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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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@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.
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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!
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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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I prefer to take advice my on child rearing from people whose kids still speak to them.
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On the contrary, one does not amass such wealth without also becoming a total asswipe. Financial success requires killing one's own humanity
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On the contrary, one does not amass such wealth without also becoming a total asswipe. Financial success requires killing one's own humanity
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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.
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ok. That's very cool.
I regret I have but one like to give.
Thank you for sharing
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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?
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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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…
Elon Musk unveils the Robovan: the biggest surprise from Tesla's We, Robot event | TechCrunch
Elon Musk unveiled a prototype of Tesla's Robovan on Thursday night during the company's We, Robot event in Los Angeles. The Robovan will be an electric,Maxwell Zeff (TechCrunch)
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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.
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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.
@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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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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hee! Tomorrow I'll be TGVing to Marseille.
And if it's Ryanair, don't let the penny pinching buggers gouge you too much!
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Apropos of having just dealt with an irritating personal problem of the feminine nature, I find myself thinking back to the start of The Last Of Us.
Guys, did you even think to TRY Fluconazole?
As a child, I grew up speaking the East Midlands dialect of English.
But I was led to believe that were I to “get on in life”, I would need to speak Standard Southern British English.
As I believed this, I willingly embraced it and now I mostly do speak SSBE.
But I’m somewhat bitter about needing to, even if I did willingly embrace it at the time because, as I was taught, I thought my own dialect was “unsophisticated”.
It wasn’t; it was just different, but in the 70s and 80s even local celebrities who made it big on the national stage were encouraged to drift linguistically towards London, and if they didn’t, that acted as a barrier.
It’s less the case now, but with the benefit of hindsight I do feel a bit resentful about it.
As times have changed, and as I don’t feel that I have anything to prove, I increasingly find myself drifting back towards the way I used to speak as a child.
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And the rest of us thinks that most English accents are cool. Funny world huh?
(Emphasis on most. There’s some bad ones out there.)
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in reply to Sarah Brown • •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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in reply to will-h • •@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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in reply to Sarah Brown • • •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).
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