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Why can't I wear a dress?' What schools can learn from preschools about supporting trans children
Story by Cris Townley âąÂ 1d
"A new group of young children has just started school for the first time, with many excited about new friends, uniforms and being at "big school."
But for trans kids, starting school can be a much more daunting process.
But school culture is much more cisnormative. This means schools tend to assume children can be sorted into boys and girls and everyone is comfortable in what category they are in.
You can see this in formal ways, with boys' and girls' uniforms and toilets and in informal ways, with boys and girls making different friendship groups and playing different games at lunch.
This makes it difficult for trans children to feel as though they belong at school. Trans students often have lower levels of well-being and lower educational outcomes than non-trans students.
My research looks at what schools can learn from preschools and other early learning settings such as daycare centers about how to support trans students.
My research
In 2023 I partnered with P-TYE, an advocacy network for parents of trans children. The study, which is currently in peer review, looked at how we can integrate support for trans children across a range of services including education, medical and mental health.
Through P-TYE and wider networks, we recruited 12 families with trans children. The children had an average age of 13 and had been recognized as trans between two and ten years.
Though interviews, I spoke to them about their experiences of childcare and school. Three themes emerged.
1. The importance of being 'child-centered'
Early education services are "child-centered." This means educators are trained to place a child's "belonging, becoming and being" at the center of their curriculum (as per the Early Years Learning Framework). This includes freely exploring gender and their identity.
One parent told us their trans girl "had an incredible teacher" for preschool "who'd take old curtains and make things [âŠ] these three-tiered skirts that were heavy and they made beautiful sounds and they caressed you when you wore them and [my child] found such joy in these creations.
In contrast, trans identity in schools often means "breaking the rules." Parents in the study described examples of schools not letting trans students express their identity. "Every day, she was asking, 'why can't I wear a dress to school'? Why do I have to go to the boys' toilets? They're mean to me when I'm in there."
2. Not categorizing kids by gender
Parents in the study also reported how children weren't categorized into genders by pre-school routines. As one interviewee said, "all the kids use the same toilet [âŠ] they [were called the] 'cockatoos' and the 'koalas' or whatever [âŠ] they weren't ever separated by gender."
But at school, children faced daily choices about whether they are a boy or a girl. One parent described how a class had segregated lunch crates for boys and girls. Their trans child stood out with "this pink drink bottle with unicorns on in a sea of dinosaurs."
Children also have to wear the correct uniform, be in the right line for sport and use the assigned toilet and can be bullied by other students when they try.
One child "survived kindergarten by walking." She told her parent
"I just realized that if I wasn't still, I was less of a target so I just made sure in kindergarten to keep moving and I never stopped moving."
For non-binary childrenâwho don't feel like a boy or a girlâschool brings a more complex set of difficulties.
One parent talked about a lucky dip at the school fete with boy or girl gifts. They said this signals to their child "I have to be one of these things or the other" and "tells my kid that they don't fit in the world."
3. Support for educators
Research shows having teachers who are positive about gender diversity is crucial for the well-being of trans students.
My interviews also suggested responses to trans kids often depend on individual educators and schools. Many preschool educators were supportive and "totally fine to change pronouns, like immediately." But as one parent told the study, one educator reportedly said, "I'm not going to play this name game" and refused to use a child's new name.
Some school teachers did make a difference. One well-being officer "put out all the uniforms and said, 'which one would you like to wear?'"
At a schools sports day one trans boy was allowed to compete with the boys. As his parent said, "He's never been a sporty kid. He came last and everything, but it made him really happy to to be in with the boys."
Another teacher was "fantastic" but "a bit old school" saying "I've got no idea what to do, what to call her, what to say. I'm really out to sea here."
This suggests both early education and school teachers need access to education and resources, so whether students get support isn't left up to chance.
What should schools do differently?
Schools should take the lead from early learning environments and stop "sorting" students based on gender.
This could mean:
having a range of uniform items children can select from as some schools already do
more all-gender toilet facilities, where privacy is protected for all students
preferred names and pronouns should be easy to change in school systems and teachers should use these.
Teachers also need access to resources and information so they can confidently have conversations about gender. This needs to be part of a whole-of-school approach to supporting trans students and their families..."
Provided by The Conversation This story was originally published on Phys.org.
"Phys.org is an online science, research and technology news aggregator offering briefs from press releases and reports from news agencies. Phys.org is one of the most updated science websites, with an average of 98 posts per day. It is part of the Science X network of websites, headquartered on the Isle of Man, United Kingdom."
Research Fellow, TEEACH, Western Sydney, Australia
Cris is a sociologist whose research explores what happens when we put the child, young person and family at the centre of the nexus between service delivery and education. This requires an intersectional approach, that recognises the multiplicity of identities lived by children, young people and families, and requires listening to their voices. Cris works collaboratively with partners to ensure that research supports change through informed policy and practice. Examples of Crisâ work are an exploration of Acknowledgement of Country practices in early childhood services, and design of online learning to support educators; co-design of a theory of change for multi-agency service integration reform; a partnership with ACON to investigate LGBTQ+ experience of service provision in Western Sydney; and initiation of a project to inform what supports young people to thrive in school, and finish school well.
Cris completed a PhD on identity, belonging and social support in Australian community playgroups at the Social Policy Research Centre at UNSW. Cris graduated from Cambridge University with a BA Hons and a Cert. Ed in Mathematics and Education, was a high school teacher, then undertook a Mastersâ Degree in the Sociology of Gender Divisions from Essex University.
#MSN PUSHES DANGEROUS GENDER IDEOLOGY CULT#Cris Townley Article Phys.org Mislabels World Majority Population CIS#Israeli Loyal MSN MSNBC NBC CNN ABC Push Gender Ideology Cult For Billionaire Pritzker And WEF Nazi Klaus Schwab#Child Centered#Satanic#Self Centereed#Bacha Bazi#Groomed Gender Confusion#Misogynistic Transgender Movement#Ireland#It's bad in Australia and Britain
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reading up about british government as an australian (or as anyone) is sooo fucked up literally.. what do you mean are there actually well over a thousand mps at a federal level? why do you genuinely actually have a house of fucking lords? why is your parliament building a palace? are you ever serious? please be fucking serious for once? 1428 mps in the two houses combined? why do you need that many? why do you need that many? are the lords actually controlling shit? are the 778 people in the hereditary house of lords that still exists in 2023 actually controlling things?
#so many questions that im not sure i want the answers to. look im not one for any of this shit i hope it burns but#at least australia isnt as bad as britain#is it around 220 or so mps at a federal level all up senate and house of reps combined? this sounds a lot less terrible#shut up ulrike
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Currently, 22 Palestine Action political prisoners are detained in Britain, some subjected to repressive 'counter terror' powers---despite their campaign's focus on non-violent economic damage and accountability.
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2024/11/25/blockade-in-staffordshire-as-elbit-loses-2-1bn-british-arms-contract/
#staffordshire#class war#palestine action#palestine activism#britain#oppression#repression#elbit systems#shut elbit down#ukpol#ukgov#uk#uk politics#all cops are bastards#all cops are bad#fuck the cops#cops#cop#anti police#police state#police#fascism#eat the rich#eat the fucking rich#ausgov#politas#auspol#tasgov#taspol#australia
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Actually it's crazy how 'not racist' Australians are seen considering a: how our country was formed and b: we invented the phrase 'boat people' for refugees. And put them on an island. To do slave labour đ€š
#i know a lot of people dont know this#but thats my point#australia is just as racist as america/canada/uk#we just have a better reputation because were not as loud as the yanks and dont have the rich history of colonisation like britain#australia is so backwards in a lot of regards#and dont get me wrong!! love my country i miss it a lot#but theres definitely loads wrong there#racism homophobia CORRUPTION#the government is one of the most corrupt in the western world#the media-fuck!!! the media is so bad guys#loads wrong with australia. as with most countries of course but like#i just dont understand the disconnect#between perception and the reality#then again uts so far away most people tend to forget about us/dont see a lot of what we do bc america drowns us out with all their news
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Bonus question: Where is London located? (a) The British Isles (b) Great Britain and Northern Ireland (c) The UK (d) Europe (or 'the EU') (e) Greater London
Pub Trivia [Explained]
Transcript
[Cueball, holding a wireless microphone in one hand and a pencil and notebook in the other, reading from the notebook]: Welcome to pub trivia! Round one is 10 questions:
Which member of BTS has a birthday this year?
How many sides does a platonic solid have?
What is the smallest lake in the world?
Which Steven Spielberg movie features more shark attacks - Jaws (1975) or Lincoln (2012)?
How many planets were there originally?
What NFL player has scored the most points outside of a game?
The Wright brothers built the first airplane. Who built the last one?
Is every even number greater than 2 the sum of two primes?
Not counting Canberra, what city is the capital of Australia?
Who played the drums?
[Caption below the panel]: A local pub trivia place hired me to run bad quizzes at competing bars.
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COLONIZING AT ITS FINEST! 001
pairing: oscar piastri x indian!female!kohli!reader
summary: the indian women's cricket team is in australia the same time as the grid for their ODI tournament. and a certain rookie driver and a rookie cricketer fall for each other.
extra information: reader is kohli's younger sister and is 21, oscar wins the melbourne gp. reader went to a british boarding school so she knows like lando.
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liked by BCCIWomens, ishankishan and 547,890 others me n the gang đŻrenukasingh (virat's memes are top tier) view comments
viratkohli is that the only photo you could find â„ ynkohli yeppers landonorris get into finals so i can watch đ â„ ynkohli thats the plan user01 what's lando doing here â„ ynsno1 yn went to a british boarding school and she met lando in britain when she was out. shes also a huge fan of f1 anushkasharma get the cup !! â„ ynkohli will do 𫶠user54 why is she so famous compared to other cricketers? /genq â„ user67 she was an influencer during her teenage years and everybody loved her cos shes rlly funny and shes also virat kohli's sister. mclaren đđ â„ ynlover yo wtf â„ user6 erm what â„ user08 um renukasingh we ate those photos up â„ ynkohli realsies!
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liked by ynkohli, oscarpiastri and 245,765 others i got two tickets to melbourne gp babyy view comments
ynkohli give them to me plsss đ â„ mclaren bet â„ user05 IS SHE DATING SOMEONE ON THE GRID â„ user49 not necessarily shes been a fan since she was a kid danielriccardo COME WITH ME SUNDAY DONT SAY MAYBE â„ user67 going along with the caption is so him đ𫶠maxverstappen watch me win... again â„ lewishamilton hes a bit overconfident? â„ landonorris ^ â„ fernandoalonso ^ â„ georgerussell ^ â„ charlesleclerc ^ â„ carlossainz55 ^ â„ schecoperez ^ â„ averagef1lover not the whole grid coming after max đ â„ rbrmylove ok but is he wrong â„ user07 if oscar doesn't win im gonna kms â„ oscarpiastri dont do that đ â„ user07 HOLY SHIT IM GONNA DIE WTF user03 this is a day after the odi finals đ if yn loses shes going to be so sad at the gp
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liked by oscarpiastri, viratkohli and 350,905 little y/n kohli appreciation post because INDIA IS IN THE FINALS !!!! view comments
user09 what is oscar doing here â„ ynsno1fan forrealsies user98 SHE DESERVES THIS SM â„ user05 FR BRO user48 IM SO HAPPY
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liked by viratkohli, landonorris and 463,218 others little gf appreciation post đ view comments
user58 OSCAR SOFT LAUNCHING WAS NOT ON MY 2024 BINGO CARD â„ user48 SAME cricketlover whats virat doing here? â„ user52 idk bro f1lover GUYS WHAT IF ITS YN KOHLI â„ rbrmylove who?? â„ f1lover shes an indian cricketer â„ lestappenshipper BRO AND THE BCCI ACCOUNT POSTED AN APPRECIATION FOR YN AND OSCAR LIKED â„ sixerhitter AND THE CAPTION ON THIS ONE logansargeant youre not slick â„ oscarpiastri shut up â„ averagef1fan LOGAN TELL US (ill give u three bucks) â„ logansargeant I CANT (make it 300 and u have a deal) â„ averagef1fan logan im broke â„ logansargeant well too bad then user05 they look so happy in the last photo landonorris yk what big feet meanđ â„ oscarpiastri LANDO â„ danielriccardo LANDO â„ carlossainz55 LANDO â„ maxverstappen LANDO â„ fernandoalonso LANDO â„ lewishamilton LANDO mclarenfan polite cat has rizz confirmed???
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rohitsharma what đ â„ishankishan đ â„viratkohli đ â„hardikpandya đ â„jaspritbumrah đ â„shubmangill đ â„sachintendulkar đ â„rahuldravid đ alexanderasaintmleux you both are so cutee â„ ynkohli nuh uh u r lilymhe ur so adorable â„ ynkohli stop ily averagef1lover um what are the wags doing here? â„ user05 i think shes dating oscar piastri cricketlover whos oscar piastri? ynloml NO WAY SHES TAKEN WHAT
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liked by alexanderasaintmleux, lilymhe and 209,879 others new wag??? oscar piastri spotted in a park with a girl view comments
averagef1lover thats so yn cricketlover yn and oscar?? user05 CRICKET AND F1 CROSSOVER??????? ynlover my two worlds colliding user06 if it was yn tho theyd be so cute f1fan THE WAY HES LYING IN HER LAP â„ user49 THE WAY HIS HAND WENT LIMP WHEN THEY KISSED â„ lestappenshipper SKSKSKKSKSK
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liked by ynkohli, landonorris and 738,952 others THE INDIAN WOMENS TEAM ARE NOW ODI CHAMPIONS!!! view comments
cricketlover WOOHOOOO averagef1lover IDEC IF SHES A WAG OR NOT I LOVE YN ynloml shes so fine đ€ lestappenshipper theres no way oscar 'polite cat' piastri has the yn kohli rohitsharma đ„ł shahrukhkhan đ„ł arshdeepkaur đ„ł sachintendulkar đ„ł renukasingh đ„ł anushkasharma đ„ł ritikasajdeh đ„ł sanjenaganasen đ„ł saratendulkar đ„ł landonorris IM SO PROUD OF YOU YN
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a/n IM SO SORRY FOR BEING MIA FOR SO LONG GUYS I HAD THE WORST WRITERS BLOCK đ this is written for the sole purposes of entertaining me i havent seen and oscar piastri x brown reader anywhere so hopefully you guys like this !!
#acourtofswiftiesandshadowdaddies#oscar piastri#f1#f1 x reader#oscar piastri x reader#oscar piastri x you#oscar piastri imagine#oscar piastri fanfic#oscar piastri leclerc#austria gp 2024#lando norris#f1 2024#formula 1#mclaren#virat kohli#indian cricket team#smau#f1 smau#f1 social media au#oscar piastri social media au#oscar piastri smau#op81 x reader#op81
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Twitter is mad at Daniel again because they caught on to that CH interview about Daniel being offered the same contract as Max, icl I'm also bitter about it. I wish he wasn't so rash in 2018
It's easy to be bitter in hindsight but the reality is more nuanced, had it not been recorded and internationally broadcast, what happened to Daniel in 2018 would be flat out unbelievable by ANY standard lol. Daniel had mechanical issues in every. single. weekend in 2018 <- this is not a hyperbole or a joke (more on this later). He ran multiple races with a b spec engine -> 20 bhp down on Max. At no point in 2018 did Max run a lower engine power than Daniel. Daniel incurred 8 dnfs, 4 back of the grid starts for mechanical issues and 6 grid drops in total where as Max had *1*[one]. This isn't even accounting for failures in quali or free practice that would have compromised his set up or race prep. Daniel's car accounted for 92% of Red Bull failures in comparison to Max's 8%.
Christian's cunty "he ran from a fight" comment stung particularly hard because it was Christian who made MULTIPLE public apologies to Daniel in 2018 on the ground that he wasn't given a chance to compete. Christian would apologise to Daniel again when Max won in Mexico, even though Daniel had an uncharacteristic outburst in the media pen during that famous "The car is cursed. I can't wait to give it to Pierre" This isn't even diving into the dubious & predatory RB contract practices. At 28 years old, to quote Christian "It's the first time he's effectively a free agent."
You look back at it now and lament it as a bad call but even by Christian's admission Red Bull were on the verge of selling the team for 4 years. Honda was coming in, I know it's easy to praise Honda now but Honda single handedly sent Alonso into early retirement. He found working with them untenable + said it cost him his love for the sport. Those were the lingering images of Honda as they re-entered the sport, the team who electrocuted Alonso then bled his love for racing dry.
If you weren't around in 2018 let me give you a run down so horrific it looks like a joke:
Australia - Race: 3 Place grid penalty
Bahrain - Race: DNF - Battery Failure
China - Free Practice 3: Gear box issue with complete engine turbo failure. Misses FP3 entirely, no quali set up prepared. He would go on to win that race from p6
Baku - Race: DNF - Collision with Max. Racing incident.
Monaco - Race: partial MGU-K failure. He would go on to win that race with drastic loss of power.
Canada - Free Practice 2 - Power unit issue, misses majority of the session.
France - Race: front wing failure. (it disintegrated)
Austria - Race: DNF - Retires from p3 with MGU-k Failure
Britain - Quali: DRS failure. No DRS activation, still qualifies p6 behind Max in p5
Germany - Race: Back of grid start + DNF - Takes new engine for the weekend, starts p19 + has lower power spec A ICE approximately 20 BHP down on B spec that Max was running. Daniel climbed upto p5 from p19 but incurs a MGU-k failure and retires.
Hungary - Race: Daniel is forced to run lower power spec A ICE again, 20 BHP down on B spec that Max was running
Spa - Free Practice 1 + DNF: Daniel misses entire session with engine injector issue + Daniel would go on to retire after being driven into on lap 1.
Monza - Race: Back of grid start + DNF. Daniel takes another new engine for weekend (spec C) and incurs another full grid penalty, starts p19. Daniel would go on to climb to p6 before having clutch failure and retiring.
Singapore - Race + Quali + Free practice: During every session in Singapore Daniel has an unresolved spec C engine clipping issue that Red Bull can't fix.
Russia - Race + Free Practice 1 - Daniel misses FP1 due to mechanical issues. Daniel takes another engine penalty, starts p18
Japan - Race + Quali: Daniel incurs throttle actuator failure, misses quali, another back of grid start.
USA - Race: DNF - Battery Failure
Mexico - Race: DNF - clutch Bearing failure + start software clutch issue. Daniel retires the race from P2
Brazil - Race: Daniel takes a 5 Place grid penalty due to new turbo charger replacement. Starts in p11.
Abu Dhabi - Free Practice 3: Misses majority of FP3 with water leak.
Daniel's insanely vulnerable "if racing was the only thing making me happy this year, I would have been miserable" during the last on the sofa with Max was a v apt summary of 2018. To suggest that Daniel fucked up based on the information he had in 2018, namely Daniel undergoing all those problems + knowing RB was flirting with selling the team + Helmut's fuckery + having an out from the RB umbrella for the first time in his career? Your problem isn't with his decision making process, you just wish he was clairvoyant which is an unfair thing to be bitter about
#I think Daniel EARNED criticism for the way he left Renault NOT Redbull even if it went biblically bad#I think he deserves shit for Renault I really do.#I need you to understand that Im glad he's back with RB now but he also had no reason to stay in 2018#His faith in the RB project was not rewarded. he spent his whole career at RB umbrella-#and in the last year of his contract his car collapsed.#anyway#one day I'll make that Renault post#f1#daniel ricciardo
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George Orwell's 11 Rules for the Perfect Cup of Tea
George Orwell:
If you look up âteaâ in the first cookery book that comes to hand you will probably find that it is unmentioned; or at most you will find a few lines of sketchy instructions which give no ruling on several of the most important points. This is curious, not only because tea is one of the mainstays of civilization in this country, as well as in Eire, Australia and New Zealand, but because the best manner of making it is the subject of violent disputes. When I look through my own recipe for the perfect cup of tea, I find no fewer than 11 outstanding points. On perhaps two of them there would be pretty general agreement, but at least four others are acutely controversial. Here are my own 11 rules, every one of which I regard as golden:
First of all, one should use Indian or Ceylonese tea. China tea has virtues which are not to be despised nowadaysâit is economical, and one can drink it without milkâbut there is not much stimulation in it. One does not feel wiser, braver or more optimistic after drinking it. Anyone who has used that comforting phrase âa nice cup of teaâ invariably means Indian tea.
Secondly, tea should be made in small quantitiesâthat is, in a teapot. Tea out of an urn is always tasteless, while army tea, made in a cauldron, tastes of grease and whitewash. The teapot should be made of china or earthenware. Silver or Britanniaware teapots produce inferior tea and enamel pots are worse; though curiously enough a pewter teapot (a rarity nowadays) is not so bad.
Thirdly, the pot should be warmed beforehand. This is better done by placing it on the hob than by the usual method of swilling it out with hot water.
Fourthly, the tea should be strong. For a pot holding a quart, if you are going to fill it nearly to the brim, six heaped teaspoons would be about right. In a time of rationing, this is not an idea that can be realized on every day of the week, but I maintain that one strong cup of tea is better than twenty weak ones. All true tea lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year that passesâa fact which is recognized in the extra ration issued to old-age pensioners.
Fifthly, the tea should be put straight into the pot. No strainers, muslin bags or other devices to imprison the tea. In some countries teapots are fitted with little dangling baskets under the spout to catch the stray leaves, which are supposed to be harmful. Actually one can swallow tea-leaves in considerable quantities without ill effect, and if the tea is not loose in the pot it never infuses properly.
Sixthly, one should take the teapot to the kettle and not the other way about. The water should be actually boiling at the moment of impact, which means that one should keep it on the flame while one pours. Some people add that one should only use water that has been freshly brought to the boil, but I have never noticed that it makes any difference.
Seventhly, after making the tea, one should stir it, or better, give the pot a good shake, afterwards allowing the leaves to settle.
Eighthly, one should drink out of a good breakfast cupâthat is, the cylindrical type of cup, not the flat, shallow type. The breakfast cup holds more, and with the other kind oneâs tea is always half coldâbefore one has well started on it.
Ninthly, one should pour the cream off the milk before using it for tea. Milk that is too creamy always gives tea a sickly taste.
Tenthly, one should pour tea into the cup first. This is one of the most controversial points of all; indeed in every family in Britain there are probably two schools of thought on the subject. The milk-first school can bring forward some fairly strong arguments, but I maintain that my own argument is unanswerable. This is that, by putting the tea in first and stirring as one pours, one can exactly regulate the amount of milk whereas one is liable to put in too much milk if one does it the other way round.
Lastly, teaâunless one is drinking it in the Russian styleâshould be drunk without sugar. I know very well that I am in a minority here. But still, how can you call yourself a true tea-lover if you destroy the flavour of your tea by putting sugar in it? It would be equally reasonable to put in pepper or salt. Tea is meant to be bitter, just as beer is meant to be bitter. If you sweeten it, you are no longer tasting the tea, you are merely tasting the sugar; you could make a very similar drink by dissolving sugar in plain hot water.
Some people would answer that they donât like tea in itself, that they only drink it in order to be warmed and stimulated, and they need sugar to take the taste away. To those misguided people I would say: Try drinking tea without sugar for, say, a fortnight and it is very unlikely that you will ever want to ruin your tea by sweetening it again. These are not the only controversial points to arise in connection with tea drinking, but they are sufficient to show how subtilized the whole business has become. There is also the mysterious social etiquette surrounding the teapot (why is it considered vulgar to drink out of your saucer, for instance?) and much might be written about the subsidiary uses of tealeaves, such as telling fortunes, predicting the arrival of visitors, feeding rabbits, healing burns and sweeping the carpet. It is worth paying attention to such details as warming the pot and using water that is really boiling, so as to make quite sure of wringing out of oneâs ration the 20 good, strong cups that two ounces, properly handled, ought to represent.
Published in the Evening Standard, 12 January 1946
More: George Orwell
#george orwell#tea#food#writing inspiration#writeblr#writing reference#spilled ink#dark academia#literature#essay#writers on tumblr#poets on tumblr#writing prompt#poetry#creative writing#light academia#writing resources
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nice :]
i see you are attacking me with likes (targeted) so i will attack back
#<- yeah i should probably head to sleep too cuz its nearly 1 am#its not bad its just a few of the countryverse people and we talk about silly stuff#from the top of my head australia; safari; dakotas; britain; delaware are def in there and in n out burgr too#but yeah i understand discord can be shit#â yeah go to bed man :]#the discord thing isn't a matter of people the ui stresses me to the point its unusable
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Happy Ace Week to Us!
The Ace Couple Podcast just charted in our 60th country!!!
It's SO neat to see how far our voices have traveled spreading Asexual education, culture, politics, and community.
Just for funsies, here's a list of the countries in the order we charted.
If you're a listener of ours from any of these places, THANK YOU so much <3
Norway
Saudi Arabia
Luxembourg
Russia
Australia
Canada
U.S
Great Britain
Germany
Austria
Macedonia
New Zealand
Singapore
Netherlands
Japan
South Korea
Spain
Belgium
Hong Kong
Costa Rica
Iceland
South Africa
Denmark
Switzerland
Sweden
Philippines
France
Portugal
Macau
Finland
Italy
India
Colombia
Czech Republic
Ireland
Mongolia
Qatar
Vietnam
Kazakhstan
Poland
Slovakia
Nigeria
Panama
Argentina
Algeria
Malta
Brazil
Greece
Romania
Taiwan
Hungary
Estonia
Israel
Mexico
Oman
Slovenia
Cambodia
Croatia
Cayman Islands
Cyprus
P.S. These charts only include podcast platforms and doesn't take into consideration listeners who tune in directly on our website or on YouTube
P.P.S. We only need about 50 subscribers before we hit 10k on YouTube, so considering it's a secondary platform for the podcast medium, we're not doing too bad over there either :P
#the ace couple#the ace couple podcast#ace week#ace week 2024#happy ace week#asexual awareness week 2024#asexual awareness week#happy ace awareness week#ace#asexual#asexuality#aces#ace community#ace pride#asexual community#asexual pride#lgbtqia#queer#podcast#asexual podcast#asexual positivity
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hi im pretty new to f1 and ive been watching ur reccommended nico races. do u have any nonwinning races that hes good in that u think r worth watching?
yes yes hello!!! this got lost in my drafts my bad, I had some help from my supreme nicologist @keepthedelta for some of the reccs
(here's the aforementioned nico wins recc)
so, some nico races he didn't win but put up a hell of a show:
- debut! his debut williams race, he scored points on debut AND fastest lap. highly recommend bahrain 2006
- australia 2008, first podium!!! that's where the iconic lewis spinning nico around comes from
- CRASHGATE aka what should've been Nico's First Win, Singapore 2008. iconic messy race
- china 2010 and Britain podiums in a Mercedes that was not very good at all
- Bahrain 2014 was one of the silver war battle masterclasses, and Bahrain 2015 was Nico fighting for his life with brake failure and battling seb and still podiuming
- China 2014 the F1 mechanical masterclass of All Time with Nico's telemetry dying multiple times and he crawled to p2.
- malaysia 2016 absolutely insane charge from last place to the podium with no safety car and a penalty
and finally the last, but never the least:
- Abu Dhabi 2016 - the title fight. HIGH STAKES DRAMA. nico being sick with nerves that entire weekend. lewis backing into him cause there's a chance if he's p4 and below lewis wins on points. teenage demon max fucking verstappen. just the most cathartic race
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What I mean with Dianafied was that Kate was seen as a threat so thereâs been some effort to paint her in a bad light. Like Meghan saying things changed after Australia because the royals became jealous of her success in Australia. Again, not saying Charles was the mastermind behind it but maybe the courtiers
Gotcha. Thanks for coming back and explaining.
Last year's criticism was not unique or a one-off scenario. Kate has been treated like that since she married William. It comes and goes, in cycles, usually by anti-Katers and Charles's supporters in the royal-watching (the usual disclaimer here that not all of those people, but some of them).
Here are some early stories and gossip about that.
The only difference between William/Kate and Harry/Meghan is that the Sussexes actively courted the Diana comparisons and the Diana discussions, which drew a lot of attention because the press loved that someone was talking about Diana again after years of radio-silence and refusal from the Cambridges to engage on.
And the reason why the Cambridges didn't speak about Diana or court comparisons to her is because William made it very clear from the very beginning that he did not have any expectations she'd do (or be) anything like Diana, and he wasn't going to allow others to have those expectations:
There's no pressure though. There's no pressure because like Kate said it is about carving your own future. No one is trying to fill my mother's shoes, what she did is fantastic. It's about making your own future and your own destiny and Kate will do a very good job of that.
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When your shitty 13 colonies become the world superpower
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Nicknames: Ame, stars, the Phoenix (ThEn IlL rAiSe YoU lIkE a PhOeNiX) He's friends with a lot of people, he mostly likes you as long as you respect him. He really is just his dad.
HCs
Because he's older than most countries he's kinda known as a lot of peoples mentor and some see him as an older brother
Speaking of mentors America was taught by a lot of old empires. People like Prussia, Russian empire and all his uncles along with a lot of other countries who taught him about their culture and language. But America did learn how to fly because of Prussia.
He has a few gifts from people, the sunglasses were originally given to him by Scotland but when America was taking care of west Germany, he got weirded out about the fact he couldn't see his eyes, so he made them have an eye tracker, the guitar was given to America by Britain as a way to say sorry for the revolution and war of 1812
He loves fluffy and soft things which is why his coat is fluffy despite the fact he can warm himself up by his fire
His personality disorder is mostly the reason he acts differently in certain situations than others. Its not that he doesn't know how to act its just he needs to have that experience to know how to act. An example is when he 1st started to date Russia because the only affection he knew how to put on other people was to Either act like a child like he was when he was younger or act like a guardian because he was an older brother and also because he's a father. France had to explain to Russia to take it slow and show America what to do.
The choker around Americas neck is from when he was younger. Because he has fire powers, he's kinda allergic to water so he gets burned by it so Britain made a little gem to keep him immune to water, so now he can talk underwater with no consequences.
America is forces to go the presidential debates but he doesn't really care anymore cause he knows both of the people are gonna be shit so he just uses that time to make fun of them.
To torture America Canada makes him watch Hamilton. Like imagine there was a musical about reliving you least favorite time in your life and also the story of how your friends died.
He hates his singing voice so he'll go outside to the forest and play his guitar on the edge of a nice cliff and blast music through his headphones.
America has extreme Arachniphobia. every time Australia loses one of his spiders America says you better find that spider before it finds me.
When his siblings were younger he used to sing to them because he didn't want Britain and France to have to wake up and deal with it.
After 9/11 America has to wear a hearing aid because new York is technically his brain, he covers his ears because of it
Idk how I forgot this one but Americas eyes changes colors depending on his mood. Blue and red is normal, only red is mad or ticked off, green is protective or wary, yellow means he has his eagle wings out and purple means he's bout to nuke you cause he's really mad like lvl 5. His eyes show not only his mood but also which persona is in control at the time ( which I figured out is called split personality disorder
He can also talk to the ancients and dead countries, so he just talks to them when he's bored, Canada can do the same since he is a ghost. If America doesn't have pupils and it's just fully white or black he's talking to them, but its more his internal thoughts that talk to him. he doesn't just start mummbling luckily.
Hes immune to most of the different abilities of other people, he doesn't get frozen in time which came in handy during the cold war, he can still see Canada even if he is a ghost, though Britain can still use magic on him, bad magic like cursing him doesn't work, France can still see his memories, but its mostly because their his parents.
(I know I'm making him over powered but like you should've expected that, I do live in America and America does have the best military by a landslide, so L)
Oh also meme of the day ( don't expect this to be normal)
#countryhumans#artists on tumblr#country humans#countryhumans art#countryhumans america#head cannons#countryhumansrusame
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Game shows i have watched ranked by how good i think i would be at them from worst to best
Make some noise - I think I would be extremely bad at this because i don't like noises
8 out of 10 cats do countdown - I would not be bad at this game except that the ticking clock and jimmy carr both really fucking piss me off. Again, Noises.
The Chase - Listen I think I COULD do this, except there are a lot of questions about british geography and I've never been to britain and I haven't bothered to study it
Tipping point - let's be real this one is 90% luck and 5% questions about british geography
Game changer - How could I possibly know how good i would be at this one
The Hard Quiz - I would cry but I might be okay at it if i picked the right topic (the crying is because I cannot take a joke and the host is mean)
Taskmaster (any version*) - I think i could be uniquely funny in this because of my disabled body, and my autistic transgender swag. Would I win the series? No, but I might win one episode.
Who wants to be a millionaire - I COULD win this. I could. Watch me. I might flunk out. But I think I'd get at least a little money. Again. my Autistic Transgender Swag is important.
Um actually - Obviously I am the ideal candidate for this show, because my family is always telling me that "Actually" was my favourite word when I was four years old and also I'm an incredibly huge fucking dweeb.
*taskmaster Australia is hosted by the same man as The Hard Quiz. I reserve the right to cry.
#this is so bullshit#but i have been thinking about it#my deepest most embarrassing secret is that i want to be a celebrity#but im not hot or talented#but I am a little bit funny sometimes#and i like trivia#and fulfilling pointless objectives
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I mean this with ZERO disrespect, I'm simply trying to educate myself on this matter because it impacts us all.
All I can find about the Israel-Palestine conflicts is the fighting. What I want to know is why.
Whats the backstory? Why are they fighting? Why is everyone persecuting one another and who in the government is responsible?
I heard Hamas bombed Gaza and has taken hostages. What brought on this violence? Do all the Palestinians agree with this?
(More personal opinion questions, you don't need to answer these)
Do you agree with Hamas? Do you think that violence was a last resort to free Palestine? Do you think it's justified?
One thing I do hate is people saying "I hate *this group of people*, they are bad." They can't all be bad. So I don't like the titles of Anti-Israel/Anti-Palestine because you're assuming everyone there is on the same side.
In conclusion, people are stupid. The government is messed up. Citizens and families want to live so why won't the government let them?
Iâm genuinely grateful that youâre asking because educating ourselves is one of the greatest tools we have. Iâll break it up into sections.
1. Whatâs the backstory?
In 1918, the Ottoman Empire conceded land they controlled to Britain (this is still an ongoing problem regarding many, many things because the Ottoman Empire controlled many nations that werenât theirs to control if you catch my drift. Look up the Elgin marbles for a fun wormhole of WTF Britain). The Arab Revolt was backed by France and Britain with the promise that if the Arab fighters could force the Ottomans out of the area of the Levant, they would be granted independence (McMahon-Hussein Correspondence) but, plot twist, France and the UK instead split the region (Sykes-Picot Agreement). The Balfour Declaration of 1917 expressed Britainâs support of the creation of Israel. After they gained control of the region, they established Israel and systematically began to take the land of Palestinians.
Note: Zionism began as a belief in the mid-18th century. Many, MANY Jewish people do not subscribe, encourage, or promote the idea of a Jewish state. I do not view Israel = Jewish because it is antisemitic to imply that the Jewish diaspora all exist under the state of Israel. Especially when many Jewish people disagree with Israel.
Note note: Zionism was created as a response to the numerous pogroms and other antisemitic hate crimes affecting Jewish people. the Holocaust was fucking awful. No ifs ands or buts. Genocide doesnât justify genocide, however.
Continuing on. So, clearly, the Palestinians are pissed. They were promised independence and instead now have their land taken by a global superpower who has historically fucked over hundreds of countries (another wormhole for you: India under British rule, Ireland and literally all of its history with England, the transatlantic slave trade under Britain, Africa under British rule, Australia and the treatment of Aboriginals under British rule, America and the British, it goes on). Palestinians revolted from 1936-1939 because, again, their home and promise of independence was being stolen. They lost against the British army but then 1939 was a bit of an important year for everyone and they world was sucked into another world war.
With WWII saw the birth of the United Nations, an organization that might sound important but has the moral backbone with the equivalence of a chocolate eclair. The UN said âhey, why donât we split Palestine and Israel into two different states so maybe theyâll stop fightingâ (United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine) and, as a result, the 1948 Palestine-Israel war began. Hundreds died. 700k+ people were forced from Palestine and spread across the world in what is called the Nakba. Israeli colonizers quite literally moved into homes that had been occupied by Palestinians only days before. In 1918, the Jewish population of the region was 8.1%. In 1948, when Israel was recognized as a nation by the UN, the Jewish population of the region was 82.1%.
2. Thereâs plenty of infographics and videos explaining the next few decades but Iâm already writing an essay basically so the gist is: Palestinians keep losing their homes and Israel keeps taking them. Israel forces the Palestinians into smaller and smaller parcels of land until the control virtually everything but a small strip of land (Gaza) and the West Bank. That brings us to 2006.
Hamas was elected in 2006 over rivaling Fatah, gaining majority amount of seats in the Palestinian Legislative Council under the promise that they would help end the corruption many Palestinians were frustrated with. Instead they took military control over Gaza and established an autocratic state over millions of people who were already suffering under barbaric policies and practices from Israel. Politicians.
This is where things get a littleâŠmessy morally. Do I agree with Hamas? Fuck no. I couldnât care less about Hamas because they donât care about Palestinians. Do all Palestinians agree with Hamas? Firstly, you will rarely find a group of people where all agree with some. Secondly, I donât think they appreciate being bombed by Israel while Hamas leaders chill somewhere else. The people of Palestine are the victims of Hamas and Israel.
Did some Palestinians celebrate Hamasâ actions? Yes. Do I think violence is a last resort? Yes and no. Do I think itâs justified? Yes and no.
Lemme expand on those last two points. I want to be an international human rights attorney someday. The loss of innocent life is always a fucking tragedy that I hope to help prevent or to bring justice for them. I understand violence. I understand why people are so angry. I understand the rage and grief Palestinians feel. 75 years of having their rights stripped away, their homes quite literally occupied, their land and culture chipped away piece by piece, and their children bombed and shot at.
âBut how on earth can you think violence is justified if people get hurt!â The American Revolution was an act of violence that got numerous people killed yet you will rarely find someone who wonât justify it. Ukraine defending themselves against Russia wanting their land with no regard to how many Ukrainians they kill is considered justified.
People just seem to focus on the âviolence is badâ aspect of things once POC are involved. Yeah, I said it. Americans tired of taxation, of British rule, and of not having their independence causes property damage, argues with soldiers in the streets, and starts a war is okay but when Palestinians do it, itâs a problem? When Black Americans ask to stop being brutalized by the police, itâs a problem? When Black South Africans ask to end an apartheid state, itâs a problem? When Central Americans ask for western nations to stop causing coups that destabilizes their nations, itâs a problem? I could go on.
Yeah, violence is bad. Violence is also the way that a lot of countries are where they are today. Violence is sometimes the only reason why things changed. Violence is enacted on the oppressed everyday yet people only seem to really care once the oppressed fight back.
3. Iâm anti-Israel because I donât agree with the government and the state of Israel. I donât agree with their 75 years of violent oppression of Palestinians. I donât agree with their current or past actions. Iâm anti-Hamas. I think theyâre a vacuous organization that is more focused on getting what they want than considering the consequences of innocent Palestinians.
Iâm also really fucking furious at Joe Bidenâs insistence that we send aid to Israel. We have given Israel $260 BILLION since 1948. BILLION. And yet we have people dying because they canât afford healthcare. Students leaving school because they canât afford tuition. We have 8 year olds in debt because they canât afford school lunches. The unhoused population is growing rapidly due to the housing crisis. I can sense the unemployment rate creeping higher. I know many people who have lost their jobs this past month alone. Weâre days away from another government shutdown and they canât vote on a speaker.
American politicians would rather send Israel billions more to bomb innocent people than to feed their own citizens. That, in my opinion, is a sort of violence that can never be justified.
#honey.txt#sorry for the essay#but really not sorry#I took a whole class on the global south during the Cold War and it really opened my eyes#granted my specialization is Central America but plot twist#America has been at the center of fucking stuff up there too
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New SpaceTime out Friday
SpaceTime 20240830 Series 27 Episode 105
Discovery of the heaviest antimatter hyper-nucleus ever created
Physicists from the STAR Collaboration have for the first time observed a new antimatter hyper-nucleus called anti-hyperhydrogen-4.
Rocket engine explodes during UK spaceport test A rocket engine exploded spectacularly during a hot fire first stage test at Britain's new SaxaVord spaceport in northern Scotland.
Why food tastes bad in space
A new study may help explain why astronauts are constantly reporting that their meals taste bland in space.
The Science Report
Five percent of people are consuming products that are potentially toxic to their livers.
The robotic glove that will help people who need hand rehabilitation.
Your social position â income and job â could be linked to your food preferences.
Skeptics guide to the accuracy of ghost hunts
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