Just as a friendly reminder for anyone not aware:
The British press is not our friend. They, as a rule, do not publish anything, ever, favorable about trans folks, because those who control their content would very much prefer that we didn't exist.
So, if a reporter for, say, The Guardian wants to talk to you?
Don't.
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Transphobes are basically the same as anti-vaxxers and those weirdoes opposed to antidepressants.
Their motives don't really matter. Maybe they're just puritanical religious freaks. Maybe they're right-wing political hacks.
All that matters is they're wrong. Trans healthcare has been part of the scientific and medical mainstream for decades. But as long as they can publish fake studies and get op-eds in the New York Times, we will have to suffer the reactionary backlash.
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E.g. Someone, who didn't think he should get the COVID vaccine, explained to me: it's because he didn't think there was enough safety data (at the time). "Other anti-vaxxers told me: yes, you too are anti-vax! And I said, You don't understand! I'm NOT on your side! I want MORE science, not less!"
So it would be a mistake to lump these together.
I think it's worthwhile finding out: WHY do they disagree? Not necessarily just an oversimplistic "They must be #antiscience!"
UK new builds: the builders will tell you that the toilet flushes are “European style” to save water.
This is a lie. I live in two new build flats. One in Portugal and one in England. The toilets they put in in UK new builds are just shit at flushing. The ones in Portugal flush properly.
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So, Ukraine, right.
They gave their nuclear weapons to Russia. Bit of an error perhaps.
But they have nuclear power stations, so presumably have access to plutonium.
You see what I’m saying, right? They’ve got to be trying. If it were me, I would …
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Also it's hard & expensive & they have more immediate things to do with their resources.
Famous American murderer from the telly, O J Simpson, has been in the news recently for dying. Here are some lesser known facts about him:
O J was known by his fans as "The Juice". This is because his full name was Orangejuice Jorangejuice Simpson.
King Edward VIII of England was forced to resign because he wanted to marry him.
In addition to being good at rugby and murder, O J was also the first man on mars.
He was acquitted after his lawyer, who was one of the Cardasians from Star Trek, convinced the jury that there were five lights.
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He wasn't even called Simpson, I saw a documentary once and he was an accident-prone cop called Nordberg in real life
And he wasn't in the Simpsons
Answer me that
In case it matters to anybody who might be looking at safe havens as the British political system slides towards fascism with a side order of transphobia, Germany has just relaxed its gender determination laws *significantly*
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68801392.amp
Germany eases gender change rules
Adults can now declare a change to male, female or diverse without undergoing a psychiatric assessment.BBC News
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Covid booster means I’ve been vaccinated against seven things in less than a week (measles, mumps, rubella, tetanus, polio, diphtheria, Covid).
Done now. Feeling a bit sorry for myself b
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Readers of a certain age may remember a fun but flawed vertically scrolling progressive shoot ‘em up game from the mid 80s called Slap Fight. I played it loads on the C64.
I today found out it was called something entirely different in the US, and I feel like part of my childhood was a lie.
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Like, trans girls who are allowed to be girls growing up are really pretty normal? They like clothes and makeup, they have crushes, they play volleyball, they make friends. Nobody even notices them most of the time.
That's what people are so scared of?
Meanwhile, it can do irreparable damage to force someone to act contrary to their own nature by threat of violence.
But that's fine?
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I'm using trans girls as an example because that's what I'm most familiar with, obviously, but the same rules apply to trans boys and non-binary kids. Adults project all their weird hangups and fetishes and obsessions onto trans kids who just wanna do normal kid things.
It's the adults who are the problem.
I remember being in the closet. Everybody thought I was sad, catatonic, and damaged in some way they couldn't explain.
And kinda girly, honestly.
But when I came out? Everybody suddenly thought I was funny, sweet, lovely, and able to talk them to death about electrons.
And the only difference is there wasn't a gun to my head making me hide my normal personality and behavior.
That's what people want to deny us.
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It also reveals a lot about their assumptions about kids in general.
That children couldn't step outside norms without being misled by some evil adult.
That children couldn't defy their parents' wishes, because they assume every parent is rigidly cruel in enforcing their will on children.
It's not just the viewpoints I don't like. The people pushing them are nasty.
the problem with trans people having a say in our own destiny is people in power starting from the assumption there is something gross, wrong, broken and criminal about us. We can say we have a right to decide our own destinies and to them it sounds like criminals professing their own innocence demanding not to be imprisoned or fined.
Trans rights therefore, seem to me to rely on deconstructing the very concepts of deviance, brokenness, crime and punishment at its foundations
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The audacity of transphobes outing themselves on Mastodon today, do they know who writes the code for these places?
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Some day, I will get around to writing at least a three-part blog essay on the nature of power in online spaces.
It won't be this day, but your comment makes me wish I had time to make it this day. 😁
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Worth emphasising that the Heritage Foundation Tories and their useful idiots, are primarily going after trans rights to remove bodily autonomy arguments so they can then go after abortion.
Cis folk, wake the hell up. The USA has shown us exactly what their game is.
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He's already said that he doesn't believe in the Gillick competency on more than one occasion (as well as using the 'sex-based rights' nonsense dog-whistle):
https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/01/16/keir-starmer-scotland-gender-bill-trans-lbc/
He's a bigot.
@StrangeNoises @JulietEMcKenna
Keir Starmer defends view that 16 is too young to change gender, says ‘sex-based rights matter’
Labour leader Keir Starmer has defended sex-based rights after being questioned about the Scottish GRA reform.Amelia Hansford (PinkNews | Latest lesbian, gay, bi and trans news | LGBTQ+ news)
Now the UK has used “no medical care for trans people before 25 because brains not developed”, they’re gonna push for 40, “because fertility”.
I would actually put money on them doing that.
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That's pop psychology at its worst.
Yes, there is still some development in "the brain" up to the age of 25, but it's mostly to do with the areas of the brain that deal with impulse decision making. The areas of the brain that deal with considered decision making are more or less fully developed at 15.
And despite how things look in transphobic fantasy-land, nobody is transitioning on a whim.
Just had vaccines for measles, mumps, rubella, tetanus, diphtheria and polio.
On Friday it’s Covid.
My immune system is gonna have fun.
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People seem to think that hormones fundamentally don’t really feel like anything, that they just change your body and nothing else. Nothing is further from the truth.
Getting on HRT when you’re trans feels like you’ve been wearing shoes two sizes too small for your entire life and you’ve just got a pair that fits. Getting on HRT when you’re not has the opposite effect: instead you’re taking a drug that will cause crushing depression. It’s even on the side effects list!
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I kind of forgot while saying this that in their mythology we’re embarked upon a sinister project to propel cis kids through transition.
Obviously fucking not, dickheads. We recoil at the idea of someone being pushed to transition as hard as we recoil at the idea of them being pushed not to. It’s always self-led. How dare you accuse us of the same monstrosity that you are so determinedly perpetrating yourselves.
Wouldn't it be easier to just refer to HRT as 'meds'? Like if you take epilepsy meds, you will have a bad time.
It seems easier to explain 'trans men do not produce the right hormones for men, so they need these meds'.
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Dear UK residents. I’m sorry to be tedious, but I’m going to do the trans Cassandra thing again.
The government is now moving towards regarding trans people as effective children until the age of 25.
This will be established as precedent and then used to screw over any and all young adults who can’t escape from abusive parents, especially young women.
If you want to do anything about this, you need to fight for trans people. Yes, you. Now.
We all know that isn’t going to happen to any significant extent though.
As you were.
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I think it's easy to underestimate how far most people have moved on this already. (Not that *most* makes it safe). There seem to be two groups pushing this:
1. boring folk who moan about the metric system, car parks, youth of today, ULEZ, "they're all as bad as each other", immigrants, etc.
2. Westminster-y policy type people, both left and right, professional dinner-party attenders, columnists, writers, wonks, essayists, student union types.
The (dangerous) difference now is that these groups -- our society's loudest, most boring, dull, dim, and reactionary, who only differ in social class -- are united on one subject.
The public don''t need to "come round".
People think Guardianista idealists lay out liberation's groundwork -- surveyors going ahead. But they're just apologists hanging on the coat-tails of emperors, minting excuses for comfortable lives at court. The powerful, their "clients", are moving right, so they're representing them, coining theories and writing reports.
Sweet pepper is the most disappointing vegetable (yes, I know it’s a fruit).
It’s like someone was, “what if chilli, but shit?”
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After watching Oppenheimer the other week, I just rewatched Dr Strangelove.
For the love of god, will one of the nuclear powers announce it’s destroying its hydrogen bombs? These things are psychotically evil. Just get rid of them. Now, before the kill us all.
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Crap homes, poorly built to low standards with a huge profit mark up for the large building companies.
Why do we accept this in the UK? The rest of Northern Europe doesn’t.
Can we simply imagine nothing else despite McCloud’s decades of programmes.
Don’t forget the biggest group of donors to #Tories are property companies…it’s not a coincidence.
Grand Designs' Kevin McCloud: Big builders are artificially driving up house prices for profit
UK house prices are out of control, and many of the issues can be traced back to the big builders says Grand Designs' Kevin McCloud.Rupert Hargreaves (CityAM)
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Curious to know whether you think the route cause of the decline in standards was trying to squeeze out more profit or a decline in training caused by the prioritisation of HE over FE courses by successive governments? Or both.
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Apropos of a conversation elsewhere c, I’ve always been given the creeps by “Jonathan Pie”. It’s always struck me as “manufactured outrage click bait culture for left wing people who think they’re too clever to fall for that.”
The sceptics in the pub crowd had the same sort of attitude and it made them really really easy marks for the alt right to use as useful idiots in their culture war.
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Do Americans realise just how much it looks like they’re trying to speedrun “imperial power collapsing into failed state” to the rest of the world right now?
Guys, sort your shit out FFS.
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I mean you're not wrong, but also because you're not wrong, it's not easy to sort it out.
We are so past democracy it's not even relevant. No one in the government represents the people. The machine is so big it's just feeding itself.
Historical the only avenues of change are direct action, protest related, ... or more extreme things that historically only move power to some faction.
If you have any suggestions, that would help.
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We're both English, don't look at us. We haven't had a revolution for 500 years and we got bored with that after a decade and undid it.
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As a... lapsed beginner, I wouldn't be entirely unhappy if the whole of Portugal adopted that accent.
Not saying I don't love it, but Latin languages pronounced as if you're a drunk Russian in a hurry aren't the easiest to understand
@Ghost of Hope I think that’s a stress timed/syllable timed distinction more than anything else (stress timed languages tend to swallow syllables to make them fit, so if you don’t know to listen for the tonic syllables it’s really hard to get the words).
Curiously Brazilian Portuguese is syllable timed, which is the biggest difference. That I wouldn’t mind. What made my ears bleed was rendering all the consonants as “tch”.
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Thanks, I'm going to look into this.
I feel as though when I was last actively studying it, I was getting into where I got stuck with French, which was not being told that in the real world the French throw away words when the context doesn't need them. I've been missing something.
I got so far picking out the words I could hear, but that's a recipe for disaster.
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Observant viewers will note the presence of hydrofoils. Each one of those is an INTERPLANETARY SEAPLANE!
Also, not a single expendable launch in this game.
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What I would have liked to have learned in English classes at school:
- Grammar.
- The history of how the language evolved from one with a rich conjugation and case system into the vastly structurally simpler one we have now.
- Points of convergence and divergence with other languages, closely related or not. How did that happen?
- How to speak and write beautifully and precisely with rhetorical flourishes if needed
What I actually learned in English classes at school:
- Thomas Hardy really hated women.
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On top of that, once you're required to write essays, you aren't actually taught how to do it or given any examples of one looks like (IIRC) which probably explains why I've always been bad at them.
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!Friendica Support Hi all.
Running via Docker behind nginx proxy manager. Got the three containers shown.
The UI is a bit sluggish. In particular, it takes forever for the notifications to show up after doing pretty much anything.
So my question is, is there anything stopping me spinning up another UI or cron container on another machine and trying to parallelise things a bit? Is there anything special I have to do to enable that?
TIA
@Michael Vogel Should note in case it's not clear, the container called "friendica-cron" is actually running the daemon, starting with this script:
#!/bin/sh
trap "break;exit" HUP INT TERM
while [ ! -f /var/www/html/bin/daemon.php ]; do
sleep 1
done
echo "Waiting for MySQL $MYSQL_HOST initialization..."
if php /var/www/html/bin/wait-for-connection "$MYSQL_HOST" "${MYSQL_PORT:-3306}" 300; then
sh /setup_msmtp.sh
exec gosu www-data:www-data tini -- php /var/www/html/bin/daemon.php -f start
else
echo "[ERROR] Waited 300 seconds, no response" >&2
fi
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Unknown parent • • •@iaruffell If they make up quotes, the best you can do is go public with your evidence of refusal.
Not all journalists are bad. There's just... well, some bad people heading some important newsrooms right now.
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in reply to Doc "Atombusen" Impossible • • •Michael Halligan
in reply to Doc "Atombusen" Impossible • • •honestly I have never heard a british accent mention trans people in a non-discriminatory way. It seems like if someome is british and their voice is being recorded, they are required by law to make a negative joke about trans people.
Especially the tall asshole on the british car shows. Dude is obsessed.
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in reply to Doc "Atombusen" Impossible • •@Doc "Atombusen" Impossible Daily Mail once tried to do a transphobic hit piece on me. They asked me to comment.
I told them that they were scraping the bottom of the barrel and that their “story” was a vacuous attempt to fill column inches, and they should stop embarrassing their profession and go and report some real news.
They spiked it.
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Unknown parent • • •@Ghostynn @OftOverthinking Yeah, this is very very diplomatic language for "don't fucking do this."
> Many recommendations could make a positive impact – such as expanding provision of healthcare by moving away from a single national service towards a series of regional centre's... But without due care, training or further capacity in the system, others could lead to new barriers that prevent children and young people from accessing the care they need and deserve.
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Unknown parent • • •This predates yesterday's note
https://twitter.com/stonewalluk/status/1777991045743067461?t=1wKdy7NVV3U1bOuj-0AFgg&s=19
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