Ana Mendieta should be a mere 77 years old today. The Cuban American feminist artist was likely murdered by her husband at 36, in 1985. May her memory and work be for a revolution. ❤️‍🔥

No, I'd say it's racists and those pandering to them.

politicians KNOW that immigration laws like those being proposed don't work. they are generally worse for the countries proposing them. they increase, not decrease, illegal migration (bc the number of legal migrants falls but the overall numbers don't change significantly). but they keep doing it.

why is this making me teary?

I am now so old that I've started using my "personal massager" as a personal massager 😐

I love nick mohammed and david olusoga but my god what was that

It’s 6 November, and you know what that means, don’t you? YES, THAT’S RIGHT. It’s the 156th anniversary of the death of Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s pet wombat

the rhino is cool & all, but the moretta! one of my favourite historical accessories due to how silly it is

madhur jaffrey must be so proud

As a single woman without kids, I am always caught out when trick or treaters knock on my door. “No, I don’t have any sweets to give you. Can I interest you in some Brie?”

one of my colleagues is a former UKIP candidate and I know people can change etc etc but maybe he's just a cunt

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

There’s no such thing as the “genuinely disabled” Disability is dynamic Some disabilities are invisible. Some change day to day You won’t always know a person is disabled unless they tell you It’s a minority group you can join at any time, not a moral failing.

one really cool thing is that [redacted] council are spending any and all money earmarked for various projects in the area to make sure that it's spent as they want bc every single council seat is up for election in 2026 and they're convinced it will be a reform council :) so that's nice :)

"leftwing" people who hate taxes should be punted deep underground, you are a waste of space without a single iota of exaggeration

one thing I find so frustrating about enshittification is that the offline world has got shittier too in response. so many classes, shops, projects etc. have closed as a result of the internet and now it's harder to learn new things, buy things ethically, find community etc. than it ever was.

Parents, please check your kids’ candy this Halloween. I’ve just found an ancient metal whistle with the inscription “QUIS EST ISTE QUI VENIT" inside a Snickers bar. I blew it and heard a note of infinite distance, and now I’m haunted by a figure in pale, fluttering draperies. Be safe.

another one: sharing videos online of 'exotic' animals - especially outside of their natural habitat - contributes to poaching and the illegal pet trade. consider your audience, the content of the video and why you want to share it.

if you care about ethics when it comes to the production of your food but you do coke, you're a massive hypocrite.

You can't logic your way out of being burnt out. Unless you're me. Who should be able to do it and it's a personal failing that I can't

gene kelly is antifa

I want us to bring back the owl

finally, years after escaping a (partly financially) abusive relationship, the last bit of bad credit has been wiped from my credit score and it is now 'good'.

serious question - isn't ancient egyptian written only in consonants? how do we know the word if it couldn't be written?

Slut summer is almost over, must prepare for brambly hedge autumn

an ex of mine honestly believed that we'd have a perfect society if we killed everyone once they reached seventy

today would be a perfect day to have a hot buttered ale

I think my favourite accent/voice in the world is 'Pakistani woman in her 40s who has spent most of her life in West Yorkshire' bc it always reminds me of dinner ladies and classroom assistants, mums of classmates, women running the bake sales etc. makes me feel nine years old.

imagine giving a shit what colour the kids in your area are

on a totally different note, a lad doing maintenance in the office where I'm working today just complimented me on my very clean air conditioning unit - 'if only they were all like that'. I didn't have the heart to tell him I'm only here once a week.

so next week - *next week!!!* - King Charles (whose brother, Andrew, was a close associate of Epstein) is hosting a state dinner for Trump (a close associate of Epstein): their relationship is mediated through the UK ambassador to the US, Peter Mandelson (a close associate of Epstein). ok. cool.

I don't give a shit about charlie kirk, maru the cat has died!!!! flags should be at half past for him 😔

we live on a floating rock and we have the most ridiculously complicated rules to say whereabouts on the rock people are allowed to go

I'm doing immigration training today and there needs to be an entire degree for just understanding how to navigate the immigration rules. why is it so hard to find what you need? gov.uk as a website is terrible.

it's grim that I'm feeling nostalgic for the days of robert kilroy-silk

no cheating, last photo of your pet

Profoundly ill society.

Everything else aside the England flag is ugly as fuck and I shouldn't have to look at it ever.

I've been thinking lately about how non-white men are often portrayed as bestial brutes who are unable to control their appetites and therefore innately a risk to (white British) women and children who need to be protected by the noble white men. Racists are rape fantasists, at the end of the day.

the guy who was having a tinny on the bus at 7.30am is probably having a better wednesday than me

every “ancient tradition” was invented between 1848-1870 and every “modern perversion” is so ancient as to predate writing

I have a client today with a fifteen year old child and the client is younger than me. my first thought was 'oh that's sad, a teenage pregnancy' before realising she was in her twenties when this child was born. I'm really not okay with the passage of time.

lads I'm so burnt out

my brother, who lives 6500 miles from kamchatka, has received a tsunami warning. luckily he moved away from the coast just yesterday (!)

We need to teach people the difference between being uncomfortable and being unsafe. Because the discomfort of the safest people is endangering the most vulnerable, all day every day.

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I can't stop thinking about what it would be like to watch my loved ones starve to death. the helplessness. we all feel helpless watching it unfold but it must be so many magnitudes worse for those trapped inside this nightmare.