I shouldn’t watch 16th century period dramas. It just makes me sad that the wrong side won the Wars of the Roses and begat a dynasty of ghastly homocidal despots.
but the amount of people with such diagnose doesn't match the amount of gluten free produce sold by an order of magnitude, right? I think the joke is targeting the gluten free shopper that also has saitan in their basket. (Really happened, I was there trying to keep it together 🤣).
@iwein 🏴☠️🏳️🌈🇺🇦🇪🇺 I have non coeliac gluten sensitivity (if I eat it, I get rheumatoid arthritis), and my partner has coeliac disease. The prevalence of what we call, “Los Angeles Gluten Free” types is something we regard as a bit of a mixed blessing. On the one hand, it creates a market for gluten free food because 90% of most supermarkets are simply off limits to us.
But on the other, it creates establishments which claim to sell/serve “gluten free food” which is nothing of the kind.
The worst offenders store their gluten “free” and wheat products on the same shelf and use the same utensils to handle them!
@iwein 🏴☠️🏳️🌈🇺🇦🇪🇺 I would, however, note that it’s perfectly normal to buy gluten free and gluten containing produce in the same shop. Our household has a gluten free kitchen, but for the one member of it who does eat gluten, who has her own grill, we also buy gluten containing food.
Households contain more than one person, quite often.
@John Loader People need to stop thinking about the speed. HS2 is, and always was, designed to separate mainline and local traffic. That's what it's for.
It was envisaged as an LGV because that's what you do these days. There's no point building a new intercity line at less than LGV spec.
@Fish Id Wardrobe Lord Torydonor. This isn't corruption because money laundering taxation into your party coffers via your mates' bullshit companies is apparently a perfectly legitimate thing to do, because corruption is what they do in Africa.
In theory both the East and West Coast main lines were upgraded to 140mph - hence tilting trains. They weren't. Welwyn viaduct needs a by pass - 2 tracks in the middle of a four track network ridiculous
@John Loader Welwyn is ... difficult to solve. Not just logistically, English Heritage don't want a viaduct spoiling the view of the viaduct, because viaducts.
@OddOpinions5 Yep. A corrupt Tory called Marples owned large stakes in road construction businesses, and coincidentally commissioned a “captain of industry” Dr Richard Beeching to recommend the closure of about 1/3 of the then extant railway network (and over half the stations).
@ajlanes The four track also stops at Northallerton going North from York, a heavily used route but there were plans to add a third line and platform as a short loop for stopping trains there. But trains towards Teesside have to cross both main lines
I have come to the sad conclusion that when you see a lovely healthy verdant garden, the way the owner has achieved it is almost certainly, “neonicotinoids”.
That's one reason I'll never have a "lovely healthy verdant garden" on my property. What I do have (and lots of) are native plants (which my neighbors call weeds) that feed native pollinators.
The plants on the balcony in Tenerife are the kind that you can ignore because I’m rubbish at remembering them. Cacti and the like. They seem to do well on a diet of abuse and neglect. Local wildlife is cicadas and lizards.
Just rewatched episode “Q Who” of TNG (the one where they encounter the Borg for the first time), and I feel like Guinan really should have been far more shit scared than she was.
@Alexandra Lanes Yeah. Q is like, "you have no idea what's out there" and Picard is like, "show me", and Guinan is like, "this place is not safe, turn round and leave", and Picard is like, "lol whatevs"
Dunno how accurate their portrayal of Margaret Beaufort is, but they’re portraying her as exactly the sort of woman who would wield power in the court of a Tudor monarch and yet still die of old age.
And if she was anything like that, then she’d have been beyond terrifying IRL, and an utter inspiration.
@Alexandra Lanes This morning it greeted me with, "fetching fucking forecast. If you sunbathe too much, serial killers will not harvest your skin to make a suit".
hahaha I love carrot weather, I recommend it one of my friends and they came back to a couple of hours later and said “this app is insane” fantastic forecasts and personally
Rewatched all of Futurama and there’s parts of it that has aged very very poorly. Specifically how women are viewed, some pretty cheap sexist jokes in there. Imho at least.
I can use it on my lemon tree as well, even though it has lemons on it. Half life of acetamiprid in fruit is 4 days (I checked), and it won’t be ripe until December.
It doesn't seem to federate great to Mastodon great, but is visible in the web views of thegoatery and on lemmy.world (if you know where to click, like Reddit). news.yahoo.com/return-office-w…
@Breadbin Curiously, it does sound a lot like me but ... robot. However, it doesn't fool Siri when I use it to ask her who I am. If I ask her directly, she says, "You're Sarah".
they’re stunning. I’m at least a year, hopefully two, before an upgrade from my 14. I’m sure the 16 and 17 will be equally shiny. I wish they weren’t quite so captivating to be honest.
The one thing actually bad is the battery. The rest is perfectly fine. Not doing anything that requires a faster phone or a fancier camera (sad to hear about the shit image enhancing stupidity they added that seems to make everything look fake).
Apropos of conversation elsewhere, any other Gen X Brits remember CUB monitors?
“Let’s put an electron gun and high frequency electromagnets inside a steel box and then give it to 8 year olds because we hate kids and think electrocuting them is funny!”
yes, or school had them, with BBC model Bs. Seeing an RGB monitor after the fuzzy mishmash produced on a colour TV by an RF modulator was a revelation!
It’s my former political party, the UK Liberal Democrats, conference starting in Bournemouth today.
This likely means the usual TERF suspects are planning to engage in stupid bullshit. Usually this takes the form of trying to submit wrecking amendments to any motion aimed at improving women’s position in society.
For some reason, the uk media insists on referring to these people as “feminists”.
much empathy from the Greens where we have the same damn problem every year. It’s so tiring and I wish we could get rid of them like the Scottish Greens did.
@samsterby i was in the GPEW and left for that reason. unwillingness in the leadership to actually confront this problem. (the election of a leadership whose candidacy was pretty much marked by silence on the issue.)
I kinda feel like the whole “middle aged women having a sense of humour based massively around filthy innuendo and scatology” is a thing. Am I wrong?
Like, I’m driving yesterday and there’s a bag of liquorice chews in my lap, and I offered one to @Zoe O'Connell and I’m like, “don’t worry, there’s no hole in the bottom”.
When I left Portugal for the summer I dared to hope I had eradicated my mealybug infestation on the balcony.
But I returned last week to find they had survived in the soil of my Lantana and had already started to spread to the neighbouring lime tree.
Not having it. If left unchecked, they will destroy EVERYTHING.
I sprayed them with a shedload of isopropyl alcohol, followed by double concentration deltamethrin, and then today, some systemic neonicotinoid spray (it’s ok, they aren’t flowering, it won’t hurt bees).
I aso removed ALL foliage from the Lantana, and threw it in the bin.
I am daring to hope t hat will be it, but I’m going to be utterly paranoid over the next 6 months, and at the first sign of ANYTHING, out comes the nuclear pesticide regime again.
They started this. I’m finishing it. At least they can’t fly, so once they’re gone, they’re gone.
Wow! Natalie the Bird is on r/compoface for being cancelled by TEH TRANZ in the Daily Mail.
According to a barely legible black smudge, she was a “would be MP” but the transes cancelled her. Shocking!
Except, and this is slightly inconvenient for her, I have some considerable familiarity with ol’ ms Bird here and the real reason she can’t be an MP is that she is the platonic reference Dunning Kruger effect. This is someone would would fail, by a long way, to meet the abysmally low bar set by Liz Truss and that Tory bloke who thinks women’s blood doesn’t clot when there’s a full moon.
r/compoface is the wrong community for her. R/StoriesAboutKevin, on the other hand, would be perfect.
I am sad to report that despite her being very, very dim, the Liberal Democrats did have her as a potential PPC in Little Shitsbury on the Wold for five nanoseconds, largely because nobody else wanted to do it and she was having a good day so remembered to keep breathing in and out and not blurt out, “THE TRANS DID SEVEN ELEVEN” during the interview.
Then they realised that even by the low intake standard of British MP material, she was a liability, and dropped her.
I expect the Tories would have been fine with everything. They’re a lot less fussy.
@Alisdair Calder McGregor When I was a party member, I occasionally had the TERF crowd do stuff like jump in a lift with me at conference and suchlike.
I can only assume it’s because they’re trying to provoke some sort of physical response so they can be the biggest victims in the universe.
@BoneHouseWasps 🔶 I expect she saw something that startled her. Maybe she thought her reflection in the photographer’s lens was a scary trans Naatalie doppelgänger clone or something.
Apologies for the unorthodox communication style, but I’m trying to reach out to the TERFs in whose heads I live rent-free.
Anyway, this is a tenant query: I want to put up a big poster of Marsha Johnson throwing a brick. Am I allowed to use bluetac, or similar, on the inner surface of the bone?
Bit of a long shot. Any post op trans women reading this had a dental implant with bone regeneration and able to share their experiences? I had one placed yesterday and am vaguely worried that I won’t get the needed bone growth (18 years HRT, 17 years postop)
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.
I wish anyone on such a journey well, but also can see how this will drive transphobes in to new and frenzied levels of violence. Because this strikes at the heart of their deepest fears. It implies once and for all that the supposedly fixed nature gender doesn’t matter. (because it doesn’t)
A near future story about two refugees, a little girl and her dad running from the the law. Her dad is a trans man trying to vanish.
“To keep you safe to keep both of us safe I knew I had to be honest about who I was. You thought I needed to be a man to be ‘stronger’ ? but that’s not it at all I’m a man because that’s who I am, how could I possibly keep you safe, teach you to live in this world (with the way that it is) if I couldn’t even do that?”
@artemist If Italy is anything like Slovenia, they don't rely on birth certificates for anything, but you should still be able to order one from the government.
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?
I don't condone violence to any degree, but when someone tried bullying me at school and I decked them, it soon stopped. The kids that meekly took it got it until the day they left. The reason I got into the decking situation was because I said to a bullied kid I was going to do something about it, and he went running off to the bully and grassed on me! (I'm sure we know of trans people who do similar in the hope of appeasing their bullies).
They can't see it yet; someone tripped over something invisible and now they're waiting for some guys with paint cans to throw over it and reveal what it is.
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