Went to our first wedding fair today... Man these things are so traditional and super heteronormative (should have expected no less tbh) but it just solidified what I don't want at all.
@sortedfood Hey folks just an FYI you're checkout is being super strange, not allowing autofill and then not letting me type my card details. Happy to send a screen recording if it helps! ❤️
“We will not blame him for the crimes of his ancestors if he relinquishes the royal rights of his ancestors; but as long as he claims their rights, by virtue of descent, then, by virtue of descent, he must shoulder the responsibility for their crimes.” —James Connolly on George V
Genuine love and solidarity for those who’ve experienced the direct or indirect effects of a brutal colonial regime, who now have to witness an outpouring of grief never offered to those whose lives were destroyed or ended by colonial violence
I’ve made some people very very angry by saying that
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taxpayers’ money would be better spent feeding the poor than funding unnecessarily extravagant state events.