nobly withstanding the vast brunt of it
Toronto, Ontario
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I am not immune to timeline prompt posts. I started HRT when I was 20, and I was on 2mg of estrogen a day for a long time. Attached, we have, roughly: 2 years pre-HRT; 2 years post-HRT; 10 years post-HRT; 18 years post-HRT. Quite happy with the results.
ALT Old, analog photo: What looks like a young man (you have to say that because the person in the picture turned out to be a trans woman) sitting in a booth at a Frankie and Bennys. The person has very short, blonde hair, wire-rimmed glasses, thick eyebrows, and is wearing a black collared shirt with pink pinstripes
ALT A you g trans woman, too thin, like so many of us are at that age, in a white outfit wearing a complicated beaded necklace, sitting on a couch and laughing. She has short, red hair with swooping bangs. She is laughing. Eyebrows less intense. Someone nearby is holding a beer bottle.
ALT Selfie. A young woman in a crisp white shirt, undone to show a bit of cleavage. Her hair is long, and almost wispy, dark brown with blunt bangs. No glasses, just blue eyes and a bold red lip.
ALT Selfie. Three-quarter shot so Avery could include her breasts, which seem full if a little sunburned. That necklace from the second photo is back! Her hair is still long, the bangs less blunt and the brown a lot lighter, with a bunch of greys, too. She’s wearing a cream v-neck/scoop neck button-up long sleeved tee, it’s weird but it looks good. From Abercrombie in 2019, I think.
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“don’t use q-tips to clean your ears, you’ll just push the wax in further!!” well, yeah, sure, except for my special technique. if I use my special technique then it’s fine.
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every time i drink milk i remember my roommate who used to put powdered milk in his milk so he could drink "more milk per milk"
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I know someone who, when working as a concierge at a fancy hotel, accidentally bumped into Brosnan while she was crossing the lobby in a hurry. She said, “I’m so sorry!” and he put his hand gently on her wrist and replied, “Entirely my fault.”
Can you IMAGINE.
Halle Berry Says Pierce Brosnan 'Restored My Faith in Men' on James Bond Set: 'There Couldn’t Be a Human Who Is More of a Gentleman' variety.com/2024/film/news/h…
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every time
ALT Tweet from aedison: “I wrote "I am alive" on a piece of paper, and placed it into a photocopier. What I saw next has shocking implications”
I asked chatgpt's new image model to script and generate a series of comics starring itself as the main character. The results genuinely gave me chills.
I'll post them all in a thread below.
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heads up this is THE way to memorize a bunch of text perfect. the first letter of every word gives your brain enough of a hint that it can recall the full thing but not TOO much of a hint that your brain doesn’t have to TRY to recall it. You don’t have to write it like zodiac tho
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this royal photo stuff… funny how you all suddenly feel like you have a license to talk about women’s bodies… newsflash: some women have zippers in their hair. some women’s legs are too small and oddly bent in on themselves. some women don’t have reflections
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SNL is a social experiment to find out if you can make comedy gold by subjecting a group of funny people to a pointlessly grueling production schedule and bottlenecking all their ideas through one increasingly-out-of-touch old man. The answer: very, very occasionally!
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I wrote “I am alive” on a piece of paper, and placed it into a photocopier. What I saw next has shocking implications
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so, uh, I had this appointment today, over the phone. call lasted a minute and a half. my GP was surprised that I’d been on estrogen for 14 years. “have you had a hysterectomy?” “no, I’m a transgender woman.” “oh! oh, so you’ll need to be on HRT for life” it was fine
rug got pulled
![screenshot of an incoming text message: Today 4:39 PM
Dear Ms Edison,
Please book a appointment with me to discuss your HRT,
Thanks, Dr [name redacted]](/pic/orig/media%2FGZY9lbfXQAAlDHv.jpg)
ALT screenshot of an incoming text message: Today 4:39 PM Dear Ms Edison, Please book a appointment with me to discuss your HRT, Thanks, Dr [name redacted]
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DEVIL: You shall stay forever young, but this picture of you will bear the marks of your sin!
DORIAN: Can I hide it?
DEVIL: Well, yes, but—
DORIAN: And there are no other consequences?
DEVIL: This… This picture will become so foul!
DORIAN: Again, probably I’ll hide the picture.
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“if you’re a good tenant, your landlord would want you to stay!” the average landlord would evict jesus christ himself if it meant they could move in someone who will pay $5 more a month, please be serious
every friend I’ve caught up with since coming back to Toronto has talked about rent control and auto-month-to-month being the only reason they’re still able to live here. this proposed change will functionally make homeless every long-term tenant in the city. absolute insanity
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oh yeah? well if they’re such a “fascist” how come they’re offering me everything I want while promising to keep me safe from the terrifying outsiders who are trying to take my freedoms from me?
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“no ethical consumption under capitalism” I totally get it I just feel like working at Lockheed Martin should be a hard line???
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if you keep your eyes open and make even a small point to look for how many drivers are on their phones, you will start to believe in a loving god who is using all his power to ensure our world is not just constant car crashes
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ALT screenshot of an incoming text message: Today 4:39 PM Dear Ms Edison, Please book a appointment with me to discuss your HRT, Thanks, Dr [name redacted]
very cool to take a medication every day for fourteen years and suddenly be in a position where I’m anticipating a rug pull
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yeah so the thing is that if van gogh typed in “night sky blue swirling choppy brush strokes bold colours post-impressionism style” he would not be able to generate The Starry Night because there wouldn’t already exist the original The Starry Night for the machine to fucking copy
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they love to tell us that q-tips are both incredibly dangerous *and* not even good at removing ear wax. hmmm interesting so you’re saying your enemy is both weak and strong at the same time??? where have I heard that before???
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When I was sixteen, the NHS put me on testosterone because I had not yet started male puberty.
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I, personally, consider it urgent and serious that the capitalists are trying to take the very act of artistic creation from us.
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It is not impossible for rich people to make good art, but the reason Emerald Fennell is incapable of making good art is because she’s rich.
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“Get away from her, you bitch!” means the fight between Ripley and the Alien Queen passes the Bechdel Test.
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this is a fun way to find out that many people do not consider Lockheed Martin a uniquely evil company, which it is
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ALT screenshot of tweet from Avery Edison: couple of bigger accounts have recently come out as trans women, which is great :) but I’ve noticed that they’ve started getting hyper-criticized for minor slights in ways they never were before :( wondering if there might be some structural process at work???
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recently met someone who does upwards of ten things per week, which doesn’t make sense because a week only has seven days. so they must have some days when they do more than one thing.
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I’ve been on HRT for over ten years, and grown large breasts. An attempt to forcibly detransition me would require a mastectomy of healthy breast tissue, something transphobes claim is barbaric mutilation.
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“There’s No Way I’m Projecting Sentience Onto This A.I. Chatbot” Claims Species That Pair-Bonded With Wolves
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One of my favorite, now lost, tweets.
ALT Tweet from @swarthyvillain: MMA is ultimately unfair to krav maga guys. their best techniques, such as starvation, US military aid, and air strikes are illegal
Krav maga is bullshit. The iof doesn't get in close quarters fights. They just bomb from a distance, raid homes and harass unarmed civilians. They pretend to be masters of hand to hand combat as part of their propaganda campaign to make colonization look like a fair fight.
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listening to a liberal podcast host talk about how great the new documentary “will & harper” is, how everyone needs to see it but sadly “the people who need to most, won’t”, all the while repeatedly misgendering the subject of the movie, over and over and over.
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important to consider all possibilities, especially since covid often presents as a sore throat
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that “no, I have a mortgage to pay” is just the “polite” way to say “I’m a real person, I actually matter” and it makes my blood boil
“Could you live on £70 a week?”
“Absolutely not”
“So why do you expect young people to?”
“We won't”
@vicderbyshire challenges DWP minister Torsten Bell on benefit reform.
#Newsnight
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increasingly demoralized by the fact that over the past few decades the cost of living has skyrocketed but the wages have stayed the same and the classes of people most affected by this have been told they are entitled and ungrateful.
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one thing that could really “level-up” the experience of being a pedestrian would be if cars had some kind of feature that could indicate to an outside observer whether or not they were going to turn in a particular direction
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tapping the sign
ALT Tweet from Avery Edison: when I turned 18 it was an absolute given for me that I’d vote Labour every single time I could, for the rest of my life. if I slouched into a polling booth and put an “X” next to starmer’s party today I’d consider it a deep moral stain on my soul
🚨 BREAKING: Labour will ban trans women from female hospital wards, confirms Keir Starmer.
Starmer told ITV today he agrees with NHS reforms that would ban trans people from single-sex wards. When asked if trans women should be allowed on women's wards, he said: "I disagree".
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basically the best case scenario? I’ve been dreading this call for two weeks and it was absolutely not a problem. obviously this is one case, I’m just one person, but a bit of hope to contrast the original tweet? not that good news goes as wide as bad, ofc
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really does feel like the culmination of something that there are a handful of bizarre antisocial figures using every possible argument they can think of to claim that offering food to your neighbor is an immoral act and the rest of us are holding strong with “no, it’s nice”
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watched three different pieces of media in the past week that referred to lockdown as “a boring time” and I think it sucks that by definition the people who tell the stories of our culture do not belong to the class that worked to keep the world going. deadliest job was line cook
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ALT Tweet from Avery Edison: when I turned 18 it was an absolute given for me that I’d vote Labour every single time I could, for the rest of my life. if I slouched into a polling booth and put an “X” next to starmer’s party today I’d consider it a deep moral stain on my soul
🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer says he opposes the teaching of "gender ideology" in schools
[@Telegraph]
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I was never told of any risks or downsides. Nobody wrung their hands about the “unnaturalness” of forcing my body to do something it didn’t want to. I didn’t have to go through humiliating therapy sessions to “prove” I deserved treatment.
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maybe just me, but if I got as close to *actual power* as being elected to congress gets you, and then my colleagues acted to block me from the simple task of using the bathroom, I would devote all of my attention to undoing that vile, bigoted decision. and I’d be right to
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just told my cat that she and I invented cats sitting on laps. she has no way of knowing otherwise, and it’s nice for her to get a win, but… I worry. she believed me instantly—where is the critical thinking? and honestly I’m not happy with how easily the lie came out my mouth
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amazon is a new money de facto nation-state and was simply not prepared for the centuries of practice british old money has had scamming the public purse
Amazon's Tomb Raider series reportedly 'dead' after tens of millions in development costs resulted in no script pc-gamer.visitlink.me/4FSiZY
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And yet: this medical decision is the single biggest regret of my life, by some distance.
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anything you liked about it is really only a credit to the artists and writers it’s stealing from, whose work you’d enjoy 1000x more
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when I turned 18 it was an absolute given for me that I’d vote Labour every single time I could, for the rest of my life. if I slouched into a polling booth and put an “X” next to starmer’s party today I’d consider it a deep moral stain on my soul
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the thing I love about the phrase “mom and pop landlords” is I have talked to people who consider themselves as such even though they literally own 100% of the buildings in an entire neighborhood. landlords are sick people who need every kind of curtailment possible
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SMARTEST CIS PERSON ALIVE: hmm, I need to refer to a trans woman, but I don’t really consider trans women to be women, and pretending I do makes me feel uncomfortable. I know, I’ll use “they/them” pronouns! perfectly plausibly deniable, and—as a bonus—it’s needlessly cruel
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we need a queer cafe where there’s no alcohol, no drugs, and everyone thinks I’m cool. it serves snacks and small meals, and people come up to me and tell me they love my tweets. the music isn’t too loud, and the people I like kiss me and the people I don’t like aren’t there
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somewhere in an attic there’s a videotape of ricky gervais getting funnier and more relevant
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this bizarre re-writing of history to pretend public toilets have always been thought of like “ah, my one perfect sanctuary from male violence, because there’s a magic force field which stops penises from coming in”
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wow, just learned that people who don’t have astigmatism see the world with no visual flaws, which leads them to be overly optimistic and incapable of empathy. they’re basically monsters. once again, stigs win, but in a way that burdens us with tremendous responsibility
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“a lot of Americans aren’t actually ‘struggling’ financially, they just can’t afford as many luxury goods as before” ah okay good thing that a huge part of 21st century American identity isn’t based around an inalienable right to luxury goods. otherwise I bet they’d be real mad
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I thought that the worst thing about rewatching Parks and Rec would be its naive centrism, but it’s actually that the show becomes solely about people getting job offers, or needing to move out of town, or getting job offers that require them to move out of town
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this is part of the evil of these apps. deep down, we know that we are engaging in hyper-exploitation when we use them, and one of the ways humans deal with a moral weight like that is by rationalizing why it’s okay to do the bad thing. “my burrito courier wants to hurt me!!”
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an upside: when all these ai companies fail because there’s no money in it, hardware costs keep going up, and the tech has hit a wall, all the people who trained themselves out of being able to write even a single sentence will disappear from the internet forever
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once again we learn that if the majority of your online presence is based around scolding people, you should make sure your IRL life is, if not unimpeachable, at least defensible
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Before I went on estrogen, my hormone levels were already just barely at normal male levels. It’s likely a detransition would necessitate me going on testosterone for the rest of my life, something transphobes claim is an unnecessary burden on the NHS.
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gay friend is telling me he was banned from a group chat for referring to posts that fail to get faves or retweets as having “an undetectable viral load”
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Every single person I know refers to me as Avery, and every one of them uses she/her pronouns for me. Detransitioning me would mean all of those people having to relearn how to address me, something transphobes claim is an unfair expectation.
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Transphobes, of course, wouldn’t care about any of this, because for them no cost is too great if it means removing trans people from public life.
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“People ask me, how can you have written a book about the trans debate, given that you’re not transgender, you didn’t speak to any trans people, and you’ve never previously researched, reported on, or written about trans issues? And the answer is: I’ve lost my fucking mind.”
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“why are people so weird about doordash?” because it is exploitation. the business model does not function without massively underpaying workers, most of whom live in poverty. habituating yourself to using doordash is a moral sickness.
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“gender ideology” is the purest of dogwhistles, and the way you know that is that children will still be calling male and female teachers “Mr” and “Mrs”. schools are suffused with *actual* gender ideology. what keir means here is “the existence of trans people”
🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer says he opposes the teaching of "gender ideology" in schools
[@Telegraph]
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It’s so funny how it’s incredibly easy to come up with solutions for these disaster scenarios if you have even the slightest genuinely left-wing thought in your head.
🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer's chief of staff Sue Gray has compiled a "shit list" of crises a Labour government would face
1. Potential collapse of Thames Water
2. Public sector pay pressure
3. Prison overcrowding
4. Universities going under
5. NHS funding
6. Bankrupt councils
[@FT]
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there are few jobs that have as direct a line from “I need to live” to “other people must die”
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really good demonstration of the limits of, like, three different things (liberal tolerance; progress brought about by the trans documentary media complex; my patience)
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I completely understand the reasons why, but it’s very tough for me personally that there’s no way for anyone to watch the almost-a-decade-old BBC Comedy Feeds pilot PEOPLE TIME, because I *need* everyone to have seen this sketch.
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One of the more On Cinema images I’ve seen.
ALT Charlie Kirk’s empty chair on the Charlie Kirk show
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been darkly interesting to watch some progressives lose their minds over the crumbs thrown their way during this first week, knowing that *this* is what Starmer’s Labour actually is: an evil party, committed to cruelty, in service of wealth
🚨 BREAKING: Health Secretary Wes Streeting has said he intends to ban puberty blockers for trans children.
Jo Maugham, Director of the Good Law Project, reported today that "subject to the outcome of the court proceedings and consultation" Streeting will ban puberty blockers.
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every out trans person was, at one point, in the closet, and thus knows the importance of the closet and the reasons to stay in it. that said: it is so important as a trans person to at some point be trans in a way that is not solely “on the computer”
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lot of people dunking on this tweet not knowing much about the UK class system and how it functions to restrict access to success in media to a few moneyed families
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“I know you love your soda but make sure to drink some water, too!” I am, it’s in the soda. It’s the main ingredient of the soda. It’s what makes it drinkable. There’s like a ton of water in there. Why do you think I drink eight glasses of soda every day
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you could easily improve life for the majority of people in this country at zero long-term cost by simply enacting one or two actually left-wing policies. the only reason labour is not doing so is because they’re as virulently right-wing as the tories were.
🚨 NEW: In his first major speech as Prime Minister on Tuesday, Keir Starmer will warn that life in the UK “is going to get worse” before it gets better
“Things are worse than we ever imagined”
[@SkyNews]
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yes, the onlyfans change is fucking terrifying, but at least the new rules are intentionally vague in a way that will leave sex workers constantly terrified that they’re about to lose a huge chunk of income for doing something they didn’t know wasn’t allowed!!!
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Should be the easiest thing in the world for the leader of the Labour Party to respond to something like this with, “The fact that any child in this country goes to bed cold is a disgrace, and we will move Heaven and Earth to change that.” He’s genuinely soulless.
This is the most disgusting thing I have ever seen from a political figure.
A young girl described having to bundle blankets and wear a jumpsuit to bed because her family can't afford the heating or "treats" anymore, and Keir Starmer laughed and said his son loves his onesie.
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I think it’s instructive that So I, Charli’s beautiful tribute to Sophie, is a song about someone processing their transmisogyny, about how much easier it is to love a dead trans woman than it is to be a good friend to her when she’s alive.
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the idea that people who are out of work for any reason are simply “getting away with something” is so corrosive to a decent, caring society, and it’s a core motivating principle of this cruel and spiteful Labour Party.
🚨 BREAKING: Patients on mental health wards with "serious mental health problems" will be visited by job coaches to get them back to work, says Labour.
The policy is part of Liz Kendall's plan to cut welfare. Kendall said: "I want to see those costs coming down".
(Via BBC)
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the great thing about this response is that it’s not just condescending in its naked bigotry, but that it’s also stupid, unworkable, and not based on current law, current guidance, or even current conditions on the ground in NHS hospitals
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honestly feels like a prank that if you’re part of the ruling class and you break the law, the court simply “finds” that you broke the law, and then there are no consequences?????? like truly are they doing this to fuck with us????
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I think the problem people have is that the “lesser evil” they’re told they must vote for keeps getting more and more evil.
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“the cruelty is the point” is so obvious and probably overused at this point but. there’s no other point but cruelty. the supposed economic cost is a fucking rounding error. this is motivated purely by the vile british instinct that other people are getting something they aren’t
GP’s will soon be stripped of the ability to sign people off work as part of a major government inititive to crack down on ‘sick note culture’
Rishi Sunak says people should stop 'over-medicalising the everyday challenges and worries of life'
trib.al/LzeeX10
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Whenever I see shit like this arguing for smaller living spaces I think about the fact that every human being could fit in Texas, with 1,200 square feet of space each. We have the room and resources for everyone to live comfortably!
Space/building efficiency are keys to climate change. Got a first hand look at the exciting innovation coming out of Brooklyn at @ori_living. Ceiling beds, expandable closets and offices. Watch a studio becomes a 1 bedroom!
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also I wish someone had told me about this method in high school, I would not have forgotten every single line in my a-level drama assessment performance and been responsible for my entire group’s bad grades
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so sick of dating right now, how is this kind of toxic behaviour anything close to acceptable
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I’m the trans person who doesn’t think the matrix is about trans stuff. I think it’s about computers
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I am not a fan of copyright at all, but: Studio Ghibli should sue not just OpenAI, but every single person who used the tool to make one of these gross perversions of actual human art.
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a lockdown that didn’t include support for *everyone* to stay sheltered and fed, and relied on working class people being put in danger staffing shops and restaurants, was bad public health policy, and we’re gonna be dealing with the effects of it longer than we are covid itself
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very cool to take a medication every day for fourteen years and suddenly be in a position where I’m anticipating a rug pull
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couple of bigger accounts have recently come out as trans women, which is great :) but I’ve noticed that they’ve started getting hyper-criticized for minor slights in ways they never were before :( wondering if there might be some structural process at work???
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every friend I’ve caught up with since coming back to Toronto has talked about rent control and auto-month-to-month being the only reason they’re still able to live here. this proposed change will functionally make homeless every long-term tenant in the city. absolute insanity
I will be digging more into this later but, um, 🚨🚨🚨 the Ford government is looking to end Ontario's security of tenure rules - preventing tenants from automatically transitioning to month-to-month after their initial lease is up, and allowing landlords to refuse to renew
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