The billionaires have all lined up to be besties, so guessing that’s the strategy. Be nice to Donald.

Sickening. I’m sickened.

🤣🤣
It was Martin Luther King day yesterday.
Tragic irony

Selling Native children to anyone who wrote to them and sent in $10. American history. Repulsive.

I’m cool - it was Cross! He can rescue me whenever :-)

Charity chief executive had to borrow money from family to pay staff wages after bank account was locked Santander has since restored access to the homelessness charity’s account

www.thirdsector.co.uk/charity-chie...

Really this should say hero Charity CEO covers for Santander blunder!

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Petition: Require coercive control awareness training for some sectors We call upon the UK Government and Parliament to implement requirements for coercive control awareness training for all professionals working in these sectors - healthcare, education, social services ...

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#petition on #coercivecontrol training for those who need it.

#BeTheDifference

Beginner at this AI lark (was looking for (trying to create) an image to illustrate a blog 🤪🤣🙄

"The vast accumulations of knowledge—or at least of information—deposited by the nineteenth century have been responsible for an equally vast ignorance. When there is so much to be known, when there are so many fields of knowledge in which the same words are used with different meanings, when every one knows a little about a great many things, it becomes increasingly difficult for anyone to know whether he knows what he is talking about or not. And when we do not know, or when we do not know enough, we tend always to substitute emotions for thoughts."

A reminder that T. S. Eliot had the problems of today figured out 103 years ago in his essay and poetry collection "The Sacred Wood."

Two stages of writing:

1) This shouldn't take too long
2) Oh no

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And I got a follow from Santa!!

Shocking!

Agreed ✌🏻

The Michigan Jail that Candidates Keep Visiting This county lockup in Flint goes far beyond most in promoting civic engagement. But the jail still cuts people off from the world in many other ways while they await trial, sometimes for years.

Percy Glover first worked as a volunteer boosting civic engagement in Flint’s county jail. Now, he’s hired full-time to ensure the people incarcerated there know their voting rights: “Percy made us part of the process,” says one.
boltsmag.org/flint-m...

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Happy thanksgiving to all colleagues from the US which is celebrating today

You may have seen this, earlier in the year. You may not have paid it much attention because you don't know the man in question.

But maybe you should. Because adult grooming thing is absolutely a thing.
https://www.somanyofus.com/

Thread (CW: emotional manipulation & abuse)
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Diddy sued by former porn star for alleged sex trafficking through 'calculated grooming scheme': lawsuit Sean "Diddy" Combs was sued Wednesday by a former adult film star who claimed the producer groomed her into sex trafficking as an employee at his legendary annual Labor Day "white party," according to documents obtained by #FoxNews Digital. Adria English…

Diddy sued by former porn star for alleged sex trafficking through 'calculated grooming scheme': lawsuit: Sean "Diddy" Combs was sued Wednesday by a former adult film star who claimed the producer groomed her into sex trafficking as an employee at his legendary annual Labor Day "white party,"…

Depends on the coercion/manipulation/ intent…

And for those people, I encourage you to read about consent and about how kink communities define consent violations and deal with repeat violators.

I encourage you to read about adult grooming, love bombing, and power dynamics.

There are some unbelievably strong women doing amazing work on here.

Try rape, because that’s what it is?

With you all the way!

CAAGe CAAGe - the Campaign Against Adult Grooming

Caage.org
Tbh grooming’s good enough. It’s the luring. Having sex with a child needs calling by what it is: rape!
A child cannot consent. Fullstop

Can’t see what you were responding to, but grooming can happen to adults as well (caage.org)

But thank you for starting the conversation - suspect we’re on the same side of the moral issue at stake!!

Grooming’s good enough. What’s not ok on the day before you come of age doesn’t suddenly become wrong the following day. No-one should be manipulated into sex - or anything tbh. Consent needs to be informed.

CAAGe CAAGe - the Campaign Against Adult Grooming

It’s grooming whether you’re a child or adult. It’s additionally rape , full stop, if it’s sex with an underage person (child) (I work for caage.org)