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UK Pol, transphobia

Followup to the thing where TERFs had succeeded in getting a debate to remove recognition of non binary people from the UK Lib Dem consitirituon: excellent LGBT+ activists organised to “move next business” when it came up (which is basically, “this is so shit we aren’t even discussing it”).

It worked. I also understand that the TERFs got booed when they tried to oppose.

They are busy crying on the legacy social media platforms where they are tolerated.

Good. Cry more, bastards.

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The Who: Talkin’ ‘bout my generation!

Me: What are they saying?

The Who: Awfully cold things!

Me: Ok, which generation is this, by the way?

The Who: The Boomers

Me: Oh, the generation that revived Nazism as a mainstream political force?

The Who: Um, er, that might be a minority

Me: And you personally, Mr Daltrey, you voted for Brexit and are currently busy on the wrong side of the “war on woke”, aren’t you?

Daltrey: WOKE BASTARDS! DESTROYING ALL THAT IS GOOD AND PURE! BLOODY FOREIGNERS! RULE BRITANIA!

Me: Maybe they had a point about your generation.

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Tony Finch

@ajlanes i have found that i usually book early enough to get a seat at the front of the plane, nice, and i pay for the fast track, breezy, and i have learned how to get immigration fast track when i return via stansted too, which sadly i have to get separately, but all in all it isnt that bad

and i gather ryanair treated their employees better than most through the panini, so 🤷 could be worse

could be better but not everywhere is reachable by train

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Miguel Arroz

I assume you mean PCP? They’re both terribly conservative. PCP used to be better in the past (and contributed a lot to worker rights over time) but I find them now using the same techniques as the American Republican Party to base their arguments on (see Merchants of Doubt, for example) and being against anything that is even remotely progressive. The Chega leader OTOH has zero convictions and goes with the wind, but the party has a lot of dangerous fascists and neo-nazis.

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#ABoK

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Dear folks who used to be on LiveJournal.

Do you miss it?

Because that’s basically what Friendica is, only in the fediverse.

Our community is nowhere near as big as Mastodon, but we can do long form posts with inline images and formatting, just like back in the day.

And we’re growing!

Why not check us out?

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Lorraine Lee

I never had a Livejournal account, but during the Golden Age of Blogging some of my favorite bloggers were on Livejournal. I remember one by the name of Brad (forgot last name) who referred to his father as the Man of Concrete. And there was a student of biomedical engineering at WSU (not Wayne State, the WSU down in Ohio), who wrote of the struggles to get disability accommodations at school, and get through the math weeder courses. So many great blogs. LJ was the greasy kids stuff platform before Tumblr took over that niche. I was too old for Livejournal, but all the coolest people were there.

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Since I was a kid, I have had occasional outbreaks of eczema in my ear canals. It baffled ENT for years: they had no idea why the “infection” wouldn’t respond to anything they tried (they never tried corticosteroids).

Anyway, it’s doing it again, and it HURTS LIKE FUCK.

(I had to figure out if was eczema myself. No medical professional has ever done anything other than give me stuff to treat an ear infection, which I don’t have, and so never works).

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Today on “Immigrants who call themselves ex-pats do the stupidest things”:

“I sent my laptop, which I bought in the UK and brought to Portugal, for repair in the UK, then had them ship it to Portugal. Now customs are holding it, saying import duty is due. How do I challenge this as I already paid tax in the UK?”

So you want to 1. Admit to tax evasion from the first time you imported it without declaring it, and 2. Throw a strop to try and get away with tax evasion again?

Do let us know how that goes for you, won’t you?

#Brexit: Fucking around and finding out since 2016.

#brexit

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UK Pol, Transphobia

Jess Phillips, MP, someone many trans people regard as a transphobe, reads out a list of murdered women in the House of Commons every year. This year she included Brianna Ghey, a murdered trans girl.

Her own side has turned on here for being insufficiently hateful. Check out the replies to this tweet, but don’t reply: never interrupt your enemy while they are making a mistake.

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Dear gizmo maker.

I do not watt your app. I realise I may need your app to set things up, but after that I never want to open your app again. I have many gizmos and they all have apps. I don't care about your "dashboard", I don't want to set up an account, you can keep your "cloud", I don't want to import my data. I do not live in your app. I do not want to be reminded of your app's existence. If I have to use your app beyond 5 minutes of initial setup, you have failed.

Stop trying to make me use your app. I do not want to use your fucking app. Most of you can't program for shit anyway. Just set the gizmo up and fuck the fuck off.

Thank you.

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Sarah Brown

The problem right here is that we call platforms designed to help people find each other and make connections, and platforms designed to make people fight each other for entertainment and advertising revenue the same thing.

The great con is that Twitter and co want you to think they’re in the same “feel good, community and friendship” business that LiveJournal and things like it were in.

And they just aren’t. Even if you are only using them to talk to your friends, they will still try to make you pick fights.

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