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?”
maybe?
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@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.
Now I'm back in Southern Europe, I can go for a McDonalds. You have NO idea how significant this is for someone who has to follow a strict gluten free diet!
Interesting. McDonalds would be pretty much my last choice in Portugal, but it’s good to know they care. Some places here only offer a lettuce wrap or nothing at all.
Every time I come back to Vancouver it’s like going back to the past. I have a gas stove here, my parents are already using induction. Things take sooooo long to heat up with gas. When I get there, during the first days I keep boiling things over, lol. And realizing how easy it is to clean afterward. And of course, CO2, toxic fumes, explosions, etc.
So @Zoe O'Connell has got her Geiger counter out in the middle of Stansted departure lounge, like she’s trying to get us rendered to a fucking black site or some shit.
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@ajlanes @womump It seems I was premature taking the photo, that was only at 25,000' according to the Flightradar24 playback. It went over 300cpm, 1.7 very uncalibrated µSv/hr at 39,000'
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@ajlanes @womump I also logged some data from driving to Derbyshire - this isn't 9 Edges itself though, I left the counter back at the house. Gap is from a flat battery.
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.
Oh I am the master at that. I end up expressing myself poorly and people get insanely mad:( It’s easy to get misunderstood. Bonus if I screwed up my English:(
There’s a fine line between asshole and awkward sometimes.
That’s certainly part of it. But the world is filled with celebrities, leaders, and politicians that peddle the most awful things. That pisses me off. That it’s even seen as a “viewpoint” is bad enough. Facism isn’t an ok nor valid position.
(I’m a bit angry too. Also I do think you bring up a point, and there’s been some bad faith players here:( )
Black Mastodon has been talking about this a lot, if you follow them. It's especially bad on Mastodon because of how Federation works where you can kind of get Shadow Federated networks of bad people that can break containment in a way that's visible to some people (if their instances are less thoroughly moderated) but invisible to everyone else.
Even the calmest, most passive responses are characterised as aggressive by reactionaries. Simply asking for change is itself seen as aggression by them, even when it clearly isn't.
Kneeling down because you disagree with racism is suddenly painted as provocative.
Scattering confetti at Wimbledon to draw attention to the climate crisis is condemned by government ministers.
"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 ....
Anyway, if you think this is a good time to got tell the women who are basically men, amrite, that they don't understand the important man things and need to calm down ...
... maybe keep that thought to yourself and go put the kettle on instead, eh?
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.
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.
I’m not going to outright condemn that, because while I’ve never participated in a DDOS, I’ve definitely done “dark side of the force” stuff to disrupt organised trabsphobia before, and left others feeling squeamish about what I did (no, I will not be taking questions).
I just don’t like the idea of attacking the underlying network, even if it is done for “the right reasons”.
The best dark side stuff is when they don't even realise that you've done anything. They just start to notice that lots of things seem to be going wrong.
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