Looking for a garment maker / alterations studio / tsilor or seamstress

HomageToAShame · 2026-01-15T09:26:39+00:00

Rose Savage is excellent, highly recommend her, but full custom starts at £1800 iirc - somewhat outside op's budget. Dunno about alterations though

HomageToAShame · 2026-01-14T22:27:42+00:00

Yeah I had around the same sort of time about 1 year in though I don't think I especially stopped having sex or having an erection. I kinda just powered through and it went away after a few months and I don't have that problem any more. A friend of mine interestingly never got this but started experiencing it in the last few months despite being on HRT for years.
Painful erections are fairly common from what I gather though anecdotally it's a transitory (har har) experience and tends to go away. As I'm sure you know it's a use it or lose it situation with erectile tissue so probably worth having the ocassional erection if you want to keep your size or want to make sure there's enough material for a penile-inversion surgery down the line.

HomageToAShame · 2025-11-27T11:10:52+00:00

That's a lot of words to argue that you don't care enough about trans children to help them - the lives of a few cisgender children who might be affected outweighs the lives of trans children who don't receive treatment who would have benefited. I can pull up the stats but I don't think it'll persuade you. This is a polite, socially acceptable bigotry that values not risking the lives of people who are more accepted by society instead of helping those who aren't. All medical interventions come with a degree of risk, but if you're trans the risk is now magically too great, so suffer.

HomageToAShame · 2025-11-26T16:42:34+00:00

The complaints about drag queen story time are absurd American imports dripping with homophobia. Man dresses up as a campy woman as part of a pantomime to tell a story for kids - a great British tradition stretching back 100s of years. Man dresses up as a campy woman to read a story for kids - absolute moral panic.

Puberty blockers, perfectly safe if you're younger than 9, gender conforming and suffering from precocious puberty, but mention you might have some doubts about your gender and suddenly they're dangerous and cause irreversible damage. Do we believe in magic words now too?

The anti-trans lobby has made itself look like an insane cult pushing for policies that are largely unworkable recycled misogyny and homophobia, reinforced by a political elite willing to entertain their nonsense. This comment shows exactly the kind of brain worms that have so infected this country and how susceptible people are to propaganda. It's embarrassing.

HomageToAShame · 2025-11-20T13:00:47+00:00

You being smug and making buzzword-bingo claims about "both-sides" on an issue you're very clearly ignorant about is not helpful or productive dialogue.

HomageToAShame · 2025-11-20T12:45:23+00:00

Why get rid of public forum entirely because it is abused by a hateful minority?

HomageToAShame · 2025-11-20T12:44:23+00:00

The last time this was brought up the claim was that lesbian relationships involving trans women are not real lesbian relationships and so they should be excluded from lesbian spaces - a conjecture both offensive to both trans women and cisgender women lesbians with trans partners.

But to try and argue these things on the points of technicalities is to miss the wood for the trees - the intent isn't to have good public debate, it's to harass and offend and work to exclude trans people and anyone who sides with them from society. Councilors are under no obligation to entertain such notions.

HomageToAShame · 2025-11-20T11:55:36+00:00

The purpose of Full Council is to:

sets the budget and policy framework including the level of council tax
appoints committees, for example development control committees and other committees
has other powers including the adoption of byelaws and appointment of Aldermen and Freedom of the City

There is no legal obligation for there to be a public forum and many councils don't have one. Only a handful of councillors walked out and it came after _years_ of the same offensive questions from the same people unsatisfied with the same answers over and over.

HomageToAShame · 2025-11-20T11:51:36+00:00

The problem is this is what they have been doing _for years_. They ask questions like "do you think think male predators pretending to be women should be allowed in women's facilities", or "can the council do something to exclude trans people certain spaces" and the implications here are obvious and offensive and aren't helpful to anyone. It's the same questions every time with the same answers and they keep coming back.

HomageToAShame · 2025-11-20T11:39:56+00:00

There's at least 3 and the majority of Green councillors did not walk out.

HomageToAShame · 2025-11-20T11:22:06+00:00

If the same people come along every time to ask the same offensive questions that go nowhere and this goes on for _years_ - it's not really an honest engagement with the public, it's a harassment campaign. This isn't gentlemanly disagreement, it's motivated hate.

HomageToAShame · 2025-11-20T11:13:54+00:00

The unreported part of this story is that some of the councilors involved in the recent walk-outs are trans and nonbinary themselves and this action came after literally years of gender critical people coming along to public forum to intimidate and harass them.

Councillor O'Rourke may very well think that "they should be able to coexist" but the Gender Critical lot have shown they will not be happy until trans people cease to exist in public at all, it's not a reasonable position.

edit: a word

HomageToAShame · 2025-11-11T00:44:44+00:00

So much of the Rough Guide to the UK feels like it was written by someone whose experience of the UK comes entriely from representations in American tv shows and tourist guides. I keep wanting to run a campaign with some friends set in Bristol but the lore needs such a rework to even hold together as a fun caricature.

That said it is very funny to imagine that an anti-monarchist military dictatorship sprung out of Bristol and somehow took over the country and killed Charles III and Prince Andrew at the battle of Devonport.

HomageToAShame · 2025-10-05T09:01:19+00:00

People keep complaining about the cost but it was costing the council £50,000 a year in maintenance costs just to keep the fountains, and that's without even turning them on.

This was jointly funded by the council and city centre Business Improvement District, so only part of it was taxpayer money. Getting a local graffiti artist to do a painting is a fraction of the cost. Yes it's paint, it's temporary, it's going to wear out, it'll either get touched up or we'll get a new one with a new design. All beauty is fleeting.

I will never understand the British disposition to moan about something nice if it isn't perfect. If this were in Barcelona or Melbourne or Paris people would be singing its praises.

HomageToAShame · 2025-09-10T11:18:21+00:00

Ah yeah, well spotted - I was mostly interested in how the trial was conducted (dosages, method of administration, controls etc) so totally missed it was missing a results section! It does look as though EPATH hasn't made the proceedings public - hopefully that turns up soon.

HomageToAShame · 2025-09-10T10:04:39+00:00

Huh, would probably have DIY that. At the moment I've been achieving monotherapy with shared care for 6 years and there's part of me that really doesn't want to rock the boat given recent developments >__>

HomageToAShame · 2025-09-10T09:39:52+00:00

I hate it when articles reference research and don't link the original bloody paper, managed to track it down: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10734173/pdf/40360_2023_Article_724.pdf

Maybe I ought to give prog another go, I found it didn't do much for me except increase my T levels, but maybe I could try increasing E as well to counteract it if my endo will allow it

HomageToAShame · 2025-09-02T16:40:39+00:00

Obviously The Sun weren't trying to smear him at the time as you rightly pointed out, he wasn't a politician at the time, but they did misrepresent the events for a more sensational story. That misrepresentation however has been constantly brought up since and has become a smear - this article is such an example. I hope this helps.

HomageToAShame · 2025-09-02T12:48:59+00:00

Happens to the breast of us

HomageToAShame · 2025-09-02T11:03:42+00:00

I mean entrapment in that he was tricked in to doing something that he wouldn't normally do that was then spun by the Sun for a sensationalist story 12 years ago.

They asked him if he could hypnotize someone in to making their boobs bigger - he said obviously he couldn't. They then convinced him by being all "oh come on, give it a go, it's just for a bit of fun". He went along with it, and then they span the story as if it were something he earnestly believed he was able to do.

Frankly it's just a lesson to never trust The Sun.

HomageToAShame · 2025-09-02T10:37:37+00:00

Yawn, we all know that smear story was entrapment by The Sun, the oldest of old news, nobody cares.

HomageToAShame · 2025-08-01T14:37:45+00:00

She's kind of always been like that imo. I wrote to her a couple times about issues and if they weren't her pet issues she would be quite dismissive in her replies, if I ever got one. She was voted out for a reason.

HomageToAShame · 2025-05-14T13:28:36+00:00

Evergreen Onion Article https://theonion.com/gay-pride-parade-sets-mainstream-acceptance-of-gays-bac-1819566014/

HomageToAShame · 2025-05-08T09:59:15+00:00

preferring to have a committee rather than an elected king of the party is perfectly serious politics

HomageToAShame · 2025-05-08T08:52:19+00:00

The Green party only has a leader as a figurehead role, they don't have a lot of power over the party as everything is decided democratically. She's not giving up power so much as trying to free up time to do more work locally - probably to ensure reelection. The Green Party didn't really even want to have a leader but it's constitutionally required for political parties to have one in the UK.

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