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Dear Apple, when the device is localised (see that S there?) into British English, "chips" does NOT go under "confectionary" in the shopping list.

Goddam fuckmuppet seppo nonsense.



A prediction:

The EU is going to decide that it needs to protect itself against Putin’s aggression.

Trump will abandon Europe to Putin.

Starmer will be like, “I’ll align with the second guy”.

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I hope Europe gets it's act together. Election result in The Netherlands and upcoming elections in Germany are bit worrying


Western progressive parties stop doing this challenge 2024:

“The other guys are right. Don’t vote for them!”

The obvious thing happens.

“The other guys are REALLY right. Don’t vote for them”

Why are you like this?

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“The other guys are REALLY REALLY far right. Maybe we can convince some of them to vote for us.”


Just been reading about a horrible bully who stabbed and brutally killed a critically endangered animal that was just minding its own business by a tumtum tree.

Disgusting



Dear Oort Cloud. We are ready. Please put us out of our misery, preferably before we develop proper space travel. It’s for the best.

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> “The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.”
—Bill Watterson


The day after the Brexit vote, I was stuck in bed having panic attacks on repeat.

It shoved me out of my comfort zone and now my life, in Portugal, is better for it (immigrant stress is real though), but it was a profoundly shitty thing to go through, and my heart utterly goes out to the millions of Americans, especially the young women, the LGBT people, and the terrified immigrants, and others now experiencing the same thing.

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Anyway, by this time next year, I will have submitted my paperwork saying that I have no criminal record in the UK, along with proof of 5 years residency, Portuguese language proficiency, and a copy of my (post gender recognition) birth certificate.

And when it is approved, I will be registered as a Portuguese citizen born overseas (female).

And as far as the state will be concerned, I’m a cis woman.

That’s going to be a useful insurance policy.

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honestly that sounds great. Massive respect for people who managed this given what was happening in 2020/2021
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@will-h it was logistically very very difficult. Yeah.

And then in 2021 my mum got a terminal cancer diagnosis.

Spent a lot of time being one of only half a dozen passengers on a 737.

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Hope everything goes well. It's a huge weight off your the shoulders, to have the magic legal status that wont ever expire or go away.

I assume by now you feel perfectly at home, but let me know if you need anything. I've finally made up my mind and I'm back (and fucking hell, that was stressful AF… somehow I managed to pull it off).



A lot of people, probably the majority, see things in irredeemable scum bags, like Trump, like Boris Johnson, like LePen, and going back, like Hitler, which they like.

And I just don’t get it.

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no, they’re not the majority. But anger gets people to the polls more effectively than anything else. That coupled with the gerrymandering the US system is plagued with means that a minority can grab majority power.
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Because they remember their countries when they were bigoted as hell and the only people they saw were people like them and they want that back. They want the bigotry, discrimination etc. They don’t want to have to think about non white people, LGBT people, non christian people and so on. If you look at the UK the most right wing places are the whitest straightest places. They are worried that will change!


So glad I got my nervous breakdown response to this shit out of the way after the Brexit referendum.

My deepest, most profound sympathies for anyone going through anything similar today. It’s fucking horrible.

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Thanks Sarah. Let's sit with this. Madison said this morning she didn't want to talk.

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Bridge carrying the N125 road over the Rio Arade near Portimão, Algarve. iPhone 16 pro, pro raw, 10 second exposure. Seeing it like this always puts me in mind of the massive atmosphere processor in Aliens.

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Rising feeling of dread about Trump winning tomorrow.
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@Sarah Brown Same. It feels like any kind of hope is me trying to con myself. And there's really really nothing I can do about it (unlike UK elections where there's merely mostly nothing I can do about it)


Flight back from NTE to FAO used an honest to god jetway at the FAO end, like it’s fucking Emirates or some shit.


So I know it’s all very funny, ha ha, but here’s why the orcas don’t go after the boats of the ultra rich.

Two photos. One a multi million euro luxury yacht. Notice it has two props. They steer by vectoring the thrust. There is no rudder.

The other, my boat. It costs what a new car costs (like if you were buying a low end Tesla. Expensive, but not stupid money). It has a rudder because it’s a sailboat. It can’t rely on thrust being present.

No rudder - no orca attack. People who can afford sailboats, which the orcas are attacking, cannot afford luxury motor yachts, which they aren’t.

A sailboat is like a mouldy caravan, but floating, and slower.

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@Mike J👹🐀 🤘🏻 same. I run the gauntlet next summer. Somewhat worried. I have a life raft and a phone that can do satellite distress, and I don’t taste like tuna.


New theory: the orcas are trying to get high. This shit is neurotoxic. Got quite a headache from spending 2 hours painting the hull with it.

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@IncHulk and yet the barnacles prevail. (Got to do the same job on a friend's boat in a few weeks)


Something happen to make you offer this generous discount, did it?

How about you fuck off 500 miles, and then fuck off 500 more, WaPo?


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@transworld There’s evidence on Twitter that they actually added more ketchup to their shirt for the photo they put online.

Also, if they actually had any guts they would have tried that stunt in the Rutland Arms, and not the Benjamin Huntsman ‘Spoons.

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@transworld Hmm, the article says it was a London pub, but I’m fairly sure they were in Sheffield.


Just cleaning the orca chew toy

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I’m always a bit apprehensive about doing this, but it’s also kinda cool
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Presumably, checking out the antifouling, sacrificial anode, prop and rudder?


Anyway, while I’m in France, in a marina, stuck for the next week, have a photo. iPhone 16 pro, pro raw.
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they are remarkable. I couldn’t see that comet the other day but I took a photo just in case and there it was.


Go to sleep. Wake up with clocks having gone back. Get on plane to France. Clocks go forward again.

So basically my return from daylight saving is delayed a week.

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In England now, clocks went back last night. Return home to Washington State on Wednesday, clocks go back next weekend. So I get 2 hours more this year!


I am begging heterosexual men to stop watching stupid YouTube videos that are convincing you that women give a shit about your height.

I assure you that plenty, if not most, of us do not.

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I hope you are right. However, I have been interested for a long time in this question, and on searching the Internet I am always directed to several academic studies that claim that most women have a preference for men taller than themselves, but I have not (yet) found sufficient time to read through the details of this alleged heightism.
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@coyets Honestly, were I attracted towards men, I would be much more interested in whether they clean their arse properly and don’t piss on the floor.

Low bar there, boys. Wanna wow the girls? Actually quite easy.



I understand Michael O’Leary “dog foods”. When he wants to travel, he buys a ticket using the RyanAir app on his phone and experiences it as a normal passenger. As a result, the app is bloody excellent.

It is profoundly obvious that the CEO of Volotea does not do this. Dear god, it’s terrible!



Curious about just how good the quad bayer "48 megapixel" pro raw camera in the iPhone 16 Pro is, I put it head to head against my 26 megapixel Fuji XE4 with a 16mm lens (stopped down to f/5.6) to closely match field of view. I photographed the same scene on both. Here are 100% crops from both, scaled to the same size.

Notably, the phone, despite having more pixels, simply does not capture the amount of fine detail that the Fuji captures with only half as many pixels.

As good as camera phones have got, you simply cannot compete against large photosensors fed by a nice expensive quality piece of glass.

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Here’s the full image (from the Fuji), by the way. It’s gonna be butchered by making it a low quality JPEG for sharing here, but this is the image.
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...Camera recommended by Sarah Thompson, who gives useful advice on photography, among other things.


I prefer to take advice my on child rearing from people whose kids still speak to them.

businessinsider.com/elon-musk-…

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@meatlotion
On the contrary, one does not amass such wealth without also becoming a total asswipe. Financial success requires killing one's own humanity

@KenSwe @goatsarah

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@meatlotion
On the contrary, one does not amass such wealth without also becoming a total asswipe. Financial success requires killing one's own humanity

@KenSwe @goatsarah



Me: I think I’ll make a post to this Reddit community. What are their submission rules?

The community blurb: Please consult our rules wiki before posting.

Reddit mods need an intervention.



Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS from Miradouro da Cordoama near Cape st Vincent, iPhone 16 pro, fusion camera, ProRaw, processed in Adobe Lightroom. 10 second exposure.

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Had to book an AirBNB with a microwave in France because searching for a restaurant that can cater to coeliacs in Brittany resulted in “these guys can do salad without toast.”

I expect coeliacs in France just … die?

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@ajlanes @zoe Cinderford (near the forest of dean) has a GF chip shop! 40 mins drive from home but we make occasional pilgrimages, or stop there if we are in the area anyway!


Thing is, Keith, literally nobody voted for you to do David Cameron cosplay for five years.

So maybe what you need to cut is not imaginary “red tape”, but “the crap”, and start doing your job?

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Neurodivergent people can read and listen to podcasts too, you know. This sort of thing makes us profoundly angry.

My father was not a “super hero”. He was my first bully.

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Zoe
@melivia In my experience that's just how people with neuro-typically personality dysorder cope. If they need to call them self supper heroes to actually treat their child as human, I am happy to support them.
@Seph


Now the total fucking loon has made a taxi without windows. Wonder if the vomit from the inevitable motion sickness is also cleaned automatically?

Headlines when this thing hits the streets: “Robovans are making people travel sick. How come nobody predicted this?”

I’m predicting it, here and now. techcrunch.com/2024/10/10/robo…

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fortunately they'll never be implemented, so we won't need to find out.
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Looking at the interior photos, it appears to have one way glass?

I'm liking the Art Deco aesthetic. I'm liking this /much more/ than the damn Cybertruck. It's immensely impractical, and I'm not sure it'll ship in this form, but I think this is actually pretty cool.

I'd have one as a prop.
Just not from Tesla.



Cis gay “feminist allies” be like, “if trans women are women, why haven’t they made me a sandwich yet?”
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@Rusty Bertrand @Sarah Brown The scare quotes are there for a reason. The people being criticised here are neither feminist nor allies.


Using an USB aquarium aerator pump, duct tape and some sodium hydroxide solution, I have reversed climate change in this jar to 1980 levels. Now I just need money to build one the size of Madagascar. Where the angel investors at?


Praia de Faro, iPhone 16 pro, pro raw, processed in Lightroom on phone.


Us: Ok, Labour, to stop Reform doing an AfD or a Marine La Pen, all you need to do is not be Tories. So what did you do?

Labour: <inaudible>

Us: What

Labour: Be Tories …

Fucksake

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yes.. well

except that Reform / UKIP/ Brexit Party already did something much worse than the AfD.

They converted the Tories into Reform, and they had been in power for 14yrs, until recently.

So the UK challenge is really very different. Much more advanced on the shit arc.



UK Pol, transphobia, far right
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UK Pol, transphobia, far right

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UK Pol, transphobia, far right

@John_Loader That you haven’t noticed it doesn’t mean it isn’t there. It just means you haven’t noticed it.

But then it isn’t aimed at you, is it?



Long ago

Deep in a swamp far from Mexico

Lived an old psychopath, Dandolo!

Rich was he!

Stole from the Egyptian dynasty

Corpse of St Mark, Allegedly.

Ordered ships to be made

Diverted the fourth crusade, Dandolo!

Adding on to the total

Sacking Constantinople, Dandolo!

And when they ships got there

They’d come from St Mark’s Square

Byzantium beware!

You’re so fucked!

Long ago

Dealing the Romans a killer blow

Toppled the empire, did Dandolo!

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Hey guys, did you hear about that time J D Vance got stuck on an escalator for six hours when the power failed?

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This is a triumph. I'm making a note here, huge success.


Latest spam email: Your next getaway, Milan!

I'm sorry, but I have recently been contemplating my sexiness quotient and I very much regret to inform you ...

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how would you compare it also to, e.g. your shirt, or your cat
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@Kathryn Karnage The first one hurts. The second, well, poor pussy! Poor pussy cat!


Stansted is quiet. I guess everyone is done with their holibobs.