โHS2 on existing trackโ is not a thing. The whole point of it is to move long distance trains off existing track so more local trains can run.
With this half arsery, the Tories get the worst of both worlds: they spend most of the money and get pretty much none of the benefit.
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Hรก uma podcast que se chama โprova oralโ, em portuguรชs. O nรญvel รฉ difรญcil param mim, mas tenho ouvido no carro.
No episรณdio mais recente, houve uma conversa com uma psicรณloga, e ela estava a falar sobre relacionamentos tรณxicos e, tambรฉm, sobre narcisistas.
E foi realmente, realmente interessante. Eu nรฃo entendi tudo, mas os partes que eu entendi, eu senti-os no meu coraรงรฃo.
Parece-me uma boa maneira para aprender uma lรญngua.
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Vatican librarian talking about how to make your search for papal bulls hit. pouet.chapril.org/@chaprot/111โฆ
Demande rรฉcurrente qui m'embarrasse le plus : "Bonjour est-ce que vous avez des bulles pontificales concernant le prieurรฉ mรฉdiรฉval de Saint-Trucmuche ?"Alors.
Je vois pourquoi vous pensez qu'on aurait รงa hein. On pourrait croire. Oui.
Mais. Est-ce qu'on a รงa. Euh.
Peut-รชtre. รa dรฉpend un peu de quand elle est, votre bulle. Et un peu de ce que vous voulez dire par "bulle". Ou de ce qu'ils entendaient alors par lร . Et mรชme si on l'a pas รงa veut pas dire qu'y'a pas nulle part. Faut voir.
You, a TERF sitting there in your underwear with uncleaned teeth trying to convince the five Nazis left on Twitter that trans women are really men.
Me, a trans woman, spending her day SUP surfing at the beach followed by great food and sangria with family at a nice restaurant.
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On the occasion of my fiftieth birthday, I tried sup surfing.
Let it be known that I have neither concussion nor a broken metacarpal.
But I am still grateful for voltaren.
Also, you absolutely cannot take the Atlantic in a fight.
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Dear god, I just hit 50.
How the hell did that happen?
Just watched the โDeath of Stalinโ episode of The Spanish Princess.
Whoever wrote this clearly has OPINIONS about Margaret Beaufort.
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Grr. You buy a ticket with Apple Pay on your phone and it turns out to be a paper ticket like itโs the 19th Century or something. So I have to collect it from the machine. Which wants the bank card with which I paid for it. Which is impossible since I used Apple Pay.
(Fortunately any bank card will do and the assistant put hers in, but but but)
Watching The Spanish Princess on HBO Max.
Dunno how accurate their portrayal of Margaret Beaufort is, but theyโre portraying her as exactly the sort of woman who would wield power in the court of a Tudor monarch and yet still die of old age.
And if she was anything like that, then sheโd have been beyond terrifying IRL, and an utter inspiration.
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Rewatched Star Trek First Contact, of which I have fond memories, recently.
It's aged VERY badly.
Never thought Iโd be grateful for Tory corruptionโฆ bird.makeup/users/pippacrerar/โฆ
EXCL: Tory donor threatens to pull funding if Rishi Sunak scraps northern HS2 rail line - by โฆ@breeallegrettiโฉ theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/sโฆTory donor threatens to pull funding if Sunak scraps northern HS2 rail line
Exclusive: Major donor questioning โability to continue supportโ for party amid doubt over Birmingham to Manchester legAubrey Allegretti (The Guardian)
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@Alexandra Lanes Can't set it as Siri's voice (yet?)
But a generative AI with my dead mum's voice? Maybe.
HomePod: "And did those feet, in ancient times, walk upon England's mountains green?"
Me: "No"
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Apropos of conversation elsewhere, any other Gen X Brits remember CUB monitors?
โLetโs put an electron gun and high frequency electromagnets inside a steel box and then give it to 8 year olds because we hate kids and think electrocuting them is funny!โ
It was a different time.
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Itโs my former political party, the UK Liberal Democrats, conference starting in Bournemouth today.
This likely means the usual TERF suspects are planning to engage in stupid bullshit. Usually this takes the form of trying to submit wrecking amendments to any motion aimed at improving womenโs position in society.
For some reason, the uk media insists on referring to these people as โfeministsโ.
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@Rachel Greenham @Sam Easterby-Smith That sounds distressingly familiar.
And you let the problem grow, and then it turns round and bites you in the arse.
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I kinda feel like the whole โmiddle aged women having a sense of humour based massively around filthy innuendo and scatologyโ is a thing. Am I wrong?
Like, Iโm driving yesterday and thereโs a bag of liquorice chews in my lap, and I offered one to @Zoe O'Connell and Iโm like, โdonโt worry, thereโs no hole in the bottomโ.
Peak fucking hilarity right there.
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05:00?!?!
To whom do I complain about this bullshit? Stupid brain refusing to sleep.
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When I left Portugal for the summer I dared to hope I had eradicated my mealybug infestation on the balcony.
But I returned last week to find they had survived in the soil of my Lantana and had already started to spread to the neighbouring lime tree.
Not having it. If left unchecked, they will destroy EVERYTHING.
I sprayed them with a shedload of isopropyl alcohol, followed by double concentration deltamethrin, and then today, some systemic neonicotinoid spray (itโs ok, they arenโt flowering, it wonโt hurt bees).
I aso removed ALL foliage from the Lantana, and threw it in the bin.
I am daring to hope t hat will be it, but Iโm going to be utterly paranoid over the next 6 months, and at the first sign of ANYTHING, out comes the nuclear pesticide regime again.
They started this. Iโm finishing it. At least they canโt fly, so once theyโre gone, theyโre gone.
Wow! Natalie the Bird is on r/compoface for being cancelled by TEH TRANZ in the Daily Mail.
According to a barely legible black smudge, she was a โwould be MPโ but the transes cancelled her. Shocking!
Except, and this is slightly inconvenient for her, I have some considerable familiarity with olโ ms Bird here and the real reason she canโt be an MP is that she is the platonic reference Dunning Kruger effect. This is someone would would fail, by a long way, to meet the abysmally low bar set by Liz Truss and that Tory bloke who thinks womenโs blood doesnโt clot when thereโs a full moon.
r/compoface is the wrong community for her. R/StoriesAboutKevin, on the other hand, would be perfect.
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Apologies for the unorthodox communication style, but Iโm trying to reach out to the TERFs in whose heads I live rent-free.
Anyway, this is a tenant query: I want to put up a big poster of Marsha Johnson throwing a brick. Am I allowed to use bluetac, or similar, on the inner surface of the bone?
Please indicate โyesโ by liking this post.
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@Ted Stilton is flavoured by a member of the penicillin genus.
Amoxicillin is a penicillin derivative.
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Unknown parent • •@John Loader People need to stop thinking about the speed. HS2 is, and always was, designed to separate mainline and local traffic. That's what it's for.
It was envisaged as an LGV because that's what you do these days. There's no point building a new intercity line at less than LGV spec.
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