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alex, 3 years ago to random

when an american man walks into a quaint wee pub in Scotland and announces he is 1/8th Scottish, we all leap up with tears in our eyes & cry out "a lost son of Alba is returned to us!" and everyone busies round him and gets him a whisky and an old lady called Morag tearfully hugs him and calls him a bonny lad, and we all ask him to marry our bonny daughters, and the auld men start up a ceilidh tune and we teach him to dance like a Scot and when he's all tired out we cut off his head and eat him

alex, 10 months ago to random

welsh lightning mages currently trying to physically sever wales from the rUK

alex, 7 days ago to random

i'm like chatGPT in that i also nervously consume an entire litre of water when anyone asks me questions

alex, 10 months ago to random

(moth voice) we choose to go to the moon ... not because it is easy ... but because it is big and glowy

alex, 10 months ago to random

capitalism doesn't seem to be working. what if we give all rich people £1m. hm that's still not working. what if .... we ... give all rich people £1m. how strange, the problem is still not fixed. let's try... giving all rich people £1m,

alex, 12 days ago to random

"average british person earns enough money to be alive" actually just statistical error. taxcuts georg, who lives in belize and makes £10,000,000 per second is an outlier and should not have been counted

alex, 6 months ago to random

picard: mr data, please calculate the trajectory of the anomoly
capitalist data: i have made the calculations and sent them to your terminal, captain. would you like to purchase a vaccuum cleaner.
picard: (sadly) no, thank you, mr data.

alex, 2 months ago to random

liberals think the point of protest is to express one's opinion, not to effect change.

alex, 6 months ago to random

picard: mr data, are there any life signs on that ship?
free-to-use data: scanning now, captain. the kingdom is under attack! can you save the hot babes? (click and drag to save the babes). the kingdom's babes need your help.
picard: skip ad
data: (click and drag here). (try clicking to save the babes). you can skip this ad in 5 seconds. there are four life signs, captain.

alex, 2 years ago to random

it is tuesday my dudes

alex, 1 month ago to random

Q re: unworn baby shoes for sale. will they eventually grow into full sized shoes?

alex, 16 days ago to random

Trains. The long vehicle. Did you know that the train driver might be at the front of the train even if you're in one of the carriages? That's how long trains are. Wow! For more train facts visit wikipedia.

alex, 9 months ago to random

"nom de plume" is what that guy in the william carlos williams poem did

alex, 9 months ago to random

UK government refuses to cooperate with ongoing UN investigation into UKgov's treatment of disabled people. the UN previously found, seven years ago, that the UK government was committing "grave and systemic" violations of disabled people's human rights.

https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/government-side-stepping-un-examination-shows-contempt-for-disabled-people/

alex, 10 months ago to mecfs

This, by Ed Yong, is one of the best articles I've seen on fatigue as a symptom of ME/CFS/Long Covid. Discusses chronic fatigue as a failure state of the body with specific identifiable pathologies, rather than as a "tiredness". Proxy link to bypass the Atlantic's paywall.

#MECFS #LongCovid #ChronicIllness #ELCI

https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theatlantic.com%2Fhealth%2Farchive%2F2023%2F07%2Fchronic-fatigue-long-covid-symptoms%2F674834%2F

alex, 7 months ago to random

UK government has a consultation open on the Work Capability Assessment process until the 30th of October. I haven't read it yet but the summarised point on "flexibility" regarding "working from home" puts the fear in me tbqh (they are absolutely going to be looking at more ways to disqualify disabled people from claiming any sort of benefits).

https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/work-capability-assessment-activities-and-descriptors

alex, 1 year ago to random

Seems it might not be common knowledge that if you have covid, you mustn't push yourself to build your activity levels back to normal. There's a high likelihood that Long Covid is a type of ME/CFS, a disabling chronic illness which often follows a viral infection. Everyone with ME will tell you: do not push yourself! At that delicate phase of recovery you could seriously risk becoming permanently disabled. Rest as much as possible, and err on the safe side!

alex, 2 months ago to random

My favourite Blade quote

alex, 2 months ago to random

UK government to finally face the UN on the 18th of March regarding the government's "grave and systematic" violations of disabled people's rights:

https://www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/uk-government-faces-un-violation-disability-rights

alex, 4 months ago to random

reading this; it's good:

"It is not only false but ableist to believe that being homebound means that disabled people are exempt from participating in and surviving in this capitalist system. It works to uphold the same capitalist system that forces many disabled people to live in perpetual poverty."

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/elixirspice/gupayukesi

alex, 4 years ago to random

:waluigi: what are-a we going to do today wario?
:wario: the same-a thing we do every day waluigi
:waluigi: wahahaha!
:wario: :waluigi: waaaaaaaaaa!

alex, 9 months ago to random

this new zealandish actor is playing an irish man. you can tell because he is wearing a woolly jumper and has red hair. soon after this, he drinks a pint of guinness.