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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.

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@Sarah Brown @Sylvia Knight I assume most Americans aren’t terrified by this state of affairs and would think it’s us who are weird for not waving lethal weaponry about.
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@RocheLimit @Sylvia Knight @Viking Chieftain "I physically cannot."

"Stop resisting!" BANG BANG BANG



Smirks in "smug climber/sailor"

My coiled cables uncoil straight, so there.

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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




From the trotinete (e-scooter) rental scheme I use in Faro. It may be passive aggressive, but it made me laugh.

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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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I do wish that on days like today that my Dupuytren’s Disease had read the medical textbooks that describe it as “painless”.

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Ian Molton
So it was... Duh!
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re: Experiment. What do you see if you’re reading this from Mastodon or one of its clones?
from GoToSocial + pinafore


Brain has reached saturation point today. I am in my nest in bed. That is all.
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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?



Just reread Peter Hamilton’s Salvation Sequence. So good, and lots of fun to read the second time round. I really hope there’s a sequel in the works.


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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@ajlanes @thelocalecho @zoe Crib Goch wasn't near-death either, but I still felt profoundly unwise wandering along a steep spine of wet, slick rock in dense fog over a 500m drop to either side.


Marks and Spencer proving that gluten free sandwiches don’t need to be made of cardboard and despair. Others take note.
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@Andy H3 It's gluten free. It's absolutely not made from rye.


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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@Baroque Mongoose definitely not non gendered. Very obviously female-coded, but … gay


Been walking the banks of the Stort with a view to paddling on it. Conclusion: it’s an unfriendly weed-choked ditch.


The barely concealed glee from climate doomers with their crescendo of “look at the graphs! We’re all going to die, and it was totally your fault for putting an aluminium bun case in the black bin that one time” is, I have to be honest, kinda getting me down.

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@Sarah Brown While I agree that it's the governments and industries that are the biggest polluters and have the most power to change things - if they want to. I still think that what many millions of people do or don't do also matters. If nothing else to keep hope up and despair down.
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@Maria Karlsen When I say none of it makes any difference, I'm specifically talking about the effect individual actions have on climate change. To a first approximation, this is zero, and has little scope for it to be any other number.

I agree that we can very definitely make a difference in how people feel, and this is the source of my complaint: the constant stream of "we are all going to die, because we are filthy eco-sinners" articles just make people feel like shit.

It's basically doom and gloom protestantism, but with the climate playing the role of their god.



!Friendica Support I accidentally removed a thread locally. The thread is ongoing on the original server and I'm quite keen to get it back. Is it possible to do this? If I paste any of the URLs from the posts into the search box, I just get an error page.

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@Steffen K9 🐰 Is there some way I can edit the database to restore it?

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Moving into new flat. Tried the hob today for the first time. Smoke started coming out from under it and I could smell burning insulation.

Discussions with the builder will be had tomorrow.

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Alexandra Lanes
Are they actually going to replace it with another resistive hob or do you get to forestall that and get a proper one?

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Looking forward to how insufferable the British will be after the gulf stream collapses, and we're having tropical summers and Arctic winters!

We're obsessed enough with the weather, already. 🙄



So turns out Zuckerberg owns X as a trademark in so far as it relates to social media?

Dear god, if you put this in a novel, people would not believe it.

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To be honest it's such a simple marque it does not surprise me that it's already in use. I would have expected some social media business to have used it by now. Trying to find even complex names that are unique is very challenging.

It's almost like Twitter was actually a valuable brand . . .

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I have a theory that Musk is actually bipolar to some degree, at least prone to mania. He seems to go from simply being a jerk (not a bipolar or autistic trait, just who he is) but not crazy, to doing utterly bizarre things for a period of time, then calm down a bit. Certainly a fascination with a letter and tearing through a business over it without regard to the consequences seems like that. If so, presumably he only manages to do it without intervention because these aren't listed companies, since surely others would get wise to what was happening,


Does the fediverse need a rebrand to 𝔽𝔼𝔻𝕀𝕍𝔼ℝ𝕊𝔼?

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Oh right! Musk is trying to show Thiel that he was right all along for a 20 year old grudge.

FFS. Billionaires grow the fuck up 2023

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@Viking Chieftain Thiel is competent evil. Musk is toddler evil.

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@Viking Chieftain Musk says a lot of stuff, but is basically a clown with a poor attention span.

Competent evil is much scarier.


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@Viking Chieftain it’s alright as long as your sink is next to the loo.


So clean! So modern! So good at business!

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@gz Yeah. I’ve updated the alt text. I suspect that screenshot is actually within the last couple of years, but using an 80s window manager.
@gz


Hi from bsky. You need an invitation to get here. The website link is published through telepathy. We have twelve active users and a nightly circular firing squad. You can’t link to posts anywhere, but you can verify yourself by visiting your favourite domain registrar with your compsci degree.

Today we will be talking about why fediverse is so hard to use and why it will never be popular with its fifteen million users.



Bluesky is developing a very weird dynamic. In the day it fills up with shitposts and then I got to bed and wake up, and the bodies of the circular firing squad crew are all over the place. It’s like two entirely different social media sites and which you get depends on your time zone.



Extreme right politicians: Immigrants are the reason for everything that’s wrong! Elect us!

European public: Makes sense. We will elect you.

Narrator: Immigrants were not, in fact, the reason.

Tune in for the next episode to see who the next scapegoats are going to be (the answer will shock you!)

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so-called left wing parties: we're uhhhh anti Brussels? we want affordability? hold corporations """accountable""" in some vague undefined way? anyway sorry can't talk about immigration, nationalisation or climate collapse because guess what, greedflation's happening so it's time for more austerity
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OMG allways those remakes of Europe in the 1930s. Everyone knows the (hi)story but repeats the shit anyway


Looks like the work we did with Stonewall was a bust. Reporting here that they now think it’s ok to stop us using toilets.

What an utter travesty.

news.sky.com/story/lower-the-t…

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@Pyroéaon 🏳️‍⚧️ @Essjay (she / her) 🏳️‍🌈 It was Ruth Hunt who made them openly advocate for trans people.

I think it took a very heavy toll on her. I have a great deal of respect for Ruth, and I think her force of will was maybe more important than any of us (her included) realised.

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How is it that people like this look at how right wingers act and treat them and think they’re willing to be compassionate, empathetic or decent human beings? The right thinks queer people have no place in society. Nothing that you do is going to change that. This stance is suicidally stupid.

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Yes @Sarah Brown unless you’re familiar with the geography of Atlanta, you might not associate Fulton County with the state capitol of Georgia.
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it doesn't help that I the States we have multiple places with the same name. I grew up in a place that was one of two named that IN MY OWN STATE.


It is England. It is July. I have turned the heating on.


Muuuum! Billiy is doing discourse on Bluesky again mum! Tellllll himmmmm!


Death Valley has a golf course. This is the most American thing ever.
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@jugglerchris @Cassandra US suburbia is mad. It’s practically designed to make people live so far from each other and anything else that they can only be dependent on cars.
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@Alexandra Lanes @Cassandra @Chris Emerson The suburbia around Phoenix is covered, and I mean covered, in golf courses.

How long has it been since the Colorado reached the sea?



Apparently there are ongoing repercussions from a comparison I made some time ago between TERFs and pubic lice.

My only regret is that TERFs’ metabolisms keep going if you drench them in dimethicone.

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TERF bullshit, long

So the background here is that I referred to TERFs as pests that are particularly recalcitrant, like pubic lice or bedbugs.

And various people liked the post, including some who are members or a UK political party.

And some pubic louse with nothing better to do is complaining about them because they liked my post.

And said pubic louse got told to go piss into the wind by the complaints process.

So instead of taking the hint that everyone hates them and all their bullshit works, they set out to prove me right by just being UTTERLY FUCKING UNABLE TO JUST PISS OFF AND LEAVE PEOPLE IN PEACE.

I’m sure the irony of this situation is lost on them. Silly fucker.

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She must really hate it that I resigned from said party and then emigrated to get away from the likes of her and their bullshit, and as a result there is nothing they can do to get at me other than bother my friends.

I mean, I am annoyed on behalf of my friends, but I also appear to have triple residency now: Portugal, the UK, and rent-free in their heads.



Reddit: we are blocking third party apps

And pissing off our admins

And our content generators

And bombarding them with spam

And taking away the benefits of paid accounts

Has Reddit been taken over by Elon Musk on the quiet, or something?

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the CEO has been vocal about his admiration for Musk. These man-babies love him like he's a rainbow colored T-Rex driving a giant dump truck.



What is the deal with Kettle Chips? They act like they’re a premium brand, but they’re actually very bad crisps with a relentlessly disappointing taste.
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Yes Kettle Chips are vile.
I've given up on crisps generally.

I really like these as an alternative:

trolley.co.uk/product/cofresh-…



Sarah Ditum and Louise Mensch turned up in Bluesky, made one introduction post each, and then there is just page after page after page, full of replies telling them to fuck off.

And it's utterly glorious to behold. Gives me a bit of hope for humanity.

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@Andrew Hickey whoever gave them invites must have known this would happen, surely?


Oh, this is funky! Reading a book with the multi focal contact lenses in. If I close one eye, the page has blurred and sharp bits in a chessboard type pattern. If I open both, the whole thing is sharp.

Clever brain.

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@Rachel Lawson Yeah. It’s different to glasses where you can look around to change which bit you get. With contacts, they move with your eye, so, looking around makes no difference. You get distance vision in some bits and close vision in others. After a while, the brain sorts this out.

I’m still getting used to it.

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Oh I see, so the lens varies in a pattern over its surface and just relies on binocular vision and your brain to sort it all out? That’s absurdly clever (and suggests these contacts wouldn’t work for me). I think when I first saw you describe this I assumed the chessboard was an artefact of your brain rather than of the lens. (Like the weird kaleidoscope patterns you get when you rub your eyes too hard.)


I mean, Hanlon's Razor is a thing, but someone who was actually setting out to destroy Twitter would likely be behaving indistinguishably from Space Karen right now. Just saying.

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@kianryan
So randos can DM to abuse me, but to reply to a friend's message I have to pay.

I'm glad I'm done there. To Hell with Elon.

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@cykonot @kianryan that’s kinda the point I guess. The business should be expecting to bear the cost of that interaction. The fact Twitter didn’t seek to monetize B2C interactions is part of why they’re where they are right now. They never grew the platform into a true business tool and got bought out by a Aparteid Clyde


According to the optician earlier, I appear to have had a retinal haemorrhage within the last few weeks.

can't have been a bad one, otherwise I'd've noticed!

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that's fantastic. Don't want blind spots while swinging from ropes!