Just saw some right wing woman on fedi quoted saying, “imagine being a woman in politics and not knowing whether you got there through your talent or your gender”

And I thought, “it could be worse, pretty much all men are there because of their gender.”

So it looks like I cocked up when setting my friendica server up using DynDNS, because apparently the service is going away at the end of May. Friendica contains a “migrate node” function, but apparently it basically doesn’t work.

So it looks like I’m going to have to create a new server and then try to migrate my account. I think that it should pull my followers, as a Mastodon migration would, but I have no idea if it’s actually going to work.

Arse.

Shall we arrest Trump for doing all the crimes?

Yes. Let’s arrest Trump for doing all the crimes.

(They do not arrest Trump for doing all the crimes)

If I had as much money as Rowling I would be living on a super yacht anchored somewhere in Greece and you would likely hardly ever hear from me, not ranting about the trans on Twitter.

Makes u think.

Dear gods. RyanAir Stansted to Faro, the Friday night late flight. Sitting in row 1 so getting to see how the crew do deescalation (very very well actually).

If this was the US, where deescalation seems to be alien to the national psyche, it’d have been diverted to somewhere in Normandy with a bunch of people in zip ties and met by a SWAT team. As it was, it landed in Faro without incident and everyone continued on.

RyanAir have a reputation as a decent employer compared to many, AIUI, but these guys are not paid enough.

Other perk of sitting in row 1: if you’re not part of the “yay hay pissheads!” crowd, the crew end up chatting to you in quieter times, and they’re fun to talk to.

Doctors: #Dupuytrens disease is painless.

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

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.

”What can we do to make trans people feel welcomed in our party?”

Why do UK parties keep asking this question? It’s already been answered. They know what they need to do. They just won’t do it.

!Friendica Support

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?

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 “move next business” when it came up (which is basically, “this is so shit we aren’t even discussing it”).

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.

The Who: Talkin’ ‘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 “war on woke”, aren’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.