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🏳️‍🌈 Writer. VA. Industrial solvent. Can tie own shoelaces 9 times out of 10 🇵🇸 Alt text: Cover photo: unicorn standing on hind legs surrounded by stars silhouetted against rainbow Profile picture: drawing of a black and white kitten on shoulder

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I generally tell them it's not them I'm trying to protect it's the vulnerable person they will pass it on to. Tbh if someone came into my workplace with covid I'd have to leave as I'm already at risk and I visit a care home weekly

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I used pics and graphics from pixabay to make promos for group activities (unpaid and unfunded) so when I got a good camera I put some of my photos on there for others to use for free too 😁

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Yup

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IN CONCLUSION: I love living in Halifax and wouldn’t change it for anything. But you are probably not going to be able to flee the US if shit gets completely fucked. And if you’re serious about it, you should have started talking to an immigration lawyer 3 months ago.

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There are two grain dryers next to each other that, if you squint, kind of look like robot boobs. In my head, I call them “las tetas de maiz.” Long story short, I’ve accidentally given myself an agricultural storage structure fetish.

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A job I was looking forward to just fell through because I requested a very basic “please don’t feed my work into the AI garbage chute pls” clause in the contract That was apparently against company policy and non-negotiable If anyone needs a book cover I have an opening in my schedule

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This season of Prodigy has been 96% fucking delightful and 4% we just won't talk about that 4%

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No, but that is the argument. If everyone rocks out and votes for marginals the increased visual support will help others switch their vote

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I suppose the argument is that if a third of voters don't vote for a third party they could have actually won and showing increased support for those is how the tide turns but... yeah, I'm in a seat so safe it doesn't matter if I vote as I won't be heard

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Unfortunately I also loathe their only alternatives who are going to continue to strip disabled people of dignity and support and continue to strip trans people of their dignity and rights

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Not to mention the fact that the more times you get covid the more likely you will end up permanently disabled. We still know very little about the long term effects of even one infection (eg. increased risk of stroke in later years)

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I understand the 'I will lose my house' angle for sure, but the idea of passing it to someone else who might then come into contact with someone vulnerable and still needing to isolate is awful. The government needs to make isolating mandatory and guarantee pay.

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Meanwhile someone I know who works in food service/bar back had to go into work with covid cause they refused to let him stay home and he couldn't afford to not get paid 😡

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I tested positive for 23 days I think it was. Just over three weeks. Doctor said there was 'very low risk' of passing it on past 14 days, I said that was grossly irresponsible and stayed isolated until tests were fully clear.

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Don't threaten me with a good time 😂

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Yes yes cover me with ones (except as we don't have pound notes it'd be coins and more of a scrooge mcduck situation)

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I've lived through a pandemic and recessions and poverty and a world at war but I've also lived through TWO periods of abundant new Star Treks which has softened the blow considerably

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It seems to have varied by country in terms of uptake but yeah removed from the DSM and reclassified as ASD umbrella. It wasn't until later that the nazi ties became apparent. It's always shocking seeing it today (even when in reference like your post)

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Was the description written before or after aspergers was removed from the dsm and revealed to be a nazi who created the division to sort autistic folks between work camps and death camps

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surged 48%. for a mass plagiarism tool that tells you to eat rocks and glue.

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Episode 4 of Prodigy has me *cackling*

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Right? Otherwise wtf are they doing? 😂

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I'm usually in the minority masking too. Thanks for doing it anyway.

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Live reinactment of the last unsolicited dick pic I was sent? 😂😂

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To be honest their shrivelled drunken dicks weren't all that anyway 😂

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See, I deleted snapchat probably about 12 years ago 😅 I'll have to get my dick pics the old fashioned way: give my number to a male friend I don't know very well and wait for them to go out drinking 😬

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I'm not judging, I'm considering joining... snapchat? I'm too old to know what that QR is for

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Yep, the fact that I can't work and am reliant on welfare means no country wants me. Including the one I live in. The fact that I'm queer af and non binary doesn't even get the opportunity to be a problem cause I'm fucked before I start

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CHOAM Nomsky 💭's avatar CHOAM Nomsky 💭 @thielman.bsky.social
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if you took every billionaire on earth and stacked them on top of each other starting at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, that would be great

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They're assuming that the 'open borders' they imagine their country has, apply everywhere

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I think that comes under the subheading (failed me in biology)

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Desperately sorry for trans people who are feeling like they have to vote labour to get the tories out. I'm 'lucky' to live in a safe seat and can vote for whoever I want, and it counts for absolutely nothing.

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I have purchased champagne, therefore prepared for all outcomes (drunk)

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Funnily enough I've been subject to such a conversation before a couple of times, usually by pushy drunk men at pubs who won't take no for an answer and will leer over you while trying to raise an explicit conversation.

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A friend of mine is hoping they're pledging centrist to get in and will be persuaded to lean more left once in power. I have no such faith and think starmer is a red tory to the core

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He also wants to have mandatory reporting for kids using different names/pronouns at school, taking safe spaces away from trans and questioning kids and putting them in danger, and they want to push people who's mental health isn't good enough to work, into work.

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So she harassed a colleague by talking about genitals and kink? This would be a firing offense for most people

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Rue: THE RUEVENATOR 🇵🇸's avatar Rue: THE RUEVENATOR 🇵🇸 @rushine.bsky.social
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Keir Starmer recently announced he would circumvent planning legislation to destroy Greenfield sites in order to build houses, so you can jot that down.

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But when will I learn it's not worth engaging with these people? Deleted any posts they may be drawn to cause frankly I have better things to do today than bang my head against a brick wall 😅

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Some days are sensible and other days you end up having to block people who spout harmful rhetoric.

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The Doctor has given me antibiotics for acne, so that's a thing that is happening despite me being 40 😂

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