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Julie Montoya @juliemontoya20.bsky.social · 4h

What about people from countries where they do not put any gender marker on passports at all?

Julie Montoya @juliemontoya20.bsky.social · 4h

Too many people still fall for the idea of the Media as being "the fourth estate", a bulwark against the Establishment; but the real truth is, the Media *are* the Establishment. Fleet Street calls the tune -- and Downing Street dances to it.

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Julie Montoya @juliemontoya20.bsky.social · 5h

One time, I was having trouble with some cream; and without thinking about it, shouted from the kitchen, "I've been beating it for fifteen minutes, I've got a sore wrist and it's not getting any stiffer!"

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 7h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Stéphanie says… 🏴‍☠️☕️🍰 @stephaniejane.bsky.social · 10h

An excellent blog on how Catalonia provides trans healthcare.
In short, it’s a million miles away from the adversarial approach of the NHS. It allows trans people to talk through the issues in their lives, without fear that saying the wrong thing will be jumped on and healthcare withdrawn.

Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 11h

New short blog: Trans health waiting lists are a political choice

growinguptransgender.com/2025/10/12/t...

Trans health waiting lists are a political choice

I’m just back from an awesome trans healthcare conference in Norway (blog on that to follow). Here I wanted to share information from a presentation by the founder of the transit trans health…

growinguptransgender.com

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Julie Montoya @juliemontoya20.bsky.social · 5h

Closing a pair of contacts and waiting for a limit switch to change state is easy, though. Just a lot less sexy.

(Doorknobs aren't great even for humans. My home has ball catches on all the doors. My parents' house has lever handles.)

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Julie Montoya @juliemontoya20.bsky.social · 6h

And why would you have a humanoid robot to open doors, as opposed to just having motorised doors?

Wouldn't it gross you out to be reminded that people used to have slaves to do those sort of tasks for them, every time you saw your robot doing them?

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Julie Montoya @juliemontoya20.bsky.social · 6h

Also, making a "dancing" (= forever falling and self-righting) robot is easier than making a statically-balanced one.

And also also, human-shaped robots are an absolutely lousy choice for almost any real-life purpose. There is a reason why printers do not have articulated arms holding pens.

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Julie Montoya @juliemontoya20.bsky.social · 7h

Ouch. That's kind of understandable, if you had the knowledge that you were a girl beaten out of you before you reached that age :(

Julie Montoya @juliemontoya20.bsky.social · 8h

Many happy returns!

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Lilith Treah 🏳️‍⚧️ @riveroceansea.bsky.social · 8h

If you come
Out
And you have
No friends or
Family
I am here
I love
You all
I support
You all
Do not listen
To the bully
Haters

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Julie Montoya @juliemontoya20.bsky.social · 9h

I always imagine that to the tune of "Once in Royal David's City". With various ways of handling the odd syllable at the end of line 2.

GCs can't even do derogatory chants properly!

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🏳️‍⚧️ Amanda Rae 🏳️‍⚧️ @realamandarae.me · 10h

Friends help friends with sunblock 🌞

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Julie Montoya @juliemontoya20.bsky.social · 10h

Ah. Right. Yes, I see why it's problematic.

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Julie Montoya @juliemontoya20.bsky.social · 10h

I only know it as a trick pack of playing cards that can be made to appear all different, or all the same, depending on how the magician holds them.

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Kirsti Miller @kirstimiller30.bsky.social · 1d

It appears that politicians should display their sponsorships on their attire, akin to sponsored sports teams, thereby ensuring transparency regarding their affiliations.

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BarefootFi @barefootfi.bsky.social · Aug 30

Apologies to people from the US who are not gun lovers.

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Julie Montoya @juliemontoya20.bsky.social · 10h

And AOC. I hope she will be President soon, and introduce universal taxpayer-funded healthcare quickly enough for people to get fully used to before anyone else gets elected.

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Joanna Hastings @joannahastings.bsky.social · 1d

Per the US National Institute for Health, over 40 *known* intersex variations exist. More are still being discovered. Genitalia, hormones, chromosomes –– even a person's cells can be female in one part of their body and male in another, and they may not even know it.

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Julie Montoya @juliemontoya20.bsky.social · 10h

Exactly.

In primary school, you learned you could not subtract a larger number from a smaller one.

At GCSE, you learned about negative numbers but could't take the square root of one.

Then at A-level, you learned about complex numbers.

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Julie Montoya @juliemontoya20.bsky.social · 11h

They haven't crossed the streams yet .....

Julie Montoya @juliemontoya20.bsky.social · 11h

Now ask her about queer-bashing (which is also on the rise).

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Julie Montoya @juliemontoya20.bsky.social · 11h

The ECHR guarantees that new legislation cannot be applied retroactively to something that was permissible at the time it was done, in the place it was done.

Could the UK voting to leave the ECHR be deemed an act of war against the countries of origin of affected immigrants?

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Julie Montoya @juliemontoya20.bsky.social · 11h

Oh, she's really growing up now! 😍

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Julie Montoya @juliemontoya20.bsky.social · 12h

No it is not.

Words can do harm,and the most harmful words can do more harm than the least harmful physical contact.

The kind of "free speech" you are talking about is equivalent to giving everyone the power to aim weapons into thin air and blaming the inevitable victims for getting in the way.

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