Serbia was like, “look, Austria. We’ll give you literally everything you’re asking for.” Britain was like, “let’s talk this out guys”. Austria was like, “hmm, maybe”. Germany was like “LEROY JENKINS! Btw, invading Luxembourg. Lol!”
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.
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.
@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
Starting to think either a civil war or military coup and “interim administration to restore order” in the US in the next decade is now more likely than not. 😞
@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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
no, they’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.
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 don’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!
Bridge carrying the N125 road over the Rio Arade near Portimão, 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.
@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)
So I know it’s all very funny, ha ha, but here’s why the orcas don’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 it’s a sailboat. It can’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 aren’t.
A sailboat is like a mouldy caravan, but floating, and slower.
@Mike J👹🐀 🤘🏻 same. I run the gauntlet next summer. Somewhat worried. I have a life raft and a phone that can do satellite distress, and I don’t taste like tuna.
We nickname it the Bane mask, and of course I ham up the voice.
"You merely adopted the dark. I was born in it, molded by it. I didn't see the light until I was already a man, by then it was nothing to me but blinding!
the funny thing about integrity is that it cannot be purchased; and once lost, is extremely challenging to recover. Only time can do it- in an economy that has no time- Prognosis is not great wapo.
@Johan Diederik Attacks this month have been around Galicia. There were attacks in Biscay in July through to September, mostly either off the Brest peninsula or near Bilbao.
Wow! Succes by then. I can follow on MT. I did a few months ago. Keep in mind: they are only playing. No bad intentions. Read an interesting article about it, which I forgot, as everything nowadays😵💫
When the family lived in Thorpe Bay, Essex we were part of the bi-annual lift in / lift out where they would get about 50 yachts from their summer moorings in to the boat yard. Basically two enormous cranes, a flat bed and a high tide were needed. The light/smaller boats were done earliest/latest and the big ones as close to high tide as possible. You would take the boat in to the jetty, slings would go under the hull, and it would be lifted out of the water, across the road which ran along the prom, and on to the truck. It would get driven to the boat yard where it was unloaded by another crane and deposited for the winter. Spring was the reverse. We were doing a boat every 15 minutes over two days / two tides!
Our boat at the time was about the same size as yours but was a dual keeler as it would dry out and stand on the sand. It was one of the largest boats the handled. Masts were pre dropped. That would be done the weekends before. Again it was done on mass. You would drop a bunch of masts in a day!
@Cyberspice A lot of those who can take the ground in the western Algarve dry out on the Alvor sandbank and do their maintenance that way. It’s a lot cheaper than paying Lagos boatyard.
@William Heber Percy iPhones do long exposures by stacking. They can tolerate a small amount of movement because each exposure is aligned automatically with its neighbours.
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 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.
I understand Michael O’Leary “dog foods”. 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, it’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.
he has a point though, I mean if you wait until "the right time, financially", you'll put it off indefinitely - unless you already have a bank account large enough for you never to worry anyway.
There's never a good time financially to have children, people shouldn't have children because they can afford it, people should have children because they want children. Your worth infinitely increases with each child you have, even if your bank balance doesn't 😅
@JessTheUnstill @fifilamoura Some of us wouldn’t even take on a(n already-born) cat until we felt able to do all that. The idea of subjecting a human child to unready parents who don’t want them fiercely is unconscionable.
@MeaTLoTioN @Kenneth M Sweeney He’s a walking coronary event who has driven away everyone who ever loved him and who could stage an intervention, and now represents everything he used to claim to hate.
Yes, he has a lot of money, but I expect he is utterly miserable.
He does not understand the point of life, and drifts further from it every day.
@meatlotion On the contrary, one does not amass such wealth without also becoming a total asswipe. Financial success requires killing one's own humanity
@meatlotion On the contrary, one does not amass such wealth without also becoming a total asswipe. Financial success requires killing one's own humanity
Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS from Miradouro da Cordoama near Cape st Vincent, iPhone 16 pro, fusion camera, ProRaw, processed in Adobe Lightroom. 10 second exposure.
Had to book an AirBNB with a microwave in France because searching for a restaurant that can cater to coeliacs in Brittany resulted in “these guys can do salad without toast.”
@zoe things were better for a bit when GF was a trendy diet, but it's veganism's turn now! Which would be nice for me (a vegetarian) except it's all "fake meat" type vegan food, and as a LIFELONG vegetarian, that's a bit gross from my perspective 😆 my wife and I are in a dark time for easy food!
@Sarah Brown @Alaric Snell-Pym @Zoë O'Connell We felt very lucky finding a gf chippy in Glasgow. Less lucky with the entirely unsafe conference centre offerings.
@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!
@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.
Elon Musk unveiled a prototype of Tesla's Robovan on Thursday night during the company's We, Robot event in Los Angeles. The Robovan will be an electric,
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.
Using an USB aquarium aerator pump, duct tape and some sodium hydroxide solution, I have reversed climate change in this jar to 1980 levels. Now I just need money to build one the size of Madagascar. Where the angel investors at?
Just had a purge of most of the Lib Dem groups I was still a member of. I don’t find I have the stomach for the moral cowardice and rank hypocrisy any more.
In particular, the party is unwilling to do anything about its growing transphobia problem because it would be financially inconvenient for them, so they rely on cherry picked interpretations of a contentious and unsettled part of UK equalities law to give them plausible deniability.
The reality is that the people in a position to do something about the anti trans genocidal maniacs amongst their ranks are never going to suffer any personal issues from tolerating them, and lack the will and the moral courage to do what needs to be done.
It’s easier not to.
This is not unique to them. The far right is on the rise across the western democracies because weak and hypocritical cowards have decided that it’s too hard to do anything about it, and the less they do, the more they get entrenched and the harder it gets.
And, of course, those making the high level decisions to look the other
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Just had a purge of most of the Lib Dem groups I was still a member of. I don’t find I have the stomach for the moral cowardice and rank hypocrisy any more.
In particular, the party is unwilling to do anything about its growing transphobia problem because it would be financially inconvenient for them, so they rely on cherry picked interpretations of a contentious and unsettled part of UK equalities law to give them plausible deniability.
The reality is that the people in a position to do something about the anti trans genocidal maniacs amongst their ranks are never going to suffer any personal issues from tolerating them, and lack the will and the moral courage to do what needs to be done.
It’s easier not to.
This is not unique to them. The far right is on the rise across the western democracies because weak and hypocritical cowards have decided that it’s too hard to do anything about it, and the less they do, the more they get entrenched and the harder it gets.
And, of course, those making the high level decisions to look the other way are pretty much never the ones in the firing line themselves.
I don’t pretend I have the power to stop this. I spent a long time trying in my own little corner of the world and got nowhere.
But I don’t have to watch them tell themselves comforting stories about why doing nothing is the only course of action they could have taken, because it makes me want to heave.
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