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Darius Quebec 🏳️‍⚧️ @ksej.bsky.social · 3h

They don't (often) say it explicitly, but much of what they say makes zero sense unless you take it as a base assumption

Darius Quebec 🏳️‍⚧️ @ksej.bsky.social · 9h

Autocorrect keeps trying to turn penis into punishment. Studied no comment

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Darius Quebec 🏳️‍⚧️ @ksej.bsky.social · 9h

They think of a vagina as essentially the absence of a penis. And "thinks men can lack a penis" isn't much of an attack

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Darius Quebec 🏳️‍⚧️ @ksej.bsky.social · 1d

If the bar for doing a thing is "does it beat fascism", I have some bad news for Dallas about that tweet

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Darius Quebec 🏳️‍⚧️ @ksej.bsky.social · 1d

That was the interesting fact they tagged us with at the draw as well, which makes me wonder why people are talking about it all of a sudden. Or maybe it's just that we've sunk without a trace in recent FA Cups so it hasn't come up

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Darius Quebec 🏳️‍⚧️ @ksej.bsky.social · 1d

www.thefa.com/news/2025/oc... I didn't think we'd be in this, as a very ordinary tie between National League and National League North, but apparently someone has looked up our record breaking shootout from 2014

FA Cup fourth round qualifying preview

Five things to look out for in the Emirates FA Cup fourth round qualifying

www.thefa.com

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Darius Quebec 🏳️‍⚧️ @ksej.bsky.social · 2d

When you're used to unquestioned 100% domination, I guess it is a culture shock for someone else to have any say at all

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Darius Quebec 🏳️‍⚧️ @ksej.bsky.social · 3d

And that's why "born this way" is not a particularly great justification. We should have rights because bodily autonomy and free expression, whether we were born this way or just took it up one day for funsies

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Darius Quebec 🏳️‍⚧️ @ksej.bsky.social · 3d

Asked my sibling for help and they're offering what feels like peer support. I don't want peer support. I want someone with more sense than me to step in and sort everything 😭

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Darius Quebec 🏳️‍⚧️ @ksej.bsky.social · 3d

If all bodies are sexual, that implies you're only ever aware of your own body in a sexual context, which is pretty pitiful

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Darius Quebec 🏳️‍⚧️ @ksej.bsky.social · 3d

Given her history, Jaren Karen should know this better than anyone, and yet she makes the choice to erase it from discussion

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Darius Quebec 🏳️‍⚧️ @ksej.bsky.social · 3d

The more they get their way, the more they narrow the definition of "real females". My one consolation is that eventually they'll turn these definitions on each other

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Darius Quebec 🏳️‍⚧️ @ksej.bsky.social · 3d

45 minute wait between buses so I've gone for a cup of tea. Apparently if you order Earl Grey with lemon, they put the lemon in the pot with the teabag? I can't articulate why that isn't right other than I'm not used to it, but that's reason enough to find it disconcerting

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Darius Quebec 🏳️‍⚧️ @ksej.bsky.social · 3d

You can't read anything into that, she's just not a very good writer

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Darius Quebec 🏳️‍⚧️ @ksej.bsky.social · 3d

I handled it very badly, but I don't think there is a good way to handle someone being that far away from reality

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Darius Quebec 🏳️‍⚧️ @ksej.bsky.social · 3d

It's been six months and I still can't get over how he said I should be more scared of Muslims stoning me than the right wing taking away my health care and not two weeks later the government decided I should be banned from taking a shit

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Darius Quebec 🏳️‍⚧️ @ksej.bsky.social · 3d

Shout out to the house in Scotter flying the progress pride flag from a flagpole on the building

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Darius Quebec 🏳️‍⚧️ @ksej.bsky.social · 3d

Also, what bigger issues? Bigger than bodily autonomy and freedom of expression? Bigger than fighting back against the scapegoating of a minority? Struggling to see it

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Darius Quebec 🏳️‍⚧️ @ksej.bsky.social · 3d

"Are you enjoying this?" No but I'm worried you'll throw an even more exhausting sulk if I say so

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Darius Quebec 🏳️‍⚧️ @ksej.bsky.social · 3d

They do it really badly and then expect you to praise them for it. It's exhausting

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Darius Quebec 🏳️‍⚧️ @ksej.bsky.social · 3d

Typical torygraph attitude though. "It shouldn't be illegal when we do it"

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Darius Quebec 🏳️‍⚧️ @ksej.bsky.social · 3d

I read that part as just that navigating officialdom in a language you're not fluent in is really daunting. But a) we brought it on ourselves with Brexit and b) this should lead to empathy for immigrants here, not a demand that we be made the exception

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Darius Quebec 🏳️‍⚧️ @ksej.bsky.social · 3d

I read an article about packing for a flight to save space that recommended some premium ear buds instead of noise cancelling headphones and I'm thinking the space saving is really not worth it there

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Darius Quebec 🏳️‍⚧️ @ksej.bsky.social · 4d

The replica Wembley shirt @lucypaw.bsky.social gave me has had a successful debut

Darius Quebec 🏳️‍⚧️ @ksej.bsky.social · 4d

Cancelling a fraction is what we call reducing it to its simplest form and I just thought it made a funny pun

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