jakethepie.bsky.social
Erstwhile student of Early Med Hist, Archaeology etc. Maker of costumes/wearer of big boots. Would like to be Snufkin, but suspect I'm the Hemulen. XX
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I came here to say that!
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Two books and some art I helped support ladt August never materialised. One *may* be appearing soon, but no news on the other and no refund. And my emails to the Administrators (as insisted on by Boundless) are disappearing into the void...
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In my first 14 m of solar my total ☀️ 🍃 energy production exceeded my total home energy consumption so I was able to supply about 1,800 kWh excess to the grid to help other homes benefit from clean energy.
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And then you get to go home to the warm and dry, and aren't trapped in a hotel/b&b for a week in a howling gale with bored, bored children! Win!
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Now do Stonewall.
Disclosure runs to 105 pages.
Here are the FOI links:
www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/info...
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Most people with DSDs are infertile because the appropriate gonads are undeveloped, but some conditions such as 5-ARD are not. 5-ARD males can father children because they have functioning, if undescended, testes that produce valid sperm (cf Caster Semenya).
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Not at all ignored. Central to much trans activist argument, which many 'intersex' prople deeply object to.
Also, each one is a disorder of sex development specific to the chromosomal sex of the individuals concerned; they are all actially male or female whatever the outward appearance.
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2/ The logic of slashing aid to fund defence is flawed. Aid and defence aren't rivals—they're partners in national security. Aid helps prevent conflict, stabilize fragile states, and reduce extremism.
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I'm a trans skeptic. I maintain my account on X purely so that I can follow the GC side of the debate. It's heavily censored over here.
Also, one or two favourite accounts I follow haven't made the switch.
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Sweet!
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We also need to address the for-profit care sector...
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It is peculiar to the UK.
In Japan, for instance, they have highly trained roving engineering crews that fix issues in the few hours between the last train of the day and the first train the next morning.
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Surely the 'I was only following orders' argument for protection against prosecution hasn't held water since the Nuremberg trials...
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So wish I could say that too!
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Plus ça change, plus c'est ma même chose?
Chaos, just like the last time...
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Well. That's handing Africa to China on a plate, isn’t it?
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It was delicious. My partner, not generally a cabbage liker, said so completely unprompted!
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And that you sit as kings in your desires …
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Oooh
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Haha -thought I'd give you something to look up! It's a Finnish yeast-leavened cake/bread trad to this time of year containing wheat and rye flour, butter, eggs, milk, flaked almonds, raisins, citrus zest and cardamom, and usually baked in milk cans (similar to Russian 'kulich')...
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Has this one been sold?
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I hear that in the voice of Christy Moore, his version being my first experience of that poem
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Coffee snd home-made Pääsiäisleipä for me. Tastes nice but since I've never had the 'genuine' article, I've no idea how well it compares esp re texture!
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Might be able to help there...