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Good to know that trans people losing rights in the UK isn't a 'real issue' close to his own life and that it doesn't have any knock on effect for cis and trans women's safety. Thanks for making sure we are all aware of that fact.

Made a fun little spiked leather bracelet

In which case the ruling, even if one was to accept it as a valid interpretation, let alone its effect on people involved, is arse backwards and has the potential to cause significant harm in the short term.

Decades of gender = sex in legal wording, documents and policy makes it very difficult to detangle the intent of what is meant by sex or gender in each case.

This particularly undermimes obtaining a GRC which updates the specifically labelled 'Sex' field on a birth certificate. So now we can have people with legal documents stating their 'Sex' being barred from same sex spaces aligning with their documentation.

I love looking after my sister's dog, a big dumb lurcher, shes easy so far as dogs go, very lazy and not motivated by walks but 2 weeks was enough to verify I don't want to own one. My two feline girls suit me just right.

Cats every day. I love dogs but specifically I love other people's dogs that I'm not responsible for

I think you are thinking of network rail who owns the infrastructure. GBR came about in 2021 when none of the operating companies were getting any money and so the government basically ran it for them. Basically it is de-facto back in public hands and GBR will take over once each operating company's contract is up (I think SWR is first). At least that is my understanding of it.

Also the rolling stock wasnt typically owned by the operating companies, they would lease them from the ones who did like Angel trains and Porterbrook.

Isn't that what GBR is already set up for in regards to rail?

Here's the thing...

I don't really have an ongoing single project but I do have an ongoing "project" to learn leathercrafting, hopefully one day to be able to have a little sidehustle in making some relatively niche and bespoke things. I've been taking things slow for once rather than rushing headlong into it, not buying too much stuff and getting overwhelmed, practicing things over and over and I'm really loving it.

I've been posting my journey so far in the Leather Craft community with pictures and stories of all the stuff I've made so far.

My latest items that I made just yesterday, a cuff and a small clutch to use the new hardware closures I bought.

Other than miles most of our stuff is metric anyway, at least legally. Like yeah, we use stones and feet for 'human' measurements in speech etc but if you go to the doctors it would be in kilos and metres. There are a few oddities like milk bottles being in pints and beer in pubs but even then you find things like plant milks and bottles/canned beer in litres. The one that really makes no sense is car fuel efficiency. We sell fuel by the litre but measure it in miles per (imperial) gallon - so it doesnt even tie up with American figures.

And Larry Ellison puts money into his charity looking into how to live forever...