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@thelaughingdoughnut

I’ll keep dancing on my own.

On this day, 26 February 2012, Trayvon Martin, an unarmed Black child, was shot and killed by a neighbourhood watch volunteer in Sanford, Florida. Martin was born in Florida on February 5, 1995, and later attended Dr Michael M Krop high school where he played sports, and mathematics was said to be his favourite subject. He had a keen interest in aviation and considered becoming a pilot. Initially, Sanford police filed no charges against the killer. But marches and protests had begun breaking out across the United States, and the Black Lives Matter movement was born. As public pressure grew, charges of second-degree murder were eventually filed, but the killer was acquitted. The killer also later sold the gun he used to an anonymous buyer for $250,000, and in 2019 he sued the Martin family and others for $100 million. The case was eventually thrown out of court in February 2022. https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1930085843843223/?type=3

Incredible recent British unionist bit:

“Scots language is xenophobic and is specifically spoken to make foreigners feel unwelcome when visiting Scotland.”

Imagine visiting Japan and going “Too much Japanese language here, clearly this is a hate crime.”

That does very much sound like something an English speaker would say

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*right clicks you and saves you into a folder called “friends :)” on my desktop*

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*goes into the folder and clicks and drags you around the screen for fun so it’s like you’re on a rollercoaster, or perhaps a big twisty slide*

A room called ‘The Doll Room’ that’s full of dolls is… mundane.

But a room called ‘The Doll Room’ that only has one doll in it? That’s fresh

If a person shows you their Doll Room and it’s full of dolls, they probably just like dolls, y’know? It’s normal, it’s a hobby

But if they show you their Doll Room and it only has one doll… something’s going on with that one doll!

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room called the doll room and theres a mirror and nothing else. the door closes

Happy holidays to everyone whose holiday isn’t what they want it to be. whether it is illness, poverty, distance from loved ones or something else that’s making things tough for you this year, i hope that you can find peace and warmth. i hope that your year will end and start on a brighter note

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‘Ecologists talk about “wildlife-human conflicts.” But when you explore them, you soon discover that many would be better labelled wildlife-livestock conflicts. Almost without exception, where livestock are kept, large predators are killed. In some places, like the United Kingdom, they have been wiped out altogether. In others, farmers either kill predators themselves or lobby the government to do so on their behalf.’

George Monbiot, Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet