May just be the fact that I have Covid, but I just see the future getting darker and darker as a self fulfilling prophecy of our idiot politicians who think they have no choice but to drive society into the abyss.
And itโs really fucking depressing.
I should probably go to bed.
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Just unblocked a load of people I had server blocks on because they had animated GIF avatars and they were bricking my serverโs job queue.
Have upgraded server software and it fixes the issue so Iโve removed the blocks.
If you were one of these people, sorry! It was nothing personal. I couldnโt even tell you because any attempt to interact with you in any way poisoned my job queue.
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Fixed by github.com/friendica/friendicaโฆ
It is caused by the fact that you entered the complete URL in your shortcut icon link - which is not wrong, but unexpected for the code.
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Well done! I am pondering whether to pay privately for a 2nd Covid jab 6 months after the one the NHS randomly decided I was entitled to this yr. Esp if I can get a Novavax which I am hearing is the best one for modernish Covid.
Still being super cautious, disability health stuff is already barely manageable, I just can't risk anything getting Worse on top of my usual age related deteriorations....
Customer service call from car place. Satisfaction survey. Marks out of 5, would you recommend friends and family, will you return, any questions?
Did the whole thing in Portuguese. Understood it all. Feeling really good about that.
Sylvia is like, โand you didnโt even misgender yourself with your adjectives! Impressive for an English speaker!โ
Illegal immigrant fucks around and finds out.
I keep seeing these people pop up in โex patโ (hate that term) groups here in Portugal. Mate, Brexit was in the news and stuff.
Portugal is being patient, but I assume there are limits. theguardian.com/politics/2024/โฆ
Singer claims Sweden โpunishingโ her British husband by refusing him leave to remain
Tess Merkel Solomons says handling of husbandโs case after he missed application deadline has been โdisgustingโLisa O'Carroll (The Guardian)
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NHS (UK): repeat prescription? We track it to the milligram! Donโt think you can cheat the system!
SNS (Portugal): a repeat? Letโs SPIN THE WHEEL OF FORTUNE! See what you get!
The fuck am I supposed to do with six asthma inhalers?
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Two consecutive emails:
Amazon.co.uk: Black Friday discounts start at midnight!
Amazon.es: Black Friday discounts start at 23h.
Weird timezone artefacts.
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โWe were horrifiedโ: parents heartbroken as baby girl registered as male
Parents told Nottinghamshire registrarโs error on birth certificate cannot be changedAmelia Hill (The Guardian)
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Need a catchy name for the group of countries like the US, Russia, Israel, North Korea.
Iโm thinking โThe Axis of Can You Just Not?โ
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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.
Itโs starting. We (trans women) bloody warned you.
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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 itโs 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.
โPatient told to stop sitting on footโ.
I looked down. I was sitting on my left foot.
Fucksake.
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Burning a candle for Ponte Vasco da Gama to regain its crown here.
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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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@goatsarah Starts Episode 465 with a 4 parter on the Assassination of Franz Ferdinand
therestishistory.com/465-the-mโฆ
followed by 6 episodes on "The Road to War"
465. The Murder of Franz Ferdinand: The Killer (Part 1) - The Rest is History
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to one of the worldโs greatest empires, in June 1914, set in motion a series of events that would culminate in the First World War, where more than 15 million people would lose their lives.Bryan Dooley (The Rest is History)
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@Sion [main] Musk was profiting from SLS either way because he had the contract to provide the lander.
But he isnโt really competition. SLS was never a viable launch system; more a way to endlessly launder money to corporate donors.
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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.
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@BoneHouseWasps but spooky ๐ @Shouty person England has had, like 7, at least.
They happen. Theyโre never pleasant.
@clacksee This is why, as America has been quietly arming its populace, the rest of the world has been vigorously shaking its head.
Googled it, btw. Thanks for the Wiki homework. ๐
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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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A prediction:
The EU is going to decide that it needs to protect itself against Putinโs aggression.
Trump will abandon Europe to Putin.
Starmer will be like, โIโll align with the second guyโ.
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Western progressive parties stop doing this challenge 2024:
โThe other guys are right. Donโt vote for them!โ
The obvious thing happens.
โThe other guys are REALLY right. Donโt vote for themโ
Why are you like this?
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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
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โBill Watterson
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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, Iโm a cis woman.
Thatโs going to be a useful insurance policy.
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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.
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 AFโฆ 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 donโt get it.
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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. Itโs fucking horrible.
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So I know itโs all very funny, ha ha, but hereโs why the orcas donโt 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 itโs a sailboat. It canโt 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 arenโt.
A sailboat is like a mouldy caravan, but floating, and slower.
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