Someone on Bluesky yesterday was like, “actually how about national service for Boomers and Gen X doing customer service jobs?”
And I’m like, you want to put me, a nerd with zero fucks given and oppositional defiance tendencies, into a customer service job that I can’t get fired from?
You know Police Academy, right? You remember Mahoney, right?
I would have SO MUCH fun!
(And yes, I have worked customer service, but back then I needed to be polite to the ghastliest of customers)
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Dear UK TERFs, I just used a female loo in the UK, and have this to say:
Fuck sake. Some of you are fucking animals. If you piss on the fucking seat, fucking wipe it up, FFS.
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Someone just exhaled their vape in my face. My body took objection to this and immediately tried to die.
One second I was breathing. The next I was not.
Fun (am ok now. Bit of a headache)
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It's always seemed a slightly depressing riff on grey-and-vast Estate Agent Fascist.
I think about that time there was quite a lot of aesthetic fetish for spies and the security services, paramilitary police units, vigelante cops, etc (the GoldenEye and Tomorrow Never Dies era) a kind of "Dirty Harry"-seque uptick.
Especially with it being Westminster it all just seems like a tired and vaguely offensive cliche.
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@Colman Reilly Trump, the man who tried to stage a coup, is probably going to win anyway.
That he’s even in a position to be able to do that means that “the thing” doesn’t exist, and possibly never did.
Fuck the media. Do the right bloody thing.
It reminds me of Gordon Brown in 2010 when he kowtowed to the media and rowed back on the Mrs Duffy thing.
He was going to lose anyway. He bloody WANTED to lose. The absolute bare minimum he should have done given he had the platform is say, “the things she said are bigoted. People should be ashamed to say things like that. It’s not right, and I’m not sorry”.
Because someone needs to be saying that shit.
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I appreciate this is far from where we want to be in a perfect world, but the Tories are heading towards “we will put you in death camps”, and given Labour’s reluctance to challenge them on anything, this is probably better than we can hope for.
If you are in touch with Labour peeps, especially your MP, it’s worth letting them know that this stuff is appreciated. They get a LOT of shit from the other side. It’s worth us pushing back.
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Good news: it appears that repeated mRNA vaccinations promotes a broad spectrum inhibitory response to coronavirus infection.
I’ve had 5 mRNA vaccines and I know I’ve been repeatedly exposed to Covid since and just not caught it. I guess that’s why.
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Repeat COVID-19 vaccinations elicit antibodies that neutralize variants, other viruses | Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
Response to updated vaccine is shaped by earlier vaccines yet generates broadly neutralizing antibodiesTamara Schneider (Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis)
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I mean, I definitely caught the 'Rona after my first vaccination, but I've not been ill at all since (yet, I'm exhausted following my show run, so I'm just waiting to be hit...)
I feel like I have a “brand”, and that brand is “slightly psychotic middle aged tomboy trans lesbian”.
And brands must be maintained.
So when it’s time to descale the kettle, and other people use vinegar …
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Me, with a time machine: Good news Pyotr Ilyich! You will be remembered as one of the best composers of all time!
Tchaikovsky: That IS good news! Thank you, time travelling stranger!
Me: … largely for the 1812 overture.
Tchaikovsky: <endless screaming>
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Five years ago, the East Of England Liberal Democrats posted a photo of two transgender women, me and @Zoë O'Connell, wearing “Bollocks to Brexit” T-Shirts.
It is a sign of how far UK politics has fallen that that is utterly unthinkable now. Both the total erasure of transgender people’s existence and acceptance of Brexit are utter orthodoxy across the political spectrum there now.
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People always point to ghouls like Musk when they say that money can’t buy happiness.
Counterpoint: Enya. She made a load of money. She bought an actual castle. She retired to said castle to become a reclusive cat lady.
Inspirational!
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The people that say "money can't buy happiness" always have some stupid hobby that makes them sad instead of happy.
People with creative hobbies get happier with more money they have.
I have a dozens of things i want to do that i can't because i don't have money.
Elon bought a social media because people made fun of him there.
Mark spends his time stalking millions of people and running psyops with CIA.
Bill Gates is testing how awful a OS can be before people stop using it.
Apparently this beach is accessed only by sea.
WRONG
Free soloed the bigger, down and up.
Because I can.
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Just stopped at a motorway services for a coffee. You know the place; sells petrol.
The bin was on fire.
At the place that sells petrol.
A couple of women just sitting next to it, watching the bin be on fire.
I went and told someone. The bin is no longer on fire.
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Money talks
But it can’t sing and dance
And it can’t walk
As long as I can have you here with me
I’d much rather be
REVEREND BLUEJEANS!
Fellow ADHD types: I have found vegetable cheat mode. Before you boil them, chuck a shitload of MSG in the water.
Downside: I have now run out of vegetables and need to eat my own lips.
Eurovision loses almost a quarter of UK viewers compared with 2023
Saturday night’s final watched by average of 7.64m as Britain’s entry Olly Alexander finished in 18th placeEmine Sinmaz (The Guardian)
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Me, in southern Portugal: you seen that Spain and Morocco are contemplating a rail tunnel?
@Zoë O'Connell, also in southern Portugal: But they won’t build a rail line to here? WHY EVEN IS SPAIN?
Me: That would be HARD, Zoe. They’d have to build a rail line over at least THREE KILOMETRES of line across land nobody lives on and construct a bridge of about TWO HUNDRED METRES.
So difficult.
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There could be an underwater tunnel linking Europe and Africa by 2030
Eurostar, you have competitionLiv Kelly (Time Out)
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Spanish railways were originally built to six (Castilian) feet. Portuguese ones to five (Portuguese) feet. These are, however, only 8mm different - Portugal being 1664mm, Spain 1672mm.
When the two networks joined up (1880s), they agreed a compromise "Iberian" gauge of 1668mm, and gradually all track was switch to that, which was officially completed in 1955.
So yeah, they already fixed *that* problem 70 years go.
900 metres up the Algarve's tallest mountain in the middle of the night. Shockingly dark!
Worth it, though.
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lenses need that extra, post infinity 'reach' to do the autofocusing. Not sure if any of them actually have the infinity properly marked; none of the few ones I have/had had it. My current one has something that doesn't feel very accurate. Looking at manual focus lenses, they implement a similar cursor, but most seem to have the extra info of FoD, which make hyper focusing easier.
I use a similar technique to what @goatsarah explained. I mostly use Jupiter.
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I offer this: inhousepharmacy.vu/p-1120-prog…
Google Delists Sites Providing DIY Hormone Therapy at Behest of UK Government
“In the short term, they will be left with no healthcare at all. However, they will find alternatives, as they always have.”Emanuel Maiberg (404 Media)
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Prone to doomscrolling the hours of insomnia away on Reddit because whatever.
Anyway, it seems heterosexual women getting all divorcy because their partners still wank is a thing.
And I’m like, “wow, your relationships are so very not like ours”.
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I remember this topic coming up at my university (mixed) halls of residence, and one of the guys turning to one of the girls and saying “Emma, guys wank.”
One of the most concisely truthful bits of education I’ve ever seen. 😂
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As someone with some unwanted experience in this, the answer is “no”.
Just trust me here.
Would you want to spend a week as someone of the opposite sex? Why/Why not?#CriticalQuestions #Quiz #PubQuiz #StayHome #StaySafe #StayHomeStaySafe
Would you want to spend a week as someone of the opposite sex? Why/Why not?
Critical Question #44 - Would you want to spend a week as someone of the opposite sex? Why/Why not?From:Critical Questions - Interval 4 of 9001 - The Quiz A...YouTube
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The results are in for the English and Welsh council elections, and the shitbag Tories have come third.
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!
Maybe spend less time obsessing about where we pee, eh guys?
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I am delighted and relieved but I daren't hope it'll improve nationally cos Labour is only "less bad" not necessarily any good.
My area did ditch our Tory mayor tho, the one who has been distancing himself from the parliamentary party while also being the life partner of Michael Fabricant which Makes No Sense At All Cos He's A Scary Loon.
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So that Jurassic Park, a creature-feature starring Tyrannosaurus Rex and Velociraptor, is named after a period that occurred over seventy million years before those animals evolved.
I am unreasonably annoyed by this.
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So there’s a thing about these right wing Americanists who want to force women back into “traditional gender roles” that I don’t get: they come from the bit of America where the music is all about women in traditional gender roles, trapped in an abusive marriage, murdering their husbands.
READ THE ROOM, GUYS.
Or drink coffee with arsenic in it. Your choice.
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(Srsly though here in the US this would more typically end with Earl murdering Wanda & probably Maryanne, too, if she lived in easy driving distance.)
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Dear god. I thought we left bullshit like “debate me bro!” in response to safety warnings to marginalised communities behind on fucking Twitter.
Apparently not. No, you do not get debated. You get blocked and fucking purged from the server.
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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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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.
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If there's a UK trans person in your life, check on them.
They probably aren't OK right now.
Seriously
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Things seem very uncertain is probably the nicest way to say "it's probably going to be more of the same after the election"
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in reply to Sarah Brown • •“You, there woman! Where are my chips?”
“Do I look like the fucking chip whisperer?”
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in reply to Sarah Brown • • •Y'know, I'm struggling to find work and it's bloody depressing just being no earthly use to the world.
I volunteer as much as I can, but I'm not really the type (doing charity work takes a certain kind of *good* person who has a *vision* for the Universe).
So if someone told me that I had to report here or there to serve coffee, or whatever, I'd happily do it. Having some kind of purpose would be wonderful.
I get on quite well in customer service jobs (being top 50% doormat, bottom 50% whetstone), but there are so few that hire at the 21-and-over minimum wage rate..
(Gen X)
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Unknown parent • •@Ghost of Hope William Hill and Ladbroke in my case. People who thought that being able to throw a hundred quid at a dog race made them better than you.
And I smiled, and was all, “here you go, sir”
Wouldn’t smile this time.
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Unknown parent • •@Ghost of Hope I remember in the first year of cadets, the senior NCOs had been to Germany camp and it was raining so they were made to give us a presentation about it.
And they reeled off the list of aircraft they saw, and then said, “what else do you find in Germany?”
I put my hand up.
“Cadet Brown?”
“Germans”
I got this.
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Unknown parent • •@Ghost of Hope See? IT’S TAKEN 34 YEARS TO APPRECIATE MY COMIC GENIUS!
They just made me write an essay on “why it’s important not to disrupt class”.
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