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Julie Montoya @juliemontoya20.bsky.social · 22m

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 · 53m

Many happy returns!

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Lilith Treah 🏳️‍⚧️ @riveroceansea.bsky.social · 56m

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 · 1h

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 · 3h

Friends help friends with sunblock 🌞

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Julie Montoya @juliemontoya20.bsky.social · 2h

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

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Julie Montoya @juliemontoya20.bsky.social · 2h

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 · 17h

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 · 3h

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 · 23h

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 · 3h

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 · 3h

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

Julie Montoya @juliemontoya20.bsky.social · 3h

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

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Julie Montoya @juliemontoya20.bsky.social · 3h

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 · 4h

Oh, she's really growing up now! 😍

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Julie Montoya @juliemontoya20.bsky.social · 4h

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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Julie Montoya @juliemontoya20.bsky.social · 4h

* Remotely murdered, using their own hands as the weapon.

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Julie Montoya @juliemontoya20.bsky.social · 5h

Someone needs to confront her directly with this. Hold her hypocrisy up to her face like a mirror.

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Julie Montoya @juliemontoya20.bsky.social · 6h

Since it was by CodeMasters, I'm surprised they didn't call it "egg simulator" .....

Of course, that title could indicate a rather different game altogether!

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Julie Montoya @juliemontoya20.bsky.social · 6h

Technically, they still know exactly where you are with that thing, too.

(Barring some shenanigans with Asterisk and software-defined radio, and a rather Republican attitude to the terms of an amateur radio licence .....)

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Alice Skye @alice-skye.bsky.social · 1d

All out against transphobia! On Saturday, November 1, TERFS intend to march in London, demanding trans exclusionary, discriminatory legislation, and threatening trans people on our streets.

We cannot let this happen unchallenged.

We need as many people possible out again on 1st November!

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Julie Montoya @juliemontoya20.bsky.social · 1d

The UK is acting like a man who divorced his wife, still lives in the same village as her, and is annoyed that she has taken his name off her car insurance.

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Julie Montoya @juliemontoya20.bsky.social · 2d

It was wrong to create the state of Israel at the end of World War II. The Nazis did not invent Jew-hate out of whole cloth -- it had already been going strong for, oooh, about 1945 years. The *proper* solution would have been to remove the source from which they originally learned it.

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Julie Montoya @juliemontoya20.bsky.social · 2d

Cis men also have an oestrogen cycle. (Just because there isn't a bulb in the holder, doesn't mean it isn't wired up behind the board.) Do you not notice your facial hairs getting easier and harder to shave, in a way that does not depend on blade sharpness?

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