oh, you silly little daffodil.

My stepmother did NOT like the way her Libertarian Viking Neighbor framed pregnancy as the fetus "attacking the woman". She incredulously told him this was extremely disrespectful to expectant mothers to portray pregnancy as so violent and negative.

Libertarian Viking Neighbor's response was that people consensually hurt each other all the time, and "there's like a whole community about that, with the acronym the one that starts with a B" And his reasoning was that if the mother was consenting to bring attacked by the baby, it in fact wasn't violent and negative because there was consent.

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A cat is a small creature in the middle of the food chain that is fully aware that you are a very large thing that could stomp its head in at any moment and yet it chooses to rest its tiny little head on your leg for a nap and spreads out on the floor near you exposing its belly and its most sensitive organs. It brings dead mice and bugs to you to share food.

Don’t you get it? This tiny thing trusts you. It wants to help you too. It licks your leg thinking that it’s helping. It kneads on you to find comfort. It shares its body warmth with you in the cold and gives you your space in the heat. It hisses at other mammals it sees outside including other cats in an effort to protect its family.

"Absolutely no one comes to save us but us."

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16 embroidery patches for the following pride flags: asexual, aromantic, rainbow, bisexual, lesbian, gay, non-binary, transgender, demisexual, and genderfluid.

Here's National Rail, the actual UK train journey website with actual prices:

As Maia says, we're pushing £20 depending on time of day, AND you have to factor in return train times, too. The UK also has a cost of living crisis right now, featuring - among other things - the literal highest utility bills in the entire world. The gap between rich and poor is enormous, and getting bigger.

My living budget (for absolutely everything other than rent/internet/power) is £100 a week. An equivalent distance for me would be London. I can get to a cheap gig in London maybe four times a year, by saving hard and skipping stuff that isn't absolutely essential, like 'second-hand shoes from Vinted because my Converse haven't actually fallen apart yet so that's fine right', and making it worthwhile by spending All Day in London so I'm kind of exhausted before I even get to the gig. And I still have to get from Kings Cross to wherever the gig actually is. If I'm lucky and the trains are all on time, I might get home from a London gig just in time to have to walk two miles home from the station because the city buses stop running at midnight.

Liverpool, a place I lived and studied in for 11 years of my life, is one of the poorest cities in the UK. There were kids from very poor areas who'd go on school trips to the museums in the city centre, a classic school trip for any child, who'd never been to the city centre before because their parents couldn't afford a bus ticket. A lot of kids go to school early for breakfast club because their parents can't afford to feed them. £25 ($33) for one person, for a return ticket to the next city, from a specific station, without factoring in travel from their home (bus/another train/taxi) which can be another £5-10 ($7-15), and without factoring in the cost of doing anything like eating/drinking/attending an event (anywhere between £20 ($27) (for a very cheap meal out) to £70 ($95) for a cheap concert ticket) or even another train/taxi/bus on the other side (another £5-10). You're looking at £55 ($75) for one trip at minimum (£115/$156 for the slightly more expensive - minus food before or after a concert for which you can add another £20/$27 on top) for people that don't have huge amounts of money to begin with. That is expensive.

The earliest name we know from oral history is an Egyptian king named Iry-Hor, the earliest name we have written down is a Sumerian accountant called Kushim. The earliest known author is a Sumerian priestess named Enheduanna. Another name we have from that period is Enmebaragesi. I probably forgot some other beautiful names in this directly-from-wikipedia list. We can't look further back, but there is nothing to suggest that we were less capable of giving each other beautiful complex names.