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Nov 1, 2022 21:10
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Every trans person I know right now is terrified. The effect this is having on me and my communities mental health is harrowing.
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Nov 1, 2022 21:11
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Nov 1, 2022 21:20
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That's some ridiculously bad photoshopping
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Nov 1, 2022 21:21
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I have three children, one of whom is trans. I don't know whether it is better to pull them all out of school and my husband and I get new jobs so we can move to Scotland in the hopes he will be better protected, or stay here to try to weather the storm for the next 2 years in the hope that 1. The Tories don't win another bloody election and 2. Labour are not so atrocious.
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Nov 1, 2022 21:29
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I feel like some loud Scottish women and some portion of the SNP even in recent weeks were extremely anti-trans so I'm not sure it's an ideal destination either.
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Nov 1, 2022 21:35
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I honestly don't know what to do. I am so scared.
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Nov 1, 2022 21:37
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Utterly sick of this loving tiny minded island
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Nov 1, 2022 21:38
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I don't know what the gently caress anyone can do, just doesn't seem like there's enough decent people in the country to make a difference.
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Nov 1, 2022 21:38
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TreeTrunks posted:I honestly don't know what to do. I am so scared. It's loving horrible but you're not alone 
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Nov 1, 2022 21:46
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OwlFancier posted:I don't know what the gently caress anyone can do, just doesn't seem like there's enough decent people in the country to make a difference. That's kind of how I feel too, and the path we are going down loving terrifies me. The Tories have already managed to implement conditional human rights with regards to asylum seekers, and they've got away with putting them in literal concentration camps for a number of years, and that is now the 'accepted norm'. They have also successfully stripped various fundamental rights from travellers right up to literally anyone protesting anything. The new anti protest laws are terrifying. They've got away with killing of the most vulnerable sick and disabled people for 12 years, despite UN condemnation. The attack on trans rights isn't going to stop at trans rights. If the Tories aren't stopped, they'll increase the net to attack the rights of other groups within the LGBT spectrum. We're no longer on a path to fascism. We're here. This is it, and when the 'opposition' is also yearning for the same fascism... yeah.... I'm so loving tired of it all, and I don't know what to do anymore, except continue to exist out of spite
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Nov 1, 2022 22:05
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Meanwhile, I had today off, which is why 11 hours after I started doing work I finally got home from work. Love to have a day off.
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Nov 1, 2022 22:09
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roomtone posted:Can someone decode this for me a bit? I've long been aware that people say the government delcaring the urgency of 'balancing the budget' etc is a smokescreen, but I've never understood why. All I really understand about it right now is that on a surface level it seems like they are saying we need to reduce spending to a point where we aren't getting into further debt or paying off debt. The short version is that due to the interaction between inflation, tax receipts, and the ability to print money, a government can deficit spend literally 100% of the time without going bankrupt. you can even deficit spend 100% of the time while paying down debt. The very slightly longer version is that a lot of this dates back to the calls for AUSTERITY! after the 2008 economic crisis which was pretty much lies. A household or business often does need to engage in austerity in lean times, but a government with control over its currency typically does not. Recessions are often the result of what you might think of as economic weather - they aren't real, in much the same way that money isn't real. What's real is that when people work they produce goods and services. Thus during 'bad weather' the government can essentially tell people to just keep working by virtue of printing money and giving it away - keeping the 'real economy' going despite the negative effects of the 'fake economy'. This won't cause rampant inflation like it would normally would, so long as you are indeed combatting weather. The current situation is more complicated than that as there is 'real' inflation being caused by supply chain issues, but the knock on effects of those real problems are causing more malaise than the real effects. TheDeadlyShoe fucked around with this message at 22:15 on Nov 1, 2022 |
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Nov 1, 2022 22:11
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Guavanaut posted:someone who is good at the economy please help me choose between cutting out home maintenance or buying more candles. my family is dying Hexamine, save on the fuel bills cooking on mini folding stoves - stoke the pile of BBC licence notices in the fireplace for warmth.
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Nov 1, 2022 22:19
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Nov 1, 2022 22:20
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The Liz Truss book that people were making fun of actually has a lot of potential to be a fun read. This however. This is guaranteed to be absolutely shite.
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Nov 1, 2022 22:36
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As a dog returns to his vomit, etc You would think this fool would be well advised not to remind people. Well, you'd think.
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Nov 1, 2022 22:41
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Has anyone seen Ed Ball?
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Nov 1, 2022 22:47
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Oh I nearly forgot! It's November, guys! And you know what that means! Ten days of loving fireworks! Also three months of hosed sleep schedule due to clock change, whattup fellow adhd/autism buddies!
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Nov 1, 2022 22:50
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Too much collateral. Ideally we would go extinct in a way that spares the giraffes and spiders.
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Nov 1, 2022 22:52
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Brendan Rodgers posted:Too much collateral. Ideally we would go extinct in a way that spares the giraffes and spiders. Spiders survived the last big meteor just fine. And the giraffes will be able to use their long necks and tongues to forage above the clouds of ash (maybe)
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Nov 1, 2022 22:54
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Only Kindness posted:Oh I nearly forgot! Sorry about the sleep problems. As a fellow ADHD haver I have delayed sleep phase and the clocks going back has brought me closer to "normal" wake up time. It sucks to have your pattern thrown out, I hope you can find it again
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Nov 1, 2022 22:59
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Cunts have been setting off frequent fireworks randomly of an evening for the last week or so here already. This is only a minor change from the norm to be fair, there seems to be someone somewhere on the estate we live on with year-round access to fireworks and the desire to set them off one or two at a time every couple of days, or sometimes they’ll do a couple in one night but spaced out across a couple of hours with seemingly no rhyme or reason.
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Nov 1, 2022 23:23
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OwlFancier posted:I don't know what the gently caress anyone can do, just doesn't seem like there's enough decent people in the country to make a difference. This is exactly how I feel. The best lack all conviction and the worst are full of passion. I'm just so tired of it. Every effort you make that feels like it might do something, you're punished hard. I've basically lost all hope. Oh and I got my eye socket and nose broke the other day in an attempt to stop a homophobic attack. Least we have each other I suppose.
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Nov 1, 2022 23:29
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Someone near me set loads of fireworks off after midnight last night 🙄 E: whoa Jakabite! Are you ok?
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Nov 1, 2022 23:31
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Jakabite posted:This is exactly how I feel. The best lack all conviction and the worst are full of passion. I'm just so tired of it. Every effort you make that feels like it might do something, you're punished hard. I've basically lost all hope. Oh and I got my eye socket and nose broke the other day in an attempt to stop a homophobic attack. Least we have each other I suppose. Jfc, sorry to hear that mate. Sounds like you did the right thing though, shame about how the world often rewards doing that
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Nov 1, 2022 23:34
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Jakabite posted:This is exactly how I feel. The best lack all conviction and the worst are full of passion. I'm just so tired of it. Every effort you make that feels like it might do something, you're punished hard. I've basically lost all hope. Oh and I got my eye socket and nose broke the other day in an attempt to stop a homophobic attack. Least we have each other I suppose. drat, as someone who was assaulted on my bike (just a lot of bruises and a fat lip) recently, I sympathise with you. There's a lot of loving cunts out there right now and the conditions this country is propagating will just make it worse unfortunately. I'm particularly fed up with this place too and am seriously considering my options of moving back to Australia. Cost of living may be high but gently caress me there's way too many positives compared to this bleak shithole.
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Nov 1, 2022 23:38
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Guavanaut posted:https://twitter.com/yungz0rn/status/1587397606241615873 When you have J K Rowling applauding odious poo poo Matt Walsh then they can't possibly be shocked when moire women's rights are attacked. Jakabite posted:This is exactly how I feel. The best lack all conviction and the worst are full of passion. I'm just so tired of it. Every effort you make that feels like it might do something, you're punished hard. I've basically lost all hope. Oh and I got my eye socket and nose broke the other day in an attempt to stop a homophobic attack. Least we have each other I suppose. loving hell mate, hope you're alright.
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Nov 1, 2022 23:39
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Only Kindness posted:Oh I nearly forgot! Not in Dundee! After last night Tesco & Asda have been convinced not to sell them in the city (it kicked off a bit last night) Szmitten posted:I feel like some loud Scottish women and some portion of the SNP even in recent weeks were extremely anti-trans so I'm not sure it's an ideal destination either. I don't think anyone has the illusion that there are no TERFs in Scotland or in the SNP (Joanna Cherry is a prominent SNP MP who has been a TERF since before Graham Linehan broke his brain completely) but I don't think it's so much "looking for an ideal destination" as it is looking for a destination where you have to fear for you or your loved ones just a bit less at this point. And Holyrood just passed the Gender Recognition Reform Bill 88 to 33, a margin of victory you're unlikely to see at Westminster for a similar bill. An overwhelming majority of Nat MSPs still voted for it, Labour voted for it, Liberals voted for it & the Greens voted for it. Only the Tories were majority against (overwhelmingly so of course, I think there were only 2 or 3 MSPs who voted for).
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Nov 1, 2022 23:42
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Cheers gang I'm actually okay - I've taken a week off work and gone to stay with my mum (some things never change), and the damage doesn't seem too bad. Swelling's gone down, my nose is still straight, and I can still see, and when I woke up everyone was gone and had been replaced by some nice students who looked a lot more scared than me, and there was no blood anywhere apart from mine so I assume the fellas getting attacked got away, so as much as it wasn't as heroic as saving the day and beating the baddies, ultimately it was worth it. The 9 hour wait in A and E made me freshly furious though - I felt so bad for everyone involved from the old folk who clearly should've been in beds to the staff, half of whom looked like they wanted to cry. Anyone watching Newsnight? They've got Angela Eagle on for Labour and gently caress me what a useless sack of shite she is. I'd pay a solid amount of money for a few minutes with each of the Labour front bench just to go Full Tucker on them. They're so pathetic. No fire or passion or anything whatsoever unless they're talking about hurting trans people or migrants or protestors. What are people's views on the Breakthrough party? I drunkenly joined once but I can't tell if they're any good. That said I might get involved as they don't seem to have anything bad about them, just not sure how serious an operation they are. I suppose when you distrust and despise the entire establishment then any new group will seem a bit unserious at first.
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Nov 1, 2022 23:51
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Old work friend of mine who I don't live near any more came out as trans recently - I just heard through another old work friend who still works with her. She's the first person I know well who is going down that particular journey and I've asked my other friend to pass on my support but I guess I'm not too sure on the etiquette or the best way to be supportive. I can imagine that anticipating how older, male friends might be a source of anxiety so I guess that's why I wanted to reach out to her. We haven't spoken for a couple of years but only as I moved away from the area. Hopefully she is going well and not letting the terf madness get to her!
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Nov 2, 2022 00:22
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Note to self: don't doomscroll about your human rights on Twitter
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Nov 2, 2022 00:34
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Very relieved that our pets seem quite tranquil about fireworks. Not quite sure how they ended up that way, but I'm glad they did.
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Nov 2, 2022 00:37
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Darth Walrus posted:Very relieved that our pets seem quite tranquil about fireworks. Not quite sure how they ended up that way, but I'm glad they did. My cats were chill about fireworks after living in Walthamstow for several years with fireworks for every occasion: bonfire night, Eids, Diwali, New years (various), birthdays, anniversaries, etc Meanwhile: Was it not just a few short weeks ago that the government said no chance of power outages? https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/nov/01/government-tests-energy-blackout-emergency-plans-as-supply-fears-grow quote:Government tests energy blackout emergency plans as supply fears grow Wonder if the govt will take as much notice of the results as they did of the pandemic 'war game' exercise of 2016?
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Nov 2, 2022 00:54
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Lasting up to seven days. This is very bad indeed for Jeremy Corbyn.
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Nov 2, 2022 01:11
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Jesus christ 7 days without power in winter would kill so loving many people. Time to get a lot of bottles of water...
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Nov 2, 2022 02:15
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I think i could eat raw offal for other peoples entertainment, if it ment getting out of heating the house over winter.
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forkboy84 posted:Not in Dundee! After last night Tesco & Asda have been convinced not to sell them in the city (it kicked off a bit last night) I saw some footage of that. Nice to see the youth out having a bit of fun
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