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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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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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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.
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!
Expect the orca people will be along to explain about how he was a billionaire and deserved it any moment now.
Seriously, I think the main thing determining whether dolphins (including orcas) attack humans is whether they think they can get away with it. Nasty little twats, they are.
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Swimmer left with broken ribs after dolphin attack in Fukui | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis
A swimmer in his 60s was left with broken ribs July 16 after a dolphin rammed him in shallow waters at a beach in Fukui Prefecture.The Asahi Shimbun
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After Backlash, Publisher to Retract Article That Surveyed Parents of Children With Gender Dysphoria, Says Co-Author
Soon after publication, the study was criticized that its method of enlisting study participants was biased.Ellie Kincaid (Medscape)
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Shoutout to places which have 1 “free from” sandwich in their entire range, and it’s lactose free vegan salad on gluten free bread because that ticks all the “food intolerance” boxes in one go.
And by “shoutout”, I mean “fuck you”.
You wonder why nobody is buying your dismal sadness cardboard. It’s because gluten intolerant people like chicken as well (for example)
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@Kate Watson The shop worker was like, "that's the only one we have"
Probably wondering why they never sell any of them.
"Oh, we barely stock gluten free sandwiches because we tried sticking three pairs of cardboard with some dismal lettuce between them on a shelf and nobody bought them, so we assumed there's no demand"
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Looking like Bluesky is basically over. Jack Dorsey will not budge from the ideological position that content moderation is something that can be done as an afterthought with regexps.
It maybe worked well enough to keep the site viable as long as the number of bad actors was tiny. It clearly doesn’t work any more.
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“I tried the fediverse and didn’t follow anyone and it sucked, so I stopped and went back to Twitter again.”
These people would have hated Twitter circa 2008 when it had pretty much exactly the same issue.
But that’s the point of social media: to find likeminded people with common interests. Somewhere along the line that changed into social media being a thing that tells you what you think, and what you should be liking.
That’s easy, but it’s mental refined sugar. It’s just incredibly crap for you.
If you want interesting, fun and stimulating stuff, follow interesting, fun and stimulating people.
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Z, you've been rude to everyone in this entire thread. That is not welcome here, & on Twitter I would have blocked you in an instant. (And I will here, if you respond w rudeness to me.)
However, on the chance you are genuinely asking in good faith, the other way to find people is to put a hashtag in the search box - #Taiga, #Java, a favourite band, or whatever you are interested in. It will help you find people w common interests whom you may wish to follow.
Good luck.
Back in the day, going viral on Twitter was great.
Now going viral is like, "ah shit, the queue has an eight hour backlog!"
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Dear Messers Bosch, Neff, and others.
You know that strip between the oven door and the oven itself, where detritus collects?
You know how you keep making it out of aluminium?
You know how caustic soda corrodes aluminium?
You know what oven cleaner is made of?
You stupid or something?
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I have, for some time, been coming to the conclusion that I probably have ADHD.
And my god, the “resources” online are just so very very terrible.
They’re all basically, “have you tried not being that way?”
Er, yeah?
@Ghost of Hope further to this. Last night I tried a strong cup of coffee at 10pm (never done this before). Quickly felt sleepy.
Went to bed.
Just woke up.
GOT UP.
Why did I get up? I never do that? I lay in bed until my bladder makes me.
Weird
David Tennant, of Dr Who fame, apparently said some pro trans things and now the TERFs are going after him on Twitter. His response is that he isn't worried because, and I quote, "I'll be fine, Terfs can't climb stairs"
I want that on a T-shirt. No, I NEED that on a T-shirt!
ETA: Apparently it was a parody account that said the stairs line. I still want it on a T-shirt.
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Am having trouble so far finding an explanation/breakdown of what "terfs can't climb stairs" means exactly.
Am not posting this looking for enlightenment specifically. Though it would be nice & appreciated, of course.
Weird thing last night. Yesterday afternoon, I did an advocated SUP lesson and the instructor really got me working my core muscles.
Then in the evening win the way back, we stopped at Pizza Express at Cobham services on the M25. I was prepared to spend the rest of the trip back in pain, because I pretty much always get abdominal pain after eating a meal.
But it didn't hurt. I felt full, but without pain, and this is a vanishingly rare experience for me. Eating = pain. It's always been like that, and I basically expect it.
Except not last night.
Meanwhile this morning, I have massive stiffness in my abdominal muscles.
Kinds feels like too much to be mere coincidence.
@Uraael I am gluten intolerant (not coeliac), so I avoid that, but that was because of extra-intestinal stuff (if I eat gluten, I get rheumatoid arthritis. if I don't, I don't).
I have tried elimination diets. I know my worst trigger foods, but ultimately FOOD = PAIN, and there appears to be nothing I can do about it.
Exercising beforehand won't work. I'll just opt for hypoglycaemia as the path of least resistance.
SUP = Stand Up Paddleboard
That’s an interesting observation. I have mild IBS as part of the bundle of fun that is fibromyalgia, and tai chi seems to have lessened the severity of it.
Whilst tai chi is very core-focused, it wouldn’t be anywhere near as high impact as your SUP session.
Apple: We have discovered a zero day which was actively exploited in Safari!
Me: Downloads software update.
Facebook:
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@Sarah Brown From the attached image, "God grant me the serenity to accept things change, to change I cannot courage the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference." 🤔
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Well.
That’s a horrifying image I now have in my brain that I didn’t have before. 🤣
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Musing on the number of men with high profile careers getting brought low by sex scandals.
I'm wondering if some of them, the ones who value their career, might consider castration? Used to be a lot more popular for high powered career gentlemen, but has fallen out of fashion of late.
Honestly, as a satisfied customer, I rate it very highly.
Just saying.
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Dear Wightlink Ferry helms: just because a sailing boat is almost certainly going to get out of your way if you make like you’re going to ram it, doesn’t mean you should.
Wankers.
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Me, appearing to 1980s me:
So, in the future, computers will be really popular. However, you will be having to get software from the “Git Hub”, there are Nazis everywhere, and the Russians will be trying to destroy society using something called “Threads”.
Oh, but you’ll finally be able to solve a Rubik’s cube in under a minute.
1980s me: Um, why do you have tits?
As a Brit the name "GitHub" will never stop being amusing to me. (Git being British slang for a nasty, unpleasant person, generally a man.) So I'm like "GitHub? Sounds like some pubs I know, amirite?"
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This is a 50p that was minted to celebrate the UK joining what became the EU. It was minted in my birth year, and my mum gave it to me shortly before she died of cancer in 2021. It is one of my most treasured possessions.
It has 12 hands linked in a circle to symbolise the then 12 countries of the European Community. One of them is smaller, representing the hand of Queen Elizabeth II.
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You guys! Trans women who’ve transitioned recently have never heard of COGIATI!
Oh, we have such sights to show them!
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Ken did a transphobia apologism on Bsky. Ken doubled down. Ken then complained about it on fedi and presumably thought his day wasn’t going to get any worse.
Then fedora-in-human-form, Jeff, defended him in public.
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There's not a lot more pathetic than dude simping for someone (e.g. Eugen) who would probably be embarrassed by his attention.
I think I remember Ken from Metafilter back in the day & if I'm remembering the right guy, he got into lots of fights where he was clearly framing himself as the noble advocate for frank speech.
I find his legal perspective valuable so I grin & bear the nonsense [though had not prev seen the transphobia apologia, which might change things]; that said he is far too settled in his own sense of righteousness for my taste.
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Zuck is a POS, but he’s pulled a blinder. His ridiculous metaverse fell through, but literally just cloning Twitter and feasting on its carcass.
Threads will likely kill Twitter and Bluesky, and then when it starts federating, the fediverse will schism into instances that tolerate the worst people in the world federating with it and the ones that won’t.
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I've given up on crisps generally.
I really like these as an alternative:
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