Lime Bikes have literally transformed my experience of London for the better more than any other single piece of public infrastructure built in my lifetime. Vast chunks of London hacked down from 45 minutes to 15 minutes away. We just need to improve the algorithm and mapping so it slowly down automatically on all pavements and other safety features. This already happens in a few heritage areas like St James Park.
as a trans women you want friends that either have a fully developed transfeminist consciousness or people who heard the phrase "trans women are women" ten years ago and went "ok" and had no further thoughts on the matter
I think of myself as someone with a wide mental library & a brain good at making inobvious connections, but every time this guy posts I'm just in awe
the phrase "lipstick on a pig" has always inspired a deep sadness in me. I think of the pig, looking forward to her big night out, and I bring myself to the verge of tears.
51% of female heroin users being injected for the first time by a male sexual partner is such a disgusting statistic you just have to sit in horror for a minute… Like oh my god
this exactly why I’ve reached the point where if a man consistently uses violence against women in an artistic manner or even jokingly fantasizes or jokes about killing a woman it’s a red flag😭 violence against women & girls is just too rampant to make excuses for these niggas
UK Salary discourse in this country is always mental because, seemingly no matter what number it is, someone will come out as saying it’s basically unliveable to live on or extravagantly wealthy.
On the first day of my medical house job in 1991, the registrar said to me: "You will quickly start to think you're irreplaceable. You're not. Remember that. If you get hit by a bus tomorrow, the consultant will look round and say 'Didn't we used to have a house officer? Get me another one!'"
The thing is that I’ll go to the pub with friends and have a few drinks and a laugh and it’ll be great and the next day I’ll be walking through London and see some people having a few drinks and a laugh outside the pub and feel that I am forever excluded from the joys of life