Jun 12, 2023
Anyone who's owned a cat, ever: yeah, that tracks.
Excuse the scrunched up layout today. As you can see, it had way more frames, and I didn't want to stretch anyone's dash.
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Anyone who's owned a cat, ever: yeah, that tracks.
Excuse the scrunched up layout today. As you can see, it had way more frames, and I didn't want to stretch anyone's dash.
Slideluck Potshow 14 highlights
Jonathan Torgovnik & MediaStorm presented a slideshow last friday, above is
the full 14 minute multimedia piece. It is hard to watch. It is amazing. Here is
an article from Paper Magazine.
“Philomena with her daughter, Juliette” by Jonathan Torgovnik
“Today, I have a big challenge. I am a mother but feel unwilling to be a mother. I don’t love this child. Whenever I look at this child, the memories of rape return. Whenever I look at her, I imagine those men holding my legs open. I understand that she is innocent, and I try to love her, but I fail. I don´t love her like a mother ought to love her child. I don´t see a future for her. I have asked God to forgive me. Maybe, with time, I will love this daughter of mine. But for now, no. Sometimes, I regret not aborting, other times, because she is the only daughter I am going to have in my life, I don’t regret it.
For a long time, I really hated God. I asked myself, why did people die? Why did my family die? Why this extreme violence? Why am I HIV positive? Where was God? Why did he let it happen?
Boys will be girls, as they say in Sweden, especially if you're Toys R Us. The firm's Swedish franchise has been through its Christmas catalogue and made it gender-neutral. Boys now pucker up to the camera clutching baby dolls. Girls wave guns at the reader to reassure us that females can be violent too. It is difficult to be surprised. Sweden's anti-discrimination laws are as bizarre as they are magical. Hairdressers are not allowed to vary their prices based on gender, putting up the price of a short-back-and-sides towards the £50 mark. Taxis which used to offer special rates to single women going home late at night have been told to stop. Women can swim topless in public pools unless there is a law to require men cover their nipples. Stockholm District Court recently ruled that pregnancy was an illness. Activists are pushing to end gender specific pronouns in the language. More men than women now complain to the discrimination ombudsman. How effective is this? Well, men still earn 35pc more than women at 20, which narrows to 24pc at 60 years old. This is despite women being better educated and a culture which strongly discourages stay-at-home mothers. Women face the highest rate of rape in Europe and a high rate of domestic violence (although lower than the British rate).
Thomas Pascoe
We need to stop laughing at political correctness; it's long since ceased being funny.
Not often a list of previous convictions makes my jaw drop, but try this. Age 14, this girl has two convictions for racially aggravated common assault, a battery, two ABH's, witness intimidation, an "ordinary" common assault and perverting the course of justice. Born in 1998 - "tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime" clearly worked, didn't it? Oh, and she has the usual army of key workers, care workers, YOT workers, social workers in train too. This is called a "multi-agency" approach, AKA throwing money at it and hoping it will go away.
A barrister* friend, who shall remain anonymous
*Defence or prosecuting lawyer (for our colonial cousins)