The Beekeeper’s Picnic – A Sherlock Holmes love story
I love being able to come to you with something completely and utterly gorgeous, uplifting and entertaining. The Beekeeper’s Picnic, a Sherlock Holmes point-and-click adventure, gives us a few hours in the post-retirement life of the great detective, and the opportunity to shape his relationship with an elderly Watson. It’s an uplifting, gentle tale, packed with superbly informed references to Arthur Conan Doyle’s fiction, delivered with a bucolic charm.
Just Working Here
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The human body's response to HRT is actually admirable in the sheer indifference. Just pure I Don't Give A Shit, I Just Fucking Work Here compliance to the new instructions. You can get testosterone injected straight into your body and it doesn't even question where that shit came from, coming back from a coffee break and just going
"Okay, everything seems to be in ord- oh fuck now what? Oh huh. Alright fine. New orders came in, cancel the menstrual cycle. Dig up the genetic balding patterns from somewhere, I don't fucking know they're buried somewhere in the dna. I'm greenlighting the growing-hair-on-your-toes thing. Yeah just cancel the ongoing maintenance processes, new orders came in so this is apparently what we're doing now:'
There are already some good suggestions in the other comments, I just want to add a point: Anxiety attacks can be a problem by themselves, but they may also be a symptom of something else. Insofar it is good to sort things out with a professional (therapist or psychologist) who can do the tests to determine what the root cause is.
Having said that, a personal addition: Mental and physical exhaustion can exacerbate mental health symptoms of all kinds and - to me - it sounds worth pointing out that you experience these anxiety attacks at or after work. So anything you can do to reduce the exhaustion may already help a little to alleviate symptoms. If you have a possibility to slow down a bit and ensure that you are well hydrated and that your blood sugar doesn't drop too much (ie. make sure you aren't famished) that could already help you to get a better grip on these anxiety attacks.
Either way: Stay strong, friend!
Snail Girl Spring
Original by deerangedgirlie
Small businesses are paying the price in Trump’s trade war
Small businesses are paying the price in Trump’s trade war
The castle of La Rochelambert (Haute-Loire, France)
Picture by N. Bresset for Haute-Loire Tourisme
The original castle of La Rochelambert was built in the 11th century on the side of a basalt column. Its purpose was to protect the pilgrims on their way to Santiago de Compostela (Spain). It was destroyed during France's war of religions in the 16th century, but rebuilt later in the same century in a Renaissance style. It has remained largely unchanged since then.
The famous French writer George Sand included the castle in her novel "Jean de la Roche".
Nervous
Description: A four panel comic. In the first panel, a catgirl (?) and an elf (?) are in bed together. The elf is lying on top of the catgirl and asks her "Are you nervous?". The catgirl replies "Y-Yeah..." The second panel is a close-up of the elf who is asking "Is this your first time?" The third panel is a close-up of the catgirl who responds "No, I've been nervous before?" In the last panel the elf stares at the catgirl in confusion.
Fun fact: The mouse was already invented in the 60s and was part of the famous "Mother of all Demos" which shaped modern computing like no other single event since then.
Unfortunately, the UK does not need to import transphobia from anywhere. The UK's TERFs pioneered modern transphobia in many cases and they have been at it for a loooooong time. In many cases, it was the UK's TERFs who came up with a ton of the now common transphobic arguments which the US and other places adopted from them, rather than the other way around.
Mind, they are 110% fascists and they love to sit down with the US' Heritage Foundation and other fascist US orgs in order to coordinate with them.
Scattered information and ever-changing stakes leave creators feeling naked against a coming economic storm.
Underground tunnels are not part of the US' jurisdiction and thus the US government has no obligation to save them.
The UK Supreme Court has ruled the legal definition of a woman excludes trans women.
The UK Supreme Court has ruled the legal definition of a woman excludes trans women.
What Artificial Romance Does To People
Falling in love with a fictional character is not abnormal. Neither by societal standards based on just how many people do and by psychological standards. It is a normal thing we sometimes do as humans; become attached to someone who doesn’t really exist. Let’s take a journey into the mountain of psychological research and real life pandemonium of fictophilia.
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/28269783
As other people have already mentioned: No, you are not paranoid. The pattern that you recognise is fake outrage or ragebait.
If you have some time to spare and are curiously about how the right-wing outrage machine works, I can highly recommend the video essay "Stellar Blade: The Fake Outrage" by Shaun. His videos can be a little dry, but he goes to great lengths to pick apart a single example (the video game Stellar Blade) and how the right-wing first embraced the game (in the name of their fight against "wokeism, DEI,..."), only to then do a full about-face when the game did not turn out exactly as they had envisioned (and claim that the game was full of "wokeism, DEI,...").
It's a long video, but it does a very good job to expose the mix of unsubstantiated claims, copy-pasted accusations and ultimately fake outrage that underlies right-wing behavior these days.
I am not a liberal, so I can totally be outraged about what the article is describing and point out the Guardian's contribution to that particular problem.
Here is some news coverage of what's going on in the Guardian. Mind, some of the articles are a little older, but the overall situation hasn't improved. The only thing that has changed is the normalization of the transphobic content the Guardian has put out over the years.
The articles below contain links to various Guardian articles
- Hundreds Of Staff At The Guardian Have Signed A Letter To The Editor Criticising Its "Transphobic Content", March 20
- Protesters demand the Guardian ‘stop platforming transphobia’ outside newspaper’s HQ, October 21
- Trans Journalists Pull Out of Guardian Newspaper’s Pride Coverage, June 22
- Columnist James Wong leaves The Observer and claims ‘institutionalised transphobia’, February 23
And let's not forget that the Guardian has had no qualms to participate in transphobic witchhunting for years. No matter what hand-wringing they now do, they share a part of the responsibility for it coming this far and probably won't stop pushing transphobia either...
Personal note: And let's not forget that the Guardian has been fine with pushing transphobia, so they contribute to the anti-queer sentiment that empowers anti-queer groups' attempts to censor books. Something the Guardian surely won't acknowledge any time soon...
Anecdotal evidence suggests a rise in requests to take books off shelves, particularly LGBTQ+ titles
Anecdotal evidence suggests a rise in requests to take books off shelves, particularly LGBTQ+ titles
Say nothing more!
(Yes, I know it's not the original, but cat girls feel more appropriate in this context.)
I can't take articles such as this one seriously if they don't mention right-wing terrorists recruiting through the same channels and means. That has been a known problem for more than a decade.
Treating online radicalisation solely as a problem of people with a migrant/non-European/Muslim/... background is very telling and borders on lying by omission.
A sweeping crackdown on posts on Instagram and Facebook that are critical of Israel—or even vaguely supportive of Palestinians—was directly orchestrated by the government of Israel, according to internal Meta data obtained by Drop Site News.
A sweeping crackdown on posts on Instagram and Facebook that are critical of Israel—or even vaguely supportive of Palestinians—was directly orchestrated by the government of Israel, according to internal Meta data obtained by Drop Site News.
Bells Larsen Forced To Cancel US Tour Due To Anti-Trans Visa Denial
The United Videogame Workers union is open to any gaming worker in the US and Canada and will focus on industry-wide job loss.
The United Videogame Workers union is open to any gaming worker in the US and Canada and will focus on industry-wide job loss.
Johanna Elberskirchen was a German #lesbian writer and activist. She would be 161 years old today. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johanna_Elberskirchen
“Pure feminism is nolens volens radical. It necessarily excludes (...) moderation, restriction, half-measures. Being feminist in no way means wanting to obtain a right for a small number of women at the expense of other women à tout prix - being feminist only ever means fighting for the overall liberation of the entire female sex.”
A quote from her writings (machine-translated from German)
Sneeze Dysphoria
Original art by @monsterologist.bsky.social
Thank you for pointing it out. I corrected it.
Devs Behind Controversial Sexual Assault Game Defend It, But Say They're Pulling It From Steam Anyway
No Mercy was already removed by Valve in the UK, Canada, and Australia before the announcement
No Mercy was already removed by Valve in the UK, Canada, and Australia before the announcement
For a year and a half, NRC observed the gender clinic in Amsterdam. ‘It takes so much time to prove I’m a woman’
Gender care: The treatment of trans youth with puberty blockers is a Dutch invention that is now used worldwide. However, in an increasing number of countries, there is growing debate about this ‘Dutch Approach’. NRC spent a year and a half at the oldest and largest gender clinic in the Netherlands,...
Gender care: The treatment of trans youth with puberty blockers is a Dutch invention that is now used worldwide. However, in an increasing number of countries, there is growing debate about this ‘Dutch Approach’. NRC spent a year and a half at the oldest and largest gender clinic in the Netherlands, where this care model was developed in the 1990s. „They think you can just roll into a transition…
Can confirm, I got the same one. 😄
Then we can be clueless together.
As disappointing as it is, I appreciate being informed now. As much as enjoyed their music Anti-Flag wasn't a band I actively followed - unlike you. I can totally see how such news are devastating for a community build around it.
Ugh! I missed that piece of extremely unpleasant news. I deleted my previous comment.