After taking a few hours off in deference to the guilty verdict in the trial of the murderers of Briana Ghey, the UK press are once again back at it, going on about how trans women need to be banned from All The Things.
This, presumably, informed last night’s nightmare from which I woke in a pool of sweat in which I was in the process of being beaten to death by TERFs on a train going from London to Cambridge in a near future UK.
Lovely.
Spammer just told me that I had a wonderful personality.
No I fucking do not.
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Yesterday they were being weird about mayonnaise. Today it’s the ellipsis.
I think they might need an intervention, guys.
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Randomly listening to Muse, and their weird conspiracy thing about how the "powers that be" want your "compliance".
And I find myself wondering, "comply with what?"
And honestly, the only thing I can think of is "paying taxes".
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Fell badly from my SUP yesterday. Initial tenderness in left knee which was bent at an awkward angle as I fell. Managed to paddle several more kilometres.
Later it swelled up and became agonising. Barely slept last night with the pain. Joint remains stable and able to bear load though. Got a compression bandage today. It’s helping massively.
Dr Google suggests that this is a grade 1 MCL tear. Mild, as the joint still retains full function. It just hurts like a fucker.
Apparently it should heal in 1 to 3 weeks. I’m hoping for 1.
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@Jack I mean, this took almost none of my body weight laterally. I was almost in freewill at the time.
And it fucked it.
That's wank, that is. Stupid quadruped joint bodged into a bipedal leg and rotated 90 degrees.
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@antranigv Hehe. Like gallons, gah.
SI is superior in every possible way. It hurts to hear people argue for anything else at this point:(
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... this requires either context or detail. And I'm worried about both.
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The bit that looks like sand wasn't; the tide was in.
But it got uncomfortably shallow at points.
Oh wow! The new Friendica release now has a list of abuse reports people have submitted to my server.
And there aren't many, but the few that have been submitted are from people who so truly, madly, deeply, need to FUCK RIGHT OFF.
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@anubis2814 As others have said, you need to flush the caches. That worked in Safari.
If you have an iOS Home Screen bookmark, it needs deleting and recreating.
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LGBT conversion therapy (yes, including trans people) is now illegal in Portugal.
Penalties of people found guilty of trying to change sexual orientation or gender identity: up to 3 years in prison and, if the victim was a minor, a ban on working with minors for between 2 and 20 years.
Up yours, TERF island.
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Does anyone EVER have any reaction other than muttering, "oh, for fuck's sake" to the following?
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Fellow trans women site owners: that HOA guy with the blocklist that blocks Nazis and trans women, but mostly trans women, is back on another instance. Just got the shock of my life when he showed up in my feed. It appears that his new personal instance is h-i.social.
You may wish to preemptively defederate for your own protection.
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Can we get heterosexual women some sort of support?
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I’m all for personal hygiene and healthy habits. But it’s dead easy to stress someone out about the topic. Probably hit a nerve there I’m guessing.
Maybe a carrot would be good? Some collective light peer pressure that “other people like fresh people, not rank people”.
I mean it goes for everyone and all social situations when others are close. Stinky bad is a general thing. Don’t want to sit next to you if you stink.
It has come to my attention that some people think they need 5 gigabit fibre internet.
I am delighted to inform them that they do not. Stop wasting your money on bandwidth you can’t even fucking use, muppets.
You see your 4K smart TV what streams Netflix in Dolby ear destroyer 4K HDR supervision? It’s got a 100 megabit Ethernet port on it. Bet you.
You don’t fucking need 5 gigabits. Nobody does unless they’re running fucking Amazon from their front room or something.
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While I certainly don't disagree that a lot of the flag-carriers could pull their socks up, my understanding is that that the way Ryanair treat both their staff and customers leaves a lot to be desired.
I feel that some of the other low-cost airlines would make better role models for the flag-carriers.
@Sean D AIUI, while as a large employer they are not without conflicts, they are generally regarded as one of the better employers in the industry, especially if you’re flight crew.
Re customer service, I have only ever had positive experiences. The reputation for “if your bag is a mm too big you’re fucked and we will be rude to you” is typical of EasyJet, not RyanAir.
They like to cultivate their PR image as a ruthless cost cutter because it gets them mindshare, but the reality and the reputation are rather different.
A quick search of "ryanair working conditions" vs "easyjet working conditions" doesn't look good, however I do appreciate that bashing Ryanair does make for a good story.
For customer service, I was thinking more of when things go wrong, they have a reputation for being unhelpful. For example when requesting compensation/refunds. That probably does only apply to a small minority of customers, so it does make for a sustainable business model.
@Llwynog I’ve done fan stop to driving away in my car (via passport control) at Faro with RyanAir in 4 minutes.
I can’t imagine the “full service” guys coming close to that.
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@Chris Northwood The treatment for it is hilarious. Unlike motion sickness, it is not an inner ear/visual imbalance. Anti emetics don't work. It's neurological.
Sitting in a car in the back seat and reading a book while someone drives works.
This last couple of weeks was the first time I have flown on “full service” airlines for years, after being a RyanAir frequent flyer.
Now say what you like about RyanAir, they understood the core brief of “airline”, which is “fly people places you say you’re going to more or less when you say you’re going to”.
The “full service” guys include a lot in the very high prices they charge, but it seems what they don’t include is what you actually want: a plane that goes where it says when it says.
I am … very disappointed in all of you. You know who you are. Go and sit in the corner and think about what you’ve done.
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As I am in the Caribbean, I have discovered that there is quite a difference in what things cost. Take apple pies, for example: in Antigua an apple pie costs 9 eastern Caribbean dollars. In St Lucia, it’s 12. In Grenada, 10.
These are the pie rates of the Caribbean.
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@joshie 🏳️🌈 “Oh no, people are realising that we are lying to them” - and the solution is “stop them being able to find out” rather than “stop lying”.
Once the bag is back in my possession tomorrow, I will be filling in Virgin’s feedback form. My answer will be detailed.
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Front and centre in Miami airport, where we were last week, is a "US Veterans Lounge".
This makes me feel bad for referring to the UK as "Normal Island".
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USB C: ok, now plug in for power
USB C: NOT LIKE THAT!
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Anchored in Dominica. Walked up through the rainforest to the old British artillery battery to get a view over the bay, and then to the fort that the British army built (or rather, that their slaves built. I honestly can't imagine the unspeakable evil and sheer misery it must have been to do forced labour in this climate).
Anyway, the fort is now a museum and the area around it, a national park where the rainforest has been allowed to regrow. More recently, the establishment of the national park was assisted with an EU grant. Dominica isn't in the EU, but it retains ties to Britain which was an EU member at the time.
Got to see our ship, the Star Flyer (foreground) anchored in the bay, with her sister ship, the Royal Clipper (background), from the fort.
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Most people think the the Great Lakes are the largest bodies of water in the United States, but it’s actually this hotel toilet here in Miami.
The amount of hydroelectricity produced when you flush it is enough to power a large town! #CoolFacts
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I believe that’s one of the standard ones:) I’ve been institutionalized to the point that it feels normal.
We do have a low flush volume one though. They just added a pipe halfway up the water tank. I assume it’s so Redneck Bob can remove it.
Flushes hard as heck.
The hell is it with American hotels setting their AC to condense carbon dioxide out. Is it some sort of CCS strategy?
Fucking. Freezing.
Why do airports put their luggage shops in the departure lounge?
Think about that for five microseconds…
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Yeah sounds like BS:(
The government should have invested (and owned) instead. The people should own the power generation.
Anyone who disagrees should look at Norway and oil.
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