Men declaring that “blockers” should be illegal is kinda monkey-paw-tastic.
Should we tell them that they were actually developed to treat prostate cancer?
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Ha! A bit of sciencing reveals that my new dental implant crown, while colour matched perfectly under visible light, is a completely different colour to its neighbouring teeth under UV.
No reason why it wouldn't be, I guess. It's designed to look real to human vision, which it does, apart from the little blob of epoxy filling covering the screw head.
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Enoch Burke to remain in prison for contempt of court
Secondary school teacher Enoch Burke is to remain in prison for contempt of court after refusing to engage with an offer from a High Court judge to release him for Easter.Orla O'Donnell (RTÉ)
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@Sarah Brown is this based on what they announced, or did you actually check?
I had half an idea to check, but that involved
a) interacting with a post coming from threads
b) enabling javascript from the threads server
and that's was more than I was willing to do 😁
so, to recap,
- the smartest people with accounts on threads (it's a bit of a contradiction)
- from just 3 countries
- that do opt in in their settings
can be followed by us, without reading our replies
i'm not impressed, i'll think about when some personal old uncle will succeed to find me the other way around
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Anyone know about Synologies?
I have a Drobo 5N2, which is obviously orphanware.
I want a Synology to do much the same job. What should I get?
so i have a Synology and it was a bad experience because:
1. they will happily sell small ones where the hardware just isn't up to running the current bloated version of the OS
(specifically I got a DS216 then discovered this new device was below the *stated* reqs)
2. the BIOS is DRMed so you can't just put Debian on it or something sensible.
i have cut down enough of the software, including forcibly deleting bloated shit and making it impossible to auto-reinstall it, that it can serve SMB without running out of CPU
if this thing blows up or catches fire I'll probably get an old HP Microserver (near-silent, reputedly) and run a proper OS on it
I got a DS1019+ (in 2019) to replace my Drobo 5N. It's Just Worked since, but I'm not doing anything very complicated with it.
Looks like the closest current model is the DS1522+ (although that's 2022 hardware).
I like that the storage is just a pile of Linux and can be recovered on any PC.
I tried using it as a general Linux server, it's doable but the OS is a bit too opinionated to make that pleasant. Now it's just NFS mounted to a separate Debian box, as well as CIFS shares.
Things I learned on the internet: apparently the country where a deranged tantrum-prone egomaniac fascist with dementia is leading the polls has a problem with its public education system.
How surprising!
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This analogue landline turnoff at the end of this year is going to be a disaster for older folk. Less than nine months to go and the only official advice is "you may need to buy extra new equipment" *mic drop*.
No advice as to the equipment, nor where they've planted the magic money tree.
Yes *I* know what to do, and yes, *I* can afford it.
@chiffchaff It's been so completely unadvertised. Although to be fair I don't really consume any advertisement channels these days. But no household leafleting, letters from provider ... I might have had an email, but I think I found out about it by accident (and I'm not even sure how).
I'm still wondering how many rural exchanges still don't have fibre connection. Our old place up the valley certainly didn't last time I checked. How are they expected to cope?
Cis people on Reddit be like, "a trans woman would never need a gynaecologist, and they'd never ask if you might be pregnant because they could tell, and anyway, it will be in your notes, which they will have read".
And I'm like, "literally everything you just said is wrong"
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@NatalyaD
I'm super super lucky with my GP. She seems to have an eidetic memory or something; she will say things like "I wouldn't normally recommend X but given your history of Y and that you're taking Z, I think it's appropriate".
(this is not calling you a liar; I've had waaaay too much healthcare in my life, and the majority are definitely the sort you describe. And I guess GPs are a different kind of thing in terms of having a long-term relationship with their patients.)
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I, for one, welcome the support of our catsnake friends and allies.
Former UK prime minister Liz Truss’s recent attempt to ban transgender women from female spaces ran out of time and will now not be debated after MPs joined forces to “talk it out” for five hours, including discussing ferret name choices.#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
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Liz Truss’s bid to ban trans women from sports runs out of time after MPs discuss ferrets instead
Former UK prime minister Liz Truss's attempt to ban trans women from female spaces ran out of time after MPs joined forces to "talk it out"Hilary Mitchell (PinkNews | Latest lesbian, gay, bi and trans news | LGBTQ+ news)
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Caffeine reduces anxiety in me. An espresso is more effective than diazepam. The web is full of results that say this is impossible
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Caffeine reduces anxiety in me. An espresso is more effective than diazepam. The web is full of results that say this is impossible
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Cycle reset. Doctors hate this one simple trick.
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Dear United States; behold your future.
Here's what we're reading today:Presidential elections have begun in #Russia. #Putin will be re-elected for a 5th term.
According to Ukr intelligence, the Russian DefMin has allowed military personnel fighting in #Ukraine to vote for Putin without even showing up at a polling station. This includes those who have already been killed or gone missing.
This makes it easier to falsify the results.
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Russian Defence Ministry allowing soldiers to cast posthumous votes for Putin, says Ukrainian intelligence
Defence Intelligence of Ukraine reported that the Russian Defence Ministry leadership has allowed servicemen participating in the war against Ukraine to vote for Vladimir Putin without even appearing at the “polling stations.”Ukrainska Pravda
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See news headline including words, “Trump is currently leading the polls”.
What the fuck is wrong with you people?
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Putin: I will destroy the alliance you built and remake the world in my image.
US politicians: Sure. Cool. No worries.
China: Here is an annoying robot lady narrating cat videos.
US politicians: 💣🔫⚔️🤬🤬🤬
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Cis people have decided that trans people do not merit healthcare.
Cis people have decided that trans people do not merit equality.
Cis people have decided that trans people do not merit justice.
Why should trans people recognise any kind of legitimacy cis opinions about us when they won’t even recognise our humanity?
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Recent cis pronouncements:
- Trans people beaten to death is suicide.
- Trans people are too stupid to deserve healthcare
- Trans people had it coming when the OG Nazis tried to exterminate us.
Fuck your cis-supremacy.
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Do cis people in the UK actually think there has ever been a point at which transgender medicine was widely and routinely available on the NHS?
Guys, it never has. When they exist at all, the services are chronically underfunded with waiting lists that literally stretch for decades.
To a first approximation, if you want to medically transition in the UK, you are on your own, unless you want to fight a war of attrition for years.
TERFs like to pretend that you can easily access NHS gender identity services as if it were just a thing people do.
It appears some people have believed their fairy tales. However badly you think trans people are treated by the medical establishment in the UK, I promise you that the reality is worse, and always has been.
“Children on puberty blockers”. Fucking state of it. There are no children on puberty blockers. Not because they’re trans, anyway.
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@Isabel Ruffell I transitioned with a lot of people who tried and were unable to access it.
Even at the peak of trans acceptance in the UK, being able to access ANYTHING depended on your postcode at least, and probably a few other things. Some PCTs as we’re basically refused to refer anyone for anything at all.
At which point, you either had the money to go round them, or you found ways to get it 😞
“NHS to end practice of back rubs for Godzilla”
If you think the NHS was ever actually giving trans children puberty blockers, then I’m afraid you have fallen for a TERF fairy tale. The NHS has never actually done decent treatment for trans children. news.sky.com/story/children-to…
Children to no longer be prescribed puberty blockers, NHS England confirms
The decision follows a review after a sharp rise in referrals were recorded at the Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) run by the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, which is closing at the end of March.Sky News
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@David Matthewman Ok. Credit to her parents for fighting that battle, and maybe the Tavistock might have considered possibly doing it on a trial basis at some point (“maybe” is doing a lot of work there), but they basically don’t do that, and never have. Their standard mode of operation is to just keep talking until people age out of their service and can join an adult GIC waiting list.
The headline is literally just a reaffirmation of the way the NHS has always behaved. It’s giving the impression that it’s ending a practice of medical intervention for trans kids.
But to end something, it has to have started in the first place.
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World press: Far right surges on Portugal elections!
I mean, yes, as someone who lives in Portugal, it's scary as hell, but in the ongoing love affair that the western press has with fascists, let's not lose sight of the fact that this "surge" is actually them coming third, and not a particularly close third either.
What's worrying is that there's no stable coalition without either them, or the centre right and centre left joining forces.
Hopefully this will be their high water mark.
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@Chris Packham watching the TV news last night, they’re still doing the latter.
Chega, by the way, is probably to the left of the Tories.
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Seeing people asking which fediverse servers block Bluesky.
And like, if you’re gonna be performative about this, maybe try getting the first clue what you’re actually talking about first?
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It’s been a week since my MMR and my immune system is noticing. Feel yuck. Joints hurt. Throat a bit swollen.
Although apparently live vaccines are really good for you, so there’s that.
Might be paracetamol time.
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Foreign Object Debris (FOD) and tool control is an absolutely critical, standard safety practice in aerospace and plant maintenance environments.Bluesky Social
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I keep a glass breaker in my car for emergencies. It has a seatbelt cutter and it also doubles as a wicked self-defense tool.Bluesky Social
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Being a grown-ass adult, I just caramelised and ate an entire sweet onion.
Because I can.
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When I first visited the US and saw pills came in bottles rather than blister packs, it was one of those little culture shock things.
But for years I never knew why the difference existed.
That changed recently. The popularity of blister packs in Europe is a suicide-prevention method.
It's dead easy to open a bottle and neck the contents. Try it with a blister pack and you get bored.
Apparently this is a real effect.
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Dental surgeon just tried to fit my new crown to the implant.
Turned out it has to go back to the lab because it's too big, but it took 3 attempts with a bit of on-site drilling before he gave up.
Screwing it down deforms the gum and crushes it between the crown and the bone, which hurts. He told me to tell him when it got too much and he would pause, which I did, but a long time after he seemed to be expecting me to.
He's like, "waiting for your feedback..." and I just gave him a thumbs up, and his face is kinda like, "This should be hurting. Why aren't you yelling?"
I think trans women get kinda messed up pain thresholds, you guys.
Anyway, it has to go back to the lab for a resize, because it's too big. Also the wrong colour, because they did not account for UK and Ireland levels of tea consumption.
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Hah! I have my first appointment for my implant the week after next.
Nice to know I have all that fun to look forward to 😀
Anyway, hope the lab comes through with the goods for you next time.
@Adam Jacobs 🇺🇦 Hoping for a perfect fit next time.
Today was uncomfortable but it didn't last long. Having the implant put in is a bit of a slog, but it didn't hurt. Hope all goes well. It's a bit of a process.
I appear to have acquired a surf instructor.
9 hours later, it appears that this is monumentally painful.
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if a boomer cries out because Facebook is down, can anyone hear them?
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Never mind, I got my answer. Receiving WhatsApp messages from family members asking for IT support
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