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So, here’s the thing:
Not being a Catholic, I’m not personally offended that Trump is posting AI pics of himself as Pope.
What bothers me is that the US president has ultimate authority over a nuclear arsenal capable of ending pretty much all life on earth and, at the moment, that office is occupied by someone with such fucking poor judgement.
And it’s very disturbing that the press isn’t pointing this out. Because it’s the most germane aspect of it.
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Trump criticised after posting AI image of himself as Pope
The image, shared by White House social media accounts, comes as Catholics prepare to pick the next pontiff.Max Matza (BBC News)
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Hey ladies, more victories for you.....oh.
Oh well, at least Trans Women are being tormented for your pleasure, so.....
No surprise that us Queers are an afterthought, looks like we're going back into the shadows so we don't upset the Breeders with our 'depraved' existence.....
Remember, coming after 'misogyny' is complicated but last months Bathroom proclamation provided 'clarity'
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#Misogyny #Patriarchy #ScotPol #TerfIsland
Scottish ministers drop plans to outlaw misogyny and conversion practices
Government says measures are too legally complex to deliver before the next Holyrood electionSeverin Carrell (The Guardian)
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I honestly never dreamed my life would go in the direction of having to manage the duality of being a functional adult who can do adult things in the daytime and is sensible and all that stuff, and a chaos goblin by the evening.
The transition I saw coming from a long time before, if I’m being honest. But while neurodivergence was always obvious to anyone who met me, finally getting the actual answer and following it through to Planet Amphetamine and all that implies has blindsided me a bit.
These drugs are very very weird to be on.
But they may have saved my life.
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"We're not going to fix the NHS but we are going to make it harder for Trans and Neurodivergent people to use it" - Labour
#NHS #TransRightsAreHumanRights #Ukpolitics #Ukpol #Ableism #labour
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Still seeing people criticising US lefties for not voting for Harris over Gaza. I regret their choice too but let me explain something...
There are some things that are so important to you that you can't vote for the lesser evil, because you see no difference between the choices on the issue. In that case you can't vote for the lesser evil. You just can't. You'd throw up.
I'm there right now with trans rights, for example. If I'm still in the country when the next GE happens, there's no fucking chance of me ever voting for Starmer, even to keep Farage out of number ten. I'd rather die than vote for him. And... things are bad for trans folk in the UK right now but they're nothing compared to what's been done to Gazans.
So save your ire and your "how could yous" for the politicians who funded, supported and supplied the weapons for a genocide and then expected the left - that section of society who tend to give a shit about people other than themselves - to vote for them anyway.
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From the bottom of my heart, thank you.
Let the world see what barbarism these frauds will allow in the name of orderly proceedings. The reason I got there a long time ago is because my own country has already violated me in ways so ghastly you cannot be explicit on any channel or show it in the most violent television show as "fiction". And this happened when a liberal was in charge.
They're not your friends. *They're not your friends.* They're not making it better for anyone but the already privileged and those too stupid to see how they treat anyone who has been determined to be an exception to the law.
Well put. I think it's reasonable to argue those who stood up Harris for Gaza were plain undiplomatic, also considering the dire straits many vulnerable people are in today.
Still you can't say team anti-genocide blew Harris' election. That's on Harris. And imo even more on Biden who cursed her. He showered her in the blood of his own human rights failures and then wished her good luck with the race.
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Having my first day off Elvanse.
Plan is all about self care. Avoid stressful stuff. If there is ANY hint of pushback against anything that needs doing, then I will make it a problem for future Sarah.
I feel like there’s a lot of reverse ableism with people telling me that the REAL problem with ADHD is that I am “traumatised” by a world that isn’t adapted to my needs and that were it not for this “trauma”, I would be able to function just fine.
If it’s trauma, why does a single pill that raises my dopamine levels switch it off like a light switch and turn me into an emotionally stable adult with executive function?
I had a shower and thought more (as you do) and maybe it's just the usual problem of people projecting their own problems. Also medication only works for about 70% of people with ADHD and not everyone has the glorious epiphany you have (congrats tho!)
Also I wonder, like in my case, my DMN is rather strong and annoying... Combined with high empathy (confirmed medically kinda now due to the stupid ASD screening) it's a rather hard-mode life for me.
This idea - found via @fj and @temptoetiam - to install solar panels between train tracks strikes me as ridiculous
Railway tracks are grimy. Things fall off trains, like melting snow mixed with grit in winter. You can't incline the panels. How are you going to keep the panels clean enough? Because you absolutely don’t want to stop the train traffic to do it
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La première centrale solaire sur rails de Suisse inaugurée dans le canton de Neuchâtel
C'est un projet inédit en Suisse: la première centrale solaire amovible sur une voie ferrée ouverte au trafic ferroviaire a été inaugurée jeudi à Buttes, dans le canton de Neuchâtel.Radio Télévision Suisse
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I only say „#Gleisschotterbettungsreinigungsmaschine“ - really curious to see how that machine works together with the solar panels.
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#wdr #diemaus #sendungmitdermaus
Die Seite mit der Maus - Gleisschotterwaschanlage
Mit einer Gleisschotterwaschanlage wird der Schotter, auf dem Bahngleise liegen, wieder aufbereitet und sauber gemacht. Das ist wichtig, damit der Schotter weiterhin seine Funktion erfüllen kann.www.wdrmaus.de
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@christineburns Good question, I was wondering about that too. It was mostly the Telegraph who covered it, but they actually did a pretty good job, and I think things even changed as a result.
Yes, I think we can count it.
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To quote para 7 of the judgement
"7. We also use the expression “biological sex” which is used widely, including in the judgments of the Court of Session, to describe the sex of a person at birth, and we use the expression “certificated sex” to describe the sex attained by the acquisition of a GRC."
So, sex assigned at birth and entered on (original) birth certificate. Which is administrative rather than actually biological.
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One thing I did NOT expect from ADHD meds: much easier to put my contact lenses in.
I guess my eyes are no longer darting about all over the place.
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for you sarah i will write to my garbage MP. although in echo of the above, she has never responded to any of my previous correspondence and in a mystery shopper exercise had the worst response rate of any mp in the liverpool city region (maria eagle).
I truly do not believe this.
I just watched a video about somebody's parrot, or some similar birb. Said birb had been plucking it's feathers and the owner said it was a hormonal issue and the vet had given it Lupron.
Lupron is a puberty blocker. Parrots have more fucking rights than trans kids
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Possible, but IIUC plucking is usually a stress issue.
Still, the fact that it's easier to get for a parrot than a kid is quite something.
Elvanse LOWERING my BP
It’s supposedly at risk of doing the opposite.
How bloody stressed was I before?
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Still not got a good answer to the question of how neurotypicals have fun.
Like, it has recently come to my attention that you lot get a dopamine reward for picking up your socks off the floor and putting them away. I have now experienced this and, wow! Yeah. Very cool! Neat trick you have there.
So why spend money on leisure activities when you can just pick shit up?
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@Kincaid Honestly it feels pretty good to me.
But I guess I’ve been on starvation rations for 51 years.
@Kincaid Update: yeah. Ok. Fair enough.
The novelty of ANY hit at all was quite a thing at first. Now I appreciate your point.
@Kincaid Laundry pile is smaller.
Look, I've seriously been STARVING my entire life. A biscuit is a banquet.
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It’s really starting to hit me now. All those years I wasn’t lazy. I wasn’t deliberately obstructive. I wasn’t thoughtless. I wasn’t careless. I wasn’t a deliberate arsehole.
My neurology literally wouldn’t let me slow down, do stuff, talk quieter, not interrupt, not go from 0 to “temper tantrum” in 2 seconds, remember where I put the thing I was holding 1 second ago. Not want to end people for talking too slowly.
One pill fixes it all. One sodding pill.
51 years.
There’s more grieving to come here, I think. A lot more.
And no, everyone is NOT “a little bit ADHD”. You have no bloody idea.
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@Ghost of Hope 🏳️⚧️ Heart failure in extreme old age probably fine.
They will get weird if they think you might have cardiac issues.
Woman who believes vaccines cause autism also believes thing above her bed catches bad dreams
A woman has defended her decision not to vaccinate her children due to autism fears, and insists she sleeps ‘fine at night thank you very much’ due to the dream catcher which she hangs …NewsThump
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First few days on Elvanse and wow! This stuff is honestly astonishing.
If you’re seeing this on Bluesky it’s auto cross posted from fedi. Breaks might be in odd places.
It’s essentially created two versions of me. There is medicated me who is a competent adult and can Just Do Stuff and unmedicated me who is mot, and cannot (but who is fun and lovely and is the version writing this).
On the way up the transition between the two is smooth and continuous.
On the way down it is not. I can feel it starting to fade over above half and hour then it reaches some critical level and o spend 10-15 minutes just crashing.
And then I’m the person writing this again, but a bit dazed and bewildered.
I’m hoping this will get smoother. At the moment it leads to almost a discontinuity in personality, but only on the way down, where afterwards I simply cannot conceive of being the person I just was.
I think I need to get into the habit, before it wears off, of leaving myself something nice for just after the crash.
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You know the worst thing about today's ruling? It doesn't take into account the primal, overwhelming power of - and I'm going to use the old term - gender dysphoria.
Most cis folk haven't experienced it, though many cis queer peeps know what I mean from a different context. The compulsion to live free or die. I wouldn't be alive now if I hadn't transitioned.
The lucky ones transition before they get there but the rest of us hit a point in our lives where it's transition or die and that's not hyperbole. I always wanted to see a world where transition happened for all before that point, because I barely made it through. That hope is pretty much gone.
Call us mentally-ill if you like. I don't care. I live, or I don't. For the sake of preventing some vile people feeling a bit uncomfortable, you've put our lives in real danger, judges of the Supreme Court.
You're disgusting bigots and any remaining respect I once had for the law has gone. We're outlaws again.
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Elvanse!
NO FUCKING WAY!
I had radiotherapy from someone who turned out to be a TERF.
That still gives me shivers sometimes.
At work, in a hospital, treating a politician whose views I find odious, with a wire literally inside his heart. Thought for a second about how I could kill the prick and no-one would ever know, it would just be complications. Sometimes I still feel guilty that I didn't.
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Searching for hydrochloric acid on amazon.
It offers me sodium hypochlorite.
Fuck's actual sake
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I chain drink decaff Twinnings Everyday, have deliveries of coffee beans from Decadent Decaff and for at the Hackspace keep decaf Nescafe Azure. That mostly keeps me ticking.
Not all the decaffs are equal. That took a few goes. Some brands put a bit more care into it than others. And if you're shopping at supermarkets, I've noticed you have to go to the larger ones to get access to more than one brand on the shelf.
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Filing under “fun realisations about ADHD”
We probably pretty much never make threads on r/AmITheAsshole
Because we already know.
I think there are healthy and unhealthy sources of dopamine, varied in degree and with who you are.
Heroin is mostly-bad but part-good, Reddit is all-bad.
Just got a letter from local Lib Dem’s.
It was insipid as fuck
So I voted green
Morning musing
Seeing so many in the US thinking the courts or the Senate are going to save them from Trump. My view? It's too late, you're in a dictatorship.
How do dictatorships end?
1. Death of the dictator, natural or otherwise
2. Military coup/civil war
3. Popular uprising
4. War loss and occupation
1 - the best bet, I think. You've killed several Presidents, go get him. Failing that, he's getting old
2 - I think it's unlikely. The US military are accustomed to seeing the President as their commander. I could be wrong. Secession is impossible without the local military on board
3 - it's an option but it's going to need a lot more people and it needs to move to general strike and even revolution
4 - not gonna happen, it's the US
Anyway, the courts and the Senate are worth pursuing but they're delaying tactics at best. You're looking at one of the above for freedom and I think you need to plan for that. I know it's daunting but it is what it is.
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The problem of option 1 is that Trump isn't the organ-grinder, and there's a replacement monkey standing by.
I think 3 is the most viable of the options, though there's also the long-shot possibility that internal divisions could cause the whole thing to implode.
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I'm not sure. I think it would fall apart without him. He's not the brains of the outfit but he's the centre of it.
Doesn't matter to me. I'm not on dot social, I'm not in the US and I'm never going to the US.
About to start my Elvanse titration.
No alcohol or caffeine for 3 months.
Oof!
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