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THATS THE CYCLE

Dear Shabana, I notice today that you referred to me in your speech on immigration at the IPPR think tank. You said: “A party leader should not be on the beaches of France encouraging people to make a perilous crossing on small boats.” I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised especially after the hateful Labour campaign in Gorton and Denton, but this is just the latest in a string of lies peddled by a discredited Government who intentionally fan the flames of racism and division. When I went to Calais, I was not there to encourage people to travel to the UK. I was there to see at first hand the suffering your Government and successive Governments have done in demonising migrants in a pathetic bid to pander to the base instincts of Reform and the flawed strategy of Morgan McSweeney. As you will know, if you even bothered to research my visit instead of taking Reform talking points, I was there to witness the brutality of families living in tents in freezing temperatures. I filled water tanks and picked up litter. What that visit did do is confirm my belief that if we are to smash the boat gangs and stop the boats, we need to offer safer and managed routes for migrants to come to this country. Showing compassion as a politician is not a crime. In fact, we need to see much more of it. It reminded me of a young MP who in October 2015 spent three days in Lesbos helping migrants fleeing war-torn Syria. She posted videos on X, talked about handing out water and croissants to refugees and food parcels. When she returned to the UK, she wrote a very moving piece in the New Statesman. She said “we have to work with our European partners and create new, safe, and legal routes for refugees to get to Europe. We cannot abandon them to their fate, left as prey for smugglers whilst risking death on the seas.” She said “maybe we can make ourselves feel better by saying no-one is making them get on the boats. And again, the Home Secretary is not entirely wrong when …

Dear Shabana,

Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.

how many months worth of vibe coding did it take to get this working

It’s…really bad! Last term my professor was fully grading (100%s on everything) my long and thoughtful papers in about two hours for all of her students. Yikes!

It’s in every class I’ve been in recently. Cannot wait to transfer in like six months.

Education is indescribably fucking cooked, by the way

nothing so clearly tells me my professor is using genAI than her replying to me and hallucinating a background for me that doesn’t exist

my post: I live [place] and I have a dog and two cats and I work in the video games industry right now

her: your background in creative writing and English-

Uh-oh! Worst person you know learned therapy words

kill the imposter syndrome in you head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they're also using chat gpt to do it

Anyways.

Yeah, LiS is a really good example tbh. Beloved within the community it was made to represent, broadly, and absolutely vilified outside of it by the Worst Imaginable People (gamergaters/gamerbros)

goodnight nicoleee~

Admire Vega in a winter coat, the albums songs about leaving, I could live in hope, and deathconsciousness are listed

ayabe and her top 3 albums imo #umamusume

Exaaaactly! And the thing is those explosions still radiate to other people in close-by niches and can get them into the culture that way. The people who want to be here are still going to be here. But then we don’t have, uh, whatever the fuck happened with the gay hockey show LOL

That was a fake story and was debunked, I mean a friend I have haha

thinking about the guy I know personally who was so icked out by how new fans of BL treated him and his peers in public after heated rivalry mainstreamed BL and recoiling at the thought of that also happening to more of the queer community lol

there’s a balance between “everyone should read yuri to feel something” and “keep it niche so the worst, most vapid people you can imagine on twitter/reddit/etc don’t feel any need to get their hands on it” and we just kinda gotta find that

everybody should read yuri, yes, but my support for that ends with corporations who want to make a buck off the newest huge cultural phenomenon “yuri”

I think something important to remember in the conversation about the “mainstreaming” of yuri or f/f content is that the “mainstreaming” ≠ just everyone reading more yuri. it means, like, one million more half-baked or ill-researched corporatized f/f stories made by people who do not care at all

A very blurry orange cat shoving his nose in the camera

sniffs you

ぬくい

Gideon from the locked tomb saga, resting both hands on the pommel of a sword while smiling, looking sideways. She’s wearing a cropped black top with ripped sleeves and her aviators.

Griddle doodling 🗡️

Nona from The Locked Tomb series, looking to the side while nibbling on the end of one of her braids.

Nonita! <3

It’s not even 9am I’m going back to bed

Kay and Franziska from Ace Attorney in casual clothes holding hands. Kay is grinning as Franziska speaks, thinking, "She's a menace..." in an affectionate manner. Franziska, who is oblivious to her grin, keeps talking, saying, "It was a justified response. Anybody would have done that. Besides, if they didn't want to meet the tail end of my whip, they shouldn't have gotten within whipping distance. I simply put a foolish fool in their foolish place."

day 28: why are you... you! ☆
#minifemslashfeb2026

1 Inquiry for New York Times Good afternoon, My name is [REDACTED] and l am a reporter for the New York Times. I am researching how much money the Palestinian diaspora community has sent to support Gazan families since the war in Gaza began. Does your team track this figure? I really appreciate it. With gratitude, [REDACTED]

Palestine Diaspora Movement Hello [REDACTED] We do not collaborate with The New York Times. Your email asks about money sent to Gazan families "since the war in Gaza began." Let us first correct the premise. This is not a war. It is a genocide. Calling it a war is part of the problem. It obscures the reality of a colonized people being massacred by a military machine backed by the United States and defended, sanitized, and rhetorically softened by institutions like yours. The New York Times has spent far too long parroting Zionist propaganda and laundering Israeli state narratives while Palestinians bury their dead. That kind of coverage does not merely misinform. It helps create the political climate in which Palestinian slaughter becomes explainable, defensible, and forgettable. So no, we will not be sharing any figures, internal data, or community information with a paper that has so thoroughly damaged its credibility on Palestine. Quite frankly, we would rather chew jeans than help The New York Times extract from our community while continuing to fail it. Do not contact us again for this purpose, The Palestine Diaspora Movement Team

“Quite frankly, we would rather chew jeans than help The New York Times extract from our community while continuing to fail it”

lmaooo GET EM