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My partner and I have told our respective parents about the upcoming marriage.

Mine cried because they won't be able to fly over from Portugal due to everything going on and they'll miss it. My partner's parents cried because he's gay and marrying a man. Priorities, right? 1/3
Countless parents who lost their children to illness or an accident would give everything to see them grow up and marry a decent person who loves them passionately.

My partner's parents have a good, healthy and much loved son. Yet they're wallowing in pointless self-pity. 2/3
You can't change certain cards that are dealt to you in life. I'm very lucky to have the family that I have, and I'm proud that my family has taken my partner in like one of their own.

Your child is gay? So fucking what? There are real problems in the world. This isn't one. 3/3
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Unpopular take on Scottish Twitter, but my bag of fucks is depleted so:

If we have unionist list MSPs in the Scottish Parliament, it's because people vote for them. "Gaming" the system to deprive a section of the Scottish electorate from representation is anti-democratic. 1/8
Many people were driven to support independence due to the resentment felt towards the corrupt, anti-democratic character of UK politics.

Will "gaming" the system help persuade any former No voters that the independence side has the moral high ground? No. It's underhanded. 2/8
Fundamentally, exploiting a voting system to create a Parliamentary outcome that doesn't reflect the real proportionality present across the general population doesn't put us any closer to achieving independence, because for that we still need to convince a majority of voters 3/8
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Today, 6th of April 2020, marks the 700th anniversary of the Declaration of Arbroath (1320), one of the most important documents in Scottish history.

Here's a wee thread, from someone who had to study this document at university, in Lisbon, as part of my degree in History:
The Declaration of Arbroath is a letter, written in Latin, and signed by almost 40 Scottish barons & earls, addressed to Pope John XXII.

The Pope was a major political figure throughout most of the Middle Ages, and this was a bit like sending a letter to the United Nations.
Calling it a Declaration of Independence isn't exactly correct - to be precise, the Declaration of Arbroath makes it clear that Scotland had been a sovereign kingdom for many centuries, ruled by a succession of Scottish kings, and that no one else could claim sovereignty over it.
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Following that thread on the poisonous bile we've endured from my partner's mum, here's a thread on how I met him, my bestie and soon-to-be husband, on an online dating website.

Yes, it's possible to find the one on Tinder. Here's a positive story of hope:
Back in 2011, I was a morbidly obese 20-year old in Uni. I was insecure, unhealthy, an anxious mess, lonely and deeply unhappy.

So, I did something about my weight, and lost 6 stone in 6 months (nearly 40kg), and then a bit more, after that. This gave me newfound confidence.
I was an out gay guy by then, but I'd never had a boyfriend. On my 21st birthday, I hadn't ever kissed a guy. I felt ready. I felt like I wasn't a monster for the first time, and so tried to "get out there".
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