WittyProfileName2

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[–] WittyProfileName2@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years ago (4 children)

There's one uncle who's politics is an uncomfortable spot.

For a while he's been sliding further and further right. When he was younger he was a communist and then, like, he became a liberal (I don't see him in the flesh much, or maintain a presence on the sites he uses anymore, but gossip is he's gone full tory now). Last time I had a big arguement with him was online almost a decade ago when he said that communist revolutionaries've only made countries they've liberated worse. Now I'm an anarchist and thus critical of many of the big socialist projects, but claiming they were worse than they were before the revolution is complete bullshit. So I asked him "do you think Russia was better under the Tsar?" and he was like, "yes." So I asked him how he felt about the pogroms tsarists carried out on the reg, and he just started doing the whole "whataboutism" shtick. And harped on at me about the huge death toll of communism and when I tried to tell him about how fudged those numbers are, he called me a genocide denier.

Now, I get a lot of you in thread have folks down the Q-hole or whatever. But being a bloke that grew up as Thatcher bollocksed the community he grew up in, from a family of commited communists. We're all scratching our heads over how he went that way.

Still waiting for that letter from the NHS to arrive. So much anticipation. They haven't attempted to phone again either. Still excited about the approaching closeness of my HRT. snom But also worried that the letter won't arrive in time and I'll miss my appointment and the NHS will decide I'm not being serious about transitioning and it'll be waiting lists on waiting lists before I get another chance.

Still not found a job. It's not like I was expecting all the hospitals to be falling over themselves to hire me when I got my degree, but I'm still a bit disheartened by how many labs I've applied to work in only to get the same canned rejection, like, a day later.

I think part of it is that Western™ libs want to be a bigot with every fibre in their being, but the way political lines've been drawn makes it politically inexpedient to be openly racist to all but a handful of groups and even then they have to pretend it's not racism that makes 'em hate (for example Romanis) but some other thing.

Russians right now are acceptable targets for racism in the liberal zeitgeist and so the kid gloves are off (as are libs masks).

Look at how quickly a lib becomes homophobic when they get even a sniff of such bigotry sliding.

I close my eyes, take a deep breath, and then try to envision everything my body just did to take that breath.

The intercostal muscles expanding an' the diaphragm contracting to make a vacuum in the thoracic cavity.

The air rushing down my trachea, into my bronchus, then into the bronchioles.

The alveoli swelling individually as the air fills 'em.

My lungs filling the vacuum that the muscles created.

It's a lot of things to keep ahold of all at once, so there ain't the space in my mind to keep thinking of what annoyed me (until some daft bastard goes and does it again mind you).

CW: queerphobic slang.Annwn, 'cos that's where all the fairies are.

[–] WittyProfileName2@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago

Mari Lwyd

What's more christmassy than getting into a rap battle with a person wearing a horse skull as a mask.

Sadly no Mari Lwyd's in my area this year. :(

[–] WittyProfileName2@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm Kertasnikir, sometimes people have candles that're scented with, like, limonene and stuff and I know I shouldn't eat them but that doesn't stop me wondering what they taste like.

:sicko-grýla:

[–] WittyProfileName2@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I am curious as to how you determined that the UK's surveillance is more strict than China's though.

For starters, the UK has some of the most intense digital surveillance laws in the world, for example:

The snooper's charter

DRIP (although this one was repealed by EU courts, it's back on the table again post-BREXIT)

On top of that, UK laws around protests severely restrict what can he deemed a legal protest. And police can arrest you on suspicion of protesting in a "disruptive" way. During the king's coronation, six people were detained on suspicion that they might possibly strap themselves or their signs to something.

In the wake of those Just Stop Oil ones gluing themselves to stuff, glue was added to the list of items a police officer can "stop and search" for with no restrictions (take one guess at the sorts of people the cops like to target with this).

You're probably aware of the "spy cops" scandal, well a bill a coupla years back was put into place to prevent any legal recourse to people targeted by spy cops and gave protections to secret service types caught torturing people.

This isn't an exhaustive list, just a few examples.

Also, this should in no way be interpreted as a defence of China's surveillance state. Just that the UK is currently even worse about it.

[–] WittyProfileName2@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Remember when college was about drugs, late night pizza, and sex

No. As far as I'm aware, higher education was never about that. These fuckers watch some shitty American film about horny students and build their entire worldview around that?

If you wanna get laid, go clubbing or hit up tinder or some shit, it'll work out cheaper in both the short and long term.

[–] WittyProfileName2@hexbear.net 20 points 2 years ago

The bottom right looks so much like the astral prism from BG3.

I can't help but wonder if making the prism look like that is intentional.

He did advertisements originally.

I think I may've seen some Sesame Street thing he did at one point tho.

[–] WittyProfileName2@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Bugger my life, 10 months of waiting later and the NHS finally choose to call about my blood tests for HRT while I'm out Christmas shopping.

There were people at home, but they might as well've been a chocolate teapot for all they could help in the circumstances what with not having a clue about anything going on an' all.

The NHS would've been able to reach me on my mobile if they hadn't lost the number for the third time this year.

There's a letter coming in the post now though. And I'm happy that I'm closer to getting my anticistamines/antiboyotics/titty skittles/[other joke name for oestrogen]. party-blob

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