Further context: Durham city council (Reform UK) cut funding and support for Pride. The Durham Miner's Association and other trade unions raised enough money for Durham Pride 2026 to go ahead - a direct call back to when Lesbian and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) raised money for mining communities when Margaret Thatcher seized union funding during the miner strikes of 1984-85.
At the 1985 Labour party meet, the motion to support LGBT rights as a party was passed due to a block vote from mining unions.
Stephen Guy, the chair of the Durham Miners’ Association, said that when it became apparent Durham Pride was under threat, he took it upon himself to “encourage the trade union movement to step up and do the right thing, and stand shoulder to shoulder with the LGBT+ community […] They not only raised funds for us, but came to our communities, uplifted our spirits when they were down, and showed their solidarity.”
guys, she can keep performing, she just has to cow to the brand and give up her identity and redesign all her shit despite the fact that they’re both named after a geographical region! the brand simply MUST have first dibs and then the human can live her little life or whatever!! why are you guys so excited to suck corporate boot? am i going fucking crazy? again?
Most popular Jack the Ripper theories from ripperologists just blame immigrants, but personally I think it was British empire soldiers...guys who'd just come back from committing massacres in Africa and Asia and figured, why stop now?
The British army committed tons of mutilations during the massacres they committed in colonial times. Removing breasts and mutilating uteruses has been recorded before. In India, in Kenya etcetera.
It's silly to think Jack the Ripper was just some random blue-collar worker from Poland instead of a soldier who probably just came back from the Xhosa Wars, for example.
And Xhosa Wars happened about a decade before the first Whitechapel murder.
when a government bans young people from using social media, and then categorises messenger apps like Signal and WhatsApp as "social media", they are pushing those young people toward using text messages, a fundamentally insecure form of communication. texts are not encrypted in transit and can be read by both the sender's mobile carrier and the recipient's. that also means they can be leaked in data breaches, subpoenaed, or just handed over willingly to law enforcement at the carriers' discretion.
Psych is such a weird show bc in a lot of ways it's constantly asking, "can you forgive your father? even tho he could never forgive you, can you forgive him?" and the thing he could never forgive you for was not meeting his exact very specific expectations. And the answer keeps being yes you can, because not doing so is worse. You tried and it hurt more. You tried and it made you more miserable. You forgive him because he's all you have most of the time, and its somehow less complicated than whatever you have going on with your mom. You can forgive him but you can't forget, and then one day he realizes that he was wrong and there was nothing he should have taken as a slight about you, but you both just never acknowledge this paradigm shift in your relationship bc it'd be more awkward then fighting again for the millionth time. So things get better but you never say why, you never acknowledge it unless forced and somehow you forgive him more than your mom who you were never even half as mad at.
But also it's about breaking and entering into sea world and making a janitor think you killed your best friend so you can escape, it's about gaslighting your coworkers into thinking you are the dumbest man alive, it's about only closing a mystery when it's as funnt as possible and making sure everyone else around you is as baffled as possible. It's about childhood and nostalgia and growing up in the most chaotic way you can. It's about people being killed with a t-rex skull, it's about slapstick and committing to the bit and being the silliest messiest bisexual on tv in 2006-2014.
It's about a son and his father and forgiveness and somehow also they are in a circus tent trying to find out why a corpse was launched from a cannon. And also there's an extended musical episode that makes it onto my personal Spotify year after year
I encourage anyone who wonders things like "Why does the DPRK hate the United States so much?" or "Why would the United States lie about North Korea?" to, well, first of all, cultivate a sense of empowered investigative curiosity about the world around them, but secondly, to just go to the wikipedia page for The Korean War and check under the "civilian casualties" section.
actually here I'll just drop a screenshot
I want you try to envision that number. The population of the DPRK in 1954 is cited by various Western sources as being between 7.7 million - 10.2 million, however more contemporary sources seem to lean towards the larger number (7.7 million was estimated by the CIA in 1954)
If we say 10 million people, with 1.5 million casualties. That's 15% of the post-war population. 15%. That's a little more frequent than 1 in 7. Imagine one out of every 7 people you know being killed. This study estimates that the median individual has a social network of about 470 people. Rounding down, 15% of that is 70 people. Imagine 70 people out of everyone you know personally being killed. 15% is massive. It's a genuinely sickening and horrific figure.
In comparison, in WWII, according to Wikipedia the UK had a casualty rate of .94% of their 1939 population, and the USSR had a casualty rate closer with 13.7% of their 1940 population.
The United States is a hulking behemoth of death and cruelty and genocide. It is a machine dedicated to one thing, which is the extraction of power and profit at the cost of any amount of human life. Like all bourgeois imperialist powers, it is a mechanism for the transmutation of innocent human life directly into political-economic power.
Moreover, The United States of America must be destroyed.
Americans expect everyone they've bombed to smithereens and genocided beyond recognition to leave it as water under the bridge and be grateful to share the earth with them, just like all the countries they've muzzled and domesticated
Hi everyone, very different post from me today but I had to rescue this kitten from my engine bay this morning and could use help getting the basics from him and vet care down the line! I've attached images of the exact things I'd lime to get for clarity. If anyone can spare a few dollars to help that would be appreciated! And if not shares are also more than welcome!!
Idk if Smoke n Stack would be considered Tumblr Sexymen on the basis they too unapologetically Black 🤷🏾♀️
Like yall very much make that a clear requirement for this stuff. If they brown skinned, they better be ambiguous leaning more towards some tanned white guy. Yall love the New Orleans, Cab Calloway magician vibe of Dr. Facilier. Yall just prefer it on the red emo scene twink you can view as white just to be safe 😒
Although not going by the term "asexual" yet, asexuality was spoken about alongside homosexuality as far back as the 1890s. Asexual history is just as vital to queer history as any other term and I'm so tired of watching us being treated like a new thing
tumblr having a "if your blog gets nuked*, every single image you've ever posted - including those in reblogs on other people's posts, including those that are entirely safe for work - gets permanently deleted from existence and marked with a big 'this image has been removed because it was posted by a yucky tranny' marker" policy should make anyone suspicious if not outright hateful toward staff. but i feel like 99% of people just ignore it or even laugh at it and move on.
*nuked here refers to a specific type of blog deletion. its not deactivation (where someone deletes their blog themselves) or getting terminated (where all your images and post still exist and can still be circulated). its specifically a special type of deletion with no appeal available and suspiciously often used against trans women or other minority groups. and it permanently wipes your blog and any reblog additions you ever made, replacing everything you ever posted with the big fat mature content label.
Israel's attacks have been relentless since the eve of Eid al-Adha on Tuesday, May 26. Just yesterday the head of anesthesia at Al-Yafa Medical Hospital was killed in an attack that injured three others. Over 50% of hospitals in Gaza are nonfunctional. Even when Palestinians survive attacks, treatment is limited and medical bills are expensive.
This targeting of healthcare workers and infrastructure is the reason my friend Fadel needs to raise funds for medical evacuation to a hospital outside of Gaza to surgically remove shrapnel that embedded in his body during the Israeli airstrike that destroyed his home while he was inside.
Fadel (@fadel-dani) is currently struggling to afford his hospital bills. He is being treated for severe anemia and malnutrition as a result of long term food insecurity and being unable to afford his monthly medication to treat his blood disorder. He suffers from frequent fainting and collapses unconscious, leaving his family terrified that he has died from starvation. Please help him.
DOCTOR WHO IS BEING CANCELLED BECAUSE OF DISINFORMATION CAMPAIGNS FUNNELLED THROUGH PEOPLE. LIKE. YOU.
YOU WANT THE DEATH OF THE BBC. FUCK YOU. YOU WANT DISENFRANCHISED AND POOR KIDS TO GROW UP IN A WORLD WITHOUT THE ARTS AND WITHOUT EASY TO ACCESS EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMES. YOU WANT UPCOMING ARTISTS TO DIE.
IT IS THE MOST PROGRESSIVE SHOW IN THE WORLD.
YOU. HATE. THAT.
YOU HATE PUBLIC BROADCASTING.
YOU ARE A USEFUL IDIOT FOR TORIES. FUCK. YOU.
AND FUCK INTO THE VOID.
Teaboo teaboo! Your tears fill me with glee-aboo!
Couldn't much care less about fascist BBC-aboo!
Tories can only make another defunding decree-aboo
'Cause you stupid fucking Brits keep electing them constantly-aboo
Results on an international test of adults' math and literacy skills show a growing chasm between the highest and lowest performers.
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By Sarah Schwartz
Test after test of U.S. students’ reading and math abilities have shown scores declining since the pandemic.
Now, new results show that it’s not just children whose skills have fallen over the past few years—American adults are getting worse at reading and math, too.
The connection, if any, between the two patterns isn’t clear—the tests aren’t set up to provide that kind of information. But it does point to a populace that is becoming more stratified by ability at a time when economic inequality continues to widen and debates over opportunity for social mobility are on the rise.
The findings from the 2023 administration of the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies, or PIAAC, show that 16- to 65-year-olds’ literacy scores declined by 12 points from 2017 to 2023, while their numeracy scores fell by 7 points during the same period.
These trends aren’t unique in the global context: Of the 31 countries and economies in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development that participated in PIAAC, some saw scores drop over the past six years, while others improved or held constant.
Still, as in previous years, the United States doesn’t compare favorably to other countries: The country ranks in the middle of the pack in literacy and below the international average in math. (Literacy and numeracy on the test are scored on a 500-point scale.)
But Americans do stand out in one way: The gap between the highest- and lowest-performing adults is growing wider, as the top scorers hold steady and other test takers see their scores fall.
“There’s a dwindling middle in the United States in terms of skills,” said Peggy Carr, the commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics, which oversees PIAAC in the country. (The test was developed by the OECD and is administered every three years.)
It’s a phenomenon that distinguishes the United States, she said.
“Some of that is because we’re very diverse and it’s large, in comparison to some of the OECD countries,” Carr said in a call with reporters on Monday. “But that clearly is not the only reason.”
American children, too, are experiencing this widening chasm between high and low performers. National and international tests show the country’s top students holding steady, while students at the bottom of the distribution are falling further behind.
It’s hard to know why U.S. adults’ scores have taken this precipitous dive, Carr said.
About a third of Americans score at lowest levels
PIAAC is different from large-scale assessments for students, which measure kids’ academic abilities.
Instead, this test for adults evaluates their abilities to use math and reading in real-world contexts—to navigate public services in their neighborhood, for example, or complete a task at work. The United States sample is nationally representative random sample, drawn from census data.
American respondents averaged a level 2 of 5 in both subjects.
In practice, that means that they can, for example, use a website to find information about how to order a recycling cart, or read and understand a list of rules for sending their child to preschool. But they would have trouble using a library search engine to find the author of a book.
In math, they could compare a table and a graph of the same information to check for errors. But they wouldn’t be able to calculate average monthly expenses with several months of data.
While the U.S. average is a level 2, more adults now fall at a level 1 or below—28 percent scored at that level in literacy, up from 19 percent in 2017, and 34 percent in numeracy, up from 29 percent in 2017.
Respondents scoring below level 1 couldn’t compare calendar dates printed on grocery tags to determine which food item was packed first. They would also struggle to read several job descriptions and identify which company was looking to hire a night-shift worker.
The findings also show sharp divides by race and national origin, with respondents born in the United States outscoring those born outside of the country, and white respondents outscoring Black and Hispanic test takers. Those trends have persisted over the past decade.
There can be multiple factors, from fewer teachers (who are therefore stretched more thin) to teachers who don't know how to teach with ai so common and easily accessible, to kids using ai instead of learning, to, yes, social media (hasn't it been shown to substantially increase stress and reduce attention span and ability to retain information?) And kids don't exactly have a whole lot of stress outlets these days (not that there were a ton when I was in hs, but there were earlier in my schooling), either.
Not to mention the stress from politics, gun violence, increased police presence in our schools, ICE in general, more severe weather patterns (which stress the body out), and on and on and on.
Yes, covid absolutely plays a part. But it's also not the only reason, and if we ignore the other reasons, we can't advocate for improvements to help kids in all the ways they need.
Editing because I forgot half of what I was trying to say: most of this applies to adults. I can't find it in myself to weave it into what I already wrote because it's the middle of the night, but all of these things, on top of covid ofc, fuck with adults too.
Recognising multiple sources of this decline is critical to fixing it.
COVID-19 does not just affect the respiratory system, but also significantly alters the brain in people who have fully recovered from the in
I SURE AM GLAD PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO BACK-SEAT AND FORGET ABOUT COVID AND THE FACT IT'S STILL INFECTING HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS EACH YEAR, ESPECIALLY IN THE CONTEXT OF KIDS LEARNING AND REMEMBERING SHIT.
Yeah I'm *totally* saying white people are superior and your understanding of this isn't at all tinted by your inability to understand what privilege represents on a granular level. White privilege is better schools which was causing disparity long before covid. White privilege is access to better doctors and jobs that pay for insurance and give time off, which was creating disparity long before covid White privilege is access to privare tutoring and childcare which was causing disparity long before covid. Covid did (*and continues to*) hammer a wedge into this preexisting disparity.
Me pointing out that non-white people are most likely to suffer from the worst long-term effects of continued persistent covid infections due in part to existing societal and systemic racism is *totally* me saying white children are superior.
"cultural inclination to practice" fuck off with your hitler particles, goddamn brownshirt.
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