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@geekylou.bsky.social

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Feminist and geeky trans queer girl, C & Rust coder. I mostly post about trans, maker and tech stuff though I primarily post over on mastodon.

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geekylou.bsky.social @geekylou.bsky.social · Apr 21

Created an account over here as it feels like this is where most the trans activisty stuff is going on.
For anyone who recognises from my twitter days I've also got an account over on Mastodon where most my less serious stuff is posted!

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geekylou.bsky.social @geekylou.bsky.social · 17h

The thing that gets me is men who don't bother closing the door. There definitely needs to be an education campaign on using gender neutral toilets.

geekylou.bsky.social @geekylou.bsky.social · 21h

So why are they getting advice on how to treat trans people from Mumsnet

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

watching the UKs green party elect an actual unafraid leftist into leadership and see party membership double in under a month is once again endless proof that if you stand up for leftist causes and treat the electorate like adults, you’ll win people over easily

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geekylou.bsky.social @geekylou.bsky.social · 1d

It's not even that hard. I think I'm the first trans woman one of my work colleagues knows and she's stil said fuck JKR without needing to be told.

geekylou.bsky.social @geekylou.bsky.social · 1d

Wonders if they were routing for Sauron.

geekylou.bsky.social @geekylou.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe they shouldn't of treated their base like shit.

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 2d

Quite a bloody cheek, this, given the UK has the most hostile regime towards healthcare for young trans people and their families in the world (www.gov.uk/government/s...).

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geekylou.bsky.social @geekylou.bsky.social · 2d

The same in the UK. We voted for change and we just got a party that was slightly better at being evil to minorities.

geekylou.bsky.social @geekylou.bsky.social · 3d

I wonder how much TERFism is TERFs who found their husbands watching trans porn.

geekylou.bsky.social @geekylou.bsky.social · 3d

Exactly. In other words she's scared we might fight back after all the abuse from people like her.

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 28d

people who want other people to stay in sad little grey boxes forever and never be happy in their bodies or desires are villains and cowards and they may be winning right now but by god they will lose as water smooths stone and roots break it, because that fierce joy is roots and water and life

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geekylou.bsky.social @geekylou.bsky.social · 4d

Considering the circumstances trans people have been shockingly peaceful.

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geekylou.bsky.social @geekylou.bsky.social · 4d

Same this looks exactly like my thing.

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Reuters @reuters.com · 4d

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

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PoggleReboocca @pogglerebecca.bsky.social · 4d

Campaigning to ban innocent people from public spaces for over an accident of birth with no evidenced reason for it being needed, is an extremist position held by extremists.

Pass it on.

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geekylou.bsky.social @geekylou.bsky.social · 5d

I never understand these people who expect me to vote for parties that are going to take my rights away because it's a lesser evil. Like you took everything from me at this point I don't care if the worse party will do the same to you anymore.

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Sarah has a suggestion @goatsarah.org · 5d

A young girl died because of the British government’s assault on trans people. They murdered her. Streeting, Starmer, Cass and the rest, they murdered this girl. Her blood is on their hands.

archive.ph

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geekylou.bsky.social @geekylou.bsky.social · 5d

It even fails on economic grounds. Businesses just don't want to get involved in policing who uses toilets and changing rooms especially with the risk of loosing employees in industries where it's hard to recruit.

geekylou.bsky.social @geekylou.bsky.social · 5d

The transphobic agenda is doing the same. Imagine the amount of time and energy that transphobes want to spend on harassing people who they think are trans. And for what? It doesn't even help anyone.

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geekylou.bsky.social @geekylou.bsky.social · 5d

Now I'm imagining kids going around stealing cars to fire from the trebuchet.

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Dani Finn 🏳️‍⚧️ 📚 @danifinnwrites.bsky.social · 6d

Happy International Lesbian Day to trans & nonbinary folks who feel weird about calling themselves lesbians even though they are 🫶

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geekylou.bsky.social @geekylou.bsky.social · 6d

The left here in the UK is gaslighting about how they care about us while pushing the same evil stuff as the right.

geekylou.bsky.social @geekylou.bsky.social · 6d

They aren't on my side so no level of comms is going to fix that.

geekylou.bsky.social @geekylou.bsky.social · 7d

This is like when the libdems introduced the plastic bag charge while letting through tuition fees and making their student base never vote for them again isn't it.

geekylou.bsky.social @geekylou.bsky.social · 8d

Or children.