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Bless the hearts of lemmy types thinking that they can play Reddit fiefdom silly buggers on fedi.
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Reddit: you violate subsection 12, clause 14b, section g of the rules and we absolutely have the power to ban you and remove all your posts.

Fedi: I wrote a rules novel. What do you mean I can’t do shit to enforce it? If teacher existed, I’d tell on you!

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Dunno what it is about Reddit, but every single mod there secretly yearns to be a despotic president of one of those seppo HOAs.
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I think most "communities" are like this, tbh, even the fluffy ones, once you get under their skin. The more I see of society, the more I like plants. It all seems to be fine, until there starts being a *thing* independent of the individual pairs of relationships. Then it falls apart.


Dear cis people losing your minds about this boxing thing.

This is cis on cis. Please leave us out of your weird shit.

Signed,
Trans women

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TERFs having a normal one, destroying women’s sports because some of the cis competitors maybe remind them a bit of trans woman, none of whom ever qualify for anything anyway, even when allowed to compete.
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oh and also a good dose of racism, because when you scratch the surface, it's always there.
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@KateKarnage
I always forget who said "my feminism will be intersectional or it will be bullshit", but it seems really applicable here. (I know it from Flavia Dzodan but IIRC she's quoting someone else).


Enshittification: coming soon to a mouse near you. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/0…

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Its a fudging device with a couple of buttons, a wheel and an optical sensor, why would you need updatable software when current os drivers can take care of the task fine! FFS! Down with capitalism and greedy bastards.
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Not a forever mouse but a forever pay for the mouse.
I'll stick with my already paid for Logitech mouse. They do make decent mice and keyboards


Cass deserves to go down alongside Wakefield in my opinion. This is a wholly biased piece of work, produced to order, and to suit an agenda, and that agenda is profoundly hostile to trans people. erininthemorning.com/p/british…
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Fully agree.

It's shoddy, partisan rubbish.

The Wakefield of trans care is how I describe Cass.



Cis people: Here’s a fun thought experiment! What would it be like to live as the other sex?

Trans people: Well, we might have …

Cis people: There’s no way we can ever know, lol!

Trans people: Er, hello?

Cis people: It will forever remain a mystery

Trans people: We’re right here

Cis people: So unknowable

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Speaking only for myself (a cis woman), I'd worry that it might seem like an impolite question to ask a trans person. I wouldn't ever ask such a thing, unless I knew the person quite well (and even then I might hesitate). I wouldn't want to make someone feel "othered" just to satisfy my own curiosity.
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@marilyn some trans people might not want to talk about it. With me the trick would more be getting me to shut up.
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Sarah Brown

@Eric the Cerise I’ve read accounts from cis people who tried, gave themselves gender dysphoria, and got suicidal.

Caveat emptor



Estate agent be like, “you sold a house with us! Now you are on our mailing list! Why not sell ANOTHER HOUSE!!!

Er, because I’m, like, living in it?

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I’m so please I didn’t have to deal with estate agents!
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@Sarah Brown When I was getting mine valued I did get the sense of being prey to a variety of differently-suited predators.


British court upholds stochastic homicide of trans youth in UK.

Didn’t really expect anything else, but how bloody bleak.

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@Alexa (She/Her) 🏳️‍⚧️ yeah, and with no HRT to replace the missing hormones.

The world hates us. The world has always hated us. We are on our own.



American Christians will tell everyone who isn’t them that we’re “special snowflakes” who need to toughen up, and in their next breath go utterly fucking nuclear on Facebook because the French dared to depict Bacchanalia.

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Not an original observation, but what they really hate is people not cowering in shame for being any degree different to them.


TERFs be like, “biology is immutable” as they sit there converting grass seed to skeletal muscle after having replaced >90% of their body mass in the last few years, while being descended from literal fish that breathed water.

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Roomba: My bin may be full

Me: Given you just cleaned about as well as an oppositionally defiant teenager, I profoundly fucking doubt that.

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Just gonna preempt the “trans woman said ODD, that’s ableist, ha gotcha!” takes, I do in fact have ADHD with ODD so if you’re tempted, maybe just STFU instead?


Why do the right wing nut jobs have to be so fucking WEIRD?

indy100.com/tv/paris-olympics-…

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Literal grown ass adults thinking the devil is real, and complaining that he’s running the olympics or something. Fuck’s actual sake. Get a fucking grip.
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hahaha I grew up Catholic in the 1980s and the satanic panic in the U.S. was very real. My mom and stepdad really believed the conspiracy theory that the company Procter & Gamble supported the Church of Satan and communicated diabolical messages with their old crescent-moon logo. Now, QAnon is basically the same thing—baby boomers giving each other the chilly willies with spooky stories.
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I assume all those beautiful queer performers didn't go down well with them, either. I, on the other hand, had a constant grin on my face at how the organisers were rubbing it in their faces.


Check out these total losers. Iron tipped. Whoopee doo. One of mine is titanium cored. Where is your loser metal now? edition.cnn.com/2024/07/24/sci…
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you can make pretty oxide colours on it, but a bit wasted down inside an implant.
We do have a student looking at surface effects on implants for ossiointergration but I think they are more concerned with textures than colours.


France: Any journey shorter than 4 hours by train should not be allowed to be taken by plane.

Me, after using French railways for a couple of weeks: They’re running plane services for distances of only 100km?

I’m honestly shocked at how functionally useless French railways are. “Welcome to our interchange. Please wait 2 hours surrounded by screaming kids and chain smokers for your connection. No you can’t have a fucking coffee”

Dear the UK, you have it better than you could possibly believe.

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@TimWardCam well, we do have some 1 #train per 2 hour services overdue for improvement like Peterborough-Ipswich and a few daily oddballs like Cambridge-Harwich, but in general, GB regional service frequency beats French. Slower and fewer high speed services in GB though. Lots of 180 and 160kph lines with little bits of 205.
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@Alexa (She/Her) 🏳️‍⚧️ The infrastructure is clearly there to support integrated public transport. It just doesn't seem to be used to enable it.


Reading about the book that this Vance bloke wrote, and apparently it’s all, “I was poor growing up and struggled but saw people on benefits with phones and that’s not fair”.

And his conclusion seems to be that they shouldn’t have those things if he can’t.

I had a similar childhood, but reached a very different conclusion. I don’t want anyone to struggle. If someone else has something I don’t, I don’t actually care as long as I have what I need.

He seems to feel that what he wants is not for his own needs to be met per-se, but to be ahead of others. As long as he has the biggest slice of cake, it doesn’t matter how small the cake is.

I want enough cake, and I want the rest of the cake to have enough for everyone else.

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There’s the old LBJ adage about needing someone to look down on …
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same! I grew up in a declining industrial town, as the child of an unemployed single mother, growing our own food, couldn't afford a car, etc. I'm now a successful engineer and rich beyond my wildest childhood dreams (not a millionaire or anything, but still). And I want a UBI, and a free NHS with staff who get reasonable pay and work reasonable hours, and for kids to get free school meals, and nobody to be homeless or hungry. Can society afford that? Yes. Poverty costs us all.


Ok, but maybe some sort of IPx7 couch, to accommodate the dolphins?

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as an atheist, I never felt something come this close to heresy


Long form - on transphobia and trans women as basilisks

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Welcome to fucking France, where it is fucking impossible to not be fucking downwind of a fucking lit fucking cigarette at all fucking times.
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It's so bloody infuriating. What's worst are those ignorants smoking at bus/tram stations... That was banned (and people respect it) even in my otherwise super backwards Czechia. Ugh.


In lieu of the whole "starter motor catching fire" incident, we have decided to end our voyage south for this year and leave the boat here in Quiberon. We Weill resume our journey south in the spring, after repairs and annual maintenance out of the water.
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@Sarah Brown Don’t you mean in light of? While stopping the voyage here instead of the motor having caught fire is appealing it offers certain causality related technical difficulties


Moving boat to a different berth. Starter motor got stuck on, hit overspeed, and produced quite a lot of smoke.

We are fine. The boat is fine. The starter motor is not. It will need replacing.

Arse

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This sort of thing is why boats are described as holes in the water that you throw money into.


The lady in the office at Quiberon marina was super nice. She got me to teach her a few words of Portuguese!


What we had planned for this last week: Tréguier to Bendodet, versus what we did: Tréguier to Quiberon.

I am bloody proud of us.

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@Brian R. Pauw 240ish nautical miles. For the part around Brest, hitting the tidal gates at the right time is utterly compulsory. We also had to leave Tréguier on an ebb tide because it's up a river.
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tides around there are something to behold. Hope to be able to follow your path one day. Good luck out there!


We have arrived in Quiberon marina as the end of phase 2 of operation, "Oui Oui Baguette".

I am tired in my bones.

Didn't get murdered by orcas.

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@flere-imsaho Saw loads of dolphins, doing dolphin shit, tho. Cute, they were!


Shit!

The orcas attacked and disabled a boat really close to where we are two days ago. They were also seen in the western English Channel at a point where we sailed right by them.

We didn't know. I thought they were still near Lisbon.

They have NEVER been this far north this early before. I thought we had until September.

Planning tomorrow's passage. Going to stay in shallow waters as much as we can. Actually quite frightened.

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@rachel maybe. However, my AIS B transponder does not allow me to set decimal meters at all. I haven’t checked the standard, but maybe it’s supposed to be entered in whole meters?
It’s a pretty moot point anyway, at most you’ll confuse a passing submarine…
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Update: More dolphin sightings through the day. No orcas. We are now rafted up in the outer harbour at the island of Groix. 4 hours to our destination for this leg, Quiberon, tomorrow, then we go home.


#fediblock parcero.bond - edgelord troll. Receipts:

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@183231bcb you need to add https:// to the start, or he deleted it.
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@183231bcb Oh, dunno about that. Seems like the web frontend got confused when I sent the post.


Just seen the best bit of commentary on transmisogyny I’ve seen in ages: if you want to know how a man treats cis women in private, look at how he treats trans women in public.
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@JustinMac84 how come transphobes always accuse trans women of being perverts in women’s locker rooms oogling cis women but they never accuse trans men of sneaking into men’s locker room to oogle cis men? If they view the genders as equal why not criticize all trans people the same way accross the board?
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@JustinMac84 yes exactly. Transphobes are sexist just like you said. Some prejudices are not separable from one another because they rest on the same assumptions.

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Another instance of a contact with an animated GIF causing the worker to hang. The contact is lemmy.world/u/GamerBoy705, and the update contact job has been running for 2 days.



I honestly do not see how, given the events of the last few years and especially the last week, the USA is able to see the decade out. I think it’s going to just collapse in on itself from the top.
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eh, someone on a different planet with a rewlly big telescope is surely taking notes
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The range of possibilities is vast. Almost anything could happen. I make no predictions.



Remember how the Brexit referendum was won days after a politician on the remain side was assassinated by someone supporting leave, and the whole thing was apparently just forgotten about?

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yeah that stuff only counts when it’s someone on the right who bites it
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Perhaps we should make 16 June a feast day for The Venerable Jo Cox.




Just heard the Emirates Stansted to Dubai flight take off. Still boggles my mind that they have that going from Ryanair international.
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@Colman Reilly like, “aw, did someone get lost on the way to LHR? Did the lack of a second runway not tip you off? Did we want to feel big and important next to all the 737s?”


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@Ed Davies @Sylvia Knight @Zoë O'Connell Even got some sailing in afterwards. Nice after the drone of the engine

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♪ Right now you are down and out
And feelin' really crappy
[…]
And when I see how sad you are
It sorta makes me happy
[…]
Human nature-
Nothing I can do
It's Schadenfreude
Making me feel glad that I'm not you♫


Dear entrepreneurs

Make an iPhone MagSafe multitool

I will give you money

That’s it. That’s the tweet.



Commiserations to Emily Brothers who failed to win her election as the first openly transgender woman to parliament, but also congrats on avoiding the awkward conversation with her boss about which parliamentary loo she should use.


Hi “Robert”. Great question! We know that we’re women because people like you keep talking over us.
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@HarbingerOfSalem @Samvega
Gender traitors, like race traitors
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@mysturji @thomasmcnicholas I think it's imperio

And the standard counter is expeliarmus

And if I'd known she was such a bigot back when I picked up the first Harry Potter book, it would have gone back on the shop shelf


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Yeah we really need PR, however some parties have gotten very good at targeting. The Lib Dems went for the seats they knew they could win and that's it.