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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Last Notes npub1h4yzhwn9uhstsl790yxl0q4rqjh9d7dckscxjvc8vphu55uur7fsq44srl Sarah Brown Just seen the best bit of commentary on transmisogyny I’ve seen in ages: if you want to know how a man treats cis women in private, look at how he treats trans women in public. npub1h4yzhwn9uhstsl790yxl0q4rqjh9d7dckscxjvc8vphu55uur7fsq44srl Sarah Brown Ryanair’s business slogan should be, “Ryanair: fit when your continent’s rail network is pathologically incapable of getting its shit together”. npub1h4yzhwn9uhstsl790yxl0q4rqjh9d7dckscxjvc8vphu55uur7fsq44srl Sarah Brown Apparently this beach is accessed only by sea. WRONG Free soloed the bigger, down and up. Because I can. https://thegoatery.dyndns.org/photo/18230969646643ea123cd63500735110-0.jpeg npub1h4yzhwn9uhstsl790yxl0q4rqjh9d7dckscxjvc8vphu55uur7fsq44srl Sarah Brown The acquisition of a PICADE has me playing OUTRUN. This is a game that I remember from my youth with spectacular graphics. The graphics are, in fact, shit. It also has HGVs doing in excess of 180kph. I am questioning SEGA’s commitment to realism. https://thegoatery.dyndns.org/photo/1679840338661d0c5a39021906065669-0.jpeg npub1h4yzhwn9uhstsl790yxl0q4rqjh9d7dckscxjvc8vphu55uur7fsq44srl Sarah Brown @npub1agu…j0sk So many of us were bloodied by the Commodore 64 and its “oh, no, the last 40% is just there to look pretty” nonsense long before any of that. npub1h4yzhwn9uhstsl790yxl0q4rqjh9d7dckscxjvc8vphu55uur7fsq44srl Sarah Brown @npub1wax…x0yw this will still be used to attack us though 😞 npub1h4yzhwn9uhstsl790yxl0q4rqjh9d7dckscxjvc8vphu55uur7fsq44srl Sarah Brown UK media: wow, British politicians have got really transphobic! Me: Sure have, UK media. Who do you think they learned it from? UK media: we will never know npub1h4yzhwn9uhstsl790yxl0q4rqjh9d7dckscxjvc8vphu55uur7fsq44srl Sarah Brown Imagine being Elon Musk, or Donald Trump, or Boris Johnson. You have more money than you know what to do with. You could literally afford to go to whatever paradise you want and spend the days of your one life doing whatever you please. They came so tantalisingly close to having more fulfilling and carefree lives than 99.99% of humans who have ever lived, but instead they want the masses to fear and adore them. And they are utterly miserable, because nothing will fill the void, and the more they try, the more they debase themselves in front of billions, and the people they most need to respect them probably think they’re losers. Idiots. Fools. Losers. Musk is the worst of them. Read some Iain M Banks books, didn’t understand any of then, decided to save the world by becoming a solar power and electric vehicle magnate with space colonies. But instead he is approaching old age as the proprietor of a bankrupt nazi chat room, and none of his kids will speak to him. How can you have so many advantages and yet fuck up so amazingly completely? npub1h4yzhwn9uhstsl790yxl0q4rqjh9d7dckscxjvc8vphu55uur7fsq44srl Sarah Brown Anyone else using Mac minis as VM hosts for self hosting? My Friendica server is a Linux VM on a Mac Mini in my living room. The VM is bound to a VLAN tagged network interface so it’s completely firewalled off from the rest of my network. Also got a second Linux VM on the same box for hosting local stuff on my main VLAN (HomeBridge/etc). I feel like they’re really nice platforms for this, if not the cheapest. Cheaper than one might think though; I specced up an equivalent NUC and there wasn’t a lot of difference in price, and the M2 is really fast. npub1h4yzhwn9uhstsl790yxl0q4rqjh9d7dckscxjvc8vphu55uur7fsq44srl Sarah Brown So it seems there are still, despite increasing numbers of “leaders” involved in “crypto” ending up in prison for being con artists, true believers in NFTs (if you’ve forgotten about those, they were briefly bigger than COVID 19 and about as beneficial to humanity) held a party in Hong Kong last night. The organisers thought they were lighting the stage with black lights (like they have at LaserQuest to make your clothes glow). They were not. They were lighting the stage with UV-C sterilisation lights. Apparently everyone involved is now in accident and emergency with extensive sunburn and BURNS TO THEIR RETINAS!! In 18 months there are going to be a bunch of people wearing dark sunglasses and refusing to meet outdoors trying to sell you something expensive to do with “AI”. You probably shouldn’t buy it. bsky.app/profile/danaweb.dev/p… npub1h4yzhwn9uhstsl790yxl0q4rqjh9d7dckscxjvc8vphu55uur7fsq44srl Sarah Brown @npub1agu…j0sk performers are like, “oh, a British person! You must have stuff like this all the time, right?” And I’m like, “not so much actually”. npub1h4yzhwn9uhstsl790yxl0q4rqjh9d7dckscxjvc8vphu55uur7fsq44srl Sarah Brown @npub1agu…j0sk got invited to one by friends when visiting the us once. Had never heard of the phenomenon before but I enjoyed it even if I was going “WTF?!?” internally the whole time. npub1h4yzhwn9uhstsl790yxl0q4rqjh9d7dckscxjvc8vphu55uur7fsq44srl Sarah Brown @npub10lw…e0q8 @npub18mr…r5yh Strong conversion therapy vibes. Looks awfully similar to the stuff trans people are expected to submit to in order to be one of the “good ones”. Same shit, different minority. npub1h4yzhwn9uhstsl790yxl0q4rqjh9d7dckscxjvc8vphu55uur7fsq44srl Sarah Brown Rewatched Star Trek First Contact, of which I have fond memories, recently. It's aged VERY badly. npub1h4yzhwn9uhstsl790yxl0q4rqjh9d7dckscxjvc8vphu55uur7fsq44srl Sarah Brown Apropos of the scary shit that’s going on for trans people around the world right now, the concept of “birth certificate laundering” seems to be becoming a thing. It goes like this: you transition and go through gender recognition somewhere hostile, like the UK. You get a new birth certificate (for now?) but you are still “on the list”, and they know if they look hard enough; the original record is still there. But then you naturalise or register as a citizen of another country (Ireland, for those able to via the grandparent route, for example, naturalisation through residence and assimilation in my case), and when you naturalise you give them the post gender recognition birth certificate. That breaks the link. Your country of new citizenship registers your birth and, at as far as they are concerned, you are “legally cis”. And if they start hunting us via gender recognition records, we can hopefully hide. npub1h4yzhwn9uhstsl790yxl0q4rqjh9d7dckscxjvc8vphu55uur7fsq44srl Sarah Brown All those county and western songs where the cheating bloke gets murdered? I like to think that, in each case, his last words were, “calm down, dear”. npub1h4yzhwn9uhstsl790yxl0q4rqjh9d7dckscxjvc8vphu55uur7fsq44srl Sarah Brown Techbros: self driving cars are inevitable! Also techbros: prove you are human by performing a task that computers can’t do, like identifying traffic lights. npub1h4yzhwn9uhstsl790yxl0q4rqjh9d7dckscxjvc8vphu55uur7fsq44srl Sarah Brown Going through moons of the solar system, and I get the naming scheme, but it's still funny that Uranus has a moon called Margaret. My aunt is called Margaret. npub1h4yzhwn9uhstsl790yxl0q4rqjh9d7dckscxjvc8vphu55uur7fsq44srl Sarah Brown Discussing the British Press, and I'm reminded of the time when I had a moderate amount of celebrity in the UK LGBT community, and the press tried to do a hit piece on me. Now here's the thing. There's a cheat code, and I'm going to explain what it is: They will contact you for comment. If you say nothing, they will publish the piece and say you were offered the chance to comment. If you tell them to fuck off, they will publish the price and say your response was foul and unprintable. I did neither of these things. I told them that this piece wasn't journalism. It was ridiculous tittle tattle and represented everything that was wrong with a failing and dying industry more obsessed with clickbait than proper reporting. I asked them if they didn't have proper news to report, and said that they should be ashamed of themselves. They're basically screwed at that point. "We contacted Ms Brown for comment and she said that this was ridiculous tittle tattle and that the reporter should be ashamed of herself." They're not gonna say that. I'm struck by something one of my history teachers once said about medieval castles. They weren't meant to be impregnable. They were meant to be annoying enough that an invading army would decide to investigate other priorities instead. The piece never ran. If you're a trans person in the crosshairs of the British press, make yourself an annoying target. They're on a deadline, and if you make them conclude that life is too short, they will leave you the fuck alone. npub1h4yzhwn9uhstsl790yxl0q4rqjh9d7dckscxjvc8vphu55uur7fsq44srl Sarah Brown Very little help https://thegoatery.dyndns.org/photo/205930571064dc92fb20b45538639517-0.jpg npub1h4yzhwn9uhstsl790yxl0q4rqjh9d7dckscxjvc8vphu55uur7fsq44srl Sarah Brown @npub1a9p…5t5x This is why immortality would suck npub1h4yzhwn9uhstsl790yxl0q4rqjh9d7dckscxjvc8vphu55uur7fsq44srl Sarah Brown @npub1agu…j0sk Related: this is fascinating. www.otherhand.org/home-page/se… They were 1km from safety when they made the final decision that killed them, and died because they did not realise the gravity of the situation they were in and got tunnel vision. npub1h4yzhwn9uhstsl790yxl0q4rqjh9d7dckscxjvc8vphu55uur7fsq44srl Sarah Brown @npub1yac…la7e @npub163w…lq6z @npub1lll…5409 There are two main downsides to them: 1 - as of now, they're quite expensive. 2 - because they're a single unit, the fan that drives the air over the heat exchanger is part of the unit. Therefore, it makes a noise. It's noisier than a gas boiler, but not massively so. If you have it in an airing cupboard then you can ignore it. If it's out in the open, it may be annoying. npub1h4yzhwn9uhstsl790yxl0q4rqjh9d7dckscxjvc8vphu55uur7fsq44srl Sarah Brown @npub1yac…la7e @npub163w…lq6z @npub1lll…5409 No, it doesn't. The one I linked (which is the one I own) is a single unit. It replaces your hot water cylinder. That is literally all there is. It has a pipe coming in for ambient air and a pipe going out for cold air from the heat exchanger. They just need to vent to the outside. Can do that via an existing chimney or flue. There is no external fitting of any kind. It's a single unit. npub1h4yzhwn9uhstsl790yxl0q4rqjh9d7dckscxjvc8vphu55uur7fsq44srl Sarah Brown @npub1yac…la7e @npub163w…lq6z @npub1lll…5409 Not true. You can now get integrated heat pump hot water cylinders. I have one. All they need is two holes to the outside. See: www.dimplex.co.uk/product/200l… npub1h4yzhwn9uhstsl790yxl0q4rqjh9d7dckscxjvc8vphu55uur7fsq44srl Sarah Brown @npub1yac…la7e @npub1mcz…dr5f The nice thing about container ships is that once you've finished loading them, you have a massive flat area onto which you could unroll solar panels. You can also have container batteries. How much battery storage you'd need on board and whether covering the top of the cargo with rolled out solar PV would provide enough to keep it going is not something I've done the maths on, but add wind propulsion and solar power with much of the existing fuel and ballast replaced with batteries together, and it's possibly feasible. npub1h4yzhwn9uhstsl790yxl0q4rqjh9d7dckscxjvc8vphu55uur7fsq44srl Sarah Brown @npub1yac…la7e @npub1rgn…f2pp in my experience of facing Labour in elections, they will prefer to deliberately help get Tories elected if that prevents a third party getting the seat. It’s incredibly frustrating. They like their cosy little duopoly and will defend it at pretty much any cost. npub1h4yzhwn9uhstsl790yxl0q4rqjh9d7dckscxjvc8vphu55uur7fsq44srl Sarah Brown This is a 50p that was minted to celebrate the UK joining what became the EU. It was minted in my birth year, and my mum gave it to me shortly before she died of cancer in 2021. It is one of my most treasured possessions. It has 12 hands linked in a circle to symbolise the then 12 countries of the European Community. One of them is smaller, representing the hand of Queen Elizabeth II. https://thegoatery.dyndns.org/photo/460578957564a7ffe6d447f887776509-0.jpg npub1h4yzhwn9uhstsl790yxl0q4rqjh9d7dckscxjvc8vphu55uur7fsq44srl Sarah Brown Ken did a transphobia apologism on Bsky. Ken doubled down. Ken then complained about it on fedi and presumably thought his day wasn’t going to get any worse. Then fedora-in-human-form, Jeff, defended him in public. https://thegoatery.dyndns.org/photo/209031675464a7057a84dca431824899-0.png npub1h4yzhwn9uhstsl790yxl0q4rqjh9d7dckscxjvc8vphu55uur7fsq44srl Sarah Brown @npub1cuu…f9wj I’m already on the Eugen-free part of the fediverse. npub1h4yzhwn9uhstsl790yxl0q4rqjh9d7dckscxjvc8vphu55uur7fsq44srl Sarah Brown Zuck is a POS, but he’s pulled a blinder. His ridiculous metaverse fell through, but literally just cloning Twitter and feasting on its carcass. Threads will likely kill Twitter and Bluesky, and then when it starts federating, the fediverse will schism into instances that tolerate the worst people in the world federating with it and the ones that won’t. npub1h4yzhwn9uhstsl790yxl0q4rqjh9d7dckscxjvc8vphu55uur7fsq44srl Sarah Brown @npub1pqw…ygpj It’s the “James Bond vs stereotypical black people” one. It’s possibly a teensy bit (massively) problematic. npub1h4yzhwn9uhstsl790yxl0q4rqjh9d7dckscxjvc8vphu55uur7fsq44srl Sarah Brown @npub1pqw…ygpj Sadly I can’t hear that music without thinking of my estranged and very racist father. His favourite film when we were kids was “Live and Let Die”, which he would put on every time we went to his house and provide commentary which, if I repeated here, would get me pretty much instantly defederated by pretty much everyone. npub1h4yzhwn9uhstsl790yxl0q4rqjh9d7dckscxjvc8vphu55uur7fsq44srl Sarah Brown @npub1hy5…al5d Same npub1h4yzhwn9uhstsl790yxl0q4rqjh9d7dckscxjvc8vphu55uur7fsq44srl Sarah Brown The Twitter TERFs are having a meltdown. I have no inside info, but if it’s what I think it is, something excellent is about to happen. Get the popcorn ready. npub1h4yzhwn9uhstsl790yxl0q4rqjh9d7dckscxjvc8vphu55uur7fsq44srl Sarah Brown @npub1tx0…8xxx I’m so sorry npub1h4yzhwn9uhstsl790yxl0q4rqjh9d7dckscxjvc8vphu55uur7fsq44srl Sarah Brown @npub1tx0…8xxx at least you were saved from having to listen to Ed Sheeran 😉 npub1h4yzhwn9uhstsl790yxl0q4rqjh9d7dckscxjvc8vphu55uur7fsq44srl Sarah Brown @npub1y54…xyu3 Why would you have Wi-Fi to the house? That’s something it’s particularly unsuited for! npub1h4yzhwn9uhstsl790yxl0q4rqjh9d7dckscxjvc8vphu55uur7fsq44srl Sarah Brown Just seen someone complaining that their wifi is only giving them 650 megabits. What a time to be alive! npub1h4yzhwn9uhstsl790yxl0q4rqjh9d7dckscxjvc8vphu55uur7fsq44srl Sarah Brown @npub1g3y…7tvk I feel very seen too. npub1h4yzhwn9uhstsl790yxl0q4rqjh9d7dckscxjvc8vphu55uur7fsq44srl Sarah Brown Right, let’s do this. https://thegoatery.dyndns.org/photo/389431017164a487d81c538253491392-0.jpg npub1h4yzhwn9uhstsl790yxl0q4rqjh9d7dckscxjvc8vphu55uur7fsq44srl Sarah Brown The world is going to burn from climate change while Nazis run amok trashing what's left of our dying civilisation not because there's nothing we can do to stop it, but because the people who are in a position to be able to stop either are all too fucking thick to do so. I need a fucking drink. npub1h4yzhwn9uhstsl790yxl0q4rqjh9d7dckscxjvc8vphu55uur7fsq44srl Sarah Brown @npub1rpd…4k53 They’re walking examples of how being stupid is like being dead: while upsetting to everyone around them, the very stupid and the dead remain unaware of their own predicament. npub1h4yzhwn9uhstsl790yxl0q4rqjh9d7dckscxjvc8vphu55uur7fsq44srl Sarah Brown Watched the first three eps of ATV+ Hijack thing, constantly yelling, “WHY ISN’T HE SQUARKING 7500?!?” at the screen. npub1h4yzhwn9uhstsl790yxl0q4rqjh9d7dckscxjvc8vphu55uur7fsq44srl Sarah Brown @npub1xpy…k5zl Consider our classic nightmares: running from something that's relentless, you can't get away, and it will always find you. That's literally how humans hunt. The thing that scares us most is us. npub1h4yzhwn9uhstsl790yxl0q4rqjh9d7dckscxjvc8vphu55uur7fsq44srl Sarah Brown All hail the arrival of Threads, perhaps the most unfortunately named and most pre-blocked social media platform ever, at least until Elon decides to launch a fediverse platform and name it “Syphilis” or something https://thegoatery.dyndns.org/photo/956935086164a3fc09bf6a2357804629-0.jpg npub1h4yzhwn9uhstsl790yxl0q4rqjh9d7dckscxjvc8vphu55uur7fsq44srl Sarah Brown Alright. I’m behind the curve. What server to I block to defederate the Facebook thing named after the film about a nuclear apocalypse? npub1h4yzhwn9uhstsl790yxl0q4rqjh9d7dckscxjvc8vphu55uur7fsq44srl Sarah Brown @npub1zkm…hcgp A problem I’m noticing with my instance is, especially with the Twitter migration picking up, the deferred queue is just growing and growing as people experiment then abandon accounts or even entire servers. I assume it will sort itself out eventually, but is there any way to reduce the timeout? I’ve got stuff that’s days old sitting in there that is probably never going to get actioned because the servers have just gone away. npub1h4yzhwn9uhstsl790yxl0q4rqjh9d7dckscxjvc8vphu55uur7fsq44srl Sarah Brown Being serious here, it would likely be much better if we stopped gendering gonadal steroids quite so much. The physical characteristics we regard as “male” and “female” are just the result of variances in endocrine system mixes which aren’t as polar as most people assume, and actually overlap, and short of direct reproduction, you can program nearly any human body to develop pretty much any of these different phenotype expressions: just change the mix. Trans people do it all the time. The number of people who assume that, eg, trans women’s tits are all implants (they aren’t) and can’t lactate (they can) is sad. Surely it’s better if we all understand our own biology a bit better? npub1h4yzhwn9uhstsl790yxl0q4rqjh9d7dckscxjvc8vphu55uur7fsq44srl Sarah Brown It gets worse for them. Estradiol, the main human oestrogen, is a metabolite of testosterone. The body makes it by converting testosterone into it. They are very, very similar molecules. The main difference is that testosterone has one carbonyl group and one hydroxyl group, and estradiol replaces that carbonyl with a second hydroxyl. But anyway: implications for the poor super-straight, “women are a mysterious lovely feminine species” incel types are as follows: all that super feminine oestrogen came from nasty dirty masculine testosterone, and some of their own very male masculine “I love beer and farting” testosterone is routinely converted into sissy emasculating oestrogen (like, if it weren’t, they literally would not have a skeleton). Oh, and if the idea of dating women with highish testosterone levels freaks them out, then the way to avoid that is to seek out trans women. Most of us post transition have almost none, and our oestrogen is usually produced from plant sources, going nowhere near any testicular-cooties action. But we won’t sleep with them either. So sad. npub1h4yzhwn9uhstsl790yxl0q4rqjh9d7dckscxjvc8vphu55uur7fsq44srl Sarah Brown Apparently weird incel types think oestrogen is responsible for women’s sex drive. I suspect it would blow their minds if they ever found out that the hormone most involved in making women horny is actually testosterone. They act like we’re a different species or something. We all have the same set of receptors, more or less, guys. That’s why medical transition is even possible. npub1h4yzhwn9uhstsl790yxl0q4rqjh9d7dckscxjvc8vphu55uur7fsq44srl Sarah Brown @npub1czt…jf3z @npub1jm8…8ccv Think of it like email. You might be Somehandle@gmail. You wouldn’t be able to log in as Somehandle@icloud, would you? npub1h4yzhwn9uhstsl790yxl0q4rqjh9d7dckscxjvc8vphu55uur7fsq44srl Sarah Brown Dear Twitter people. Lots of us were once Twitter people too. This place will not spoon-feed you. Passive participation doesn’t work here. This is a very active and buzzing place, but unless you FOLLOW people and INTERACT, it will pass you by. Follow people. Lots of them. You can always remove them later. But really, follow early, follow often.