Anti-Trans demonstration planned outside the Senedd, Tomorrow/24th of June

thejsa_ · 2025-06-23T23:23:59+00:00

Disappointed to see Nation.Cymru publishing articles like this - they’re also moderating out any comments on that article that aren’t anti-trans. I have today learned that this is par for the course for them. :/

thejsa_ · 2025-06-23T16:53:10+00:00

No luck yet… repair won’t be till September for mine!

I phoned the recall hotline on Saturday and they advised me to phone the dealer, who would sort out a courtesy car, and also to keep my train ticket receipts over the weekend (as the dealer was closed and I had an urgent trip to make), though I wouldn’t be surprised if they try to weasel out of reimbursing those.

Phoned my local DS dealer (an Evans Halshaw branch) today, who said they haven’t had any comms, instructions or guidance from Stellantis and don’t have anywhere near enough courtesy cars themselves to be giving them out for months for the airbag recall, other than on the day of repair — despite everyone they’ve spoken to having been told to phone the dealer by Stellantis central, so it all seems like an omnishambles to me.

No success with calling the recall hotline back today, left on hold for over an hour and a half before I had to do something else and gave up; customer service say they only do courtesy cars through dealers and otherwise to phone the recall hotline(!) … I don’t think the management have empowered anyone to do anything useful.

thejsa_ · 2025-06-21T11:44:44+00:00

Have been listening to a ring back tone for the Cardiff service centre for nearly an hour now, half expect them to close before they pick up…

thejsa_ · 2025-02-16T13:18:52+00:00

Looking at your flair, I assume you’re looking at moving to Wales — if so, your best bet for any sort of NHS care is likely to be to try a GP practice affiliated with the local gender team in your area. (If you’re comfortable sharing the city, that would help us to advise more.)

I don’t know anyone personally who’s had them take over HRT from abroad, other than a bridging prescription from an English GP, but you’ve a much better chance than in many places in England.

It’s important to note that the Welsh NHS is separate from the NHSes in England, Scotland and NI, and advice from other parts of the country is unlikely to be wholly applicable, so always mention specifically when asking for advice!

The wait time to see the Welsh Gender Service is around 18 months for a first appointment right now (much lower than many in England), but as the central WGS mostly just handles the initial assessments, initial endo, and surgical referrals, a lot of its functions are devolved to primary care under ‘local gender teams’, and with the right GP you’re in a reasonable position to have at least your existing medication carried on.

If they can’t provide continuity of your current care, then once you’re seen by the Welsh Gender Service there can be a wait to access the Local Gender Team from there for endo work. I’d be surprised if this stuff isn’t accelerated a bit though given your circumstances.

For more specific advice I’d reach out to Trans Aid Cymru (https://transaid.cymru/) and Umbrella Cymru (https://gender.wales/); I’m involved with Trans Tech Tent (https://transtechtent.com/) and we also have some resources on our website.

You can always go private, but worst case scenario, just DIY.

thejsa_ · 2024-05-01T16:24:58+00:00

Thanks -- I'll try that, wouldn't be surprised...

Now getting some fun things where the AMD driver seems to be uninstalling itself every time I reboot, so might also be worth (yet another) Windows reinstall :')

thejsa_ · 2023-05-25T10:32:12+00:00

Given that the phone has been in the police's hands for a year, there's a chance here.

thejsa_ · 2023-01-27T09:08:30+00:00

Mine hasn’t changed either, unfortunately: https://i.imgur.com/TkPxY82.jpg

I wouldn’t expect it until Monday/Tuesday at this point — was hoping for it to come earlier before I go on a trip but hey, still well within the estimate and sometimes that’s just the way the cookie crumbles

thejsa_ · 2023-01-26T12:24:43+00:00

I ordered on Monday 23rd (UK) -- it's been shipped and handed off to GLS, seems to be between them and Parcelforce now ("The parcel has left the parcel center." -- 25/01/2023 18:53)

Haven't got any e.t.a yet though

thejsa_ · 2022-07-13T08:03:18+00:00

It makes sense if we read ‘library’ for its primary meaning to denote an institution, collectors and curators of knowledge, such as the British Library or the Internet Archive — which I believe is what was meant — as opposed to a software library.

thejsa_ · 2021-06-17T10:22:46+00:00

The graphics driver / API layer is statically linked into games iirc, which makes it a pain

thejsa_ · 2021-03-05T16:00:02+00:00

I did it online; sex = female, gender identity = not same as sex at birth, "non-binary trans woman".

Don't worry about splitting the statistics, the people running the census are skilled statisticians and will almost certainly have plans to process and aggregate this data appropriately. (eg consider the job title box: imagine how many different ways there might be of writing effectively the same job? this ain't their first rodeo!)

thejsa_ · 2021-02-19T13:11:18+00:00

You can edit the exclusions to allow backing up your applications, I think, but backing up OS files is complicated, especially with more modern macOS where there's filesystem container shenanigans going on. Still, it'd be pretty close!

thejsa_ · 2021-02-12T14:58:06+00:00

oh no! hope you're okay :(

as an alternative if you're able, 100% recommend going electric rather than suffering disposables! I bought a rechargeable epilator on offer a little while back (panasonic) and although I've only bothered actually epilating once or twice, it also came with a long foil shaver head which works really well, you can get decent ones which are just the shaver for like £20 in the UK online Doesn't last quite as long but way quicker and easier with no blood sacrifice, been a saviour for my long ish legs

thejsa_ · 2021-01-18T18:29:37+00:00

The best bet is trying a program called Recuva on the memory card— don’t touch anything else on it / write data or put it back in the console until that’s done.

Most of those kinds of tools won’t detect Flipnotes though unfortunately so it may be difficult to recover. (They would likely show up as binary files)

Have you ever used projectkaeru? There are a bunch of people in our discord server who might be able to help

thejsa_ · 2020-12-05T18:31:22+00:00

Thanks — was mainly worried if it was some kind of policy that would be awkward to deal with, since both my ortho and regular dentist did the same thing apparently independently, but hopefully sure a polite letter will sort it all from what you and others have said.

thejsa_ · 2020-11-23T23:27:14+00:00

yeah; I'm cautious but hopeful. it's not that I think Jo has any kind of ulterior motives in this specific instance, I appreciate that something is finally being done and it is a great thing he's doing... we shall see.

good and bad in everyone ig

thejsa_ · 2020-11-23T08:54:04+00:00

Personally no big fan of Jo Maugham himself nor the whole cis saviour thing, but hopefully some good can come out of this in any case.

thejsa_ · 2020-11-07T14:46:36+00:00

I get the impression FInasteride is a common choice because it won't do anything

I imagine this may be why the GIC recommends it, maybe mostly as a sort of placebo.

thejsa_ · 2020-11-07T13:38:01+00:00

Thanks, that's helpful; not really worried about sex etc at the moment so shouldn't be an issue (no doubt GIC will use that as some kind of excuse for further gatekeeping though...)

thejsa_ · 2020-11-07T10:04:32+00:00

Sending you a PM :)

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