#OtD 4 Oct 1939 four Italian immigrant anarchists were arrested in Canada for possession of "subversive" anti-fascist literature and threatened with deportation to fascist Italy: effectively a death sentence. But Emma Goldman helped them get acquitted stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1047...

#OtD 5 Oct 2004 residents of Soweto, South Africa, defied police and blocked Johannesburg Water from installing prepaid water meters, which they could not afford stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1057...

#OtD 5 Oct 1789 thousands of women in Paris, angry over the high price and scarcity of bread, ransacked the city armoury for weapons and besieged the Palace of Versailles in one of the opening salvos of the French revolution shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

#OtD 4 Oct 1936 the Battle of Cable St took place when Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists tried to march through East London. They were met by over 100k local workers who fought the blackshirts and the police protecting them, stopping the march workingclasshistory.com/2020/02/17/e...

#OtD 2 Oct 1766 the Nottingham Great Cheese Riot began. Angry at the excessive price of cheese, a mob formed who seized it and began wheeling or carrying the cheeses away, bowling over the mayor with a cheese. The army put down rioting 2 days later stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9225...

#OtD 3 Oct 1973 the trial began of famous actor Ricky Tomlinson, then a plasterer, with five other building workers for their role in a national builders' strike the previous year. Tomlinson was unjustly jailed for two years. Learn more in our podcast: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e65-...

#OTD 6 Oct 1917 civil rights and women's rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer was born in Mississippi. She defied arrests, white supremacists, and police to vote, then organised to register thousands of other Black people to vote across the South stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1066...

#OtD 6 Oct 1985 Tottenham, London went up in flames as residents of the Broadwater Farm estate rose up against police after the killing of Cynthia Jarrett, an African-Caribbean mother by police, shortly after other officers also shot Cherry Groce stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1066...

#OtD 7 Oct 2001 the US and UK began the bombing of Afghanistan following the 9/11 attacks kicking off the War on Terror. By October 2023, the conflict has led to an estimated death toll of at least 4.5 million, according to Brown University stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1075...

#OtD 7 Oct 2023 after decades of occupation and apartheid armed Palestinians led by Hamas broke out of Gaza and attacked Israel. Israel responded with what is almost universally recognised now to be a genocide of the Palestinian people stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1294...

Discord confirms that government IDs used for age-verification were compromised in a hack with a vendor. Who could have predicted? Oh, right.

for YOU, and that makes it hot for ME' is a good compromise of conversation and fun play. We all hopefully do and try such things. But, I really don't like this, but whatever shuts you up feels icky for most people, unless that's your kink. It's also not super healthy.

NOT ALL SOLUTIONS WORK FOR ALL PEOPLE Open the relationship is NOT a panacea. Some people are MONOGOMOUS. Compromise in sexual areas feels gross for most people WHEN it involves someone DISINTERESTED. Compromise of 'hey we can play pirate I mean it's not my fav thing but I like what it does

So what do you do when in the reality we all ive in MOST people will experience changes to their sex drive over the course of their lives and therefore their relationships that's where communication comes into play

and they associate someone else's sexual drive, and desire as a thing for THEM. THEIR LOVE. THEIR VALUE. THEIR WORTH. THEIR RELATIONSHIP. And... yes those are very real human dynamics, but this is a thing that doesn't run on that. Love isn't enough.

And the other huge fucking problem with the fuckin problem is that MANY PEOPLE, speaking specifically to my culture in the US associate sex with love, emotion, value, deep feels.

So a male doesn't want to fuck his hot female wife all the time, or even daily, or whatever and we're like haha lol ME TOO GOING HAHA LOL because it's fun to joke about shit. But in the reality, that can ...and all too often is... a huge problem in relationships. As a sex worker, I KNOW.

But our sex drives as humans, vary radically over time and situation and partners. That is normal. Bodies are weird. Some people may NOT change over their lifetime substantially. They may never have a 'sex drive', and that's fine unless it bothers THEM.

So while we are giggling about the idea that someone doesn't want to fuck Nicole Kidman all day long LET'S TALK SERIOUSLY ABOUT SEX BABY And 'sex drive', and how that changes for people. And how relationships can evolve.

Thank you for saying this! The number of people mocking him for having the sense to leave the relationship understanding incompatibility is way too much. There is this expectation of men to be so macho, and ever sexual. This is toxic. Sex drives vary greatly among all genders of the population.

Big crush on Nicole Kidman so I get the impulse behind this sentiment but also, y’know, disparate libidos are a common issue in relationships, having a lower libido isn’t a personal flaw, and it’s also not a reflection of the partner’s attractiveness.

An autistic man’s boss has begun to assign him tasks via the medium of increasingly complex riddles, it has been confirmed. Read this and other exclusive articles on Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/111008...

Cohen said: “If I’m going down, I’m taking you all with me. I’m handing out epiphanies like Oprah hands out cars. You get an autism! And you get an autism. You only get an ADHD – but you can still hang with us.”

In a statement released today, Lucifer, 13.7 billion, took responsibility for turning your delicious, creamy mac and cheese with a sexy golden brown crust into stodgy, watery mess that looks, frankly, infected.

Beth Hapworth, 32, spent her entire 20s grafting, hustling and girl-bossing her way through her event photography career only to find she now needs to nap for the entirety of her 30s.

“It just wasn’t meant to happen! Having a stable income and a roof over one’s head is simply a luxury not intended for some of us,” Bernard explained.

Karen Hoyland, 30, who classily changed her last name to distance herself from her famous dad, is not autistic herself - but has used her incredible empathy to write an adult woman based on her six-year-old nephew. Read this and other exclusive articles on Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/113667...

I stopped calling Octavia butlers work prophetic once I realized she herself literally said that her work was influenced by deeply studying history which gave have her insight into the future. I realized I was watering down how truly brilliant she was and what she was trying to get across

Healing my inner child...

I realize this is either a terribly bad time to post about this or an increasingly relevant one, but if you're having a tough time caring about work tasks with so much else happening, I'd love to hear about how that's showing up for you, and what (if anything) has helped:

“It often feels like it's a dystopian world that we live in, and the only thing that is real is Gaza and what's happening there.” Politics editor @leximcmenamin.com speaks with 23-year-old journalist Plestia Alaqad about her book, leaving Gaza and the impact all of it has on young people.

To the suprise of no one. But I'm glad the BBC are challenging workshy narratives. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Have I worked up *not* in hypomania?! God I hope so. It's exhausting to have spent most of my days hypomanic over the last few weeks.

The fate of Ophelia has crack in it. Shit has been stuck in my head since i heard it. I’ve literally been singing it in my dreams and my dreams have been about it… it’s too good i can’t handle it

Shakespeare been real quiet since The Fate of Ophelia dropped

"'Tis in my memory locked, And you yourself shall keep the key of it." - Hamlet (A1, S3) #ShakespeareSunday The Fate of Ophelia - #TaylorSwift

can we also talk about this perfect reference?? THIS MV IS PURE ART!!

SORRY the scene in the fate of Ophelia where she's on the ship with all the men until she is called into the water by a bunch of women lmaooooo it's fucking text. There's nothing subtle about it!

THE FATE OF OPHELIA THE SONG YOU ARE ❤️‍🔥

very busy but had to come here to say — the fate of ophelia elizabeth taylor opalite best three run opener tay has EVER done fight me (pls don’t)

The Fate of Ophelia but from the perspective of my inner child being saved by my protector part 🥹

The Fate of Ophelia is the most perfect choice for the lead single I fear

Everyone say thank you Taylor for showing us The Fate of Ophelia dance!!!! 💃🏼💃🏼💃🏼

Have you never been depressed lol...

the fate of ophelia is taylor’s best music video ever and this isn’t an opinion, it’s a scientific fact

Enough. Taylor Swift needs to open up about fame and romance or I’m walking

me powerwashing the patio

Taylor swift

it's so funny to me that people are saying Taylor Swift is conservative now bc they didn't like her album. Like it's so bad it means she's right wing