Those UK Election manifestos in full:
Tories: We are going to take the light fittings and run to a tax haven. We will blame this on the trans.
Labour: We’re going to let other people take the light fittings and run to tax havens. It’s still the trans’ fault.
Lib Dems: 48 hour moritorium on stealing light fittings.
SNP: We want independence from HMRC, in case the light fittings are taxable.
Greens: Screw this, we’re going down the pub.
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Britain: a country in terminal decline, which needs bold new visions and an actual fucking intervention.
Instead, the current state of opposition politics in Britain is, “pause dumping shit into the rivers for a weekend”. standard.co.uk/news/politics/s…
Ban sewage discharges over Bank Holiday weekend – Lib Dems
The Environment Agency has no record of sewage discharges during July and AugustMartina Bet (Evening Standard)
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@Alexandra Lanes @Eddie Mullen 🏴 🖖 England and Wales: rudderless decline in red or yellow, or grifting bullshitters.
Scotland: same, except the grifting bullshitters are in tartan.
Tried to overthrow Putin
He moved his army into the game
Ra ra Prigorzin
Turned round halfway to the Kremlin
And got a bomb smuggled onto his plane
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Counterpoint to the “good news” on German self-id girlcock.club/@Evelynuwu/11094…
it's worse than what we have now it also removes all anti discrimination laws as a compromise 🤡They exchanged one legal assessment to a million daily micro assessments. Now it isn't how much bs u can tell the court but how well u pass
It's not a good law. It also forces newly out trans fems in the military
Misgenders trans parents
Sets legal groundwork for trans exclusion in sport
Atleast if u got ur tsg it's something you can point to and fight discrimination.
“I fell out of the window”
“The window was on a plane”
“Then the plane also fell out of the window”
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Just seen a taxi with “advanced bookings only” written on it.
Mate, I’ve booked multi leg rail journeys in the uk involving backtracking and stuff and know the difference between London terminals and London via Thameslink.
How advanced cash hiring your mere car possibly be?
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There are a couple of places when driving I have to play certain tracks, because it's the law:
Crossing the bridge between the Algarve and Spain, I play Back to the Future because it's a timezone border and growing up in an island nation, that still weirds me out a bit.
The A3 near Petersfield has a roundabout with a brown tourism roadsigns to "Bird World". That one gets the Jurassic Park theme.
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> [the British press] They're on a deadline, and if you make them conclude that life is too short, they will leave you the fuck alone.
That's fucking gold, thanks for sharing it.
Everyone: Covid is spiking! Wear a facemask!
Boots: Masks? Masks? Sell masks? What do you imagine us to be, a pharmacy or some such?!?
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Nobody in the lemmyverse has defederated me! Hurrah!
Has anyone defederated your instance? Introducing Defederation Investigator
cross-posted from: lemmy.basedcount.com/post/1137…I couldn't find any tools to check this, so I built one myself.This is a little site I built: the Defederation Investigator defed.xyz. With it, you can get a comprehensive view of which instances have blocked yours, as well as which ones you are federated with.
The tool is open source and available on GitHub. Hopefully someone will find it useful, enjoy.
Defederation Investigator for Lemmy
Discover who has defederated your Lemmy instance with the Defederation Investigator.defed.xyz
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Is there any urban wildlife as dangerous and aggressive as the British Herring Gull?
It will absolutely fuck you up for a chip.
Apparently Sydney, in Australia, is having problems with aggressive gulls and they’ve employed dog walkers to scare them off. I saw a picture.
In England, the gulls would take the dog. Easily. It was not a big dog.
The Herring Gull would totally win in a fight.
Don’t mess with them. They remember you, and after making you bleed, will make a point of shitting on you every time it sees you afterwards.
If it wants the chip, give it the bag. Honestly, not giving it the chip is risking you getting into some serious “I just killed John Wick’s dog” type shit.
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@Inken Paper Thing is (and we have Canada geese in the UK too), they’re basically bluffing. You can run screaming at geese and they will usually flee. Geese are colossal bullshitters who only follow through if they think you are intimidated by them (see also swans).
A seagull, however, will bear a grudge on you and your descendants for generations if you cross it.
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@Inken Paper It knows how to make your life a misery and it will fight a war of attrition against you literally for years. Every time you leave the house, it will shit on you. It will dive bomb you with its mates. It will learn your habits and lie waiting in ambush. They are basically mafia.
Geese have nothing in comparison.
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Fediverse acclimatisation test. Do not write on both sides of this toot at once.
1) What is a stavlet?
2) Do you agree?
(1) Stavlet: follower of Zoëasstrianism, a yeastern school of philosophy.
(2) It is always safest to agree with the custodienne of the Var.
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StavLet - Oribi
StavLet Et avanceret staveprogram, som retter stavefejl og grammatikfejl på dansk Køb StavLet StavLet fungerer på Windows, macOS og ChromeOS.Oribi
If your spoon economy is anything like mine, "once or twice a week" is much more spoon-load than "twice a week", which in turn is much more than "every Wednesday and Saturday".
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@Wufflekins there aren't tournaments that are only open to men, afaik. Generally, tournaments are either open to everyone, or have specific qualifications (like rating, title, or winning a qualifying event).
There are, however, tournaments that are only open to women. Ostensibly, these exist to encourage participation, although many have suggested that it is actually to shield women from rampant misogyny in the chess scene that institutions are unwilling to handle properly.
That's a weird one for me. I absolutely understand the need for a safe space for women, and, as a man, I have no experience of the issues women face but, to me, it feels like that should be a refereeing issue. If men and women (and whoever identifies as whichever) can't participate on an even footing, regardless of gender, that's a fundamental problem with the way the sport is being supervised, isn't it?
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Am I remembering correctly that Russia (as opposed to the Soviet Union) has yet to stick an off-world landing? And that even hitting the target body counts as a major step forward?
(Fingers crossed for third time lucky for India.)
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Got some gum soreness. Usually I’d dab hydrogen peroxide on it, but it’s strangely difficult to get here (in Portugal every supermarket sells it).
So instead I got chlorhexidine. Went and did a bit of Googling for scientific papers, which resulted in finding out that, and I quote, “chlorhexidine is more effective than povidone iodine and hydrogen peroxide for treating diseased or inflamed gums, but less effective than sodium hypochlorite”
SODIUM HYPOCHLORITE! WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE?
Talk about using a sledgehammer to crack a nut!
I have no plans to use sodium hypochlorite as a mouthwash.
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Anyone near Cambridge UK wanting old, possibly non working, 80s computer shit and able to collect in the next week?
I think I have a C64, Amiga 1200, maybe a ZX81
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Just had a motorbike burning something in front. Caused the worst asthma attack I’d had in years. One of those “ventolin just saved my life” ones.
Apparently I went an interesting colour.
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Apropos of another conversation, if progressive/left wing people got our ideal world, we would be happy.
if the hard right got their ideal world, they'd be miserable as fuck, because their worldview is centred around constant outrage at the state of the world and having an "out group" to rant about.
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I don’t think the majority of them would be miserable in a sensible socialist ideal world, as the goal isn’t to make one group miserable but rather make everyone happy.
That’s the difference for me, anyone who needs to make others miserable to feel joy are terrible people who shouldn’t be in charge of anything anywhere.
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So, big SUP session on the Stort two days ago. And now, I’m, er, “detoxing”.
As it were.
Oops
Practice, practice, practice, get wet, practice...
And the pivot turn starts to look almost competent!
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A few years ago, Cambridge City Council became the first of many local authorities in the UK to start dismantling its trans equality policy. Here, today, they are flying the progress pride flag from their offices.
Hypocritical bullshitters. We see you.
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@Paul100 Thing is, discriminating against someone based on who they are: not acceptable.
Discriminating against someone for behaving like an arsehole: completely acceptable.
I am a business owner as it happens, and if someone is transphobic to me, they will be told to take their custom elsewhere.
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Yes. An amazing amount of night-closures these days. When it's seven, eight-ish, I'm egging myself on as I pass the cone lorries.
There's some terrible places for endless diversions through back lanes -- round Rutland is the worst.
Me: “The Tailscale net access thingy is a front end to masquerading.”
@Zoë O'Connell ”Masquerade! Paper faces on parade!”
Me: “That is a shit musical.”
Zoe, offended: “Why?”
Me: “It has two good songs and no story.”
Zoe: “Hang on, which musical is it?”
Me: “Phantom”
Zoe: “Oh, yes, you’re right. It is a shit musical.”
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@Veronica🏳️⚧️ :inanna: There is a rubber gland where the propeller shaft goes through the hull. It’s lubricated by sea water, but needs a millilitre of grease inserting once a year to keep it watertight. This can only be done when the boat is dry docked.
The seal between the gland and the shaft is very narrow, so a plastic drinking straw, which can slip between the two, and then squeeze the grease in, is the ideal way to get it in. If you try with paper, the straw explodes from the pressure.
I’ve heard it can be done with a hypodermic needle too.
If you're at all being triggered by external events, then its going to come in waves.
The question is, do you feel that you were being fraudulently mopey, or that the feeling not so bad is a fraud? Hint: it's neither.
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@Sion [main] External events are a factor but my reaction to them is way over the top or even exists at all because of the depression. I think the feeling is that I was somehow exaggerating how bad it felt (I wasn’t) to get attention, and now one of guilt for having alarmed or alerted friends now that 48 hours later I’m a bit ok again. And also a sort of fear that everyone will go away again.
Similar feeling regarding my therapist. She’s offered an emergency appointment rather than waiting until September but it doesn’t feel like an emergency today. Saturday evening it definitely did.
Having been there: just because it's stopped being an emergency now, doesn't mean it's not going to be again before the next time you can see your therapist. Or that next time it's going to go away so quickly. There's no such thing as a false alarm in this sphere, just that sometimes it takes a *lot* of work to figure out what the root cause is.
Have long post brewing about feeling guilty about alarming friends and family, particularly those who understand. Just do it. Some of us are going to be in a place to listen, some aren't, and if we're all honest and transparent about this then those that aren't should just be able to back away from the moment without anyone's guilt, and be there another time.
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