I wish I could be surprised. I really do. But I’m not.
I haven’t been able to find this piece of news in the English news sources from Denmark, so you’ll just have to make do with a link to a Danish news source and my post here.
A trans woman was arrested, the news story doesn’t [...]
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In Ireland legislation to ban blasphemy has been passed. This is a huge step backwards for the Catholic nation in the Atlantic. The law not only makes blasphemy illegal and punishable by a considerable fine, it also grants the police the right to enter and ransack premises, where blasphemous material is suspected to be kept, [...]
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Laurelin:
if you are a consumer of pornography, you have a vested interest in it, you benefit from it, and therefore your word on how wonderful and harmless it is is seriously compromised.
And:
Survivors of sexual violence have a vested interest in opposing pornography. Without it, they would benefit from not having their abuse shown over and [...]
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Sometimes I just want to cry: Boobie Burglary
Police are interested in anyone who may have recently increased their cup size after a pair of implants was stolen
Police responded to an unusual theft at a hospital in Grindsted, mid-Jutland, recently, after it was reported that a pair of silicone breasts had been stolen from an operating theatre, [...]
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Inspired by this post over at Renee’s I felt the need to brag a little.
Not about anything I’ve accomplished, but about how my city has handled accessibility problems downtown. The “city centre” consists of some 6 streets that are only open to pedestrians and motorized vehicles are only allowed for PWD. Naturally, cars do go [...]
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If the situation is in no other way threatening to anyone, then, telling a person that you will not do X, will make that person think that X is exactly, what you’re planning to do.
Example from the other day: Early in the morning I drive my boyfriend to work, ’cause I need to car myself [...]
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From the Copenhagen Post:
A Jutland couple who made money from allowing men to have sex with two foreign teens living with them had their sentence extended
The Western High Court in Århus today upheld the guilty sentence of a man and woman sentenced to prison for keeping two teenage Slovakian girls in their house as sex [...]
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From News24.com
Uganda will pass a law banning female genital mutilation, which is rampant among pastoralist tribes in the country’s eastern region, the president said in a statement on Friday.
“The way God made it, there is no part of a human body that is useless,” President Yoweri Museveni told a gathering in the eastern Karamoja district.
“Now [...]
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…what’s the matter with our justice system when two young men get 1½ year in jail each for a shooting in the streets, where no one was hurt (thankfully), and two parents get one year each for having abused their daughter consistently over the course of four years with beatings, broken bones, hard labour and [...]
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