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I read and I stitch, but more often, I go down ADHD rabbit holes. UK based
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I'm old enough to remember people using the landline to get online
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Christ, I didn't know that. Urgh, what a mess
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It's one of those things that repeats in history. The side that won was the one that visibly did its best to pay the troops, make sure they were fed, and avoid pissing off the locals
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But also, pointlessly pissing off the military by sending them in for 29 days so they don't get a housing allowance or other active duty stuff
There is an opportunity here
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Although you may be able to tell that I have a love/hate relationship with its autocorrect
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I used to find Word:s grammar checker awful, but it's not bad now. And it's easy to configure to only check specific issues and when you tell it to ignore a thing, it does
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This was the exact reason we turned it down when we tested it. It fought with Word, it changed its mind about the same sentence, and I never felt, oh yes, that's much better than my edit
But the thing you mentioned was the one that carried it with our bosses
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Many wedding ceremonies ask the congregation to promise to support their friends' marriage. So it will radicalize in the same way that taking away the citizenship of Afghan veterans will outrage other veterans in the US
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I don't know what it is like across the US, but in the UK, marriage equality means that a lot of straight people have celebrated the wedding of their gay friends, and that's an affirmative action of approval. They won't appreciate it being thrown back at them
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Thank you, that is a fantastic project
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Alas, that only works as personal head cannon, and usually we want words to have commonly agreed meanings
Amused and bemused, sure. Bemused on its own is just confused
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Fair enough
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A decontaminant for pepper spray, ie a thing that dissolves the oil it sits in and counters the active ingredients. It's made by one of the companies that sell pepper spray rounds and sold soaked into wipes for ease of use
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Apparently saline solution is helpful for eyes, and while I don't have personal experience with tear gas, I do know that they sell little bottles of saline solution as a decongestant nose spray (it's often in the baby aisle in the UK). Neti pots also use saline solution, if you want it pre-prepared
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I knew it would be up your street 😂
I am counting down the last few days to the new book (UK)
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Yep, heart attacks can present completely differently and even once they knew, they carried on doing infomercials warning people about the male symptoms, but not the female symptoms
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I guess it depends on how well your body managed labour/how much pain relief you got versus the size and number of stones
I still remembered the 32 hour labour with no effective pain relief until the second time they tried to do an epidural really clearly 4 months laterðŸ«
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They wanted to send me home, until they realised I was nearly fully dilated
Gas and air did fuck all because short contractions. Unless I started early, it didn't kick in until after the contraction. I only managed to time one of them right and they told me off and wouldn't let me do it again
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My gallstones were weird, in that they came one at a time. I could survive them on paracetamol and ibuprofen. But also, I got no pain relief for most of my labour because my contractions were weirdly short
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Ok, my comment was about how trans people have to make a decision regarding their preferred pronouns. It's not about education
The point in now circled in red, if you miss it again I will assume that you are a sealion
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I had gallstones 4 months after a baby. Passing them was easier than giving birth
I made the male doctor in the ER* go grey when I said that
*UK version
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When I first heard that doctors now considered that heart attacks and periods have the same pain level, I understood why women die of heart attacks. They don't go to the hospital when the pain starts, like men do. They take Tylenol and drive Timmy to football practice instead
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In our current system, the vast majority of grown adults have never considered their own pronouns and what their gender means to them
In that respect, most trans people probably feel like they are doing college level studies while all around them people are coasting through on Ladybird books
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Separation of church and state is literally a founding principle, and yet...
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We go on holiday as a group with friends, so we have been to various self catering properties around the UK. The only ones that are stocked properly are places where there's an option to have caterers come in.
Mostly they lock their knives away, but the tea towels and bin bags are left out
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Oh drat. It includes Dimensions. They made great cross-stitch kits. 😢 #crossstitch
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One of the lovely things about how easy it is to see the alt text on Bluesky posts is that nearly everyone looks at it, and can see for themselves what the advice in posts like the one above looks like in practice (both as good examples and bad😞)
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The British government switched to that as soon as they could, but last year they added allowing you to buy a vaccine, thus revealing the plan
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Ditto from the UK. I'm glad none of the people I was at dinner with had their phone out. Two of them are American (one of them UK-based)
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Possibly not, but Silvio Berlusconi...
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Dear lord, nobody in the US is going to get anything done at all, are they?
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So far, the EU has been just fine with canning Tesla products, so I expect they will ban the robo taxis. Some idiot imported a Cybertruck into the UK, and the police impounded it at a gas station because it is not street legal here
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Glad to hear it
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Yes. What most of the rest of the world is worried about is that they will then roll out their self driving taxis to our countries without training them on our roads
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Honestly, that comment left such a bad taste in my mouth that I am left assuming he has an axe to grind even though the Jenner Institute is apparently where they developed the Oxford -AstraZeneca vaccine