German man picks apart the American habit of smiling at strangers in the most German way
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/why-germans-dont-smile-at-strangers
German man picks apart the American habit of smiling at strangers in the most German way
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/why-germans-dont-smile-at-strangers
Blackpool – Kicking the Poorest People into the Gutter
Improving the lives of people "entrenched in poverty" would be praiseworthy if this project did that but gentrification removes poverty from an area by forceable displacement of the current poverty stricken residents. The council fails to clarify how the lives of the evicted are being improved. Hundreds of families in one of England’s poorest neighbourhoods will be evicted under a £90m plan described by critics as a “mass dispersion” of vulnerable people. 400 homes in Blackpool will […]https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/01/blackpool-kicking-the-poorest-people-into-the-gutter/
Google's messaging around the turning off etc of uBlock Origin and other ad blockers should replace whatever the description is in the OED for "Disingenuous".
@ACREF: We find it quite curious that two of the west's leading conservative voices - Sis. Olukemi Badenoch, the UK Conservative Party Leader and Marco Rubio, the US Secretary of State - are both beneficiaries of #BirthrightCitizenship.
As a #trans #woman, this is why I think #EmiliaPérez is #subpar, #disingenuous, #harmful #nonsense.
Yeah that’s right, you heard me. The #Trans #DrugCartel #musical is a #bad #film for multiple reasons, and how it won so many #GoldenGlobes is beyond me.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #TV #Representation #Culture
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/01/07/emilia-perez-is-a-bad-film/
“We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected,” #RussVought said. “When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains. We want their funding to be shut down so that the #EPA can't do all of the rules against *our* #energy industry because they have no bandwidth financially to do so. “We want to put them in trauma.” #Trump #Project2025 #extremism #fascism #tyranny #autocracy #law #democracy #HarrisWalz2024
#Bowen presents the least informed view I've heard all year.