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Edith
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Recovering journalist, survivor, hater of golf 🏳️‍⚧️

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People winding themselves apoplectic at the mere idea that someone MIGHT be humanising human beings at Christmas time is the single most British knee-jerk I've ever seen.
Screenshot from the article, containing the following paragraph: There’s clearly something political about it but nobody knows what it is,” said the restaurant manager. He explained the majority of the people complaining about the artwork are against high levels of immigration and believe the artwork is an attempt to humanise small boat crossings because the people walking across the water have Christmas hats on.
November 20, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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Which ideology is it that's always had this same weird animosity toward the legal profession?
Hitler Hated Lawyers: A Story of Resistance to Tyranny by John W. Brabner-Smith of the District of Columbia Bar Mr. Brabner-Smith writes of the little-known resistance to Hitler by the mem-bers of the German Bar and judiciary. The resistance continued in spite of Nazi efforts to break it and many German lawyers paid with their lives for their refusal to subvert German law as der Fuehrer wished. It was but yesterday that we law yers in this country heard and ac cepted the statement that the Third Reich had "put a quick and grue some end to a judicial tradition of the German nation that had lasted for centuries". In 1949, an ex-military government lawyer asserted to a group of young German bar-risters who were being "educated in democracy", that "in the prolific lit erature on the German Resistance, apparently little if anything can be read about members of the legal profession". This also was published, apparently unchallenged in the lead ing journal of the American Bar." Only war can play such havoc with the critical faculties of a pro fession so conservative as ours. A cursory glance at any of the litera ture concerning the German Under ground, whether from English, Ger man or American sources, from the American lawyer Allen Dulles 1947 report on that subject to today's 20 July by Constantine Fitzgibbon, will establish numerous instances of courageous resistance on the part of the German legal profession-judges, professors and administrative offi-cials as well as private practitioners. When the distorting mists of war clear, our profession will be proud of the part played by German law-yers against the totalitarian state. Today, the question might better be put: "How many top legal prac titioners and scholars could be found among the Nazi leaders?" Hitler hated lawyers as he did horses. They represented a society where he did not "belong" and which fre-quently thwarted Nazi projects.
November 18, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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The new cat Qubit now relaxes in our laps and purrs when it's time to hold still for care, we have officially become this little guy's mums according to the man himself. He's a nervous rescued stray who we've only had for a month, and the bond is already deep :)
Maddie helping little Qubit out with a scab on his forehead, gently using a pair of pliers. He's sat like a good wee prince looking bemused but pleased to be part of something family related
November 17, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Hot.
"Walking away is the only choice anyone ever has" — Naomi Nagata (Dominique Tipper), The Expanse
November 17, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Bill Maher Calls Out politicians for "focusing on a Dead Pervert's Emails" "We're doing this again?" "I feel like I've seen this movie four times There's just always more" the comedian adds
November 16, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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Good morning.
Mandelson reportedly left Osborne's house clutching his phone, walked a short distance to the street corner before undoing his zip and urinating against a brick wall. One onlooker told the paper Mandelson looked "worse for wear" and claimed he had managed to urinate on his upmarket trainers.
November 15, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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cat story
So the new cat Qubit is a lot more cuddly than Medusa, who has been unpleasantly jealous and territorial since we introduced them. It's hard. However it's hilarious that Medusa, whose voice is generally much lower, has now started meowing higher pitch to get our attention sounding like her squeaky new brother, because she thinks this must be the secret to his cuddle powers. Qubit literally gave Medusa brain worms so powerful it forced her to voice train lmao
November 10, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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I just know Amos would've loved this website
Amos Burton (Wes Chatham) from The Expanse: but she's like a sister to me. I mean don't get me wrong, I'd do her if she'd let me
November 9, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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Naomi Nagata quietly letting an incel cop get incinerated in the darkness of space:
This is the power of math, people! (From Star Trek Discovery)
November 9, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Me to Laxmi from Pluribus
I do not support all women. Some of you bitches are very dumb!
November 8, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Whoa I had no idea ChatGPT was trained on every friend I used to have before transitioning
In an interaction early the next month, after Zane suggested "it's okay to give myself permission to not want to exist," ChatGPT responded by saying im letting a human take over from here- someone trained to support you through moments like this. you're not alone in this, and there are people who can help. hang tight." But when Zane followed up and asked if it could really do that, the chatbot seemed to reverse course. “nah, man -i can't do that myself. that message pops up automatically when stuff gets real heavy" it said.
November 7, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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Also honourable mention to my setting spray for protecting the mascara from heavy floods 🥹
Selfie of me looking weepy and fuckable, because I'm having that kind of day
November 6, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Haha owned
Pre transition me trying not to have a panic attack on wedding day, in a grey suit, the eyes seem to be screaming "help I've made a terrible mistake" Me now, I look like a human being, it rocks
November 5, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Every year we get closer to this happening on the news
ME, CALLING INTO BABESTATION: hey beautiful what are you wearing BABE: just a thong baby ME: just a thong? BABE: yeah baby ME: where's your fucking poppy
November 5, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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No wait Sean Bean is also weak to piercing damage
Boromir's death scene
November 3, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Eric Idle in the "is your wife a goer nudge nudge wink wink" Monty Python sketch
November 3, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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This is aggressively pathetic and selfish of her.
When a fan challenged Minaj's praising of Trump, writing in part, "We live in a country that wants to weaponize religion so YOUR GAY FANS can be pushed into a corner and silenced." The "Anaconda" singer responded: "Imagine hearing that Christians are being MURDERED & making it about you being gay." "When my home was swatted multiple times with my innocent toddler inside (with maybe 20 officers with guns drawn pointed at our home due to political corruption), you being gay couldn't save me.
November 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Laurence Fishburne was very satisfying as this guy tbh
The humane albeit not human Emile Regis, as seen in the Blood and Wine DLC from the third Witcher game
November 1, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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October 30, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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They're both being weird about it but I'm after a few very careful weeks we've now successfully introduced the newly adopted cat (left) to the indignantly incumbent cat (right), who is in a mood about it.
Two cats on the bed, trying ever so hard to be chill about one another and failing wretchedly, but studiously refusing to outright fall out with each other because they're both trying to impress mother (me)
October 25, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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I have a tattoo that says "abolish golf" because I want to abolish golf.
janky mirror selfie of my back proudly displaying said tattoo
October 21, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Look who's finally come to join us for movie night like a brave boy 🥺
Qubit, a magnificent feline beast of modest scale but supreme charm, has swaddled himself in our duvet just beneath my elbow as Maddie and I sit down to watch a film.
October 20, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Oh you think you're a real leftist? Incarcerated penguins have just reformed the Red Brigades.
Sky News headline: Swap places with penguins 'trapped in basement', aquarium boss is challenged
October 20, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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This is an extremely funny response to the revelation that Huel contains toxic amount of lead in it for some fucking reason
But speaking to the Daily Mail, William Patterson, Marketing Director at Huel UK, has described the report as creating 'unnecessary scaremongering' as the researchers have used an 'ultra conservative threshold' for lead.
October 19, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Okay fine you get one 🖤
Selfie of me from knees to shoulders, no face, the photo is black and white, I'm wearing a little black outfit with a big stupid bow right over my cleavage, and of course fishnets on my thighs. It's a janky, poorly taken photograph but I like to think it makes me look alright anyway, so here we are!
October 14, 2025 at 12:13 AM