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[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 61 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

I thought Ukraine celebrated Orthodox Christmas, but turns out this was changed last year.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 27 points 8 months ago (1 children)

They do, at least, acknowledge this:

We recognise that this Annual Report for 2023 is arriving later than we had intended. Going forward, we plan to release our Annual Report for 2024 in Q1 of 2025, where we will establish clear and ambitious goals for 2025 and beyond. This adjusted timeline allows us to provide more timely insights and better align our reporting with our ongoing growth and development.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

They don't strip out the markdown on the bluesky side, so posts are just full of junk. Weird choice given the focus on 'seamless' integrated between the two.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

It's because YouTube puts a bunch of JavaScript at the start of the file (1MiB) before the opengraph tags and Lemmy only fetches the first 512 KiB (a fix was merged a couple days ago).

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 40 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Neoliberalism is actually praxis as it creates more billionaires /s

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 2 points 9 months ago

A Wake In Providence -- I Write To You, My Darling Decay

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 23 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Traditionally, puberty blockers would be used in cases where children start puberty at extremely young ages

Puberty blockers have been prescribed to transgender youth since the 90s, they're use in combating gender dysphoria is just as much a part of the puberty blocker tradition as their use in combating early puberty.

I would not want to be held accountable for the countless stupid things I said or beliefs I held at a young age, so I can see why it is a concern.

This subtle notion that slips into this discourse that being trans is akin to a make-belief thing is deeply frustrating. No, children were not just being given puberty blockers because they suddenly declared that they weren't their assigned gender. Getting puberty blockers required a diagnosis of gender dysphoria, something I can assure you is not an easy thing to get in this country, and even then still needed a specialist's approval.

This is the worst part of this 'debate', people are led to believe that it's the child deciding for themselves that they get puberty blockers despite the very stringent requirements on their use for trans youths. The point of this entire ordeal is not to protect kids (puberty blocker usage has a 4% regret rate), it's to build up the idea that no amount of safeguards can make the prescribing of trans healthcare acceptable to people you don't believe have full bodily autonomy. Where this goes from here is not looking for other areas in which our medical system is failing children, it's expanding the list of trans people who don't have full bodily autonomy. The Cass Review has already said that autistic people need special consideration.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 1 points 9 months ago

Couldn’t find a non-X source

They link to one? This was also posted here yesterday.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 4 points 9 months ago (3 children)

The housing secretary, who is also the deputy prime minister, said building more homes would stop prices from rising further and pricing new buyers out.

This would only really works if supply outstrips demand, but even if Labour delivers on the 1.5m pledge, it still falls far short of the current 4m+ deficit. The best this policy will do is stop prices rising as fast, but it won't stop prices rising.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 3 points 9 months ago

The cast size thing is definitely more of an early-RWBY issue, I think the Atlas arc overall did a decent job of managing all the characters.

I felt Ruby's breakdown was a bit sudden. I don't recall any foreshadowing of that in volume 8 but I might be misremembering. There's definitely been points where she's been stressed out before but I never felt she was the type to break down, but maybe it was just a matter of time.

It's been a hot minute since I've seen V8, but I remember her being on the verge of a breakdown throughout it e.g. that scene where she bursts out the meeting. In universe, it was only about 4 days between Salem arriving in Atlas and the Paper Pleasers fight, so the breakdown felt very natural to me.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 59 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (7 children)

Context for people who don't keep up with Lemmy drama.

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