Cis people: Here’s a fun thought experiment! What would it be like to live as the other sex?

Trans people: Well, we might have …

Cis people: There’s no way we can ever know, lol!

Trans people: Er, hello?

Cis people: It will forever remain a mystery

Trans people: We’re right here

Cis people: So unknowable

TERFs be like, “biology is immutable” as they sit there converting grass seed to skeletal muscle after having replaced >90% of their body mass in the last few years, while being descended from literal fish that breathed water.

Why do the right wing nut jobs have to be so fucking WEIRD?

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hahaha I grew up Catholic in the 1980s and the satanic panic in the U.S. was very real. My mom and stepdad really believed the conspiracy theory that the company Procter & Gamble supported the Church of Satan and communicated diabolical messages with their old crescent-moon logo. Now, QAnon is basically the same thing—baby boomers giving each other the chilly willies with spooky stories.

France: Any journey shorter than 4 hours by train should not be allowed to be taken by plane.

Me, after using French railways for a couple of weeks: They’re running plane services for distances of only 100km?

I’m honestly shocked at how functionally useless French railways are. “Welcome to our interchange. Please wait 2 hours surrounded by screaming kids and chain smokers for your connection. No you can’t have a fucking coffee”

Dear the UK, you have it better than you could possibly believe.

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Reading about the book that this Vance bloke wrote, and apparently it’s all, “I was poor growing up and struggled but saw people on benefits with phones and that’s not fair”.

And his conclusion seems to be that they shouldn’t have those things if he can’t.

I had a similar childhood, but reached a very different conclusion. I don’t want anyone to struggle. If someone else has something I don’t, I don’t actually care as long as I have what I need.

He seems to feel that what he wants is not for his own needs to be met per-se, but to be ahead of others. As long as he has the biggest slice of cake, it doesn’t matter how small the cake is.

I want enough cake, and I want the rest of the cake to have enough for everyone else.

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same! I grew up in a declining industrial town, as the child of an unemployed single mother, growing our own food, couldn't afford a car, etc. I'm now a successful engineer and rich beyond my wildest childhood dreams (not a millionaire or anything, but still). And I want a UBI, and a free NHS with staff who get reasonable pay and work reasonable hours, and for kids to get free school meals, and nobody to be homeless or hungry. Can society afford that? Yes. Poverty costs us all.

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Shit!

The orcas attacked and disabled a boat really close to where we are two days ago. They were also seen in the western English Channel at a point where we sailed right by them.

We didn't know. I thought they were still near Lisbon.

They have NEVER been this far north this early before. I thought we had until September.

Planning tomorrow's passage. Going to stay in shallow waters as much as we can. Actually quite frightened.

Just seen the best bit of commentary on transmisogyny I’ve seen in ages: if you want to know how a man treats cis women in private, look at how he treats trans women in public.

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♪ Right now you are down and out
And feelin' really crappy
[…]
And when I see how sad you are
It sorta makes me happy
[…]
Human nature-
Nothing I can do
It's Schadenfreude
Making me feel glad that I'm not you♫

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Commiserations to Emily Brothers who failed to win her election as the first openly transgender woman to parliament, but also congrats on avoiding the awkward conversation with her boss about which parliamentary loo she should use.

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While I’m sure it has been misquoted to hell by now, opiate for the masses still rings true.

The line between religion, ideologies, movements, etc are so blurred it’s all one and the same. And it rots people’s empathy and they are clearly addicted.

They get high on hurting others. Fascism feeds their ego.

I don’t want to hurt them, I want them to wake up and see that they aren’t right or doing good. It’s just hate.

Just my two cents.