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“HS2 on existing track” is not a thing. The whole point of it is to move long distance trains off existing track so more local trains can run.
With this half arsery, the Tories get the worst of both worlds: they spend most of the money and get pretty much none of the benefit.
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Há uma podcast que se chama “prova oral”, em português. O nível é difícil param mim, mas tenho ouvido no carro.
No episódio mais recente, houve uma conversa com uma psicóloga, e ela estava a falar sobre relacionamentos tóxicos e, também, sobre narcisistas.
E foi realmente, realmente interessante. Eu não entendi tudo, mas os partes que eu entendi, eu senti-os no meu coração.
Parece-me uma boa maneira para aprender uma língua.
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Vatican librarian talking about how to make your search for papal bulls hit. pouet.chapril.org/@chaprot/111…
Demande récurrente qui m'embarrasse le plus : "Bonjour est-ce que vous avez des bulles pontificales concernant le prieuré médiéval de Saint-Trucmuche ?"Alors.
Je vois pourquoi vous pensez qu'on aurait ça hein. On pourrait croire. Oui.
Mais. Est-ce qu'on a ça. Euh.
Peut-être. Ça dépend un peu de quand elle est, votre bulle. Et un peu de ce que vous voulez dire par "bulle". Ou de ce qu'ils entendaient alors par là. Et même si on l'a pas ça veut pas dire qu'y'a pas nulle part. Faut voir.
You, a TERF sitting there in your underwear with uncleaned teeth trying to convince the five Nazis left on Twitter that trans women are really men.
Me, a trans woman, spending her day SUP surfing at the beach followed by great food and sangria with family at a nice restaurant.
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On the occasion of my fiftieth birthday, I tried sup surfing.
Let it be known that I have neither concussion nor a broken metacarpal.
But I am still grateful for voltaren.
Also, you absolutely cannot take the Atlantic in a fight.
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Dear god, I just hit 50.
How the hell did that happen?
Just watched the “Death of Stalin” episode of The Spanish Princess.
Whoever wrote this clearly has OPINIONS about Margaret Beaufort.
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Grr. You buy a ticket with Apple Pay on your phone and it turns out to be a paper ticket like it’s the 19th Century or something. So I have to collect it from the machine. Which wants the bank card with which I paid for it. Which is impossible since I used Apple Pay.
(Fortunately any bank card will do and the assistant put hers in, but but but)
Watching The Spanish Princess on HBO Max.
Dunno how accurate their portrayal of Margaret Beaufort is, but they’re portraying her as exactly the sort of woman who would wield power in the court of a Tudor monarch and yet still die of old age.
And if she was anything like that, then she’d have been beyond terrifying IRL, and an utter inspiration.
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Rewatched Star Trek First Contact, of which I have fond memories, recently.
It's aged VERY badly.
Never thought I’d be grateful for Tory corruption… bird.makeup/users/pippacrerar/…
EXCL: Tory donor threatens to pull funding if Rishi Sunak scraps northern HS2 rail line - by @breeallegretti theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/s…Tory donor threatens to pull funding if Sunak scraps northern HS2 rail line
Exclusive: Major donor questioning ‘ability to continue support’ for party amid doubt over Birmingham to Manchester legAubrey Allegretti (The Guardian)
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@Alexandra Lanes Can't set it as Siri's voice (yet?)
But a generative AI with my dead mum's voice? Maybe.
HomePod: "And did those feet, in ancient times, walk upon England's mountains green?"
Me: "No"
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Apropos of conversation elsewhere, any other Gen X Brits remember CUB monitors?
“Let’s put an electron gun and high frequency electromagnets inside a steel box and then give it to 8 year olds because we hate kids and think electrocuting them is funny!”
It was a different time.
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It’s my former political party, the UK Liberal Democrats, conference starting in Bournemouth today.
This likely means the usual TERF suspects are planning to engage in stupid bullshit. Usually this takes the form of trying to submit wrecking amendments to any motion aimed at improving women’s position in society.
For some reason, the uk media insists on referring to these people as “feminists”.
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@Rachel Greenham @Sam Easterby-Smith That sounds distressingly familiar.
And you let the problem grow, and then it turns round and bites you in the arse.
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I kinda feel like the whole “middle aged women having a sense of humour based massively around filthy innuendo and scatology” is a thing. Am I wrong?
Like, I’m driving yesterday and there’s a bag of liquorice chews in my lap, and I offered one to @Zoe O'Connell and I’m like, “don’t worry, there’s no hole in the bottom”.
Peak fucking hilarity right there.
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05:00?!?!
To whom do I complain about this bullshit? Stupid brain refusing to sleep.
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When I left Portugal for the summer I dared to hope I had eradicated my mealybug infestation on the balcony.
But I returned last week to find they had survived in the soil of my Lantana and had already started to spread to the neighbouring lime tree.
Not having it. If left unchecked, they will destroy EVERYTHING.
I sprayed them with a shedload of isopropyl alcohol, followed by double concentration deltamethrin, and then today, some systemic neonicotinoid spray (it’s ok, they aren’t flowering, it won’t hurt bees).
I aso removed ALL foliage from the Lantana, and threw it in the bin.
I am daring to hope t hat will be it, but I’m going to be utterly paranoid over the next 6 months, and at the first sign of ANYTHING, out comes the nuclear pesticide regime again.
They started this. I’m finishing it. At least they can’t fly, so once they’re gone, they’re gone.
Wow! Natalie the Bird is on r/compoface for being cancelled by TEH TRANZ in the Daily Mail.
According to a barely legible black smudge, she was a “would be MP” but the transes cancelled her. Shocking!
Except, and this is slightly inconvenient for her, I have some considerable familiarity with ol’ ms Bird here and the real reason she can’t be an MP is that she is the platonic reference Dunning Kruger effect. This is someone would would fail, by a long way, to meet the abysmally low bar set by Liz Truss and that Tory bloke who thinks women’s blood doesn’t clot when there’s a full moon.
r/compoface is the wrong community for her. R/StoriesAboutKevin, on the other hand, would be perfect.
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Apologies for the unorthodox communication style, but I’m trying to reach out to the TERFs in whose heads I live rent-free.
Anyway, this is a tenant query: I want to put up a big poster of Marsha Johnson throwing a brick. Am I allowed to use bluetac, or similar, on the inner surface of the bone?
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in reply to Sarah Brown • •People think coeliac disease, or even non coeliac gluten intolerance, is like lactose intolerance: painful and annoying but ultimately a “choice”.
It isn’t. If you are sensitised to it in that way, gluten will make your immune system attack your own body. It’s not nice stuff.
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in reply to Sarah Brown • • •Sarah Brown
in reply to iwein • •@iwein 🏴☠️🏳️🌈🇺🇦🇪🇺 I have non coeliac gluten sensitivity (if I eat it, I get rheumatoid arthritis), and my partner has coeliac disease. The prevalence of what we call, “Los Angeles Gluten Free” types is something we regard as a bit of a mixed blessing. On the one hand, it creates a market for gluten free food because 90% of most supermarkets are simply off limits to us.
But on the other, it creates establishments which claim to sell/serve “gluten free food” which is nothing of the kind.
The worst offenders store their gluten “free” and wheat products on the same shelf and use the same utensils to handle them!
iwein
in reply to Sarah Brown • • •Sarah Brown
in reply to iwein • •@iwein 🏴☠️🏳️🌈🇺🇦🇪🇺 I would, however, note that it’s perfectly normal to buy gluten free and gluten containing produce in the same shop. Our household has a gluten free kitchen, but for the one member of it who does eat gluten, who has her own grill, we also buy gluten containing food.
Households contain more than one person, quite often.
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in reply to Sarah Brown • • •Wasn’t aware of exactly how bad it can get, but anyone talking about medical issues as a “choice” can fuck right off.
Also auto immune is really scary shit:( Few things can unravel your life and turn it into a living hell as your immune system turning on you.
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in reply to Gen X-Wing • •@Breadbin The thing with coeliac is that the autoimmune target is your gut lining.
So you die slowly of malnutrition.
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