WittyProfileName2 [she/her]

The bluestones in Stonehenge come from West Wales. Instead of quarrying stone from near the monument, they dragged these huge blocks from ~278km away. Likewise, the altar stone comes from ~700km away in North-East Scotland. It must’ve been very important for the ancient Britons to’ve used these specific rocks for some reason, but their religious practices were conveyed via a now extinct oral tradition so no-one knows exactly why they did it.

I don’t know what that means.

What I’m saying is that there’s insufficient force and direction for a shampoo bottle to penetrate just from falling onto it.

Anything that is inserted into the rectum has to be eased through the rectal sphincter. Now, there are ways to make the insertion easier such as using lubrication or taking poppers but there’s still gonna sufficient resistance that it’s not gonna happen without the person making it happen.

I scrolled through the modlog on their home instance and like clockwork…

Thank you :)

I don’t think picking an arbitrary time of, like, 9 years ago is accurate for when the western left’s “idpol turn” started. Labour rights and anti racism have always been closely intertwined causes and the trade unions have been closely aligned with queer groups since the 80’s at least.

But whatever.

What has that accomplished?

Created a more organised front against the current reactionary pushes and helped getting marginalised people politically active despite the neoliberal attempt to crush grassroots political activism.

Who has it helped?

Plenty of people, myself for example: leftist agitation caused both a reform within the Welsh NHS’ gender service to move away from antiquated gatekeeping and towards self-id and informed consent, while at the same time these same groups successfully pushed the Senedd to bring out free prescriptions. My poor, post-grad self wouldn’t have had the time to fight to get a gender identity certificate nor the money to afford HRT treatment if it wasn’t for the intersectional tactics of the “western left”.

It’s an attempt by Meta to swallow the fediverse via Microsoft’s old “embrace, extend, extinguish” strategy.

selling stolen fissile materials hey wait a second…

I almost fell for it, you won’t catch me this easy MI5.

I’ll be visiting family to give them presents and nothing else!

Oh and watching that Wallace and Gromit film that’s gonna be on BBC One

Not just do you get a better sense of the measurements but also the feel of the fabric. If I’m gonna buy something to wear, I really wanna be sure it’s nice against my skin before I buy.

Sadly, I live in the arse end of nowhere though, and there’s a lot of stuff I can’t find without looking online.

I don’t really have strong memories of Christmas, I get the impression from my family that I tended to be less depressive at that time of year.

If you pause it, it’s much clearer that it’s just been overlayed onto the video.

• Gremlins

• Black Christmas (original, don’t like either of the remakes for wildly different reasons)

• Rare Exports

• Black Adder’s Christmas Carol

I disagree, usage of drones hasn’t worked to put down any armed struggle in the US’s puppet states.

Cis is just the opposite of trans. If some people are trans then it follows others are cis.

20 years ago you’d be pissing and whining about the use of heterosexual.

How’s that for dead internet theory?

Huge problem imho, is that a lot of these people who rattle on about voting for harm reduction candidates go home after voting on election day and then don’t get involved politically until the next election cycle.

In these bourgeois “democracies” political parties are always going to move to court wealthy donors and thus shift right wing. If you lot over in America can’t mobilise enough people out in the street to fight for these causes, to grind your country to a screaming halt if needs be, then the Dems will be where labour is soon. Maybe not this election, but check back in with this comment by the midterms.

I guess there’s some small comfort that they’ll at least pay lip service to trans rights then.

The labour party won an election over here and one of the first things they did was stop access to puberty blockers. During the election I was told by a lot of liberals preaching harm reduction that, as a trans woman, that I had to vote for them 'cos the Tories would be worse.

I’m worried about trans people over on your side of the ocean being in a similar position where the elections are between trans exterminationist and transphobe.

Okay, can you be more specific about what they did to minimise damage? Like, did they make trans people a protected class, or relieve the bureaucracy around transitioning, or what?

Not an American, so no real stake in this but, could you tell me what the Democrats have done in the past four years to protect trans rights? Since you’re all so clearly concerned about them an’ all.

There was this bloke who used to sit at the train station close to the uni I was attending at the time, he’d drink cans of alcohol and do a little trainspotting. We talked a couple of times and he gave me some advice that helped me get out of my shell and talk to people a lot more. I must’ve only chatted with him, like, once or twice but I think it made all the difference in pushing me into making friends in what would otherwise’ve been a very lonely and isolated part of my life.