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- Comment on Le Reddit Army is Here 2 days ago:
Holiday?
- Comment on Puberty blockers to be banned indefinitely for under-18s across UK 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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” 4 weeks 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 1 month 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? 1 month 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 1 month ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 10 comments
- Comment on Scientists dismayed as UK ministers clear way for gene editing of crops - but not animals 1 month ago:
Every year, about 12% of food from animals is wasted.
This is honestly lower than I’d expect.
- Comment on Am I a real working person? 1 month ago:
7.2 million people in this country are food insecure, but one bad thing befalls investment bankers and landlords and it’s all we hear about for weeks, because guess which segment of society journalists are sourced from.
- Comment on How are Misskey and its forks doing? 2 months ago:
I’ve heard good things about Sharkey, it’s what blahaj uses for their microblog stuff.
There’s also Iceshrimp, though last I heard they were becoming their own thing written in C#.
The others I know about don’t seem to be maintained. Can’t speak to using them, I find the interface far too busy (default Mastodon UI users).
- Comment on World Conker Championships men's winner cleared of cheating | UK News 2 months ago:
So he went with the means to cheat, but didn’t use it? That’s somehow even stranger.
- Comment on I for one welcome Bluesky, the ATmosphere, BTS ARMY, and millions of Brazilians to the fediverses! 2 months ago:
This is straight up misinformation, Dorsey was on the Bluesky’s board, but left in May. As far as I’m aware, he’s never even invested in the company (but he has given money to the nostr devs).
- Comment on The Disappearance of an Internet Domain 2 months ago:
That’s what the author says IANA will do based on the precedent of .yu, but IANA hasn’t actually said what they’ll do yet.
- Comment on The Disappearance of an Internet Domain 2 months ago:
I doubt they’ll kill the domain outright, there’s too many long established websites using it and too much money behind those domains. It helps that the Chagos Island transfer is a lot less messy than the breakup of Yugoslavia (hopefully at least as it hasn’t actually happened yet).
- Comment on The boomer generation hit the economic jackpot. Young people will inherit their massive debts. 2 months ago:
One thing these kinds of articles that are designed to stoke generational conflicts never mention is that rich people live longer. Like, obviously older people would be proportionally richer, the poorer people from that generation are dead. Also, friendly reminder, all this stoking of generational conflicts does is distract us from the real divide in society.
- Submitted 3 months ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 36 comments
- Comment on Government will not fund Casement for Euro 2028 3 months ago:
To host a game at the tournament European football’s governing body Uefa [sic] requires stadia to have a minimum capacity of 30,000. […] Windsor, which is also home to Irish League outfit Linfield holds 18,000. It would need another 12,000 seats to be able to host a game.
- Submitted 3 months ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 3 comments
- Comment on NHS must reform or die, PM warns, after critical report 3 months ago:
“Raise taxes on working people or reform to secure [the NHS’] future. We know working people can’t afford to pay more, so it is reform or die.”
Alexa, show me a false dichotomy.
It’s amazing how the their report names austerity as the culprit of the NHS’ waning condition, but Streeting’s solution seems to just change where money is allocated. The UK spends significantly less on Health compared to other developed countries, is it really surprising that our results would be significantly worse?
- Comment on The two most upvoted comments on any Lemmy instance are on Feddit.dk, but you won't see them on your own instance 3 months ago:
Yeah, I’m not going to defend Mastodon’s frankly bizarre Like system. It’s not even a privacy thing as favourites are fully public.
- Comment on The two most upvoted comments on any Lemmy instance are on Feddit.dk, but you won't see them on your own instance 3 months ago:
It simply can’t really happen due to the technical way Mastodon and Lemmy function. I’m not sure if there is a way to address this on either side (or if the developers would be willing to do so even if there was).
Mastodon needs to implement group support, you can follow the issue here (don’t get your hopes up though).
- Comment on Let's clarify something: does Bluesky allow federated servers on their network? Is there a list of those independent servers? 3 months ago:
Their app is open source, but it doesn’t give any instructions on how to self-host it, in fact it seems to not have been designed with self-hosting in mind given the forking section of the ReadMe:
You have our blessing 🪄✨ to fork this application! However, it’s very important to be clear to users when you’re giving them a fork.
Please be sure to:
- Change all branding in the repository and UI to clearly differentiate from Bluesky.
- Change any support links (feedback, email, terms of service, etc) to your own systems.
- Replace any analytics or error-collection systems with your own so we don’t get super confused.
The impression I get from Bluesky is that it doesn’t view federation as a core feature of its platform, just a nice technical oddity. I’m no expert on the AT protocol, but from a quick skim of the quickstart, their view of federation seems to be having disparate data repositories (Personal Data Servers) app developers can put their app data into. It doesn’t really seems to be about different software communicating with each other.
In contrast, ActivityPub is about passing JSON between servers in a somewhat standard format so different software can reasonably understand what that JSON represents and act on it in a way that makes sense for that software.
(But again, I’m don’t know anything about the AT protocol, I could be completely wrong here)
- Comment on Instance admins, how much does it cost you to run your instance? How much does that represent per active user? 3 months ago:
Feddit.uk makes our finances public, about £35 a month.
Also, I run sappho.social out of a £5 a month VPS.
- Comment on Meow :3 4 months ago:
/ᐠ｡‸｡ᐟ\
- Comment on Should you have to pay for online privacy? 4 months ago:
They can either pay and get ad-free access to our articles
But it’s not ad-free access though.
Screenshot from the Mirror asking to pay £2 for non tracking ads or be tracked and read for free
- Submitted 4 months ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 12 comments
- Comment on Outrage as librarians reveal schools banning LGBT+ books after parents’ complaints 4 months ago:
Literally the fourth paragraph of the article:
The responses revealed that specific titles removed from school libraries included This Book Is Gay, by Juno Dawson, a memoir about a young person discovering their sexual identity; Julián is a Mermaid, by Jessica Love, a picture book about a gender non-conforming boy who dreams of being a mermaid; and the alphabet book ABC Pride, by Louie Stowell, Elly Barnes and Amy Phelps, which introduces young readers to the alphabet while they learn more about the LGBT+ community.
- Comment on Giant spiders the size of rats making a comeback in UK 4 months ago:
Time to push the country into the sun.
- Comment on Golden age of English universities could be over, says head of watchdog 4 months ago:
