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I drove past a (minor) car accident on the m25 yesterday which involved a brand new tesla, and my first thought was of njan99.
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I have firefox on mobile since that + ublock is how I use mobile youtube, it's unusable otherwise. On my PC which I use a lot more, I use chrome mainly because firefox's translation plugins can't hold a candle to the one in chrome which can translate a page withot loving it up or reloading it. And that feature alone is too useful for me to give up chrome yet.
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Oct 28, 2023 06:44
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1965917 posted:I'm just running ublock origin on firefox, have zero youtube ads. Yeah, that's the combo I use. I get the warning overlay with a timer on it; when the timer becomes a cross I close it and everything works. Only takes a couple of seconds.
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Oct 28, 2023 07:33
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Runcible Cat posted:Yeah, that's the combo I use. I get the warning overlay with a timer on it; when the timer becomes a cross I close it and everything works. Only takes a couple of seconds. If you are still getting the warning popup then the adblock isn't working. Clear/update the ublock filters and refresh the page.
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Oct 28, 2023 07:45
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1965917 posted:Twitch is basically unwatchable though. Also, its full of ads.
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Oct 28, 2023 07:45
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^^ this one's great
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Oct 28, 2023 08:01
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Jel Shaker posted:it is darkly funny that it’s the tory party that’s snatching all the identity politics signifiers of first this and that It's because 90% of Tory MPs are basically interchangeable on policy, so you can pick whoever you want based on any kind of identifier (as long as that identifier isn't "trans" ofc) and the end result is largely the same.
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Oct 28, 2023 08:32
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Owen Jones is melt-adjacent at best.
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Oct 28, 2023 08:36
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Owen Jones is a good lad who means well.
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Oct 28, 2023 08:39
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keep punching joe posted:Owen Jones is a good lad who means well. he was a good lad who meant well then he spent several years yelling "well labour are evidently poo poo but we have to back them regardless, don't ask me for reasons just do it" and it's addled him because I think he knows the position is utter poo poo and yet he's compelled for whatever reason to hold to some fevered dream of another left wing candidate happening before the system collapses
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Oct 28, 2023 08:50
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Installed it last week. 
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Oct 28, 2023 08:55
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maybe owen jones is poo poo but whenever hes on telly, or a youtube clip (not that I'll know anymore) hes bound to be a million percent better than whoever hes appearing to "balance"
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Oct 28, 2023 09:20
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keep punching joe posted:If you are still getting the warning popup then the adblock isn't working. Clear/update the ublock filters and refresh the page. Tried that before and the popup comes back on the next new tab. I don't care enough to troubleshoot at this point; it works well enough.
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Oct 28, 2023 09:28
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His Divine Shadow posted:I have firefox on mobile since that + ublock is how I use mobile youtube, it's unusable otherwise. On my PC which I use a lot more, I use chrome mainly because firefox's translation plugins can't hold a candle to the one in chrome which can translate a page withot loving it up or reloading it. And that feature alone is too useful for me to give up chrome yet. this always bugged me too but Firefox actually recently got an update which allows for inline translation
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Oct 28, 2023 09:39
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Well this is ace, thank you!
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Oct 28, 2023 09:58
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Runcible Cat posted:Tried that before and the popup comes back on the next new tab. I don't care enough to troubleshoot at this point; it works well enough. That's what mine did until it then counted down his many videos you could watch. Then off.
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Oct 28, 2023 10:19
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NotJustANumber99 posted:maybe owen jones is poo poo but whenever hes on telly, or a youtube clip (not that I'll know anymore) hes bound to be a million percent better than whoever hes appearing to "balance" I agree entirely but the same could be said of a midrange novelty teapot
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Oct 28, 2023 10:20
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WhatEvil posted:He has 4 articles on the Graun published this month, the latest of which was on Tuesday... so I think he still works there. He was on staff, now he's a freelancer.
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Oct 28, 2023 10:23
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Good luck to all the protestors today, whichever city you're in. If you're in London, just a reminder it starts at 12pm around Embankment so see you there, if you decide to come.
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Oct 28, 2023 10:28
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frytechnician posted:Good luck to all the protestors today, whichever city you're in. If you're in London, just a reminder it starts at 12pm around Embankment so see you there, if you decide to come. 100% this. And thank you to those who are attending, from someone who really wants to be there but can't.
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Oct 28, 2023 11:01
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fuctifino posted:100% this. And thank you to those who are attending, from someone who really wants to be there but can't. Same.
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Oct 28, 2023 11:15
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the guardian has written about the attempted new clinics for trans kids and i read the article. i should employ someone to look over my shoulder and stop me reading guardian articles on trans issuesquote:To complicate matters further, an NHS consultation designed to gather views on how best to support children with gender dysphoria has identified two irreconcilable outlooks on the best approach: one group is cautious about the prescription of puberty blockers, while the second is suspicious of exploratory therapy, arguing that it could enter the realm of conversion practices. a chunk of medical staff seem to be of the mind that people transition to not be gay anymore. because nobody bullies trans kids quote:But some of those within the team involved in setting up the new services are challenging Cass’s recommendations. Several people told the Guardian tensions were emerging as clinicians tried to draw up training modules for staff. One person close to the work described the atmosphere as “tribal”. i can't believe other staff are calling me a transphobic conversion therapist just for being transphobic and wanting to do conversion therapy quote:In August, NHSE began sending letters to about 3,000 patients who were either 17 or would turn 17 before next April, telling them the waiting list was so long they would not be seen before they were too old for children’s services, and advising them to get a new GP referral to adult services. some parents are feeling uneasy that their children will be able to make their own decisions when they become legal adults. also some misgendering of a trans child thrown in just for fun. its ok though because they're autistic? I also love the guardian's use of "neurodiverse" here, like, yes we recognise that they have a different way of thinking and still deserve respect but they also definitely can't be trusted to choose their own pronouns because my pal read something on mumsnet
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Oct 28, 2023 11:25
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fuctifino posted:100% this. And thank you to those who are attending, from someone who really wants to be there but can't. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB2yqeD0Nus
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Oct 28, 2023 11:28
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APT has one big flaw: it fucks up the display of the Settings menu, including removing access to Moderator Tools should you happen to be a mod.
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Oct 28, 2023 11:29
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Angepain posted:I also love the guardian's use of "neurodiverse" here, like, yes we recognise that they have a different way of thinking and still deserve respect but they also definitely can't be trusted to choose their own pronouns because my pal read something on mumsnet
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Oct 28, 2023 11:35
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It's funny that if you were rabidly anti-abortion, you wouldn't last long trying to work in NHS abortion services. But being rabidly transphobic seems to make it nice and straightforward to work in NHS trans services. Sorry, I've just been told it isn't funny; it's a loving disgrace. Why can't these pricks go and find some other job to do?
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Oct 28, 2023 11:46
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Same. Same. I’m ill and I feel so bad for not being there. Solidarity to all in attendance wherever you are.
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I'm probably going to be probed for my post in the I/P thread, so I'm going to post it here: It's important people see what Gaza is waking up to this morningfuctifino posted:The scene this morning in Gaza - https://twitter.com/CarlEckett/status/1718186555062309109 Somebody fucked around with this message at 16:30 on Oct 28, 2023 |
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Only skimmed it till "Sarah (not her real name)" then got real angry by proxy cause my eldest is trans and has spent years in limbo while loving liberals handwring over some obviously terf poo poo that ensures an endless and meaningless "debate" while nothing, nothing, nothing gets done and I recently did the philosophy tube 133 emails video where she talks about the issues getting care so the angry just kinda kept rolling then I hosed off reading the rest of it I wish there was a hell for bigots to rot in
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Angepain posted:some parents are feeling uneasy that their children will be able to make their own decisions when they become legal adults. also some misgendering of a trans child thrown in just for fun. its ok though because they're autistic? I also love the guardian's use of "neurodiverse" here, like, yes we recognise that they have a different way of thinking and still deserve respect but they also definitely can't be trusted to choose their own pronouns because my pal read something on mumsnet It's so fascinating and deeply sad to me that these parents really go, "oh, so autistic people are more likely than the general population to be trans or non-binary. That is to say, a spectrum of people who are often famously less attuned to social performance and social expectation, instead focusing on what feels internally meaningful to them regardless of whether others find it unusual, are more likely to discard traditional gender norms. So the only possible conclusion there is that they just don't actually know what they are, see, because of their strangebrains." Like, why is your first thought 'my kid's understanding of themselves is unreliable and I know them better' and not 'wow, yes, I guess a great deal of my own identity has been built up around the expectations of other people essentially from birth?' What's in your brain, what's in your heart? frytechnician posted:Good luck to all the protestors today, whichever city you're in. If you're in London, just a reminder it starts at 12pm around Embankment so see you there, if you decide to come. Same, me and the wife are going to try and hopefully make it to the Bristol protest tomorrow.
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https://twitter.com/ZahiraJaser/status/1718207062155334031 There's a lot of the quiet stuff being said out loud at the moment. Stay safe everyone. x
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As an anecdote, I will note that I am left-handed. Like many, I have some right-handedness due to most things being right hand biased. To this day, people are always 'splaining to me how hard it is to be a leftie when they are a righty. No, it never occurs to them, if it did they wouldn't be 'splaining in the first place. That's just for handedness.
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Angepain posted:some parents are feeling uneasy that their children will be able to make their own decisions when they become legal adults. also some misgendering of a trans child thrown in just for fun. its ok though because they're autistic? I also love the guardian's use of "neurodiverse" here, like, yes we recognise that they have a different way of thinking and still deserve respect but they also definitely can't be trusted to choose their own pronouns because my pal read something on mumsnet This mum is in for a quare gunk if she ever realizes that getting booted to the adult track is the best possible thing for loving over her son. It's going to take years upon years for that first appointment to roll around, and that's if he's referred to a GIC that is still grinding through their backlog, rather than the ones who have essentially lost that capacity entirely. E; All solidarity to the people marching for Palestine, all solidarity to the people of Gaza, from the river to the sea!
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grobbo posted:It's so fascinating and deeply sad to me that these parents really go, "oh, so autistic people are more likely than the general population to be trans or non-binary. That is to say, a spectrum of people who are often famously less attuned to social performance and social expectation, instead focusing on what feels internally meaningful to them regardless of whether others find it unusual, are more likely to discard traditional gender norms. So the only possible conclusion there is that they just don't actually know what they are, see, because of their strangebrains." here are two different things that can happen to the brain, and for both we have no real idea how exactly they end up developing or what goes on in the brain exactly for it to happen. there are zillions of potential reasons why the two might correlate, e.g. autistic people being more likely to question social norms, the stress of gender dysphoria exacerbating mental conditions and making them more clear, some mystery third process that correlates with whatever process brings the two about, the caprices of the magical gnomes that control brain development for all we loving know, etc etc so out of all these, we should assume the one that infantilises autistic people as much as possible: that their autism makes them unable to tell what makes them happy but specifically just for gender identity and not really for anything else. this makes sense to me, a terrible person, because it both means i don't have to think of my child as their own person with agency and also I don't have to question my received prejudices about what sex and gender is. this is the "safe" option because i have decided gender dysphoria isn't real and so not treating it has no consequences to consider Ms Adequate posted:This mum is in for a quare gunk if she ever realizes that getting booted to the adult track is the best possible thing for loving over her son. It's going to take years upon years for that first appointment to roll around, and that's if he's referred to a GIC that is still grinding through their backlog, rather than the ones who have essentially lost that capacity entirely. if the kid gets really lucky though he might get treatment before the age of 25, which terfs have decided is still too young. or by then they'll have moved on to the limit being age 40, when life truly begins
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DesperateDan posted:Only skimmed it till Far be it for me to give the Guardian the benefit of the doubt but the "not her real name" bit may not be as mean spirited as you seem to think & just providing anonymity to the girl.
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Yeah I think Sarah is the 'reasonable concerns' terfy mother, rather than the kid's deadname.
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Angepain posted:so out of all these, we should assume the one that infantilises autistic people as much as possible: that their autism makes them unable to tell what makes them happy but specifically just for gender identity and not really for anything else. this makes sense to me, a terrible person, because it both means i don't have to think of my child as their own person with agency and also I don't have to question my received prejudices about what sex and gender is. this is the "safe" option because i have decided gender dysphoria isn't real and so not treating it has no consequences to consider I don't disagree with your point, Angepain, but I do think it's a bit surface-level. As a clinician working in healthcare, we often talk about parents going through grief. Yes, there's the pain of a child dying, or losing a pregnancy, but there's also the grief that comes from having a child with a disability. It's the grief that comes from realising that your expectations as a parent for your child aren't going to be met. Obviously, you've got the physical disabilities like Downs syndrome or cerebral palsy, but it also applies to children who are autistic. And arguably, that can be harder for parents to deal with, since it usually takes a longer time to become really evident. I've worked with children aged 2-11 where within 5 minutes I'm thinking "This child's autistic" but it can take years for parents to understand that their child isn't neurotypical, let alone actually come to terms with it. (For better or worse, all parents have expectations of their children's future. Like with all things, some parents are just better at dealing with this than others.) So from that point of view, I can see why some parents of autistic young people who are describing as trans can find that very hard to accept. They've maybe spent a decade reconciling their expectations of a child with the reality and now there's another reality they've got to come to terms with. I'm not saying that's right. In fact, it tells me that GIC probably need to have access to a boatload of counselling for parents in addition to whatever psychological support is there for the young people (on the basis that having supportive parents is itself psychologically supportive for any child). But it is a thing.
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forkboy84 posted:Far be it for me to give the Guardian the benefit of the doubt but the "not her real name" bit may not be as mean spirited as you seem to think & just providing anonymity to the girl. Well, ah... quote:"Her teenager had said she wanted to become a boy four years ago, had begun to socially transition, and had been on the waiting list for more than a year. like, it's up to that individual kid what prounouns they use but they talked to the angry terf parent instead of the kid so I'm guessing- given they are transitioning and on t- even the false name would be a dead one here
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Guavanaut posted:Yeah the rest of the article is poo poo and misgenders all over the place, but "Sarah (not her real name), whose 17-year-old child" is terf mum, not deadname. okay I will be incoherently angry at the other parts
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