“I tried the fediverse and didn’t follow anyone and it sucked, so I stopped and went back to Twitter again.”
These people would have hated Twitter circa 2008 when it had pretty much exactly the same issue.
But that’s the point of social media: to find likeminded people with common interests. Somewhere along the line that changed into social media being a thing that tells you what you think, and what you should be liking.
That’s easy, but it’s mental refined sugar. It’s just incredibly crap for you.
If you want interesting, fun and stimulating stuff, follow interesting, fun and stimulating people.
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I witnessed another trans person's deed poll today. A bit more involved, necessitating a trip to the solicitor, because he's 14, but nevertheless it reminded me of the surreal socially distanced signing dance I did during lockdown for my deed poll with @Zoë O'Connell and @Sarah Brown
It didn't have to be me that signed -- it could have been anyone who knew him and his parents -- but I felt privileged to do it, passing on some part of the support other trans people gave me.
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Mental Health
My mental health remains somewhat wobbly, as it has been for a month or two now. There have been two absolute low points, one "head buzzing so much with despair" and one of the form where the world is a treacle of minor chords and even being present feels like an effort that can't be guaranteed. In between it's been recovery and walking a sort of narrow path on the edge, as if solid rock can be felt to one side and an abyss to the other. A forgetfulness of joy, too, as if I have lost the object permanence of love.
I have CBT starting next month. I have an appointment with my GP potentially to adjust antidepressant doses. I've got the endocrinologist tomorrow. The things I can do apart from just hanging on, I am doing. (To be clear, I'm not a danger to myself or anyone else.)
Back in the day, going viral on Twitter was great.
Now going viral is like, "ah shit, the queue has an eight hour backlog!"
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Caster Semenya won her case in the ECHR yesterday. Only the legal summary is currently available in English: “Discrimination against professional athlete with differences of sex development who was required under non-State regulations to lower her natural testosterone level to compete in women’s category in international competitions: violation”.
The judgment in French is at hudoc.echr.coe.int/%7B%22appno… ; I’ll toot the official English translation when it appears
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In order to serve you better, I wanna share you some secrets about myself and beg your pardon. I'm sorry when I become loud during high-pressure inflation 2 min after starting, as I'm pumping on full throttle!”
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Dear Messers Bosch, Neff, and others.
You know that strip between the oven door and the oven itself, where detritus collects?
You know how you keep making it out of aluminium?
You know how caustic soda corrodes aluminium?
You know what oven cleaner is made of?
You stupid or something?
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I have, for some time, been coming to the conclusion that I probably have ADHD.
And my god, the “resources” online are just so very very terrible.
They’re all basically, “have you tried not being that way?”
Er, yeah?
@Ghost of Hope further to this. Last night I tried a strong cup of coffee at 10pm (never done this before). Quickly felt sleepy.
Went to bed.
Just woke up.
GOT UP.
Why did I get up? I never do that? I lay in bed until my bladder makes me.
Weird
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.
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Unknown parent • • •I appreciate being my own admin. I love being able to curate my instance feed's trends without having to stifle anyone else's experience.
Kacey
in reply to Sarah Brown • • •I tried Mastodon a few years ago and hated it, probably because I don’t like the format of the bird site either.
However, I was persuaded to join a trial/testing Friendica instance and found the format much better for me.
One of the beauties of the Fediverse is the fact that instances of different types all interact with each other.
Sarah Brown
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Unknown parent • •Sarah Brown
Unknown parent • •@zimowski There are problems with that one specific server.
Out of over twenty thousand.
If you want content in your timeline, follow people.
If you want to rant and complain, piss off back to Twitter.
Sarah Brown
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Unknown parent • • •@zimowski
Z, you've been rude to everyone in this entire thread. That is not welcome here, & on Twitter I would have blocked you in an instant. (And I will here, if you respond w rudeness to me.)
However, on the chance you are genuinely asking in good faith, the other way to find people is to put a hashtag in the search box - #Taiga, #Java, a favourite band, or whatever you are interested in. It will help you find people w common interests whom you may wish to follow.
Good luck.
Nisse
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