The day after the Brexit vote, I was stuck in bed having panic attacks on repeat.
It shoved me out of my comfort zone and now my life, in Portugal, is better for it (immigrant stress is real though), but it was a profoundly shitty thing to go through, and my heart utterly goes out to the millions of Americans, especially the young women, the LGBT people, and the terrified immigrants, and others now experiencing the same thing.
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Day made less good by the (male) cleaner who shouted at me in the ladies’ at St Pancras. “This is… woman!” he shouted. I calmly replied “indeed, and so am I” and shut the door of the cubicle. Gave him a cheery wave in his cleaning cupboard on my way out.
But.
A lot of people, probably the majority, see things in irredeemable scum bags, like Trump, like Boris Johnson, like LePen, and going back, like Hitler, which they like.
And I just don’t get it.
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So glad I got my nervous breakdown response to this shit out of the way after the Brexit referendum.
My deepest, most profound sympathies for anyone going through anything similar today. It’s fucking horrible.
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Advantage of intelligence: being able to catch up an OU unit and a Portuguese language unit in an evening
Disadvantages of procrastination: having to
Today's law study amusement. "Even taking into account that the bird had travelled from Leicester in a box on British Rail its condition was rough"
(Partridge v Crittenden [1968] 1 WLR 1204)
So I know it’s all very funny, ha ha, but here’s why the orcas don’t go after the boats of the ultra rich.
Two photos. One a multi million euro luxury yacht. Notice it has two props. They steer by vectoring the thrust. There is no rudder.
The other, my boat. It costs what a new car costs (like if you were buying a low end Tesla. Expensive, but not stupid money). It has a rudder because it’s a sailboat. It can’t rely on thrust being present.
No rudder - no orca attack. People who can afford sailboats, which the orcas are attacking, cannot afford luxury motor yachts, which they aren’t.
A sailboat is like a mouldy caravan, but floating, and slower.
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Something happen to make you offer this generous discount, did it?
How about you fuck off 500 miles, and then fuck off 500 more, WaPo?
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Day 2 in Oxford for medical trial fun and games. Today was the infusion, 50% chance of ketamine vs placebo. After doing a variety of questionnaires and having blood and urine samples taken it was time to be infused. It was fairly relaxing. Maybe a bit boring. I idly let my mind wander. I think I either didn’t get ketamine or I did and it had nearly no effect on me. I felt maybe slightly lightheaded at one point, and now feel a bit weird, but nothing especially noteworthy.
After that there were more questionnaires and computer tasks. Rather cruelly one of these asked me to remember things from another task, which they hadn’t warned me about. Testing memory when you’ve not been asked to remember stuff is a valuable thing to do.
Tomorrow afternoon is an MRI session where I remember various things while in the machine and they look at what bits of my head light up.
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@transworld There’s evidence on Twitter that they actually added more ketchup to their shirt for the photo they put online.
Also, if they actually had any guts they would have tried that stunt in the Rutland Arms, and not the Benjamin Huntsman ‘Spoons.
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Go to sleep. Wake up with clocks having gone back. Get on plane to France. Clocks go forward again.
So basically my return from daylight saving is delayed a week.
I am begging heterosexual men to stop watching stupid YouTube videos that are convincing you that women give a shit about your height.
I assure you that plenty, if not most, of us do not.
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@coyets Honestly, were I attracted towards men, I would be much more interested in whether they clean their arse properly and don’t piss on the floor.
Low bar there, boys. Wanna wow the girls? Actually quite easy.
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Clocks go back tonight in case anyone still has clocks to go back.
(In Europe, at least. No idea what other bits of the northern hemisphere do.)
I understand Michael O’Leary “dog foods”. When he wants to travel, he buys a ticket using the RyanAir app on his phone and experiences it as a normal passenger. As a result, the app is bloody excellent.
It is profoundly obvious that the CEO of Volotea does not do this. Dear god, it’s terrible!
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Curious about just how good the quad bayer "48 megapixel" pro raw camera in the iPhone 16 Pro is, I put it head to head against my 26 megapixel Fuji XE4 with a 16mm lens (stopped down to f/5.6) to closely match field of view. I photographed the same scene on both. Here are 100% crops from both, scaled to the same size.
Notably, the phone, despite having more pixels, simply does not capture the amount of fine detail that the Fuji captures with only half as many pixels.
As good as camera phones have got, you simply cannot compete against large photosensors fed by a nice expensive quality piece of glass.
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I prefer to take advice my on child rearing from people whose kids still speak to them.
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On the contrary, one does not amass such wealth without also becoming a total asswipe. Financial success requires killing one's own humanity
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On the contrary, one does not amass such wealth without also becoming a total asswipe. Financial success requires killing one's own humanity
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If you have a choice between littering an open tin of train gin or carrying it in contravention of TfL byelaws, which should you do?
Where is the boundary at Paddington between the applicability of TfL’s railway byelaws and anyone else’s?
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Me: I think I’ll make a post to this Reddit community. What are their submission rules?
The community blurb: Please consult our rules wiki before posting.
Reddit mods need an intervention.
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ok. That's very cool.
I regret I have but one like to give.
Thank you for sharing
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Had to book an AirBNB with a microwave in France because searching for a restaurant that can cater to coeliacs in Brittany resulted in “these guys can do salad without toast.”
I expect coeliacs in France just … die?
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in reply to Sarah Brown • •Anyway, by this time next year, I will have submitted my paperwork saying that I have no criminal record in the UK, along with proof of 5 years residency, Portuguese language proficiency, and a copy of my (post gender recognition) birth certificate.
And when it is approved, I will be registered as a Portuguese citizen born overseas (female).
And as far as the state will be concerned, I’m a cis woman.
That’s going to be a useful insurance policy.
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in reply to will-h • •@will-h it was logistically very very difficult. Yeah.
And then in 2021 my mum got a terminal cancer diagnosis.
Spent a lot of time being one of only half a dozen passengers on a 737.
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in reply to Sarah Brown • • •Hope everything goes well. It's a huge weight off your the shoulders, to have the magic legal status that wont ever expire or go away.
I assume by now you feel perfectly at home, but let me know if you need anything. I've finally made up my mind and I'm back (and fucking hell, that was stressful AF… somehow I managed to pull it off).
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