The road to the Handmaid’s Tale world is lined with smiling people telling you to stop overreacting.

Netflix released a documentary 'Buy now: The shopping conspiracy' that talks about the culture of overconsumption and how corporations have driven it. I quite liked it. It's not surprising, but its still shocking to know exactly how deliberately evil corporates have been in the quest for profits.

I feel like this was the greatest celebrity post of all time because you initially want to make fun of it because we’re all irony poisoned jerks but the sheer scale of human compassion overwhelms it and you end up going yes Vincent I also want to help a pig see the stars for the first time

"...consider the elderly widow who has been hospitalised and worries she is taking up a valuable bed in an NHS under significant strain and would be better off dead."

This dangerous and irresponsible assisted dying bill is absolutely not the answer.

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