Me: “The Tailscale net access thingy is a front end to masquerading.”
@Zoë O'Connell ”Masquerade! Paper faces on parade!”
Me: “That is a shit musical.”
Zoe, offended: “Why?”
Me: “It has two good songs and no story.”
Zoe: “Hang on, which musical is it?”
Me: “Phantom”
Zoe: “Oh, yes, you’re right. It is a shit musical.”
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@Veronica🏳️⚧️ :inanna: There is a rubber gland where the propeller shaft goes through the hull. It’s lubricated by sea water, but needs a millilitre of grease inserting once a year to keep it watertight. This can only be done when the boat is dry docked.
The seal between the gland and the shaft is very narrow, so a plastic drinking straw, which can slip between the two, and then squeeze the grease in, is the ideal way to get it in. If you try with paper, the straw explodes from the pressure.
I’ve heard it can be done with a hypodermic needle too.
I just want all TERFs who hate read me to know that earlier this week, I used a communal changing room. I was naked. There were other women in there. Nobody gave a shit.
Please do feel free to seethe, though.
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Since Brexit, the lack of a proper trade agreement means I will have to pay import VAT on my little sailboat when I take her to France.
I asked on a UK boating forum for some recommendations for a tax advisor to assist with the process. The overwhelming answer was, “just do tax evasion. You probably won’t get caught”.
This may provide an insight into the mindset of British exceptionalism.
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@wrack Except a few months ago there was a story in the local press where they impounded and boat and fined the owner for exactly this sort of pissing about with shell companies.
Please, I’m begging you, read the room.
Internet forums do my head in sometimes.
“Hi, I want to do A. I will need help with this. Does anyone have recommendations for someone who can provide these professional services?”
“Don’t do A. Do B instead”
“Thanks, but B does not interest me. I’m looking for someone to help me do A”
“You could do C”
“It’s my understanding that C will get me arrested for tax evasion, which is why I need someone to help me do A”
“Ok, have you tried B?”
ARGH!
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The polycule iMessage group. @Sylvia Knight asks if we want anything from the shops.
Me, typing in teensy keyboard on Apple Watch: milk
Eggs
Bleach
@Zoe O'Connell, next to me: “you can actually type stuff on your watch?”
Me: “almost”
Zoe: “huh?”
Me: “look at your phone…”
Phone: new message from Sarah: “Earl Greg”
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Stopped at an M&S food place on the way back from working on the boat yesterday. Very knackered and verging on hypoglycaemic, and the only fizzy drinks they had in were sugar feee ones.
And I’m like, cut the moralising, you pricks. Sometimes you really fucking need sugar.
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“Federation tomorrow, not today”.
#Zuckerberg and #Dorsey are just serial bullshitters. #Threads #Bluesky
OK That made me giggle out loud.
Actually I need a new mattress... But unlike those grifting .....s I will buy my own.
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TERFs and bedbugs: One is very fond of mattresses and sucks the life out of their victims, living a life of obligate parasitism.
The other is an insect.
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By the way, I know you're reading this because you can't help yourself, so I have a message just for you, Ms H, and I know you're reading it from my profile, so the formatting will be preserved. I have a message for you:
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Interesting question just came up re driving in the UK on Reddit. Someone wants to go from the M11 to the A3 and asks which way round the M25 they should go. These roads are pretty much equidistant regardless of whether you go clockwise or anti-clockwise round London.
That’s the route we take to Scarlet, so I have opinions on this. Go clockwise from the M11 and you encounter the Dartford crossing. This is a toll crossing, and is often very congested.
Go anti-clockwise and you pass the Heathrow section.
For me, there is no contest. Pay the damn toll. It may be annoying to have to put up with the Dartford crossing, but the Heathrow section of the M25 is the very arsehole of hell and to be avoided at all costs.
Interestingly, most commentators felt the same.
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.
bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-can…
A robbery suspect in Ohio is arrested after falling from a bank's roof into a bin in front of police officers.BBC News
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@RocheLimit @Sylvia Knight @Viking Chieftain "I physically cannot."
"Stop resisting!" BANG BANG BANG
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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
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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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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?
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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.
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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@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.
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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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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 . . .
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 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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in reply to Adam • • •@pseudomonas I do like our old microwave: it has two proper dials on it: how much and how long. It has fortunately been saved the ravages of progress.
Our old one at work used to have all kinds of things: buttons marked chicken which if you pressed twice said "turkey" and three times "goose"; buttons which seemed to accumulate seconds p-adic-ly; a terrifying north-south-east-west yew-hedge maze of heating settings; and all of it discouraging experimentation by each press loudly, gratingly beeping like a church bell being fitfully dragged along a concrete floor.
Quite why we need to set flaps ten, turn packs off, arm autothrottle, and keep N1 below the red line, all for a machine which exists to rotate food while heat is applied -- a task previously given to small, dim-witted children ensconced in inglenooks -- is quite beyond me.
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Unknown parent • • •I thought I was a fan of clockwork timers until one got stuck reheating a whole Christmas pudding.
It had six neat, charred holes drilled through it, which were begining to smoke when it was noticed.
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Unknown parent • • •@sparrowsion @pseudomonas Timers are great: I need to get another for our kitchen. At the moment I look at the kitchen clock and do maths, which is often disastrous, especially when there's multiple things to time.
Defrosting I'm more sceptical about. I have a metal stick which I prod ours with, and if it goes in crunchy, put it in for a bit more. Results seem variable enough that I'm not sure I'd dare delegate. But it would simplify things a bit if it's reliable.
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