#Awful

I was unemployed for ten years. Basically the whole of my 20s. During that period, as now, unemployed people were relentlessly demonized and scapegoated. Including by (then prominent) Labour MPs.
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accidental rambling about aroace feels where I realize that I’m just a fucking cat: tbh idk why y’all think aspecs are in any shape or form cishet... trying to figure
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Studying Gamers: a Thread. My PhD (in Politics) is very often about people that have very different views from me, but who are also gamers. You'd (correctly) guess that this
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.@bbc5live doing phone in on care homes. This lady is talking about her dad dying in a care home. Nicky Campbell asked her to talk about his life to stop
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So I know this drama is like finished and I know some of my friends or followers but I’m gonna thread-ish about this guy besides the BLM and WW2 drama.
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Can we talk about the curse of being a "gifted" kid while having undiagnosed ADHD? Has anyone else survived this specially crafted hell?#adhd #neurodiversesquad Beyond the torment ofADHD symptoms, add
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hasnobody else noticedthat the mainstream medialiterally assigned themselvesthe role of calling US electionsbecauseI don't think that's how the system should worknot saying they called it wrongjustnot how the system should
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Is there ever a "good" time to sit and have an in depth conversation on whether or not existing on this planet is even worth it? I saw a tweet
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out of sheer boredom I will now be listing, off the top of my head, every tv show and movie i remember liking as a kid. they are all wonderful
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Today marks the 105th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide by the Young Turk secularists (namely the Three Pashas). Between 700k to 1.8 million Armenians were massacred over nine years. Young
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I know that a fandom shouldn't be wholly defined by "a few bad apples." So when people say "The OP fandom" or "The Haikyu!! fandom", I'm not talking about every
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The Sims community today (myself included): Like, good for you if you’re excited for this pack, but this is what a majority of the community didn’t want. It’s like EA
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October is Mi'kmaw History Month. Rather than trivia, I end with a story.As you may know, the school in my home community of We'koqma'q is under Mi'kmaw Kina'matnewey jurisdiction and
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New Yorkers have thought all along that the subway was the covid-19 super spreadBut with the panic driven lockdown, authorities took a virus that had already spread widely and forced
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Faith is a thing I don't talk about much. Today Fr. Gerry Byrne the one-time Chaplain at Blackrock Clinic died. He supported my mother when she was dying, and my
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When a poster on Something Awful who has been nothing but a smug douche and troll to me, gets banned from the thread, then goes and makes several new threads
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