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“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

I'm joining the war on Autism, on the side of Autism.

I'm joining the war on autism, on the side of autism.

Pink sticker with "smearkat" motto and a cartoon meerkat saying "I went to my smear test".

Cervical screening saves lives. If you are lucky enough to live in a country that offers it, don't skip it.
#ireland#healthcare#smeartest#katieabey

Georges Seurat’s “Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grand Jatte” centered on the little girl that Cameron stares at in Ferris Bueler.

Georges Seurat’s “Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grand Jatte” centered on the little girl that Cameron stares at in Ferris Bueler, but zoomed in further

Georges Seurat’s “Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grand Jatte” centered on the little girl that Cameron stares at in Ferris Bueler, but zoomed in further

Georges Seurat’s “Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grand Jatte” centered on the little girl that Cameron stares at in Ferris Bueler, but zoomed in further

Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you just might miss it

Any book worth banning is a book worth reading" — Isaac Asimov

Perfect.

The Refugees, 1931 by Tamara de Lempicka #womensart @womensart1

The Refugees, 1931 by Tamara de Lempicka #womensart

@womensart1

Thank you for your email! I will get back to you as soon as the mandatory five day "seeing if things get bad enough that l don't have to answer this email" waiting period has elapsed.

Best.

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Medical illustration of two organs. On the left is an organ with two "legs" at the bottom, a long body, and a shaft at the top, bent. On the right is an organ which is taller than the one on the left, with "legs" at the bottom, a longer body, and a longer shaft at the top, bent, with a prominent glans. From V Puppo and G Puppo, "Anatomy of Sex: Revision of the New Anatomical Terms Used for the Clitoris and the Female Orgasm by Sexologists", 2015.

Here's an illustration showing the anatomical similarities between structures of the clitoris (on the left) and penis (on the right), going for a little walk together.

Facts

There is a such a HUGE difference between wasting the day (awesome) and wasting the day (annoying)

The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe.

Will we listen to his words today?

Superman Isn’t Trying to Be Political. We Just Have Real-Life Supervillains Now.

What a headline.

a ½ gallon of neutral milk

They finally made the milk from that hotel

Also the time to curse books that are non-standard sizes. That one book that is an odd edition in a series. Like those cross species adoptions where a bearcub thinks it's a goose.

Or that book(s) you borrowed from a friend, never read and now it's been years. Albatrosses.

Brilliant things #6426: standing on a station platform as an express train barrels through at high speed.

Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare.

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Fashion needs better plus-size adjectives. Why would I want to be "curvy" when I could be a "portly gentlewoman of leisure"

Absolutely. I was just thinking that. Roller Derby will stand with its trans skaters.

This moment when the penny drops that trying to implement bathroom bans is an impossibility for the former Tory Chief Secretary Simon Clarke is delicious.

If you want to know how serious our decline in the UK, when North Carolina did what the Labour Government and EHRC have done, the then UK Government told LGBT+ people to beware travelling there.

(Credit to @kazhawa.bsky.social.) www.voanews.com/amp/uk-issue...

The lesson of history is that tyrants cannot be appeased. 

Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power.

Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable. 

But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless.

IT'S NOT FINE, AND YOU HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY TO ACT. image: the "This is fine" dog in a burning room, but he's using a fire extinguisher.

A clam on a wooden railing with a stormy grey sea in the background

There it is. The clam before the storm.

Alan Moore’s bio: writer/wizard/mall Santa/rasputin impersonator

The perfect resume doesn’t exist…

Art.