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Hey y'all. I'm a black trans woman in need of help with a few bills and some food. I expect a larger payout from teaching this monthbut I still expect to be 200 short on rent. As well as my phone and internet bills coming up. I've had no new donations in a week.

i (type 1 diabetic) was explaining autoimmune diseases to someone and she was like ohh right so yours is the good kind of diabetes where you didn't do it to yourself. to which i objected that's not how type 2 works either. and she said well that's the fat old people disease. and i was like you can't say that, a) not how it works and b) extremely rude. and her defense was her grandparents have type 2 and "did it to themselves" and since they're fat old people she reserves the right to hate on them. i understand hating shitty grandparents but YOU are the shitty one here to hate on them for their medical conditions and weight rather than literally anything else. hello?!

On this day, 17 August 1909, Indian revolutionary Madan Lal Dhingra was executed by the British for his assassination of Sir Curzon Wyllie, an army officer and head of the secret police, who was trying to uncover and defeat anti-colonial activists. While Dhingra was supported by anarchist Guy Aldred, who was sentenced to 12-months' hard labour for publishing a sympathetic article about him, Mohandas Gandhi condemned him, stating: "In my view, he has acted like a coward". On trial, Dhingra refused to acknowledge the authority of the court, and stated "I hold the English people responsible for the murder of eighty millions of Indian people in the last fifty years, and they are also responsible for taking away ₤100,000,000 every year from India to this country." Learn more about the British Empire and resistance to it in this book: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/insurgent-empire-anticolonial-resistance-and-british-dissent-priyamvada-gopal

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