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900 metres up the Algarve's tallest mountain in the middle of the night. Shockingly dark!

Worth it, though.

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lenses need that extra, post infinity 'reach' to do the autofocusing. Not sure if any of them actually have the infinity properly marked; none of the few ones I have/had had it. My current one has something that doesn't feel very accurate. Looking at manual focus lenses, they implement a similar cursor, but most seem to have the extra info of FoD, which make hyper focusing easier.

I use a similar technique to what @goatsarah explained. I mostly use Jupiter.

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whenever Vanuatu is mentioned I always think of IHP and feel grateful to the nation of Vanuatu for helping me through the first months of my transition while the gatekeepers were keeping gate


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@BashStKid @Sarah Brown She has very little control over the colleges as they're all independent institutions. I think there are separate protests directed at Trinity; with my vaguely-associated-with-Maths hat on I gather various Trinity maths open days have been subject to protests.
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@BashStKid I think the attitude of individual colleges is most likely to be dictated by their fellowship. I don’t know what King’s fellowship is like and how likely they are to put pressure though.
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Prone to doomscrolling the hours of insomnia away on Reddit because whatever.

Anyway, it seems heterosexual women getting all divorcy because their partners still wank is a thing.

And I’m like, “wow, your relationships are so very not like ours”.

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@Andrew Hickey @Sarah Brown Do balls explode or something?
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@Andrew Hickey @Alexandra Lanes Given the number of stories about repressed men who think that wiping their arse makes them gay, I think that’s the least of her problems.


As someone with some unwanted experience in this, the answer is “no”.

Just trust me here.


Would you want to spend a week as someone of the opposite sex? Why/Why not?

#CriticalQuestions #Quiz #PubQuiz #StayHome #StaySafe #StayHomeStaySafe

youtu.be/TF17t9ph_RE


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@CriticalCupcake I totally trust you but it might be like those daft challenges to live on poverty wages for a week? If you knew it was going to come to an end shortly it might be less unbearable? I suspect I couldn't live as a man, I would have no clue how to pass and I would probably get attacked.
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@RGB @Critical Cupcake I know there are cis people who tried this for “an experiment” and had to stop because they had a nervous breakdown.


The results are in for the English and Welsh council elections, and the shitbag Tories have come third.

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!

Maybe spend less time obsessing about where we pee, eh guys?

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I am delighted and relieved but I daren't hope it'll improve nationally cos Labour is only "less bad" not necessarily any good.

My area did ditch our Tory mayor tho, the one who has been distancing himself from the parliamentary party while also being the life partner of Michael Fabricant which Makes No Sense At All Cos He's A Scary Loon.



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incidentally, this is why many activists (or faketivists) don't like fedi: they need to forcefully push their message and they can't. And one can have opposite opinions depending on whether they consider the message to be good or evil. I, for one, value this property of the fediverse very much.


Hey Tories! While you’re coming third in your elections, I’m in ur country, being trans with intent to use a public toilet 🖕🏻
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@Sarah Brown How very dare you use the toilet for people with detached heads.


So that Jurassic Park, a creature-feature starring Tyrannosaurus Rex and Velociraptor, is named after a period that occurred over seventy million years before those animals evolved.

I am unreasonably annoyed by this.



So there’s a thing about these right wing Americanists who want to force women back into “traditional gender roles” that I don’t get: they come from the bit of America where the music is all about women in traditional gender roles, trapped in an abusive marriage, murdering their husbands.

READ THE ROOM, GUYS.

Or drink coffee with arsenic in it. Your choice.

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Goodbye, Earl.
(Srsly though here in the US this would more typically end with Earl murdering Wanda & probably Maryanne, too, if she lived in easy driving distance.)
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Dear god. I thought we left bullshit like “debate me bro!” in response to safety warnings to marginalised communities behind on fucking Twitter.

Apparently not. No, you do not get debated. You get blocked and fucking purged from the server.



Useful into for UK trans feminine people

Pharmacies in Portugal (verified) and Spain (unverified) will often sell oestrogen HRT over the counter to tourists without a prescription. If you watch Ryanair prices, you could day trip there for £50 or less.

This will likely be cheaper and potentially safer than using an internet pharmacy.

2mg estradiol is readily available in pill form.

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@StuffByBez @jen To my understanding this is mostly if you use overly high doses, which is sadly kinda common because medical professionals are idiots and often don’t take into account that E is an anti-androgen and prescribe full 50mg pills.


IMPORTANT - PLEASE SHARE

The linked document is being circulated amongst NHS service providers for young trans people. It advises cessation of ALL medical intervention for transition but goes further. It suggests that if the patient or parents continue to access trans healthcare outside their system, they should be reported to social services with the implicit threat that the children will be taken from their parents.

IF YOU ARE A YOUNG TRANS PERSON OR A PARENT OF ONE, IT IS LIKELY UNSAFE TO ENGAGE WITH NHS MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES.

docs.google.com/document/d/1JS…

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@Ghost of Hope @Rachel Greenham @Charlie Stross @C++ Guy I’m one of the lucky ones who got in under the Article 50 wire. That route has closed now though.
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@grayface_ghost @StrangeNoises @cstross You're giving the British public more credit than they deserve,don't forget these are the people that gave the albino orang utan and 80 odd seat majority to do with as he wished to which he started wrecking the country. Mags happened on both sides of the Atlantic ocean we've gotta make sure it doesn't happen on this side again.


I have arrived on the rock known as Poundland. WHERE IS THE NEAREST BIOLOGICAL FEMALES TOILET ASSHOLES? I WISH TO DESECRATE IT WITH MY TRANS PISS
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After your unholy piss and exiting that place, I hope you have a better day.
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AS ARMAS, OS MEUS CARALHOS! CONTRA OS BRETÕES, URINAR!

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TERF bullshit, but it’s funny, in a pathetic way

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TERF bullshit, but it’s funny, in a pathetic way

@Ed Davies Oh yeah, they do that too, regularly.

"Someone clicked like on nasty Sarah's post. SEND THEM TO PRISON FOR A THOUSAND YEARS"

Like, how little self awareness do you have to have?

Sadly, the Lib Dems are increasingly not telling them to fuck off. Apparently if this is all you do all day, every day, eventually you get your way because people get exhausted trying to ignore you.



If there's a UK trans person in your life, check on them.

They probably aren't OK right now.

Seriously

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it's been hard. I've got friends who are definitely struggling right now.
Things seem very uncertain is probably the nicest way to say "it's probably going to be more of the same after the election"


I am constantly amazed at how thin the skins of TERFs are. They would not last 5 minutes as a trans woman.
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The absolute epitome of “dishing it out, but unable to take it”


I am constantly amazed at how thin the skins of TERFs are. They would not last 5 minutes as a trans woman.


Hearing some news on the grapevine that pubic lice would stop sucking blood if only their victims weren’t so mean to them.

Also, coincidentally, transphobes are very new to the whole, “taking responsibility for your own actions” thing.

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@Alisdair Calder McGregor honestly, I certainly am. Vagina tight as fuck, but mostly because I never use it.
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@Alisdair Calder McGregor aaaaasanyway, must dash. Got a subtropical sunset to watch over my citrus trees, safe in the knowledge that I have no pubic lice.


Trans people in the UK ten years ago: “We want equality and timely medical care.”

Trans people in the UK now: “Please, just stop hitting us with that baseball bat.”

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I remember around 2015ish, when you predicted that there'd be US-style toilet laws in the UK someday. I remember thinking that that was a bit far-fetched, but I've now changed my mind. Labour aren't going to be any kinder towards British trans folks, are they? 😞
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@Llwynog I don’t think they’re going to try so hard to be evil, but I don’t think they’re going to undo any of what’s happened either.

I wish I’d been wrong a decade ago.



You guys ever dwell on how fortunate we are to have been born after the development of anaesthesia?

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Aged 10 (late C19), my grandmother's aunt went paddling and her feet were cut by a piece of tin. They became infected (I presume they developed gangrene). By the time she saw a doctor, the only solution was amputation. Both feet, on the kitchen table of the girl's house, without anaesthetic. Apparently, she could be heard screaming from outside the house.

It's besides the point, but they could've given her tourniquet anaesthesia as a non-pharmaceutical option.



Weird asthma attack tonight. Lots of Ventolin taken. Barely touched it. Always fun when part of you is trying really hard to die.


Michael O’Leary is a real life shitposter who plays the press like a fiddle, and here he is doing it again.

We live in a time where anyone could do a quick check to see if a 737-8200 could reach Rwanda from the UK (ok, fuelling stops are possible but it seems unlikely that would be favoured), and confirm that, no, it cannot.

But “journalists” don’t apparently bother to actually investigate … anything.

So O’Leary gets his name in the media again for free. bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

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Spoilers for Fallout and Silo

Ok. Binged Fallout. Never played the game.

But it’s basically Silo, if Silo didn’t take itself seriously, and also there’s no nuclear war in Silo, and everybody outside is dead in Silo (humans anyway, the rest of the ecosystem is fine as long as it stays away from Fulton County, Georgia).

And Silo is set in our future, not some 1950s retro future.

But other than that, same idea. I guess Silo was influenced by the game. It’s very much “what if Fallout, but hard sci-fi?”

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Spoilers for Fallout and Silo
@FoolishOwl Also, the reasoning for doing the bad thing was different: Fallout, capitalist excess; Silo, Thurman passionately believes that he needs to murder 7 billion people to save humanity.
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“Woke” is used as en epithet by those whose entire existence is trying to make reality conform to their simplistic prejudices, against those who live in the real, but more complex, world.


Cass report: there’s a useful phrase in politics for the kind of thing that it is: policy based evidence making.


Algarve air is just indescribably wonderful after spending 2 weeks in the uk cultivating asthma attacks.

Deep breaths, because I CAN.




Don’t quite know what to make of this. Either it’s Cass trying to gaslight us, or maybe she’s realised that beyond the shores of Normal Island and the US, having her name on this bag of crap basically destroys her career? thekitetrust.org.uk/wp-content…
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sounds like her bullshitting…and pretty sus this group took her at her word…
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so, she’s a stooge? Not sure why I’d improve my opinion of her. Stonewall reports appointments being cancelled.


UK new builds: the builders will tell you that the toilet flushes are “European style” to save water.

This is a lie. I live in two new build flats. One in Portugal and one in England. The toilets they put in in UK new builds are just shit at flushing. The ones in Portugal flush properly.

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the UK blaming Europe (a continent of which it is a part no matter how much it insists it’s a continent of its own) for things it does to itself is a tradition going back to at least the early 80s but probably medieval times
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the ones in Portugal probably flush to a sewage treatment system too, rather than the local beach.


UK, mention of depression

I think I’ve put my finger on what coming back to the UK feels like. If an actual nation state could be suffering from clinical depression, this is what it would look like: Everything is slowly going to shit; the country seems to see no future for itself; it’s making decision after decision that is self neglect bordering on self harm; quite possibly the most unpopular government to be removed by democratic vote rather than bloodshed is about to lose an election by a cataclysmic margin, and when the opposition, who are set to clean up, are asked what they’re going to do differently, the answer is a shrug followed by, “nothing”.

And people here more or less accept it, because boiling frogs and suchlike, but then you go elsewhere (no, America, not you, sit back down), and it’s like the colour returns to the world and you didn’t even realise it was missing.

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The acquisition of a PICADE has me playing OUTRUN. This is a game that I remember from my youth with spectacular graphics. The graphics are, in fact, shit. It also has HGVs doing in excess of 180kph. I am questioning SEGA’s commitment to realism.
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@Sarah Brown I remember it in arcades with the big cabinet you could sit in. It didn’t matter that the palm trees looked like stacks of cardboard boxes somehow.
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@Alexandra Lanes Stereo speakers behind your head. Cabinet looked a bit like a Ferrari. It cost 50p a play when most games were 10p, but my god, it was such a sight to behold!


So, Ukraine, right.

They gave their nuclear weapons to Russia. Bit of an error perhaps.

But they have nuclear power stations, so presumably have access to plutonium.

You see what I’m saying, right? They’ve got to be trying. If it were me, I would …

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IAEA audits their fuel & waste chain & takes a dim view of nations outside of a very small group using power reactors to create weapons-grade material.
Also it's hard & expensive & they have more immediate things to do with their resources.


Famous American murderer from the telly, O J Simpson, has been in the news recently for dying. Here are some lesser known facts about him:

O J was known by his fans as "The Juice". This is because his full name was Orangejuice Jorangejuice Simpson.

King Edward VIII of England was forced to resign because he wanted to marry him.

In addition to being good at rugby and murder, O J was also the first man on mars.

He was acquitted after his lawyer, who was one of the Cardasians from Star Trek, convinced the jury that there were five lights.

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@Ghost of Hope It makes no sense! You must acquit!
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Covid booster means I’ve been vaccinated against seven things in less than a week (measles, mumps, rubella, tetanus, polio, diphtheria, Covid).

Done now. Feeling a bit sorry for myself b



“Traffic is heavy, best set off for your appointment now”, says my phone, for the second time in a week.

Thanks, Californian tech device. I’ll get right on that.



Readers of a certain age may remember a fun but flawed vertically scrolling progressive shoot ‘em up game from the mid 80s called Slap Fight. I played it loads on the C64.

I today found out it was called something entirely different in the US, and I feel like part of my childhood was a lie.



Comparative vaccine review: tetanus, polio, diphtheria arm hurts a LOT more than measles, mumps, rubella arm.


Now the UK has used “no medical care for trans people before 25 because brains not developed”, they’re gonna push for 40, “because fertility”.

I would actually put money on them doing that.

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That's pop psychology at its worst.

Yes, there is still some development in "the brain" up to the age of 25, but it's mostly to do with the areas of the brain that deal with impulse decision making. The areas of the brain that deal with considered decision making are more or less fully developed at 15.

And despite how things look in transphobic fantasy-land, nobody is transitioning on a whim.

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@Catriona If people under the age of 25 shouldn't be making choices because their brains haven't fully developed, then those over 35 shouldn't be making choices either, because their cognitive faculties will have started to decline.

It's such a bullshit excuse.