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Itโ€™s unavoidable. Even if I donโ€™t buy anything I have to go and tempt myself.


Doctors: #Dupuytrens disease is painless.

My dupuytrens at 3am today: WAKE UP MOTHERFUCKER! ITS TIME TO FEEL THE HURT!



I get that we Brits are known for being annoyingly indirect, but surely โ€œI find these sorts of conversations exhaustingโ€ is not unclear, right? Itโ€™s obvious that I want the conversation to stop, right?
in reply to Sarah Brown

I think itโ€™s clear unless the listener doesnโ€™t do social cues. I can imagine it segueing into โ€œoh I know it must be so dreadful to have this conversation all the time, tell me about it some moreโ€


@Mona app Last couple of versions on iOS donโ€™t seem to get new posts on Friendica any more. My most recent post showing is 3 days ago, even though it has newer notifications (which I can click through).


Just walked through airport security wearing 13 metres of accessory cord in plain sight, because thatโ€™s how I roll.


WARNING! I have a marlinspike and Iโ€™m not afraid to use it!
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Yup. And you used the marline spike, or marline spike, to work it. Then contraction happened and it became โ€œmarlinspikeโ€.

But yes, it is indeed named after Marl Line, and the fish appears to be named after the tool.

in reply to Alexandra Lanes

ok, I see the confusion. Itโ€™s the fasten part, not the moor part. Marl line, which we now call whipping, is used to fasten the end of a rope, to stop it coming unwoven.


Too many people think transphobes can be reasoned with. If only they could be made to understand.

But lots of them do understand. The thing that is missing is not your magic powers of explanation.

Transphobes do not need to be persuaded.
Transphobes need to be frightened.

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โ€What can we do to make trans people feel welcomed in our party?โ€

Why do UK parties keep asking this question? Itโ€™s already been answered. They know what they need to do. They just wonโ€™t do it.

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UK Pol
Maybe theyโ€™re hoping that the answer will change to something they are willing to do, like โ€œput a trans pride flag in the party logo on Transgender Day of Remembranceโ€
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UK Pol
steady on, someone on social media might notice that and get angry. How about having a drag queen DJ at the conference disco?
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UK Pol
@CherylMorgan But not at any family friendly events, just ones that have been clearly marked as Adult Content, and well away from the main hall.
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UK Pol
I laughed because really, making trans people feel welcome seems like the opposite of what they're committed to


TERF discussion
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TERF discussion

Aside: one of the great things about Fedi is how itโ€™s basically safe to point out the obvious similarities between having TERFs in your organisation and having fucking genital crabs.

Couldnโ€™t do that on Elonโ€™s hard right shite site.

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TERF discussion
"They canโ€™t seem to quite manage to successfully mimic actual human communication and this is a good way to spot them ..." ๐Ÿคฃ

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Question to you knowledgeable types out there: if, as suggested in the admin "site" settings, I do:

bin/console relocate https://newdomain.whatever

...will it tell followers of people on my node on, e.g. Mastodon, that the accounts have moved and they should refollow there?

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UK Pol, transphobia

Followup to the thing where TERFs had succeeded in getting a debate to remove recognition of non binary people from the UK Lib Dem consitirituon: excellent LGBT+ activists organised to โ€œmove next businessโ€ when it came up (which is basically, โ€œthis is so shit we arenโ€™t even discussing itโ€).

It worked. I also understand that the TERFs got booed when they tried to oppose.

They are busy crying on the legacy social media platforms where they are tolerated.

Good. Cry more, bastards.

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UK Pol, transphobia
The best bit is that they demanded a count of that vote and apparently only 6 or 7 people supported them ๐Ÿคฃ

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The Who: Talkinโ€™ โ€˜bout my generation!

Me: What are they saying?

The Who: Awfully cold things!

Me: Ok, which generation is this, by the way?

The Who: The Boomers

Me: Oh, the generation that revived Nazism as a mainstream political force?

The Who: Um, er, that might be a minority

Me: And you personally, Mr Daltrey, you voted for Brexit and are currently busy on the wrong side of the โ€œwar on wokeโ€, arenโ€™t you?

Daltrey: WOKE BASTARDS! DESTROYING ALL THAT IS GOOD AND PURE! BLOODY FOREIGNERS! RULE BRITANIA!

Me: Maybe they had a point about your generation.

in reply to Sarah Brown

Or maybe The Who had a point about dying before getting old. But surely it was "people" who DID things which looked awful c-c-cold?
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"Hope I die before I get old" really hitting home in this context.


Improving my paracord skills. Attempt 1 on the left with a clasp. Middle is attempt 2 which is a strap knotted together at the end (the knot is ugly). Right is attempt 3 which is a single loop, spliced at the end. Iโ€™ve ordered some elastic to make them elasticated and a marlinspike.


r/ukpol is on a โ€œwhat would you do if you got wealthyโ€ thing, and one of them is โ€œnever use RyanAir againโ€.

Theyโ€™d likely be shocked if they knew how many millionaires regularly fly RyanAir.

in reply to Sarah Brown

Or how good Ryanair seems to be! I mean Iโ€™m no expert but in the years youโ€™ve been going to and from Portugal itโ€™s just worked? The hard bits have been pandemic!
in reply to Alexandra Lanes

@ajlanes i have found that i usually book early enough to get a seat at the front of the plane, nice, and i pay for the fast track, breezy, and i have learned how to get immigration fast track when i return via stansted too, which sadly i have to get separately, but all in all it isnt that bad

and i gather ryanair treated their employees better than most through the panini, so ๐Ÿคท could be worse

could be better but not everywhere is reachable by train

in reply to Tony Finch

@ajlanes tho i gather if you get stranded then sucks to be you, but yโ€™know, travel insurance
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I always get fasttrack for Stansted departures. for arrivals, I find it less of an issue.

Iโ€™ll book 1C if itโ€™s available. Their green chicken curry is not terrible and itโ€™s gluten free, which I need.

Iโ€™ve got the routine down now. My record for arriving at Faro is 4 minutes from fan stop to carpark.

in reply to Sarah Brown

Also Portugal is basically reachable by air and road and nothing else. There are no ferries and no long distance trains.
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Whatโ€™s the household speed run record from arrival at Stansted to platform/kiss&drop?
in reply to Alexandra Lanes

Havenโ€™t measured it. The walk from the gate can be much longer at Stansted and never as short as the shortest at Faro. Iโ€™ve done it in under 10 minutes though.
in reply to Sarah Brown

no sarcasm here: wealthy people are traditionally cheapskates. Scrooge wasn't living in a mansion...


Muse: They will not control us! We will be victorious!

Me: Who are they and how are they controlling you?

Muse: Them ... they are ... degrading us

Me: How are the bad people degrading you? Show me on the dolly what they made you do that you didn't want to...

Muse: Um...

Me: It's paying taxes, isn't it? They asked for a tax return, didn't they?

Muse: EXACTLY! Those bastards!

in reply to Sarah Brown

such cruelty. such utterly debased and evil villainy.


politics

The thing that so utterly pains me about the state of humanity is that your Donald Trumps, Boris Johnsons, Marine LePens, Silvio Berlusconis, Andrรฉ Venturas, and all such are painfully obvious bullshit merchants.

And people still buy what theyโ€™re selling.

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I think part of the reason is an assumption that all politicians are lying assholes, so you may as well back the one who's appealing to you and promising to upset the current order that you don't feel invested in.

I don't think they have any illusions about the character of these people, they just don't care.

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Alexandra Lanes
re: politics
@RenewedRebecca Wasnโ€™t that the X Files?


Sexual activity, NSFL

@Sylvia Knight: Apparently morgues prefer to hire women...

Me: ...

Me: ...

Me: OH DEAR GOD NO! I'M GOING TO BE SICK!



At their spring conference this weekend, the UK #LiberalDemocrats are debating removing recognition of non binary people from their constitution.

If you have a Lib Dem MP, or councillor, you might want to let them know how you feel about this.

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Ailbhe
@andrewhickeywriter I do not like this trouserleg of time.
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Alexandra Lanes
@Buster Also to remove the phrase โ€œidentify asโ€ from that.


Portugal has a tankie communist party (PCP) and a vaguely Trumpian far right party (Chega! - Enough!)

And I feel like it must get terribly confusing while theyโ€™re both in the same queue to give Putin a blowjob.

in reply to Sarah Brown

I assume you mean PCP? Theyโ€™re both terribly conservative. PCP used to be better in the past (and contributed a lot to worker rights over time) but I find them now using the same techniques as the American Republican Party to base their arguments on (see Merchants of Doubt, for example) and being against anything that is even remotely progressive. The Chega leader OTOH has zero convictions and goes with the wind, but the party has a lot of dangerous fascists and neo-nazis.
in reply to Miguel Arroz

@Miguel Arroz Yeah. I fixed the typo but edits then have to refederate.

PCP kinda fucked what support they had left going full tankie over Ukraine.

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@arroz@mastodon.social Also Chega insist on advertising their local candidates on billboards outside schools here in Lagos and then get indignant when the kids deface them with swastikas.

The kids are alright.

in reply to Sarah Brown

Yep. Itโ€™s not even a pacifist position. Their former leader said in front of several TV cameras they โ€œdonโ€™t see any signs that an invasion is happeningโ€. Itโ€™s pure denial.
in reply to Sarah Brown

Their problem is they have a deep, visceral hate towards the US and everything it stands for. So they automatically support anyone who takes a stand against the US no matter what.


Oh joy of joy and happiness (this might be sarcastic).

Just been invited to my first mammogram.

This is some proper bullshit right here.

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โ€œDear Senhora Brown, we would like to crush your tits in a radioactive torture device. Please book onlineโ€

Oh fucking joy.

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gotta check them tartars. Keep healthy and live a long life ๐Ÿ’ช๐Ÿป (but yes, Iโ€™m not looking forward to reaching the age bracket when mine have to be squashed into that machine)



Finished my belt! Hereโ€™s a pic of me holding it. Took a few attempts to get the length just right.
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Nice work. I've been meaning to graduate from bracelets and do a belt for a while. Must get some more cord.


#ABoK
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that used to called Scooby Doo back in the 70s. You could buy a bag of multicoloured plastic string and spend time doing it instead of paying attention at school.
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my kind of special is that I have an eidetic memory but donโ€™t get written instructions at all. I learnt knots when I found a picture book of exploded diagrans!



โ€œHow could unregulated speculation be causing banks to collapse again?โ€ Yell baffled politicians who did nothing to prevent unregulated speculation by banks the last time unregulated speculation by banks caused them to fail.



Dear folks who used to be on LiveJournal.

Do you miss it?

Because thatโ€™s basically what Friendica is, only in the fediverse.

Our community is nowhere near as big as Mastodon, but we can do long form posts with inline images and formatting, just like back in the day.

And weโ€™re growing!

Why not check us out?

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I never had a Livejournal account, but during the Golden Age of Blogging some of my favorite bloggers were on Livejournal. I remember one by the name of Brad (forgot last name) who referred to his father as the Man of Concrete. And there was a student of biomedical engineering at WSU (not Wayne State, the WSU down in Ohio), who wrote of the struggles to get disability accommodations at school, and get through the math weeder courses. So many great blogs. LJ was the greasy kids stuff platform before Tumblr took over that niche. I was too old for Livejournal, but all the coolest people were there.
in reply to Sarah Brown

oh, so tempting. I certainly still miss LiveJournal


Since I was a kid, I have had occasional outbreaks of eczema in my ear canals. It baffled ENT for years: they had no idea why the โ€œinfectionโ€ wouldnโ€™t respond to anything they tried (they never tried corticosteroids).

Anyway, itโ€™s doing it again, and it HURTS LIKE FUCK.

(I had to figure out if was eczema myself. No medical professional has ever done anything other than give me stuff to treat an ear infection, which I donโ€™t have, and so never works).

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@@stroud.social Iโ€™m using triamcinolone, which is also prescription only, and for which I also donโ€™t need a prescription.


This is Britain in a nutshell. Everybody appoints their mates to a closed shop. They donโ€™t think what theyโ€™re doing is corruption. mas.to/@sabret00the/1100017884โ€ฆ


Testing @monaapp@mastodon.social with Friendica. Does it support the thing no other app has yet managed? Photo upload!


It was a lovely day today, so we went for a drive up into the mountains and met this friendly woofer!
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Sarah Brown
@April Ryebread Most friendly too! Followed us back to the car. Seemed very keen on the idea of us diverting to a steak restaurant.



I think someone tried to โ€œnegโ€ me tonight and it made me feel surprisingly shit, even though I spotted what he was up to.

Arsehole

in reply to Sarah Brown

Urgh. I mean, that's so many levels of wrong anyway because you're awesome ๐Ÿ˜˜


Today on โ€œImmigrants who call themselves ex-pats do the stupidest thingsโ€:

โ€œI sent my laptop, which I bought in the UK and brought to Portugal, for repair in the UK, then had them ship it to Portugal. Now customs are holding it, saying import duty is due. How do I challenge this as I already paid tax in the UK?โ€

So you want to 1. Admit to tax evasion from the first time you imported it without declaring it, and 2. Throw a strop to try and get away with tax evasion again?

Do let us know how that goes for you, wonโ€™t you?

#Brexit: Fucking around and finding out since 2016.

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in reply to Sarah Brown

Why didn't they just fly to the UK and give it to a friend or relative to get it repaired? Customs would of been none the wiser if it was in hand luggage.
in reply to geekylou :transgender_flag:

@geekylou :transgender_flag: Yes. If you are going to do this, you smuggle it in hand luggage. They know it happens. We know they know it happens. They know we know. A certain amount is tolerated.

But it seems other countries' taxes don't apply to Mr Brexional Exceptional.

in reply to Sarah Brown

Surely, all you need to do is show them a copy of the ATA carnet you sent with the repair. What, you didn't fill in an ATA carnet? Did you forget?


Algarve Winter pro tips: buy a dehumidifier. Buy an expensive one. Trust me on this.
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Iโ€™ll never understand why humidity is so high in Portugal even when it doesnโ€™t rain and so low here where it rains all the time. Mold and damage caused by humidity is way too common.


UK Pol, Transphobia

Jess Phillips, MP, someone many trans people regard as a transphobe, reads out a list of murdered women in the House of Commons every year. This year she included Brianna Ghey, a murdered trans girl.

Her own side has turned on here for being insufficiently hateful. Check out the replies to this tweet, but donโ€™t reply: never interrupt your enemy while they are making a mistake.

in reply to Sarah Brown

UK Pol, Transphobia
I mean yes, but I'm surprised she mentioned her, really
in reply to Ailbhe

UK Pol, Transphobia

@Ailbhe Uncharacteristic twinge of humanity, or maybe itโ€™s got too much for her to stomach.

Anyhoo, Iโ€™m all for terf civil wars.



No idea why โ€œdesumidificadorโ€ is so much harder to say than โ€œdehumidifierโ€; itโ€™s only one more syllable. #Portuguese

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Sarah Brown
@LostSettler @eL_ABC United Kingdom, currently waging an all-out war against trans people, at 12 gives this the stench of bullshit.



Accidentally ate some gluten earlier. Waiting for my DIP joints to start hurting.
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