CW ukpol, transphobia
I have the luxury of not needing to vote Labour to keep anyone out, but I had let myself believe there was some sort of political hope. I guess it's just as well Labour let us all know it's not them.
Honestly what with Tony Blair, Keir Starmer and Wes Streeting all sharing their _aperΓ§us_ on the subject of trans rights β short version, trans people donβt exist, should be shunted into βside roomsβ in hospitals β Iβm swinging very firmly back towards voting Green. They have their own terf wing, sure, but they seem to have largely locked them away for the duration of the campaign β rather than free-associating the abolition of trans rights on LBC, say
Trans actual challenge GnRH analogue (so-called puberty blockers) ban in court.
transactual.org.uk/blog/2024/0β¦
Press release: TransActual issue urgent court proceedings β TransActual
In partnership with the Good Law Project, today (18th June 2024), TransActual alongside an anonymous trans young person acting as Second Claimant haveΒ issued court proceedings against the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care.transactual.org.uk
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I remember @Ben Harris complaining when I expressed appreciation of tea with "om nom nom". "You can't nom tea!"
Can you nom tea?
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4F5545745CAF3200<br>which outputs
4F5545745CAF3200<br>TINY's Quiney!
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Did you know the World Meteorological Organisation has a document on Sea Ice Nomenclature? No? Well now you do.
This week's #FailureFriday is MV Explorer.
Built to explore the polar regions, it explored exciting grounding opportunities in the Antarctic in 1972 and 1979. Definitely lost in 2007 after accidentally hosting a meeting of the Titanic Reenactment Society.
The accident report later suggested that the invitation for an iceberg to join the passengers and crew for an exciting evening of events had been extended rather too hastily.
Also Antarctic ice "is harder", apparently.
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@Peternimmo the accident report is available online, and the loss is pretty convincingly explained.
There's passenger video of the ice field, it rammed into a "wall of ice" without slowing down - maybe don't try that in future - and the speed of sinking implies the damage was far worse than the "fist-sized hole" originally reported.
The expert above was interviewed before the facts came out, I've just been unfair!
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@RnaudBertrand: These have undoubtedly been the wildest 72 hours in French politics in my lifetime. Pretty incredible stuff. A 𧡠So after losing big time in the EU elections to Le Pen's Rassemblement National (RN), ...β¦threadreaderapp.com
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Obv I have no insight into a bird's inner state though I'd be unsurprised if they had at least some emotional existence. But one can posit things that incentivise it to move without needing to invoke boredom.
Like it's got hungry enough that it's gone off to feed; or some kind of patrolling setup where it wants to check each of several territories at least so often. Or it's spotted something that you or I wouldn't notice - perhaps overhearing calls of another bird?
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#ModelRailway #Hornby #ModelRailways #digitalcommandcontrol #modelrailroad
Hornby's Zero1 Digital Control System
Hornby Railway's Zero1 was the first Command Control system built around a custom microcontroller from Texas Instruments. The Zero1 name was chosen to reflect that it was a Digital system.DCCWiki
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I see Sunak has been winning hearts and minds in his dwindling core vote by buggering off home early from the D-Day commemoration.
Even Farage managed to stay to the end, and his side lost.
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Product idea: Peril sensitive hearing aids.
Automatically shuts off if right wing politicians start speaking.
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Dearest @CountBinface:
I don't know if you're registered yet as a candidate anywhere, but if you're not I would like to suggest you stand in Clacton and approach all the other parties to support you as a modern day Martin Bell
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This is, of course, merely a suggestion for the banter timeline we currently live in and not in any way a campaign or endorsement on my part
*side-eye LDHQ *
The nation is now sharing an experience with many trans people.
We're all on a waiting list for Tory Replacement Therapy.
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Boosting this as it's interesting: Medicines regulation is a reserved matter under the Scotland Act 1998 (Sch. 5 (II)(J4)), so Holyrood cannot legislate in this area and Atkins is not stepping on Holyrood's legislative competence toes here.
@Lisa DiFalco @Christine Burns MBE π³οΈββ§οΈπβ§ The subject matter of the Medicines Act 1968 (under which this Order was made) is a reserved matter under the Scotland Act 1998.
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As a general rule, the state should over-supply services. There should be slack in the system almost all the time. Relaxed GPs with lots of time to talk to their patients. So many teachers that the main trouble is finding rooms for them all.
Not only does this see a better quality of service mostly, but it also cushions the system in the event of an unexpected shock.
If you have just enough professionals to deliver at 100%, you donβt have enough professionals.
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@amckinstry One of the best books I have read in business is this one amazon.com/Slack-Getting-Burnoβ¦
Key principle: we need to allow for slack in processes so they can absorb delay, prevent burnout, but also have some reserves in the tank to deal with crises.
If @Tupp_ed wants to borrow my copy this can be arranged.
@DaraghOBrien @amckinstry
Another factor infecting taxpayer-funded public services is the Toyota Production Method (called Lean in North America).
It's predicated on minimalism in everything. Flat management. Limits on staffing. "Just in Time" Processes. Employee training replaced by manuals. Making the staff do the janitorial work.
Unpaid overtime to make up for inadequate staffing during vacations season, flu or hurricane season, or other "unexpected" events like pandemics.
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![Despite the presence of these counsellors, Babar's rule seems to be totally independent of any elected body, and completely autocratic. However, his leadership style seems to strive for the overall benefit of his elephant subjectsβa form of benevolent dictatorship.[citation needed]](https://thegoatery.dyndns.org/photo/preview/640/4223567 "Despite the presence of these counsellors, Babar's rule seems to be totally independent of any elected body, and completely autocratic. However, his leadership style seems to strive for the overall benefit of his elephant subjectsβa form of benevolent dictatorship.[citation needed]")
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and though I'm not evil at all
I showed him the sherry
then got a bit merry
by bricking him up in the wall
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Funny how Brexit was the nation defining act we absolutely had to see through to it's bitter end (which will never be in sight) and now in General Election 2024 nobody wants to talk about it, and those whose identity is forever entwinned with the thing are shunned (like David Frost) or are fucking off out of politics (like Brexit 'Hardman' Steve Baker)
But don't anybody talk of undoing the mess, how dare you, ....unperson! unperson!
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Ben Evans
in reply to Alexandra Lanes • • •@considermycat I am utterly unconvinced by those of my friends who are honestly claiming that the larger his majority is, the more Starmer will feel emboldened to be more radical in Government.
I believe that he has already shown us exactly who he is, and that the larger his majority is, the more he'll be encouraged to behave exactly as he has done in opposition.
IMO, it is *Labour* that need to be tactically voted against, not the Tories (who are toast). 1/
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@considermycat A bloody nose, a few winnable seats lost to a split progressive vote will, IMO, do far more to buck his ideas up.
Given the sort of political animal Starmer has shown himself to be, I feel the goal is to make him realize that if he wants a second term, he cannot treat us with the contempt that he has done thus far.
Far from a "ming vase", he's implemented a "Ming the Merciless" strategy, and I'll have none of it. /2
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in reply to Alexandra Lanes • • •@considermycat
Unlike Ben(*), I do think that a larger majority will make the government more radical. I agree that I don't think that Starmer will want it, but I think the natural Peoples Front of Judea tendencies in the party will make it happen. Maybe I'm just overused to the Labour/TUC conferences of the eighties, but there's gonna be factions, right?
I don't see much point voting elsewhere, tbh. The tories are worse, the Lib Dems are untrustworthy (given bastards will always exist, look which party enabled the 2010 government which set this whole disaster going, and achieved none of their major policy goals) and the others don't have enough of the population agreeing with their policies, to make it just an ethical-vanity vote.
(*) The wider ActivityPub world is still a bit of a mystery to me. I can't comment, but I don't know if I'm not allowed or can't find the button.