Corinne Pritchard

Oh you absolutely useless wankers

It's not like there aren't enough alpacas to go around? Though I have wool sensitivity so if it's super soft and only slightly itchy, I know it's probably alpaca. Quite likely things have changed since 2006, though.

Again, extremely useful for blind / low vision users. People who creepshot have a million ways to do it, and they will do it, regardless of the intended use of technology. No need to take it away from people for whom it is a genuine game changer, for all that they probably also wish it wasn't Meta.

If only you had been wearing a decorative scarf to collect the spill :D

It may be recent history, but I do love when humans are ridiculous throughout the ages.

Me too! I thought it might be a nicer sort of name for rapeseed since that stuff grows everywhere. Which in a way, it is, but also not?!

This 'seed oil is bad' thing is obviously ridiculous but it did prompt me to find out what 'canola' meant (in the UK we either use the name of the thing, like sunflower oil, or vegetable oil) and it's... a marketing portmanteau of 'canada' and 'oil' invented in the 70s?! What.

I believe people for whom electrolytes help with their fainting would need a little more than the average person to have an effect. Not loads more, though. Of course this advice fights with a generation of 'no added salt' ever advice. But it helps some people with fainting issues.

I'm deliberately going for stuff that even perfectly healthy humans could benefit from every now and again. Salt is perhaps the most important electrolyte :)

Is it worth stocking up on electrolytes, just to see if it helps? It's so crazy that you're just blacking out like this.

Living the dream.

It's surprising how many industrial wood chippers one finds on a cruise ship (I assume this is a cruise?).

Surely the trick is one dress, at least three different sets of accessories?

I definitely don't want to know how desperate for the bathroom they all are!

They should have something to say about that - heart rates don't go to resting that quick. Maybe it's some other form of dysautonomia than the usual. It is hard to get them interested if it's not POTs. Either way, don't let them leave you in limbo - sudden fainting is dangerous!

Any cardio monitor or tilt table tests? It's all very well measuring things when you're feeling okay. Gotta capture the moment of the faint, surely? Sounds mightily inconvenient, anyway.

Do you have a cause for your general faint-ness? Sounds quite disabling!

Congratulations, all of you. How lovely.

I had fentanyl during a minor procedure recently. Difference is I have chronic pain. It felt *so* good not to be in pain. *So* nice that I was quite bitterly disappointed when it suddenly wore off. That's the danger point, if there is one. When pain has been relieved and then stops, jarringly.

But left and right wing shy away from these things. Whether it's protecting innocence or puritanical values, the result is the same thing - boys with nowhere to get useful information about how to direct their... energies.

The left wing advice for straight boys needs to come in so much earlier, though. People of every stripe need to have lessons and examples that thoroughly teach them consent. They need to be taught that girls have good things to say and are intelligent, rational creatures. And so much about good sex.

We were shown the film in secondary school. Absolutely tore us up. Made my mind up what I would do if it ever came to that, and it still stands. Climb a hill somewhere and wait for the next strike. No way I'd want to go like that.

There are multiple factors as to why I had to stop working on translating consultations into useful English. Some of them are unrelenting brain fog, fatigue and pain. Most of them are that this country stopped doing proper consultations. Now they're just a hammer to force the desired outcome.

Was absolutely shocked to learn from a friend that at least one NHS Hospital Trust is *asking doctors to resign* because it can't afford to pay them. Add that to the doctors' strike and no jobs for new graduates and you have a picture of a health system in complete chaos.

Continually baffled by tech companies and governments going gaga over 'AI'. The level of trust & shared delusion is insane. It's an extremely boring database with extremely niche use-cases, being used badly in ways far beyond its scope that only serve to further corrupt the data it's giving out. No.

I think the really important thing about the "trans sports debate" is that it's NOT REAL, the things that people are fearmongering about are NOT REAL and are NOT HAPPENING. Cis women are not competing at a disadvantage against trans women, cis men aren't transitioning to win at sports, IT'S NOT REAL

you don't need chatGPT i am perfectly capable of drinking a bottle of water and lying to you

A google search page for the terms 'football euros'. Two filter options have appeared on the page. The default is 'Men's football' and it references an event a year ago. We ask ourselves: why are there two separate categories at all? Someone searching 'football euros' should immediately be shown the results of the most recent competition, surely?

This is the default behaviour from google when searching 'football euros'?!

Default to men's football. Default to a game that took place last *year*, when my country's women's team not only played the final but won it only two days ago?

So. Weird.

Hahaha! That is a glorious mess indeed.

How is it that I'm only just learning these things. Helicopters and Pterosaurs are linguistically related. What.