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andrewducker- Calls for UK abortion clinic buffer zones rejected
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- Tories were only governing conservative party in western Europe to support Hungarian far-right in EU vote
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- Android 9 Pie, thoroughly reviewed
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- Visualising the world's population in 2018
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- This nifty flying robot can hover, bank, and turn as deftly as a fruit fly
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- "Scary as fuck weather report. First it's like, ah smart use of green screen, then it's like holy fucking shit."
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- A Message To Those Who Body-Shame People At The Gym: Shame On You
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- It’s Now Possible To Telepathically Communicate with a Drone Swarm
- Amazing stuff. Baby steps into a cyberpunk future.
(tags: cyborg drone ) - On Medicalised Fat-Shaming
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- Cornwall formed from part of France 400 million years ago
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- Democratic Insurgents Topple 6 New York Senate Incumbents
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- Stop treating LGBT as a genre, rather than a facet of some characters in a novel.
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Date: 2018-09-14 11:28 am (UTC)You just never see well written, rounded characters and that is probably why!
A Message To Those Who Body-Shame People At The Gym: Shame On You
Date: 2018-09-14 11:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-09-14 02:34 pm (UTC)Of course but as human history has often proven you can't have the second if you didn't have the first one before. Label Characters generally first exist as Label Characters period because there wasn't any before in the first place (and often with very stereotypical traits, body-types,... instead of the full spectrum of humanity). Once you don't get one every blue moon there's space for them to become Characters with their own backgrounds, motives, etc. and not just diversity tokens or plot devices for "mainstream" characters.
Protests
Date: 2018-09-14 02:42 pm (UTC)Re: Protests
Date: 2018-09-14 03:50 pm (UTC)Re: Protests
Date: 2018-09-14 04:03 pm (UTC)Controversial public speakers
Non-unionised labour
The Tory Party conference
Unpopular football managers or players or owners
of the top of my head.
Re: Protests
Date: 2018-09-14 06:07 pm (UTC)Which seems more similar, in that it's protesting the activity at a location, rather than specific individuals.
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Date: 2018-09-14 04:10 pm (UTC)