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Did consider it. Went to an EDS specialist physiotherapy clinic and they said my Beighton score is 0

[porn age verification prompt:] Oi got a loicence for that m8ing?

The president of England should do something about this

Especially funny given that article that was all "he can chair a meeting" is a passage in one of these books where Starmer is specifically unable to chair a meeting because he's such a worm. Everything about the man is a total media mirage, no wonder he disintegrated on contact with reality.

Some lighter things, there are some very funny details in all of these "here's how we lied and undermined democracy to get Starmer as Prime Minister" books and it's that Starmer's almost always described as the dumbest cunt alive by everyone. Just a total halfwit. I love it.

The RANZCP's membership don't seem to be altogether in favour of anti-trans hatred. Unfortunately, the RANZCP's leadership are, and will shut out anyone who isn't.

Looked at the editorial board of AUSTRALASIAN PSYCHIATRY to see if they've gotten bold enough to start appointing obvious transphobes. Turns out Andrew Amos is a deputy editor now. Well, that answers that.

There’s a good reason why the social media ban won’t work, and the government knows it

📢 Children will always find a way to circumnavigate your online roadblocks because they know the terrain better than you.

Anti-ICE pasteup spotted in San Diego, California

This isn’t wrong but we had *fucking decades* of being screamed at for being metro swine pissing on the working man for saying “this migration shit is inflammatory racism as an entrepreneurial political project”. Which it obviously was, and now all the lads who shouted at us for saying so are sad.

WARFRAME averts this (certain gameplay features and areas are quest locked) and I don't know whether or not I like it. That's not saying I don't, I'm just undecided. They do it well, but it makes it a lot clearer why it's generally considered easier to just give people everything from the start

My mother has previously been involuntarily detained in an SMHRU, the Queensland equivalent of a SECU. I know because she was put there partly as a result of endangering me.

Billing non-short-term involuntary detainees is among the biggest cunt moves I can imagine.

Someone tell Minns to dig up. There was no public safety issue over and above a large crowd. Sydney craps on about crowd sizes at events like football, Vivid and NYE and it's never presented as a problem.

Add a cause – and in this case a worthy one – and suddenly it's all doom and gloom.

I think at this point we can pretty safely assume the Corbyn party is going to go opportunistic transphobe. Sad really but that's what electoralism will do to you

Yeah, it does, doesn't it. Oh well

Of course, in retrospect, they claim it's because women have inferior women brains, but the real reason is men are pathetic little baby losers, who cry and throw their toys out of the pram the moment they lose to women at *anything*.

If I recall, the original reason they made a women's chess division is the same reason they banned women from baseball after that teen girl pitched Babe Ruth out. The men were losing, and throwing such a sexist fit about it, that it was running women out of the *sport entirely*.

Technically it's General and Women's, and women can compete in the General. In practice the state of things is that male chess players, who have been given too much freedom for too long, refuse to act normal around women, and the Women's tournament is a band-aid solution.

I tend to disagree. They do see us as abominations, but they also see us as our correct genders. Sometimes they bother to hide that and sometimes they don't — for instance, most transmisogyny doesn't make sense unless the attacker actually does see the target as a woman.

Yeah I don't see how anyone could come to that conclusion

Would we say "missing in action" or would we say "present and accounted for, on the other side"?

I can't even lie in bed on my phone because apparently the muscular effort required to hold my phone in any of the conceivable positions for doing that is a possible trigger. Also I get dimmer, sleepier and more emotionally volatile when I lie down.

I don't feel like it's going to be resolved, but it sucks because it pretty much stops me doing anything. The only thing I can do without the possibility that I will suddenly become unable to do it halfway through is sit here and stare at my PC screen.

I have diagnosed obstructive sleep apnea but treatment is indefinitely delayed because my GPs and the hospital system are enjoying a game of tennis about who has my diagnostic records. I was recently rather suddenly diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.

This stuff started happening in late 2020. Attempts at medical intervention have sometimes led to brief improvements, followed by a regression to baseline. No doctor knows what the problem is from the tests they've done and no doctor is interested in investigating any further.

I have constant, unrelenting tachycardia of no known cause that does not meaningfully respond to medication. I have a diagnosis of, formally, "dysautonomia/POTS" for which I am on ivabradine. It seems to prevent these episodes from being worse but they remain functionally disabling.

Things that help include:
— Lying down, sometimes.
— Eating food which is relatively protein dense, sometimes.
— Eating food which is relatively high in salt, sometimes.

— Trying to think in depth about anything. It's like my brain has a certain amount of thinking time it's willing to do that day and if I exceed that limit things will be worse for me for the rest of the day and maybe the following day as punishment.

— Showers at a temperature notably different from ambient.
— Taking a dump.
— Getting up after lying down for a while.
— Eating food which contains a relatively large amount of carbs and a relatively small amount of protein.
— Looking straight down for longer than 5 seconds.
— Drinking water.

Triggers include:
— Physical exertion greater than a certain threshold, which is the amount of exertion necessary for a light walk during which I spend no longer than 30 seconds on my feet and don't move faster than a stroll.
— Standing up for longer than about 1 minute.