Charlotte 🔮👻🎃😈

34. She/Her. UK. 💖💜💙 🌈🍖 🔞

[The_War_Economy @The_War_Economy]

Just so we're clear on how absolutely stupid the British Government is.

When a petition is signed with over 2 million people saying No to Digital ID, it gets ignored.

When 9000 people answer an online, unadvertised survey, suddenly it's "overwhelming support".

[Charlotte 🔮👻🎃😈 @xclcbx]

@JoeMerrick I go straight to serebii to make sure I’m not giving those thieves any traffic. I appreciate all the hard work you do for us fans 🫡

[Ninja Sex Party @ninjasexparty]

THANK YOU Birmingham for bringing TASTEFULNESS!!!!!

[Dr Jay Watts @Shrink_at_Large]

There has been a recall of SERTRALINE 100mg tablets batch number V2500425.
The regulator said 81,872 packs are included in the recall. Please check if you are on Sertraline. Thank you.

[Mike Drucker @MikeDrucker]

The names of kings have been worn away by the sands of time. Gods once feared are forgotten. Monuments to the immortality of civilizations now shattered into the cobblestones of another. But one man shall survive forever because he was a really, really shitty copper merchant.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

She was supposed to attend a Daniel Craig film premiere in London that weekend. Instead, she was in a Belfast hospital with 39 separate injuries. She was 29 years old.

Winnie M Li was a Harvard graduate and a George Mitchell Scholar who had co-produced a short film shortlisted for an Oscar. She flew to Belfast for a conference. The day before she was supposed to fly home, she decided to squeeze in a solo hike through a forest park on the western edge of the city. A 15-year-old boy followed her in and raped her in broad daylight.

She later said she went from being a confident woman to a ghost, with PTSD and depression so severe she had to give up her film career. Her attacker was sentenced to 8 years. He was out in 4.

Hiking had been one of her great joys before the attack. It took years before she could do it alone again. In 2009, she forced herself to backpack through Southeast Asia for three months, trying to find the person she used to be. Five and a half years after the assault, she sat down and started writing about what happened to her. Her novel Dark Chapter, built from her own experience, won a major literary prize. Her second novel was fought over by five US publishers and picked by The New York Times for their book club. She co-founded a festival in London dedicated to conversations about sexual violence, and earned a PhD from the London School of Economics studying how survivors use their voices to reclaim their stories.

And every year, on the exact anniversary of the worst day of her life, she goes on a solo hike. In her own words: to remind herself that beauty still exists, and she can enjoy it.

This year was year 18. She walked the Southwest Coast Path along England's coastline, and the photos show her smiling on a cliff in Cornwall. After 17 years of doing this, she said the nausea and anxiety on the anniversary are finally gone. That took 17 years, but she got there.

I have nothing to add to her story except this. If you are in the middle of your own recovery and it feels like it will never end, her 18 years of annual walks say otherwise.

[Mr Demos of Pnyx @gem_ste]

Reminded of one of the all time great tweets.

[AA ⚡️ @AAStack]

“Nobody wants to work anymore.”

Wrong.

People just do not want to:

- Work 60 hours and still be broke
- Miss their kids growing up
- Get raises smaller than inflation
- Save in a currency printed out of thin air
- Answer emails on weekends
- Get replaced the second margins get tight
- Spend half their paycheck on rent
- Need debt just to survive
- Watch groceries, insurance, and housing go up faster than their income

People do not hate work.

They hate giving everything and getting nowhere.

[Charlotte 🔮👻🎃😈 @xclcbx]

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[roxy demento @falseroxy]

okay honestly as someone who watched a lot of ANTM, i do feel complicit. i don't know if i could have stopped her because i never tried. i was too afraid of miss jay and jay manuel killing me with a crossbow.

[Avery Edison @aedison]

babe wake up tyra banks is trying to claim we the audience have culpability for the extremely weird stuff she did on antm, like the show was a funny games-esque indictment of the viewer and their voyeuristic desires

[Charlotte 🔮👻🎃😈 @xclcbx]

@educationgovuk How incredibly tone deaf. You’re a government department, not a business trying to drum up social media attention. Try actually taking care of the staff that make all of this possible.

[Supertanskiii @supertanskiii]

Well done to the Met for arresting Led By Donkeys because it’ll guarantee that the projection of two rapist nonces on Windsor castle, is broadcast globally.

Google the Streisand effect you Orwellian bellends.

[keegan @FranziaMom]

My wife is a therapist and part of her job is working with child victims of crimes. The biggest red flag that a child is going to die from abuse is them being pulled from public school and beginning “homeschooling” mid year.

[Charlotte 🔮👻🎃😈 @xclcbx]

That’s Simon Farnaby! #maskedsingeruk