Great tit.
(Suggested by joysweeper)
Good god, that is the stuff of nightmares
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I’ve said this before and I’ll point it out again –
Menstruation is caused by change in hormonal levels to stop the creation of a uterine lining and encourage the body to flush the lining out. The body does this by lowering estrogen levels and raising testosterone.
Or, to put it more plainly “That time of the month” is when female hormones most closely resemble male hormones. So if (cis) women aren’t suited to office at “That time of the month” then (cis) men are NEVER suited to office.
If you are a dude and don’t dig the ladies around you at their time of the month, just think! That is you all of the time.
And, on a final note, post-menopausal (cis) women are the most hormonally stable of all human demographics. They have fewer hormonal fluctuations of anyone, meaning older women like Hilary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren would theoretically be among the least likely candidates to make an irrational decision due to hormonal fluctuations, and if we were basing our leadership decisions on hormone levels, then only women over fifty should ever be allowed to hold office.
Reblogging hard for that last comment.
I WANTED TO SAY THIS BUT THEN SOMEONE ELSE DID and I’m damn proud.
I’ve said this before and I’ll point it out again –
Menstruation is caused by change in hormonal levels to stop the creation of a uterine lining and encourage the body to flush the lining out. The body does this by lowering estrogen levels and raising testosterone.
Or, to put it more plainly “That time of the month” is when female hormones most closely resemble male hormones. So if (cis) women aren’t suited to office at “That time of the month” then (cis) men are NEVER suited to office.
If you are a dude and don’t dig the ladies around you at their time of the month, just think! That is you all of the time.
And, on a final note, post-menopausal (cis) women are the most hormonally stable of all human demographics. They have fewer hormonal fluctuations of anyone, meaning older women like Hilary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren would theoretically be among the least likely candidates to make an irrational decision due to hormonal fluctuations, and if we were basing our leadership decisions on hormone levels, then only women over fifty should ever be allowed to hold office.
Reblogging hard for that last comment.
I WANTED TO SAY THIS BUT THEN SOMEONE ELSE DID and I’m damn proud.
I’ve said this before and I’ll point it out again –
Menstruation is caused by change in hormonal levels to stop the creation of a uterine lining and encourage the body to flush the lining out. The body does this by lowering estrogen levels and raising testosterone.
Or, to put it more plainly “That time of the month” is when female hormones most closely resemble male hormones. So if (cis) women aren’t suited to office at “That time of the month” then (cis) men are NEVER suited to office.
If you are a dude and don’t dig the ladies around you at their time of the month, just think! That is you all of the time.
And, on a final note, post-menopausal (cis) women are the most hormonally stable of all human demographics. They have fewer hormonal fluctuations of anyone, meaning older women like Hilary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren would theoretically be among the least likely candidates to make an irrational decision due to hormonal fluctuations, and if we were basing our leadership decisions on hormone levels, then only women over fifty should ever be allowed to hold office.
Reblogging hard for that last comment.
I WANTED TO SAY THIS BUT THEN SOMEONE ELSE DID and I’m damn proud.
I’ve said this before and I’ll point it out again –
Menstruation is caused by change in hormonal levels to stop the creation of a uterine lining and encourage the body to flush the lining out. The body does this by lowering estrogen levels and raising testosterone.
Or, to put it more plainly “That time of the month” is when female hormones most closely resemble male hormones. So if (cis) women aren’t suited to office at “That time of the month” then (cis) men are NEVER suited to office.
If you are a dude and don’t dig the ladies around you at their time of the month, just think! That is you all of the time.
And, on a final note, post-menopausal (cis) women are the most hormonally stable of all human demographics. They have fewer hormonal fluctuations of anyone, meaning older women like Hilary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren would theoretically be among the least likely candidates to make an irrational decision due to hormonal fluctuations, and if we were basing our leadership decisions on hormone levels, then only women over fifty should ever be allowed to hold office.
Reblogging hard for that last comment.
I WANTED TO SAY THIS BUT THEN SOMEONE ELSE DID and I’m damn proud.
I’ve said this before and I’ll point it out again –
Menstruation is caused by change in hormonal levels to stop the creation of a uterine lining and encourage the body to flush the lining out. The body does this by lowering estrogen levels and raising testosterone.
Or, to put it more plainly “That time of the month” is when female hormones most closely resemble male hormones. So if (cis) women aren’t suited to office at “That time of the month” then (cis) men are NEVER suited to office.
If you are a dude and don’t dig the ladies around you at their time of the month, just think! That is you all of the time.
And, on a final note, post-menopausal (cis) women are the most hormonally stable of all human demographics. They have fewer hormonal fluctuations of anyone, meaning older women like Hilary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren would theoretically be among the least likely candidates to make an irrational decision due to hormonal fluctuations, and if we were basing our leadership decisions on hormone levels, then only women over fifty should ever be allowed to hold office.
Reblogging hard for that last comment.
I WANTED TO SAY THIS BUT THEN SOMEONE ELSE DID and I’m damn proud.
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Damn it VirusQ, why did I go and get into the argument on your facebook page?
There are reasons I don’t let myself argue on facebook, damn it.
*bangs head on wall*
If you want help hiding the bodies, just let me know.
Oh no, was someone wrong on the internet?
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It’d make network engineers weep.
So sometimes I am a moron.
But in my defence the cable has ‘Orange’ and ‘Browney Orange’ and ‘Sort of White’ and ‘Sort of off white’ as colour combinations. This is probably because it’s cheap-knock-off-not-at-all-convinced-it’s-twisted-twisted-pair-Cat-E cable.
At any rate, I plugged in my cable tester to said socket and determined that 1, 2, 7, & 8 were all mixed up. I’ve no idea why. I’m impressed that it functioned at all, albeit unreliably.
Anyhow, I carefully wrote down what the cable tester said, and carefully swapped the wiring around to match. And lo, plugged in the cable tester again… and err, 1, 2, 7 and 8 were all still wrong.
A bit more fiddling and I realised that 1, 2, 7 and 8 don’t actually correlate to 1, 2, 7 and 8 on the socket. Oh no. That would be easy. (As would the colours in the cable matching the colours in the socket. That would be *way* to easy).
Another carefully considered round of swapping and lo, 1, 2, 7 and 8 now work. Indeed, 1 through 8 now work.
Which means the squeezebox in the kitchen works.
Which means Valve-Radio goodness for BBC Radio 6 and the entirety of the music collection.Hurrah!
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Giant Projects and New Skills
As I occasionally mention, I’m working on a fairly big remodeling project: changing my garage into an art studio.
Partly because of my reynauds syndrome, I chose not to do a half-assed garage conversion (I need proper insulation, not a cold cement floor!), which means this remodel has included…
Aye, people often ask me at work about how I learned to fix my own car, and I usually say ‘Oh, I learned from my dad’, because it’s easy and kinda true. I learned the very basic skills from my dad. I could pass my dad tools and had a vague notion of what the appropriate tool for any particular job was because when I was young I helped my dad with a variety of jobs (my sister passed that job to me pretty quickly).
But the actual spannering? I learned that from sitting down with a now very battered copy of a Haynes manual (“Every manual based on a complete strip down*”) and just doing stuff. Slowly. Carefully**.
None of this stuff that people consider is exclusively the preserve of the menz is actually magic, it’s not stuff that requires testicles to achieve***. It’s just stuff, that you can learn****, and perhaps I ought to be a bit more explicit in answering the ‘how did you learn all this magic stuff’ question, because whilst I owe my dad tons, the thing I owe both my parents the most for is the attitude of:
“Of course you can do it, you’re awesome and all you need to do is learn how and then practice”.
* Yes, of a brand new car where none of the bolts are seized, rounded off, rusted solid, missing or covered in an unspeakable layer of filth.
** Or in a frenzy of swearing, screaming ‘WHY WON’T YOU COME OFF YOU BASTARD’ and hitting things with whatever large blunt object comes to hand.
*** Well, okay, almost none. My ability to produce sperm is pretty damn limited.
**** Apart from persuading a DAF44 engine to run right. That is clearly a dark art.
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A Boys’ Camp to Redefine Gender
Over the past three years, photographer Lindsay Morris has been documenting a four-day camp for gender nonconforming boys and their parents.
The camp, “You Are You” (the name has been changed to protect the privacy of the children and is also the name of Morris’ series), is for “Parents who don’t have a gender-confirming 3-year-old who wants to wear high heels and prefers to go down the pink aisle in K-Mart and not that nasty dark boys’ aisle,” Morris said with a laugh.
It is also a place for both parents and children to feel protected in an environment that encourages free expression.
“[The kids] don’t have to look over their shoulders, and they can let down their guard. Those are four days when none of that matters, and they are surrounded by family members who support them,” Morris said.
Morris has stated that her photographic goal for the project is “to represent the spirit of these boys as they shine.” Some of the ways in which the kids shine is through the talent and fashion shows at camp that are popular and for which the campers come well-prepared.
“Some practice for the talent show all year, and others create their own gowns with their mothers or friends of the family,” Morris said. “The focus and enthusiasm is really pretty incredible. Also, it can be very emotional for the parents, especially the families who are new to camp and are experiencing this kind of group acceptance for the very first time.”
Although it is unknown if the kids at the camp will eventually identify as gay or transgender—or even if the way gender and sexuality are defined throughout society will evolve—the camp allows the kids to look at themselves in a completely different way.
“They get enough questioning in their daily lives, so it’s a great place for them to express themselves as they feel. … I feel we hear so many of the sad stories and how LGBT kids are disproportionately affected by bullying, depression, and suicide, and it hangs a heavy cloud over them and kind of dooms them from the beginning. I’m saying this is a new story. This is not a tragedy.” The children featured here and in Morris’ project are photographed with the permission of the their parents. Her ultimate goal is to start a foundation that raises money to help underwrite the cost of camp for kids unable to attend.
“I would really love to follow the kids into adulthood and see what kind of relationships they develop,” Morris said. “I want to witness the evolution, knowing from where they started and see how life is going to play out for them—hopefully happily—and I think they’re going to have a better transition into adulthood than the generation proceeding them.”
Mad respect
We need feminism because it’s really sick that the name of the camp has to be changed to protect the participants, because someone would actually try to harm these children or have them forcibly removed from their families under bogus claims of child abuse, and all because these boys don’t conform to what that one person thinks a boy is required to be.
Look at those faces. I’m fucking crying.
This is just awesome, but also intensely sad. Who the hell would want to harm these kids when they’re clearly so happy.
A Boys’ Camp to Redefine Gender
Over the past three years, photographer Lindsay Morris has been documenting a four-day camp for gender nonconforming boys and their parents.
The camp, “You Are You” (the name has been changed to protect the privacy of the children and is also the name of Morris’ series), is for “Parents who don’t have a gender-confirming 3-year-old who wants to wear high heels and prefers to go down the pink aisle in K-Mart and not that nasty dark boys’ aisle,” Morris said with a laugh.
It is also a place for both parents and children to feel protected in an environment that encourages free expression.
“[The kids] don’t have to look over their shoulders, and they can let down their guard. Those are four days when none of that matters, and they are surrounded by family members who support them,” Morris said.
Morris has stated that her photographic goal for the project is “to represent the spirit of these boys as they shine.” Some of the ways in which the kids shine is through the talent and fashion shows at camp that are popular and for which the campers come well-prepared.
“Some practice for the talent show all year, and others create their own gowns with their mothers or friends of the family,” Morris said. “The focus and enthusiasm is really pretty incredible. Also, it can be very emotional for the parents, especially the families who are new to camp and are experiencing this kind of group acceptance for the very first time.”
Although it is unknown if the kids at the camp will eventually identify as gay or transgender—or even if the way gender and sexuality are defined throughout society will evolve—the camp allows the kids to look at themselves in a completely different way.
“They get enough questioning in their daily lives, so it’s a great place for them to express themselves as they feel. … I feel we hear so many of the sad stories and how LGBT kids are disproportionately affected by bullying, depression, and suicide, and it hangs a heavy cloud over them and kind of dooms them from the beginning. I’m saying this is a new story. This is not a tragedy.” The children featured here and in Morris’ project are photographed with the permission of the their parents. Her ultimate goal is to start a foundation that raises money to help underwrite the cost of camp for kids unable to attend.
“I would really love to follow the kids into adulthood and see what kind of relationships they develop,” Morris said. “I want to witness the evolution, knowing from where they started and see how life is going to play out for them—hopefully happily—and I think they’re going to have a better transition into adulthood than the generation proceeding them.”
Mad respect
We need feminism because it’s really sick that the name of the camp has to be changed to protect the participants, because someone would actually try to harm these children or have them forcibly removed from their families under bogus claims of child abuse, and all because these boys don’t conform to what that one person thinks a boy is required to be.
Look at those faces. I’m fucking crying.
This is just awesome, but also intensely sad. Who the hell would want to harm these kids when they’re clearly so happy.
A Boys’ Camp to Redefine Gender
Over the past three years, photographer Lindsay Morris has been documenting a four-day camp for gender nonconforming boys and their parents.
The camp, “You Are You” (the name has been changed to protect the privacy of the children and is also the name of Morris’ series), is for “Parents who don’t have a gender-confirming 3-year-old who wants to wear high heels and prefers to go down the pink aisle in K-Mart and not that nasty dark boys’ aisle,” Morris said with a laugh.
It is also a place for both parents and children to feel protected in an environment that encourages free expression.
“[The kids] don’t have to look over their shoulders, and they can let down their guard. Those are four days when none of that matters, and they are surrounded by family members who support them,” Morris said.
Morris has stated that her photographic goal for the project is “to represent the spirit of these boys as they shine.” Some of the ways in which the kids shine is through the talent and fashion shows at camp that are popular and for which the campers come well-prepared.
“Some practice for the talent show all year, and others create their own gowns with their mothers or friends of the family,” Morris said. “The focus and enthusiasm is really pretty incredible. Also, it can be very emotional for the parents, especially the families who are new to camp and are experiencing this kind of group acceptance for the very first time.”
Although it is unknown if the kids at the camp will eventually identify as gay or transgender—or even if the way gender and sexuality are defined throughout society will evolve—the camp allows the kids to look at themselves in a completely different way.
“They get enough questioning in their daily lives, so it’s a great place for them to express themselves as they feel. … I feel we hear so many of the sad stories and how LGBT kids are disproportionately affected by bullying, depression, and suicide, and it hangs a heavy cloud over them and kind of dooms them from the beginning. I’m saying this is a new story. This is not a tragedy.” The children featured here and in Morris’ project are photographed with the permission of the their parents. Her ultimate goal is to start a foundation that raises money to help underwrite the cost of camp for kids unable to attend.
“I would really love to follow the kids into adulthood and see what kind of relationships they develop,” Morris said. “I want to witness the evolution, knowing from where they started and see how life is going to play out for them—hopefully happily—and I think they’re going to have a better transition into adulthood than the generation proceeding them.”
Mad respect
We need feminism because it’s really sick that the name of the camp has to be changed to protect the participants, because someone would actually try to harm these children or have them forcibly removed from their families under bogus claims of child abuse, and all because these boys don’t conform to what that one person thinks a boy is required to be.
Look at those faces. I’m fucking crying.
This is just awesome, but also intensely sad. Who the hell would want to harm these kids when they’re clearly so happy.
A Boys’ Camp to Redefine Gender
Over the past three years, photographer Lindsay Morris has been documenting a four-day camp for gender nonconforming boys and their parents.
The camp, “You Are You” (the name has been changed to protect the privacy of the children and is also the name of Morris’ series), is for “Parents who don’t have a gender-confirming 3-year-old who wants to wear high heels and prefers to go down the pink aisle in K-Mart and not that nasty dark boys’ aisle,” Morris said with a laugh.
It is also a place for both parents and children to feel protected in an environment that encourages free expression.
“[The kids] don’t have to look over their shoulders, and they can let down their guard. Those are four days when none of that matters, and they are surrounded by family members who support them,” Morris said.
Morris has stated that her photographic goal for the project is “to represent the spirit of these boys as they shine.” Some of the ways in which the kids shine is through the talent and fashion shows at camp that are popular and for which the campers come well-prepared.
“Some practice for the talent show all year, and others create their own gowns with their mothers or friends of the family,” Morris said. “The focus and enthusiasm is really pretty incredible. Also, it can be very emotional for the parents, especially the families who are new to camp and are experiencing this kind of group acceptance for the very first time.”
Although it is unknown if the kids at the camp will eventually identify as gay or transgender—or even if the way gender and sexuality are defined throughout society will evolve—the camp allows the kids to look at themselves in a completely different way.
“They get enough questioning in their daily lives, so it’s a great place for them to express themselves as they feel. … I feel we hear so many of the sad stories and how LGBT kids are disproportionately affected by bullying, depression, and suicide, and it hangs a heavy cloud over them and kind of dooms them from the beginning. I’m saying this is a new story. This is not a tragedy.” The children featured here and in Morris’ project are photographed with the permission of the their parents. Her ultimate goal is to start a foundation that raises money to help underwrite the cost of camp for kids unable to attend.
“I would really love to follow the kids into adulthood and see what kind of relationships they develop,” Morris said. “I want to witness the evolution, knowing from where they started and see how life is going to play out for them—hopefully happily—and I think they’re going to have a better transition into adulthood than the generation proceeding them.”
Mad respect
We need feminism because it’s really sick that the name of the camp has to be changed to protect the participants, because someone would actually try to harm these children or have them forcibly removed from their families under bogus claims of child abuse, and all because these boys don’t conform to what that one person thinks a boy is required to be.
Look at those faces. I’m fucking crying.
This is just awesome, but also intensely sad. Who the hell would want to harm these kids when they’re clearly so happy.
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Oh lord won’t you buy me a…car.
So, Rebecca has eaten her gearbox. This is not wholly surprising because the rebuild involved a company who told me that time was a human construct that had no place in a workshop after having it for weeks and weeks on end. Finally when I threatened them with non-payment and them having a dead minor gearbox it was very suddenly ‘ready’. Once installed it’s always had a noisy layshaft, and I just sucked it up and assumed I’d replace it when it failed.
Which is now.
Obviously.
Just after I’ve started buying bits for the Electric Minor Project. I’d sat down and spent money on a gearbox, axle and such that are suitable for an EV minor, but would be less than ideal on the engine I’ve got. It’d probably be adequately drivable but it certainly would be less than ideal gearing.
So then I came to the unhappy conclusion that we needed an alternative second mode of transport. Imey is very lovely but the journey to my mum’s is only possible in Imey on weekdays, in office hours, when we can guarantee that we can use the Nissan dealer’s charger.
Not ideal.
Options then were:
– Join a car sharing club
– Rent a car on days I want to do Agency work / visit my mum
– Buy a cheapish modern box and run it until it dies or the minor’s sorted
– Buy a(nother) classicSecond considerations were that Kathryn only drives Auto over here, so it should ideally have an Auto box.
Looking at the first one I realised that each trip to my mum would cost us around £300 which was a bit hideous.
Then the second, well, it sucks up the money so fast that doing agency shifts rapidly becomes not worth it, and again, we’re looking in the region of 150-200 quid to visit my mum. Not really reasonable.
The cheapish modern box looked good until I got an insurance quote for a smallish modern with an autobox. Good-god. It virtually doubled the cost of the car.
So I’ve been trawling the web looking for a classic car that falls into the £1000ish price category; and has an auto box. It’s been an unfun search – and the variety of cars I’ve ended up looking at have included some ones I really rather like (the Landcrab series of cars and the Hillman Super Minx series) most of which have been basket cases or heaps of some sort or another. Today I really had a concerted look and have on the potentials list:
– Tatty looking but alledgedly sound Landcrab (bit pricey and very far away), might not be an auto I forgot to ask.
– Non-runner with alledged electrical fault Landcrab (looks nice tho’), neither MOT nor Tax though
– An Austin 1300 (Rebecca may kill me)
– A very, very tatty looking Singer Vogue (complete, taxed and tested)
– Or an off-the-road but good looking Austin 1100Unfortunately, with no car to take to go and see them, and no easy way to retrieve them if I don’t like them, the only other option is getting the train. And they’re all in far flung places. So, feh, is my general mood at the moment.
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Lost Douglas Adams draft found…
Lost Douglas Adams draft found…
Not quite sure how I feel about this.
It’ll probably be interesting to see how the text evolved from draft to final, but when I saw the headline I was kind of hoping it was some unpublished new work.
The least they can do is donate the profits to wildlife conservation or one of his other causes, but I doubt that’ll happen.
Yeah, it’d be nice if that happened. I mean, it was the man’s wish that his drafts and discarded stuff never be seen, and yet here we are, digging up yet more of it. The least the publisher could do is honour his memory if they’re not going to honour his wishes.
Selfishly, of course, I can’t wait to see it.
I think that, unless someone buys it for me randomly, I’ll probably not read it. I kinda feel like Hitchhiker is pretty much perfect. I remember the BBC radio version playing on my dad’s 120 minute cassettes; the original radio broadcasts that hooked me.
I’ve still got my sister’s shredded copy of The Restaurant At The End of The Universe despite the fact that it consists mostly of separate pages and sellotape.
And I think I just feel too grateful for books that helped me through my childhood and teens to disregard the author’s wish that I don’t read his unedited stuff.
‘s complex tho’, because it would be fascinating to see the development of it.
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A group of American students have watched each episode of the new version of Doctor Who to check whether it passed the Bechdel test. The test passed if two female characters talk to each other about something other than men. Both characters must also be named. Get the data
This is the problem with having a (imho) misogynistic A-hole running the show. He’s ruining it, utterly and totally. I mean, seriously, the guy has managed to take the show back so it’s actually worse on equality and gender issues than the 1980’s version.
Oh lord, he makes me angry.
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16 absolutely disgusting things that Europe voted for and that you need to know about
16 absolutely disgusting things that Europe voted for and that you need to know about
translating this article because this is so important
1. “Monsieur Ebola can solve the problem in three months”
– Front National’s founder Jean-Marie Le Pen about how an Ebola…This shit is one reason why I’ve been trying to work out how rapidly my partner and I can leave the EU. It’s terrifying. I look at the concept of being in many parts of Europe at the moment and go ‘oh, shit, don’t want to be there’.
On the one hand, the proportion of people who voted for these nutballs is very low; on the other, the proportion of people faced with the prospect of nutballs getting in to power who didn’t even bother to exercise their vote in any way is very high. As I see it the ratio of
Nutballs : Person who cares enough to do something to stop nutballs
is not concordant with a comfortable, peaceful life, in the EU at the moment, at least if you’re not white and rich. Being neither white nor rich, I find that quite worrying.
I used to make a joke about being in a minority of one, because I fit so neatly into so many minority boxes. At the moment, being that person’s quite unnerving.