Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism
I did a good tweet once, you won't have read it because it was on another twitter. See something that concerns you on the TL? Drop me a DM. They/Them. ko-fi.com/disappoptimism London Joined June 2012-
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Clocked a roofer just now with his top off. Official confirmation that it’s warming up out there. Finally.
Once again I find myself in need of an edit function on Twitter but refusing to believe that’s a good idea
Me to child: “YOU SAID MONSTERS KID!”
Periodic reminder that much of the social media most western nations take for granted is either heavily legislated against, interfered with or outright banned in other nations.
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@disappoptimism They are about abolishing the police until someone calls them a naughty word on twitter. The idea that Islam should protect you from search after arrest is actually quite offensive.
@disappoptimism Yep true, I suppose I'm thinking the original failures arise from corporate culture / group think, but then the actual conspiracy is the cover up and shitting on the innocent?
@disappoptimism I'm trying to decide if this is hilarious privilege or confected bullshit and I think it might be both
@disappoptimism I’m definitely pro choice but people think it’s an easy thing to do and it really isn’t. My dad would shout it from the rooftops that should he get ill that’d be his choice, and in Belgium you can, but when it came down to it and dying of cancer it was never mentioned again.
@disappoptimism Yeah, the health secretary from covid supporting an assisted dying bill.... That's just going to give the conspiracy theorists a field day 😬
@disappoptimism I think it should be there, for clarity or typos, but a reader should have the option to dig in and see the original tweet, if someone's being disingenuous or trying to pretend they never said what they said.
@disappoptimism They rarely do
@disappoptimism It has evidence. If they get caught believing something they see with their own eye, they're kicked out
@disappoptimism They only spot conspiracies that don't exist.
The weirdest responses are people who are very ill and get denied PIP and take this as evidence that other, less ill, people get it very easily, rather than everyone being routinely denied.
I dunno man, I reckon being asked to submit photographic evidence of concealed self-harm pretty "rigorous". An assessor enquiring how often you change you knickers, or "why you haven't killed yourself" is some top grade rigour.
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@disappoptimism Have you never heard of the Honey Monster?
@disappoptimism I do wonder if more photo realistic images like this produce better results or more false positives than a hand sketch? Because this is taking a possibly questionable memory & presenting it as photographic quality. A handsketch maintaining ambiguity let's the public fill gaps?
@disappoptimism Scotland has had much higher rates of home building since the GFC than E&W.
@disappoptimism Not being charged for prescription medications is also a big win in my book!
@disappoptimism And the constant need to be offended by everything. Don't get me wrong, America has a big police brutality problem resulting from a systematic lack of descalation training. But this video? They remove headscarf, search and looks like they respect & put head covering back on?