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!Friendica Support Hi all.

Running via Docker behind nginx proxy manager. Got the three containers shown.

The UI is a bit sluggish. In particular, it takes forever for the notifications to show up after doing pretty much anything.

So my question is, is there anything stopping me spinning up another UI or cron container on another machine and trying to parallelise things a bit? Is there anything special I have to do to enable that?

TIA

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Michael 🇺🇦
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I guess that the best would be to use the daemon instead of cron. How do you store the contact avatars? And how do you store photos? Depending on this,you would need to synchronize some folders as well.
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@Michael Vogel Storage config is just set to "Database", so I assume everything is in there?
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Michael 🇺🇦
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Yeah, sounds fine for this purpose. I guess that with the daemon it should be possible to have one docker for the db,one docker for the daemon and multiple ones for the frontend. But this is never tested.
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Sarah Brown
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@Michael Vogel But if I span up another frontend on another machine, coping the friendica data volume in the process, and pointed it at the database, it should just work?
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Michael 🇺🇦
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I guess so. But of course updates are more demanding, since you had to keep all machines totally in sync. Possibly it would be the best, if daemon and the front end systems would share a single data drive.
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Sarah Brown
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@Michael Vogel Should note in case it's not clear, the container called "friendica-cron" is actually running the daemon, starting with this script:

#!/bin/sh
trap "break;exit" HUP INT TERM

while [ ! -f /var/www/html/bin/daemon.php ]; do
  sleep 1
done

echo "Waiting for MySQL $MYSQL_HOST initialization..."
if php /var/www/html/bin/wait-for-connection "$MYSQL_HOST" "${MYSQL_PORT:-3306}" 300; then
  sh /setup_msmtp.sh
  exec gosu www-data:www-data tini -- php /var/www/html/bin/daemon.php -f start
else
  echo "[ERROR] Waited 300 seconds, no response" >&2
fi
@Michael 🇺🇦

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Happy clock bullshit day to all those who celebrate. May you quickly remember how the fuck to do the oven.
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Jonathan👣🚲
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I did three devices in 30 seconds or so. That isn’t the worst part of clock bullshit.
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@Jonathan👣🚲 I feel like the designers aren't trying hard enough to get into the spirit of capitalist enshittification if it was that quick and easy.
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Jonathan👣🚲
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One of these devices is 24 years old and still mostly operational, so I guess not. It helps that two of them have a rotary dial used to set the clock. The third (which happens to be the oven) has that stupid short capacitive tap to adjust by a minute, medium hold to start racing through many 10-minute increments per second kind of scheme. On the other hand, the cooktop that’s part of the same physical device goes through its 17 regular power levels at only 2 per second.
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Jonathan👣🚲
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How are these interfaces rarely any good? Extreme nonlinearity. Extreme debouncing so you can’t just tap through, and a solid tap is coming up on the acceleration threshold. I feel like strangling the people making these, or making them use their own creations if that isn’t too cruel.
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@Jonathan👣🚲 Actually the worst for me is my induction hob. It uses capacitative touch, which doesn't work if it gets wet, which it frequently does.
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Jonathan👣🚲
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Same here. It doesn’t take much moisture to make it unresponsive. At least a quick wipe tends to suffice. Why is everything dying to be a smartphone in the rain?
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Sjaak K. 🇳🇱🇪🇺🍋
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Our seven year old technician fixed the oven challenge within seconds. Not a clue how.

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The problem with owning this is that @Zoë O'Connell and I are now perpetually earwormed by the Bubble Bobble music.
An 80s arcade machine against a breeze block wall. Zoe is playing it.
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@Gen X-Wing @Zoë O'Connell It’s the same tune. The SID version is slightly richer IMO (C64 is my canonical version too. Spent so long playing 2 player with my friend from school).
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Had to look it up to be sure (I mean I have C64s and I have a MiSTer, but YouTube had to suffice for now:)). That title music on the C64 is fantastic, and the main theme is so much better to me.

I often wonder what would have happened if the SID hadn’t been crippled and would have been the 16 voices that was intended. Would have been bonkers 😀

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When UR reading Sci Fi written by a yank and they’re like, “I need to remind people this is in the future” so they’re all “meters” and “centigrade” and then they suddenly forget and go to “he was about 5 feet and likes his room at 99 degrees”.
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The other thing that really marks this out as coming from a US perspective is the nature of the class system on display in this dystopia. There are basically 3 classes: CEO oligarch gods, middle management corporate drones in indentured servitude desperately trying to afford medical care from the company store, and the proles, who basically sell their bodies for medical research.

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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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In fact the word good stood for "holy", not the modern meaning:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Fri…

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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Sarah Brown
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@Diego Roversi Yeah yeah, we get that there are sound reasons behind the Lovecraftian weirdness.
@Diego Roversi

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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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Thanks -- I'll have to look further into them (a cursory googling isn't very helpful). I seem to have missed a really important chapter in the cultural-political history of our times.

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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.

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So many culture shocks, especially with financial stuff.
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.
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@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.

@Ozzy

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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.

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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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Very cool. You’re making me want to get some UV light on my ordinary crown I had fitted yesterday.

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I am here for transphobes voluntarily sending themselves to prison. rte.ie/news/courts/2024/0322/1…

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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I hate how the judiciary are falling over themselves to believe this cis white man can 'behave'. Would they be offering the same kind of anything to a more marginalised person?

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Turns out that Threads posts, while we can see them here in the fediverse, can’t see any of our replies to them.

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sell threads to us without the risk that they'll decide to move to the fedi
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Elena ``of Valhalla''
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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 😁

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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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Sarah Brown
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@Elena ``of Valhalla'' based on what they announced. However, if you go and look on the source website (you don’t need a threads account to do so), there are no replies showing from outside Threads.
@Elena ``of Valhalla''

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Just saying you guys, hat as long as we keep leaping to "let's make murderbots with the thinking sand!", maybe we should hold off on the whole "teaching sand to think" thing?

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Having a dental implant crown finally fitted to replace a tooth that’s been missing for 4 years, especially when it was your biggest molar, is a profoundly weird feeling.

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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?

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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

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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.

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@mobbsy yeah - the software looks very cool until you try to use it like it's a linux box and not a very cut-down appliance
@mobbsy
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@mobbsy I just want it to serve files on a RAID. Got other stuff for generic server things.
@mobbsy

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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.

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Sorry for making this a reply to your unrelated toot. It was supposed to be top-level. Not saure what happened: I guess I just forgot what I was doing!

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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.)

@NatalyaD

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There doesn’t appear to be a ferret emoji. This is blatant transphobia!

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Move over Blåhaj, there’s a new ferret in town!
bsky.app/profile/ciara2001.bsk…

Bluesky

Link to Bluesky post about ferrets and filibusters
Bluesky Social

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I, for one, welcome the support of our catsnake friends and allies.

Transgender World

2024-03-17 06:08:14

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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

thepinknews.com/2024/03/16/liz…



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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@transworld disappointed no MP managed to get in what to feed to ferrets - lettuce?
@Transgender World

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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

And yet …

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covered this in passing in psych 111 circa 1981. Dunning-Kruger may not hold up mathematically, but this is a great example of a case where it's an empirical reality.

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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

And yet …

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@rob Espresso about 15 minutes ago. I am actually struggling to stay awake.
@rob
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well, here's hoping you have a really good night. I'm hoping for the same after a bottle of retsina (which is about half a bottle more than I meant to drink when I started).
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@rob Ooh I’ve not had retsina for ages, probably since before the Eraina closed
@rob
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@ajlanes I stockpiled quite a few before brexit could make inroads into the supply to the UK.....
@Alexandra Lanes
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Bang! 8 hours. Awake now. Sleep
Cycle reset. Doctors hate this one simple trick.

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Anyone else feel like we need a name for the USA, Russia and China like, “The Axis of Can U Not?”

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Reminds me of somebody I knew in the 1980s with a 2CV being tailgated by a BMW. He went over a speed bump at the full speed limit which the 2CV didn't notice, of course, but the BMW did. No actual damage as far we know (unfortunately) but he did see the BMW driver holding his head.
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@Ed Davies A lot of speed bumps here are the type where you can take them at speed if you hit them dead centre. They're fun with tailgaters too!
@Ed Davies

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Dear United States; behold your future.

Tim Mak

2024-03-15 13:04:04

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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.

pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/03…



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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Tim Mak was invited as guest in the latest Q&A session of the Kyiv Independent, was worth listening to.

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US Pol, fucking idiots

See news headline including words, “Trump is currently leading the polls”.

What the fuck is wrong with you people?

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Watching discussions of cross border rail ticketing in Europe on my TL while living in Portugal and being like, “you guys have trains that go to other places?”

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@TimWardCam Likely bollocks. Although I haven’t read it fully, the determination of the gauge was made in this 1844 doc, based on technical criteria (allows narrower curves which was handy given the local orography, faster trains and less wearing out). They recommend 6ft, which seems higher than the current Iberian gauge, but that can probably be explained by the feet as unit of measurement being shorter in Spain in 1844 than it is today in the imperial system. agrupament.cat/documents/Infor…
@Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE
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@TimWardCam According to what I’m seeing, a feet at that time in Spain would be approx 278.6mm, which results in 1671.6mm, very close to the original Spanish gauge (which was then slightly reduced to be compatible with the Portuguese one).
@Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE

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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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Sarah Brown
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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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transphobia
I see another cis investigator has decided that there should be no consequences of any kind for any kind of transphobia, even if the trans person dies, again.

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A dialogue box from Royal Match with a big greed button in the “make this go away” position with “play on - 900 coins” written on it, and a small red close icon at the top right.

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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
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Totally endorse your summary of the lies, but there is a difference between underfunded and an exercise in bloody-mindedness on the one hand and wholly unavailable on the other. Many of us have no choice but to grit our teeth and grind through the system. Which is as bad as you say.
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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 😞

@Isabel Ruffell
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Isabel Ruffell
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yes, my first attempt at transitioning was without any guarantee that the local health authority would pay for anything but hormones (and having to persuade the local shrinks to refer me to a GIC at all). I am now in my ninth year of a second attempt. Now that I am relatively close to finishing, I am in a position to make other arrangements, but that wasn't the case earlier. And it is awful that I feel fortunate to have made it so far, but then I conside whatr other folk face.
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Cyberspice
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I basically had to self fund treatment to a certain extent but was incredibly lucky, combined with have a great GP, and being in Wales where they didn’t have a GIC at the time, that surgery was referred directly so I was one of those rare people who went to Heywards Heath. My partner did not so I used what I had saved, expecting I would have to pay, to pay for her. I know plenty who did the exceptionally slow NHS grind. I was just lucky with my circumstances.
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PointlessSpike
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I would love to ask a TERF to summarise their achievements in removing healthcare from trans people, and then summarise how easy it is for trans people to get it now. They know, of course they do. It's all doublethink.

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“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.
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For reference, the daughter in question turns 13 soon. And it's not that anyone was trying to give puberty blockers to an eight-year-old, but the battle was to get her the possibility of having them when they would help.
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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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Long form - thoughts on Portuguese elections

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Treated myself to a fancy-pants cast iron teapot, lads! It's a bit sexy.
A lime green cast iron Japanese-style teapot on a black background

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@zip (easter themed) it’s emitting a field of an unknown type that our sensors can’t detect.
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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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honestly, I’d rather have news media freaking out and overreacting about fascists than their usual normalization and hagiography of extreme right politicians
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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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