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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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…
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
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?
...
Never mind, I got my answer. Receiving WhatsApp messages from family members asking for IT support
HELL YES!
I tricking HATE iPads on wheels.
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Exactly 4 years ago today I had what can only be described as an utterly brutal extraction of half an upper molar by a dental surgeon (the other half had been removed by my regular dentist 2 weeks prior).
My plan was to replace the tooth, which had died from an internal crack, just a freak accident from biting something hard, with an implant.
And then the world went into lockdown.
On Wednesday, 4 years and 2 days since the original was removed, I get my new tooth installed.
So exciting!
I recall reading something a few years ago that studied the motivations behind antivaxxers.
Turned out that a lot of them were just really scared of needles, and latched onto something that allowed them to not admit that in public.
Makes U think.
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Here’s why the NHS were happy to vaccinate me with MMR the other day. From UK govt advice from
2019:
• individuals born between 1970 and 1979 may have been vaccinated against measles and many will have been exposed to mumps and rubella during childhood. However, this age group should be offered MMR wherever feasible, particularly if they are considered to be at high risk of exposure.• individuals born before 1970 are likely to have had all three natural infections and are less likely to be susceptible. MMR vaccine should be offered to such individuals on request or if they are considered to be at high risk of exposure.
Tl;dr: younger GenX and older Millennials in the UK were likely given inadequate protection against measles and none against mumps and rubella: vaccinate on sight.
Older GenX and boomers: just give them the vaccine if they ask for it.
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Vaccination nurse: Do you think you might be pregnant?
Me: I’m not sexually active.
Nurse: *nod*
TERFs: We CaN ALwAys TelL
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Went to an NHS vaccine drop in centre and said, “I had a single measles vaccine 49 years ago. Could I have an MMR please?”
No quibbles. I am now in the queue for an MMR.
I will not go blind because of Andrew sodding Wakefield.
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!Friendica Admins Any idea what the situation with the Docker image is? It seems like Phil isn't active and hasn't been for a while. Does anyone know if he's OK?
Hopefully he is, and is just taking a break. Does anyone else know how to generate a new docker image? At the moment, we're kinda stuck on 2023.12, which AIUI has known vulnerabilities.
Failing that, how easy is it to migrate an existing installation away from Docker?
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Because why not?
It's a bit faster than the real thing, and will super cruise, but it's pretty close.
A lot of wifis want you to log in via a website, so the work around for that is that you can record a lynx session and play it back, which is essentially automating a headless interaction with a website. Then put that a cron job.
I've done this in real life to keep a raspi authenticated on a pub wifi. It worked for several days.
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Amazon Prime and Sky Showtime mailed me on the same day to tell me that I have to pay more to avoid adverts.
Thing is, guys, a NordVPN subscription is cheaper.
Avast, and indeed, me hearties. 🖕🏻
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Ah, you know you’re in the UK when you start getting the weird government Reddit ads. I’d forgotten about those, to wit:
YOU’RE PROBABLY A NONCE WITH A GAMBLING ADDICTION. ALSO YOU HAVE CANCER, I BET!
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It was noted that Farage is seen as “vulgar” by the people who inhabit the Tory back rooms, and my response was, “ I mean, come on. Looking at him you just KNOW he’s walking around in 1970s nylon y-fronts that he only changes once every 4 days.
The guy is basically every Sid James character from Carry On, but unironically.”
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Oh dear god, this.
Like, it’s endemic. “My entire family just got slaughtered in a pig manure drowning accident lol”
Why would you write like that?
I have a friend that ends just about every sentence with the same emoji 🫣
It is properly weird and drives me nuts 🫣
@Rachel Lawson Just searched for a bunch of examples on Reddit. AITA is a good source.
Stuff like, “my sister was mean to me and I’m really upset lol”
Like, I can’t be the only one imaging them on the verge of crying and then suddenly tossing their head back and laughing.
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Guys, the neighbours in bsky are having discourse about literally having sex with literal human skulls.
In case you thought owt going on here was weird.
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... There's context to this, but I'm scared for the context.
They're actually talking about skull fucking and not "skull fucking"?
Dear UK Gen X people: the chancellor of my stepson’s university is Milky Milky.
I will fucking PAY him to say “lovely” when he gets his degree.
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in reply to Sarah Brown • •Recent cis pronouncements:
Fuck your cis-supremacy.
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