Currently at Nantes airport having cleared passport control. We were worried given the unorthodox nature of our entry to France that our exit might cause issues.
Thankfully it did not. I think having an EU residency card helps a lot.
@crit.meme on Instagram: "Nailed it."
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@Snowgaze βοΈ:cravo: Iβm currently in Brittany. The prices to go pretty much anywhere by train are utterly eye watering.
Itβs like it isnβt even trying to compete with air travel.
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So it turns out that if you have your own sailboat, you can rock up at Cherbourg Marina and as long as itβs after 6, nobody knows or cares because immigration have gone home to watch the football or some shit.
Illegal border crossing is something you get to do if youβre middle class, apparently.
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Between 1-2% of Brazilians are trans or non-binary
nature.com/articles/s41598-021β¦
Proportion of people identified as transgender and non-binary gender in Brazil - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Proportion of people identified as transgender and non-binary gender in BrazilNature
UK trans stats from 2021. About 1% of people in England and Wales are trans.
Digging out some statistics for my own edutainment
pewresearch.org/short-reads/20β¦ Estimates about 1.6% of USAns trans or non-binary.
About 5% of young adults in the U.S. say their gender is different from their sex assigned at birth
1.6% of U.S. adults are transgender or nonbinary. Also, a rising share of Americans say they know someone who is transgender.Carrie Blazina (Pew Research Center)
Good morning from a pre-dawn Gosport Marina where we are about to commence βOperation Oui Oui Baguetteβ: taking our boat, Scarlet, across the English Channel as the first part of our trip to Portugal. This is the second longest leg of the entire journey, and the first time I will have ever personally sailed out of the sight of land.
If you want to follow our progress, you can see us on Marine Traffic: marinetraffic.com/en/ais/detaiβ¦
Note, that relies on AIS signals being relayed to the internet. Commercial AIS is powerful enough to be picked up by satellite, but ours isnβt, so there will likely be a dead-zone in the middle where we donβt seem to update.
Itβs going to take about 14 hours to make the crossing. There is no wind, so we will be using our engine.
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This Instituto CamΓ΅es application form has a drop down field where you can list your occupation. The choices are somewhat eccentric:
AstrΓ³logos. / Astrologers.
ParapsicΓ³logos. / Parapsychologists.
Toureiros. / Bullfighters.
Outros artistas tauromΓ‘quicos. / Other bullfighting artists.
The neighbours in Spain might explain the last two but I am at a loss as to why astrologers and parapsychologists make the cut for what is quite a short list.
I am reminded of my dealings with the Job Centre, telling them that I was looking for a job as a lexicographer, which was not in their system. IT is rather a worse omission though!
(the job centre had IT but it didn't have specific subdomains that I was actually looking for like "natural language processing" so it was all a bit of a pointless exercise)
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Some points, and a question for uk politicians;
- There are around half a million trans people in the uk, including eggs.
- There are a few thousand TERFs.
- Trans people will vote for you if you treat us like human beings.
- Nothing you do will ever satisfy TERFs.
And so to the question: why are you so bad at basic arithmetic?
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Project βOui Oui Baguetteβ taking our boat, Scarlet, to France as the start of moving her to Portugal, on Monday.
Looks like weβll be motoring for 14 hours. Not enough wind forecast to make the sails go.
"Peace in our time"
"640k should be enough for anybody"
"Nobody is threatening our place in the single market"
"Your Roomba's bin is full"
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I see that the press is once again trying to present terfism as nuanced: βwe donβt want to stop trans women wearing skirts, we just donβt want them in our (SIC) spacesβ.
Stop press, Joanne. Theyβre our fucking spaces too, because as weβve been explaining for fucking years: trans women are women.
- Trans women get breast cancer, therefore we need breast cancer screening.
- Trans women get gynaecological problems, therefore we need gynaecologists.
- Trans women get raped, therefore we need rape crisis counselling.
- Trans women suffer disproportionate levels of domestic violence, therefore we need DV shelters.
And so on, and so on.
Do you fucking get it yet?
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@Yamiyume Disagree.
It ends up naked, with zero personal hygiene, surrounded by empty pot noodles, hunched in front of a monitor yelling on social media about how you lost custody of the kids because of the trans.
Since getting a prescription in Portugal, I had become complacent about my HRT stock. Previously, I maintained a stockpile of between 6 and 12 months' worth.
I figured this was no longer necessary, as Portugal isn't being so comprehensively weird about trans people as the UK, and also they don't officially know I'm trans.
I was shocked out of complacency last month due to a supplier shortage. The pharmacies ran out.
@ZoΓ« O'Connell and I got within 10 days of going cold turkey.
Lesson learned. As of today, and thanks to the grey market, I have 5 months' worth, and that will soon be getting upped to 7.
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I have the luxury of not needing to vote Labour to keep anyone out, but I had let myself believe there was some sort of political hope. I guess it's just as well Labour let us all know it's not them.
Honestly what with Tony Blair, Keir Starmer and Wes Streeting all sharing their _aperΓ§us_ on the subject of trans rights β short version, trans people donβt exist, should be shunted into βside roomsβ in hospitals β Iβm swinging very firmly back towards voting Green. They have their own terf wing, sure, but they seem to have largely locked them away for the duration of the campaign β rather than free-associating the abolition of trans rights on LBC, say
@considermycat I am utterly unconvinced by those of my friends who are honestly claiming that the larger his majority is, the more Starmer will feel emboldened to be more radical in Government.
I believe that he has already shown us exactly who he is, and that the larger his majority is, the more he'll be encouraged to behave exactly as he has done in opposition.
IMO, it is *Labour* that need to be tactically voted against, not the Tories (who are toast). 1/
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Unlike Ben(*), I do think that a larger majority will make the government more radical. I agree that I don't think that Starmer will want it, but I think the natural Peoples Front of Judea tendencies in the party will make it happen. Maybe I'm just overused to the Labour/TUC conferences of the eighties, but there's gonna be factions, right?
I don't see much point voting elsewhere, tbh. The tories are worse, the Lib Dems are untrustworthy (given bastards will always exist, look which party enabled the 2010 government which set this whole disaster going, and achieved none of their major policy goals) and the others don't have enough of the population agreeing with their policies, to make it just an ethical-vanity vote.
(*) The wider ActivityPub world is still a bit of a mystery to me. I can't comment, but I don't know if I'm not allowed or can't find the button.
Dear fellow Brits, do you realise how fucking stupid βknight commander of the British empireβ sounds to everyone else?
I can assure you, it sounds very stupid indeed.
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Got my ballot paper.
As a result of βSir Knight Commander of the British Empireβ Kier Starmerβs performative cruelty against trans women within the last day, I have voted Green.
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Trans actual challenge GnRH analogue (so-called puberty blockers) ban in court.
transactual.org.uk/blog/2024/0β¦
Press release: TransActual issue urgent court proceedings β TransActual
In partnership with the Good Law Project, today (18th June 2024), TransActual alongside an anonymous trans young person acting as Second Claimant haveΒ issued court proceedings against the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care.transactual.org.uk
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I remember @Ben Harris complaining when I expressed appreciation of tea with "om nom nom". "You can't nom tea!"
Can you nom tea?
@Adam Portugal, having been blessed without a domestic terrorism problem, has DIY barns in which NaOH is at the milder end of what you can just plop into the self checkout. I call that section, βthe bomb making aisleβ. Itβs quite fun.
Anyway, upshot is, Iβve got bloody kilos and kilos of the stuff.
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Today, at the notary office:
Notary: Sarah, Sylvia, what date did you get married?
Us: Um, er, that question is a lot more complicated than you think it is. Which time?
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Did you know the World Meteorological Organisation has a document on Sea Ice Nomenclature? No? Well now you do.
Reform is about to overtake the tories in the polls. This just removes the last obstacle to the media making their love affair with Farage a 24/7 on-screen thing.
The drift to the far right and subsequent implosion of the Conservative Party is going to leave a void in UK politics that seriously risks being filled by actual nazis, and competent ones at that. I fear for the future.
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The western media is acting as the megaphone for the bastards who want to burn the world, because it "gets clicks".
The paradox of tolerance applies here. It is about time the media is reined in, before they bloody get us all killed.
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Obv I have no insight into a bird's inner state though I'd be unsurprised if they had at least some emotional existence. But one can posit things that incentivise it to move without needing to invoke boredom.
Like it's got hungry enough that it's gone off to feed; or some kind of patrolling setup where it wants to check each of several territories at least so often. Or it's spotted something that you or I wouldn't notice - perhaps overhearing calls of another bird?
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Reaching the point where you can think in a language you didnβt grow up speaking: magical
Your brain deciding THIS HAS TO OCCUR AT 3am: not magical
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Reaching the point where you can think in a language you didnβt grow up speaking: magical
Your brain deciding THIS HAS TO OCCUR AT 3am: not magical
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in reply to Sarah Brown • •@Sarah Brown @Saxicola β π΄σ §σ ’σ ·σ ¬σ ³σ ΏπͺπΊ The underground has a different announcement these days. Itβs not βsomething that doesnβt look rightβ but now βsomething that looks unusualβ.
I still have to resist using it to complain about bad graphic design