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writer: "she quickly dragged a brush through her curly, thick hair"

me: she absolutely did not

So, update on the BT situation.
My mum finally has phone and internet back.
Once they transfer the new phone number back to her old phone number, then there will finally be a discussion of what happened and what will happen.

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Feel how you want about Billy Joel and his music, but the fact that the dude thinks we should be taking baseball bats to the heads of open Neo Nazis is pretty rad if you ask me
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For context Brazil only just left a dictatorship in 1985 as a result of a coup, a lot of people in Brazilian leadership were alive then and lived through it for 21 years.

The country's entire legal system is currently designed around preventing that from happening again. Musk refusing to participate in the investigation of the coup attempt by Bolsanaro fans is why X is banned. If you think that's about muh freeze peach you lack full historical context

https://theworld.org/stories/2024/04/01/brazil-remembers-1964-coup-and-victims-dictatorship

I hate BT. Phoned up a couple of weeks ago to alter my mum's BT package to remove the TV and get a better deal on the phone and broadband.
Come this Tuesday and they just cancelled everything, but couldn't figure out what was happening until today. So my mum's been without internet or phone for 3 days and counting and the only thing BT can do is create a new account and rush it through... but who knows when that will be since they have to liase with OpenReach :(
7 hours on the phone in 3 days!

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TIL that people with disabilities that prevent them from using print books can get virtually any audiobook at no cost through the "Talking Books" program. I heard about it from a reference librarian with the Maine Digital Library, but it's a national US thing. And people with dyslexia are eligible.
#books #audiobooks #accessibility #dyslexia #libraries

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That’s one of the reasons why I take it personally when people use “AI” models and cryptocoins. You are being complicit in creating the demand that is threatening to directly destroy the environment I live in. None of this shit would be happening if there wasn't demand so I absolutely do blame you, personally, if you are a regular user of either of these things

There’s a cost to these tools and you’re pushing it onto others like an asshole

So, fuck you and the AI-generated horse you rode in on

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Point of Pride provides free chest binders (specially-designed chest compression garments) to any trans person who needs one and cannot afford or safely obtain one. They ship in the U.S. and globally.

pointofpride.org/free-chest-bi

#trans #nonbinary #transmasc #transmen

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just found out that when you have a cropped image in a google slides presentation and you export the presentation to a PDF file, the PDF actually just uses the original image with a clip set on it so it's really easy to extract the uncropped version ??? this seems potentially bad, definitely not the behavior most people would expect

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So yeah, don't think I'll ever be going to the cinema ever again, even with big, reclining seats, it caused me so much pain... almost hyperventalating when I got up.
But at least the film was good - Alien Romulus - a solid 8/10 for me. Starts off very "Alien" and ends up very "Aliens".

Going to see Alien: Romulus tomorrow. Hopefully will be good.
Just hoping that my chronic pain allows me to enjoy it.

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Keybind not working? You could have 1 of 3 issues:
- You are using Linux, this may be due to being unemployed
- You are using a debloated version of Windows, this may be due to being unemployed
- You are using a MacBook, you probably already have a job you rich twat the revolution won't spare you

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We've been hearing an increasing number of reports of trans people's GPs refusing to prescribe their HRT to them - even if they have a letter from an NHS gender clinic requesting that they do. That's why we're created our new My GP is Refusing to Prescribe My HRT resource: transactual.org.uk/medical-tra

Has your GP recently refused to prescribe you HRT? Let us know at tinyurl.com/TransActualHRT

#Trans #Transgender #Nonbinary #Queer #TransHealth #HRT #Testosterone #Oestrogen #MTF #FTM #MTX #FTX

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“No Olympic athletes are going to get Long Covid! It’s been 4 years and I don’t know anyone who has Long Covid!”

Yes. You do. Many people don’t disclose their disabilities for fear of ableist backlash. Others don’t connect the dots and may not realize they have Long Covid.

The sad reality is that like many other chronic illnesses - Long Covid is poorly recognized and likely underdiagnosed. Many patients are dismissed with “anxiety” by doctors who don’t understand the nature of these conditions.

Others can’t afford to seek healthcare as they’ve already lost work/income due to being chronically ill. Some may not have safe access to healthcare due to lack of masking and clean air in hospitals. They KNOW they’re sick but can’t risk re-infection.

There’s also people who are suffering from Long Covid and don’t realize it. They either can’t connect the dots (due to denial or lack of information) or they’ve convinced themselves it’s just “aging” or “stress”.

It’s alarming how many people in their 20s & 30s are writing off very serious physical symptoms as “getting older.” You shouldn’t be too exhausted to function in your twenties. Everything shouldn’t hurt. You should be able to smell your food. You shouldn’t be sick all the time.

Then there’s those who know they have Long Covid - but choose to keep it quiet from friends and family. Ableism runs incredibly deep in our society - and when you admit to being chronically ill you may find yourself judged, ridiculed, disbelieved or abandoned.

Many chronic illnesses are invisible - you won’t KNOW someone has them unless they CHOOSE to tell you. Ppl in my life had no idea I was disabled until I began advocating for disability rights. I could hide symptoms well enough to not tip them off & I didn’t volunteer the info.

Looking back I’m embarrassed by how long it took me to publicly admit I was disabled. The fear I had about sharing it is an indictment of how cruel people can be. Everyone preaches tolerance & acceptance - but few actually practice that in real life.

There’s also an extra stigma associated with Long Covid because it forces people to think about a period in their lives they’re desperately trying to forget. It challenges the narrative that we’re “back to normal”.

I lost many friends and loved ones when they found out I was sick. Some losses were immediate and brutal - people who carelessly tossed me by the wayside because they instantly put me into the “less than” category.

Other losses were slower and more painful - because they involved false hope. They were the ones who stuck around at first - who applauded me for telling them the truth & offered help and support.

Many did help - until they stopped. They almost all stop eventually. 1/2

#CovidIsAirborne #CovidCautious #CovidIsNotOver #CleanAir #WearaMask #Disability #LongCovid #Ableism #Denial #CleanAir #Pandemic #PublicHealth #InfectionControl #Eugenics #SafeHealthcare #N95 #Respirators #MasksWork #MaskUp #Spoonie #Discrimination #Dysautonomia #mecfs #pots #mcas #communitycare #wearamask #chronicillness #Olympics #NoahLyles

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Where's all the trans people on here?
Can y'all boost to help find em!

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:transgender_flag: Question for trans people, how do you all do voice training. I myself am cis, and have no second thoughts about it. But I am currently trying to do voice training for my own reasons.

All online guides are complete horse crap, could some of you all help me?

PLEASE BOOST SO I CAN GET AN AWNSER, I NEED HELP WITH THIS.

#trans #lgbtq #trans

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I ended up getting invited to a discord server for an old TF2 podcast I used to listen to and wow that's a lot of usernames I remember of people who have since transed their gender

we are not beating the TF2 → girl pipeline allegations here

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