Apropos of another conversation, if progressive/left wing people got our ideal world, we would be happy.
if the hard right got their ideal world, they'd be miserable as fuck, because their worldview is centred around constant outrage at the state of the world and having an "out group" to rant about.
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Practice, practice, practice, get wet, practice...
And the pivot turn starts to look almost competent!
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A few years ago, Cambridge City Council became the first of many local authorities in the UK to start dismantling its trans equality policy. Here, today, they are flying the progress pride flag from their offices.
Hypocritical bullshitters. We see you.
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@Paul100 Thing is, discriminating against someone based on who they are: not acceptable.
Discriminating against someone for behaving like an arsehole: completely acceptable.
I am a business owner as it happens, and if someone is transphobic to me, they will be told to take their custom elsewhere.
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And that’s just one tiny section of the country. On the drive up from the south coast, a significant number of roads and junctions had signs saying “night closure” on them. Basically, get where you’re going by 9, or you’re possibly screwed.
Me: “The Tailscale net access thingy is a front end to masquerading.”
@Zoë O'Connell ”Masquerade! Paper faces on parade!”
Me: “That is a shit musical.”
Zoe, offended: “Why?”
Me: “It has two good songs and no story.”
Zoe: “Hang on, which musical is it?”
Me: “Phantom”
Zoe: “Oh, yes, you’re right. It is a shit musical.”
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I just want all TERFs who hate read me to know that earlier this week, I used a communal changing room. I was naked. There were other women in there. Nobody gave a shit.
Please do feel free to seethe, though.
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Since Brexit, the lack of a proper trade agreement means I will have to pay import VAT on my little sailboat when I take her to France.
I asked on a UK boating forum for some recommendations for a tax advisor to assist with the process. The overwhelming answer was, “just do tax evasion. You probably won’t get caught”.
This may provide an insight into the mindset of British exceptionalism.
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@wrack Except a few months ago there was a story in the local press where they impounded and boat and fined the owner for exactly this sort of pissing about with shell companies.
Please, I’m begging you, read the room.
Internet forums do my head in sometimes.
“Hi, I want to do A. I will need help with this. Does anyone have recommendations for someone who can provide these professional services?”
“Don’t do A. Do B instead”
“Thanks, but B does not interest me. I’m looking for someone to help me do A”
“You could do C”
“It’s my understanding that C will get me arrested for tax evasion, which is why I need someone to help me do A”
“Ok, have you tried B?”
ARGH!
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The polycule iMessage group. @Sylvia Knight asks if we want anything from the shops.
Me, typing in teensy keyboard on Apple Watch: milk
Eggs
Bleach
@Zoe O'Connell, next to me: “you can actually type stuff on your watch?”
Me: “almost”
Zoe: “huh?”
Me: “look at your phone…”
Phone: new message from Sarah: “Earl Greg”
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Stopped at an M&S food place on the way back from working on the boat yesterday. Very knackered and verging on hypoglycaemic, and the only fizzy drinks they had in were sugar feee ones.
And I’m like, cut the moralising, you pricks. Sometimes you really fucking need sugar.
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“Federation tomorrow, not today”.
#Zuckerberg and #Dorsey are just serial bullshitters. #Threads #Bluesky
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OK That made me giggle out loud.
Actually I need a new mattress... But unlike those grifting .....s I will buy my own.
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TERFs and bedbugs: One is very fond of mattresses and sucks the life out of their victims, living a life of obligate parasitism.
The other is an insect.
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Interesting question just came up re driving in the UK on Reddit. Someone wants to go from the M11 to the A3 and asks which way round the M25 they should go. These roads are pretty much equidistant regardless of whether you go clockwise or anti-clockwise round London.
That’s the route we take to Scarlet, so I have opinions on this. Go clockwise from the M11 and you encounter the Dartford crossing. This is a toll crossing, and is often very congested.
Go anti-clockwise and you pass the Heathrow section.
For me, there is no contest. Pay the damn toll. It may be annoying to have to put up with the Dartford crossing, but the Heathrow section of the M25 is the very arsehole of hell and to be avoided at all costs.
Interestingly, most commentators felt the same.
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This post is addressing a specific TERF. I’m pretty sure she hate-reads me, and I think it’s important to note that, and I want to be very clear on this:
I still think you’re akin to a bedbug or a pubic louse.
You come at the queen or her friends, you better not miss, asshole.
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Me: Why they pointing a gun at him? They don’t need to point a gun at him! He’s in the bin!
@Sylvia Knight: It’s America!
Me: Good point. Pointing a gun at people is just how they say “hello” there.
bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-can…
Burglar lands in bin in botched escape attempt
A robbery suspect in Ohio is arrested after falling from a bank's roof into a bin in front of police officers.BBC News
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@RocheLimit @Sylvia Knight @Viking Chieftain "I physically cannot."
"Stop resisting!" BANG BANG BANG
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I see your smirky sailor, and raise you a smirky stageworker / theater lighting tech.
It's definitely one of those skills when you see someone doing it wrong it's a hard fight not to fling yourself across the room and tackle them "NO NO NO NO NO! WRONG WRONG WRONG! GIMME THAT"
#adhd #detail #cable #cabling #nerdskills
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Netflix: 12 euros
Disney+: 9 euros
HBO Max: 7 euros
Sky Showtime: 7 euros
Not including Amazon or Apple because you get other stuff with that
Total = 35 euros per month.
NordVPN = 9 euros per month
Just saying.
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Experiment. What do you see if you’re reading this from Mastodon or one of its clones?
Oooh, if you’re fully saturated, does that mean we can add seed particles to initiate crystal precipitation?
Who doesn’t love some fresh brain crystals?
Reddit can be a useful knowledge base, but there are certain subject areas where the consensus voice will confidently, clearly, emphatically state something that is simply wrong.
My current irritation is r/sailing, which has a large number of people who have clearly never sailed beyond the yacht club bar, or maybe a small lake, and have precisely zero clue about the interplay between wind and current (because they never experience the latter), spouting off bullshit with authority.
And there’s no point arguing with them, but my god, the extent to which they are smug about being wrong is irritating as fuck.
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Just looked at M&S Per Una for the first time in a decade and, OMG you guys, it’s got really really gay.
Utterly, profoundly, homosexual.
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in reply to Sarah Brown • • •timberwraith
in reply to Sarah Brown • • •Sarah Brown
in reply to timberwraith • •Mark vW
in reply to Sarah Brown • • •Alexandra Lanes
in reply to Mark vW • • •Sarah Brown
in reply to Alexandra Lanes • •Sarah Brown
in reply to Mark vW • •Gen X-Wing
in reply to Sarah Brown • • •I don’t think the majority of them would be miserable in a sensible socialist ideal world, as the goal isn’t to make one group miserable but rather make everyone happy.
That’s the difference for me, anyone who needs to make others miserable to feel joy are terrible people who shouldn’t be in charge of anything anywhere.
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