Little Miss Lefty

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
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workingclasshistory: “On this day, 26 November 1883, the formerly enslaved woman and pioneering feminist, Black emancipationist and poet Sojourner Truth died in Michigan aged 86. She was born into slavery in a Dutch-speaking community in New York,...
workingclasshistory

On this day, 26 November 1883, the formerly enslaved woman and pioneering feminist, Black emancipationist and poet Sojourner Truth died in Michigan aged 86. She was born into slavery in a Dutch-speaking community in New York, and later gave birth to five children. She escaped in 1827, and with the support of an abolitionist family, successfully sued for the return of one of her sons who had been illegally sold in Alabama. After moving to New York City she became a charismatic preacher, helping enslaved people escape and advocating for abolitionism, and for women’s rights, including women’s suffrage. During the civil war Truth assisted the Union side, and after the war she helped people formerly enslaved in the South build new lives, often as wage workers. Truth remained active until the end of her long life, spending time in her later years campaigning for land redistribution to formally enslaved people – which was famously promised as “40 acres and a mule”, but was never delivered. https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.1819457841572691/1863148433870298/?type=3

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lesbiansandgayssupporttheminers
lesbiansandgayssupporttheminers

There’s a lot of talk about how parents/kids hate the current system of self isolating, and I do understand it is really difficult, especially for kids having to do 2 or 3 isolations in quick succession.

But we don’t hear the other side in the media. We don’t hear from those parents who pull their kids out of school at the first sign of covid. We don’t talk about the families having to weigh up the impact of fines with the risks to their health. We don’t talk about the kids who are really, really anxious about getting sick. We don’t talk about the staff who are living in multi-generational households who are afraid of taking covid home.

If we end self isolation, a lot of parents will be happy, I’m sure. But some will equally be unhappy. Some will pull their kids out of school (some already have).

This narrative is never discussed in the media, but I can’t believe we are the only school facing this difficult balancing act. I can’t believe I’m the only person talking to parents who are weighing up lots of difficult competing priorities.

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bbc.co.uk

Covid: School isolation rules could end in autumn

Parents' frustration is mounting over the disruption to children's education and their own working lives.
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Ok, but this point is key:

“ Frustration among parents and teachers is building over the disruption because a rising number of children and their households currently have to quarantine. “

Households themselves only have to quarantine if a kid tests positive. And if close contacts aren’t isolating, then there will be more cases in school, more covid spread, more households have to quarantine.

If they end self-isolation in schools, it’s only one more step to ending it everywhere, and just allowing covid to rip through the population.

It feels like right now we are running an experiment to see how well vaccinations hold up, and if there’s not massive disruption to the country, in September all protections will be gone.

And some people will die, and they will just be seen as collateral damage, I guess?

We know Covid in schools has been a big problem since the start of the pandemic, and we do probably need a different strategy, but I’m not convinced this is it.

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OK THANK YOU SO FUCKING MUCH FOR POINTING THIS OUT??

It’s ridiculous that they’re thinking of ending it September, in this month alone - when we’re getting closer to when they’re meant to truly lessen restrictions- there have been two positive cases within a week of each other in my year group. And while that doesn’t sound like a lot, my year is made up of 160+ students and these past two weeks we’ve been reduced to 50 odd. 

So no, it is not safe to get rid of required self isolation in schools, the last time I had to self-isolate because someone I sat near tested positive six other people tested positive that had been told to isolate. If they hadn’t been forced to self-isolate who knows how many other people would have been infected?

I’m thankful to not have lost anyone, but three of my friends of had it, quite badly actually and I know people that have lost people that are in lower school high school because of Covid. A friend of mine lost an eleven year old cousin because her school didn’t properly enforce self-isolation.

Until Covid is properly supressed and everyone has had the vaccine (that wants/can have it) (and DO NOT get me started on people in schools not getting it, especially when we’re on the front fucking lines as well - and definitely don’t get me started on main body high school being given the okay before sixth form age when we’re at the age where its the norm for us to have jobs and be interacting with our communities on a larger scale) it should remain mandatory. 

Just because we, as younger people, tend to have better immune systems doesn’t mean; we don’t have auto-immune disorders, doesn’t mean we aren’t in the at-risk groups, doesn’t mean our FAMILIES aren’t in those groups, it doesn’t mean we can’t FUCKING die from this shit.

I think it’s disgraceful that they’re thinking of ending it in September and I for one cannot agree more with you saying that we’ll just be considered collateral. That this is like we’re all test subjects; because really what else is it?

You’re using teenagers and kids younger as test groups to see if it will screw everyone over again, and then the government will most likely blame us AGAIN if it spikes, just like they did last September when they let a bunch of barely protected children into close quarters when they didn’t have a damn clue how to deal with anything.

The government needs to realise that it’s better to be safe than sorry, to have harsh restrictions until we figure out how to deal with all of this without ‘necessary sacrifices’ that were never and never will be necessary. We all hate isolating, yes, and people struggle with home learning, but guess what? Kids would much rather not have to watch their friends funeral through a damn screen.

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michaelgovehateblog
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‘Very rude’ residents hampered Grenfell consultation, official claims
A Grenfell Tower housing official has claimed a handful of “very rude” residents hampered consultation efforts over the doomed £6million ref
standard.co.uk

Hm. Can't possibly think what the Grenfell tower residents might have to be angry about that would make them act rudely towards the people in charge of the building. Can't possibly imagine.

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michaelgovehateblog
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I HAVE COME ACROSS THE WORST ONLINE SHOP EVER

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so we start off with various things that have the tory logo but with the rainbow flag on it which is already a bad start. because yknow. the conservative party. not quite synonymous with inclusivity

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but THEN we get onto all the products that have THIS slogan on it

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and i mean that is just unbelievably tory like what even,, who would buy a t shirt with that on. but don't worry, that's not even the worst slogan they have, even worse is this one:

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which you can get on t shirt and mugs and pins and things, standard stuff

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but THEN they have also made the absolutely most bizarre choice you could possibly make to put that slogan on, please prepare yourself for this

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of all possible things, WHY ON EARTH would you choose to put "i kissed a tory and i liked it" on a BABY BIB. what the FUCK and its not even that they offer all of the designs on the website as a bib, this is the only one. i dont even-- what. i mean i already knew that the shop would be bad just because its an lgbt+ conservatives shop but i was not prepared

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OMFG What fresh hell is this?

You said you’d found the worst online shop ever and you absolutely delivered.

i can't even
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tonysopranobignaturals-deactiva

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This could literally be an Onion article

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Spending a nice 5 minutes in the Despair Pod before a union-busting robot physically pulls me out

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unionising employees get sent to the mindfulness booth to atone for their sins

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checked it out and uh

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‘small room’ is generous, motherboard 

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THATS. THE SIZE OF MY SHOWER OH MY GOD

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fuck amazon fuck capitalism
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queer pride

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so, in honor of pride month: please remember that ‘queer’ has been a fully reclaimed, non-slur identity for decades now, and queer studies is a legitimate academic term, and it’s only been in the last decade that TERFs have pushed to reclassify it as a ‘slur’ starting in online spaces. 

because ‘queer’ is such a broad and flexible term, it’s much harder for bigoted, trans-exclusive, bi-phobic, a-phobic people to interrogate the queer community and try to divide it into who deserves respect and who deserves to be expelled. the queer community is extremely diverse, extremely accepting, and it’s entirely opt-in. no one can say you’re not really queer, because if you say you’re queer, you are. 

this is extremely frustrating to terfs, who want a very narrow and rigidly policed LGB community (minus the T, A, and Q+, of course), so they have been working to reclassify queer as a slur. they target young isolated girls online, and take advantage of their earnest desire to be helpful and unproblematic, and they get them to repeat ‘queer is a slur’, and it’s incredibly sad and frustrating for us queers to deal with.

lesbian, gay, and queer are all slurs. they’ve all been used to insult us. and they’re all reclaimed. people that don’t want to be called queer don’t have to be, but tagging posts with q*slur is an insult to everyone who identifies as queer. breaking into posts where queer people call themselves and each other queer and refer to the queer community of queers who call themselves that to let us know that ‘queer is a slur’ is itself bigoted, TERF-aligned behavior. 

please reblog this post, and accept that queer is a valid term with decades of history and millions of proudly self-identified people. the next time you see someone say ‘queer is a slur’, let them know that phrase is manufactured and propagated by TERFs as an attack on the queer community. we’ll all have a much happier pride month if we stand up for each other against the real sources of hatred, rather than letting them get us to chew on each other for another year. 

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