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Reminder that fascism demands such flattening and homogenization of humanity itself that it kills off one indigenous language every 40 days, to the point that at this rate 90% of ALL languages will disappear by 2125, should there even be any people left to speak to speak of by then
If Olympians were representative of the wider population, ~400 trans athletes should have competed in the Olympics. There have been just two. TWO.
Yeh Iāve got into the mentality of āfour hours downā so I donāt fret.
*most
Wasnāt the post fun sleep break to be honest lol
Well I folded the washing and tidied the kitchen
Officially I take Fridays off but thatās mainly as I donāt have enough work
Yeh Iām up sorting washing and tidying the kitchen now before I go back to bed properly.
I seem to love naps all the time š How long do you nap when you do?
Yeh. Thatās what made me wonder rather than worry. Itās not very sociable if youāre the only one doing it, but many nights Iām alone.
3+ hours, looking at my last posts lol
Maybe enforcing it as short would help. Lay down with my audiobook and think I slept solidly for 4 hours.
Anyone sleep in two phases? I keep sleeping all evening then waking up and Iām wondering whether to try and get out of it or embrace it.
Sat in hot liquid they keep on cooking. If itās bubbling you can probably turn the heat off when you drop the eggs in.
So in space terms the control room moved a tiny bit right. Thatās the announcement?
Yet less than 1 per cent of autism research has focused on older autistic people.
It all feels like a resurgence of the British attitudes I hated as a kid. Things seemed to have got so much better for a while. Then took barely a moment to go back 40+ years.
Yup. Broadened my mind at a good age at least. We did live in a semi segregated way in areas without much in the way of history, so no big cultural experiences to share unfortunately.
How about his knees?
Formative views of the English abroad, inequality & prejudice.
It was though you tend to take things in your stride as kids, donāt you? Odd memories. Three fingered kitkats. No street names often, so invitations to friendsā birthdays always came with a hand drawn map. Flying thousands of miles alone at 13.
Most of the places were just tents 20 years previously so no grand palaces like southern Spain and North Africa.
When I was 7 we lived a year in Qatar. No mains water in our flat in the capital: it was delivered to the roof by tanker. Apparently my Arabic was pretty good. I can hardly remember one or two words now.
Interesting but to a great extent we lived in bubbles of expats. So long ago now. My first shawarma was there. I donāt think Dubai had a building over 5 or 6 floors high. Iād hate to go back now.
Pretty much
Ah. That explains why a time zone wasnāt mentioned then.
What was meant to happen at 2pm and did it?
Gods the prose is a bit rambling isnāt it?
Oh good
Ahh. Right reasoning but wrong result.
Shouldāve used better duct tape
Ten weeks on. One day this might be my petition to exempt the Progress Pride flag from planning permission.
Break out the Mysteronised champagne! Francis Matthews, the voice of Captain Scarlet in Gerry and Sylvia Anderson's 1967 Supermarionation series, was born on this day in 1927! Were you ever lucky enough to meet him?
The UK finally has a political party whose leader can clearly articulate, in a few short sentences, that trans rights matter and are non-negotiable. Well done to @zackpolanski.bsky.social, who can hopefully claw back some airtime from the bloviated arsehole who runs the other party with four MPs š
I got on quite well in lockdown
I quite enjoyed it. A light frivolous couple of hours. I think any time you reduce a 13 hour book to a 2 hour dramatisation you have to make some changes to plaster over the cuts. Havenāt read it yet, so I donāt know what was changed. Those two accents are off, but forgivable.
Boo
The ratchet, if itās a ratchet, looks shaped to hold the device open rather than closed so Iām guessing itās an early speculum.
Even so, there _are_ measurers for medical use
Re this, as @andymb.bsky.social says in the comments, these are available. It's worth 8 quid to see the reaction of gammons to these IME
Me too. Itās the only poppy Iāll wear.
Some kind of speculum?
That should take a day or so
Come on - which one of you organised it?
They shouldnāt expect an interactive medium to be like a broadcast medium š¤·š»āāļø
Perhaps a large show of these is in order? www.poppyshop.org.uk/products/pri...
We donāt get zoomies here. I think she feels it would undermine her general disdain.
And some of them canāt even get that right.
And you should see the size of his feet
The joy of letting it ring out during dinner with no caller id or message taking.
The world went into decline when you could take a telephone away from an uncomfortable seat in a cold draughty hallway.
Quite. Iām sure he has people for that.
I suppose we could rename the āmagic crossā to āst Georgeās crossā
I spent many extended school holidays in the Middle East
I really didnāt need that
It was more a reference to my missing teeth lol
I need you to reprogram me. The end of summer always brings me down.
Now you tell me
Gary Indiana Oh
Ooh. Full Jenny Joseph.
An āultracrepidarianā (19th century) is one who loves to give their opinion, at length, on matters they know nothing about.
And if they are happy your plot must fall back on āBury Your Gaysā to rebalance things.
I have. Red suede DMs. Iāve always imagined Iād be Nanny Ogg when Iām old too.
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What more could one hope for?
Unfortunately theyāre small so Iāll look silly but will still be able to see and hear everything.
And I can upend one on my head when we get the attack warning
Weāve a couple of little metal buckets
Things improved. Everything was getting more liberal.
I shouldāve followed my instinct to emigrate as a kid.
Right šš
The waiter?
Yes, Iāve had a few rusty engineers in that case.
Iāve a sporren a bit like that
Cold in sandwiches or with a baked potato.
One time my family went on a whirlwind trip in Ireland, Wales, Scotland, and England, and our biggest takeaway was that no one outside of London liked the English.
Having grown up with it, haslet is haslet in my mind. Just donāt tie the word meatloaf to it.
Ohhhhhhhh
Itās often me if thatās any comfort
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Can I butt In with a slice of haslet?
I only recently discovered that berk is rhyming slang
Brownies
Weāre going to ask the Charities Commission to remove the charity registration of āsex mattersā. We feel āsex mattersā insane levels of radicalism is now so stark and irrefutable. If the Commission refuse to deregister, we go straight to judicial review. We have excellent standing.
Iām a hopeless whistler. Urban myth says it means youāre queer š¤·š»āāļø
Iām reminded of when my youngest sister mispronounced it as fucksia
Good! š
What a cold, shallow, desiccated twat
What a twat
Wow. Didnāt feel like 1976 did, but maybe very different peaks and variance.
Because he didnāt clear away the dirty glasses?
I almost mistakenly tried to take off a blokeās angora sweater once
I like spoon theory, how a person with fatigue has only a limited number of spoons, and has to decide which activities to spend them on. They have a limit beyond which they cannot go. [1/x]
Itād have to be casual thing
Good grief
Nose diving brontosaurus
Silly is always good
Maybe Cris is right
I got soaked just trying to get to the shed
Jam: 400g figs, quartered Zest of a lemon, juice of two Cooking apple, peeled, cored, chopped 125ml apple juice 125ml pomegranate juice Low heat until fruit is soft Add 400g sugar and dissolve Do standard jam boiling. When almost at setting point add 2tbsp pomegranate molasses.