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Takashi Tachibana, leader of the NHK Party, has been indicted by the Kobe District Public Prosecutors Office for allegedly defaming a former Hyogo prefectural assembly member who apparently committed suicide. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/28/japan/crime-legal/tachibana-indictment-defamation/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #takashitachibana #motohikosaito #hyogo #japanesepolice #suicide #nhkparty

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@SheWasSpeaking@toots.matapacos.dog · 3 weeks ago

I've touched on this before, but I really hate how much "mental health awareness" just boils down to neurotypicals excusing each other for their roles in the struggles of neurodivergent people.

Like, imagine if whenever you talked about experiencing transphobia, some helpful cis person would gently inform you that nobody owes you their emotional labor and gave you the number of the Trevor Project. Or if TDOV consisted of cis people talking about how evil a disease experiencing transphobia is and how it spontaneously ruins the lives of trans people, without even a mention of the people who actually inflict transphobia upon us. It'd be absurd.

But that is how we treat mentally ill people. Mental health awareness month doesn't platform mentally ill people. It instead platforms people who have been affected by people in their lives committing suicide or by mental illness in general so that they can talk about what a terrible disease mental illness is and about how *neurotypicals* can handle mentally ill people. The most we can hope for is seeing our feeds flooded with people posting, "there's hope! People care! (Just not me.) Call the suicide hotline!"

And I think one of the major reasons we aren't asked to speak for ourselves is that unspoken understanding that talking about mental illness is *dangerous*. That if mentally ill people are allowed to talk about their feelings honestly and openly, other people might do the same.

And more than that, I think we're just inconvenient. We, like homeless people, are inconvenient social outcasts who need to be swept aside and kept out of day to day life because nobody wants to be reminded that they live in a brutal, unforgiving capitalist shithole that grinds people down to their very bones. People want to be happy, and they want to see other people being happy, and they don't want to think about the world they live in - or worse, they themselves - making other people unhappy.

#mentalhealth #ableism #neurodivergent #suicide

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@dukepaaron@babka.social · 3 weeks ago

"The #tour follows a chronological tale of #Jewish life in #York. We start at Whip-Ma-Whop-Ma-Gate to set the scene of Jewish life in #Medieval York.

Here, we introduce some key figures at the centre of anti-Jewish violence that started in #London, in late #1189, before making its way north. Putting ourselves in the shoes of the Jewish community, we replicate their journey to #CliffordsTower, the site of the #1190massacre. This is the most significant Jewish site in York, which saw the complete annihilation of York’s 150 #Jews, the majority of whom chose #suicide in order to protect their faith and dignity from the mob.

From here, we explore the lesser known revitalisation of the Jewish community in the #13thcentury. This story is shared at the medieval #synagogue on Coney Street. Next, at the Norman House, we cover the build-up to the national #expulsion (#1290) and official return of #Jewry in the #17thcentury."

https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/25638161.why-set-jewish-history-walking-tours-york/