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Free Palestine from Hamas and the Palestinian Authority. Give them democracy.
Woman Life Freedom. Free Iran!
Free Ukraine! Russia is a terrorist state.
Free Kurdistan!
Free Sudan!
Free Tibet!
Romani people are still oppressed.
ICE are murderers, and the US immigration system needs to be dismantled entirely.
Trans women are women, trans men are men, and non-binary people are non-binary.
Intersex people deserve to be respected and given proper medical care. And intersex issues need to be discussed in their own context without connecting them to trans people.
Sex work is real work. We need to protect the people who choose to go into sex work while protecting the victims of trafficking. The only way to protect people who want to leave sex work is to protect people who want to be in sex work.
Vaccines are good and should be mandatory with rare, medical exemptions.
People know themselves best and can define their identities best. Don't tell people how they should call themselves. If someone isn't causing active harm, they're fine. Just let people live and stop worrying about he/him lesbians or whatever. Let people choose their own pronouns.
All human beings are equally valuable. All human beings deserve human rights. Yes, even those people.
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i think retail workers should be allowed to track down every customer who takes stuff out of the fridges or freezers and leaves it in a decidedly non-refridgirated aisle, go into those customers' houses while the customers aren't home, and take everything out of their fridge and freezer and leave it out in the open
Words/phrases I often see from British/Australian writers while writing American characters (and some American alternatives because I know itβs tricky!):
Bugger (American: fuck/fucker)
Flat (American: apartment, βmy placeβ)
Bloke (American: guy, asshole, dude)
Queue (American: line, checkout line)
Cuppa (American: cup of tea, hot tea)
Shite (American: bullshit, shit, crap)
Some of these are regional, like all of the various American words for the British βtrolleyβ (American: shopping cart, buggy, cart, etc) but most of the above words are pretty ubiquitous.
We have once again reached the lowered reading comprehension section of the replies. Friends! Please reread the above. There were no value judgements made above. You can continue to use inaccurate terminology for your characters if you choose.
What this is flagging is that the words you are usingβin dialogue or narration from an American POVβdonβt fit what we use here. and if thatβs something that concerns you, or if you want your readers not to get hung up on (to steal an example from the comments) βWhy is Midwesterner Dean Winchester talking about a torch??β, these are the words we actually use.
We know what you mean when you use your terminology. Weβre saying your American characters would not use those words, so here are the alternatives should you choose to care.
Also in regards to 'cuppa'/tea hot tea, most amercians (regardless of region many of the time) would ask "Would you like something to drink?" and then some might ask "Would you like a glass of water?"
And still some would give options.
That's a more natural and normal thing many ask of their friends or guests in their home.
If it's in an effort to calm some people down: It's always Water offered.
Also if it's an informal meeting among friends, "I got" or "I've got" is going to be how the drinks are offered:
"Hey, you want something to drink? I've got water, coffee, tea, orange juice and I think there's some Coke left."
On which note, there is a battle over whether it's soda, pop, or Coke (and then you have contrarians like me who say soda pop). If you're in the South, "would you like a Coke?" "Yeah, Sprite if you have it" is a completely normal and not contradictory statement.
ALSO-ALSO
Lemonade = drink made from fresh lemon juice, water, and a shitload of sugar. Some people add strawberries and then it's strawberry lemonade or pink lemonade. I have met Aussies and Brits in real life who've tried to compensate by using "lemon-lime." That will not work here. At best you'll get a glass of water with a wedge each of lemon and lime. What you want is Sprite. You may be told that what's available is Starry (in pre-2023 fics, Sierra Mist) or, rarely (except in MUCH older fics, like early 90s and before), 7-Up. It's the same drink you've got across the pond as lemonade, but it only goes by brand name over here.
I've also been told that the prevalence of using brand names for items in the US is somewhat bizarre--other places do it, but not to the extent we do. So:
Paper tissue to blow your nose on -> kleenex
Skip -> dumpster
Copy machine or copies made by machine -> 1990s only, Xerox (also a verb: can you xerox that?).
Go to the grocery store -> run to [local supermarket name]. Your best bet here is going to be to look up "grocery store [state name]." In much of the Deep South it'll be Piggly-Wiggly and just about everywhere you can look for "Kroger" and "Albertsons" and there will be a regional chain under their corporate umbrella. PLEASE NOTE YOU CAN'T MIX AND MATCH THESE. If you say "King Sooper" in my state, only someone who has family in Washington will have any idea what you're talking about.
Cotton swabs you use in your ears or to apply makeup -> Q-tips
Plasters = bandaids
The calcium stuff you can chew for heartburn and indigestion -> Tums or Rolaids
Bleach -> can absolutely be called bleach, but if it's before the 2000s you can add some authenticity by calling it Clorox
Any round chocolate cookie sandwich with cream filling -> Oreos
Toaster pastries -> Pop-Tarts
Energy drink -> Monster or Rockstar. There are other brands available (most predominantly Red Bull) but you'll want to ask for them by name. Flavors are usually identified by colors. You don't want the no-carb Rockstar, you want the blue one.
Beer -> you will always order this by name, and if you're getting Budweiser, it's a Bud. The one exception is if you're looking for local brews, and then you'll ask for it by type: "what do you have for IPAs/dark beer/light beer?" (In some places you can say ale or lager. Those places are not going to be your neighborhood dive bar.) If you're here in the Southwest and order a Corona it may come with a lime stuck in the neck of the bottle. Push it in.
Other alcohols -> the exception to this rule. You ask for it by type and then name your brand if you have a preference. If you have no preference, you can just say "house brand" (this will usually be a common decent-but-cheap brand like Jose Cuervo, Jack Daniels, or Smirnoff). Mixed drinks are more common than plain alcohol and are usually just referred to as "a drink" in general and by name in particular ("let's get a drink," "I'd like a Long Island iced tea"). A whiskey-Coke is a Jack and Coke. Plain alcohols are ordered by shots ("a shot of vodka").
And finally: our regional dialects aren't quite as insane as the UK (they're at least mostly mutually intelligible), but if you're writing anything involving spy work or undercover work, I cannot recommend highly enough getting a beta from the place your characters are from (not the place they're working). Just a fun example for you: I'm from the Great Lakes region. If the Winchesters ordered drinks from me and tried to play that they were lifelong residents, I'd know they were lying immediately. Because where I'm from, it's pop. They'd say soda. You don't have to go that extra mile, but if you do it'll open up some great story opportunities to you.
Food is also highly regional! Shrimp n grits is southern only (as far west as texas). Cream of wheat is new England (?). I have no idea if the west coast or the Midwest have an equivalent to "dried ground staple cereal slow cooked and topped with fixings."
Collards (aka boiled collards or collard greens) are huge in the south, particularly poor communities (or, more recently, gentrified communities a la avacado toast) but not eeally elsewhere. They put in a ham hock for salty fatty richness and boil for a long time.
We've got so many immigrant food staples too, "americanized" not because we wanted bigger meals, but because they adapted to what they had here. Depending on the community, those may now be considered "traditional" versions of the food.
the blue jay outside is mocking the neighbor's dog-- the dog is a purse-sized dog, so he's got high-pitched barks, and the blue jay is mimicking him nearly perfectly, which is pissing the dog off and making the dog bark even more
it would be really funny if it wasn't so fucking annoying to listen to lmao
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And the left gets really mad at you when you state this objective fact like they think you're saying it's a good thing. I would just prefer to deal with reality rather than stick my head in the sand and pretend most Americans are secret socialists waiting for Communist Jesus to save them.
The thing still gets me about the "levant/middle east was all Arab" idea is that... even setting aside Jews. You have to ignore every other people in the area to say this. You have to ignore the Copts and Beduoin and Kurds and Yezidi and Assyrian and Druze and Persians and even fucking Greeks to go with the idea that this entire area was just Arab. In order to deny Jewish origin here, you have to deny everyone else. Because you can go "the levant was Arab and also Persian and also Assyrian before the Jews arrived" because that's not really a united identity destroyed by the Zionists, is it? You'd have to acknowledge all of history and that's just not acceptable. So the area was entirely Arab. That's how it was. Don't question it
but you see, y'all were SUPPOSED TO stay subjugated! AND dispersed! By refusing to do that, you've ruined the narrative! You were SUPPOSED TO stay just a bit-player, a small handful of NPC's in the Arab Conquerer's Story! It's all your fault! Say you're sorry right now!! /s
seriously - they give zero shits about the real history of the region and its many peoples. Root-Cause Analysis not not in them. If they EVER ask, "why?" they'll only do it a very limited number of times, usually just enough to excuse whatever rash/hostile actions they wanna see excused by the side they're already biased towards.
Many of them willfully choose to live with a blind faith in whatever they're told by whomever has authority over them. Their revered figures just couldn't be liars, right?!? It's Divine Will! It MUST BE!!
They are the type of person who values Loyalty over and above Intellectual Honesty & Integrity. Their concept of Honor absolutely requires one to be Loyal before anything else. You're not supposed to ask questions and have your own thoughts!
Transphobia is being signed into law in the UK. Let's fight it together.
I am begging the UK trans community and its allies to attend the rescheduled Mass Lobby at Parliament, now on Wed Sept 9th, 1pm-5pm, organised by Trans Solidarity Alliance.
The law around trans equality is fundamentally broken. Government inaction is hanging trans people and organisations out to dry - with a con
The new EHRC Code of Practice pushes trans people out of toilets, hospital wards, and community spaces. It normalises gender policing based on appearance and stereotypes. It became statutory guidance in the UK on August 5th, 2026.
Trans people are now legally their assigned gender at birth and must join gendered spaces accordingly, but if they are perceived as their lived gender, they can also be ejected from those spaces. The guidance says: either break the law, or donβt pass too well.
A mass lobby is where you invite your MP to discuss your concerns with you in-person. Our demands have changed. Ask your MP to:
Write to Ministers and Prime Minister Andy Burnham to say they are profoundly concerned by the rolling back of trans rights, and that they believe that it is time for Parliament to legislate to protect equality for trans people.
Ask parliamentary questions focused on protecting trans peopleβs rights and defending trans peopleβs abilities to live safe and dignified lives.
Speak up both inside and outside Parliament in defence of trans peopleβs rights.
Meet regularly with trans constituents to understand their lived realities.Β
Your MP does not have to be an ally, they do not have to respond to your email for you to show up and greencard them (details below the cut.) What matters is that as many people as possible show up.
I cannot stress this enough: Showing up in person matters. It is much more effective than petitions, emails, and letters.
We have already had some wins because we took action. The 2026 EHRC guidance has already rolled back its most harmful elements because of mass campaigning by individuals like us, and groups like The Good Law Project. This summer, 166 MPs signed the Early Day Motion 240 to reject the EHRC Code of Practice, because of our campaigning. That is 1 in 4 MPs.
It is a horrible, stressful time, and I am so sorry if you're trans and live in the UK. But I was at last year's mass lobby and the line for greencarding alone stretched around the back gates. It was a record breaking mass lobby and made us impossible to ignore. Let's do even better this time. Details under the cut:
Worried about what to say?
Bring your personal worries about transphobia being signed into law, and trans friends being excluded from public spaces. You are a living person who deserves dignity. Remind your MP of that. On the day, you'll get guidance and brochures from Trans Solidarity Alliance that outlines our demands. This is mine from last year.
Here is an online briefing for lobbyists (10 mins read for essential info, 20 mins for details)
Money issues?
Trans Solidarity Alliance provides a travel bursary that you can sign up for via the link.
Got a refusal or no response from your MP?Β
Come anyway! You can request a same-day appointment with your MP through a process called greencarding. They will come and see you if theyβre already in Parliament. Even if they donβt, theyβre made acutely aware of your cause because you showed up in person. This is my greencard from last year.
Here is the EHRC Code of Practice in full. It's a tough read, but some highlights are:
Organisations canβt provide trans-inclusive, single-sex services, or they risk being sued for discrimination. e.g. domestic violence support for women including trans women, menβs rugby group including trans men (12.68).
Trans people will have nowhere safe to pee. If youβre a trans man, businesses can't allow you to pee in the men's, and you can also be ejected from womenβs bathrooms if youβre perceived as a man. Vice versa for trans women. EHRC suggests a βthird spaceβ bathroom, which is discriminatory and unworkable for most businesses. (13.130-133)
Sports organisations must exclude trans people from single-sex competitions (13.73).Β A womenβs only sports competition must exclude trans women because of their biological advantage or face potential lawsuits (13.74), but a trans man who has undergone testosterone treatment can also be excluded based on fairness rules (13.81).
Trans women are stripped of the legal definition of βlesbianβ, and therefore no longer have legal protections if theyβre discriminated against on the basis of sexual orientation. (2.50, 2.92).
Here is the Good Law Project's better explanation of the EHRC Code.
Sign up for the mass lobby and email your MP here, or click the main link above.
If you are not in the UK but want to support the case, please donate to The Good Law Project.
Save the date and book off work!! I will see you there :))
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I love it when a classicist has clearly gotten so lost in the BCE sauce that their perception of time has become deeply warped. Case in point: the article Iβm currently reading just described the Byzantine era as βa period relatively modern.β
imagine randomly stumbling across Palouse Falls State Park in the middle of bugfuck nowhere single-lane highway and fields in every direction. it could happen to you. it happened to me.
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