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In London, there's a woman who goes every day on the underground and sits on the platform just to listen to the announcement recorded by her husband in 1950.

Margaret McCollum after the death of her husband Oswald Laurence, sits on the bench waiting to hear this recording that became one of London's most famous "Mind the gap"

In 2003, Oswald died leaving a huge void in Margaret's heart. So Margaret found a way to feel his presence closest.

After more than half a century, this voice was replaced by an electronic recording. Out of distress Margaret asked for this cassette tape from London transport company so she could continue listening to her husband's voice at home.

After becoming aware of the moving history, the company decided to restore the announcement at the stop near where Margaret lives,at the Embankment stop of Northern Line, where all passengers can listen today and hear Oswald Laurence's voice and to think that eternal love really exists.

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Resmaa Menakem, My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies

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Biting a very sour strawberry

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a gnome would make this post

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Double Income No Kids used to be seen as a kind of lavish lifestyle, now it’s like…a requirement to have any remote chance at financial stability

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Parts Unknown: Newfoundland

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Nathan For You - Sporting Goods Store/ Antique Shop

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Invasion Of The Body Snatchers Directed by Philip Kaufman (1978)

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If Amazon successfully buys the Roomba company then they will own one product that lets them spy on your front door and another product which creates scans of the inside of your house. Probably nothing to worry about

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And they will cheerfully share their data from surveilling you with the police without a warrant! In fact they have agreements with the police to do so, which is why police sponsor community use of their tools!

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say it george!!

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Just gonna go off topic and mention how many times I, a cisgender woman, shave my upper lip because facial hair feels out of sync with my gender identity. I don’t understand why cis people fail to see all the little ways we affirm our gender every day and fail to extrapolate how much more intense it is for trans people.

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The sand in Okinawa, Japan contains thousands of tiny “stars”. These “grains of sand” are actually exoskeletons of marine protozoa, which lived on the ocean floor 550 million years ago.

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cottagecore bitches when they realize that farming is a metric ass ton of manual labor and not just dancing around in the grass throwing seeds in the air:

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Growing up is actually all about realizing people don’t inherently dislike you and it’s a bit odd to assume they do

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This

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[Image description: a series of tweets. The first is from Victoria Holmes, @spyturtle96, timestamped 3:06 PM, 04 May 22, with text as follows:

"Adoptees have been saying non-stop for months if not years they're getting ready for another baby scoop era and no one listened to us. And now "domestic supply of infants" is in a draft and people still won't listen to us."

It is tagged "#adopteevoices".

The next two are from Kim Penn, @kim_penn The first is timestamped 10:08 PM, 02 May 22 and contains the following text:

"I'm a very small Twitter voice, but I am begging my non-adoptee followers to educate yourself about what adoption is, what it does, and how evil and corrupt the adoption industry was and is. Listen to #adopteevoices. And then get your asses in the fight with us to end the system."

The second is timestamped 9:58 AM, 03 May 22, and contains the following text:

"I promise you, adoption is absolutely NOT the win/win, fucking fairy tale, happy ending you've been led to believe. For every #adoptee, our story begins with loss. That's our baseline. Any "happy ending" without acknowledging that is empty and an illusion."

It is tagged "#adopteevoices".

The final three are a Twitter thread from Laney (followed by three Chinese characters), @Lane_Xue, timestamped 8:55 PM, 03 May 22. The first contains text as follows:

"My parents faced reproductive, economic, social, & political injustice. I was relinquished because they could not keep me & I'm an adoptee. I am not a fucking (chess pawn emoji). Do not use my family separation to justify your desire to control others reproductive health care."

The second contains text as follows:

"Abortion is a reproductive decision.

Adoption is a parenting decision often made by poor, young, economically disenfranchised people not given the resources or support to raise their children.

Do not conflate the 2 to justify feeding the adoption industries demand for (baby's face emoji)."

The third contains text as follows:

"Do not fucking ask adoptees if they'd rather have been aborted. Adoptees are already 4x more likely to attempt suicide than non-adopted people.

The reason someone needs an abortion is none of your business."

All three are tagged "#adopteevoices".

After the final tweet there is a link to ncbi.nlm.nih.gov with the beginning of a title, "Risk of Suicide Attemptin Adopted and Nonadpoted Off…"

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