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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Me, appearing to 1980s me:
So, in the future, computers will be really popular. However, you will be having to get software from the “Git Hub”, there are Nazis everywhere, and the Russians will be trying to destroy society using something called “Threads”.
Oh, but you’ll finally be able to solve a Rubik’s cube in under a minute.
1980s me: Um, why do you have tits?
As a Brit the name "GitHub" will never stop being amusing to me. (Git being British slang for a nasty, unpleasant person, generally a man.) So I'm like "GitHub? Sounds like some pubs I know, amirite?"
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This is a 50p that was minted to celebrate the UK joining what became the EU. It was minted in my birth year, and my mum gave it to me shortly before she died of cancer in 2021. It is one of my most treasured possessions.
It has 12 hands linked in a circle to symbolise the then 12 countries of the European Community. One of them is smaller, representing the hand of Queen Elizabeth II.
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You guys! Trans women who’ve transitioned recently have never heard of COGIATI!
Oh, we have such sights to show them!
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Ken did a transphobia apologism on Bsky. Ken doubled down. Ken then complained about it on fedi and presumably thought his day wasn’t going to get any worse.
Then fedora-in-human-form, Jeff, defended him in public.
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There's not a lot more pathetic than dude simping for someone (e.g. Eugen) who would probably be embarrassed by his attention.
I think I remember Ken from Metafilter back in the day & if I'm remembering the right guy, he got into lots of fights where he was clearly framing himself as the noble advocate for frank speech.
I find his legal perspective valuable so I grin & bear the nonsense [though had not prev seen the transphobia apologia, which might change things]; that said he is far too settled in his own sense of righteousness for my taste.
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Zuck is a POS, but he’s pulled a blinder. His ridiculous metaverse fell through, but literally just cloning Twitter and feasting on its carcass.
Threads will likely kill Twitter and Bluesky, and then when it starts federating, the fediverse will schism into instances that tolerate the worst people in the world federating with it and the ones that won’t.
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@Rachel Lawson Maybe they wanted something definitive, but are pissed off because this is now likely to go higher?
They have the establishment on their side. If I were them, I'd be taking the win, but whatevs.
Fedi: I preblocked threads before it was popular!
Bsky: See me throot! Throot throot throot!
Twitter: 404
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Though I agree that WTTJ isn't their best song, it probably is the best opening track to an album ever written, which understandably confuses people.
But the song from them that goes round my head the most is Dust and Bones.
The "payment reference field" for my Portuguese bank does not allow accented characters.
Oh ... kay
fiche.
I was is an Expat in Setúbal in the early 80s. At the time you could only take about $100 out of the country.
I took a suitcase full of 1,000 Escudos bills to Heathrow for exchange to dollars on the trip back to America for Christmas vacation in 81.
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The world is going to burn from climate change while Nazis run amok trashing what's left of our dying civilisation not because there's nothing we can do to stop it, but because the people who are in a position to be able to stop either are all too fucking thick to do so.
I need a fucking drink.
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Sorry, that's just the flavor of all the posts I'm seeing. They feel less like "see what information those poor Meta users are giving up" and more like "look what Meta will take from you if we allow federation".
That's probably just projection on my part.
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