Expect the orca people will be along to explain about how he was a billionaire and deserved it any moment now.
Seriously, I think the main thing determining whether dolphins (including orcas) attack humans is whether they think they can get away with it. Nasty little twats, they are.
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Swimmer left with broken ribs after dolphin attack in Fukui | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis
A swimmer in his 60s was left with broken ribs July 16 after a dolphin rammed him in shallow waters at a beach in Fukui Prefecture.The Asahi Shimbun
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I'm so sick of biological TERFs. They just drive me biological wild with their biological bigotry. They should get a biological life.
@NightlyBye I genuinely don't think they know what "biological" means and they just use it as an amplifier like "fucking"
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After Backlash, Publisher to Retract Article That Surveyed Parents of Children With Gender Dysphoria, Says Co-Author
Soon after publication, the study was criticized that its method of enlisting study participants was biased.Ellie Kincaid (Medscape)
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Shoutout to places which have 1 “free from” sandwich in their entire range, and it’s lactose free vegan salad on gluten free bread because that ticks all the “food intolerance” boxes in one go.
And by “shoutout”, I mean “fuck you”.
You wonder why nobody is buying your dismal sadness cardboard. It’s because gluten intolerant people like chicken as well (for example)
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@Kate Watson The shop worker was like, "that's the only one we have"
Probably wondering why they never sell any of them.
"Oh, we barely stock gluten free sandwiches because we tried sticking three pairs of cardboard with some dismal lettuce between them on a shelf and nobody bought them, so we assumed there's no demand"
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Looking like Bluesky is basically over. Jack Dorsey will not budge from the ideological position that content moderation is something that can be done as an afterthought with regexps.
It maybe worked well enough to keep the site viable as long as the number of bad actors was tiny. It clearly doesn’t work any more.
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“I tried the fediverse and didn’t follow anyone and it sucked, so I stopped and went back to Twitter again.”
These people would have hated Twitter circa 2008 when it had pretty much exactly the same issue.
But that’s the point of social media: to find likeminded people with common interests. Somewhere along the line that changed into social media being a thing that tells you what you think, and what you should be liking.
That’s easy, but it’s mental refined sugar. It’s just incredibly crap for you.
If you want interesting, fun and stimulating stuff, follow interesting, fun and stimulating people.
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Z, you've been rude to everyone in this entire thread. That is not welcome here, & on Twitter I would have blocked you in an instant. (And I will here, if you respond w rudeness to me.)
However, on the chance you are genuinely asking in good faith, the other way to find people is to put a hashtag in the search box - #Taiga, #Java, a favourite band, or whatever you are interested in. It will help you find people w common interests whom you may wish to follow.
Good luck.
I witnessed another trans person's deed poll today. A bit more involved, necessitating a trip to the solicitor, because he's 14, but nevertheless it reminded me of the surreal socially distanced signing dance I did during lockdown for my deed poll with @Zoë O'Connell and @Sarah Brown
It didn't have to be me that signed -- it could have been anyone who knew him and his parents -- but I felt privileged to do it, passing on some part of the support other trans people gave me.
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Mental Health
My mental health remains somewhat wobbly, as it has been for a month or two now. There have been two absolute low points, one "head buzzing so much with despair" and one of the form where the world is a treacle of minor chords and even being present feels like an effort that can't be guaranteed. In between it's been recovery and walking a sort of narrow path on the edge, as if solid rock can be felt to one side and an abyss to the other. A forgetfulness of joy, too, as if I have lost the object permanence of love.
I have CBT starting next month. I have an appointment with my GP potentially to adjust antidepressant doses. I've got the endocrinologist tomorrow. The things I can do apart from just hanging on, I am doing. (To be clear, I'm not a danger to myself or anyone else.)
Back in the day, going viral on Twitter was great.
Now going viral is like, "ah shit, the queue has an eight hour backlog!"
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Caster Semenya won her case in the ECHR yesterday. Only the legal summary is currently available in English: “Discrimination against professional athlete with differences of sex development who was required under non-State regulations to lower her natural testosterone level to compete in women’s category in international competitions: violation”.
The judgment in French is at hudoc.echr.coe.int/%7B%22appno… ; I’ll toot the official English translation when it appears
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In order to serve you better, I wanna share you some secrets about myself and beg your pardon. I'm sorry when I become loud during high-pressure inflation 2 min after starting, as I'm pumping on full throttle!”
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Dear Messers Bosch, Neff, and others.
You know that strip between the oven door and the oven itself, where detritus collects?
You know how you keep making it out of aluminium?
You know how caustic soda corrodes aluminium?
You know what oven cleaner is made of?
You stupid or something?
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I have, for some time, been coming to the conclusion that I probably have ADHD.
And my god, the “resources” online are just so very very terrible.
They’re all basically, “have you tried not being that way?”
Er, yeah?
@Ghost of Hope further to this. Last night I tried a strong cup of coffee at 10pm (never done this before). Quickly felt sleepy.
Went to bed.
Just woke up.
GOT UP.
Why did I get up? I never do that? I lay in bed until my bladder makes me.
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David Tennant, of Dr Who fame, apparently said some pro trans things and now the TERFs are going after him on Twitter. His response is that he isn't worried because, and I quote, "I'll be fine, Terfs can't climb stairs"
I want that on a T-shirt. No, I NEED that on a T-shirt!
ETA: Apparently it was a parody account that said the stairs line. I still want it on a T-shirt.
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Am having trouble so far finding an explanation/breakdown of what "terfs can't climb stairs" means exactly.
Am not posting this looking for enlightenment specifically. Though it would be nice & appreciated, of course.
Weird thing last night. Yesterday afternoon, I did an advocated SUP lesson and the instructor really got me working my core muscles.
Then in the evening win the way back, we stopped at Pizza Express at Cobham services on the M25. I was prepared to spend the rest of the trip back in pain, because I pretty much always get abdominal pain after eating a meal.
But it didn't hurt. I felt full, but without pain, and this is a vanishingly rare experience for me. Eating = pain. It's always been like that, and I basically expect it.
Except not last night.
Meanwhile this morning, I have massive stiffness in my abdominal muscles.
Kinds feels like too much to be mere coincidence.
@Uraael I am gluten intolerant (not coeliac), so I avoid that, but that was because of extra-intestinal stuff (if I eat gluten, I get rheumatoid arthritis. if I don't, I don't).
I have tried elimination diets. I know my worst trigger foods, but ultimately FOOD = PAIN, and there appears to be nothing I can do about it.
Exercising beforehand won't work. I'll just opt for hypoglycaemia as the path of least resistance.
SUP = Stand Up Paddleboard
That’s an interesting observation. I have mild IBS as part of the bundle of fun that is fibromyalgia, and tai chi seems to have lessened the severity of it.
Whilst tai chi is very core-focused, it wouldn’t be anywhere near as high impact as your SUP session.
Apple: We have discovered a zero day which was actively exploited in Safari!
Me: Downloads software update.
Facebook:
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@Sarah Brown From the attached image, "God grant me the serenity to accept things change, to change I cannot courage the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference." 🤔
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Since I managed to find it and someone elsenet was asking about the “U.K. trans asylum in NZ case”…
AL (United Kingdom) [2017] NZIPT 502911
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Well.
That’s a horrifying image I now have in my brain that I didn’t have before. 🤣
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Musing on the number of men with high profile careers getting brought low by sex scandals.
I'm wondering if some of them, the ones who value their career, might consider castration? Used to be a lot more popular for high powered career gentlemen, but has fallen out of fashion of late.
Honestly, as a satisfied customer, I rate it very highly.
Just saying.
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I love it when they threaten us with a good time. tech.lgbt/@gourdcaptain/110438…
theverge.com/2023/5/25/2373711…OpenAI threatening to leave the EU if they pass legislation requiring them to list their data sources because:
"In addition to the possible business threat, forcing OpenAI to identify its use of copyrighted data would expose the company to potential lawsuits. Generative AI systems like ChatGPT and DALL-E are trained using large amounts of data scraped from the web, much of it copyright protected. When companies disclose these data sources it leaves them open to legal challenges."Like every other boom tech company, it's just doing labor crimes and theft and claiming you're actually too innovative to be regulated, God.
OpenAI says it could ‘cease operating’ in the EU if it can’t comply with future regulation
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has warned that the company could pull its services from the EU if it finds upcoming regulations too onerous. The EU AI Act is currently being finalized by lawmakers and should become law next year.James Vincent (The Verge)
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Dear Wightlink Ferry helms: just because a sailing boat is almost certainly going to get out of your way if you make like you’re going to ram it, doesn’t mean you should.
Wankers.
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