Christine Burns MBE 🏳️⚧️📚⧖
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Creator of good books such as Trans Britain and Pressing Matters.
Lifetime Achievement Award PrideOfManchester 2021.
Drove an 8 year old #EV called Peggy and now drives Olga who is 18 months old.
Posts about #climate mitigation, #trans moral panic, #books.
Was #retired. Checked out but unable to leave. She/Her.
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@GhostOnTheHalfShell @ChrisMayLA6 Can I put you in my list of traders? I never know when I’ll need a plasterer.
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Every day when I check the news it feels more and more as though the effect of Brexit was to separate the UK from the safety of the pack. Alone and wounded the country feels increasingly prey to the predators and hyenas. Musk is a hyena. This week’s attacks feel like a rather brutal lesson in how the world has changed. We are not the only prey but we feel especially vulnerable.
@christineburns Let’s be more specific than “Musk is a hyena”. “Musk is Ed the Hyena”.
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@ChrisMayLA6 ..positive cash flow — one can afford to be imprecise in those circumstances — but in retirement I’m juggling a cash flow that can sometimes look deceptively comfortable but which I project will be uncomfortably tight in the next breath.
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Interestingly Viviana Zelizer has some interesting things to say about how the 'envelope budgeting' logic has survived even into more cashless situation (which I think would confirm your experience) - if you've not read her economic sociology, its interesting stuff
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@ChrisMayLA6 I’m unmoved. I haven’t carried cash on me since March 2020 and it’s reached the point now where the idea of assigning value to little slips of paper and metal discs seems a bit strange. For budgeting I use computer ledgers and know not only where I stand to the penny but also how that position will change over months ahead. Cash would mean forever counting and trying to remember which bills are about to arrive. This wouldn’t have mattered when I worked and had an inherent..
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@NanoRaptor Lying brings about spontaneous immolation.
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@ChrisMayLA6 Possibly the greatest act of self harm that a nation has inflicted upon itself in recent times — though the US may steal that crown.
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Yes, its a crown that is not particularly appealing!
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