A Little OT (sorry) But I Thought It Was Useful To Share With Anyone Who Loves Dogs: Here Is How To Save

God Bless Veneida Smith.

So this whole thing started with this tweet by Twitter user Katie Henry (KT_NRE). I started plowing through newspapers to find every mention of her - and found most that were out there, but a man named Todd Sanders, who had access to Pennsylvania libraries, found quite a few more. All of this takes place in October and November of 1922, before timeskipping to September 1923 (her third escape), October 1923 (her guilty verdict), and March 1924 (her escape attempt with Roxie Starcher).

I have been unable to find her obituary or anything else out there about my new hero.

The Roaring Girls of Queer London

Flashy hooligans like Moll Cutpurse and Long Meg sported broad-brimmed hats, wore “ruffianly short locks,” and carried swords. Other women lived quietly in secret same-sex marriages.

A great, in-depth read  – you may remember Moll Cutpurse from the first Rejected Princesses book. :)

Are you looking forward to a future where we can’t even buy a kitchen/work/craft knife as an adult and have it delivered to your own home? Thanks UK bureaucrats for continuing to babify the nation. Good luck if you live rurally, are disabled, agraphobic, work long hours or can’t for any reason make it in person to a goverment santioned store.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/222776

Ok but as a dysphoric trans man the whole ‘you need dysphoria to be trans’ actually baffles me because even tho I’ve always has crippling dysphoria, it didn’t actually help me figure out my gender at all. I usually dismissed my dysphoria as ‘internalized misogyny’ or just not being feminine enough, which actually just caused me worse dysphoria.

You know what made me figure out that I’m trans though? Gender euphoria. The minute I got called a ‘sir’ is the moment that I realized, “shit this feels right.” And at that point I realized that I could no longer deny the fact that I’m not a woman and that I couldn’t keep living as one.

Here’s a hot take: maybe being trans isn’t so much about how uncomfortable you can be in your AGAB, but rather how much more comfortable you can be.

the notes are broken 😂

Muslims are 'patriotic and law-abiding' but believe in conspiracy theories

Major new survey backed by a Birmingham MP shows British Muslims have same concerns as the rest of society

Interesting study that highlights some important simularities and differences of the British Muslim community.

P.S. I didn’t add that tag

The All-Women Team of Scientists That Trekked to the Heart of Kilauea Volcano's Eruption

As the eruption at Kilauea volcano turned the southeastern corner of Hawaii’s Big Island into a river of lava this summer, residents and tourists were instructed to stay the hell away. An all-women team of scientists from the United Kingdom, however, was asked to do the exact opposite.

“It’s just so cool that [five] women were the best people to call.” - team member Emma Liu.

i’m bisexual and stupid. that’s all i am. god looked at my shitty tiny frame and said, “you’re going to be a little bisexual moron” then released me into the world.