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- Submitted 1 day ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 4 comments
- Comment on 5 days ago:
Does anyone on your instance follow the communities you’re interested in? Lemmy ‘boosts’ all comments it receives, so you should have them.
- Comment on Ban misogynistic online pornography, review to propose 6 days ago:
Baroness Bertin made it clear she would not be approaching the topic from a prudish or disapproving position.
Because if there’s one thing you’d expect from a Tory peer it’s a healthy attitude to fetish porn.
- Submitted 6 days ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 12 comments
- Comment on Trade offer 1 week ago:
The cigarette giver. Those things are expensive.
- Comment on Trade offer 1 week ago:
A cig for a chicken nugget is a terrible deal.
- Comment on Starmer says he wants to increase UK defence spending to 3% - and announces foreign aid cut 1 week ago:
Jeremy Hunt wants to cut benefits to pay for this increased defence spending. They’ll do anything before taxing rich people more.
- Submitted 1 week ago to [deleted] | 10 comments
- Comment on Lenovo responds to Trump tariffs in unexpected style 1 week ago:
Save a click:
“Although we are still assessing the impact, but overall, I don’t think it has any significant impact to our business and to our future performance,” Yang said. “So many other countries that have that kind of policies like Brazil and India. So actually it’s not a disadvantage, but probably an advantage for Lenovo.”
Yang went on to say that because of Lenovo’s global manufacturing footprint with facilities in several countries including the U.S., the company is more resilient and flexible allowing it to adapt to different scenarios.
- Comment on Godstone: Huge sinkhole swallows up more of Surrey street - BBC News 2 weeks ago:
This is the kind of news that plays in the background of disaster films before it all goes to shit.
- Comment on Lessons for Britain from Milton Keynes 2 weeks ago:
If this isn’t the next Far Cry game, then Ubisoft deserves to go bankrupt.
- Comment on You can see who upvoted and downvoted a post by viewing it in friendica. 2 weeks ago:
Damn, so this is how I find out we’re least trustworthy part of the commonwealth.
- Comment on Lemmy.sdf.org is down for the count 2 weeks ago:
Has to be, no way SDF has 5 million comments.
- Comment on Tumblr to join fediverse 3 weeks ago:
Why did you link to a Mastodon post and not the actual article?
- Comment on Ghost blog adding activitypub 3 weeks ago:
I’ve seen it mostly touted as an alternative to Substack.
- Comment on !unlockthread@lemm.ee For those frustrated by locked threads 4 weeks ago:
Just an fyi, but you’ll probably want to include the URL in the crosspost so people on the original post can see it’s been crossposted there.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Nostr isn’t part of the Fediverse? It’s not even federated.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 10 comments
- Comment on Not enough teachers, children turned away: Schools 'can't cope' with population boom 5 weeks ago:
Holy shit, you’re right. Well that has just plummeted my trust in I.
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 1 comment
- Comment on Camping with the far-right: What I learned from a year undercover 5 weeks ago:
This is UK politics, at least try to stay on topic.
- Submitted 1 month ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 4 comments
- Comment on Le Reddit Army is Here 2 months ago:
Holiday?
- Comment on Puberty blockers to be banned indefinitely for under-18s across UK 2 months ago:
Traditionally, puberty blockers would be used in cases where children start puberty at extremely young ages
Puberty blockers have been prescribed to transgender youth since the 90s, they’re use in combating gender dysphoria is just as much a part of the puberty blocker tradition as their use in combating early puberty.
I would not want to be held accountable for the countless stupid things I said or beliefs I held at a young age, so I can see why it is a concern.
This subtle notion that slips into this discourse that being trans is akin to a make-belief thing is deeply frustrating. No, children were not just being given puberty blockers because they suddenly declared that they weren’t their assigned gender. Getting puberty blockers required a diagnosis of gender dysphoria, something I can assure you is not an easy thing to get in this country, and even then still needed a specialist’s approval.
This is the worst part of this ‘debate’, people are led to believe that it’s the child deciding for themselves that they get puberty blockers despite the very stringent requirements on their use for trans youths. The point of this entire ordeal is not to protect kids (puberty blocker usage have a 4% regret rate), it’s to build up the idea that no amount of safeguards can make the prescribing of trans healthcare acceptable to people you don’t believe have full bodily autonomy. Where this goes from here is not looking for other areas in which our medical system is failing children, it’s expanding the list of trans people who don’t have full bodily autonomy. The Cass Review has already said that autistic people need special consideration.
- Comment on Vegan drink Oatly can’t call itself ‘milk’, judges rule 2 months ago:
I’d completely forgot about them tbh. You also see it a lot with cheese alternatives, even though they broadly fucking suck so I don’t know why the cheese industry even bothers.
- Comment on Vegan drink Oatly can’t call itself ‘milk’, judges rule 2 months ago:
In 2019, Oatly applied to trademark the phrase “Post Milk Generation” but this was rejected by the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) in January last year after ruling that its use of the term “milk” was “deceptive”.
But this trademark is clearly them establishing themselves as not-milk and plenty of vegan products term themselves like this (“No Steak Pie”) without issue, it’s only dairy products that this ridiculous standard applied to them. Guess I’ll just continue to enjoy the two bottles of oat ‘drink’ I have in my fridge.
To be honest I do think calling it “milk” lets them inflate the price when it is essentially porridge water.
Most good oat milks will have stabilisers and vitamins (B12 especially) added to them vs if you just made some at home.
- Comment on UK parliament backs Taiwan UN participation, rejects China's “distortion of the international law” 2 months ago:
Most countries don’t, it’s important to remember that the country isn’t Taiwan but the Republic of China and it continues to lay claim to mainland China, so any recognition would sour relations with the PRC.
- Comment on Use 'Bridgy Fed' to connect Mastodon and Bluesky 3 months ago:
You can, it’s just that individual accounts need to opt into the bridge.
Mastodon reply from a briged Bluesky user replying to the official Bluesky account, also bridged
- Comment on Why are people preferring Blue Sky over Mastodon? 3 months ago:
It has an algorithm that puts content in front of you, unlike Mastodon where it only puts what you ask for in your feed. I’m convinced that if Mastodon populated people with low following count’s feed with random posts it wouldn’t have bled as many users as it did.
- Submitted 3 months ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 10 comments
