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@Ted Stilton is flavoured by a member of the penicillin genus.
Amoxicillin is a penicillin derivative.
Apropos of the scary shit that’s going on for trans people around the world right now, the concept of “birth certificate laundering” seems to be becoming a thing.
It goes like this: you transition and go through gender recognition somewhere hostile, like the UK. You get a new birth certificate (for now?) but you are still “on the list”, and they know if they look hard enough; the original record is still there.
But then you naturalise or register as a citizen of another country (Ireland, for those able to via the grandparent route, for example, naturalisation through residence and assimilation in my case), and when you naturalise you give them the post gender recognition birth certificate.
That breaks the link. Your country of new citizenship registers your birth and, at as far as they are concerned, you are “legally cis”.
And if they start hunting us via gender recognition records, we can hopefully hide.
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So had a dental implant abutment placed today, with bone regeneration. Going to take a few months before there’s likely enough bone to attach the crown, and I suspect being a trans woman will likely affect the rate of bone growth, but we shall see.
Anyway, the procedure itself was painless. Just lots of shoving and scary noises for an hour or so. Then he sewed my gum shut over the abutment (which he placed with something akin to a ratchet screwdriver!), and sent me on my way with nuclear doses of paracetamol, ibuprofen, and an 8 day course of antibiotics.
Going back in a week to have the stitches out. Will have to get used to not smelling of anything in the meantime. Will probably get thrush, because I usually do on antibiotics, but will cross that bridge if I come to it.
I understand there are those of the opinion that trans people “don’t help ourselves” with public displays of anger about the way we are treated.
So I have a question to those who believe this. If we go and sit quietly and stop making a fuss, what exactly are you going to do differently as a result? What is it you’re going to do to make this worth our while, that will improve our lot? Something concrete?
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Yeah. Thought so.
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This is a special sub post request for Paul and Zoe. A special couple who really need to go touch some grass.
Preferably on Mars.
Ok, rock then. Go touch rock, on Mars.
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Conversation the other day:
It's quite something how quickly Elon Musk managed to become the third most hated man in the world.
It's also quite something how we don't need to name 1 and 2.
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@chiffchaff Vodka, Orange and Musk sounds terrible.
Though Raisi probably deserves more antipathy than he gets.
So they think they've found the wreckage of that F35, but aren't sure?
Like, have you tried turning the key in the ignition and seeing if the jets start? If not, it's probably wreckage.
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ARGH! ARGH! ARGH! Thought I’d seen the last of these bastard things (Australian mealybug).
But it appears some survived my total war back in June, presumably by hiding through the summer in the soil.
As a holding pattern, they’ve got a heavy dose of Chateau Isopropyl 2023 while I go and procure more pesticide.
I swear, they’re harder to get rid of than a fucking TERF infestation.
And if not dealt with, they will cause total ecosystem collapse amongst my plants. They kill everything.
I hate them so much.
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Left Portugal for the UK 85 days ago. Left my Nissan Leaf E+ sitting in the garage on 45% charge.
Got back today. Turned it on. 43%
Nice
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@Breadbin Lol, phones gonna phone!
2% on a Leaf E+ is like 1.2kWh though, which is quite a lot of energy!
My battery performance is “significantly degraded” apparently 😀 In all seriousness though. 5 years of 24/7 on and lots of use is pretty impressive.
I haven’t made the leap to electric, bet it’s a whole new world to discover and stats and ways of doing things:)
(The reason is that I drive my car maybe 10 times a year, so, yeah. Not much use.)
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I have spent 2 months trying to, if not love, tolerate the halogen hob.
30 seconds on my induction hob later: THE HALOGEN HAS TO GO!
@Miguel Arroz Halogen is about the same speed as gas. maybe very slightly slower.
And it has the advantage of not being utterly filthy, which it shares with induction.
But it's not induction
Portugal has a great scheme for waste disposal from apartments:
There are big communal bins by each apartment block. The council comes and empties them.
England has a similar scheme:
There are big communal bins by each apartment block.
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I have often seen the question asked, “why are so many trans women so aggressive/combative”.
And the answer is that we don’t start out being, but we quickly learn that expecting people to be decent human beings towards us because it’s the right thing to do doesn’t work.
It only works if we make it harder to not treat us like human beings than vice versa.
I don’t feel like that’s on us to fix.
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Alternative hypothesis:
"Why are all these people who are hurting and sore from the wounds their life has given them so sensitive and quick to bark out in pain when poked in old wounds...?"
Because I see a lot of the same "aggression" from chronic pain people and minority groups and I think it comes from ....
Oh gods I'm just restating what you said. Sorry.
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Rando: "Trans women are basically the same as men"
Trans women: "The fuck? That's incredibly transmisogynist!"
Others: "Shush dears, don't worry your little brains. You just didn't understand what he meant."
Like, can you actually believe this shit?
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Thankfully I have a load of timber and metal to dispose of in the tip this afternoon, and the timber skip is nearly empty, which means I get to throw it hard and watch in satisfaction as it smashes shit up.
Because I kinda need that outlet right now.
This implies that there are capybara races.
Why am I expecting there to be a manga about this out there?
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Appreciate I’m posting a lot about the latest drama, and the unexamined transmisogyny at the root of it, but I think we are at a bit of an inflection point now.
It appears that a lot of this singling out of trans women heavy instances has come from a few small servers that were heavily involved in the block list project, and mastodon.art, a large server that were it smaller, I suspect would be widely defederated.
As far as I can tell, most of the smaller servers are offline at this point, including Frontman-Mc-TechbRo’s own single user server.
No idea if this is temporary, or whether the tide has turned and enough people are now providing pushback to the “trans women are basically inclined towards naziism and that’s just how it is” bullshit they were spreading a few days ago.
I am hoping that we have turned a corner. Let’s see.
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@Charles ☭ H We have history, which is why you're not getting the magic fuckity bye button immediately.
But do FUCKING NOT mansplain transmisogyny to me.
One and only warning.
Mornin all! Another day, another scroll through the current spattering of transphobia and apologism for same to see who gets the magic button of fuckity-bye.
Quite a bit of it is people who should know better. Oh well. Onwards and upwards.
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The fediverse is utterly swimming in transphobia, particularly directed at trans women right now. People still defending a guy who outright says we are basically men and need treating as such as “not transphobic”, and getting pretty much no comeback for it.
And this is the least transphobic social media.
Is it any wonder so many of us are just balls of rage? What the hell is wrong with so many of you?
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I think that is what the kids call "receipts"
Dog-whistle alert: use of word "identity" in the 2nd screenshot.
FWIW - thank you @goatsarah for finding and posting.
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So it appears that techbro blocklist dude has a history of posts which are “plausibly deniably” close to being outright blatant trabsphobia. Not in your face, just very very dog whistly.
What a totally unexpected development. #MilkShakeDuck
I see some of the trans mascs are now jumping on the “trans women are just being hysterical” bandwagon.
For those who haven’t experienced one of these clusterfucks before, this is entirely on brand for them. In my experience, lots of them are “men” before they’re “trans”, and not in a wholesome way.
I appreciate the realisation that nobody is helping us except us may be a difficult one to adjust to, but, ladies, chin up! Most of us are used to having to reevaluate who our friends are when we transitioned and this is just more of the same.
Onwards and upwards, and nil carborundum illegitimi!
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Getting my flu vaccine because last year I didn’t.
And then I got flu.
And it was a right bastard.
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Time for a shitpost. Let’s play a round of Only Connect!
What’s the connection?
Chicago Pizza
SpaceX Starship
King Cobra
Holy Roman Empire
This is well supported by a consistent theory
cuberule.com/
The Cube Rule
Identify your food based on the location of structural starch. Is a hot dog a sandwich? No, it's clearly a taco.cuberule.com
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I can’t do polls on Friendica, so just pretend, ok?
1. Get rid of all trans women
2. …
3. Profit
Whose plan is this?
1️⃣ Graham Linehan
2️⃣ Donald Trump
3️⃣ Rishi Sunak
4️⃣ The Mastodon HOA
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@Mendie :progresspride_flag: :flag_demisexual: :flag_demigirl: you didn’t know?
Wow!
He set his entire life on fire for transphobia. It’s a thing.
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Oh, I googled after I confirmed that Lineham was who I thought he was [by name] and then added LGBTQ.
So I mean, I know, now.
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So, if you set out to drop a bomb into the Fediverse trans community, then you couldn’t hope to have the result more disruptive than the currently developing schism.
This is why we can’t have nice things. What a clusterfuck.
The more I see about this "Bad Space" thing, the more concerned I get. This is like that abortive united federation of instances thingy from last year that was run by the freeze peach crowd, only this one cloaks an apparent trans eliminationist agenda in the language of social justice. Apparently a lot of people find this superficially attractive.
If you are a trans-heavy instance, you might want to consider a fediblock of ubiqueros.com (AFAICS this is the "Bad Space" main instance) as necessary self defence. I am certainly going to.
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Wait, are you talking about The Bad Space project by Ro?
I thought that was basically a directory of fedi instances with crummy mod policies. I think I remember the "united federation" drama from last year too. The Bad Space seems more like a blacklist than a badly-contrived rules manifesto.
I've started seeing some posts floating around regarding some "Good Space" thing, but all I've heard so far is the name. If it stands in opposition to The Bad Space I can see how it would be problematic though.
I think I'm confused…
@Acorn Squashbuckler it appears to be a directory of the sort of instances everyone would want to block, AND instances run by or hosting trans women.
Fair warning, I have seen this shit before and an in a mood to deal with it by creating a fire break. My block finger is very itchy right now.
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@AcornSquashbuckler Some context for what's going on with The Bad Space and FSEP: hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/111…
OK, let's get into it. Let's talk about anti-Blackness on this here Fediverse, "civility traps", and "why nazis wear suits."First: there are some trans folk that love Black people, care about our safety, and want to see the Fediverse be more welcoming to Black users.♥️ These kind folk volunteer considerable time, money, effort, and social capital, to make the Fediverse more welcoming for Black folk. We love them for this.
But there are some trans folk that are super fashy, and hate Black folk.
@Ben Hutchings @Acorn Squashbuckler Relevant to this, have also seen posts complaining that trans women (particularly) only ever seem to be welcome in spaces as long as we present as resources to be used, and that the idea that we have a right to just fucking exist somewhere seems utterly alien.
And there’s a lot of that sort of tone in the post you just quoted, along with the “you’re either helping us build our widget or you’re with the Nazis” false dichotomy.
This is a thing we have seen time and time again. When I was in politics, we were only ever engaged with when people wanted us to lend legitimacy to whatever they were doing. It pretty much NEVER got reciprocated.
We are used to being thusly shat on, but it doesn’t mean we have to be fucking nice about it.
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Oh, this just gets better. The HOA are proposing their "mysteriously blocks trans women wholesale" list into default Mastodon installs.
This would have the effect of completely isolating trans-run and trans populated servers from the rest of the fediverse.
I thought trans people had finally found a social media where we couldn't be subjected to a rug-pull. Turns out we absolutely can, and if they get their way, we will. Remove our ability to federate with anyone who isn't us and you basically wall us off inside a closed "bubble fediverse" which we can't see out of, and nobody else can see into.
Lovely
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@Matthew Vernon They “fixed” it. Previously a single malicious report would get your trans instance banned,
Now it needs two.
I expect it won’t take long.
Tl;dr: lots of small trans run instances and single user instances of mostly queer trans feminine people.
It’s important to maintain an open mind but not so open that your brains fall out. the “Bad Space” (might as well call it the “Torment Plexus”) is a tool for blocking trans women.
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Federation Safety Enhancement Project (FSEP)
With the surging popularity of federating tools, how do we make it easier to make safety the default?nivenly.org
Oh dear god, now Bad Space bod is calling algorithmic purges of trans people which said tool literally went and did, “hypothetical harms”.
And someone I followed had so little shame that they thought reposting that inability to stop fucking digging was a good idea.
Been vaguely aware of the latest Fedi drama. Been trying to ignore it, but it seems to have ended up at “trans people need to stop being so sensitive to people randomly assuming they’re disgusting perverts who the rest of society needs shielding from, it was a MISTAKE you guys”.
And that just makes me sad.
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Respectability politics, innit.
I'd rather have solidarity with my fellow deviants (read: sex workers, drug addicts, unhoused people). We all deserve liberation, safety and respect.
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