Labour are having a radical week. Not necessarily for what you think.
They’ve introduced measures to stop MPs having Second jobs (or 9).
They’re also introducing a restriction on donations to political parties from foreign donors.
Change is coming.
Expect loud noise.
@real_amos@oliviazao A grant was given out if parents earnt below a salary threshold. Otherwise you could take out a maintenance loan (which I did). Not a perfect system though as retired parents meant someone could take the full grant.
The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.
I was born in 1961 too.
And this version of the past is a myth.
Kids did have food allergies we just didn’t have the science to name them.
I lost a brother before he was two because medicine didn’t yet understand what allergy killed him.
Trans kids didn’t “not exist.”
They hid. They were shamed. Many never survived adolescence.
Violence didn’t start with social media.
Bullying, racism, misogyny, and abuse were simply normalized and ignored.
Families didn’t stay together because things were better
they stayed together because women and children had fewer choices.
And no, it wasn’t just “Merry Christmas.”
We said Happy Holidays. Season’s Greetings. Yuletide.
Nobody lost their mind. Nobody felt threatened. We just… lived.
I rode buses and subways too
they weren’t magically safer.
We just didn’t talk about what happened on them.
What really changed wasn’t people.
It was visibility.
Data replaced denial.
Voices replaced silence.
And accountability replaced nostalgia.
The past wasn’t safer.
It was quieter because suffering had nowhere to go.
I don’t want a time machine.
I want a future where we stop confusing silence with peace.
Stop being such a boomer.
The default assumption is that men are strong. But when women are also strong they therefore *must* be men. Because being a strong woman is just inconceivable. Totally unfathomable.