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KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 22:14:55 JST KeepTakingTheSoma
@TriptychTwinsRidesAgain People should make the *art* they want to, even popular *art* like TV soaps. If people like it, pay for it and watch it, we really can't complain. The solution is in our hands. Only the really dense or captured must think the BBC is not a propaganda outlet, so people need to decide if they want to pay for and consume propaganda.
I don't pay for it or watch it, and my life is probably happier for it. -
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KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 22:08:34 JST KeepTakingTheSoma
@Yhe_XX_Estate That's a lot of words for *man.* -
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KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 22:07:43 JST KeepTakingTheSoma
@taylan Thanks for sharing.
In my teaching career over a couple of decades I knew of one girl with Turner Syndrome. Admittedly I only worked in special needs schools occasionally, in which case a teacher may see a higher percentage of these. But they are incredibly rare and can pose great difficulties for those who have them.
The idea so beloved of activists that they *explain* that any of us could be any sex, both or neither, or change sex, and support these ideas is both absurd and rude. -
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KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Feb-2025 08:35:32 JST KeepTakingTheSoma
@HebrideanHecate @Chronic-Yonic @TriptychTwinsRidesAgain What about the people at the top of the managerial ladder in the NHS trust who put him there and tried to sack her? -
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KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Feb-2025 08:01:40 JST KeepTakingTheSoma
@RadicalCartoons All the MPs who want assisted dying should go first. -
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KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Feb-2025 07:52:56 JST KeepTakingTheSoma
@LostInCalifornia Makes you wonder how big a slice of the pie is being channelled via the pope. -
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KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Feb-2025 07:48:14 JST KeepTakingTheSoma
@HebrideanHecate But what do they drag queens think? -
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KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Feb-2025 07:46:00 JST KeepTakingTheSoma
@RadicalCartoons People keep voting for them. -
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KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Feb-2025 07:44:31 JST KeepTakingTheSoma
@polarisera @TriptychTwinsRidesAgain @HebrideanHecate @Chronic-Yonic @Maud_Gonner We don't hate these people enough. -
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KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Feb-2025 07:43:22 JST KeepTakingTheSoma
@Biff @PG Yes, but men make better women than women do - didn't you get the memo? -
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KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Feb-2025 07:26:43 JST KeepTakingTheSoma
@FretzCapo Sadly there are too many.
I met a poor woman at the weekend who has had seven (possibly more) and it sounded as if her immune system was fucked. -
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KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Feb-2025 09:27:18 JST KeepTakingTheSoma
@AnungIkwe I have that on a T shirt. -
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KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Feb-2025 09:25:32 JST KeepTakingTheSoma
@Blackgendermoderate -
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KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Feb-2025 09:16:58 JST KeepTakingTheSoma
@Derb I love this album. I confess to liking this track, probably because I have a puerile sense of humour. -
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KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Monday, 10-Feb-2025 12:25:29 JST KeepTakingTheSoma
@LaylaAlexandrovna @RadicalCartoons @Flick Does that also apply to microscope? -
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KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Monday, 10-Feb-2025 10:16:41 JST KeepTakingTheSoma
@MSP_SMIMSA Funnily enough, I wrote a short play which our drama group performed at the weekend. I gave one character the word *dissemble* which he changed to *pretend* because he'd never come across it until I told him what it meant. He also had the word *perspicacious* which he changed to *astute* because he couldn't pronounce it without tripping up.
And there I was choosing my words with care. -
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KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Monday, 10-Feb-2025 10:11:56 JST KeepTakingTheSoma
@RadicalCartoons @Flick It's a Greek/Latin hybrid coining. Nothing wrong with *telly* as the abbreviation.
Interesting that we abbreviate television to telly, but telephone (another Greek/Latin hybrid word) to 'phone.
Not sure there is an abbreviation of telescope. -
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KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Monday, 10-Feb-2025 01:07:58 JST KeepTakingTheSoma
@sim @HebrideanHecate @Flick That's a good point. We can't underestimate the power of propaganda and advertising. We also can't underestimate the number of people that are in thrall to it. I like to think I can't be swayed by adverts or propaganda, but perhaps I might not recognise it if it works on me. Eternal vigilance.
I do object to paying for government propaganda. The lockdown years were appalling. -
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KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 09-Feb-2025 22:19:38 JST KeepTakingTheSoma
@HebrideanHecate @Flick Indeed.
One thing I noticed more and more when I went into teaching was how resilience started to go out of the window. Children would cry at the thought of having to learn something new because they only wanted to do things they could already do and feel good about themselves. Parents would demand perfect scores in every test rather than see improvement over time. Adults in the school would value the constant success of *prizes for all* rather than reward effort to overcome obstacles. Learning is hard, but it's essential to becoming an adult. It means failing and getting up again. It means small steps rather than instant wins.
Small wonder we have an infantilised population who cling to the comfort of childhood idylls.
We see it in the *most marginalised* arguments, in the *government must keep us safe* covidians, in the hate speech laws. We have people crying out to be controlled and nannied. These people have always been there, but we're making more of them and calling it a virtue. And for every person demanding to be treated as fragile and needing help to exist, there will be a bad actor who would love subjects to control. -
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KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 09-Feb-2025 21:56:29 JST KeepTakingTheSoma
@Flick @HebrideanHecate Some people collect stuff as a hobby. I'd rather make things or do things as a hobby, but each to their own.
What we all have to be aware of is when a hobby becomes an obsession.