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Someone has finally been done in modern times for *checks notes* "Handling a Salmon under Suspicious Circumstances"
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd1740…
Fisherman fined for hiding salmon up sleeve in 'suspicious circumstances'
Angler Stephen Samuel is punished for "handling salmon under suspicious circumstances"Adam Hale (BBC News)
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Know the difference!
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Just seen the best bit of commentary on transmisogyny I’ve seen in ages: if you want to know how a man treats cis women in private, look at how he treats trans women in public.
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@JustinMac84 how come transphobes always accuse trans women of being perverts in women’s locker rooms oogling cis women but they never accuse trans men of sneaking into men’s locker room to oogle cis men? If they view the genders as equal why not criticize all trans people the same way accross the board?
@JustinMac84 yes exactly. Transphobes are sexist just like you said. Some prejudices are not separable from one another because they rest on the same assumptions.
Didn’t take long for the shine to wear off this government mastodon.social/@Lazarou/11277…
A Queer man stabs his own kind in the back for power. May everything bad possible happen to this traitor-filth#WesStreeting #LGBTQIA #Trans #UKPOL #UKpolitics
thepinknews.com/2024/07/12/wes…
Labour’s Wes Streeting ‘to make puberty blocker ban permanent’
Wes Streeting has reportedly indicated that the Labour government will make the Tories' emergency puberty blocker ban permament.Amelia Hansford (PinkNews | Latest lesbian, gay, bi and trans news | LGBTQ+ news)
Musings on fighting good fights...
The best lack all spoons, while the worst are full of passionate intensity
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it's fucking crazy to me that we have a real life Voight-Kampff test and it fucking works
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I don't know how true this is, but it definitely feels it a lot of the time!
Link Post: Why are people so anxious all of the time? smbc-comics.com/comic/cortex
@chiffchaff @andrewducker Yes, that's my point. Regarding its complaints as inherently _not_ pathological is exactly what I'm objecting to.
Chilling out on a shady bench passing time before I have to get a taxi to the airport. Absolutely loving the pictures of shocked and disappointed French right wingers that I keep seeing in my masto feed 🐂👍🦌😆
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@gilesgoat nah not going yet, I will probably go get tapas and a beer at some point. Flight doesn't board until 17:50. Leaves 18:30, it's a couple of hours I think.
Gave the beasties their usual biscuits, they are all flumping in the stables, the weather starts nice today, it should stay like this for some days so the shearer guy could come. Almost got spit by Maya again ( tried to pet her ).
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@gilesgoat Love that place. I’m in Monda. And I love this place. 😀
@marksemczyszyn @gilesgoat yeah wish I could stay longer, only got here on Friday. Still, it's been nice to see a couple of days of actual summer.
@gilesgoat yeah I know what you mean. Got here Friday too. Back home tomorrow. But we shall be back.
@marksemczyszyn @Mafalda Eu preciso de ir a Portugal para praticar meu portugues. Nos podemos pedir cervejas todo o dia e comer batatas firtas com peixe ou bife enquanto caminhemos para as cidades em frente do mar.
So delighted at the news from France. Definitely needed that. The French two-round system may be bonkers but it does give the public the chance to say “non” to an inadvisable outcome from the first round.
@Conor Mc Bride Well, bonkers is relative. As a good little liberal I like the idea of STV (as used for Assembly elections in NI)
And everything in the whole of Ireland apart from Westminster in the North. Wouldn't be without it!
Anyone trying to downplay or put to the negative what happened to France this evening probably doesn’t like democracy. This is an absolute win against populism and fascism, with a record number of people casting their votes. I’m more than happy with the result
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“It would shit the bed in a way that can’t be recovered from in any trousers”. Mixed metaphors are messy
Have nothing in your home that you do not
• know to be useful
• believe to be beautiful
• feel unaccountable vague fondness for
• can imagine a hypothetical situation in which you'd *really* need it
• firmly intend to get round to doing something with one of these days
• can't remove because of all the other junk piled on top of it
• feel guilty about not dealing with something more important first
• fear throwing away in case you remember tomorrow why you bought it
• miscellaneous
• know to be useful
• believe to be beautiful
• feel unaccountable vague fondness for
• can imagine a hypothetical situation in which you'd *really* need it
• firmly intend to get round to doing something with one of these days
• can't remove because of all the other junk piled on top of it
• feel guilty about not dealing with something more important first
• fear throwing away in case you remember tomorrow why you bought it
• miscellaneous
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I’ve been calling my home decor style “low-key hoarder” for a while now
I’m not sure when I tick over into full-scale hoarder
The signs are there though
Outside, people are out and about chilling and having fun. It's warm. I love Europe. Used to belong to me too and the idiots took it away.
Don't think I'll ever forgive that.
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Well MAYBE "with some years of labour" now there could be a possibility of rejoin in the future ?
@gilesgoat heh, starmer is saying "not in my lifetime" 🙁
Honestly if it weren't for the sheep I'd be saying let's fuck off to your place.
@gilesgoat to be fair it’s not just Starmer saying that. Lots of “experts” have repeatedly said that, even with the will to rejoin the EU, it would take at least twenty years to happen 😔
With Meloni and the like and how is going on now, trust me, it's NOT "such a nice place to be" even trying to ignore all that is around. Italy is full of "many weird things" that make the day to day life there .. complicated .. I dare to say "if you want to move let's move to Parintins/Brasil" .. Italy has many nice things .. except the politics, the laws, the bureaucracy, the "too many everyday things that don't go as they should" it's tough even for who is born there like me.
@cyberspice Which is as someone said "because the process it's going to take so many N years to rejoin that I'll be dead by that time ?" .. so why considering UK already been a member has to take so many years ?
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Today is a good day to cast your stoat! #pollingday
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My subconscious desire to push the envelope of what I could get away with laminating is the reason I donated my laminator to the ESE teacher...
Probably unrelated side note: Did you know that you can laminate Kraft singles sliced cheese without it melting if you freeze it first? 🌠
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once found 5 year old Kraft singles in the fridge at work, perfectly preserved. A colleague and I declared that it would be "good apocalypse food".
“Oh, Whittlesford Parkway” can be sung to that tune.
So following the US Supreme Court's logic... if he could assert some kind of national security reason for doing it as an official act, Biden could assassinate Trump and not be prosecuted? #uspol
Why POTUS45? Go for some problematic Supreme Court justices and solve the meta-problem.
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folks developing web apps should be forced to use them on scotrail free wifi for a month before being allowed to release them
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Something's just occurred to me that's quite telling. I can name favourite (or at least some) Doctor Who stories from every Doctor between 1963 and 1989. From the 2005- series I can only remember one good story off the top of my head and that's Blink.
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I thought The Doctor Dances was pretty good.
On the other hand, I liked the ELO episode, so my opinion is probably invalid.
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@Octorine Was that the one that went along with the Empty Child, kids with gasmasks thing? I remember the imagery being scary but the resolution being magic pixie dust or somesuch?
@Sion [main] Possibly, yes, and even if a story is rubbish having to tell it over that period means you're more likely to see its redeeming features or appreciate what the author was _trying_ to do.
Kerning matters!
Early modern: 1399
Early modem: 1200/75
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clowning street: Number 10
clowning street: Number 10
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We should have our own East Coast Liberal Elite, you know in England.
Conceptual art critics? Walton-on-the-Naze. Experimental film making hub? Filey. World Postmodernism Conference? Cleethorpes. Secret World Government? Gibraltar Point; third bird hide on the left.
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Europe is full of centre right and centre left parties who, rather than oppose far right scapegoating of minorities, have adopted a position of, “those guys are right, don’t vote for them”.
To their incredible surprise, this isn’t working.
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@pettter @argv_minus_one @drbjork I think so. It's a process with its steps. You don't get full nazi massacres on day one. But are we slowly having the post-WW2 welfare societies eroded towards rampant fascism? Well...
@kikebenlloch No this is describing the literal situation in Greece, though they've since lost political relevance, since the state took belated, but firm, action. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_D…
The moon is a hard mattress
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I love me a good double-dactyl masto.ai/@stavvers/11270512016…
green parrots
I knew Brewdog was a shitty company but I didn’t know they ran actual Nazi bars. theguardian.com/business/artic…
BrewDog sacks Asian woman after reaction to EDL members meeting in bar
Company accused staff member of ‘aggressive behaviour’ after she raised concerns about far-right group gatheringRob Davies (The Guardian)
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Quick Assange frequent misconceptions thread:
1) "Assange was merely wanted for questioning" - no, Swedish judicial process required that he be interrogated before charges could be made. Sweden arrested him in his absence (he'd already left the country) and filed a European Arrest Warrant. English judges concluded that he had been formally accused of the crimes, even if not indicted. See section 142 of wired.com/images_blogs/threatl….
1) "Assange was merely wanted for questioning" - no, Swedish judicial process required that he be interrogated before charges could be made. Sweden arrested him in his absence (he'd already left the country) and filed a European Arrest Warrant. English judges concluded that he had been formally accused of the crimes, even if not indicted. See section 142 of wired.com/images_blogs/threatl….
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@HN414 The argument was that he conspired to gain access to classified material. To the extent that any plea deal sets precedent (which it doesn't really), this one sets no precedent around people who merely receive classified material from sources rather than encouraging sources to break the law to acquire that material in the first place
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See also being pulled into a random slack channel with no context…
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@jpm see also:
Them: "hi"
Me: "hi"
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*makes mental note to check back in 15 minutes when they've actually typed what they want*
Them: "hi"
Me: "hi"
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*makes mental note to check back in 15 minutes when they've actually typed what they want*
Between 1-2% of Brazilians are trans or non-binary
nature.com/articles/s41598-021…
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/20… 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)
This Instituto Camões application form has a drop down field where you can list your occupation. The choices are somewhat eccentric:
Astrólogos. / Astrologers.
Parapsicólogos. / Parapsychologists.
Toureiros. / Bullfighters.
Outros artistas tauromáquicos. / 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.
Oh, also circus performers. No IT apart from computer programmers (and, I suppose, typists)
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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"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: “we don’t want to stop trans women wearing skirts, we just don’t want them in our (SIC) spaces”.
Stop press, Joanne. They’re our fucking spaces too, because as we’ve 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.
Lobbied hard for this headline. Glad that they went with it.
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The joy of the Liberal Democrats
The tensest, most uncertain, most goddamn exciting political debate I have witnessed in the whole of last year concerned – you may want to sit down for this – the Liberal Democrats’ housing policies.Jonn Elledge (New Statesman)
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@Jonn Elledge "The party may make policy democratically, but even if anyone cared what Lib Dem policy was, which they don’t, history suggests the leadership won’t feel bound by its manifesto anyway." Harsh but fair.
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in reply to Alexandra Lanes • • •Yeah, I read it first as "Thames swan counters hope; numbers recover…" (which is not supported by the provided orthography but people sometimes type sloppily) and then wondered what hope numbers were, then got the right parse.
PTC collects these things, ISTR.
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