re: Israel/Palestine rhetoric, subtoot
@mihira @ljwrites Suella Braverman, current British Home Secretary, has been trying to argue that just waving the Palestinian flag and not even saying anything is possibly illegal hate-speech: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/oct/10/people-supporting-hamas-in-uk-will-be-held-to-account-says-rishi-sunak
And the BBC got some similar responses when they went to the police like “is this actually a problem?”: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-67231803.amp
@platypus oh no 😆
@yesterdaychild @asya very simple solution to that one, if both of them are bi its no longer hetfic
@nash @twistylittlepassages coronas for comparison: https://www.ranchogordo.com/products/royal-corona-bean (the last slide in the carousel is a strikingly similar dish haha)
@twistylittlepassages @nash gigantes are greek I think? Which is not a cuisine I’m as familiar with but i wouldn’t be surprised to hear the two varietals are siblings so to speak
@twistylittlepassages @nash of they were *really* big maybe Royal Coronas? They’re originally Italian I think
peripherals, shopping; gender complaint
@ljwrites @greyor@weirder.earth pretty much every tshirt i’ve gotten out of a tshirt cannon or whatevers been either unisex xl or xxl, aka hilariously large for teenage me who was the one actually going to those kind of events
peripherals, shopping; gender complaint
@ljwrites @greyor@weirder.earth ahhh I do think some places lean towards over ordering the larger sizes bc its easier to size up than down with these things. But yeah the pink ones specifically being leftover smacks of your pride parade participants having no taste
I’m sure your husband looks great in it tho!
@purplecoww yeah ratings are built into the archive for a reason, I think wanting info about if there’s sex or how skippable the sex is is p common
@Forestofglory an excellent plan
@oluOnline how you found people: weblistings, link lists, people just generally did lots of hyperlinking
girlfriend says also stumbleupon
silly, mention of food but it's a poll about language opinions
@bright_helpings describes a donut as a what???
@asya @purplecoww yeah i definitely dislike the mainstream comphet romcom but am much more interested in its fanfic cousin
Work Christmas party, bleh (substance abuse implied)
@varve @compostablespork oof that sucks :( sounds like a good day to schedule a very important unmissable doctors appointment all the way across town….
@alpine_thistle and then they must said he died when he left or?
@clive i also really enjoy reading everyones alt text—either as a complement for the image, or clarification of what the author meant by it when i’m confused, or as a full on replacement when my internet is slow
if you’re interested in analyzing alt text as literature you might also be interested in: https://alt-text-as-poetry.net/blog/ ? They have a bunch of interesting examples of alt text, along w/the authors own analysis of each
@RussSharek excellent :)
@RussSharek yay for warms! and stoves that function well-enough-for-now (dont forget to get any chimneys inspected tho!)
sleepy af
also https://satsuma.dreamwidth.org/
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