@rather_normal

I never worry about anything and everything always goes wrong

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Pelicot writes not as victim or survivor but as the site of the crime. It's unlike anything I've read. But the book's formal challenges + peculiarities have scarcely been engaged--
Parul Sehgal@parul_sehgalMay 11
Wrote about Gisèle Pelicot's extraordinary memoir and how poorly + partially survivor narratives are read. Gift link: nytimes.com/2026/05/11/magaz…

Gisèle Pelicot’s Memoir Said Something Original and Taboo About Victimhood (Gift Article)

A book by the world’s most famous survivor of sexual violence has been read as a manifesto or a cry of pain. What she wrote is far more complicated.

nytimes.com
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who would have thought that in order to rein in cost blowout to one of australia's shitty fake little state-funded marketised voucher systems of social care, you would have to re-nationalise all or part of that system... who would have thought this....
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The Dream of the Magi, Saint-Lazare Cathedral, Salle Capitulaire (Chapter Hall), Autun, France. Date: 1120–1130 AD.
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I would rather work 15 hours a day in a smelting plant than ever deal with even a quarter of the shit women my grandmother's age had to put up with from their husbands
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Crimes the met police CAN'T solve: -93% of tool thefts -90% of car thefts -82% of burglaries -54% of all crimes -52% of cases where someone shot an officer of the metropolitan police. Crimes the met police CAN solve: The words "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action"
Metropolitan Police
@metpoliceuk9 Aug 2025
Replying to @metpoliceuk
This is the scene in Parliament Square. Within this crowd a significant number of people are displaying placards expressing support for Palestine Action, which is a proscribed group. Officers have moved in and are making arrests.
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margaret thatcher festival? you're living in it
BBC Politics
@BBCPolitics14 May 2025
Margaret Thatcher festival planned to mark centenary of her birth bbc.in/44Dp0oL

Festival of Margaret Thatcher planned in Grantham for centenary

Ideas for the celebration include themed beers with names such as Iron Lady and Grantham Lass.

bbc.com
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mermaid sardines/tinned fish girls
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it’s all about mindset 💪🏻
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Not sure how else to make this happen other than asking @Craig_Foster - 15+ years on and I think Australia is ready for Nerds FC to be put back up on SBS - at minimum the matches with the Young Matilda's but truly it was all gold. I'll write the business case if needed 🙏🫡
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does anyone know if we have to fade into you strange you never knew tomorrow
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a goofy zoomer who gets HIV being able to envision a future of getting a few extra tests and taking a couple of daily pills is one of the greatest triumphs of medical science in human history and we should give daily thanks to god that it happened
pagliacci the hated 🌝
@Slatzism6 Mar 2023
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you were born too late to explore the earth, too early to explore the stars, but just in time to see zoomers vlog their HIV diagnosis
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15 minute city advocates want you to ride a bug to work
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She let me hit coz I'm Mayor of Busy Town
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Going for France in the world cup because they made BeReal
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My skeleton has gone on rumspringa
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Forgiving your son who ran away from home to blow his inheritance and celebrating his return with a big feast is a slap in the face to the sons who faithfully stayed by your side the whole time!
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Weird that I was a baby once. And now I’m whatever this is
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We're so lucky to be 100% completely safe from mass shootings in public in Australia. If someone with a sawed-off shotgun were to take you and 17 others hostage in the middle of Sydney on a Monday morning, for instance, the police will accidentally shoot you and also themselves
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Incredible. 5 yrs ago, I filed a FOIA request w/SOUTHCOM for photographed copies of all artwork created by Guantanamo detainees for a project I've been working on. SOUTHCOM just turned docs over & redacted 100s of paintings citing law enforcement techniques & procedures exemption
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Being railed in a sundress is not enough. I need to be hit by a car
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