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We recommend avoiding general and often dehumanizing "the" labels such as the poor, the mentally ill, the French, the disabled, the college-educated. Instead, use wording such as people with mental illnesses. And use these descriptions only when clearly relevant.
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We recommend avoiding general and often dehumanizing "the" labels such as the poor, the mentally ill, the French, the disabled, the college-educated. Instead, use wording such as people with mental illnesses. And use these descriptions only when clearly relevant. 9,742 L7 19.4K 43.8K 个 AP The Associated Press @AP Replying to @APStylebook The use of "the French" in this tweet by @AP was inappropriate and has caused unintended offense. An updated tweet is upcoming. 12:18 AM • Jan 27, 2023 • 382.8K Views

Happy 3 year anniversary to this post

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(daft punk One More Time voice) Auld Lang Syne

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How Sandie Peggie 'Benidorm Posse' friend group was torn apart by NHS Fife trans tribunal The personal cost of the changing room row was exposed in expletive-ridden private messages as tensions boiled over in group chats.

classic story of some lady hitting the transphobia pipe harder and harder and becoming an intolerable shithead who alienates all her friends www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/politics/...

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Maybe electrifying and doubling frequency on regional rail lines is good

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The flu rates are spiking - please get a flu vaccine if you can ❤️ protect yourself and the people in your life.

4 months ago 16 5 2 1

Well, nothing’s permanent.

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Joyce Carol Oates
@Joyce... 17h O
So curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates— scenes from nature, pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book (but doubt that he reads); pride in a friend's or relative's accomplishment; condolences for someone who has died; pleasure in sports, acclaim for a favorite team; references to history. In fact he seems totally uneducated, uncultured. The poorest persons on Twitter may have access to more beauty & meaning in life than the
"most wealthy person in the world."

Joyce Carol Oates @Joyce... 17h O So curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates— scenes from nature, pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book (but doubt that he reads); pride in a friend's or relative's accomplishment; condolences for someone who has died; pleasure in sports, acclaim for a favorite team; references to history. In fact he seems totally uneducated, uncultured. The poorest persons on Twitter may have access to more beauty & meaning in life than the "most wealthy person in the world."

Elon Musk ' @elonmusk
X.com
Oates is a liar and delights in being mean.
Not a good human.

Elon Musk ' @elonmusk X.com Oates is a liar and delights in being mean. Not a good human.

lol she got his ass and he knows it

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'A party in decline: Former MEP quits 'dying' Alba to join Your Party

'A party in decline: Former MEP quits 'dying' Alba to join Your Party

lmaooooo

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Imagine if other mainstream artists did this on tour. Imagine if they brought tables to their venues to explain to fans why this is so important. It would change the conversation profoundly. This is important.

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quick mods are asleep turn completely in on yourselves and quietly implode leaving just a perfectly smooth grey pebble behind

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Unfortunately Glasgow already has this, and medicine‘s greatest minds have been unable to figure out why a city with a motorway running through the middle of it has a lower than average life expectancy.

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tbh the most unexpected thing that has happened in the last couple of weeks is finding out how many people I know wear Mitchum deodorant

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from Camus' "Why Spain?" today: "In the meantime we must struggle. But with the knowledge that totalitarian tyranny is not based on the virtues of the totalitarians. It is based on the mistakes of the liberals. Talleyrand’s remark is contemptible, for a mistake is not worse than a crime. But the mistake eventually justifies the crime and provides its alibi. Then the mistake drives its victims to despair, and that is why it must not be condoned. That is just what I cannot forgive contemporary political society: it is a mechanism for driving men to despair."

from Camus' "Why Spain?" today: "In the meantime we must struggle. But with the knowledge that totalitarian tyranny is not based on the virtues of the totalitarians. It is based on the mistakes of the liberals. Talleyrand’s remark is contemptible, for a mistake is not worse than a crime. But the mistake eventually justifies the crime and provides its alibi. Then the mistake drives its victims to despair, and that is why it must not be condoned. That is just what I cannot forgive contemporary political society: it is a mechanism for driving men to despair."

Camus explains how liberalism won't help you get out of fascism.

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based

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Henrik ISBN

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🚨 UPDATE: Suspended Scottish Labour MSP Colin Smyth allegedly put a “secret camera” in the Parliament’s toilet

[@paulhutcheon]

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Does this latest MSP defection mean the all male Public Audit Committee at Holyrood gets a membership change? It normally would do because of spots being assigned by party, but IIRC, Jamie Greene has stayed on it (Deputy Convener) upon defecting to the Lib Dems, so I'm not entirely sure?? #anorakQns

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War Photographer
by Carol Ann Duffy

In his darkroom he is finally alone
with spools of suffering set out in ordered rows.
The only light is red and softly glows,
as though this were a church and he
a priest preparing to intone a Mass.
Belfast. Beirut. Phnom Penh. All flesh is grass.

He has a job to do. Solutions slop in trays
beneath his hands, which did not tremble then
though seem to now. Rural England. Home again
to ordinary pain which simple weather can dispel,
to fields which don’t explode beneath the feet
of running children in a nightmare heat.

Something is happening. A stranger’s features
faintly start to twist before his eyes,
a half-formed ghost. He remembers the cries
of this man’s wife, how he sought approval
without words to do what someone must
and how the blood stained into foreign dust.

A hundred agonies in black-and-white
from which his editor will pick out five or six
for Sunday’s supplement. The reader’s eyeballs prick
with tears between the bath and pre-lunch beers.
From the aeroplane he stares impassively at where
he earns his living and they do not care.

War Photographer by Carol Ann Duffy In his darkroom he is finally alone with spools of suffering set out in ordered rows. The only light is red and softly glows, as though this were a church and he a priest preparing to intone a Mass. Belfast. Beirut. Phnom Penh. All flesh is grass. He has a job to do. Solutions slop in trays beneath his hands, which did not tremble then though seem to now. Rural England. Home again to ordinary pain which simple weather can dispel, to fields which don’t explode beneath the feet of running children in a nightmare heat. Something is happening. A stranger’s features faintly start to twist before his eyes, a half-formed ghost. He remembers the cries of this man’s wife, how he sought approval without words to do what someone must and how the blood stained into foreign dust. A hundred agonies in black-and-white from which his editor will pick out five or six for Sunday’s supplement. The reader’s eyeballs prick with tears between the bath and pre-lunch beers. From the aeroplane he stares impassively at where he earns his living and they do not care.

In his darkroom he is finally alone
with spools of suffering set out in ordered rows…

—Carol Ann Duffy, “War Photographer”
published in COLLECTED POEMS (Picador, 2019)
#poem #poetry
www.panmacmillan.com/authors/caro...

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Just for perspective, a few weeks ago roughly 100,000 turned up for the London Trans+ Pride march. By contrast fewer than 3,000 ACROSS THE WHOLE COUNTRY, have turned up to anti-asylum "protests". Yet we are meant to take the latter as "the voice of the people" and the former as "the minority".

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Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates
oh. he speaks to you often? are you a Diet Coke?
JMDeFee @LtlBfloJMD • 21h
I have never heard Trump say that the Nobel Peace prize is his motivation.
I have heard him say he wants the killing to stop.

Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates oh. he speaks to you often? are you a Diet Coke? JMDeFee @LtlBfloJMD • 21h I have never heard Trump say that the Nobel Peace prize is his motivation. I have heard him say he wants the killing to stop.

JCO casually doing murders last night

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Looking along St Vincent Lane to the elaborate German renaissance style Liverpool and London and Globe Insurance offices of 1899 by James Thomson.

#Glasgow

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Hardly a revelation if you’re in the business of talking to anyone. And whose fault is it “the middle ground has gone”?

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the thing here to remember is that people like janice turner think racism etc is just working class language but if you tell them to fuck off that's not working class language that's abuse

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it’s when starmer tries to make a concession to decency that his full repellency is most apparent

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[recognising your statehood while I murder your family] as you can see I am being reasonable here

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Give me 14 of them immediately 🙏🏻

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In Dutch, mondegreens are popularly referred to as Mama appelsap ("Mommy apple juice"), from the Michael Jackson song Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' which features the lyrics Mama-se mama-sa ma-ma-coo-sa, and was once misheard as Mama say mama sa mam[a]appelsap.

In Dutch, mondegreens are popularly referred to as Mama appelsap ("Mommy apple juice"), from the Michael Jackson song Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' which features the lyrics Mama-se mama-sa ma-ma-coo-sa, and was once misheard as Mama say mama sa mam[a]appelsap.

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literally what does it take to get a lifetime ban from driving

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Renfrew St looking east to the junction with Cambridge St. A brilliant colour capture by Colin Duncan, taken around 1968-70 going by the car registrations.

📷 Colin Duncan

#Glasgow

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