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Julie Montoya @juliemontoya20.bsky.social · 10h

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 · 15h

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 · 15h

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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Julie Montoya @juliemontoya20.bsky.social · 16h

.....and if they didn't consent, then it was Legitimate Interest.

Julie Montoya @juliemontoya20.bsky.social · 18h

If energy generation is producing CO2, that means there is necessarily a cost per kWh.

So who's paying for it?

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Julie Montoya @juliemontoya20.bsky.social · 21h

No, you have not had your rights taken away from you.

You *chose* to give up a *privilege*.

EU citizens are afforded privileges in the EU over and above non-EU citizens, by definition of membership; but Britons are not treated differently in the EU than any other non-EU citizens.

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Julie Montoya @juliemontoya20.bsky.social · 1d

This is also pretty much how NTP does it -- including the inescapable assumption that the request and response transit times are the same.

Julie Montoya @juliemontoya20.bsky.social · 1d

T3 + (((T4 - T1) - (T3 - T2)) / 2) is the time on the village clock when you got in and your clock was showing T4.
T4 - that is how much you have to adjust your clock by to make it match the village clock.

[*] Assuming the terrain is level enough for the times there and back to be equal.

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Julie Montoya @juliemontoya20.bsky.social · 1d

(T3 - T2) is how long you were in the village.
(T4 - T1) is how long you were out of your house. These are differences, so it doesn't matter that your clock is wrong.
((T4 - T1) - (T3 - T2)) is the journey time there and back.
((T4 - T1) - (T3 - T2)) / 2 is the journey time each way. [*]

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Julie Montoya @juliemontoya20.bsky.social · 1d

1. Set your clock going. Record the time T1 on it as you leave your house.
2. Record the time on the village clock as T2 as soon as you reach it, and T3 as you set off for home.
3. Record the time T4 on your clock as soon as you arrive home.

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Julie Montoya @juliemontoya20.bsky.social · 1d

I remember a kids' puzzle book that had a lateral thinking problem where you lived in an isolated cottage, before the invention of radio; you had a clock that normally kept good time but had stopped; and the nearest clock with the right time was in the next village, several hours' walk away.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 1d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Julie Montoya @juliemontoya20.bsky.social · 1d

This is the same MO as when "The Sun" campaigned for the release of a prisoner whom they not only were instrumental in getting locked up, but were baying for the death penalty at the time.

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Julie Montoya @juliemontoya20.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, British trans people are speaking about it.

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Julie Montoya @juliemontoya20.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly!

They hit low, fully expecting you to hit back high. But if a move could be beaten using fair play alone, it would not be called cheating.

If there's no referee to stop the fight, you have to decide whether to start using sharp, pointy things, or lose.

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Julie Montoya @juliemontoya20.bsky.social · 1d

It's definitely a trade secret giveaway!

Julie Montoya @juliemontoya20.bsky.social · 1d

Жодного квадратного сантиметра means ليس سنتيمترًا مربعًا واحدًا.

Julie Montoya @juliemontoya20.bsky.social · 1d

Wordle no. 1573. Smiling robot.

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Julie Montoya @juliemontoya20.bsky.social · 2d

I'm genuinely surprised no-one is calling this fake news because food poisoning *only* comes from animal products.

(This would not actually be a terrible assumption to make, *if* you had only ever lived in civilised countries with high food standards.)

Julie Montoya @juliemontoya20.bsky.social · 2d

I can see you're desperate to believe the expensive, proprietary treatment you paid for "worked"; but are you sure you didn't just randomly get better?

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Julie Montoya @juliemontoya20.bsky.social · 2d

Not a single one of the "copying is theft" brigade can tell me what the thing is that I used to have until someone the moment someone made a copy of my work, and that I no longer have afterwards.

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Julie Montoya @juliemontoya20.bsky.social · 2d

Their MO is exactly the same as the GCs' MO: Conflate legitimate criticism of their discriminatory behaviour, support for apartheid and genocide with illegitimate discrimination against the minority status behind which they hide ("antisemitism" for Israel / "misogyny" for GCs).

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Julie Montoya @juliemontoya20.bsky.social · 2d

That's exactly what they think. There is a ruling class and a peasant class, and the two are clearly separated.

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OII Europe @oiieurope.bsky.social · 3d

Today on October 7th, in a watershed moment, the Council of Europe’s 46 Member States have unanimously adopted the Recommendation of the Committee of Ministers to Member States on Equal Rights for #Intersex Persons, setting a new gold standard in Europe. Read the full PR here: bit.ly/4gWrr9X

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Stéphanie says… 🏴‍☠️☕️🍰 @stephaniejane.bsky.social · 2d

A happy day to lesbians everywhere!

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