Gem Hill @SelfCare Backpack

A tweet from David East that reads: "starting to think that the rest of the world was actually fine in Children of Men and Britain just chose to be like that"

I am once again contemplating this banger.

I just don't see how women's rights are improved by having to carry a birth certificate around in case they want to use a toilet.

The quintessential 2025 tech headline, right here

we need a PaRappa the Rapper of the left

This week's newsletter is continuing on the theme of my past few newsletters, one of being with myself fully.

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You can't call yourself "a prize for LGBTQ+ literature" and longlist a self-proclaimed terf. Anyone can give any prize to anyone they like, of course. But don't pretend you're a prize for my community when you're platforming someone who's actively fighting against it.

"feminist whore with a Jezebel spirit" goes hard as fuck actually

A reminder not to let the National Center On Sexual Exploitation's official-sounding name fool you: they're the rebranded busybody group "Morality In Media", whom you might remember from such hits as "Trying to have Life Of Brian pulled from theatres" and "trying to connect queerness to mass murder"

It's a wondferfully accessible intro to existentialism and phenomenology which scratches my person-centred counsellor brain

A photo of the paperback version of at The Existentialist Cafe: freedom, being, and apricot cocktails, by Sarah Bakewell

Trying to wrangle my mornings into something approaching useful - getting out of bed quickly rather than doomscrolling, eating breakfast, reading, etc. First morning was today and I'd give myself 6/10. didn't avoid scrolling entirely but did read and managed to finish At The Existentialist Cafe

In 2016, following the Leave vote, Angela Eagle resigned from Jeremy Corbyn's cabinet in tears, stating in her resignation letter that, "Too many of our supporters were taken in by right-wing arguments and I believe this happened, in part, because [of] your leadership"

the problem with letting democrats backslide their support of trans rights whether it be trans in sports or using bathrooms is we’ve seen “compromise” in the UK labor party. they gave into “reasonable” TERF demands and it destroyed the labor party and all rights for trans people

So much this.

“this version of the internet is about performing certainty” sums up so fucking much about right now that i want to scream.

Interesting phrasing. I wonder if there's a more succinct way of saying "backlash against antiracism"

The goal is to get to know myself, with couage and curiosity

This week's free newsletter is about the power of curiosity in self care.

"It's reminding myself that it's safe to do so, and that I can handle whatever it is I'm feeling.I have to be able to trust myself, and trusting myself with my own feelings is the first step."

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Some of the bottles of rice and formula and flour Egyptians threw into the sea have actually made it to Gaza - now people in Cyprus and Lebanon are joining the effort, with scientists from all over the world virtually assisting them in figuring the time and location to do so based on the currents. 💚

so, I was looking at Ellipsus as an alternative to google docs and they have a direct export to Ao3 option. My people!

This is literally what people do when they're not left scrambling for survival every hour of every day. They build communities, create things, contribute. Wikipedia isn't an anomaly, it is a distillation of human nature itself

Yet another unrealistic beauty standard for woman, they expect us to be Big Bird

handmade glass pendants: nora.jewelry a bunch of pendants are pictured behind the text

handmade glass earrings: nora.jewelry a bunch of earrings are pictured behind the text

handmade glass bolo ties: nora.jewelry a bunch of bolo slides are pictured behind the text

handmade glass game tokens: nora.jewelry a bunch of clusters of small glass cabochons are pictured behind the text

hello! i have a jewelry shop! nora.jewelry

i make all these in my kiln out of glass.

#bsnm

'You can't raw dog it' says Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang: 'If you're not using AI, you're going to lose your job to somebody who uses AI' 'I'll be sure to go home and tell people, you're not gonna raw dog this.'

listen you can't just go around raw dogging life without the help of half-cooked energy-intensive algorithmic parrots built and managed by the amoral extraction class

say what you will about uploading your ID into that tea app to warn about toxic men but it’s sooo on the nose that now that womens information was hacked, hundreds of thousands of men are doxxing them, harassing them, and threatening women

if every single service and transaction is monitored for its adherence to fundamentalist christian ethics, and every piece of media has to go through those services or transactions, you could very quickly find yourself in a world where no queer art or publication is possible to obtain or distribute

I also, coincidentally, literally fell and messed up a ligament or something in my foot. That's healing well, even if @jack.allnutt.net did have to put up with me not being able to go on a walk for 3 days. I was ready to chew the furniture. I managed to get to tesco today and I'm so grateful 😅

I got to the end of term and promptly fell into playing Date Everything on the switch and honestly: reccommend. It's funny, kind of existential horror-y, horny (obvs) and just a good time. A Little glitchy on the switch but nothing game breaking.

a rough translation of the final sentence: “Since AFP was founded in August 1944 we’ve lost journalists in conflicts, and have had wounded and imprisoned co-workers, but none of us have any memory of having to watch a colleague die of hunger.”

Gaza is being deliberately starved to death in front of the whole world, and the only people being arrested over it are those who opposed the crime.

Having low weather pressure by a migraine/general headache trigger is wild. What do you mean I can feel the low pressure in my sinus cavities? Specifically the maxillary ones right now? Unhinged behaviour from my anatomy