@stephagain There was definitely an element of "let's stick it to those bigoted Brits" in the trans rhetoric that engulfed Ireland and Scotland about 5 years ago, so it wouldn't suprised me. Though I think we've probably reached a Jumping Jesus point for trans in the sense that we've hit so many peaks in such a short space of time, that it will fade faster on the decline.
@KeepTakingTheSoma@RadicalCartoons@Ziltoidia@macha We've been told repeatedly that no one wants to do fruit picking, but I've heard from lots of sources that it used to be very popular with SAHM mothers of older children during the summer breaks. An influx of cheap foreign labour and more women working full time has likely stopped this, but it certainly wasn't because no one wanted to do that type of work.
@FeartnTired She was house sitting at the time, so thankfully all children already accounted for, though I think she was due to collect tomorrow, so I'll have to see whether I'm needed then. I have the dog. Her work department is going to be fucked though, there's only 3 of them and that's two of them in hospital this week.
@HebrideanHecate@FeartnTired Well, luckily not stones, just a massive kidney infection. She's being started on antibiotics and just hoping the pain killers help her get some sleep until they start working.
@polarisera I love all this, but I showed one of the boys and he said "no point in doing art now" which made me sad. And also freaked because I listen to a lot of abductee/UFO stuff and one theme that comes out of it is that if there are other beings, they have absolutely no interest in art, music, dance etc, basically any brancenof human creativity. 👽
@polarisera Stealing human magic too. Art to me is a physical manifestation of thought, ideas, inspiration. It's alchemy. If we're no longer doing the manifesting we are being robbed of something very special.