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Sylvia de Mars @sylviademars.me · 20/07/2026

Here, some minor hope - not re immigrants but at least there's something there that resembles actual left values????????? Which is not much at all but we'll sort of take it? Bar very low?

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Sylvia de Mars @sylviademars.me · 20/07/2026

I love how this is written like there's something nefarious about responding to observable trends in polling. You'd hope that he'd either prioritise what's best for the country or what will win, yeah? (They're the same thing here for Labour tbf - more super hot takes here at midnight!)

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Sylvia de Mars @sylviademars.me · 18/07/2026

Surreal this dude is possibly keeping his job when literally everyone in the country is mocking him in exactly the same way.

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Sylvia de Mars @sylviademars.me · 07/07/2026

Jaysus, how bad was this match? What happens now is one of them scores at least one more penalty than the other, Dion. You've seen it before. Promise.

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Sylvia de Mars @sylviademars.me · 07/07/2026

Anyway, as academia remains on fire, here's my personal survival guide in it, which started as a joke but is pretty real - the chronic lack of investment means we've got to take care of ourselves because we're constantly asked to do more with less. Credit to a colleague with a Canva addiction.

Sylvia's rules: 1. Learn to say no. 2. Avoid anything involving more than 1 other person whose work ethic you know. 3 if you have to ask if it's worth it, it isn't.

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Sylvia de Mars @sylviademars.me · 25/06/2026

This bizarrely worded clause reads (at a glance) like a get-out-of-jail for parents who send their kids to conversion therapy as long as they can claim "well, it was legally provided, and they didn't indicate they'd be particularly mean in delivering it!". Not sure what else it would achieve. 8/

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Sylvia de Mars @sylviademars.me · 25/06/2026

The offence of 'abusive conversion practice' prima facie reads appropriately, but remember - it's only abusive if you're a medical professional who is being particularly rude about what they are doing, so this doesn't actually catch much behaviour. 7/

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Sylvia de Mars @sylviademars.me · 25/06/2026

'Trans' meanwhile incorporates non-binary identities. I'm not sure this is better than the usual complete ignorance in law they face - like, if they were going to notice enbies, ideally it would not be just to make it legal for healthcare professionals to talk them *out* of being non-binary. 6/

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Sylvia de Mars @sylviademars.me · 25/06/2026

What does this 'health care provision' exception cover? Basically *anything* that is provided as a form of care - whether by the NHS, private clinicians, therapists, what have you. All are enabled to politely pursue conversion therapy for 'health care' purposes. 5/

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Sylvia de Mars @sylviademars.me · 25/06/2026

There's further steer on what would be contrary to those professional standards in the subsequent clauses - which basically makes it sheer that you can't literally bully the gay or trans out of someone, but short of that, you're fine to do whatever. Just be polite in denying them care! 4/

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Sylvia de Mars @sylviademars.me · 25/06/2026

Where it falls apart is in the exceptions: it is basically a free-for-all for 'health care' providers to do whatever they want to, provided said practices are not (basically) contrary to whatever professional standards apply to their provision. 3/

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Sylvia de Mars @sylviademars.me · 24/06/2026

From Article 2 evidence provided to NI Scrutiny Com in the Lords by the ECNI folks - flabbergasted at the phrasing of this question, which at best shows ignorance about the Brexit settlement and devolution, and at worst basically implies that legal differences are just NI being 'uppity' (!)

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Sylvia de Mars @sylviademars.me · 10/06/2026

I will also contribute Unimpressed Sausage, who will make a better MP than many, and may bring small cheer.

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Sylvia de Mars @sylviademars.me · 10/06/2026

Oh fuck off, BBC. The passive voice? Really? Choosing to make it sound like it just sort of happened and these weren't grown people who had planned to go out for a race-oriented pogrom? You're beyond not fit for purpose and I despise Labour for not going in hard on you and all other media.

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Sylvia de Mars @sylviademars.me · 01/06/2026

Peak "girl please" here - universities don't have a choice, they're subject to the CMA because you *did* want them to be that type of marketised, just not some other types, just a wee half-hearted public/private mess as a sector, worst of all worlds, which is - oh, I see! - our fault. 🫠

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Sylvia de Mars @sylviademars.me · 01/06/2026

This is politicese for "oh God don't ask me hard questions about the detail, you know I don't know the detail, you asshole!", isn't it. Huge shout-out to BP for dropping this and then fleeing all scrutiny. If she's one of the best performers in modern Labour, it should be super embarrassed.

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Sylvia de Mars @sylviademars.me · 12/05/2026

"he's got ideology" is only a commendable quality if that ideology isn't wildly off-putting to the vast majority of former guaranteed Labour voters, guys (And his slick Blairite horny-for-privatisation everything is also going to massively put off the Reform tempted. Come on.)

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Sylvia de Mars @sylviademars.me · 09/05/2026

But here's some real Turkeys voting for Christmas: the disabled and carers and people with diabolically bad health are way more likely than very healthy people to vote for Reform, and are going to be very angry when they realise what that will do for the already insufficient support they get! /4

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Sylvia de Mars @sylviademars.me · 09/05/2026

You know you, as a foreigner, have been doing work on NI long enough when you read this start of a UKSC judgment and just make a weird 'balloon deflating' sound out loud. 🤡 (A few days later and nope, it's not really gotten any better. Proper scundered reading it, so it is.)

1. There have been longstanding conflicts in Ireland, including over the partition of
the island. A key aspiration of Irish nationalists has been to bring about a united Ireland,
with the whole island forming one independent state. This aspiration conflicts with that
of unionists in Northern Ireland, who want that region to remain part of the United
Kingdom (“the state”, in what follows). These conflicting aspirations together with many
other pervasive and serious communal differences resulted in violence during what have
commonly come to be known as “the Troubles”, leading to many tragedies with a deep
and profoundly regrettable legacy of suffering. More than 3,500 people were killed during
the Troubles, with approximately 40,000 injured. Around 1,200 cases relating to killings
remain unsolved.

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Sylvia de Mars @sylviademars.me · 09/05/2026

I mean, I think they mostly mean that you and yours are really unwanted, babe. Taking anything else simple from them is your spads earning their paycheck. Maybe we could do some research and reflecting before we commit to more of the same.

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Sylvia de Mars @sylviademars.me · 25/10/2025

So what I'm getting from this is that actually, somewhere between 53 to 80% of the active party membership voted for Powell, while people with no interest in the party who just happen to be in a trade union that pays a political levy have... no interest in the party. Seems a pretty solid win imv.

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Sylvia de Mars @sylviademars.me · 23/10/2025

Challenge accepted, and don't let the door hit you, you delusional monolingual pariahs xoxo

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Sylvia de Mars @sylviademars.me · 01/10/2025

Joke's on you - they have completely different names!!!!

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Sylvia de Mars @sylviademars.me · 30/09/2025

Globalisation didn't make us leave the EU, you absolute plough!

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Sylvia de Mars @sylviademars.me · 30/09/2025

🤔🤔🤔 anyway at least everyone is agreed that universities, however many people are attending them, will not get more government support, I guess

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Sylvia de Mars @sylviademars.me · 23/09/2025

Having a 8 year old as your best friend is rough.

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Sylvia de Mars @sylviademars.me · 16/09/2025

Your unpopular opinion is the wisdom of the gays, Peter. Join me:

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Sylvia de Mars @sylviademars.me · 14/09/2025

Update; per Reuters, said roommate can't be located or even clearly identified, nor can their representatives. First part, hmm. Second part, ??? Back to just vaguely not believing anything, I guess.

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Sylvia de Mars @sylviademars.me · 13/09/2025

Yes, I too find that I am most impressed and desperate to please people who demonstrate understanding me by saying insightful things like "or whenever the next election is" as a key indicator of how much they care about and know about my country. A+ no notes.

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Sylvia de Mars @sylviademars.me · 12/09/2025

Oh no, now the BBC is trying, and it's worse. Lads Helldivers II is a satire where you *play* the fascist humans who are taking their fascism out on bugs that they think are fascist. And what it means is it's satire. What an extremely online dude made of it: ???? It's -- no. Stop.

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Sylvia de Mars @sylviademars.me · 12/09/2025

Oh my god can the BBC stop embarrassing itself and talk to some experts on online culture please.

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Sylvia de Mars @sylviademars.me · 11/09/2025

Anyway here's a gorgeous card I picked up today, just as a small timeline and mental health break from everything:

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Sylvia de Mars @sylviademars.me · 02/09/2025

Yep. A socialist utopia just like North Korea, where they infamously hold military parades in honor of the Less Supreme Not Leader's outfits.

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Sylvia de Mars @sylviademars.me · 31/08/2025

Family Pokemon update: we've all found our niches (I'm a Bolt, wife is a Pult, daughter loves Eevee Box, Zard, and shoving Lillie's Clefairy into everything). The mad buying should taper off now, but hasn't been entirely fruitless; here's our current illustrated rares & master balls from S&V.

Bad picture with lots of glare taken of 18 pokemon cards with illustrations or master balls on them, all mostly hidden by the fact that they're all sleeved and toploaded. Don't bother robbing us, if they were worth it we would have sold them already - they're mostly just pretty!

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Sylvia de Mars @sylviademars.me · 28/08/2025

Good morning to everyone else whose face is also melting rn!

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Sylvia de Mars @sylviademars.me · 06/08/2025

LMAO I made this as satire visible from space yesterday. Come ON. How is anyone still even slightly persuaded by these lunatics.

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Sylvia de Mars @sylviademars.me · 02/08/2025

Most interesting thing here to me (other than the 100+ paragraphs about why being born male might make you taller and so better at the stick game, which, deeeep sigh @ this being a judicial issue at all) is this paragraph:

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Sylvia de Mars @sylviademars.me · 28/07/2025

Fair play to Specsavers, quality advert. Best Dutch football export strikes 3 for 3. Howay the lasses!

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Sylvia de Mars @sylviademars.me · 23/07/2025

Anyway, huge sigh of relief here because we don't use Gradebook because of TurnItIn, so this is all completely pointless and they'll have to work up a different way to ruin my life with solutions in need of problems.

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Sylvia de Mars @sylviademars.me · 23/07/2025

What the fuck is any of this? These aren't admin tasks anyone teaching at university at least should be dealing with at all, and even at secondary I'd want to advise Porsche's parents to get a hobby and wouldn't need AI to move her deadlines. Who is this actually for?!

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Sylvia de Mars @sylviademars.me · 23/07/2025

Lmao my desired skills are for students to do their own thinking. Do feel free to explain to me how that's aided by a chat with a predictive bot. 💀💀💀

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Sylvia de Mars @sylviademars.me · 17/07/2025

She bullied him so relentlessly he gave up, surrendered both beds and just laid on the floor. Tiny little fascist asshole. Unbelievable.

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