I just want all TERFs who hate read me to know that earlier this week, I used a communal changing room. I was naked. There were other women in there. Nobody gave a shit.
Please do feel free to seethe, though.
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Since Brexit, the lack of a proper trade agreement means I will have to pay import VAT on my little sailboat when I take her to France.
I asked on a UK boating forum for some recommendations for a tax advisor to assist with the process. The overwhelming answer was, “just do tax evasion. You probably won’t get caught”.
This may provide an insight into the mindset of British exceptionalism.
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@wrack Except a few months ago there was a story in the local press where they impounded and boat and fined the owner for exactly this sort of pissing about with shell companies.
Please, I’m begging you, read the room.
I wonder whether the Pavilion B Common Room at DAMTP is buzzing with talk of all this! mastodon.social/@Dtl/110858637…
Interesting! Newtonian Gravity seems to break down at very very low accelerations - perhaps the end of dark matter models for the universe?phys.org/news/2023-08-smoking-…
Smoking-gun evidence for modified gravity at low acceleration from Gaia observations of wide binary stars
A new study reports conclusive evidence for the breakdown of standard gravity in the low acceleration limit from a verifiable analysis of the orbital motions of long-period, widely separated, binary stars, usually referred to as wide binaries in astr…Science X (Phys.org)
Internet forums do my head in sometimes.
“Hi, I want to do A. I will need help with this. Does anyone have recommendations for someone who can provide these professional services?”
“Don’t do A. Do B instead”
“Thanks, but B does not interest me. I’m looking for someone to help me do A”
“You could do C”
“It’s my understanding that C will get me arrested for tax evasion, which is why I need someone to help me do A”
“Ok, have you tried B?”
ARGH!
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The polycule iMessage group. @Sylvia Knight asks if we want anything from the shops.
Me, typing in teensy keyboard on Apple Watch: milk
Eggs
Bleach
@Zoe O'Connell, next to me: “you can actually type stuff on your watch?”
Me: “almost”
Zoe: “huh?”
Me: “look at your phone…”
Phone: new message from Sarah: “Earl Greg”
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Stopped at an M&S food place on the way back from working on the boat yesterday. Very knackered and verging on hypoglycaemic, and the only fizzy drinks they had in were sugar feee ones.
And I’m like, cut the moralising, you pricks. Sometimes you really fucking need sugar.
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“Federation tomorrow, not today”.
#Zuckerberg and #Dorsey are just serial bullshitters. #Threads #Bluesky
OK That made me giggle out loud.
Actually I need a new mattress... But unlike those grifting .....s I will buy my own.
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TERFs and bedbugs: One is very fond of mattresses and sucks the life out of their victims, living a life of obligate parasitism.
The other is an insect.
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By the way, I know you're reading this because you can't help yourself, so I have a message just for you, Ms H, and I know you're reading it from my profile, so the formatting will be preserved. I have a message for you:
SOME
GRASS
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Interesting question just came up re driving in the UK on Reddit. Someone wants to go from the M11 to the A3 and asks which way round the M25 they should go. These roads are pretty much equidistant regardless of whether you go clockwise or anti-clockwise round London.
That’s the route we take to Scarlet, so I have opinions on this. Go clockwise from the M11 and you encounter the Dartford crossing. This is a toll crossing, and is often very congested.
Go anti-clockwise and you pass the Heathrow section.
For me, there is no contest. Pay the damn toll. It may be annoying to have to put up with the Dartford crossing, but the Heathrow section of the M25 is the very arsehole of hell and to be avoided at all costs.
Interestingly, most commentators felt the same.
This post is addressing a specific TERF. I’m pretty sure she hate-reads me, and I think it’s important to note that, and I want to be very clear on this:
I still think you’re akin to a bedbug or a pubic louse.
You come at the queen or her friends, you better not miss, asshole.
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Me: Why they pointing a gun at him? They don’t need to point a gun at him! He’s in the bin!
@Sylvia Knight: It’s America!
Me: Good point. Pointing a gun at people is just how they say “hello” there.
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Burglar lands in bin in botched escape attempt
A robbery suspect in Ohio is arrested after falling from a bank's roof into a bin in front of police officers.BBC News
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@RocheLimit @Sylvia Knight @Viking Chieftain "I physically cannot."
"Stop resisting!" BANG BANG BANG
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I see your smirky sailor, and raise you a smirky stageworker / theater lighting tech.
It's definitely one of those skills when you see someone doing it wrong it's a hard fight not to fling yourself across the room and tackle them "NO NO NO NO NO! WRONG WRONG WRONG! GIMME THAT"
#adhd #detail #cable #cabling #nerdskills
Thinking about heat pumps, since there's been waffle on the radio about them recently. My mental model of a heat pump is that you have unit(s) outside, and aircon unit(s) indoors which you can run either to cool or heat your preferred rooms.
However, what's being talked about on the radio seems to consist of hooking a heat pump up to replace your gas boiler and warm your radiators. Is this more effective or efficient? It seems to me that as the chances of hot weather increase you'll want to cool your house for some of the year, and this doesn't do that.
indeed, not helped by the giant mass of poured concrete that the pipes are set into.
However, it's unobtrusive, no radiators on walls, warm floors are lovely in winter and the house stays pretty much constant temperature.
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Netflix: 12 euros
Disney+: 9 euros
HBO Max: 7 euros
Sky Showtime: 7 euros
Not including Amazon or Apple because you get other stuff with that
Total = 35 euros per month.
NordVPN = 9 euros per month
Just saying.
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(Like the way I can never get behind-the-head straps to work properly, on anything from VR headsets to masks.)
Oh right! Either early phases you've not got enough thigh, or nobody's telling you to use tape.
(I can imagine you in cat ears though. Looking somewhat bemused.)
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Experiment. What do you see if you’re reading this from Mastodon or one of its clones?
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Oooh, if you’re fully saturated, does that mean we can add seed particles to initiate crystal precipitation?
Who doesn’t love some fresh brain crystals?
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Reddit can be a useful knowledge base, but there are certain subject areas where the consensus voice will confidently, clearly, emphatically state something that is simply wrong.
My current irritation is r/sailing, which has a large number of people who have clearly never sailed beyond the yacht club bar, or maybe a small lake, and have precisely zero clue about the interplay between wind and current (because they never experience the latter), spouting off bullshit with authority.
And there’s no point arguing with them, but my god, the extent to which they are smug about being wrong is irritating as fuck.
Just looked at M&S Per Una for the first time in a decade and, OMG you guys, it’s got really really gay.
Utterly, profoundly, homosexual.
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@Maria Karlsen When I say none of it makes any difference, I'm specifically talking about the effect individual actions have on climate change. To a first approximation, this is zero, and has little scope for it to be any other number.
I agree that we can very definitely make a difference in how people feel, and this is the source of my complaint: the constant stream of "we are all going to die, because we are filthy eco-sinners" articles just make people feel like shit.
It's basically doom and gloom protestantism, but with the climate playing the role of their god.
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in reply to Alexandra Lanes • • •Oh, I see. It's two-way from mastodon is it? The friendica post content is presented to me here as a link. But unlike RSS, if I comment on mastodon, the replies are federated to friendica?
I was confused, expecting either the content and replies to both be embedded within my mastodon client or else neither.
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