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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

Got a bit of a conundrum, lads!
A satellite tree view from Apple Maps showing my location in Brittany and “parked car” on the south coast of England, with rather a lot of water in between.

So it turns out that if you have your own sailboat, you can rock up at Cherbourg Marina and as long as it’s after 6, nobody knows or cares because immigration have gone home to watch the football or some shit.

Illegal border crossing is something you get to do if you’re middle class, apparently.

Project “Oui Oui Baguette” taking our boat, Scarlet, to France as the start of moving her to Portugal, on Monday.

Looks like we’ll be motoring for 14 hours. Not enough wind forecast to make the sails go.

Stroll around Cape St Vincent earlier. Clifftop windswept sunny edge-of-the-world goodness!

They’re still there. I deleted the cron container and recreated it and they haven’t gone away.

Will they ever go away? These are clearly some sort of zombie.

Guys, you can’t have Erich Honeker back. He’s dead.
Map of German Euro election results showing the former west Germany voting for the Christian democrats and the former east Germany voting for the Putin aligned hard right

I hear you’re a transphobe now, father?
Richard Coles, on Facebook, complaining that progress pride flags represent “interests that are too antagonistic to run up the same flagpole”

!Friendica Support Hey all.

The top two jobs here have been stuck for 4 days.

Is there a way I can remove them?

!Friendica Support

Lot of fun trying out a custom hardboard today. Fell in love! Ordered one.
Me, in a blue swimsuit on a wooden hardboard SUP, I’m surf stance with my right foot under water and the bow of the SUP raised up

Was in the uk for the last week.

Yeah

blood oxygen graph for the last month from Apple Health. It’s between 90-100 percent, except for the last week, where it’s between 83 and 100 percent

Another day, another #RedPill
A red pill on top of a box of Zumenon 2mg (oestrogen HRT)
#RedPill

Only Gen X will understand how painfully cool this is.
a “picade” arcade emulator running classic video game, Outrun

Found these massive anal beads by the back entrance to Liverpool Street Station
A large sculpture in a public square in London. It looks like anal beads. Seriously

I feel like I have a “brand”, and that brand is “slightly psychotic middle aged tomboy trans lesbian”.

And brands must be maintained.

So when it’s time to descale the kettle, and other people use vinegar …

My hand, holding a bottle of hydrochloric acid

Five years ago, the East Of England Liberal Democrats posted a photo of two transgender women, me and @Zoë O'Connell, wearing “Bollocks to Brexit” T-Shirts.

It is a sign of how far UK politics has fallen that that is utterly unthinkable now. Both the total erasure of transgender people’s existence and acceptance of Brexit are utter orthodoxy across the political spectrum there now.

@Zoë O'Connell

Apparently this beach is accessed only by sea.

WRONG

Free soloed the bigger, down and up.

Because I can.

An Algarve beach, surrounded by sheer cliffs. There is a red line drawn on, indicating the route I took.

@Zoë O'Connell My mistake. 25 km of empty land alongside a motorway.

SO HARD

a map, showing the Portuguese rail network (which ends at the border) and the Spanish one (which turns away from the border 25km away from it)
@Zoë O'Connell

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

Worth it, though.

15 minute fisheye exposure looking north. There are star trails. A red tree to the left leads the eye to city lights 40-100km distant.
An alpine meadow full of wildflowers (which I couldn't see; I couldn't even see my feet!), under a deep blue sky with purple clouds

Hey Tories! While you’re coming third in your elections, I’m in ur country, being trans with intent to use a public toilet 🖕🏻
me, in the ladies’ loos

@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.
@Alisdair Calder McGregor

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.
A small “picade” arcade game console with a joystick, 6 coloured buttons and a screen. It is playing Outrun

“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.

Me, very conspicuously sitting on a train

Dear iPhone, being a bit American, aren’t we?
my phone telling me that traffic is moderate and I might not make my vaccination appointment
a picture of the train I just got off

Have recently been worried that I’ve been looking my age (50), but the problem seems to have fixed itself.
Me, a selfie. I don’t think that I look fifty years old.

Kerbal Space Program is basically a dollhouse for people with A-Level further maths.
A space station in Kerbal Space Program showing several space planes docked around the moon of Laythe

Lemon
Citrus flowers and baby lemons amongst verdant citrus leaves in the dark

!Friendica Support Hi all.

Running via Docker behind nginx proxy manager. Got the three containers shown.

The UI is a bit sluggish. In particular, it takes forever for the notifications to show up after doing pretty much anything.

So my question is, is there anything stopping me spinning up another UI or cron container on another machine and trying to parallelise things a bit? Is there anything special I have to do to enable that?

TIA

!Friendica Support

The problem with owning this is that @Zoë O'Connell and I are now perpetually earwormed by the Bubble Bobble music.
An 80s arcade machine against a breeze block wall. Zoe is playing it.
@Zoë O'Connell

A dialogue box from Royal Match with a big greed button in the “make this go away” position with “play on - 900 coins” written on it, and a small red close icon at the top right.

Treated myself to a fancy-pants cast iron teapot, lads! It's a bit sexy.
A lime green cast iron Japanese-style teapot on a black background

There are worse places to go for an afternoon stroll. Just over a kilometre from my apartment.
Looking down on awn Algarve beach, surrounded by sandstone cliffs with a blue sky and conical sandstone sea stacks dotted here and there in the blue ocean, cliffs and stacks topped by greenery.

Sorted.
me, clutching an MMR information leaflet

People queueing out the door for MMR
a queue of mostly young people snaking into an NHS vaccination centre in a shopping mall.

Made an F16 in Kerbal Space Program (stock)

Because why not?

It's a bit faster than the real thing, and will super cruise, but it's pretty close.

@Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 Mere window seats are a bore
@Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

737-Max 8200 today, lads. Probably not going to die.
A Ryanair 737 Max in the dark at Faro airport

Reddit “reviewed my appeal” and found out that “I wasn’t in violation of their rules”.

Sarah: 1
TERFs: 0

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
appealing my Reddit ban with the text, “ This is ridiculous. I am a trans woman. I said that a particular group of transphobes, using the word they use for themselves, hate each other more than they hate us. This is true, and banning me for it is a hate crime on your part.”

I made a new heavy lifter in KSP. It's called the GooseGooseGo, because of course it is.

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