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I am the god of mildly concerning but ultimately useless information!

Give me a coin and I shall share my wisdommmm

This morning I woke up in a very bleh mood from the bleh weather and mostly just laid around

And then some time around noon I decided if I couldn’t physically go outside, I’d do some intense garden planning because the other half and I decided we would be making a designated garden area in our tiny back yard.

So now I have seeds all over my desk, four different layout ideas made up, and I’ve never wanted winter to be over with more. Even though it has hardly started for us.

When I die, build a tower on a mountain, on an island filled with nothing but desert sand. Let the sun beat down on stone spires, guarded by statues five times taller than any man or women. Paint the night sky on the floor, and let the constellations twist and change when nobody is there to watch. Cover the walls in riddles and wise words, written in a hundred long forgotten tongues. When the archaeologists come let them think me a Queen or an Empress. Let them wander the halls of my tomb and marvel at the scale and the riches. Let them whisper legends and theories, who could I have been to reside in such splendour?

And in the centre of it all, let them find me. Resting in the translucent bosom of a glass dragon- my skeletons painted in colours that no longer exist, grinning with secrets that will never be told.

Let them find me, and let them be afraid.

it’s so nice being fond of people on here :-) like yeah maybe we only know each other in a very limited way but i care abt you guys & hearing abt your lives makes me happy & i like listening to the things u have to say & i really truly wish the best for you all!!! sending my love from a couple states, countries, oceans away

A moment of silence for all the people in the UK

A big hug to my followers and those I follow from the UK.

Congratulations

You all saw a man who hid in a fridge to avoid giving answers to a journalist, and decided ‘Yes.’ This man who is afraid to stand up to scrutiny from the BBC and ITV is the perfect man to stand up to the leaders in the EU to get the best deal from Brexit. The perfect man to stand up to Putin, Trump, Xi, and more, and get fair, bilateral trade deals with them

You saw a man who said racist thing after sexist thing after racist thing that I don’t wish to repeat here, refused to apologise, and decided that he was the man to heal the deepening divide we face

You saw a man who, as mayor of London, wasted taxpayer money on a Garden Bridge that was never built, a Thames Estuary airport that never got approved, a cable car that never made a profit, and water cannons that never worked, and you thought that this was the perfect man to be in charge of our economy. A man who boasted not of fighting for the people, but that no-one fought for the bankers as much as he did during the financial crash, and thought he was looking out for you

You saw a man who, as a journalist, was sacked for making up a quotes, and even after failing upwards into other journalism jobs, was well known for lying to the public, and you decided that he’d surely be telling you the truth this time

You saw a party, who, during their time in power, have seen the national debt triple, have forced huge cuts to emergency services leading to an increase in crime, an underfunding crisis for the NHS, and lives put at risk from fire with an inability to remove Grenfell style cladding like promised. A party whose time in power has seen a massive increase in the number of children in poverty, the number of people in at-work poverty, the number of people forced to use foodbanks. And you thought that they cared about you. That they were the party for you

Ultimately you looked at a party of cold, out of touch elites who would claim to deliver on a pipe dream, at a cost of devastating our nation, and would gleefully tear apart our NHS, sell arms to worsen the Yemen humanitarian crisis, would happily let you die if doing so was profitable to them. You looked at them, and the racist, sexist, lying, incompetent bigot they chose to lead them. And you decided that they were what you wanted for your, and our, future.

So congratulations

We’re all fucked

tfw you’re in the uk and u see the tories have won and u can’t even throw yourself out the window bc rip nhs

current mood

To anyone who voted Tory:

Whatever your justification, you have shown that you would walk over corpses for your own greed.

Your bigotry and selfishness is directly responsible for the lives that will be taken by an uncaring, incompetent government.

There is blood on your hands.

Please spare a thought right now

For the people in the UK who are disabled, Muslim, LGBT, poor, homeless, ill, or vulnerable/marginalised in any way

Because the results of this election will kill people:

People who can’t work but have had their benefits slashed

People who can’t afford to feed themselves because they don’t want their children to starve

People who won’t be saved in a fire because fire departments have no funding

People with mental illnesses who won’t get the help they need on time because there’s no funding for the necessary medical professionals

People who will suffer at the hands of hate crimes because of bigotry endorsed and perpetuated by the highest powers in government

People who will spend their last moments waiting for an ambulance that can’t get there on time because there’s not enough to meet demand

People who have been living on the streets with no way of getting help

People who won’t be able to afford medical costs as our NHS is chipped away piece by piece by private corporations.

If you remember how you felt when you knew Trump was going to be your President - that is how we are feeling now.

We’re scared.

Some of us won’t survive another 5 years of a Conservative government

The issue with UK politics right now.

The recent British election had me crying with frustration. I can’t vote, I’ve always had strong political opinions, but I can’t vote. I have to watch yet another Conservative Government come into power, knowing that this could very well lead to the end of the NHS and other essential systems.

In the leadup to the election, I saw young people across all social media platforms literally begging those eligible to vote for Labour. It was heartbreaking. The youth of today have had an increasing interest and understanding of politics over the last few years, yet we continue to be ignored and unable to participate in decisions and elections that will impact the rest of our lives.

I came into school today to find that the election results were the main topic of every conversation. People were wondering what that meant for our school; if there would be cuts to the already devastatingly low budgets that public schools are provided. I overheard one girl in the lunch queue saying that she was glad she was in the year she was in, because the courses she had taken were not necessarily going to be made available ever again.

Meanwhile, the older generations make their choice based on little to no research- oftentimes relying on Facebook propaganda and opinions formed several years ago to be the groundwork of their decision.

It’s incredibly frustrating, and it has to stop.

The voting age in the UK desperately needs to be lowered. There are so many young people with strong and well-researched opinions who have to sit back and watch as this country tears itself apart. I know people who quite literally have qualifications in political science who CAN’T VOTE.

Of course, arguments can be made that that lowering the voting age would lead to a surge of inexperienced voters; and that a large portion of them would simply make the same choice as their parents due to social pressure, without doing any research of their own. This is a valid point and should be considered carefully, but in my personal opinion, there is a simple solution to our political crisis that I have yet to see put forward anywhere.

Standardized testing. No, I’m not joking.

My solution is a test that would be obligatory across all demographics, not just young people. It would contain the names of each local candidate; the party they are a member of (putting independent if they’re not a member of a party), and that party’s and candidate’s core policies. The test itself would be open book, and potential voters could retake it as many times as they wanted until they passed- after which they would be permitted to vote in that election. Under such a system the voting age could be lowered as far down as children just entering high school, so long as they could prove their opinion was informed. It would also ‘filter’ the adults who previously made their judgments based on misinformation, or at least force them to look at the facts before ignoring them.

This, in turn, would make politicians more accountable for misinforming the public. If everyone was aware of exactly what was promised, the backlash for not fulfilling those promises would be far more immense. Collective understanding and education will always lead to a better government, and corrupt individuals would hopefully be spotted and ejected quickly by the public.

Currently, the most popular way of finding information about a party is through the media. This is, again, a flawed system. The media is a business and arguably, telling the truth isn’t their first priority. Their main priority, like any other industry, is to make money. And they do this by selling papers, generating clicks, and bringing in more viewers. Unfortunately simply going over facts and policies isn’t particularly interesting, and as a result the media often focuses very heavily on the drama. They exaggerate; over-simplify, and create controversy in order to tell the more engaging story- not the most factually correct one.

The second option, being reading each party’s manifesto- enjoys the opposite issues. Each party has what is called a ‘manifesto’ which is, officially, “a published declaration of the intentions, motives, or views of the issuer, be it an individual, group, political party or government.” Sounds amazing, a single document containing the explicit standings of whichever party you’re researching. However the issue lies in the sheer volume of each document; Labour’s 2017 manifesto alone spanned a massive 126 pages- the size of a small novel. Add on any other parties a voter might be considering, and you could potentially be looking at thousands of pages worth of reading material. For the average working citizen, it is wholly unrealistic to be expected to slog through so many words just to form an opinion.

Thus something needs to change, a balance must be struck between these two resources in order to provide regular engagement in a political system that revolves around the truth. With politicians that were chosen for their policies and ideals, not petty drama and personality. Political parties need to cut out the meaningless legal jargon that means nothing to the average voter, and they need to create summary documents that are at a maximum 10,000 words long and are easily digestible to a normal working-class citizen. Otherwise, UK politics is going to continue to spiral into further corruption, causing genuinely devastating effects to everyone but the 1%.

I am fourteen. That information may very well cause a lot of you to immediately discredit what I am saying, but there we are. I want to vote, and I believe that I, and everyone else my age should have the right to do so.

We're all fucked mate, England is just further proving the point that our votes mean nothing

Any Scotts on board? What are your feelings about the elections?

How you see your D&D wizard:

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I got kidnapped by an interdimensional demon and he had me steal a ring from a house for him, so I went in, stole it, and pretended that I was just one of the people living there. Then I pointed out the window, yelled, "He's right there," and then when everyone looked I jumped out the window and ran away.