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Sean D

@seand.me.uk

From Belfast. A bit nerdy Am even more nerdy at Seanddotmedotuk@mastodon.ie Currently trying to learn Spanish. You can see my efforts @es.seand.me.uk

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James Austin@jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 13h ago

Once again, I come back to the fact these guys have created a situation where one of the UK's leading, cis female athletes is scared to go to the loo alone, and the fact that they are celebrating this as a step forward for women's rights.

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Equality and Human Rights Commission@equalityhumanright.bsky.social · 18h ago

Our code of practice for services, public functions and associations comes into force today. It provides practical guidance on how the Equality Act 2010 applies to services, public functions and associations. Find out more: https://ow.ly/alIf50Zwrkx

Quote from Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson: 'At the EHRC we want a society where everyone’s rights are respected and realised, so that we can all live well together. Our statutory guidance will help services across the country comply with the Equality Act, protecting service users from discrimination and harassment while reducing the risk of the provider being subject to litigation. As Britain’s equality regulator, our work doesn’t end upon publication of this guidance. We monitor compliance with the law and take enforcement action where proportionate and necessary, in line with our well-established regulatory model and decision-making framework.'
The Author, Séamas O'Reilly@seamas.bsky.social · 19h ago

Worth remembering how mind-bogglingly recent the Magdalene Laundries were. The last one closed down on 25th September 1996, which means the Magdalene system outlived Tupac by two weeks.

Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin@miseryvulture.bsky.social · 19h ago

The last Magdalene laundry closed in my lifetime. Homosexuality was decriminalised in Ireland in my lifetime. Access to condoms without a prescription in Ireland only came in 1985. We repealed the 8th. There's a lot of ways in which Ireland is still bad, but it is an entirely different country.

Unseen Crafts@unseencrafts.bsky.social · 2d ago

My mum has mellowed a little as she’s aged but she’s still prim and proper. When I was a teen we didn’t get along & after an argument I rang the vet & changed our cat’s name to Ploppy. When she was there they called out “Mrs Blackwell & Ploppy please”, she was horrified, I made myself scarce 🤣

Gretchen McCulloch@gretchenmcculloch.com · 22h ago

It's gotten so much easier to start learning so many more languages, you used to be limited to the 3-5 major languages that a local bookstore or educational institution had decided it was worth making available, and now you can just like, look things up in hundreds of them

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · yesterday

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

dorian @doriantaylor.com air travel is one of those experiences that has gotten monotonically worse over my entire lifetime question though: has *anything* in the last 40+ years genuinely gotten *better*? like, there's *more* stuff, sure, but is any of it *better*? 2:58 PM Aug 4, 2026
Sean D@seand.me.uk · yesterday

Watching Commonwealth games closing ceremony on BBC Alba. People talking over it in Gaelic is no more or no less annoying than in English.

Natasha Devon@natashadevon.bsky.social · yesterday

If I have absolutely no preference whatsoever for how much melanin the doctor or nurse treating me has or where they’re from does that mean I can skip the nhs waiting list queue? I am actually waiting for a minor procedure so this would be handy…

Charles EP Murphy@cepmurphy.bsky.social · 2d ago

news.sky.com/story/nhs-st... stereotypically this has been seen as Old People, but not only would the old people of now have often been born post-Windrush, lot of this will be younger people who've always lived in a diverse Britain. The guy with a pregnant wife likely millennial at oldest

Rosewind@rosewind.bsky.social · 2d ago

I do think that tolerance for swearing is quite individual? Because I like to read books aloud to my children I am very aware of the swear levels of books One thing I find hard to read is pseudo swears—I am with Dorothy Parker 3/3

Quote from Dorothy Parker: So, you're the man who can't spell 'fuck." Dorothy Parker to Norman Mailer after publishers had convinced Mailer to replace the word with a euphemism, 'fug,' in his 1948 book, "The Naked and the Dead. Dorothy Parker
fesshole 🧻@fesshole.bsky.social · 6d ago

Type the word Theseus in a text editor, then replace each letter in turn with a new copy of that letter. The new Theseus is indistinguishable from the old. I offered this as an insight in a philosophy exam at uni, and got very high marks. It was a complete pisstake.

fesshole 🧻@fesshole.bsky.social · 5d ago

At a job interview and I got asked that if I was an animal, what would I be and why. I decided I didn't want the job by then, so I said I would be a cat, because it would be fun to lick my own arse. Surprisingly, they offered me the job because they liked my sense of humour.

Simon Kuestenmacher@simongerman600.bsky.social · 5d ago

An analysis of 3,500 couches featured in IKEA catalogues from 1960 to 2021 shows that European interiors became noticeably greyer in the 2010s. Design trends of course don't last forever. IKEA is now bringing long-forgotten colours and patterns back from the archives.

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Sean D@seand.me.uk · 7d ago

100 years ago, my maternal grandfather worked in the post office. He worked his way up to be a respectable postmaster. 100 years ago, my paternal grandfather was a child, but his father also worked for the post office and had been imprisoned for intercepting confidential communications.

Revan@revan.eurosky.social · last wk.

Enough “what would you do on the commune questions” If you got sent back 100 years and were given your grandparent’s job, what are you doing?

Sean D@seand.me.uk · last wk.

Instagram has just suggested I follow someone who died almost a decade ago. It must know I like people who don't post too much.

Paul Clarke@paulclarke.com · last wk.

brown pants in whitehall, as a part of government that really, really shouldn't do this sort of thing emails me with a meaningless announcement about their supplier portal, copying in clear the email addresses of every single one of their suppliers

Sean D@seand.me.uk · last wk.

It says something about the UK that the lunchtime news needed to give context that the wildfires in Valencia province were 100 miles from Benidorm. I don't think they mentioned how far away they were from the city of Valencia!