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  • TERF UK is sadly quite accurate.

    Bangor University recently deplatformed a Reform MP and banned them from speaking on campus over their party's association with racism and transphobia.

    Which would be all well and good if they applied their standards equally. Keir Starmer literally gave an Enoch Powell-like "island of strangers" speech when announcing tougher immigration policies, and openly supported a court ruling which basically denied that trans women were women. The Conservative Party have also been playing a similar game of Simon Says with Nigel Farage and lurching much further to the right. Why aren't Labour and the Tories banned?

    I also think that singling out and pissing off a party that is (unfortunately) very likely to win the next general election is a sure-fire way to have your university defunded.

  • I literally got perma banned from r/technology a few hours ago, presumably for a comment I posted over the weekend where I vented about online dating apps and how they're making people turn to sycophant AI chatbots for love. Apparently pointing out how sky high women's standards are on apps is bigotry and that's unacceptable. My 15+ years of participating on that subreddit didn't matter, nor did the fact that I didn't use any misogynistic terminology, didn't type any slurs, didn't promote any incel/MGTOW/red pill rhetoric and didn't throw out any personal insults. Some asshole Reddit mod didn't like my comment and now I'm gone.

    This could've been a comment removal and warning. Instead they took the nuclear route.

    Not even gonna bother appealing it as I know these assholes are just gonna tell me to fuck off, mod mail mute me for 28 days then cwy hawassment to the admins if I push the issue any further. Literally unsubscribed from the subreddit and muted it, much like I did with r/Worldnews when they banned me for criticizing Saudi Arabia and their treatment of women.

    Fully agree with your comment. Lemmy's cooler. I feel like I can speak my mind on here without having to worry about overzealous internet janitors or having to mince my words to avoid shadow bans.

  • Eww, Voat and Ruqqus.

  • Oh no!

    Anyway...

  • If somebody pisses me off or upsets me, I need to stop brooding about it like a little bitch and call them out directly.

    Over the last few years I've learned that I avoid confrontation to a fault.

    Bonus: how did this past year's go?

    Shit.

    This time last year I was meant to be moving into my own apartment, then I was laid off, my mortgage offer expired and I had to pull out of the purchase. I now work in a shitty purchase ledger job as a temp, where my office is 50 miles away. The pay sucks and I question why I'm torturing myself working in this role just for some recruiter to earn commission from my misery.

    Halfway through the year I had a (kinda close) friend disappear for roughly two months after a rough breakup. I met up with her at a karaoke eve when she reached out because I was worried about her wellbeing. She came on to me pretty hard, we kissed at least a dozen times, dirty danced a few times and made out once, but then she apologized and friendzoned me via text after I got home. And to make it clear, she was the one initiating all this.

    My love life wasn't all bad though. I did date someone at the beginning of the year and while that relationship didn't last, the breakup was amicable and we're still really close friends.

    Still not sure what I'll do NYE tomorrow....

  • Down in the workshop all the elves were making toys

    For the good Gentile girls and the good Gentile boys

  • Too bad we got dragged kicking and screaming out of the EU five years ago. Securing a job offer and work visa is going to be really difficult, and I don't speak another language.

  • At the moment, everything.

    This time last year, I was meant to be buying my own apartment and finally moving out from my parents' home. Then I got laid off, spent seven months struggling to find work and then landed a temporary purchase ledger job which I fucking hate. Partially because the commute takes me about 2 hours each way, partially because I work an 8-5 shift and have to get up at stupid o'clock in the morning on office days, and partially because we use Oracle Fusion which is the biggest crock of shit I've ever used.

    Unfortunately that means I have to live with my parents for even longer. Renting somewhere is out of the question because Bristol is the second-most expensive British city to live in, and I basically can't get a mortgage without a full time job.

    Sometimes I question why I chose to pivot towards accounting. I have a History degree, I'm fully AAT qualified and I'm halfway through my ACCA and I'm earning £13.50 an hour, or just £1.29 above minimum wage on a zero-hours contract. I can genuinely earn nearly as much from stacking shelves, flipping burgers or pouring pints, not that there's really many hospitality or retail jobs available. Office days genuinely take 13 hours out of my day. 8 of these are working, 4 of these are the commute and 1 is the lunch break I get.

    My future is uncertain and I feel like there's no point in bothering. Best-case scenario, AI is truly a bubble that's going to burst, crash the stock market and leave us in a recession. At worst, it takes all our jobs and the rich leave us to starve.

    Despite a brief relationship with a woman who finally popped my cherry (we're still really close friends and I'm grateful she took my virginity), my love life is practically nonexistent. Online dating is an absolute void where I only seem to match with GPS-spoofing South-East Asian and African women either pulling love scams or trying to find a Western spouse and the means to a green card. Two ladies messed around with my feelings and led me on big time this year and that's left me exhausted.

    I have a lipoma on my neck which is going to cost me a lot to remove, and good luck actually finding the time to get the consultation and surgery/liposuction booked. The NHS won't do it because it's not cancerous, even though this thing has grown to the point where it's 5.5cm in diameter and sticks out like a sore thumb.

  • I think the only reason Republicans still win US elections is that your average American is stupid enough to think that waterboarding is an extreme sport.

  • I think the Democrats should fight fire with fire.

    Push for Dwayne Johnson or Taylor Swift as the Democratic nominee.

    Or better yet listen to your fucking voters for a change.

  • The longest government shutdown in US history came from Trump and he still got voted back in because people didn't want a South Asian woman as president. And now we have that shutdown record broken again.

    The fact that he won the Latino, Muslim and Black vote and now they're acting surprised by the mass deportations, ICE raids and tariffs he's been imposing is peak "Leopards Ate My Face" material.

  • That's part of the reason I feel bad. Won't elaborate but yeah.

    Some of my friends don't like her for that reason and think I should keep my distance. And I don't really see her in a romantic context, I'm actually kinda aromantic.

  • I only knew of him because South Park mocked him and his style of masterdebating by depicting Clyde and Cartman as parodies of him.

  • Don't go to university, unless you really want to work in engineering or teaching.

    You'll be saddled with student debt and your job prospects will be worse than if you decided to start flipping burgers or stacking shelves at 18.

  • I think the only reason there hasn't yet been a full-blown pogrom against the LGBTQ community is that the shooter they apprehended was a far-right groyper and not the far-left antifa terrorist they assumed would target someone like Kirk.

    But with the sheer number of people on the left openly celebrating Kirk's death, I don't think they'll really need evidence to start going after the left.

  • Part of the reason Stephen Colbert's show is getting cancelled is over the Trump Administration approving a merger between Paramount and NBC?

    And then they decided to offer South Park Studios a $1.5bn deal....

    I'm guessing the Charlie Kirk assassination isn't the only reason South Park is getting delayed.

  • As disgusted as I am with the people that have been openly celebrating Charlie Kirk's assassination, I don't think death should automatically make somebody immune from criticism. All Kimmel did was point out that the MAGA crowd are desperately trying to characterize Tyler Robinson as a dangerous leftist, despite evidence so far pointing to him being a Gropyer (alt-right white nationalist faction that has openly feuded with Charlie Kirk.)

    Kimmel deserves better than to be cancelled because Trump is a twiggered wittle snowflake who can take about as much criticism as a Reddit or Discord moderator.

    Thinking of canceling Disney+? You’re not alone

    I already cancelled mine over a year ago because Disney tried to dismiss a wrongful death lawsuit on the grounds that the family had agreed to a forced arbitration clause, all because their daughter signed up for a Disney+ trial. Do I even need to explain how much of a cunt you need to be in order to wave a forced arbitration agreement at a grieving family whose loved one was killed by the gross negligence of a staff member?

    (also, the fact that I can type this comment on Lemmy and not Reddit says it all.)

  • Counter Strike 2 has a massive problem with cheaters because Valve refuse to make VAC operate at the kernel level.

  • Fucking wild that a right-wing YouTuber/social media influencer was assassinated on my birthday.

    I'm genuinely sickened by how many people have been openly celebrating Charlie Kirk's death, like having conservative views or supporting the right to bear arms literally makes you Hitler in their eyes. His two young childen have been robbed of their father, and people are still cheering like they'd genuinely use his grave as a gender neutral toilet.

    Also, I worry this is going to be America's Reichstag Fire or Kristallnacht moment. This could very well lead to pogroms against leftists and ethnic minorities.

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