I woke up to images and videos on social media about the huge explosion in Tianjin this morning. The videos are especially intense and harrowing - I'm so glad that I don't have friends or family (that I know of D:) there ( Read more... )

ahhhhh found out that I can still become a member of Bayern...so the question is, do I want to spend €43 to become one and then (hopefully) get tickets to the Man City game and then buy Toni's trikot (and get a discount on that) and basically spend a lot of money all of a sudden. orz But idk idk, apparently the Bayern magazine is ~amaysing ( Read more... )

So, Fukushima: It's much worse than you think. Let's have some choice bits:

"We have 20 nuclear cores exposed, the fuel pools have several cores each, that is 20 times the potential to be released than Chernobyl," said Gundersen. "The data I'm seeing shows that we are finding hot spots further away than we had from Chernobyl, and the amount of ( Read more... )

1. I caved and now have politicians for icons. -_- Before I joined uk_lolitics, I didn't even know who Mandy is, but now I fangirl him a lot. :3333 The sad part is that my two other politician icons are of Tories. Dcam and gids are both becoming more and more attractive to me. D: I've even started a folder for pix of politicians because some times they ( Read more... )

Firm sues dead actress for being beaten and wins.

The Supreme Court reversed the original ruling and ruled in favor of a construction company that filed a suit against the deceased actress Choi Jin-sil, who committed suicide last October ( Read more... )

This makes me sick.

Williams and States took turns referring to gender dysphoric children as "idiots" and "freaks," who were just out "for attention" and had "a mental disorder that just needs to somehow be gotten out of them," either by verbal abuse on the part of the parents, or even shock therapy ( Read more... )

I cried about Proposition 8. Last I checked, 52% yes with 95% of precincts reporting, and just.

We always forget how far we still have to go.

Children are Targets of Nigerian Witch Hunt

This article makes me really sad. I'm always grateful that I was born into these circumstances rather than those.

Want to get even with the Salvation Army
for discrimination in Jesus' name?


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Here's a story I read this weekend ( Read more... )