There was a terrorist attack on a Pride event in Berlin not long ago. To be honest I think most of the “people” commenting on it on my corner of Facebook were bots. Maybe. I don’t know.
This last one I am sure is a human.
It is exactly one month since I lost my job. I am VERY lucky because, to put it bluntly, my family is wealthy. The house is paid off, my holiday was paid off before I lost my job, I’m not going to starve or become homeless in the year or two it will no doubt take to find a job. I am lucky beyond my wildest imaginings to have a supportive family and not live in a place where healthcare is tied to employment. But there’s so much stigma associated with being unemployed and I feel like such a leech. I start doing volunteer work tomorrow and I’m going to throw myself into it as much as possible, but I can never shake the feeling.
Family of a murder victim: Please don’t use our child’s death to spread hate and division.
Reform and co: (uses their child’s death to spread hate and division)
I (white middle-class Brit) grew up going to child-friendly drag shows. They were called “pantomimes” and they were very popular. They were a family-friendly Christmas activity, you’d go to the theater and there would be sing-alongs for the kids and the odd naughty joke from the drag queen. My primary school would take everyone out to one when Christmas rolled round.
This was VERY NORMAL in the UK. Drag queens were NORMAL. They were on TV, they were in movies, they were NORMAL. Let’s take a look at the reaction to this horrific story about an innocent man labelled as a pedophile for being a drag queen.
Huh…. I guess no-one cares about white British cultural heritage anymore.
(huge spoilers ahead)
That was Nice but I wish it was a little bit more than Nice. Jesus was bafflingly underused which is a shame because Bilal Hasna was EXCELLENT. I did like that they managed to sneak a tiny cameo in of Adam the Antichrist seemingly maybe dating Jesus in the rewritten world!
Everyone is so mad about the ending but I’m not. Asa and Anthony are Aziraphale and Crowley in every way that matters as far as I can see, they’re a cosmic fanfiction turned canon, it really worked for me. I accept it might not work for everyone.
I don’t know. I’m fine with what we got, but I probably would have been fine if it really had ended at season 2. There’s just something so, I don’t know, meta-poetic about a pair of fictional lovers separated forever because their God turned out to be a rapist.
It’s the APOKEALYPSE!
Pokopia is at its core a very sad game, far sadder than I expected, but I had a ton of fun playing it. It scratches the itch left behind by Animal Crossing perfectly.
My favourite feature was the camera, as always.
Look at all those little guys! All my favourites in one place… Except Spheal. WHY DID THEY NOT INCLUDE SPHEAL. Maybe for the DLC?
Oh I forgot to mention, I also hopped back on Pokemon Go for the first time in a very long time to collect the Pokopia Ditto.
It was Eid on… Friday? Look I don’t know anything about Eid, I just know the Muslim community has a big celebration and I see lots of people around in nice sparkly outfits.
There was a party in Victoria Park! Children and adults alike. Everyone was welcome regardless of religion. Let’s what the Facebook userbase has to say about it.
First of all, Karen Hilton wants you to know that she saw an event where Muslim children were playing and instantly wished death on those children. A horrible, slow death at that, since that’s what being bombed does to you. She was unashamed of saying this in public and multiple people liked that she said it.
Nigel Moore can’t see non-white people having fun without thinking of the ways in which he could hurt them.
Sarah Collin loves Britain so much she almost learned to spell it!
There was a fence and they did have to pay to get in. However I think Michelle Stanley is complaining that if she turned up, she… wouldn’t have had to pay?
ICE have killed multiple people.
Recently my father-in-law showed me a 104-year-old newspaper that had been kept in the family attic. I LOVE that kind of thing so I was eager to take pictures!
February 28, 1922. The Princess Mary referred to is this one, the great-grandchild of Queen Victoria.
The various aristocrats attending the wedding.
