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j4 @jaffa.bsky.social · 20m

But their "short" is now 29" inside leg, which isn't short at all! And "extra short" is 27", which is still a bit too long for me tbh. I have no idea what boyfriend, girlfriend, mom, cigarette or any of the other baffling shapes mean! I think I want bootcut, because I am short AND out of date :-)

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j4 @jaffa.bsky.social · 2h

Last time I looked in M&S their jeans options were all "skinny" and "straight", neither of which really describe me. ;-) Their short length is too long for me now though so I've given up on them entirely for trousers!

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j4 @jaffa.bsky.social · 2h

Fellas is it gay to admit a woman knows more than you about anything?

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j4 @jaffa.bsky.social · 5h

Surely it's simply that guys think "if I admit I don't know anything about this shit I won't get a shag" & quickly google the 'right' answer. I mean, I'm not going to pretend I've NEVER EVER looked anything up to sound more knowledgeable when trying to pull Debian devs, so whomst amongst us, etc.

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UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.bsky.social · 7h

Which shows the NHS clinics are deliberately held back.

Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 20h

The ‘Transit’ gender clinic in Spain has a 3 WEEK waiting list! 😳😳😳

It covers a population of 8 million, (equivalent to the population of Scotland & Wales combined, or 1/7th of the population of England) It has a total of 43 staff, a majority of whom are part-time, working 6-7 hours per week!

Trans health waiting lists are a political choice

I’m just back from an awesome trans healthcare conference in Norway (blog on that to follow). Here I wanted to share information from a presentation by the founder of the transit trans health…

growinguptransgender.com

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Alex @alexical.bsky.social · 5h

As well as the five emoji reactions, Teams calls should have pronoun reactions so I can correct people while they're talking without having to unmute to exclaim "they!" at them. 🙄

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j4 @jaffa.bsky.social · 5h

Well at least round here if you throw them in the "landfill" bin they actually get burned to make electricity⚡

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payton mitchell @paytmitch.bsky.social · 12h

my husband and i have a friend we’ve known since high school and we have always called him the nickname he introduced himself as on the first day of 11th grade

turns out he made that nickname up on the spot and we have been calling this man Pancake for 13 years for LITERALLY NO REASON

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Donnacha DeLong @donnachadelong.info · 6h

Never forget that Hamas offered to release all the #hostages days after 7 Oct 2023, #Netanyahu's government said no.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 23h

This post needs an updated re-issue because AI companies have truly come up with some incredibly novel ways to push this technology that no one wants onto people.

The AI age is the "age of no consent"

"Inevitability" means design decisions are no longer informed by user needs; now they are unilaterally imposed. The users are the ones being designed.

productpicnic.beehiiv.com

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 23h

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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doop @doop.bsky.social · 6h

Never mind age verification: mandatory monochrome CSS and GOVERNMENT HEALTH WARNING: SOCIAL MEDIA ROTS YOUR BRAIN on front page of sites, along with randomly chosen horrifying @thelouvreof.bsky.social screencap

John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 7h

Idly wondering what a public health campaign on this would look like, and why stuff we tried for, eg, drink driving, isn't being used.

Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 7h

I bang on about this a lot: I think the combination of a global pandemic, underregulated internet/SM, collapse/corruption of trustworthy media, plus now unregulated genAI, is a wildly toxic environment for radicalisation & mental health. We see the results of that in our politics & lives every day

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j4 @jaffa.bsky.social · 7h

Yeah, sticky picture things, like if colour-by-numbers was more microplastics. Haven't tried to hang any up yet but they're very tiny gems/blobs & the kids mostly do small pics with them, so fingers crossed...

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j4 @jaffa.bsky.social · 7h

The child who apparently routinely shoves peperami wrappers & sandwiches down the back of the sofa like a horrible goblin also got up at 5am to write her journal and reorganise her room. When I got up I was greeted with a detailed explanation of what goes in which drawer and why.

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j4 @jaffa.bsky.social · 7h

Also a trillion 'diamonds' from those bloody diamond art craft kits

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Boo-ly, Li'l Ghost Bull 👻🐮 @bullythelsb.bsky.social · Jun 28

you have a right to be angry

Drawing of Little My, a small girl in a red dress, sliding down a hill. She is drawn by Tove Jansson from the Moomin series. The text reads: "WHEN you're angry, then you're angry," thought Little My, peeling her potato with her teeth. "Sometimes you have to be angry. Every little creature has the right to get angry."

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Shane Burley (Blue Sky Edition) @shaneburley.bsky.social · 10h

Shout out to the Naked Bikeride who today ran hundreds of naked people directly through the line of federal officers and effectively blocked them from assaulting demonstrators. Being naked on a bike goes on the list of effective tactics if you get at least 500 of them and the city loves you.

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ceej @ceej.online · 11h

caught my vampire neighbor creeping through my front door. he claims my saying “for sure dude, we should definitely hang out sometime” the other night counts as an invitation, but I disagree. we’re on hold with the etiquette hotline

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 13h

Um. There’s a woman presenting this too.

ok.co.uk @ok.co.uk · 6d

Rylan Clark is set to delve into the eerie world of witchcraft in his new show, The Witches Of Essex.

Rylan Clark slams 'misogyny' in British witch hunt as he fronts new Sky show

Rylan Clark shares the spotlight with professor Alice Roberts in The Witches Of Essex, where the pair delve into the dark history of witch hunts - and one discovery rattled Rylan.

www.ok.co.uk

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j4 @jaffa.bsky.social · 14h

I did not find the pen lid.

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j4 @jaffa.bsky.social · 14h

I cleared behind the sofa, searching for a lost special pen lid. I found 7 peperami wrappers, assorted other snack wrappers, a whole very old cheese sandwich, 3 guitar cases, half a dozen hair ties, an octopus fridge magnet, two badminton racquets, a white pencil crayon, and a plastic gold coin.

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j4 @jaffa.bsky.social · 15h

That's learning! :-) I went over the handlebars but landed very luckily in that I mostly just took a load of skin off my hands, & the bike was fine (apart from a slightly bent basket). Many years later I tried riding a trick bike with the steering reversed, & I couldn't do that either!

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j4 @jaffa.bsky.social · 16h

I mean, Oxford's whole vibe is mouldy and stressful, so ... probably?

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j4 @jaffa.bsky.social · 16h

I've also been hit by a car (driver accelerated across a mini roundabout with 'sun in his eyes' & hit me). That wrote off my bike and my glasses, cut my forehead open, & bruised my leg bone so badly it hurt for MONTHS when walking. I'm an experienced cyclist but that's no match for dangerous idiocy.

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j4 @jaffa.bsky.social · 17h

I've fallen off bikes through ineptitude (cornered too near a kerb, clipped it with a wheel), sheer fucking idiocy ("can I cycle with hands crossed over?" Answer: "briefly"), & bad luck (black ice). Worst injury was from the ice: I landed on my hand and dislocated my thumb. All on quiet roads/paths.

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