@A_C_McGregor This does get confusing (although my brain is not in tiptop operation today). Wiktionary lists marline < MLGer marling < MDutch marlijn (“cord”) < marlen (“secure, fasten”), frequentative of maren (“to moor”) < Proto-Germanic *mairōną (“to moor, fasten to”), from PIE *mer-. But for the cover meaning of marl it has < ME marle < OFr marle, < LL margila, diminutive of marga (“marl”). I may have to find a real dictionary.
ok, I see the confusion. It’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.
Maybe they’re hoping that the answer will change to something they are willing to do, like “put a trans pride flag in the party logo on Transgender Day of Remembrance”
So the Liberal Democrats overwhelmingly told their resident TERFs to go do one at their spring conference. They voted by around 9 to 1 to not even hear their hatred and simply remove it from the agenda.
The transphobes are showing their usual complete and total lack of introspection and utterly failing to take the hint.
This is a lesson for us all. Just constantly frustrating them and hoping they go away does not work with these people. If you have them in your organisation, they will not leave by themselves.
TERFs are like bedbugs, or pubic lice: once you’ve got them you need to actively make them go away.
it’s best to make your environment as hostile as possible, to try and prevent them arriving in the first place. if you get them, they will multiply and before you know it, you have an infestation that will not fucking shut up about trans people and “females’ sex based rights” (yes, they talk like Ferengi, or incels. They can’t seem to quite manage to successfully mimic actual human communication an
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So the Liberal Democrats overwhelmingly told their resident TERFs to go do one at their spring conference. They voted by around 9 to 1 to not even hear their hatred and simply remove it from the agenda.
The transphobes are showing their usual complete and total lack of introspection and utterly failing to take the hint.
This is a lesson for us all. Just constantly frustrating them and hoping they go away does not work with these people. If you have them in your organisation, they will not leave by themselves.
TERFs are like bedbugs, or pubic lice: once you’ve got them you need to actively make them go away.
it’s best to make your environment as hostile as possible, to try and prevent them arriving in the first place. if you get them, they will multiply and before you know it, you have an infestation that will not fucking shut up about trans people and “females’ sex based rights” (yes, they talk like Ferengi, or incels. They can’t seem to quite manage to successfully mimic actual human communication and this is a good way to spot them if you aren’t sure whether or not you have an infestation).
If tou leave it too long, they start sending pretend legal threats. it’s best to get rid of them before this point because dealing with this will become very time consuming. They’ll also stalk you and probably your friends and family too.
The Lib Dems did well this weekend, but they still have a largely untreated infestation, and it would have saved them a lot of trouble if they’d nipped this in the bud about 5 years ago.
people get upset at me for this, but it’s why i reccomend against voting for the greens (aus) until they take actual action to get rid of the TERFs.
for some reason cis people don’t seem to think it’s a real problem that I should worry about and will make all the excuses and point at the pro lgbt policies in the party platform and
who cares what’s in the party platform if they won’t enforce it in their own party?
Aside: one of the great things about Fedi is how it’s basically safe to point out the obvious similarities between having TERFs in your organisation and having fucking genital crabs.
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.
The LibDems (the only part I hold a membership in under my actual name) have been deeply disappointing this year on this topic. I’m glad the TERFs failed for once.
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. I’ve ordered some elastic to make them elasticated and a marlinspike.
Or how good Ryanair seems to be! I mean I’m no expert but in the years you’ve been going to and from Portugal it’s just worked? The hard bits have been pandemic!
@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 🤷 could be worse
could be better but not everywhere is reachable by train
Haven’t measured it. The walk from the gate can be much longer at Stansted and never as short as the shortest at Faro. I’ve done it in under 10 minutes though.
The thing that so utterly pains me about the state of humanity is that your Donald Trumps, Boris Johnsons, Marine LePens, Silvio Berlusconis, André Venturas, and all such are painfully obvious bullshit merchants.
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.
@Ailbhe The attitude of the party hierarchy towards TERFs has been one of appeasement, presumably in the hope they’d stop terving all over everything. As a result, they’re now seeking the removal of any trans representation at any level.
Still the party appeases them, instead of throwing them out.
I assume you mean PCP? They’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.
@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.
Yep. It’s not even a pacifist position. Their former leader said in front of several TV cameras they “don’t see any signs that an invasion is happening”. It’s pure denial.
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.
gotta check them tartars. Keep healthy and live a long life 💪🏻 (but yes, I’m not looking forward to reaching the age bracket when mine have to be squashed into that machine)
Making myself a belt from 3mm accessory cord. About 10 metres of cord makes a belt.
Funny story: when I was a kid, someone tried to teach me how to tie reef knots. I am a knot geek now (own #ABoK and everything), but I couldn’t get it right for the life of me. I concluded I was hopeless at knots, because every time I followed the instructions to the letter and got a granny knot.
The instructions were, “left over right, round and under. Right over left, round and under”.
8 year old me assigned “right” and “left” At the start of the exercise and kept
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Making myself a belt from 3mm accessory cord. About 10 metres of cord makes a belt.
Funny story: when I was a kid, someone tried to teach me how to tie reef knots. I am a knot geek now (own #ABoK and everything), but I couldn’t get it right for the life of me. I concluded I was hopeless at knots, because every time I followed the instructions to the letter and got a granny knot.
The instructions were, “left over right, round and under. Right over left, round and under”.
8 year old me assigned “right” and “left” At the start of the exercise and kept track of where they went. Wheat he meant was “Since the right has now become the left, we’re swapping ends”.
But he never said that.
Similarly, the instructions I found for this cobra weave said, “swap ends each time”.
It doesn’t actually mean that. It means keep using the same end, which keeps swapping sides.
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.
my kind of special is that I have an eidetic memory but don’t get written instructions at all. I learnt knots when I found a picture book of exploded diagrans!
“How could unregulated speculation be causing banks to collapse again?” Yell baffled politicians who did nothing to prevent unregulated speculation by banks the last time unregulated speculation by banks caused them to fail.
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.
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 “infection” wouldn’t respond to anything they tried (they never tried corticosteroids).
Anyway, it’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 don’t have, and so never works).
This is Britain in a nutshell. Everybody appoints their mates to a closed shop. They don’t think what they’re doing is corruption. mas.to/@sabret00the/1100017884…
I think the alt text isn’t working on friendica, but even getting the image to upload and appear in the post is more than any other client has managed.
Today on “Immigrants who call themselves ex-pats do the stupidest things”:
“I 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?”
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, won’t you?
#Brexit: Fucking around and finding out since 2016.
I was thinking "But maybe they took it to Portugal the first time before Brexit" and then remembered most folk don't get the length of use of laptops I do
@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.
I’ll never understand why humidity is so high in Portugal even when it doesn’t rain and so low here where it rains all the time. Mold and damage caused by humidity is way too common.
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 don’t reply: never interrupt your enemy while they are making a mistake.
With apologies to the heterosexuals reading, I’ve been browsing relationship advice on Reddit and a constant refrain is women complaining that their boyfriends won’t propose.
I do not watt your app. I realise I may need your app to set things up, but after that I never want to open your app again. I have many gizmos and they all have apps. I don't care about your "dashboard", I don't want to set up an account, you can keep your "cloud", I don't want to import my data. I do not live in your app. I do not want to be reminded of your app's existence. If I have to use your app beyond 5 minutes of initial setup, you have failed.
Stop trying to make me use your app. I do not want to use your fucking app. Most of you can't program for shit anyway. Just set the gizmo up and fuck the fuck off.
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in reply to Alexandra Lanes • •Alisdair is right. It’s from marl, which is thin cord used for whipping (securing the end of a spliced rope).
It’s not related to mooring, other tha.lb mooring lines would indeed be marled.
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Unknown parent • •Yup. And you used the marline spike, or marline spike, to work it. Then contraction happened and it became “marlinspike”.
But yes, it is indeed named after Marl Line, and the fish appears to be named after the tool.
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