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Need a catchy name for the group of countries like the US, Russia, Israel, North Korea.

Iโ€™m thinking โ€œThe Axis of Can You Just Not?โ€

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we* do seem to all reinforce one another. I can think of at least one crude term for that, but something a little more suited for general company might be better.
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*I'm from one of them after all.


Just got this Reddit ad for US ambulance chasers implying hormonal birth control is dangerous and causing mass health problems.

Itโ€™s starting. We (trans women) bloody warned you.

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Ironically, Depo-Provera has been a recurring choice for people practicing abusive forcible birth control for "eugenic" reasons. But I guess those people are harder to sue, or maybe the law firm agrees with their obnoxious politics.


When I was 15, I got a new pair of shoes for school. They were too tight and caused hyperkeratosis on the ridges of my big toes. This got so bad that the skin started painfully splitting.

The right one slowly resolved itself over time. The left has got worse and worse. 36 years later it has spread to three toes on that foot and despite trying to control it with debriding, salicylic acid, and steroids, it gets worse, and frequently cracks to the point it bleeds.

I have searched and searched and searched on the internet for the same presentation, but itโ€™s always the other side of the foot. Never on the ridges of the toe joints.

Until yesterday. I saw the exact same thing in a photo on duck duck go.

I clicked through.

โ€œPatient told to stop sitting on footโ€.

I looked down. I was sitting on my left foot.

Fucksake.

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Lol! But congratulations on possibly solving this mystery!


Burning a candle for Ponte Vasco da Gama to regain its crown here.


NEWSFLASH: #Biden has finally authorized strikes deep into #Russia with long-range weapons known as #ATACMS.

We spoke with George #Barros of the #Institute for the Study of #War to determine how this decision will affect the course of events on the front lines.




Had my attention drawn to a study concluding that regular commitments put ADHD โ€œinto remissionโ€ and Iโ€™m like, โ€œthatโ€™s not how you spell masking leading to chronic stress and long term neurological damageโ€.
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it never ceased to amaze me how many studies into ADHD/autism etc basically just boil down to "if you just managed your time better, you'd be fine. Have you tried having a diary"It fi, in fact, cease to amaze me decades ago.
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"Remission"? Now we have cancer of the executive function or something? ๐Ÿคฃ


Studied WW1 in school but never went hard on the July Crisis that started it.

Read up on it now and feeling like the Treaty of Versailles was a lot less unfair than I previously thought.

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Also surprised by how much Britain was the only adult in the room. They tried really quite hard to prevent the catastrophe.
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Serbia was like, โ€œlook, Austria. Weโ€™ll give you literally everything youโ€™re asking for.โ€ Britain was like, โ€œletโ€™s talk this out guysโ€. Austria was like, โ€œhmm, maybeโ€. Germany was like โ€œLEROY JENKINS! Btw, invading Luxembourg. Lol!โ€
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The Rest Is History did a good series on the build up, if you like that sort of thing.
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@goatsarah Starts Episode 465 with a 4 parter on the Assassination of Franz Ferdinand

therestishistory.com/465-the-mโ€ฆ

followed by 6 episodes on "The Road to War"

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Bertrand Russell said: if Britain hadn't become involved, the war would have been short, Germany would have won and WWII would never have happened.
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it's also worth comparing the Treaty of Versailles to the treaty the Germans forced on France a generation earlier after the Franco-Prussian War. Modest losses of land, military restrictions, blame for the war, harsh reparations, etc - Versailles was just the Germans receiving what they'd previously dished out.

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the UK is definitely TERF island, but it's not dangerous on the ground. We go there frequently, even went on a short holiday not long ago.
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@Trans Rescue yeah. Iโ€™ve been there a few times recently and itโ€™s perfectly safe. Just increasingly hard to get trans healthcare there.
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@trans_rescue the biggest practical challenge for trans people in the UK is securing medication. National Health Service waits are astronomical, private clinics expensive, and DIY options under threat.
@goatsarah


In โ€œstopped clock right twice a dayโ€ news, it appears that the incoming US kakistocracy is going to cancel the white elephant Space Launch System.
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@Sion [main] Musk was profiting from SLS either way because he had the contract to provide the lander.

But he isnโ€™t really competition. SLS was never a viable launch system; more a way to endlessly launder money to corporate donors.

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Competition for which corporate to launder money to, then. (If they rejig Artemis to not use SLS, rather than just scrap the whole thing -- guess what it's going to come down to is is it close enough to be a vanity project for the next presidential term)


Starting to think either a civil war or military coup and โ€œinterim administration to restore orderโ€ in the US in the next decade is now more likely than not. ๐Ÿ˜ž

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@clacksee The place is clearly due some sort of hard reset. I had hope it could avoid it - at least within my lifetime, now I'm not so sure.

The first US civil war wasn't, really, civil. Because there was a foreign occupying power to fight. Maybe every nation has to go through a 'proper' one. It certainly feels like the nation is irreperably split. Maybe that will keep them occupied for the next 4 years.

1/2

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Six years ago I was sat next to a US academic at the Oxford Union and asked if he shared my feeling back then that the country had the ingredients for another civil war. The man did his best to reassure me that there was no prospect of that, even after two years of 45. I often think of him and whether he ever thinks back to that conversation with the limey granny who was there to speak for a motion about dramaโ€™s impact on politics.


Dear Apple, when the device is localised (see that S there?) into British English, "chips" does NOT go under "confectionary" in the shopping list.

Goddam fuckmuppet seppo nonsense.

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@pseudomonas
oh, the US is VERY invested in deep-frying confectionery
@Adam


A prediction:

The EU is going to decide that it needs to protect itself against Putinโ€™s aggression.

Trump will abandon Europe to Putin.

Starmer will be like, โ€œIโ€™ll align with the second guyโ€.

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I hope Europe gets it's act together. Election result in The Netherlands and upcoming elections in Germany are bit worrying


Western progressive parties stop doing this challenge 2024:

โ€œThe other guys are right. Donโ€™t vote for them!โ€

The obvious thing happens.

โ€œThe other guys are REALLY right. Donโ€™t vote for themโ€

Why are you like this?

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โ€œThe other guys are REALLY REALLY far right. Maybe we can convince some of them to vote for us.โ€


Just been reading about a horrible bully who stabbed and brutally killed a critically endangered animal that was just minding its own business by a tumtum tree.

Disgusting



Dear Oort Cloud. We are ready. Please put us out of our misery, preferably before we develop proper space travel. Itโ€™s for the best.
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> โ€œThe surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.โ€
โ€”Bill Watterson


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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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, Iโ€™m a cis woman.

Thatโ€™s going to be a useful insurance policy.

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honestly that sounds great. Massive respect for people who managed this given what was happening in 2020/2021
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@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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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 AFโ€ฆ somehow I managed to pull it off).



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 donโ€™t get it.

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no, theyโ€™re not the majority. But anger gets people to the polls more effectively than anything else. That coupled with the gerrymandering the US system is plagued with means that a minority can grab majority power.
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Because they remember their countries when they were bigoted as hell and the only people they saw were people like them and they want that back. They want the bigotry, discrimination etc. They donโ€™t want to have to think about non white people, LGBT people, non christian people and so on. If you look at the UK the most right wing places are the whitest straightest places. They are worried that will change!


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. Itโ€™s fucking horrible.

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Thanks Sarah. Let's sit with this. Madison said this morning she didn't want to talk.



Bridge carrying the N125 road over the Rio Arade near Portimรฃo, Algarve. iPhone 16 pro, pro raw, 10 second exposure. Seeing it like this always puts me in mind of the massive atmosphere processor in Aliens.

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Rising feeling of dread about Trump winning tomorrow.
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@Sarah Brown Same. It feels like any kind of hope is me trying to con myself. And there's really really nothing I can do about it (unlike UK elections where there's merely mostly nothing I can do about it)


Flight back from NTE to FAO used an honest to god jetway at the FAO end, like itโ€™s fucking Emirates or some shit.


So I know itโ€™s all very funny, ha ha, but hereโ€™s why the orcas donโ€™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 itโ€™s a sailboat. It canโ€™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 arenโ€™t.

A sailboat is like a mouldy caravan, but floating, and slower.



New theory: the orcas are trying to get high. This shit is neurotoxic. Got quite a headache from spending 2 hours painting the hull with it.

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@IncHulk and yet the barnacles prevail. (Got to do the same job on a friend's boat in a few weeks)


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 Thereโ€™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 โ€˜Spoons.

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@transworld Hmm, the article says it was a London pub, but Iโ€™m fairly sure they were in Sheffield.


Just cleaning the orca chew toy

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Iโ€™m always a bit apprehensive about doing this, but itโ€™s also kinda cool
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Presumably, checking out the antifouling, sacrificial anode, prop and rudder?


Anyway, while Iโ€™m in France, in a marina, stuck for the next week, have a photo. iPhone 16 pro, pro raw.
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they are remarkable. I couldnโ€™t see that comet the other day but I took a photo just in case and there it was.


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.

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In England now, clocks went back last night. Return home to Washington State on Wednesday, clocks go back next weekend. So I get 2 hours more this year!


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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I hope you are right. However, I have been interested for a long time in this question, and on searching the Internet I am always directed to several academic studies that claim that most women have a preference for men taller than themselves, but I have not (yet) found sufficient time to read through the details of this alleged heightism.
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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 donโ€™t piss on the floor.

Low bar there, boys. Wanna wow the girls? Actually quite easy.



I understand Michael Oโ€™Leary โ€œdog foodsโ€. 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, itโ€™s terrible!



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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Hereโ€™s the full image (from the Fuji), by the way. Itโ€™s gonna be butchered by making it a low quality JPEG for sharing here, but this is the image.
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...Camera recommended by Sarah Thompson, who gives useful advice on photography, among other things.


I prefer to take advice my on child rearing from people whose kids still speak to them.

businessinsider.com/elon-musk-โ€ฆ

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@meatlotion
On the contrary, one does not amass such wealth without also becoming a total asswipe. Financial success requires killing one's own humanity

@KenSwe @goatsarah

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@meatlotion
On the contrary, one does not amass such wealth without also becoming a total asswipe. Financial success requires killing one's own humanity

@KenSwe @goatsarah



Me: I think Iโ€™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.



Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS from Miradouro da Cordoama near Cape st Vincent, iPhone 16 pro, fusion camera, ProRaw, processed in Adobe Lightroom. 10 second exposure.

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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 โ€œthese guys can do salad without toast.โ€

I expect coeliacs in France just โ€ฆ die?

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@ajlanes @zoe Cinderford (near the forest of dean) has a GF chip shop! 40 mins drive from home but we make occasional pilgrimages, or stop there if we are in the area anyway!


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 โ€œred tapeโ€, but โ€œthe crapโ€, 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 โ€œsuper heroโ€. He was my first bully.

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Zoe
@melivia In my experience that's just how people with neuro-typically personality dysorder cope. If they need to call them self supper heroes to actually treat their child as human, I am happy to support them.
@Seph


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: โ€œRobovans are making people travel sick. How come nobody predicted this?โ€

Iโ€™m predicting it, here and now. techcrunch.com/2024/10/10/roboโ€ฆ

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fortunately they'll never be implemented, so we won't need to find out.
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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.



Cis gay โ€œfeminist alliesโ€ be like, โ€œif trans women are women, why havenโ€™t they made me a sandwich yet?โ€
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@Rusty Bertrand @Sarah Brown The scare quotes are there for a reason. The people being criticised here are neither feminist nor allies.
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