lakoma @lakoma@qoto.org
Marketing, comms, science comms and outreach/public engagement with science monkey for a living. A bloody immigrant. Occasional writer. Interested (most of the time) in politics, books, tennis, cat photos. Expect rants. Truisms my own. https://linktr.ee/kasia.kokowska
Joined Nov 2022
A month away from Mastodon! It’s been a month of waiting in the real world and expect still a bit of waiting… bear with me #milestones #lifechanges #gettingthere
@Pat I imagine a US equivalent would be a Walgreens loyalty card. Boots is the largest British chain chemist (pharmacy in the US).
If anyone discovered how to be a real fan, it’s this Colombian family. They’re now on Spotify
I can be so awkward on the phone trying to explain what I’m phoning for. Well, you’re a removal company so I guess I’m moving? Yup. Can you move me, please? 🤣
No problems expressing my thoughts when I’m furious though, and my English gets so much better as well! #digitalchild #introvert #secondlanguage #communication
My top songs 2022 playlist on Spotify is awesome if I may say so myself 🤣😳
I’m watching the ‘where are you really from’-gate with a lot of interest. I have been asked in various contexts, with various intents for as long as I have lived in the UK. I realise I always will. Most people, even if their intentions are perfectly genuine (healthy curiosity), don’t know how uncomfortable this question can make people feel. It places an identity label on us that we might not be aligned with. No one has to identify with the place they were born in or want to have a conversation about it. Sometimes a simple ‘if you don’t mind me asking’ can make a whole lot of difference. And be prepared to just take ‘it’s complicated’ for an answer and move on #whereareyoufrom #whereareyoureallyfrom
@carlam I get asked a lot, because I have a clearly foreign accent. I can’t always tell what the intent is, and a lot of the time the curiosity ends up going a bit too far… I am also prepared to talk about my identity at length but have a standard answer to the initial question that most of the time allows me to test the intent. I still don’t know how to react to outright hostility though.
lakoma
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Dreaming of the “Where are you really from?” moment and me pulling out charts of my family’s origins. Alright, let’s start with Sephardic Jews , work our way to the indigenous communities of Panay and meander through Ilocos via southern China.
I’m from the #Philippines. It’s complicated. I’m happy to answer this question when asked in good faith but I can easily tell the difference between curiosity and hostility.
lakoma
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"An mRNA vaccine has been found to induce antibody responses against all 20 known subtypes of influenza A and B in mice and ferrets"
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2348576-promising-universal-flu-vaccine-could-protect-against-20-strains/
A lovely French lady selling York Gin at the York station (on learning I consider myself ‘from Edinburgh’): I used to live in Edinburgh! York is lovely, but Edinburgh is special.
I could not agree more. I’ll drink my York Gin to her tonight! #headingbackhome #goinghome
lakoma
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Keir Starmer's spokesman says the Scottish people do have a right to decide whether to leave the Union, but declines to say how that is possible given Westminster won't allow a vote.
"It is for those who want to break up the United Kingdom to set out how they propose to do so".
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@nephrolithiasis @JeniParsons @davidallengreen
Either Scotland can leave the Union on its own terms, or it's not a Union. Giving England (and therefore the Tories) a permanent veto is undemocratic and unjust. #IndyRef2
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Perhaps my cynicism has me delusional but at this point I can't help feeling any obstruction placed in the way of #indyref2 is just going to make scottish independence *more* likely in the long run 🤞🏻
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Can you imagine the uproar if the ECJ had told Britain is wasn’t competent to run a referendum on leaving the EU?
It didn’t because the Treaties binding Britain and the European Union were voluntary.
How the flick can Scotland and it’s people be denied the right to revoke Treaties of equal standing?
Depressing.
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Hottest of hot takes, but two points on #indyref judgment of UK Supreme Court:
1. Court’s observations on non-binding referendums and their de facto effect is interesting given the defects in the 2016 referendum, which were generally brushed aside because the referendum was, well, non-binding.
2. The judgment will do much for a Scottish nationalist argument that Scotland is a prisoner of the union, whatever one’s opinion on the correctness of that argument.
lakoma
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Taxpayer funded Office Christmas Parties, Bring your own suitcase....sounds vaguely familiar.
I keep forgetting we’re in England now and the football o’clock is a sacred hour. So, we’re off for some food and will be back after the game 🤣
Marketing, comms, science comms and outreach/public engagement with science monkey for a living. A bloody immigrant. Occasional writer. Interested (most of the time) in politics, books, tennis, cat photos. Expect rants. Truisms my own. https://linktr.ee/kasia.kokowska
Joined Nov 2022
