dogtober day 30
when dogs fly
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The original tweet is in response to a tweet about Ellen Maud who sought out medical help and was routinely told to just lose weight. She later died of cancer.
This is something I cannot advocate for enough
(Source: twitter.com, via shad0ww0rdpain)
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Now that the US has recognized the Armenian genocide because it’s suddenly politically convenient, let’s remember how Turkey set up an astroturf campaign in New York a few years ago about hashtag fact checking Armenia and they had people on fucking pogo sticks and wrote fact check Armenia in the skies
(via shad0ww0rdpain)
Ireland: 100th Anniversary of the Execution of James Connolly - Socialist Alternative -
On this day, 3 October 1952, the UK conducted its first-ever atomic bomb test on the Monte Bello Islands, off the coast of Western Australia, with no concern for the Aboriginal people living nearby. Decades later a Royal Commission that admitted “The presence of Aborigines on the mainland near Monte Bello Islands and their extra vulnerability to the effect of fallout was not recognised by either [Atomic Weapons Research Establishment – UK] or the Safety Committee. It was a major oversight that the question of acceptable dose levels for Aborigines was recognised as a problem at Maralinga but was ignored in setting the fallout criteria for the Mosaic tests.”
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