Sarah’s trans goals 2004: pluck up the courage to actually go see a doctor about this.
Sarah’s trans goals 2014: work with a newly reformed Stonewall and within the political process to build us a better future.
Sarah’s trans goals 2024: endure long enough to read the obituaries of every evil fucker who denied us that future.
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I have an amazing "Carry On" training backpack that allows me to carry a laptop, regular clothes, training clothes, trainers and swim kit. Individual compartments, barriers, the works.
Designed specifically for the needs of travelling athletes.
Designed specifically for the needs of travelling American athletes.
Worked that out a bit late. Great domestic travel bag.
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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 it’s 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 server’s job queue.
Have upgraded server software and it fixes the issue so I’ve removed the blocks.
If you were one of these people, sorry! It was nothing personal. I couldn’t 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/friendica…
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, “and you didn’t even misgender yourself with your adjectives! Impressive for an English speaker!”
Illegal immigrant fucks around and finds out.
I keep seeing these people pop up in “ex pat” (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/…
Tess Merkel Solomons says handling of husband’s case after he missed application deadline has been ‘disgusting’Lisa O'Carroll (The Guardian)
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NHS (UK): repeat prescription? We track it to the milligram! Don’t think you can cheat the system!
SNS (Portugal): a repeat? Let’s 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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Parents told Nottinghamshire registrar’s 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.
I’m thinking “The Axis of Can You Just Not?”
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Just got this Reddit ad for US ambulance chasers implying hormonal birth control is dangerous and causing mass health problems.
It’s 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 it’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.
“Patient told to stop sitting on foot”.
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-m…
followed by 6 episodes on "The Road to War"
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to one of the world’s 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 isn’t 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 🎃 @Shouty person England has had, like 7, at least.
They happen. They’re 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. 😁
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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 Putin’s aggression.
Trump will abandon Europe to Putin.
Starmer will be like, “I’ll align with the second guy”.
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Western progressive parties stop doing this challenge 2024:
“The other guys are right. Don’t vote for them!”
The obvious thing happens.
“The other guys are REALLY right. Don’t vote for them”
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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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, I’m a cis woman.
That’s 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 AF… 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 don’t 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. It’s fucking horrible.
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in reply to Kincaid • • •@kincaid I call him a fucking quisling and I'm cis (but bi).
He is a fucking quisling and his memoir makes it very clear he is a power monger who says what he thinks will keep him in power, hence being nice in 2017 and a transphobic shit now. I will enjoy watching him regret it, but know many are suffering who will never get recompense.
We need to kick transphobes out of the queer communities. Not welcome, not queer, ahistorical hypocrites who can get in a big bin.
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I don't understand how anyone rehabilitated Bindel, she's appalling.
I got monstered at 2013 Feminism in London con (just before it showed its TERF face) where I'd been asked to speak on being a bi and disabled woman (like you do). I named Bindel as a hateful bi/transphobe whose type made me avoid women's space for yrs. The organisers sat there and let a minority abuse me. But 30+ people thanked me 1 by 1 for speaking out against disablism and terfery.
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in reply to NatalyaD • •@NatalyaD I was invited to that conference. They set me up to be ambushed by Bindel. I only found out when students protested against her inclusion. I said I wasn’t comfortable but was happy to be on a panel without her (she had already pulled out by then). The organisers said no. The rumour was then spread that I had organised the protests (I hadn’t even known they’d existed) and got Bindel removed (I had not), and this kicked off an internet stalking/harassment campaign against me which resulted in a nervous breakdown and a 6 month gap in my memory.
The organisers of the 2013 feminism in London conference are not my favourite people.
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in reply to Sarah Brown • • •I don't think Bindel was at 2013 cos I'd have kicked off if she had been - I hate her.
I wonder if you mean 2014 which was the year of protests and lot of the same organising people for sure. I know a nonbinary black person who pulled out when they found out Bindel was involved. I no longer speak to my former friends who were organisers cos TERFery.
I'm sorry you got the blame for the protests, that's just barking, but standard for TERFs who really are horrible obsessive evil ppl.
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in reply to NatalyaD • •@NatalyaD The harassment campaign happened in 2014 because that was the year I was standing for reelection and it happened as a result of the FiL conference.
Was it really early in the year, or really late? I had a feeling its as December, but if it was January then it was indeed 2014.
Memory doesn't work too well during that time period. There were psychiatric drugs. Quite a few of them.
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in reply to Sarah Brown • • •Looks like FiL 2013 and 2014 were both in October of those years.
The 2014 organising kickoffs that I remember were in the several months running up to it as I knew people who pulled out after discovering Bindel and TERFery & the organisers trying to stealthily set them up for shit.
Anyway, best left in the past and protect yourself at all costs. I'll keep calling Bindel and friends out as the grifting bigots that they are.
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