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Sex trade victims struggle to reintegrate - Features - Al Jazeera English

CyberGuerrilla soApboX » The Anonymous guide to the Syrian Revolution. This is actually a pretty important read.

I fucking love negative people. I know it sounds strange, but I felt I had to say it. You see, our society seems to have an utterly irrational hatred and fear of negative people - by which they mean...well... ...Honestly, I don't know. The broad definition seems to be something like people who aren't always happy-happy joy-joy-joy. You know, normal people. Now, the hatred and fear of toxic people I understand. This is because the idea of toxic people actually makes sense: toxic people are manipulative, abusive, and are generally shitmunching bastards that you should get the hell out of your life before they mess around with your health and happiness any more. I also understand the dislike, if not the hatred, of mean people, because they're arseholes and no-one wants to be around a self-important busybody who treats everyone around them like shit. I still understand the desire to cut negative people out of one's life, don't get me wrong. I understand the ...

Daphne Bramham: Human trafficking’s most common victims are hidden from sight

Trigger warning for discussion of suicide and suicidal ideation. People trying to stop suicide on Twitter are admirable; hell, people trying to stop suicide anywhere are admirable. There are some pretty brilliant Twitter projects out there, like Don't Lose Your Grip , that have helped me and a lot of other people out there in our recoveries, and some pretty brilliant support networks too - as well as the admirable #opstopsuicide , which does exactly what it says on the tin. All the same, I've noticed that a lot of anti-suicide tweeters rely on platitudes. Pretty pictures. Things you can fit happily into 140 characters. Given that you can only fit that many characters in a tweet, this is not particularly surprising. All the same, I still take issue with it. This isn't because I love encouraging people to commit suicide or because I hate new media; I certainly don't hate Twitter. Rather, it involves me and my personal experiences with suicidal ideation and intent,...

Why I don’t believe in science…and students shouldn’t either

Non à la guerre contre la Syrie ! Good article - if you can read French!

Sri Lanka’s Peiris picks holes in Pillay’s report - The Hindu