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.
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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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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“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.
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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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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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Hearing some news on the grapevine that pubic lice would stop sucking blood if only their victims weren’t so mean to them.
Also, coincidentally, transphobes are very new to the whole, “taking responsibility for your own actions” thing.
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Trans people in the UK ten years ago: “We want equality and timely medical care.”
Trans people in the UK now: “Please, just stop hitting us with that baseball bat.”
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@Llwynog I don’t think they’re going to try so hard to be evil, but I don’t think they’re going to undo any of what’s happened either.
I wish I’d been wrong a decade ago.
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Michael O’Leary is a real life shitposter who plays the press like a fiddle, and here he is doing it again.
We live in a time where anyone could do a quick check to see if a 737-8200 could reach Rwanda from the UK (ok, fuelling stops are possible but it seems unlikely that would be favoured), and confirm that, no, it cannot.
But “journalists” don’t apparently bother to actually investigate … anything.
So O’Leary gets his name in the media again for free. bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…
Ryanair Holdings Plc Chief Executive Officer Michael O’Leary weighed into the UK’s controversial plan to deport refugees to Rwanda, saying he would “happily” do the flights if he had the available aircraft.Kate Duffy (Bloomberg)
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Ok. Binged Fallout. Never played the game.
But it’s basically Silo, if Silo didn’t take itself seriously, and also there’s no nuclear war in Silo, and everybody outside is dead in Silo (humans anyway, the rest of the ecosystem is fine as long as it stays away from Fulton County, Georgia).
And Silo is set in our future, not some 1950s retro future.
But other than that, same idea. I guess Silo was influenced by the game. It’s very much “what if Fallout, but hard sci-fi?”
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@rachel and scones
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Charity says plain and fruit scones have been dairy-free for years, but can be ‘enjoyed with butter or cream’Caroline Davies (The Guardian)
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Algarve air is just indescribably wonderful after spending 2 weeks in the uk cultivating asthma attacks.
Deep breaths, because I CAN.
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Whoa.
"The word ‘transition’ was used in the report to mean a transition between NHS services and not in reference to gender transition"
THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN IMPORTANT TO CLARIFY. Who proofread the thing??
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UK new builds: the builders will tell you that the toilet flushes are “European style” to save water.
This is a lie. I live in two new build flats. One in Portugal and one in England. The toilets they put in in UK new builds are just shit at flushing. The ones in Portugal flush properly.
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I think I’ve put my finger on what coming back to the UK feels like. If an actual nation state could be suffering from clinical depression, this is what it would look like: Everything is slowly going to shit; the country seems to see no future for itself; it’s making decision after decision that is self neglect bordering on self harm; quite possibly the most unpopular government to be removed by democratic vote rather than bloodshed is about to lose an election by a cataclysmic margin, and when the opposition, who are set to clean up, are asked what they’re going to do differently, the answer is a shrug followed by, “nothing”.
And people here more or less accept it, because boiling frogs and suchlike, but then you go elsewhere (no, America, not you, sit back down), and it’s like the colour returns to the world and you didn’t even realise it was missing.
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Unknown parent • • •@llwynog No, but I think they and at least one of the other great disasters of our era, climate change denialism, come from the same cause: Clickbait media and populist parties selling fear of “other” and disdain of experts.
The public is not as transphobic or xenophobic as the press likes to make out, though. But “trans people not a threat” and “asylum seeker actually had a bit of a rough time” doesn’t generate as revenue or get the voters out.
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