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niyad's JournalI finallly realized what that colour that orange anus currently uses on his face
reminds me of. It is the same colour as one of my favourite marinades, which is equal parts bourbon, soy sauce, Dijon mustard, and honey. I warn people that it looks totally disgusting, the colour rather resembling loose orifice output, but is quite delicious.
Sadly, I may now never use it again.
About the Dems controlling the weather, traitor greene. Do they control it
worldwide? Just in the US? northern hemisphere? If only in the US, how does that work? If worldwide, do they have permission from all the other nations? If so, you are saying other nations are agreeing to deadly weather events, fires, typhoons, etc.?And if not, wouldn't that be considered an act of aggression? How, exactly, do any of these scenarios work?
I realize that these are complicated questions, margie dear, but you are so smart, surely you can explain to my wondering little brain?
Forced to marry their rapist? It occurred to me as I was reading an OP
about "popp'n out babies", just how close we are to this bizarre scenario again (still, in some places). We have "politicians" (otherwise known as misogynist, woman-hating assholes) overturning Roe, denying women health care, insisting that women must stay in violent, abusive marriages, must pop out babies like human pez dispensers, have their menstrual cycles monitored, and have 19A repealed. It isn't too far from there to forcing women tto marry the rapists. The basic thinking is that men should have access to women wherever and whenever they please, women's choices be damned. I can see the incels having a field day.
Over the top? Histrionic? Exaggerated? I don't put one goddamned, woman-hating thing past these bastards. Not one.
The Daily Bi*ch*: "It is not easy to find someone who has all their sh**
together, and when I do, I try to avoid them at all possible costs."
*Both a noun, and a verb, depending on usage.
Something I have never understood. By the time my friends and I get done
minding our own, and each others', business, we have neither the time, the energy, nor the inclination, to mind anyone else's. How do those other people do it? Don't they have families, friends, lives, maybe even jobs? How do they do it? Does the time/space continuum operate differently for them?
Recognising domestic violence as a cause of death: One mother's long fight (trigger warning)
(long, incredibly heartbreaking read)
Recognising domestic violence as a cause of death: One mother’s long fight (trigger warning)
It has taken six years for the grieving mother of a suicide victim to be listened to by the UK authorities.
[Jawahir Al-Naimi/Al Jazeera]
By Scarlet Hannington
Published On 21 Sep 202421 Sep 2024
A talented hairdresser with a knack for convincing people to get dressed up in fancy dress for parties, Jessica Laverack (affectionately known as Jessie) was the youngest of three siblings, owned 52 pets at one point, and warmly jostled with her elder sister for their mother, Phyllis’s, attention, even as adults. In the aftermath of traumatic events, life is often fragmented into “before” and “after”. That was Jessie’s “before”. During the summer of 2017, Jessie, aged 33, fled more than 50 miles from her home in Rotherham in northern England to escape her ex-partner, after two occasions on which he had strangled her.
It was at this moment that a litany of failings from a supposed safety net of professionals, institutions and organisations started racking up, Phyllis, 68, a retired health visitor from East Riding, says she can see in retrospect. South Yorkshire Police had attended the scene in Rotherham in May 2017 when Jessie’s former partner first strangled her – rendering her unconscious – but, according to Phyllis, were “treating Jessie as if she was lying” with “clear gaps in their training”. They referred Jessie to an Independent Domestic Violence Adviser, who then actioned a Multi-Agency Risk Assessment Conference (MARAC) – a review by voluntary and statutory organisations in which they discuss high-risk victims of domestic abuse – as standard procedure.
. . . .
With services and systems of support proving elusive, Jessie saw no escape. She took her own life one Friday in February 2018. Her parents had arrived that morning to finish putting up the wallpaper they had picked out with her just days before.
domestic violence
*********One in eight female suicides or suicide attempts occur as a direct result of domestic violence or abuse, according to the Women and Equality Unit of the United Kingdom’s Office for National Statistics (PDF), while recent data from the National Police Chiefs’ Council (PDF) shows that increasing numbers of domestic abuse victims end up taking their own lives. In four out of five cases where they do, the abuser was already known to the police.*********
. . . .
Shortly after Jessie’s death, Phyllis and her husband moved, in fear of Jessie’s ex-partner finding them. If she hears that her daughter’s perpetrator is in a new relationship that has signs of coercive control or physical abuse, she drives to the nearest police station and makes sure his new partner can access information on him under Clare’s Law, a scheme which enables police to disclose information to a victim or potential victim of domestic abuse about their partner’s or ex-partner’s previous abuse or violent offending. Phyllis believes she is being listened to now, but it’s taken six years since her daughter’s death to get to this point. “I’ve been retelling this story for years now. I’m used to it,” she says. “People always say Jessie would be proud, but she wouldn’t. She’d be so upset and heartbroken that we’re having to go through this.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/9/21/recognising-domestic-violence-as-a-cause-of-death-one-mothers-long-fight
Recognising domestic violence as a cause of death: One mother's long fight (trigger warning)
(long, incredibly heartbreaking read)
Recognising domestic violence as a cause of death: One mother’s long fight (trigger warning)
It has taken six years for the grieving mother of a suicide victim to be listened to by the UK authorities.
[Jawahir Al-Naimi/Al Jazeera]
By Scarlet Hannington
Published On 21 Sep 202421 Sep 2024
A talented hairdresser with a knack for convincing people to get dressed up in fancy dress for parties, Jessica Laverack (affectionately known as Jessie) was the youngest of three siblings, owned 52 pets at one point, and warmly jostled with her elder sister for their mother, Phyllis’s, attention, even as adults. In the aftermath of traumatic events, life is often fragmented into “before” and “after”. That was Jessie’s “before”. During the summer of 2017, Jessie, aged 33, fled more than 50 miles from her home in Rotherham in northern England to escape her ex-partner, after two occasions on which he had strangled her.
It was at this moment that a litany of failings from a supposed safety net of professionals, institutions and organisations started racking up, Phyllis, 68, a retired health visitor from East Riding, says she can see in retrospect. South Yorkshire Police had attended the scene in Rotherham in May 2017 when Jessie’s former partner first strangled her – rendering her unconscious – but, according to Phyllis, were “treating Jessie as if she was lying” with “clear gaps in their training”. They referred Jessie to an Independent Domestic Violence Adviser, who then actioned a Multi-Agency Risk Assessment Conference (MARAC) – a review by voluntary and statutory organisations in which they discuss high-risk victims of domestic abuse – as standard procedure.
. . . .
With services and systems of support proving elusive, Jessie saw no escape. She took her own life one Friday in February 2018. Her parents had arrived that morning to finish putting up the wallpaper they had picked out with her just days before.
domestic violence
*********One in eight female suicides or suicide attempts occur as a direct result of domestic violence or abuse, according to the Women and Equality Unit of the United Kingdom’s Office for National Statistics (PDF), while recent data from the National Police Chiefs’ Council (PDF) shows that increasing numbers of domestic abuse victims end up taking their own lives. In four out of five cases where they do, the abuser was already known to the police.*********
. . . .
Shortly after Jessie’s death, Phyllis and her husband moved, in fear of Jessie’s ex-partner finding them. If she hears that her daughter’s perpetrator is in a new relationship that has signs of coercive control or physical abuse, she drives to the nearest police station and makes sure his new partner can access information on him under Clare’s Law, a scheme which enables police to disclose information to a victim or potential victim of domestic abuse about their partner’s or ex-partner’s previous abuse or violent offending. Phyllis believes she is being listened to now, but it’s taken six years since her daughter’s death to get to this point. “I’ve been retelling this story for years now. I’m used to it,” she says. “People always say Jessie would be proud, but she wouldn’t. She’d be so upset and heartbroken that we’re having to go through this.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/9/21/recognising-domestic-violence-as-a-cause-of-death-one-mothers-long-fight
How the Nation's First Women's Sports Bar Kicked Off a Movement
(a lengthy, but most enlightening read for anyone interested in women's sports and gender equality)
Although I have no interest in sports, if there were such a bar here, it would have at least a bit of my custom!)
How the Nation’s First Women’s Sports Bar Kicked Off a Movement
PUBLISHED 7/30/2024 by Chabeli Carrazana, The 19th
When Jenny Nguyen opened The Sports Bra in 2022, she started a movement: Bars that only show women’s sports. Now, fandom and pay are rapidly growing—and it’s time for the Olympics.
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(Christine Dong / The 19th)
This article was originally published by The 19th.
The place was empty except for Jenny Nguyen and the cable guy, who had just finished hooking up the two TVs. Soon, this small room in Portland, Oregon, would be the nation’s first women’s sports bar. It would rarely know quiet like this again. Nguyen flicked through the TV schedule and found two college women’s basketball games. She put one on each screen, and settled into a brown leather booth across from their twin glows. It didn’t take long for the tears to come.
Nguyen, a former chef, had been playing with the idea of opening a bar dedicated to women’s sports since 2018. But she considered herself risk averse and pretty unambitious. She’d been unemployed for five years. And yet, once the idea took hold, she couldn’t quite shake it. One night in 2021, she had been talking to a woman she was dating who, like Nguyen, had played basketball. (Nguyen played through high school until she tore her ACL at 19.) They envisioned a bar where the TVs only played women’s sports and no one batted an eye. It would be a place for families. How cool it would have been, they thought, to have had a place like that when they were kids or teenagers? What about now, in their 40s? “We both realized that a space like that didn’t exist for us. When I thought about the young me, I thought, ‘God, if we can get one kid in here that could feel represented and feel like there’s a future for them in sports, even if that one kid had that moment, it would be worth it,’” Nguyen said.
When Nguyen launched a Kickstarter campaign for the bar in February 2022, it was fully funded within nine days, ultimately racking up more than $105,000 from 600-plus donors. She found a spot in Portland’s Sullivan’s Gulch neighborhood next to a music shop. Inside, a bar ran along one end of the room and leather benches along the other. A basketball net chandelier hangs near a chalkboard menu listing 21 taps, all beers either made by women or at breweries owned or operated by women. Nguyen crafted a sophisticated bar menu (“Aunt Tina’s Vietna-wings,” a Vietnamese take on chicken wings, and a tempeh Reuben are on offer) and a cheeky cocktail list. The Title IX, one of their signature cocktails, is a mix of bourbon, peach liqueur and mint. Around the entire room: scores of memorabilia—almost all donated—that pay homage to local and national teams. One of Nguyen’s favorites: a quilt of the iconic moment in 1999 when, after her penalty kick clinched the World Cup for the United States, Brandi Chastain ripped off her shirt and knelt on the turf in her sports bra. When “The Sports Bra” popped into Nguyen’s head, she was sure it was the name for her bar, even when people pushed back saying it was, somehow, too risqué. She just thought about it differently. “I wouldn’t change much of what a sports bar is, but I would just change the channel on the TV. So I just took ‘sports bar’ and I switched the two letters,” she said. “The key is: The tiny changes make the biggest difference.”
. . . .
https://msmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/sports-bra-women-sports-bar-02-683x1024.webp
(Christine Dong / The 19th)
The Bra opened in April 2022, a 40-seat museum to women’s sports greatness. The front door is plastered with a mural of women athletes. Practically every available surface is lined with autographed jerseys, trophies, cleats and balls. WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert signed the wall. On opening day, lines were out the door. The Bra hit nearly $1 million in revenue in just eight months—a lightning-fast streak to profitability, especially for the hospitality industry. The bar’s success has been so monumental that it helped Portland win its bid to host the Women’s Final Four in 2030. Oregon U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden used it as the venue to pitch Engelbert on expanding the WNBA to Portland. The Bra and Rough and Tumble, a women’s sports bar that opened in late 2022 in Seattle, have inspired the launch of similar bars in Long Beach, New York City, Minneapolis, Austin, Kansas City, San Francisco, Atlanta, Chicago and Denver. There’s at least one group chat for owners who are starting out.
. . . .
https://msmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/sports-bra-women-sports-bar-03-1024x683.webp
(Christine Dong / The 19th)
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https://msmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/sports-bra-women-sports-bar-04-1024x683.webp
(Christine Dong / The 19th)
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https://msmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/sports-bra-women-sports-bar-05-1024x683.webp
(Christine Dong / The 19th)
https://msmagazine.com/2024/07/30/womens-sports-bar-bra/
Women, Your Vote Is a Secret, Says New Guerrilla Post-It Campaign
Women, Your Vote Is a Secret, Says New Guerrilla Post-It Campaign
PUBLISHED 9/18/2024 by Roxanne Szal
Across the country, women are reminding each other to cast their vote freely and privately—regardless of the political beliefs of their spouse or partner.
(Screenshots from Instagram and TikTok)
In a world where the political gender gap is growing as women become more liberal, a clever grassroots campaign is reminding women of a fundamental truth: Their vote is private. This guerrilla movement uses a simple yet powerful tool—Post-It notes—to reach women whose partners may disagree with their political choices. The premise is simple: small, brightly colored notes discreetly placed in public spaces, like bathroom stalls, libraries, cafes, dorm buildings, workplace lounges, doctors’ offices and community boards. Each note carries the message that every woman has the right to cast her vote freely and privately.
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An example of pre-written sticky notepads, for sale on Etsy
“Woman to woman, your vote is private,” read one Post-It in a bathroom stall at the Minnesota State Fair, tapping into the pressure some women face to align their political beliefs with those of their spouse or partner. When couples vote by mail, “what happens is the man and woman sit down to vote together,” said Democratic pollster Celinda Lake during a conversation at the DNC. “She’s intimidated that he’s got more information.” Lake said it may be easier for women to vote their preference when voting in person. “Of course, we’re pushing vote by mail and early voting,” Lake continued, “because it increases democratic participation. But in doing that, we have to empower women to have their own way of doing things. One of the things to say to them is, ‘Vote on your own schedule’—i.e., Don’t sit down with the guy.”
While the Post-It campaign’s origins are unclear, it quickly gained traction on social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Reddit. The campaign’s low-tech approach has also contributed to its success. By using everyday materials like Post-Its, the message is accessible, relatable and easily replicated. Anyone can join the movement, adding their own notes to the places where women are likely to see them.
Reminding women of the secrecy of their ballot, the campaign provides a subtle yet liberating message: In the voting booth, women have the final say.
https://msmagazine.com/2024/09/18/post-it-kamala-harris-women-vote/
About time in this forum that we started hearing from the women in Ukraine about the illegal ruzzian invasion
(while I watch RFU and several of the others, nobody has posted any commentary from the women of Ukraine. I have been following Dr. Anna Danylchuk for some time now, and absolutely love her. Especially love her "ruzzian geography lessons" when she is talking about what the Ukrainian military has blown up in ruzzian on any given day.)
These are just the vlogs from this week:
RUSSIA IS FALLING APART: LACK OF PEOPLE & NEW MOBILISATION Vlog 811: War in Ukraine
RUSSIA'S REACTION: WHAT EXPLODED IN TOROPETS AMMO DEPOT? Vlog 810: War in Ukraine
URGENT: HUGE BLAST IN RUSSIA - TOROPETS, TVER EARTHQUAKE STRIKE Vlog 809: War in Ukraine
FROM SYRIA TO MURMANSK: UKRAINE BLOWING UP RUSSIA Vlog 808: War in Ukraine
RUSSIA CANNOT STOP UKRAINE IN KURSK: AFU CONTROLS FRONTLINE Vlog 807: War in Ukraine
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