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.

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goatsarah,

@uriel238 @cyu Realistically, I can't see it being cheaper than implants, and will probably need lots of orthodontic treatment when the new tooth comes through.

I have an implant, with bone regeneration, and honestly, it's just a tooth. Even with the bone regeneration, my total time in the chair was probably less than 90 minutes.

And, bonus, I can't get toothache in it, and if it breaks, it's 2 weeks to replace it like nothing happened.

The only way I see this competing with implants if it's cheaper (honestly can't see that happening) or less hassle (again, seems unlikely).

Implants are that good, and they're gonna be hard to displace as the "gold standard" to replace missing teeth.

goatsarah, to random

Outrage as cis woman treated like trans woman. independent.co.uk/news/uk/home…

goatsarah, to random

You’re walking in some single sex biological woods. Would you rather encounter a trans woman, or Kemi Badenoch?

goatsarah, to random

The irony of the TERF brain worm trust going on about “female homosexuals” (god help us all if TERFs ever master the ability to sound like a normal human being) is that cis lesbians are pretty much the least transphobic demographic and entirely sick of TERFs’ bullshit.

goatsarah, to random

The reason I am a liberal: if I had absolute power, there would be so many bodies. I would do it with the best of intentions.

I am a liberal because I believe nobody should ever have that kind of power.

goatsarah, to random

Apparently the Tory press is going to lead with their desire to remove all equality protection in law for trans people.

Ineptly because, it turns out, they don’t understand equalities legislation.

And also they’re going to get annihilated so they can’t do it anyway.

But it seems this is now accepted political discourse in the UK, and I would like one, just one opposition party to have the balls to say in response, “you are terrorising trans people and you need to stop”.

But they won’t, because all parties in the UK (yes, all of them) have quite a few people who actually agree with the Tories on this, and it’s more important to avoid upsetting these people than it is to take a stand and say that what amounts to state sponsored terrorism against a minority of your population who just want to live in peace is wrong.

goatsarah, to random

A thing I have noticed. 2 decades ago, there was decent pharmaceutical knowledge in the trans community. We knew what GnRH agonists were and how they work. We knew that for trans girls, if you couldn’t get them, then a cocktail of spironolactone and finasteride would do a pretty good job as a replacement. We knew that cyproterone acetate worked even better than spiro, but was hepatotoxic, so be careful.

I feel like that’s all been … lost?

I suspect that until this sentence, most currently transitioning people won’t even know that GnRH agonist is the proper term for what is frequently and misleadingly called a “puberty blocker”.

How did we let all this knowledge get lost? We, as a community, used to know how to outflank attempts to stop us accessing medication.

Now the British government just go, “we’re banning prescription of puberty blockers” and everyone throws their hands up and goes, “oh well, no alternative but unopposed testosterone I guess”.

We were better than this. Why did that go away?

goatsarah,

THERE ARE THINGS YOU CAN DO TO GET ROUND GOVERNMENTS TRYING TO KEEP TRANSITION MEDS AWAY FROM YOU.

WE USED TO DO IT ALL THE TIME.

TALK TO TRANS ELDERS. WE KNOW THIS STUFF.

goatsarah, to random

Ah, the joy of watching someone suddenly realise that mammals are named that because we have tits.

goatsarah, to random

Just saw this via the London Reconnections blog and, oh my god, I think you could not do a worse job of redesigning the tube map if you tried.

“Paint all the lines the same colour. Send a train into London centre from Zone 6. Which identically coloured line does it emerge from on the other side? Fuck knows. Good luck!”

I mean, look at Oxford Circus? Which are the through lines? No? Me neither.

And this is promoted as “accessible”. God help us all.

esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/…

goatsarah,

@girlonthenet who needs to know where they’re going when they can tell at a glance which lines were built using cut and cover, which are deep level tubes, and which are national rail loading gauge? EVERY TOURIST MUST KNOW THIS VITAL INFO

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!

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!

atomicpoet, to random
@atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org avatar

The thing about physical media formats is that it doesn’t have to be “superior” for you to want it.

For example, I have a VHS and VCD collection. I know these are inferior formats compared to DVD or Blu-Ray.

But have you ever seen Blade Runner on VHS through a CRT? Have you ever seen Ghost in the Shell on VCD through a projector?

I have, and they’re amazing experiences I would not trade for anything.

goatsarah,

@atomicpoet Glad you’re getting enjoyment out of these, but with a childhood where VHS was all that there was (no, Betamax, I see your hand up but you may not speak), I have to say I have minimal desire to go back to it.

Also, I loathe optical discs. Feel like the entire industry spent the late 80s and whole of the 90s lying to us about tech that is ultimately fragile and cruddy.

I totally get the desire to own a physical thing, especially under late stage capitalism, but I reckon I’ll leave VHS (of which I once had a substantial collection, which I threw out) and DVD (same) to those who get joy from collecting them.

atomicpoet, (edited ) to random
@atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org avatar

Why are people surprised that cassettes are still made?

It should be obvious why they’re still around.

Cassettes are the cheapest form of music media out there. Anyone can buy one blank cassette and start recording. Equipment is cheap: all you need is a boombox.

If you want good analog recording, you can use them on a Tascam Portastudio 4-track machine—and it will sound great.

I went to a music store the other day and saw the same album on vinyl, CD, and cassette. Guess which one I bought?

It was the cassette. It was C$12—thus C$28 cheaper than the vinyl.

Here’s the kicker. If you have a good tape deck, and a quality recording, cassettes can sound better than vinyl. Even a type 1 cassette theoretically has better dynamic range than vinyl.

goatsarah,

@atomicpoet @imabuddha @upmultimedia And probably last longer. Found out the hard way in the early 2000s that all my CDs from the 80s had succumbed to bit rot and were unplayable.

goatsarah,

@atomicpoet @imabuddha @upmultimedia as per my other reply to you, the optical media industry basically bullshitted us.

goatsarah,

@atomicpoet @imabuddha @upmultimedia I mean, these weee kept in a proper CD rack and looked after. It’s just that where the join between the two plastic halves was supposed to not allow oxygen in to corrode the aluminium, it … allowed it in.

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”.

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,

@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.

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>

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