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ItsThatDeafGuy

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ItsThatDeafGuy, to college
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Dear UK , get yourselves on the right now as you will be at home in July. Tell you families, tell your neighbours, tell your friends.

https://www.gov.uk/register-to-vote

mentallyalex, to random
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I saw a meme a moment ago, discussing various ways you can keep your neighbors at bay. In this case, it was appearing just slightly unhinged so they won't want to engage. :blobcatgiggle:

I laughed, it's funny, but while I was boosting and favoring it made me think about my new home. I moved in a small bit ago and I have still yet to meet all but one retiree.

No one says hello, no one stopped to welcome me or ask questions. A few have waved as they drive by and park in their garages. But they shut the doors as their cars are shutting down. I was three states away from this place a year ago and the neighborhood was much the same.

I remember when neighbors were bothersome. When you would come home and find someone sitting outside or walking their dog and they would want to strike up a conversation.

I'm curious how things will look in coming years. Will we form tighter groups with our neighborhoods, or will we further splinter, I wonder...

ItsThatDeafGuy,
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@mentallyalex depends where you are I guess. North Yorkshirians, baked in people of Cumbria & Geordies are generally chatty. However, times have moved on, papers have pushed 'stranger danger', the once left open front doors are now locked. Socialising in the local pub now costs a lot of money so many no longer go out. So yeah, far less chatty these days as it goes.... and will probably get worse. Mobile so-called 'smart' phones and the 'always-on' culture is not helping either.

weirdwriter, to linux

Since Microsoft announced their latest spyware, sorry, #ReCall, People want to jump ship to #Linux so I'm gonna give the community some solid advice. The biggest hurtle new users will have to deal with is the community because, to be honest, they are extremely obnoxious FOSS Bros that can't stand newbies or Windows users or non technical people in general, but here's your chance! Here's a chance to really guide people, not badger them into picking Linux just because.

Don't tell a new person to Google the term. Give them a video, a book, a tutorial, something to help them along. Think it's hand holding? Tough luck.

Don't ask them to register to a forum and provide feedback. Offer to give feedback on their behalf.

As for any Disabled person in your life? Just don't recommend Linux yet at all. It's still not ready for non technical Disabled people. Just no! No!

I wrote, briefly, about that at this link, but really, I haven't even scratched the surface yet as to issues with Linux adoption for Disabled users. I run Linux on a VM. I Debloated my own windows, so I stick with that. Just listen to the Disabled community without telling them they don't know why Microsoft is shit. Listen, and then code based on their answers. https://tweesecake.social/@weirdwriter/112481584085153619 #Microsoft

ItsThatDeafGuy,
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@weirdwriter the more disabled people who use Linux the more accessible it will become as more disabled geeks are set loose on it πŸ˜€

mentallyalex, to random
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So, does Discord no longer allowed users to register accounts without registering a phone number?

They have "detected an anomaly" with a new account I just attempted to make and have assured me that I can quickly clear things up if I just give them a phone number.

ItsThatDeafGuy,
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@mentallyalex AKA 'Fuck that idea'!

DJDarren, to random
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Wordle in two today, like a fucking boss.

ItsThatDeafGuy,
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@DJDarren Fondles

ItsThatDeafGuy, to random
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If anyone wants me I'm doing planty things in the garden x

#HavingAGayOldTime

ianRobinson, to random
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Tree! 🌳

ItsThatDeafGuy,
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@ianRobinson correct.

ItsThatDeafGuy,
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@ianRobinson I'm old and have no idea what the means, well bar the FTW bit so I'll just nod and smile πŸ˜€

ItsThatDeafGuy, to random
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Have said it before and saying it again, I love the local indie cinema cafe as it's a magnet for loads of LGBTQIA+ folk.

ItsThatDeafGuy, to random
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Things seen from the car: a guy on a mobility scooter going over a bump and spilling his pint of lager....!

ItsThatDeafGuy,
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@RickiTarr can't argue with that!

ItsThatDeafGuy, to random
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Just learned that later-built American campuses have been designed in such a way as to prevent protests, where the armed police can take the higher ground to control the protesters and in such a way that it's very easy to kettle those people. More shockingly they are designed so that if the establishment fails the campus can be easily turned into a prison.

I mean what the fuck America?!

ItsThatDeafGuy, to random
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So when will it drop the 'Royal' tag?

https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/15/royal-mail-owner-backs-35bn-takeover-offer-by-czech-billionaire

RickiTarr, to random
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What is the thing(s) that attracts you to a person romantically or otherwise?

ItsThatDeafGuy,
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@RickiTarr A pulse?!

RickiTarr, to random
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Okay, since I'm on laundry today, a little story.

When hubs and I first got married, we were very much enjoying our little Honeymoon Bubble, and we were being lazy as Hell. We didn't do many chores, but the laundry we really let go. We weren't wearing many clothes at home anyway, so why bother. Anyhow, after weeks we finally reached the swimming suit bottoms situation, and decided it was time. It was loads and loads of laundry that needed done, so I had my husband back the trunk of the car up to a window of the house, then he popped the trunk, and I started tossing laundry out of the window into the trunk. We went to the bank, got about $30 bucks in quarters, and found the emptiest laundry mat we could, and did it all in one fell swoop. We folded it all and loaded it back into the car using those wheeled laundry carts. We never let it get that bad again, and decided it was time to be adults, and do regular chores, but it still makes me laugh imagining what the neighbors and the laundry attendant thought.

Feel free to share your own laundry story, if you feel like it, I love hearing people's stories!

ItsThatDeafGuy,
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@RickiTarr dry jeans flat and add a t-shirt. Oh, and if tumble drying use the non-crease option, et voila :)

DJDarren, to random
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On hold to make dr's appointment at 8:30 on a Monday morning.

An iconic pairing.

ItsThatDeafGuy,
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@DJDarren I get Phil to ring on my behalf (My doctors surgery is really crap with deaf accessibility) and they will give me an appointment wayyyyyyyy down the line......or, I can walk to the surgery, ask for an appointment directly and can generally see a doctor the same day.

Make it make sense?!

ItsThatDeafGuy, to random
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Dual Lipa - 'Radical Optimism'..... BANGER!

RickiTarr, to random
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Seriously heard someone saying they don't listen to many black artists, because they aren't really into rap. Bitch please, feel free to share songs from Black artists from any genre. Here is one of my favorites, if you like this song please check out her other work:

https://youtu.be/KovrJ8HXI1Q?si=HOYIG7YMuAUTsJz6

ItsThatDeafGuy, (edited )
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@RickiTarr I'll join in....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9MYizva-7o&t=61

(Yeah, I know, it's part rap but more importantly it's Neneh Cherry with an important message..... and we still don't have a cure).

Alice, (edited ) to random
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I was just reminded of around twenty years ago when this guy who I knew on LiveJournal took extreme creative liberty and used the head from my LiveJournal profile pic and Photoshopped an image of me and sent it to me as a "gift" and I was just like "uhhhhhhhhhh...thank you?"

ItsThatDeafGuy,
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@Alice 😬

ChrisMayLA6, to disability
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Across the political Right, the narrative is that disability benefits (primarily Personal Independence Payments; PIPs) are too easy to get & are often paid to the 'undeserving'... however, in reality nearly half of applicants are rejected, rising to over two thirds for endometriosis (a gendered dimension I'll leave you to ponder), but with high rates of rejections over-turned on appeal (often with the same evidence).

More Tory lies, callousness & inhumanity

https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/12/claims-conditions-personal-independence-payments-disability-benefits-cancer-arthritis-amputees

ItsThatDeafGuy,
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@ChrisMayLA6 it's a deliberately nasty and dehumanising procedure, a lot of applicants, myself included, are asked if we have tried to take our own lives or why we have not tried to take our own lives!

That's only a tiny part of the whole horrible process.

ItsThatDeafGuy,
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@sufferforme @ChrisMayLA6 also by outsourcing the government are shielding themselves from direct blame.... "Oh, it was ATOS/Capita doing that and not us"....

ItsThatDeafGuy,
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@ChrisMayLA6 @sufferforme thank you for the link. The application is also written in a certain way as to mislead, the applicant needs evidence to back up every single issue which the government/ATOS/Capita (or whatever the latter refer themselves as today) know is hard to do. My own background is within law so I know how to put cases together accumulating all specific case law and evidence in the right sequence, cross referencing etc. A person-on-the-street does not have this skill, and the government are counting in that.

Applicants are able to record the assessment as long as it's on tapes, yes, tapes and that two identical recordings are made. Again making it difficult for people to do this as cassettes and recording equipment is hard to come by. I recommend doing this though as it gives the DWP a lot less wiggle room.

Applicants need to ask for the assessor's notes in writing from the DWP immediately after the assessment is over. Also make a note of the assessor's name as well then the applicant can check whether the assessor has the correct medical background/training to correctly makes decisions (Clue: 9 out of 10 don't).

Once the assessor's report is in your hands scrutise it, raise every discrepancy with the DWP and make sure to cross reference them or provide additional evidence and/or case law.

Oh yes, don't make phone calls to the DWP, put everything in writing, send it by Recorded Delivery to ensure a signature, when sending the application in with all the evidence it'd be best going by Special Delivery. Keep a copy of that as well plus all postage receipts and file it all to one side. No phone calls, ever.

All of this, and more, goes into the appeal application.

ItsThatDeafGuy,
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@ianturton @Thebratdragon @purplepadma @ChrisMayLA6 @Research_FTW that's another thing, they get the applicants to go to centres way out of the area instead of to local ones. Then they ask "How did you get here?" and try as best as they can to mark the applicant down.

DJDarren, to Eurovision
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Eyes down for , lads.

And a great start with the lass from Israel coming out to a song where the chorus is β€œI don’t care”.

Astonishing.

ItsThatDeafGuy,
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@DJDarren their melodies are the pop blue print.

RickiTarr, to random
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So, what's the thing, what's the big thing no one can help you with? How do you cope with it?

ItsThatDeafGuy,
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@The_Tim @RickiTarr this is true art, please keep going.

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