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Good morning from a pre-dawn Gosport Marina where we are about to commence “Operation Oui Oui Baguette”: taking our boat, Scarlet, across the English Channel as the first part of our trip to Portugal. This is the second longest leg of the entire journey, and the first time I will have ever personally sailed out of the sight of land.

If you want to follow our progress, you can see us on Marine Traffic: marinetraffic.com/en/ais/detai…

Note, that relies on AIS signals being relayed to the internet. Commercial AIS is powerful enough to be picked up by satellite, but ours isn’t, so there will likely be a dead-zone in the middle where we don’t seem to update.

It’s going to take about 14 hours to make the crossing. There is no wind, so we will be using our engine.

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Some points, and a question for uk politicians;

  1. There are around half a million trans people in the uk, including eggs.
  2. There are a few thousand TERFs.
  3. Trans people will vote for you if you treat us like human beings.
  4. Nothing you do will ever satisfy TERFs.

And so to the question: why are you so bad at basic arithmetic?

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UK Pol, Transphobia

I see that the press is once again trying to present terfism as nuanced: “we don’t want to stop trans women wearing skirts, we just don’t want them in our (SIC) spaces”.

Stop press, Joanne. They’re our fucking spaces too, because as we’ve been explaining for fucking years: trans women are women.

  • Trans women get breast cancer, therefore we need breast cancer screening.
  • Trans women get gynaecological problems, therefore we need gynaecologists.
  • Trans women get raped, therefore we need rape crisis counselling.
  • Trans women suffer disproportionate levels of domestic violence, therefore we need DV shelters.

And so on, and so on.

Do you fucking get it yet?

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Since getting a prescription in Portugal, I had become complacent about my HRT stock. Previously, I maintained a stockpile of between 6 and 12 months' worth.
I figured this was no longer necessary, as Portugal isn't being so comprehensively weird about trans people as the UK, and also they don't officially know I'm trans.

I was shocked out of complacency last month due to a supplier shortage. The pharmacies ran out.

@Zoë O'Connell and I got within 10 days of going cold turkey.

Lesson learned. As of today, and thanks to the grey market, I have 5 months' worth, and that will soon be getting upped to 7.

@Zoë O'Connell
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Llwynog

In case anyone asks, there is a way trans men can stockpile too - but only if they self-inject. All they need to do is put an extra week between each injection (for example, instead of taking a Sustanon injection every 3 weeks, as prescribed, it's every 4 weeks). In terms of effect on mental health, this will barely be noticeable. Obviously, the prescriber must not be told. Over time, that extra week will translate into spare ampoules of T.

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Trans actual challenge GnRH analogue (so-called puberty blockers) ban in court.

transactual.org.uk/blog/2024/0…

Press release: TransActual issue urgent court proceedings – TransActual

In partnership with the Good Law Project, today (18th June 2024), TransActual alongside an anonymous trans young person acting as Second Claimant have issued court proceedings against the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care.
transactual.org.uk

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!Friendica Support Hey lovely people.

So I have a contact that my server can’t update. The Update Contact gets added to the queue and just sits there forever, consuming CPU.

If I go into the MariaDB and delete the worker queue entry, it will be back in a few hours.

If I server block the remote contact, the problem goes away. If I remove the block it comes back.

Is this symptomatic of my database being somehow corrupt, or maybe there’s a problem with that particular remote profile that causes Friendica to fail in a way that never times out (and I’ve left it there for days. It just doesn’t go).

I have no idea how to get diagnostic output from the worker to find out what’s going on. Anyone interested in looking more at this, or should I just block the contact and move on?

!Friendica Support

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UK Pol

Reform is about to overtake the tories in the polls. This just removes the last obstacle to the media making their love affair with Farage a 24/7 on-screen thing.

The drift to the far right and subsequent implosion of the Conservative Party is going to leave a void in UK politics that seriously risks being filled by actual nazis, and competent ones at that. I fear for the future.

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kæt

@mobbsy @sparrowsion @lnr Quite. "People of Colour" doesn't seem to have caught on over here, either. Maybe it's because it's got the kind of contorted grammar that comes with HR and train announcements. I'm happy to take direction on this, of course.

I'm mainly impressed by America's ability to turn everything into a noun with a badge and a day and a song and a flag and a page in a book of etiquette.

Okay, they then seem to mainly throw their creation into the basement and forget about it, but that *machine* which turns problems into product is quite awe-inspiring.

@Eleanor LNR Blair @mobbsy

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Bastards stole my vote in these elections and I am desperate to get it back.

If you have one, please don't waste it!

European Commission

2024-06-07 14:25:17

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EU, it is time to #UseYourVote!

Across the European Union, voting booths are ready to welcome you!

The Netherlands 🇳🇱 voted yesterday, and today is Czechia 🇨🇿, Estonia 🇪🇪 and Ireland 🇮🇪’s turn.

Our Union should never be taken for granted.
Defend it, shape it.

#EUelections2024


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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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Outrage as cis woman treated like trans woman. independent.co.uk/news/uk/home…

Mother-of-four who won The Great West Run suffers transphobic abuse

Anna Harrold has hit back at online trolls who called her ‘disgusting’ and a ‘disgrace’ after she won the women’s half marathon at the Great West Run in Exeter
Alex Ross (The Independent)
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Alexandra Lanes

@Catherine is Tired @Sarah Brown Notionally because she would have had the advantage (citation needed) of a "male puberty" (citation needed) and stronger bones (citation needed) and deprived a "real" woman (citation needed) of a win.

Cetacean needed - maybe we can persuade the orcas that terfs are more fun than rudders.

@Sarah Brown @Catherine is not complacent
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NatalyaD

Not sure I'd want to be in those woods in the first place.

Trans women over TERFs every time. My earliest experience of single-sex spaces online as a baby cis bi woman was TERFs gender policing other women and they were unsurprisingly biphobic and like 14yr old mean girls. I didn't like it age 17 before I knew many trans folks, I'm certainly not liking it now I'm 40+, know hundreds of trans folks and have zero fucks left to give for bullshit and hate.

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The irony of the TERF brain worm trust going on about “female homosexuals” (god help us all if TERFs ever master the ability to sound like a normal human being) is that cis lesbians are pretty much the least transphobic demographic and entirely sick of TERFs’ bullshit.

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People often ask what it's like to be trans, because it seems to be a very hard thing to imagine.

A friend, sadly no longer with us, once put it absolutely perfectly to me, when she said, "It shouldn't matter what sex you are while you're cleaning the oven, but it does."

It's that simple.

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UK Pol, state sponsored transphobia

Apparently the Tory press is going to lead with their desire to remove all equality protection in law for trans people.

Ineptly because, it turns out, they don’t understand equalities legislation.

And also they’re going to get annihilated so they can’t do it anyway.

But it seems this is now accepted political discourse in the UK, and I would like one, just one opposition party to have the balls to say in response, “you are terrorising trans people and you need to stop”.

But they won’t, because all parties in the UK (yes, all of them) have quite a few people who actually agree with the Tories on this, and it’s more important to avoid upsetting these people than it is to take a stand and say that what amounts to state sponsored terrorism against a minority of your population who just want to live in peace is wrong.

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I remember canvassing my council ward in 2012 as a well regarded Liberal Democrat councillor. They phoned their neighbours so they could get their abuse ready.

And after I lost my seat 2 years later, they all told me how much they liked me.

I can’t imagine how much worse it must be for this guy.

Still, I find it difficult to have sympathies for the people who stole our EU citizenship and declared war on trans people.

independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli…

Mystery as Tory MP becomes 79th to quit even after campaigning for six days

Aaron Bell said it was ‘with a heavy heart’ that he was stepping down, raising questions about why he had been on the campaign trail since Rishi Sunak called the snap summer poll
Archie Mitchell (The Independent)
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Shinydan

@kincaid

I've thought about this one.

A lot of people play the Game of Life(1) because they think that's what they're meant to do. Then, halfway around the metaphorical board, something makes them self-examine for the first time, and they realise they don't have to play. But because of the sunk cost fallacy, they can't quit. But if they can make their partner give up instead, then they "win".

1) As in Hasbro, not Conway.

@Kincaid
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Shinydan

And it happens less among people whose sexuality, gender, neurotype, or thing I don't know enough about to name, differ from standard issue.

Because, I think, realising that we are one or more of those things, early in our lives, mean that we learn to self-examine sooner. It does still happen, of course, and heaven knows there are plenty of arseholes in those categories. But it means we can see the issue, more of the time.

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