I get the joke, but is it really so rare in the US for a woman to keep her own surname after marriage?

Leopards’ favourite treat.

Of course, BBC is just reform ltd’s PR firm. The amount of airtime they get on 5live is a joke. Farridge farts and they have to have a three hour phone in to discuss it. Who gives a frick if frogface has announced his own wannabe shadow cabinet? But they have to put it on every news bulletin, how are they still allowed to call themselves impartial?

You won’t notice issues until you get an alt account on a different instance. Often you’ll not see the full number of replies to a post for instance.

I can see you on Mastodon

You can usually tell when someone is posting via mastodon as they’ll leave in the @ usernames

The only issue I have with mastodon is the federation gets a bit janky (so does Lemmy tbh) but it’s more noticeable on mastodon. My main account is on autistics.life, which is federated with most instances except threads and the maga types, but very often I can’t see images on mastodon.social posts via my main account. In fact I can’t even see a lot of my older mastodon.social posts via my main account without viewing the post via my alt account and then account switching.

I’ve seen people say to avoid using mastodon.social as your main account.

I use the Tusky app, but it has a tendency to crash, especially when typing hash tags.

I’m not sure if this is sarcasm, but in case it’s not, you very much can read and post to Lemmy via a mastodon account.

Yes, I have two active accounts. The autistic and neurodivergent communities there are great.

I’m more familiar with hackney north, which is Diane Abbot’s constituency, I didn’t realise there was a hackney south. That looks like a better bet, Diane Abbot seems pretty popular in her constituency from what I can tell.

Yeah I saw that. I was hoping he just worded it wrong, but it looks like he’s just sucking up to the zio lobby. Sad.

I could see him winning in Walthamstow (unless he goes all out in defending Zionism), not so much Tottenham or Hackney.

Crows are really smart! I’m loving these bird stories!

Ahhh! Robins are great and well known for following gardeners around. Cheeky little things. Mine was also savage and used to chase his mate out the garden sometimes (there was a slight difference in their appearance, so I could distinguish them by looks alone). And he used to chase away his fledgelings once they were old enough to be independent. They had about 4 broods, I think I bought 2 or 3 kg of mealworms that season. His mate sat on my fingers a few times but I usually had to look away. Males are much easier to tame.

The male is on the left, female on the right.

I had a tame great tit for about 2 years who would yell at me as soon as I went outside. He’d sit on the shed or washing line and be like, “Well? My chicks are hungry.” If the shed door was open, he’d hop inside onto the worm tub and tell me to hurry up. He couldn’t open the worm tub himself haha. I’d call him and he’d come flying onto the tree. I even got his fledgelings to sit on my fingers like you do with budgies. I had him 2 or 3 years before some upstart stole his territory and he and his mate abandoned their nest a few days before the chicks were due to fledge. The nest was on my neighbours’ property but I wish I had been brave enough to ask if I could retrieve the nest and try to raise them the last few days (I’m autistic and I think I was mute at the time). Instead I could hear them chirping for food every day until eventually they all went quiet :(

I had a semi tame male blackbird, he’d come for the mealworms when I called him. I’d point to where I’d put the worms that day (I’d move them around) and he’d hop straight over. He and my previous tame blackbird both got killed by a cat :(

Have you heard of green manure and no-dig gardening?

It’s called subsong. I had a handtame robin who used to sit in our rose bushes and sing quietly when I was around. He knew what he was doing. He went to town with the breeding because he knew all it took was a look at me with his big eyes and this mug would give him a free supply of mealworms all summer.

I definitely recommend all workers check the break allowance in their employee handbook. My company’s policy is I get a one hour break, half of which is paid. When I got hired, I was told by the boss that I only get half an hour and “we’ve never paid for breaks.” Unfortunately for him, I worked for this company before and still had a copy of the handbook so I knew what I was entitled to. Later on, the deputy outright accused me of fraud for taking my full hour. I showed her the handbook, she tried to pretend I was misunderstanding it. I told her what it says here lines up with the rota software. She said, well from now on, you need to tell me if you’re going to take the full hour. I said it’s already accounted for on the software. She said she’ll “overlook it (my alleged fraud) this time.” Later she checked the software and said I was right. Yeah, next time you want to accuse me of fraud, get your facts straight first.

My colleagues have been getting underpaid for years. I’ve tried to get them to join a union to do collective action for backpay, but none of them seem to care and carry on doing unpaid overtime. What can you do?

Not necessarily. I’m a millennial. My dad bought our family home when I was a baby and was able to support our family of 6 and pay off the mortgage before I finished my GCSEs. We lived off supermarket budget brands, hand me downs and clearance goods, but we never went hungry or cold. We’re ethnic and religious minority. My dad immigrated to the UK when he married my mum and he worked as a bus conductor for most of his life. My parents’ siblings here were all able to get council flats or houses. So I’m able to remember a time where things were a lot better. Never mind buying a house in London, I can’t even afford to rent and there are no council homes. Especially given that the UK is heading back to the racism levels of the 80s again :(

I’m on beta 409 now and it’s all working again. But I’m getting the Drift message again on settings even though I already switched to it on 405 (the buggy version).

I noticed a new thing in the settings about migrating to a drift database, so I did that thinking that was the issue. Restarted app, same issue. Force closed, cleared cache, restarted, same problem.

(Emily maitlis voice) Misconduct? He was a…