goatsarah

@goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org

I'm Sarah. I'm a Brit who fled to Portugal on account of Brexit, increasing intolerance and the British weather. I like climbing (although I can't do much any more for health reasons) and sailing. This is a Friendica account. Friendica is kinda like Facebook as Mastodon is kinda like Twitter, except they can talk to each other.

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

goatsarah, to random

WPATH, the global governing body for transgender medical care, have responded to the CASS report. They are not impressed. wpath.org/media/cms/Documents/…

goatsarah, to random

I feel like I have a “brand”, and that brand is “slightly psychotic middle aged tomboy trans lesbian”.

And brands must be maintained.

So when it’s time to descale the kettle, and other people use vinegar …

goatsarah,

@wonka And takes foreeeeeever.

Anyway, hydrochloric is also non toxic.

goatsarah,

@wonka Put water in kettle. Pour in hydrochloric. Add no heat. Pour out hydrochloric. Kettle is descaled. No residual taste. Entire process: 15 seconds.

goatsarah, to random

r/AskEurope be like, “what are the income thresholds for being different social classes in your country” and all the Brits are like, “this question makes invalid assumptions all the way down”.

goatsarah, to random

Me, with a time machine: Good news Pyotr Ilyich! You will be remembered as one of the best composers of all time!

Tchaikovsky: That IS good news! Thank you, time travelling stranger!

Me: … largely for the 1812 overture.

Tchaikovsky: <endless screaming>

goatsarah, to random

People always point to ghouls like Musk when they say that money can’t buy happiness.

Counterpoint: Enya. She made a load of money. She bought an actual castle. She retired to said castle to become a reclusive cat lady.

Inspirational!

anders, to helpers

@helpers

Is it possible to migrate an account from Friendica to Mastodon or Sharkey, so one's followers get moved to the new account?

goatsarah,

@feb @anders I don't think that moves the followers though? When you move on Mastodon the followers go with you.

goatsarah,

@anders @feb Much as I love Friendica, there is very much a Hotel California element.

goatsarah,

@anders @feb Hotel California - you can check out any time, but you can never leave.

cstross, to random
@cstross@wandering.shop avatar

WHAT—
https://mastodon.social/@counternotions/112446837184235126

goatsarah,

@cstross What's the draw? "Like Dubai, but shit, and we'll arrest you even if you aren't gay!"

gwynnion, to random
@gwynnion@mastodon.social avatar

I don't trust anyone who sneers at service industry employment because those workers are disproportionately women and minorities, which is also why those jobs tend to pay poorly.

But there's nothing wrong with someone working at a fast food place and having a comfortable lifestyle and it's only your internalized racism, misogyny, and classism that makes you think otherwise.

Everyone deserves to have nice things.

goatsarah,

@gwynnion This is very similar to my life philosophy which is, in a nutshell, “how a person treats service workers is how they would treat everyone if they thought they could get away with it”

goatsarah, to random

Just stopped at a motorway services for a coffee. You know the place; sells petrol.

The bin was on fire.

At the place that sells petrol.

A couple of women just sitting next to it, watching the bin be on fire.

I went and told someone. The bin is no longer on fire.

goatsarah, to random

I think the "1936 Olympics" vibe was maybe putting people off a bit. theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/a…

goatsarah, to random

Me, in southern Portugal: you seen that Spain and Morocco are contemplating a rail tunnel?

@zoe, also in southern Portugal: But they won’t build a rail line to here? WHY EVEN IS SPAIN?

Me: That would be HARD, Zoe. They’d have to build a rail line over at least THREE KILOMETRES of line across land nobody lives on and construct a bridge of about TWO HUNDRED METRES.

So difficult.

timeout.com/news/there-could-b…

goatsarah,

@zoe My mistake. 25 km of empty land alongside a motorway.

SO HARD

goatsarah,

@jon Also there’s the Guadiana in the way which is hundreds of centimetres deep.

goatsarah, to random

900 metres up the Algarve's tallest mountain in the middle of the night. Shockingly dark!

Worth it, though.

An alpine meadow full of wildflowers (which I couldn't see; I couldn't even see my feet!), under a deep blue sky with purple clouds

goatsarah, to random

In relation to this: 404media.co/google-delists-sit…

I offer this: inhousepharmacy.vu/p-1120-prog…

vicgrinberg, to random
@vicgrinberg@mastodon.social avatar

Well, that's also a way to solve long-standing dispute...

goatsarah,

@vicgrinberg smirks in “has a bidet shower”

jon, to random
@jon@gruene.social avatar

Your tourism industry is not sustainable if no one can get to your country in a sustainable way

Looking at you Croatia, Norway, Portugal in particular

goatsarah,

@jon re Portugal; we’re reliant on Spain for long distance trains and they cancelled them all in 2020, with no intention to restart. 😞

goatsarah, to random

So I just had a transphobe try to piggy-back off a recent popular post I made, presumably to gain reach. i have a decent following here on fedi, but am a micro instance. They too were a micro instance. By default, people on micro instances are not easily discoverable other than by interaction, so if you have a following on one, it’s generally because you’ve built it “organically”, as it were.

They presumably thought that by posting transphobic rage bait in response to me, they could get me to reply, and my reply would federate to my followers, and then they’’d be seen.

Instead I just instantly defederated their server with no response.

They are howling into the void, and nobody is there to hear.

This is not Twitter. Just because someone replies to your thread doesn’t mean the rest of the word will see it. This is the achillies heal of bigots here. Most big instances will moderate them into oblivion, so they start micro instances, but unless people actually like what you’re saying, and interact, you simply won’t federate.

And they won’t even know I made this post now. LMAO! LOL!

goatsarah,

Tl;dr: ostracising arseholes works to curtail their influence and ultimately, their behaviour, and the fediverse by its nature serves to promote that ostracism.

goatsarah, to random

IMPORTANT - PLEASE SHARE

The linked document is being circulated amongst NHS service providers for young trans people. It advises cessation of ALL medical intervention for transition but goes further. It suggests that if the patient or parents continue to access trans healthcare outside their system, they should be reported to social services with the implicit threat that the children will be taken from their parents.

IF YOU ARE A YOUNG TRANS PERSON OR A PARENT OF ONE, IT IS LIKELY UNSAFE TO ENGAGE WITH NHS MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES.

docs.google.com/document/d/1JS…

goatsarah,

@airwhale It’s entirely political. This is part of a phenomenon that I have seen called, “policy-based evidence making”

Argentina asks to join NATO as President Milei seeks a more prominent role for his nation (apnews.com)

Argentina formally requested on Thursday to join NATO as a global partner, a status that would clear the way for greater political and security cooperation at a time when the right-wing government of President Javier Milei aims to boost ties with Western powers and attract investment....

goatsarah,

@MicroWave “We would like to join your alliance, which has a prominent member with whom we have a major territorial dispute, and who consequentially has an arms embargo against us. Please ignore the elephant in the room”

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