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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I am told that I have “acolytes”. Gosh!
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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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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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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.
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!
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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.
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!
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.
@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
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.
@Zoë O'Connell Look at the massive radon ridge over where I grew up! Explains my sunny demeanour and extra head…
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.
All those county and western songs where the cheating bloke gets murdered? I like to think that, in each case, his last words were, “calm down, dear”.
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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.
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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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Sarah, I'm a mod on a queer server and I've been on fedi since like 2007. You've got the wrong end of the stick.
@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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@Rachel Lawson old posts of his. Various women went and did the leg work of uncovering them. They’re not hard to find now, if you’re following this at all.
@Rachel Lawson Ah, here we are. The old “just keep saying trans women and men, and hope that gives me plausible deniability” thing. jorts.horse/@AnarchoNinaWrites…
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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
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This is well supported by a consistent theory
cuberule.com/
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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@Acorn Squashbuckler I absolutely hate that this is turning trans people on Fedi against each other. 😞
@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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@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.
@Sarah Brown @Matthew Vernon Especially given some of the nonexistent or nonsensical excuses for blocking in the original list.
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
@Charles ☭ H Ive defederated him now, but I have to say that the posts from him that I saw before that were very much not in the vein of “taking criticism and not making excuses”. Indeed, he came across as profoundly defensive, and much keener to attribute malign intentions to anyone highlighting issues than actually engage with what they were saying, save one post where he boosted his ally cred by saying he thought the word “girlcock” was fun.
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.
3 days since 9 Edges. I’m starting to be able to manage stairs.
@fionaorkneynews yeah I’d love to see a picture of one of the bridges in place to see if it is recognisable as a turbine blade.
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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@Charles ☭ H @cyborg I agree entirely. Meanwhile the censors are doing the whole “this navel gazing just distracts us from the real struggle” crap which has been the excuse for transphobia, homophobia and misogyny in liberation politics since the year dot.
Is season 2 of the leg^H^H^Hwheel of time any good? I’m saving it up to watch on the plane this weekend.
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Hopefully I’ve shared this right. Anyway, I did this at the weekend. It broke me. 34 kilometres. 30° C, 800 metres of ascent.
So I have stupidly decided to do it again next year.
While I can still barely stand up because of the DOMS.
I must be loopy.
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Upper Derwent Valley and Curbar Edge are two of my happy places, so spectacular!
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This is a bit concerning.
Basically, every few hundred years the earth is hit by a solar flare powerful enough to pretty much destroy all modern tech, and probably give anyone flying in a plane at the time cancer.
These are much bigger than the Carrington Event, which was the last really big solar flare recorded.
One day, without warning, the sun will just wipe out tech slate clean.
And there is apparently nothing we can do about it.
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@Susan Lewis I think the total failure of every electrical system on the planet might make that the least of our worries
Did the Dale Mountain Rescue 9 edges challenge yesterday.
Uploaded my results to Strava.
Apparently the climb from the A57 to High Neb has me on the leaderboard as the 4th fastest middle aged woman.
I imagine this will annoy a "certain group".
In 30 degree heat too!
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Tl;dr: I am fucking quick up hills.
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@Alisdair Calder McGregor Cambridge destroyed my hill fitness.
But Lagos; Lagos is hilly, and hot.
Going up hills in heat I can do.
Usually I block internet transphobes.
But sometimes, like today, they irritate me sufficiently that I go and donate to a trans charity in their name, and then show them the receipt.
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A thing I was recently wondering. For most of the world's population, what is the largest island they can get to, other than the one they are currently on, using only fixed links (ie bridges, tunnels etc. No boats or aircraft).
And I think the answer is very straightforwardly, "Great Britain".
But if you start on Great Britain, then what is it? (I am not counting the land mass of Asia/Africa/Europe as an "island")
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yeh if I'd noticed a causeway on the map (& known it was bigger) I I would've gone with it instead of PEI!
yeh if I'd noticed a causeway on the map (& known it was bigger) I I would've gone with it instead of PEI!
Please enjoy this excellent footage of a nazi being good and properly punched:
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can I contribute my own montage I made a few years go?
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