Christians: This Friday we celebrate!
Non Christians: Cool! What’s the occasion?
Christians: Our god died. Tortured to death quite horribly, in fact.
Non Christians: You celebrate that?
Christians: There are sound theological reasons.
Non Christians: Bit weird, but ok.
Christians: We call it “Good Friday”
Non Christians: …
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I see GamerGate is in the news because it’s coming up to the tenth anniversary. Ten years ago, I was in the middle of a nervous breakdown caused by transphobic harassment from TERfs organised on social media. They were using the same tactics that, months later, would be the hallmark of GamerGate.
And yet the surviving narrative is that this sort of organised, “culture war” harassment originated with GG.
It didn’t. They did it to trans women, and probably others, first, and we raised the alarm, and nobody thought it mattered enough to do anything.
And then they came for the rest of you.
They keep doing this. We keep raising the alarm. We keep being ignored.
Maybe one day people will learn.
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Trying to imagine the culture shock immigrants to the UK get when, for the first time, they encounter someone like an accountant asking for their electricity bill.
Because, fellow Brits, I have to inform you that that's a bit weird.
It is though.
I arrived in '96 and the first thing my bank did after opening an account was to issue me a cheque book. The last time I'd seen a cheque in Germany was at least 10 years prior...
Later that year I wanted to transfer money to someone (I can't remember the reason) so went to my bank and they told me that was only possible if they had an account with the same bank... Bank transfers had been the standard in Germany since the 60s.
@Ozzy My UK bank keeps asking me, “what’s online banking like in Portugal compared to ours?”, presumably expecting effusive praise about their app, and their face falls when I say, “it’s at least a decade ahead of anything you have”.
So many Brits think they’re living in high tech utopia, when actually it’s backwards as hell in so many ways.
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BOLA be like, “I saw geese break someone’s arm”
Did you though?
Geese cheat code: they’re bullshitting. Make it clear that you know this and they will fuck off. Run at them screaming “Dinner!” and flap your arms. They fuck off incredibly quickly.
If that doesn’t work, grab the squawky cunt by the neck and practice Olympic hammer throwing. It’s funny, and it won’t give you shit again.
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“Turbo cancer”?
The fuck is “turbo cancer”?
Dear god, yer racist uncle on Facebook says the most stupid shit.
Men declaring that “blockers” should be illegal is kinda monkey-paw-tastic.
Should we tell them that they were actually developed to treat prostate cancer?
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Ha! A bit of sciencing reveals that my new dental implant crown, while colour matched perfectly under visible light, is a completely different colour to its neighbouring teeth under UV.
No reason why it wouldn't be, I guess. It's designed to look real to human vision, which it does, apart from the little blob of epoxy filling covering the screw head.
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Enoch Burke to remain in prison for contempt of court
Secondary school teacher Enoch Burke is to remain in prison for contempt of court after refusing to engage with an offer from a High Court judge to release him for Easter.Orla O'Donnell (RTÉ)
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@Sarah Brown is this based on what they announced, or did you actually check?
I had half an idea to check, but that involved
a) interacting with a post coming from threads
b) enabling javascript from the threads server
and that's was more than I was willing to do 😁
so, to recap,
- the smartest people with accounts on threads (it's a bit of a contradiction)
- from just 3 countries
- that do opt in in their settings
can be followed by us, without reading our replies
i'm not impressed, i'll think about when some personal old uncle will succeed to find me the other way around
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Anyone know about Synologies?
I have a Drobo 5N2, which is obviously orphanware.
I want a Synology to do much the same job. What should I get?
so i have a Synology and it was a bad experience because:
1. they will happily sell small ones where the hardware just isn't up to running the current bloated version of the OS
(specifically I got a DS216 then discovered this new device was below the *stated* reqs)
2. the BIOS is DRMed so you can't just put Debian on it or something sensible.
i have cut down enough of the software, including forcibly deleting bloated shit and making it impossible to auto-reinstall it, that it can serve SMB without running out of CPU
if this thing blows up or catches fire I'll probably get an old HP Microserver (near-silent, reputedly) and run a proper OS on it
I got a DS1019+ (in 2019) to replace my Drobo 5N. It's Just Worked since, but I'm not doing anything very complicated with it.
Looks like the closest current model is the DS1522+ (although that's 2022 hardware).
I like that the storage is just a pile of Linux and can be recovered on any PC.
I tried using it as a general Linux server, it's doable but the OS is a bit too opinionated to make that pleasant. Now it's just NFS mounted to a separate Debian box, as well as CIFS shares.
Things I learned on the internet: apparently the country where a deranged tantrum-prone egomaniac fascist with dementia is leading the polls has a problem with its public education system.
How surprising!
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This analogue landline turnoff at the end of this year is going to be a disaster for older folk. Less than nine months to go and the only official advice is "you may need to buy extra new equipment" *mic drop*.
No advice as to the equipment, nor where they've planted the magic money tree.
Yes *I* know what to do, and yes, *I* can afford it.
@chiffchaff It's been so completely unadvertised. Although to be fair I don't really consume any advertisement channels these days. But no household leafleting, letters from provider ... I might have had an email, but I think I found out about it by accident (and I'm not even sure how).
I'm still wondering how many rural exchanges still don't have fibre connection. Our old place up the valley certainly didn't last time I checked. How are they expected to cope?
Cis people on Reddit be like, "a trans woman would never need a gynaecologist, and they'd never ask if you might be pregnant because they could tell, and anyway, it will be in your notes, which they will have read".
And I'm like, "literally everything you just said is wrong"
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@NatalyaD
I'm super super lucky with my GP. She seems to have an eidetic memory or something; she will say things like "I wouldn't normally recommend X but given your history of Y and that you're taking Z, I think it's appropriate".
(this is not calling you a liar; I've had waaaay too much healthcare in my life, and the majority are definitely the sort you describe. And I guess GPs are a different kind of thing in terms of having a long-term relationship with their patients.)
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I, for one, welcome the support of our catsnake friends and allies.
Former UK prime minister Liz Truss’s recent attempt to ban transgender women from female spaces ran out of time and will now not be debated after MPs joined forces to “talk it out” for five hours, including discussing ferret name choices.#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
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Liz Truss’s bid to ban trans women from sports runs out of time after MPs discuss ferrets instead
Former UK prime minister Liz Truss's attempt to ban trans women from female spaces ran out of time after MPs joined forces to "talk it out"Hilary Mitchell (PinkNews | Latest lesbian, gay, bi and trans news | LGBTQ+ news)
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Caffeine reduces anxiety in me. An espresso is more effective than diazepam. The web is full of results that say this is impossible
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Caffeine reduces anxiety in me. An espresso is more effective than diazepam. The web is full of results that say this is impossible
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Cycle reset. Doctors hate this one simple trick.
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Dear United States; behold your future.
Here's what we're reading today:Presidential elections have begun in #Russia. #Putin will be re-elected for a 5th term.
According to Ukr intelligence, the Russian DefMin has allowed military personnel fighting in #Ukraine to vote for Putin without even showing up at a polling station. This includes those who have already been killed or gone missing.
This makes it easier to falsify the results.
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Russian Defence Ministry allowing soldiers to cast posthumous votes for Putin, says Ukrainian intelligence
Defence Intelligence of Ukraine reported that the Russian Defence Ministry leadership has allowed servicemen participating in the war against Ukraine to vote for Vladimir Putin without even appearing at the “polling stations.”Ukrainska Pravda
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See news headline including words, “Trump is currently leading the polls”.
What the fuck is wrong with you people?
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Putin: I will destroy the alliance you built and remake the world in my image.
US politicians: Sure. Cool. No worries.
China: Here is an annoying robot lady narrating cat videos.
US politicians: 💣🔫⚔️🤬🤬🤬
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Cis people have decided that trans people do not merit healthcare.
Cis people have decided that trans people do not merit equality.
Cis people have decided that trans people do not merit justice.
Why should trans people recognise any kind of legitimacy cis opinions about us when they won’t even recognise our humanity?
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Recent cis pronouncements:
- Trans people beaten to death is suicide.
- Trans people are too stupid to deserve healthcare
- Trans people had it coming when the OG Nazis tried to exterminate us.
Fuck your cis-supremacy.
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Do cis people in the UK actually think there has ever been a point at which transgender medicine was widely and routinely available on the NHS?
Guys, it never has. When they exist at all, the services are chronically underfunded with waiting lists that literally stretch for decades.
To a first approximation, if you want to medically transition in the UK, you are on your own, unless you want to fight a war of attrition for years.
TERFs like to pretend that you can easily access NHS gender identity services as if it were just a thing people do.
It appears some people have believed their fairy tales. However badly you think trans people are treated by the medical establishment in the UK, I promise you that the reality is worse, and always has been.
“Children on puberty blockers”. Fucking state of it. There are no children on puberty blockers. Not because they’re trans, anyway.
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@Isabel Ruffell I transitioned with a lot of people who tried and were unable to access it.
Even at the peak of trans acceptance in the UK, being able to access ANYTHING depended on your postcode at least, and probably a few other things. Some PCTs as we’re basically refused to refer anyone for anything at all.
At which point, you either had the money to go round them, or you found ways to get it 😞
“NHS to end practice of back rubs for Godzilla”
If you think the NHS was ever actually giving trans children puberty blockers, then I’m afraid you have fallen for a TERF fairy tale. The NHS has never actually done decent treatment for trans children. news.sky.com/story/children-to…
Children to no longer be prescribed puberty blockers, NHS England confirms
The decision follows a review after a sharp rise in referrals were recorded at the Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) run by the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, which is closing at the end of March.Sky News
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@David Matthewman Ok. Credit to her parents for fighting that battle, and maybe the Tavistock might have considered possibly doing it on a trial basis at some point (“maybe” is doing a lot of work there), but they basically don’t do that, and never have. Their standard mode of operation is to just keep talking until people age out of their service and can join an adult GIC waiting list.
The headline is literally just a reaffirmation of the way the NHS has always behaved. It’s giving the impression that it’s ending a practice of medical intervention for trans kids.
But to end something, it has to have started in the first place.
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World press: Far right surges on Portugal elections!
I mean, yes, as someone who lives in Portugal, it's scary as hell, but in the ongoing love affair that the western press has with fascists, let's not lose sight of the fact that this "surge" is actually them coming third, and not a particularly close third either.
What's worrying is that there's no stable coalition without either them, or the centre right and centre left joining forces.
Hopefully this will be their high water mark.
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@Chris Packham watching the TV news last night, they’re still doing the latter.
Chega, by the way, is probably to the left of the Tories.
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Seeing people asking which fediverse servers block Bluesky.
And like, if you’re gonna be performative about this, maybe try getting the first clue what you’re actually talking about first?
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It’s been a week since my MMR and my immune system is noticing. Feel yuck. Joints hurt. Throat a bit swollen.
Although apparently live vaccines are really good for you, so there’s that.
Might be paracetamol time.
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Foreign Object Debris (FOD) and tool control is an absolutely critical, standard safety practice in aerospace and plant maintenance environments.Bluesky Social
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I keep a glass breaker in my car for emergencies. It has a seatbelt cutter and it also doubles as a wicked self-defense tool.Bluesky Social
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Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Sarah Brown • • •@Sarah Brown as somebody who grew up christian in a non-English speaking country, the name “Good Friday” also perplexes me.
We call it (a literal translation of) Holy Friday, and it's definitely set aside with specific rites and observances, but not celebrated as a joyous occasion, it's the exact opposite.
And I can get that the sound theological reasons may also apply to the name, but really, the good bit of the whole cleansing humanity from the original sin and stuff is the result, not the process, isn't it?
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It’s the bizarre obsession with the suffering that puzzles me, as if this suffering was uniquely awful and therefore redemptive *because* it went beyond what anyone else has experienced… but it didn’t. Crucifixions were common - they had two other guys to hang beside him. Rome once lined a road with people on crosses. This kind of horror plays out every day, now too, an example of what people do to other people at their worst.
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David Mitchell
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I take the day to remind myself what the alternative to a kind and compassionate society is; that once we accept violence and fear and dehumanization as tools the end result is crucifixions, and immolations, and hangings, and beheadings, and gas chambers, and machetes, and bombs, and disemboweling, and
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Sarah Brown
in reply to David Mitchell • •@David Mitchell :CApride: @Elena ``of Valhalla'' There are worse ways to die, it’s true. There aren’t many worse ways to die though.
And he wasn’t up there long enough.
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Unknown parent • •@A.L. Blacklyn I mean, crucifixion is literal nightmare fuel. A truly unspeakably horrible way to die.
And Christian churches just strew its imagery around like so much torture porn.
Diego Roversi
in reply to Sarah Brown • • •In fact the word good stood for "holy", not the modern meaning:
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And of course christians don't celebrate good friday, but commemorate it. It's like say that jews people celebrate Holocaust_memorial_days.
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