"According to statistics compiled by the ACLU, women who kill their partners will spend an average of 15 years behind bars, while men who kill their female partners serve much shorter sentences, on average between 2 to 6 years."

Women Serve Longer Prison Sentences After Killing Abusers

Women statistically face longer prison sentences after killing an abusive partner, as compared to men who kill the women they're abusing.

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"the epstein class" is just ordinary guys you encounter every time you leave the house from childhood onward. the epstein class is your uncle, your neighbor, your father, your priest, your local police officer, your pastor, the grocery store clerk, the guy at the bus stop, the guy at church

one of the (many) reasons why i object to people claiming that epstein is the exception, that there is some massive society-wide "hatred" and persecution of "pedophiles," who are supposedly a vanishingly small minority, etc. this is the normal, this is the world we all grew up in, this is accepted

Chantal James@chantalalive.blacksky.app · 4mo ago

I hated getting boobs because grown men were staring at me hoping they could date me when was a kid! I bet a lot of women experienced puberty like that. It was like fuck, why is my body becoming something that’s making these adult men come after me now, I’m only a child!

there's about a million small ways every day that people remind you subtly that fundamentally, they don't think there's anything inherently wrong with what epstein (or a million other non-billionaire men just like him) did.

"When men no longer feel honored" fuck all the way off into the deepest pit of boiling sewage

David Roberts@volts.wtf · 4mo ago

There's just really no way to exaggerate how dumb & pathetic & offputting I find everything about this.

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Hello! I still badly need work in narrative design or game writing etc. I’ve been in games for 20 years and I’m responsible for the mobile smash hit Lily’s Garden. I will take on full-time or contract work but I really need to pick something up soon. Please get in touch if you have/know of something

I don’t “network,” I make friends. Other artists are not my competition, they’re my beloved peers and sources of inspiration. We all have the same goal; to share our art. I’m not gonna corporatize my human relationships with them. I am in my sandbox playing and I hope they join me.

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Thinking about my DnD characters and how 3/4 of them are immigrant/displaced/exiled and missing home is a big part of their character and it wasn’t even a conscious decision.

It didn't matter. People don't burn building or shoot political figures because of sound charts. Events will occur in spite of your wisdom and you will complain impotently forever

It’s easier to get through all this if you make yourself believe powerful people have your back. But they don’t. They really don’t.

I am in the mood for starting shit because I am absolutely livid at the moment so let's talk about a particular aspect of AI use in Iraq.

“alpha wolf” is not a thing but it is sort of funny how many men claim that for themselves considering that the hierarchal behavior that was demonstrated only happened to wolves in captivity. there’s something deeply ironic about that

Does anyone miss me

New followers: I’m vehemently against this war and against the Islamic republic.

Twitter is censoring Iranian accounts against the war. So the space is devolving into pro-war Iranians and “anti-war” campists (read: siding with Iran in the war, which they want to continue) and it sucks.

Getting shadowbanned on twitter is kinda ass

Twitter's been shadowbanning a bunch of Iranians I like hearing from. Waves like this tend to happen when conflicts start, but it's been particularly intense and there's no one at the wheel. Definitely give @atrophous.bsky.social a follow. Trying to nudge them into making a starter pack

We, here, can do basically nothing to support the people in Iran who took to the streets. And we can do basically nothing to bolster the regime that fucking massacred them. We can try and stop our government making things much much much worse. Why the fuck do we need to say anything else?

Like, in the UK now, it is probably possible to stop our government lending direct military support to the attack on Iran and it may be possible to stop indirect support. That's what we can do. That is the practical action. Why the fuck would we even argue about the Iranian government?

Like, the question has to be "what can I do, where I am with the capacity I have, to influence this situation?" And quite often the answer is "fuck all". Like, all the fucking western lefties with their "positions on Syria" that didn't matter a fuck and spiky so much fucking ink.

So like, this was always my problem with feeling like I had to take a "position" on a conflict I can't influence. With orgs feeling like they had to do "critical support" or "condemn both sides" or whatever. It's so abstract. So impotent and ridiculous.

Cheminism🏴@atrophous.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Cross-post from twitter

Her vote aside, among white people across the political spectrum, it IS taboo to talk openly about their politics. This is a grift designed to maintain white supremacy across political divide. To keep them communing along whiteness with their enemies & ideological opponents.

Franchesca Ramsey@chescaleigh.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Her trip to Ireland was ruined by this one question?? Gee, I wonder why…

One of the most depressing things about the war in Iran is how a bunch of grown ass men are acting like this is a fucking video game.

Cross-post from twitter

Sorry I’m not here much. My TL here is dominated by trans discourse and during this time somehow being a brown trans woman in the US is not on the top of my priority list