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Useful into for UK trans feminine people

Pharmacies in Portugal (verified) and Spain (unverified) will often sell oestrogen HRT over the counter to tourists without a prescription. If you watch Ryanair prices, you could day trip there for £50 or less.

This will likely be cheaper and potentially safer than using an internet pharmacy.

2mg estradiol is readily available in pill form.

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IMPORTANT - PLEASE SHARE

The linked document is being circulated amongst NHS service providers for young trans people. It advises cessation of ALL medical intervention for transition but goes further. It suggests that if the patient or parents continue to access trans healthcare outside their system, they should be reported to social services with the implicit threat that the children will be taken from their parents.

IF YOU ARE A YOUNG TRANS PERSON OR A PARENT OF ONE, IT IS LIKELY UNSAFE TO ENGAGE WITH NHS MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES.

docs.google.com/document/d/1JS…

Copy of NHS CAMHS Social Services Referral Transcript of Screenshots

Google Docs
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Jackzero

@grayface_ghost @StrangeNoises @cstross You're giving the British public more credit than they deserve,don't forget these are the people that gave the albino orang utan and 80 odd seat majority to do with as he wished to which he started wrecking the country. Mags happened on both sides of the Atlantic ocean we've gotta make sure it doesn't happen on this side again.
@Rachel Greenham @Charlie Stross @Ghost of Hope 🏳️‍⚧️
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kæt

@sesquipedality I did vote for a police commissioner this time, though often I spoil the ballot. I've been less worried since it became clear they do nothing at all. But I should get back into the habit of spoiling.

I probably shouldn't have been told this, so I won't name names, but I've heard some hilarious Police Commissioner spoils from counters, from people venting about the police and their conduct to votes for Inspectors Morse, Frost, and Clouseau: it's a bit of an art-form, apparently, particularly for that particular post.

@Sesquipedality
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TERF bullshit, but it’s funny, in a pathetic way

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Hearing some news on the grapevine that pubic lice would stop sucking blood if only their victims weren’t so mean to them.

Also, coincidentally, transphobes are very new to the whole, “taking responsibility for your own actions” thing.

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Bottom line, anyone who protested as a student knows you simply don't have the education and sophistication to really understand the complexities of the Middle East.

In contrast, I look forward to the predominantly male Supreme Court ruling on women's bodies.

#Satire

#satire

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So I've got a VCR that I can control over serial. If I got a second one, I could stick tapes into them and cross-wire them so that each plays into the other.
I could then set up a program to record from tape 1 onto tape 2, then back from tape 2 to tape 1.
Attach a capture device and I can get video files of each generation.

Then we just watch the generational loss compound.

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As you likely know, Brexit import checks start in earnest on Tuesday... but at facilities which are (mostly) inland; in the case of Dover 22 miles inland....

Now, of course most shippers can be trusted to drive those 22 miles for a check, and then either 'enter' the UK or drive 22 miles back with their refused shipment....

Hmmmm.... so that 44 miles of driving when, for the less scrupulous, a little bit of clandestine unloading could take place... this is a system built to be circumvented!

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MarjorieR

I understood that most of the testing locations are at the ports.
The exception, and it's a major one, is Sevington, which is 22 miles inland from Dover, our busiest port.
FWIW it wouldn't need a roundtrip, as Sevington is near Ashford, Kent, just off the M20.
I suppose they could use ANR to track the lorries going to Sevington, and pick up any doing illicit diversions, but I don't think they are.
But as it is, no one, apart from our Govt, thinks this is a good idea.
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The placard of Trudi Warner

Why the government sought to criminalise someone for stating a feature of constitutional law—and how it failed

By me, at Prospect

prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/l…

The placard of Trudi Warner

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
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Andrew Downes

Great article. I remember jury equity from my undergraduate law degree thirty years ago. I did not go on to practice and haven't thought about it since - I didn't know it was controversial and might have assumed it was part of jury swearing-in. The case will surely stand as a monument to a delusional Solicitor General who thought they might achieve anything other than being slapped down by a gleeful judge?
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Rob

The Trudi Warner #contempt case brings to mind a significant so-called 'perverse' verdict from 1991.

Michael #Randle and Patrick #Pottle were charged with helping a spy escape from prison in 1963.

The judge told the jury the defendants had no defence. The jury knew they were guilty - the pair admitted it in a book - and yet the jury unanimously found them not guilty.

More in this short thread:
mastodon.green/@robf/112310283…

#contempt #randle #pottle
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"babe, the upside down peas aren't real, they can't hurt you"
upside down peas:
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Cass report: there’s a useful phrase in politics for the kind of thing that it is: policy based evidence making.
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Publication on the wonderful EULawAnalysis blog, together with @Frederik_Borgesius: a short analysis of the Podchasov v. Russia case of the ECHR.
This is an important case for the role of encryption for the protection of privacy (Article 8).

For our analysis and some short comments, see the blog post: eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/202…

Thanks for publishing @StevePeers!

#encryption #humanrights

Podchasov v. Russia: the European Court of Human Rights emphasizes the importance of encryption

      Mattis van ’t Schip & Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius * *Both authors work at the iHub and the Institute for Computing and Informa...
eulawanalysis.blogspot.com
#HumanRights #encryption @Steve Peers @Frederik Borgesius

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Incredible research at BlackHat Asia today by Tong Liu and team from the Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences (在iie.ac.cn 的电子邮件经过验证)

A dozen+ RCEs on popular LLM framework libraries like LangChain and LlamaIndex - used in lots of chat-assisted apps including GitHub. These guys got a reverse shell in two prompts, and even managed to exploit SetUID for full root on the underlying VM!

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Mortgage office near me had an Alexa in the window. At night, I'd shout things at it like "Remind me at 10:30 every day to apply pile cream", or other puerile stuff. I missed any of these going off, but enjoy the thought of them alerting mid-mortgage-chat. Alexa has been moved.
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* mutters and grumbles about old server *

Anybody know what happened to witches.live?

Anyway, here now, hoping to refind everybody

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We've released #PuTTY version 0.81. This is a SECURITY UPDATE, fixing a #vulnerability in ECDSA signing for #SSH.

If you've used a 521-bit ECDSA key (ecdsa-sha2-nistp521) with any previous version of PuTTY, consider it compromised! Generate a new key pair, and remove the old public key from authorized_keys files.

Other key types are not affected, even other sizes of ECDSA. In particular, Ed25519 is fine.

This vulnerability has id CVE-2024-31497. Full information is at chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtath…

PuTTY vulnerability vuln-p521-bias

www.chiark.greenend.org.uk
#ssh #vulnerability #Putty

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To read the UK media you’d think Cameron was swooping in to sort the mess Brexit left Gibraltar in. Talking to a Gibraltarian friend though he didn’t have much part in it beyond bringing the tea. The hard work has been done by the Gibraltar government and the local government of La Línea just over the border.

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WHERE THE WEB IS GOING: The convergence of LLMs and web advertising will lead to "ads" consisting of several hundred gigabytes of javascript containing a (weighted) neural network designed to generate unique per-user video advertisements—generated on your computer at your expense to ensure the imagery is unique and evades AI-based ad-blockers.

"AI spam" is an entire AI, squatting on your CPU and making it glow dull red as it works out how to capture your attention.

Welcome to the spamularity.

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Famous American murderer from the telly, O J Simpson, has been in the news recently for dying. Here are some lesser known facts about him:

O J was known by his fans as "The Juice". This is because his full name was Orangejuice Jorangejuice Simpson.

King Edward VIII of England was forced to resign because he wanted to marry him.

In addition to being good at rugby and murder, O J was also the first man on mars.

He was acquitted after his lawyer, who was one of the Cardasians from Star Trek, convinced the jury that there were five lights.

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"If you're under 25 your brain isn't fully developed, so you can't be trusted to make informed decisions"

I'm seeing this a LOT lately, especially today with the Cass Review fallout. And it's utter guff, based on hearsay, misunderstandings of neuroscience, or wilful ignorance.

Why? I'll tell you why

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Malin

Once you're over 45 your brain's completely calcified.

It's basically just a lump of granite that replays songs from your teenage years while you still think of technology in terms of the poorly-scripted Sci-Fi TV you still own on DVD.

Definitely can't be trusted to vote on any new issues (i.e. 'any issues at all') once you lose all ability to develop beyond the thinking of the previous century.

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Worrying that a cis person might take cross-sex hormones long term by mistake is like worrying that your child will go out and roll in the nettles if you let them in the garden. Sure. Hypothetically they might roll in the nettles. What they’re not very likely to do is go out there and roll in the nettles a second time. Meanwhile trans people are yelling to be let out of the nettle patch while being told that moving around the garden is dangerous and to stay put for our own safety.

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