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NHS (UK): repeat prescription? We track it to the milligram! Don’t think you can cheat the system!

SNS (Portugal): a repeat? Let’s SPIN THE WHEEL OF FORTUNE! See what you get!

The fuck am I supposed to do with six asthma inhalers?

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Brazil: We'd better throw the book at that guy who instigated a coup when he lost an election

United States:
theguardian.com/us-news/2024/n…

#Brazil #USPOL #Trump

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Massively overdrawn on the sleep bank but brain is doing the 1am ADHD thing. FML


Tesla are so bad at designing user interfaces that the people who make microwave ovens point and laugh.
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my car has a speed dial and a "how far" one... makes stopping at the lights tricky to judge...


In a world where terrorising trans women is increasingly the policy of many governments, us expressing joy and happiness is a revolutionary act.


Two consecutive emails:

Amazon.co.uk: Black Friday discounts start at midnight!

Amazon.es: Black Friday discounts start at 23h.

Weird timezone artefacts.


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Cable news producers: no, I will not come on your program to "debate" opposite Trump surrogates on the question of whether trans people are entitled to basic human rights. I urge you to sit down for a few moments and try to imagine someone you love being asked to do that.

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@John_Loader that makes sense. I was thinking if it was a real problem I would have seen one of the activists somewhere mention it at least once.
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Wow. He was a bit OTT, but a lot of early rights campaigners in various movements felt obliged to be that way to force change and get people to sit up & take notice.


Sorry mate. Gotta wait until “she” is 25 to fix that. Hilary Cass said so. theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/n…

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That form is so old-fashioned in several ways. It has "maiden name" for mothers only, not for fathers. Are men not allowed to change their surname upon marrying in the UK
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Need a catchy name for the group of countries like the US, Russia, Israel, North Korea.

I’m thinking “The Axis of Can You Just Not?”

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we* do seem to all reinforce one another. I can think of at least one crude term for that, but something a little more suited for general company might be better.
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*I'm from one of them after all.
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Just got this Reddit ad for US ambulance chasers implying hormonal birth control is dangerous and causing mass health problems.

It’s starting. We (trans women) bloody warned you.

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Ironically, Depo-Provera has been a recurring choice for people practicing abusive forcible birth control for "eugenic" reasons. But I guess those people are harder to sue, or maybe the law firm agrees with their obnoxious politics.


When I was 15, I got a new pair of shoes for school. They were too tight and caused hyperkeratosis on the ridges of my big toes. This got so bad that the skin started painfully splitting.

The right one slowly resolved itself over time. The left has got worse and worse. 36 years later it has spread to three toes on that foot and despite trying to control it with debriding, salicylic acid, and steroids, it gets worse, and frequently cracks to the point it bleeds.

I have searched and searched and searched on the internet for the same presentation, but it’s always the other side of the foot. Never on the ridges of the toe joints.

Until yesterday. I saw the exact same thing in a photo on duck duck go.

I clicked through.

“Patient told to stop sitting on foot”.

I looked down. I was sitting on my left foot.

Fucksake.

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this sounds like a real life “doc, it hurts when I do this!...” situation


Burning a candle for Ponte Vasco da Gama to regain its crown here.


NEWSFLASH: #Biden has finally authorized strikes deep into #Russia with long-range weapons known as #ATACMS.

We spoke with George #Barros of the #Institute for the Study of #War to determine how this decision will affect the course of events on the front lines.




Had my attention drawn to a study concluding that regular commitments put ADHD “into remission” and I’m like, “that’s not how you spell masking leading to chronic stress and long term neurological damage”.
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it never ceased to amaze me how many studies into ADHD/autism etc basically just boil down to "if you just managed your time better, you'd be fine. Have you tried having a diary"It fi, in fact, cease to amaze me decades ago.
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@Kathryn Karnage My diary is full of all the things I turn up slightly late to.
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"Remission"? Now we have cancer of the executive function or something? 🤣


Studied WW1 in school but never went hard on the July Crisis that started it.

Read up on it now and feeling like the Treaty of Versailles was a lot less unfair than I previously thought.

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Also surprised by how much Britain was the only adult in the room. They tried really quite hard to prevent the catastrophe.
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Serbia was like, “look, Austria. We’ll give you literally everything you’re asking for.” Britain was like, “let’s talk this out guys”. Austria was like, “hmm, maybe”. Germany was like “LEROY JENKINS! Btw, invading Luxembourg. Lol!”
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The Rest Is History did a good series on the build up, if you like that sort of thing.
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@goatsarah Starts Episode 465 with a 4 parter on the Assassination of Franz Ferdinand

therestishistory.com/465-the-m…

followed by 6 episodes on "The Road to War"

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Bertrand Russell said: if Britain hadn't become involved, the war would have been short, Germany would have won and WWII would never have happened.
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it's also worth comparing the Treaty of Versailles to the treaty the Germans forced on France a generation earlier after the Franco-Prussian War. Modest losses of land, military restrictions, blame for the war, harsh reparations, etc - Versailles was just the Germans receiving what they'd previously dished out.


Yes, even TERF island.


We are getting some #trans folks writing who are terribly concerned to find the 'safest' #EU country. Everywhere in western #europe is safer than the #USA by a significant margin.
You are better selecting a destination in Europe based on other factors than just some "safety" ranking.
You are going to have to live your life once you're out. Don't pass up the great job offer from Germany because a website says Portugal is 1 point higher on a ranking.
#TransRights

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the UK is definitely TERF island, but it's not dangerous on the ground. We go there frequently, even went on a short holiday not long ago.
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@Trans Rescue yeah. I’ve been there a few times recently and it’s perfectly safe. Just increasingly hard to get trans healthcare there.
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@trans_rescue the biggest practical challenge for trans people in the UK is securing medication. National Health Service waits are astronomical, private clinics expensive, and DIY options under threat.
@goatsarah


In “stopped clock right twice a day” news, it appears that the incoming US kakistocracy is going to cancel the white elephant Space Launch System.
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@Sion [main] Musk was profiting from SLS either way because he had the contract to provide the lander.

But he isn’t really competition. SLS was never a viable launch system; more a way to endlessly launder money to corporate donors.

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Competition for which corporate to launder money to, then. (If they rejig Artemis to not use SLS, rather than just scrap the whole thing -- guess what it's going to come down to is is it close enough to be a vanity project for the next presidential term)

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"Cis people love to say they support us until it requires literally anything material at all

cis people think support is 'using the right pronoun' which is frankly beyond pathetic"

bsky.app/profile/juliette-necr…

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Even many cis liberals treat trans people as a fetish culture they indulge so as not to look like prudes.

The silence you get over trans kids is even more damning than the women's sports shit they've been brainwashed to say.

When I was a trans kid, I needed a hug, validation, and healthcare because I was suicidal, not smarmy condescension from people who've never thought about anything ever.

Like, isn't it weird how our suicide stats just sort of faded out of the discussion after a point?

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I think it's more than that. It's also 67 million votes for Harris/Walz and the effort it took to get that.


Starting to think either a civil war or military coup and “interim administration to restore order” in the US in the next decade is now more likely than not. 😞
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I just mean include like "pol" as a word on its own somewhere in the post, not anything beyond that.
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Missed this when you posted it...

I would think the first real flashpoint will be in four years time. If Trump's still functioning, I can't see him quietly retiring.

I'm slightly less worried about Project 2025 after seeing his cabinet picks. A societal collapse is more likely now.



Dear Apple, when the device is localised (see that S there?) into British English, "chips" does NOT go under "confectionary" in the shopping list.

Goddam fuckmuppet seppo nonsense.

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@pseudomonas
oh, the US is VERY invested in deep-frying confectionery
@Adam


A prediction:

The EU is going to decide that it needs to protect itself against Putin’s aggression.

Trump will abandon Europe to Putin.

Starmer will be like, “I’ll align with the second guy”.

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I hope Europe gets it's act together. Election result in The Netherlands and upcoming elections in Germany are bit worrying


Western progressive parties stop doing this challenge 2024:

“The other guys are right. Don’t vote for them!”

The obvious thing happens.

“The other guys are REALLY right. Don’t vote for them”

Why are you like this?

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“The other guys are REALLY REALLY far right. Maybe we can convince some of them to vote for us.”


Just been reading about a horrible bully who stabbed and brutally killed a critically endangered animal that was just minding its own business by a tumtum tree.

Disgusting


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USPOL, thoughts of a Brit

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Dear Oort Cloud. We are ready. Please put us out of our misery, preferably before we develop proper space travel. It’s for the best.
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> “The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.”
—Bill Watterson


The day after the Brexit vote, I was stuck in bed having panic attacks on repeat.

It shoved me out of my comfort zone and now my life, in Portugal, is better for it (immigrant stress is real though), but it was a profoundly shitty thing to go through, and my heart utterly goes out to the millions of Americans, especially the young women, the LGBT people, and the terrified immigrants, and others now experiencing the same thing.

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@Miguel Arroz fixe! Devo visitar as áreas perto de Lisboa mais. Há uma via ferrata nas falésias de Arrábida que eu quero escalar.
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Também ando a querer visitar umas coisas na Arrábida (as antigas instalações da artilharia de costa, por mais que deteste tudo o que é militar, acho piada a essas coisas abandonadas). Mas não envolvem escalar nada. 😅


A lot of people, probably the majority, see things in irredeemable scum bags, like Trump, like Boris Johnson, like LePen, and going back, like Hitler, which they like.

And I just don’t get it.

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no, they’re not the majority. But anger gets people to the polls more effectively than anything else. That coupled with the gerrymandering the US system is plagued with means that a minority can grab majority power.
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Because they remember their countries when they were bigoted as hell and the only people they saw were people like them and they want that back. They want the bigotry, discrimination etc. They don’t want to have to think about non white people, LGBT people, non christian people and so on. If you look at the UK the most right wing places are the whitest straightest places. They are worried that will change!


So glad I got my nervous breakdown response to this shit out of the way after the Brexit referendum.

My deepest, most profound sympathies for anyone going through anything similar today. It’s fucking horrible.

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I'm really glad I didn't let myself have any hope that Harris would win. I could feel it going bad last night.
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Thanks Sarah. Let's sit with this. Madison said this morning she didn't want to talk.


Fuck this shit. I’m taking a benzo.

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I keep seeing US commentators saying you guys have the greatest democracy in the world and...

Sorry but it's shit.

Two party system.

Electoral college.

Partisan control of process.

I mean, I could go on but why bother. Could you sort this shit out some time in the century? The electoral college is a mechanism designed largely to prevent dickheads like Trump being elected, at the cost of the anti-democratic dilution of one person one vote. It failed. Bin it.

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We may have spearhead democratic revolutions in the late 18th century but it's been mostly down hill from there...
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the scale of the lobbying industry in the US is something to behold


Bridge carrying the N125 road over the Rio Arade near Portimão, Algarve. iPhone 16 pro, pro raw, 10 second exposure. Seeing it like this always puts me in mind of the massive atmosphere processor in Aliens.

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@Sarah Brown Same. It feels like any kind of hope is me trying to con myself. And there's really really nothing I can do about it (unlike UK elections where there's merely mostly nothing I can do about it)


Flight back from NTE to FAO used an honest to god jetway at the FAO end, like it’s fucking Emirates or some shit.


So I know it’s all very funny, ha ha, but here’s why the orcas don’t go after the boats of the ultra rich.

Two photos. One a multi million euro luxury yacht. Notice it has two props. They steer by vectoring the thrust. There is no rudder.

The other, my boat. It costs what a new car costs (like if you were buying a low end Tesla. Expensive, but not stupid money). It has a rudder because it’s a sailboat. It can’t rely on thrust being present.

No rudder - no orca attack. People who can afford sailboats, which the orcas are attacking, cannot afford luxury motor yachts, which they aren’t.

A sailboat is like a mouldy caravan, but floating, and slower.

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@Mike J👹🐀 🤘🏻 same. I run the gauntlet next summer. Somewhat worried. I have a life raft and a phone that can do satellite distress, and I don’t taste like tuna.


New theory: the orcas are trying to get high. This shit is neurotoxic. Got quite a headache from spending 2 hours painting the hull with it.

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@IncHulk and yet the barnacles prevail. (Got to do the same job on a friend's boat in a few weeks)


Something happen to make you offer this generous discount, did it?

How about you fuck off 500 miles, and then fuck off 500 more, WaPo?

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An interesting evaluation on the factual accuracy of LLMs, shows that even the best in class models from OpenAI are wrong more often than they're right openai.com/index/introducing-s…

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Oh no! They got beer and ketchup all over their legally protected beliefs!


Patrons douse TERFS in drinks & ketchup for staging an anti-trans protest at bar

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#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA


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@transworld Hmm, the article says it was a London pub, but I’m fairly sure they were in Sheffield.