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

Caveat emptor

@Eric the Cerise

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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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Cyberspice
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I’m so please I didn’t have to deal with estate agents!
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Alexandra Lanes
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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.
@Sarah Brown

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British court upholds stochastic homicide of trans youth in UK.

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

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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.

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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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Sarah Brown
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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?

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

indy100.com/tv/paris-olympics-…


Paris Olympics 2024: Right-wingers are upset about yet another ‘satanic Last Supper' performance

The Paris 2024 Olympic Games kicked off on Friday night with a glitzy opening ceremony, and after organisers of the show decided to include a segment featuring drag queens, right-wingers are once again branding this type of self-expression and art as…
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Sarah Brown
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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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Ozzy
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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.

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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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Dr David Mills
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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.

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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.
#train @Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE
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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.
@Alexa Devreux-Swift

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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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BashStKid
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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.

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

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Knew I'd seen it before somewhere
A screenshot of the 8 bit game, "Elite", but instead of a spaceship in the main display, it has a wireframe model of a Tesla Cybertruck

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I've never seen the alleged cyber truck, and until I do, and confirm it's realistically drivable, I will hold firm to the perception that it's nothing more than a very expensive joke by a very bored gamer.

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Long form - on transphobia and trans women as basilisks
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🏳️‍⚧️ The Notorious Kyo 🇵🇸
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Long form - on transphobia and trans women as basilisks

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re: 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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Lukas VFN 🇪🇺
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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.

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

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source
The lady in the office at Quiberon marina was super nice. She got me to teach her a few words of Portuguese!

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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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Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw
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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!

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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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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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Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw
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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…
@Rachel Lawson
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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.

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#fediblock parcero.bond - edgelord troll. Receipts:

parcero.bond/objects/11220e53-c965-483f-8fb2-4ff449ff1757

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zzzparcero.bond
#fediblock

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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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Tina🍉
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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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Tina🍉
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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.
@Justin Macleod

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!Friendica Support Hi guys,

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.

Enter a title

lemmy.world
!Friendica Support

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That URL you posted includes the comma and doesn't work. I suppose you ment this URL:
lemmy.world/u/GamerBoy705

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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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marlies
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eh, someone on a different planet with a rewlly big telescope is surely taking notes
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Ted
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The range of possibilities is vast. Almost anything could happen. I make no predictions.

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source
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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marlies
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yeah that stuff only counts when it’s someone on the right who bites it
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Professeur Renard
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Perhaps we should make 16 June a feast day for The Venerable Jo Cox.

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It is the 13th July and I am trans - blog post by a friend

chrisn.xyz/it-is-the-13th-july…

It is the 13th July and I am trans – chrisn.xyz

chrisn.xyz

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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?”
@Colman Reilly

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A nautical chart showing the Brittany coast presenting the variant without the stop in Roscoff
The same marine chart of Brittany, but showing a stop in Roscoff
@Sylvia Knight @Zoë O'Connell
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@Ed Davies @Sylvia Knight @Zoë O'Connell Even got some sailing in afterwards. Nice after the drone of the engine
@Sylvia Knight @Ed Davies @Zoë O'Connell

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Damn, this is a good week for European democracy. Putin is gonna be PISSED!

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Adam
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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♫

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Dear entrepreneurs

Make an iPhone MagSafe multitool

I will give you money

That’s it. That’s the tweet.

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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.

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Hi “Robert”. Great question! We know that we’re women because people like you keep talking over us.
J K Rowling on Twitter asking Harriet Harman how she knows women politicians are actually women
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What’s the forbidden mind-control curse?
Is there a counter-spell? If so, shout that at her every time she opens her gob.
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@HarbingerOfSalem @Samvega
Gender traitors, like race traitors

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2019, Liberal Democrat vote share: 11.6% - 8 seats

2024, Liberal Democrat vote share: 12.2% - 71 seats

"Democracy"

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Cyberspice
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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.

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Sky News: “fifty eighth prime minister of the United Kingdom.”

THIS IS NOT AMERICA. STOP IT.

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Exit poll about what I expected, except Reform 13?

PLEASE DO NOT FEED THE FASCISTS

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@Eleanor LNR Blair They are fucking terrible human beings and I hate that the media gives them a near monopoly on public discourse. We will never have an equitable society while we have a public discourse dominated by ghastly cunts engaging in performative cruelty.
@Eleanor LNR Blair

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Really should pop to Sainsbury’s and grab some brewskis and popcorn before they run out.

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You put your red transphobe in
You take your blue transphobe out
In out
In out
“No you can’t use the public toilet”

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@Buster yeah, it's definitely radicalisation. See also anti abortion and anti vaxxer types. All the same people.
@Like a DIYer dad, only gayer
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Gen X-Wing
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While I’m sure it has been misquoted to hell by now, opiate for the masses still rings true.

The line between religion, ideologies, movements, etc are so blurred it’s all one and the same. And it rots people’s empathy and they are clearly addicted.

They get high on hurting others. Fascism feeds their ego.

I don’t want to hurt them, I want them to wake up and see that they aren’t right or doing good. It’s just hate.

Just my two cents.

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