134.lord-david-frost-scottish-government-policed-closely/

This will be the eejit ‘negotiator’ who conspired to ensure that Scottish farmers and small businesses will be driven out of business by our inability to trade without tarrifs with Europe.
Of course he will not be calling for more hard policing of Westminster, where MPs steal from the public purse and shovel cash to their cronies/party donors.

#ScottishIndependence #ToryCorruption #Frost #UkPolitics

black_flag, 14 days ago to random

Beltane.

Were we all pagans we'd be in the forest wearing masks having sex with each other.

And, really, wouldn't that be better than whatever shit this is?

#Beltane

black_flag, 22 days ago to politics

How appropriate that today should be St George's Day, a day for idiots to post AI images of bulldogs, lions, Spitfires and knights templar and call this "Englishness", the Angles, from which the word "English" derives, being a Germanic tribe of migrants.

Today they would be illegally sent to Rwanda by a violent government of abject psychopaths led by a man of Indian descent whose own parents migrated to Britain from East Africa.

You couldn't make this shit up, could you?

#England #politics

black_flag, 24 days ago to random

"And I find it kind of funny
I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I'm dying
Are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you, 'cause I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It's a very, very,,,"

(Tears for Fears)

black_flag, 25 days ago to politics

“The only way in which a state of
social freedom can be obtained is for each person who is oppressed to act as if they were at liberty, in defiance of all authority to the contrary, and evading or overcoming by force all force by which they are opposed or pursued. The liberty of each is created by their taking it.”

(Peter Kropotkin - altered by me for inclusive language)

#politics

black_flag, 29 days ago to random

When @mrscherryb appears on the timeline...

video/mp4

fkamiah17, 1 month ago to UKpolitics

Someone doesn't want to go back to the shed 🙄 😡

GPLB: "David Cameron claims Tories deserve to win election and says recovery for party not impossible"

I'm afraid we can't do that, Dave.

#UKPolitics #Tories

black_flag, 1 month ago to politics

How is thinking the world would go much better if everyone were motivated by personal greed working out?

#politics #economics

black_flag, 1 month ago to trans

Fleeing is an entirely reasonable and natural response to being targeted and put in danger (either by war or political violence against you as with some trans people in the USA).

What we need is to help people do it more and organise ways people can move safely and with support. This probably means all of us stepping up as and when we can.

We either help each other or we leave each other without help. There's no in-between.

#trans #lgbtq #nonbinary #lgbtqia #queer

black_flag, 1 month ago to trans

The UK's Transgender Action Block with their to the point statement on the recently published and despicable Cass Report.

More of this please and less handing over of yourselves to others. Take don't beg.

#trans #lgbtq #lgbtqia #nonbinary

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black_flag, 1 month ago to trans

"Cisgender-Heteronormativity isn't natural. It's just common. We're deconstructing, rewilding, denaturalising the oppressive structures we face and making room for diversity to flourish and blossom.

Genuinely beautiful."

(Mallory Moore)

#trans #lgbtq #lgbtqia #nonbinary #queer #gay #lesbian