DakRalter
@DakRalter@thelemmy.club
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- Comment on One in 10 women in UK are facing period poverty in 2026 1 day ago:
Reusable products have been a game changer for me. They definitely need to become more mainstream. On my heavy days at work, I still need to double up with a disposable (lidl does big heavy flow packs for under a quid), but overall I’ve saved a lot of money. Reusables really need to become more mainstream.
- Comment on Waitrose employee sacked after stopping shoplifter from taking Easter eggs 1 week ago:
I’ve worked retail for over 15 years and yes, it’s the same here. We’re told to be vigilant and customer-service away to deter shoplifters. If we see or suspect actual theft, we tell management and/or security. We’re told to never pursue or confront a shoplifter, leave that to security and management.
- Comment on opportunities 4 weeks ago:
Is that a trebuchet or is that the inferior *shudder* catapult?
- Comment on Renters have 'easiest time in six years' to find a home, says Zoopla 4 weeks ago:
We need more council homes, so private renting becomes a choice not a necessity and housing benefit isn’t just a subsidy for landlords to line their pockets.
£1800 in London might get you a 2 bed flat :(
- Comment on UK must stockpile food in readiness for climate shocks or war, expert warns 5 weeks ago:
Meanwhile, Brits:
- Comment on I know. Somehow, I've always known. 1 month ago:
This is the version I want :( Having Luke and Nellith working as a Jedi duo would have been so cool.
- Comment on What's in a name 1 month ago:
Invaluable means very valuable 😭😭
- Comment on Schools in England sidelining dressing-up for World Book Day, MPs hear 1 month ago:
When did cosplaying for WBD become a thing? In my day 🧓🏽, Scholastic would just set up a stall in the library and we’d redeem our £1 book token. I worked in kidswear up to 2016 and every year it was parents panicking last minute about their kids’ costumes. It became more about the cosplay than reading.
- Comment on Banned Mullvad VPN TV ad criticizing United Kingdom escalating censorship and mass surveillance “And Then?” 1 month ago:
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.
- Comment on Banned Mullvad VPN TV ad criticizing United Kingdom escalating censorship and mass surveillance “And Then?” 1 month ago:
I can see you on Mastodon
- Comment on Banned Mullvad VPN TV ad criticizing United Kingdom escalating censorship and mass surveillance “And Then?” 1 month ago:
You can usually tell when someone is posting via mastodon as they’ll leave in the @ usernames
- Comment on Banned Mullvad VPN TV ad criticizing United Kingdom escalating censorship and mass surveillance “And Then?” 1 month ago:
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.
- Comment on Banned Mullvad VPN TV ad criticizing United Kingdom escalating censorship and mass surveillance “And Then?” 1 month ago:
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.
- Comment on Banned Mullvad VPN TV ad criticizing United Kingdom escalating censorship and mass surveillance “And Then?” 1 month ago:
Yes, I have two active accounts. The autistic and neurodivergent communities there are great.
- Comment on Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office 1 month ago:
(Emily maitlis voice) Misconduct? He was a…
- Comment on Oatly banned from using word ‘milk’ to market plant-based products in UK 2 months ago:
Exactly, it’s still perfectly fine to sell tinned coconut milk, no one thinks it’s from udders.
Since the ruling is that only mammary secretions can be called milk, let’s insist that dairy is labelled “mammy secretions”, just so no one mistakes it as coming from coconuts.
- Comment on Homeless kids in Greater Manchester to get free bus travel 2 months ago:
Isn’t this a bit ! orphancrushing@lemmy.world?
All kids in London get free bus travel and also free tube until I think age 10. I’m surprised other cities aren’t already doing it. Also if governments didn’t keep selling off council homes, people wouldn’t spend years stuck in temporary accommodation.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
She certainly got an award for being one.
- Comment on Boris Johnson trying to undermine BBC leadership, insiders fear after leak 5 months ago:
Do you think frogface will allow it? I can’t imagine either of those narcissists being willing to share the limelight.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
Oh come on, we all know Savile, Huntley and the Wests were Arab Pakistani Ethiopian Muslim Hindus who came on a small boat! They were probably gay and trans too!
/s
In any case, isn’t the one good thing musk ever did was get his siblings away from their white abusive dad?
- Comment on Temu: UK artist's anger at finding work on site without permission 5 months ago:
Art takes time, money and creativity to make. Of course that’s going to be more expensive than downloading something someone else made and printing it out. Accounting for the time and costs that go into making art isn’t a high markup, it’s being paid for your labour.
- Comment on Are you able to access archive.org from where you are in the UK? 5 months ago:
I couldn’t even access my home instance (thelemmy.club) after a server upgrade without changing my DNS. I thought it had shut down until I saw it worked on a VPN. ISPs do weird stuff like that. Try changing your DNS. Archive.org works fine for me, I’m using cloudflare DNS.
- Comment on Are you able to access archive.org from where you are in the UK? 5 months ago:
Talktalk wifi and it loads for me.
- Comment on Banana 5 months ago:
That’s a myth about the flavour. Although TIL they do smell strongly like artificial banana flavour.
- Comment on Only one in 50 bike thefts result in a charge, shocking figures reveal 5 months ago:
Maybe we should start putting Palestine action flags on our bikes when we leave them parked.
- Comment on ‘Brummies united against racism’: poster campaign takes on the far right 5 months ago:
Robert jenrick gonna be confused by all those white faces. “This does not compute.”
- Comment on Dog attacks are still rising - even after the XL bully ban 5 months ago:
I don’t see why they should though. A person destroying a bird’s nest will be charged with a crime, but you can get your cat to do it with zero consequences. Cats don’t need to roam, as anyone with a house cat will tell you. Catios are also a thing that gives cats outside access without being a menace to wildlife and a nuisance to neighbours.
- Comment on Former Radio 1 DJ Tim Westwood charged with four counts of rape 5 months ago:
Waiting for the flag shaggers to turn up en masse to show their commitment to protecting women and girls.
- Comment on Dog attacks are still rising - even after the XL bully ban 6 months ago:
I’m trying to think of other irresponsible actions from other types of pet owners, but I can’t think of any.
Cats kill wildlife and leave their mess in other people’s gardens. Their owners should also be held responsible for any damage their can does and made to keep their pet on their own property.
- Comment on BlueSky has drama so the Fedi-Marketers are waking from their slumber 6 months ago:
It’s really not that hard. I gave my ex my Mastodon url and he signed up so he could follow me. He didn’t even know what Mastodon or the Fediverse is.
It only gets complicated when federation gets janky, eg on my Mastodon.social account I can see so many more posts that I can on my main instance. In fact, I sometimes can’t even see some of my own .social posts unless I login via that account on tusky, then open as my main account. Even though the instances are federated. I have the same issue here with this account and my alt feddit.uk account. I can see comments/communities on one instance that I can’t see on another.
