Our first guest is none other than a politician! Tessa Marshall is the Welsh Green Party candidate for Caedydd Penarth at the Senedd Elections of 7th May 2026 and a personal friend. In this episode we ask her everything we always wanted to ask a politician but never had the chance before! And she delivers!

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The Welsh Green Party : wales.greenparty.org.uk

If you heard of Zack Polanski, the leader of the UK Green party (some say he’s the British Zohran Mamdani) this is his podcast boldpoliticswithzack.com

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The romanticisation of abuse in dark romantasy. From Beauty and the Beast to Joss Whedon's Spike in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and the reinterpretation of the trope by white women since the 2000s with Stephenie Meyer's Twilight, Sarah J. Maas's A Court of Thorns and Roses, Deborah Harkness' A Discovery of Witches and yes, Tom Hiddleston's Loki to Astarion pipeline.

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CONTENT WARNING: DISCUSSIONS OF Suic!dE and Suic!dal Intrusive Thoughts. In this emergency episode we discuss the beginning of 2026 with the US attack of Venezuela, kidnapping its president and immediately casting their imperialistic eye onto Greenland, what that would mean for world diplomacy and the problematic possibility of it triggering World War 3 with some of the international intricacies explained

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00:59 How to "end" oneself

02:18 Religion and the right to end one's life

08:14 Venezuela to Greenland

14:25 Diplomacy and Democracy

20:23 the Birth of Propaganda

24:32 We are in a Plutarchy

29:02 capitalism patriarchy and r*pe culture

33:29 how can world war iii start now?

40:44 do the US want to go to war with Europe?

49:07 Bif Tannen and Donald Trump

50:28 The Rules

54:33 Nuclear Deterrents

56:53 build the skills to become partisans

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Philosophy Tube - Suic!de and Ment@l He@lth | Philosophy Tube ★https://youtube.com/watch?v=eQNw2FBdpyE

Devon Price Ph.D. - Laziness Does Not Exist

US https://bookshop.org/a/115825/9781982140113

UK https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15020/9781982140113

Annie Jacobsen - Nuclear War: A Scenario

US https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15020/9781804996003

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Sheffield University - The Invisible Government: Edward Bernays, Public Relations and Propaganda

https://newhistories.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/volumes/2013-14/volume-5/issue-1-media/the-invisible-government-edward-bernays-public-relations-and-propaganda

@adamcurtisdocumentaries Hypernormalisation | Full Documentary | Adam Curtis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr7T07WfIhM

A review of 2025 for both world and personal events in the style of Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe.

Reflections from the intersections of oppressions, Cheaper than therapy! Two transbians navigating late stage capitalism, chatting with interesting people, and trying to find "The Meaning of Life™".

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01:05 January 2025: Trump Inauguration, Elon Musk

10:36 Rant about AI

16:30 February 2025: My First Exhibition

25:03 March 2025: Music & The Airborne Toxic Event

36:37 April 2025: UK Supreme Court Ruling

49:51 May 2025: Poet in Residence

55:25 June 2025: What it Feels Like for a Girl

01:01:57 July 2025: Sydney Sweeney has great Jeans

01:05:54 August 2025: My Second Exhibition

01:11:00 September 2025: Etsy Witches & Sofia

01:21:56 October 2025: Ceasefire NOT

01:29:27 November 2025: Cottage Life, Zohran Mamdani and Zack Polanski

01:39:18 December 2025: Why we Podcast

White fragility, power structures and how intuitively white women recognise, benefit, and cry victimhood to hold onto their privilege against those lower than them.

Reflections from the intersections of oppressions, Cheaper than therapy! Two transbians navigating late stage capitalism, chatting with interesting people, and trying to find "The Meaning of Life™".

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Essay Mentioned: I’ll Keep Calling Myself a Witch, Thanks

Original Content: Simone Grace Seol - Dear White Women, Please Stop

Reflections from the intersections of oppressions, Cheaper than therapy! Two transbians navigating late stage capitalism, chatting with interesting people, and trying to find "The Meaning of Life™".

Get comfortable in this first episode where we introduce ourselves, our mental kindergarten, how we came to be together and how we developed our view of the world and of spirituality.

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