I seem to remember there was somewhere off the coast of Norfolk or Suffolk at some point where new mothers went to register their births as it was unparished, so they didn't have to acknowledge the father. The memory is a bit of a muddle, but I can't find any reference to it.
The wonderful folk over at @trans_rescue@mastodon.social have been working their butts off with a very limited budget to help get trans folk out of dangerous places.
I've pulled together a collection of my stories. These were first written on twitter, some I've reposted here over the years but this is the first time a collection of them has been available.
If you want to acquire a copy of this collection all you have to do is send me proof of a Ā£5 or more donation to Trans Rescue in a DM. (Please for the love of all that is holy redact any bank details) and I'll send you a link to the file with 60 stories and more than one hundred pages of kinky smut.
Note: trans rescue have nothing to do with this, do not hassle them about it, I'm doing this entirely on my own and if they ask me to stop I will.
yeah, guess it just mails them out. forgive our clanky donation system. our web dev is done by volunteers who are awesome, but are working in their spare time.
Feeling proud of myself. I contacted a therapist who should be able to help me with my fun new anxiety issues, and also started some work on them on my own, of which I may say more at a later date.
So you're speaking a sentence in Portuguese, are you? Well you have 0.5 seconds to decide between a subordinating conjunction or a preposition/naked adjective, AND IT WILL DETERMINE THE COURSE OF THE REST OF YOUR LIFE!
Weird anxiety episode day 3. Seems to be receding somewhat. Heart pounding and adrenaline rushes keep happening a bit but maybe less severely? Got sleep in a couple of three hour batches from what I remember. Have attempted to contact a therapist to process some of this.
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Sometimes we sleep, or may as well. The world of possibilities that contains and is contained by a day too much and too overwhelming to be but observed slowly through a fog. What shall I do today? Toss a coin.
Sometimes we remember, or remember feeling. To fetch from the vaults of memory is to remember afresh, and to remember afresh to feel afresh. To feel afresh is to reason afresh and it is all still true: this is still was still am still me I, feeling. But nevertheless afresh.
Sometimes we reach out. So fortunate I, who can be held without holding and still feel the warmth. Waves over waves.
Bit sad not to be able to join in the general trans Dorley Hall love-in but I read maybe 300 pages and the non-consensual and imprisonment aspects of it seem to trigger a lot of anxiety, so it's perhaps not the book for me. And that's OK.
The Baby Box helps families prepare for the arrival of their baby. New babies need a surprising amount of stuff! Scotlandās Baby Box is packed full of clothes, bedding and lots of other useful things to help give your baby the best possible start in ā¦
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Quite possibly not his fault, could be that heās ill or doesnāt have access to toilets or washing facilities, but it was actually making me feel ill š¤¢
This is an official translation of the law allowing Greenland self governance. Under it, for Greenland to become independent (to do with that independence what it may) it requires a majority in a referendum of the people of Greenland, an independence agreement with Denmark, and approval of that agreement by the Greenlandic and Danish parliaments. english.stm.dk/media/10522/gl-ā¦
A drunk sailor might fall in, but fall over when they fall out, and as they fall down, fall overboard, it falling to their solicitor to whom their estate would fall.
He never enjoyed snow, unlike his brother. The first time we had deep snow Bilbo spent 10 mins diving forward and skidding headfirst into it. Benji has arthritis now so is a snow/ice wimp like me.
If you played Jet Set Willy on the Spectrum as a kid youāll be aware of the notorious Attic Bug. It meant that if you entered the Attic in a game, various rooms became instakills.
Today I read an explanation of the bug: bits of non-screen memory are being written to when one of the monsters in the Attic is ādrawnā.
@rvedotrc @iris It's probably been a few decades since I read the story originally, but in my hazy memory he was gripped with a sudden doubt that his wife was actually following him and turned back to look.
the fact that we only have āherculean taskā and āsisyphean taskā feels so limiting. so hereās a few more tasks for your repertoire
icarian task: when you have a task you know youāre going to fail at...
not sure about that. If "luke" and "yuke" rhyme then "luke" and "nyuke" also rhyme, almost by definition. Different previous phonĆØme (/j/ rather than /n/) doesn't matter.
In US law they pronounce the āv.ā in case names as āversusā or āveeā. So we get the famous case of Roe v. Wade. But in English law for civil cases like this we pronounce the āv.ā as āandā, thus rendering the case name as ārow and wadeā.
Or so I thought. It occurred to me just now that if the case had happened here, itād be a judicial review. So would be called something like R (Roe) v. Wade, pronounced āthe Crown (on behalf of Roe) and Wadeā.
But! It was in 1973 when we wrote judicial review case names differently. It would probably have been something more like R v. Wade ex parte Roe.
Idly reading about New Zealand's court system. Amusing to me was the way MÄori introductions in New Zealand courts became the norm. A judge decided it would be good, so did it, and then a barrister for the Crown followed suit. Obviously at this point defence barristers couldn't be outdone, so... youtu.be/ycL-cKQ_0tU?si=imaGLwā¦
Watching the darts on Sky Stream, and it's got a bit confused. It's really weird when the sound and picture get out of sync and you hear random plunks while the player is preparing to throw. (Pause and play fixed it.)
Inspired by a blooper in yesterdayās Wallace and Gromit, does anyone here know why the Western Region of BR stuck with lower quadrant semaphore signals when the rest of the network standardised on upper quadrant after nationalisation?
probably stubbornness to be quite honest. GWR did a lot of things differently to the other companies and they were determined to keep as independent as they could, going as far as even making their own loco designs still.
@MikeFromLFE working on an old GWR branch line, you get this kind of insight. Often used phrase āthereās two ways of doing things, the Great Western way and the wrong wayā
AI is a marketing term, not a technical term: Exhibit 1 in what is likely to become a continuing series.
This aircon unit is set to auto. But the icon on the remote shows āAIā instead.
I can state with reasonable certainty that there is nothing in this aircon unit that computer scientists recognise as āAIā, even under archaic definitions.
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