June 2013
8 posts
♀: National Ugly Mugs needs funding →
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The Ugly Mugs scheme, based in Miles Platting, lets sex workers anonymously report rapists and robbers, helping police to build crucial intelligence on serial offenders.
Police can also circulate descriptions of dangerous offenders to prostitutes and escorts to help avoid them being attacked.
Started as a pilot scheme last July with funding from the Home Office, Ugly Mugs is credited with helping police investigate over 250 crimes, including seven sexual assaults, four rapes and two attempted rapes in Greater Manchester.
Sex workers can also sign up to warning text messages and emails giving descriptions and phone numbers of dangerous punters to avoid.
But the scheme now faces a battle to keep going after its nine months of funding has run out.
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“It costs less than £100,000 per year to run this scheme – the same as the average rape investigation.”
The National Ugly Mugs website can be found here. They accept donations via Paypal.
Abolitionists: you love to talk a big game about how you care sooooo much about sex workers and you just want to help us. Here is a very concrete way to do just that. NUM not only helps sex workers avoid abusive clients, but also helps police get those men off the streets. If your politics really are the result of compassion and not just a way to reconcile hating sluts with being a feminist, then prove it. Donate and spread this everywhere.
I’ve been listening to a lot of older music lately and I really like that one song, “Don’t Let Your Son Go Down On Me” by Elton John.
Would it be effective censorship if I just photoshopped man nipples onto girl nipples
Someone needs to make bras or bikini tops with a picture of man nipples. Then we could walk around shirtless without any issue, right?
“Marry your best friend. I do not say that lightly. Really, truly find the strongest, happiest friendship in the person you fall in love with. Someone who speaks highly of you. Someone you can laugh with. The kind of laughs that make your belly ache, and your nose snort. The embarrassing, earnest, healing kind of laughs. Wit is important. Life is too short not to love someone who lets you be a fool with them. Make sure they are somebody who lets you cry, too. Despair will come. Find someone that you want to be there with you through those times. Most importantly, marry the one that makes passion, love, and madness combine and course through you. A love that will never dilute - even when the waters get deep, and dark.”
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N’tima (via breanna-lynn)
I CAN’t stop thinking about how the lyrics to free bird are “‘cause i’m as free as a bird now, and this bird you cannot change.” it should be “chain.” if the bird isn’t free, he’s chained. if you can’t chain this bird, he’s free. who the fuck can change a bird? you can’t change a bird. change it to do what? who the fcuck
May 2013
11 posts
I’m pretty disappointed with how Arrested Development ended. Now it feels like there will be another season, but it really should be over. I just wish there was more of a grand finale feeling. Booo.
Few lines will get me as good as “I could see the squirrels, and they were married.”
Oh Christmas tree, oh Christmas tree
You really are a treeee
