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TheDonsieLass

@TheDonsieLass@mas.to

We are in a climate emergency
Cri de cล“ur-ist disabled vegan migrant
Was an early modernist, now working in public health
Aspiring Lorax
Likes animals, evidence, justice, languages & dialects, the outdoors, tea
Prefers the quiet place
Curious about things

She/her; they/them

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DJDarren, to random
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Gentlemen, is democracy manifest.

TheDonsieLass,
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@DJDarren Let the dogs vote! ๐Ÿพ

TheDonsieLass, to random
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Morning walk

TheDonsieLass, to random
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Morning walk

TheDonsieLass, to random
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Morning walks, day two

TheDonsieLass, to random
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stux, to random
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Sad itโ€™s needed but it works like a charm

โ€˜Be seenโ€™ while crossing a crosswalk with a brick in your hands so cars will stop

TheDonsieLass,
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@MugsysRapSheet @stux They don't to me. They clack against one another when the person in the video picks one up

TheDonsieLass, to random
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Bab, you're not dissatisfied with the NHS. You're dissatisfied with years of government mismanagement, underfunding, and the undermining of public health

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/mar/27/public-satisfaction-with-the-nhs-at-its-lowest-ever-level-poll-shows

kitoconnell, to random
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I am sickly fascinated by how awful and weird mobile game ads have become. I'm part of a Facebook group where we share terrible ads and make up lore for the recurring characters. My phone is full of screenshots like this. Some actors from Eastern Europe, who appear in some of the ads, are also in the group.

A cartoon guy in a tuxedo tips his fedora while his speech bubble, which identifies him as a mafia boss, declares, "Long live LGBTQ!"
A woman with filthy, spiky hair, trash on her dirty body, is sprawled in a disgusting kitchen. Green cartoon stink wafts from her hair. A pink text box below her reads "Fall apar"

TheDonsieLass,
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@kitoconnell If the 'that's misogyny' one doesn't become a meme I'll be disappointed in the terminally online community

pvonhellermannn, (edited ) to random
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This article by Gary Stevenson is so good, please read every word of it.

โ€œWhatever Jeremy Hunt says, traders know the rich will get richer and the poor will get poorer. And theyโ€™re paid millions to bet on it.โ€

This is what the world is - it is run by a minute elite for a minute elite and the rest of us, the masses, the natural world, we just donโ€™t count. It is a (will reshare my own piece on this below 1/n)

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/05/banker-budget-mega-rich-traders-jeremy-hunt?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

TheDonsieLass,
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@pvonhellermannn Oh cripes now I'm going to have to read Gramsci properly after blagging through undergrad

TheDonsieLass,
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@pvonhellermannn Imagining a reading accountability fedi server now ๐Ÿ“–

christianp, to cargobike
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I've had my cargo bike for about six months now. I thought I'd write a review of it, because (1) I love it, and (2) I had loads of questions before buying it, and thought I could help future cargo bike buyers.

https://checkmyworking.com/posts/2024/02/amcargobikes-amladcykler-ultimate-harmony-cargo-bike-review/

TheDonsieLass,
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@christianp This is detailed and useful. I have never really got used to the out of control sensation of three wheeler steering but a two wheeler sounds worse!

fulelo, to Russia
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A new brings 's fresh special on what seems to be the most oppressive presidential election in . We look into what stories the state media can and cannot touch, check out Putin's body doubles, the systemic opposition, talk about Twix the cat ( look out for this bit) at the insistence of the boss lady. She too is still digesting y'day's news - we recorded all this before the announcement of Alexey โ€™s death
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct6fhn

TheDonsieLass,
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@fulelo I subscribed a while back after following on here but finally got round to listening to my first episode yesterday. It was this latest Russian election episode.

I've listened to a few episodes now and find the varied and informed internal perspective valuable, informative, and engaging. Really excellent shows

mikemathia, to random
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TheDonsieLass,
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@mikemathia As someone on hold currently, this is too real

ChrisMayLA6, to Cat
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I like this letter in today's Guardian; it turns round what I would usually say about #vets; that they are an illustration of how expensive #healthcare is if its provisions is entirely privatised.

Rather Anne Cowper uses the experience of her #cat's treatment as a way of showing how great the #NHS could be if it was fully (and properly) funded.

Its a great rhetorical point, and although my warning still stands, she rightly puts the argument the other way (too)!

#NHScrisis
#SaveOurNHS

TheDonsieLass,
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@ChrisMayLA6 I take her point about NHS funding but the two systems are not comparable.

Vets have a fraction of the (expensive) med tech of doctors.

If we euthanised ill/disabled people as nonchalantly as we do pets, it would save money but be a eugenicist nightmare. Pets who are 'too expensive' to treat are euthanised. A UK study found that over 20% of dogs euthanised were for 'old age'. No thanks.

But do let's fund the NHS. Just appreciate it costs way more & may never be so slick

TheDonsieLass,
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@ChrisMayLA6 I agree, it does, and that includes illustrating how a privatised, fee-paying system would be terrible for humans (which you also suggested in your post).

But again, totally agree with adequate health funding (public health first for prevention to reduce/delay NHS need, of course).

As for simile quality, not one may be perfect but a poor one is unhelpful -- for example the deathless comparison of a national economy with a household budget!

TheDonsieLass, to random
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Thankful for snow. Snowfall is precious now

TarkabarkaHolgy, to animals Hungarian
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Today's match is Narwhal vs Lobster! Vote in the toot below ๐Ÿ˜Š
8/26

TheDonsieLass,
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@TarkabarkaHolgy Where are these cards from? (And sorry if you've already answered this question several times)

TarkabarkaHolgy, to animals Hungarian
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Today's vote is between Rat and Common swift!
Vote in the toot below ๐Ÿ˜„
6/26

TheDonsieLass,
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@sed Similar feeling. Had to choose swift because, well, swift, but smiling rat is such a cool dude

JeniParsons, to cymru
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Right now I think us shepherds are right out of warnings

TheDonsieLass,
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@JeniParsons Red in the morning, planet is warming

Tattie, to random
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Open question time! What's something you prefer the cheapy version of to the fancy stuff, even if price is no object?

TheDonsieLass,
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@HederaVulpes @Tattie If you put it in a little unmarked pot next to one of Bonne Maman or Tiptree I suspect it would hold its own easily. Favourite flavour?

pvonhellermannn, to climate
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#ClimateDiary Another morning of checking travel information; i am only travelling in later and I think #Sussex is not quite so badly hit by #StormIsha; but if I donโ€™t make it to my lecture it will be the third time this academic year due to storms. All this travel disruption is more and more part of our โ€œnew abnormalโ€, to quote Mann. Ninth named storm since September. #ClimateEmergency

TheDonsieLass,
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@pvonhellermannn It's ruining our house. I don't think people appreciate the small ways climate breakdown is already making our lives worse. It's not all catastrophic wildfires

TarkabarkaHolgy, to history
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I am reading a book about citrus fruits in Italy, and their effects on Italian history and culture, and it is endlessly fascinating.

Also now I am craving both an orange, and a vacation in Italy.

๐Ÿ˜… ๐ŸŠ

TheDonsieLass,
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@TarkabarkaHolgy Do you mind sharing the title?

ChrisMayLA6, to random
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I think Eva Wiseman (Observer) is right, the term (and # here) has lost much of its meaning through our continual (if understandable) use... so can I suggest we might move to one of these alternatives:



I'm sure you'll be able to think of some others...

but what we need is a term that has the immediate traction of the 'cost of living crisis'.

Over to you!

TheDonsieLass,
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@ChrisMayLA6 Immiseration

TarkabarkaHolgy, to random
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Starting to realize that info dumping is part of my love language.

I'm like "Hey, look at these fascinating things I learned/ read about, aren't they shiny? And cool? I think you are a cool person and you might enjoy these!"

If I do this to someone, it's a sign of trust that they won't make fun of me. (I'v been bullied for it as a kid).

I don't know whether I am neurodivergent in some way, but people misread this a lot.

TheDonsieLass,
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@TarkabarkaHolgy I had a boyfriend who was really mean about this and accused me of being obsessed with things I found interesting and wanted to talk about. I had forgotten until your post, and how must it hurt me when he sneered like that. I guess because it is also important to me to share like that.

I hope he has dermatitis on his balls

pvonhellermannn, to random
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Half thinking of starting an hashtag here, about the dire, dire state of UK (global?) higher education. Sharing nuggets of senior management decisions, neoliberal language, and overall slow collapse.

Wonโ€™t work of course because most of us canโ€™t risk honesty, but honestly: the everyday reality of what is happening deserves recording in all its depressing and damning detail.

TheDonsieLass,
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@pvonhellermannn Appalling. We mustn't let STEM be the only paradigm left standing. Look at what happens when there's just science without humanities.

I am sorry to you and everyone else going through this, and I send solidarity

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