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Lucy Budge
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(Particle) Physicist turned Software Developer turned Data Engineer | she/her

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Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
December 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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November 18, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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Omg I’m dying 😂😂😂…so…So Emily Austin, a right wing 'influencer' who works for Bibi and the GOP, launched 'Hot Girls for Cuomo'.

Guess who didn't bother to register the URL when she did that? What do you think Hot Girls for Cuomo dot com leads to now?... 😄 Enjoy.

[ HotGirlsforCuomo.com ]
November 5, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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With alt:
September 3, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Labour can't try and appease Reform voters and neo nazis and tell the rest of us that if we vote Green we might let the Tories in.

Mate you're already worse than the Tories.
September 3, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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I wish there was a short, concise term to make clear that I support ‘AI’ when we’re talking about machine learning developed methodically on specific data for a specific purpose. My issue is with genAI, the purpose of which is to mash up language to create the illusion that it’s capable of thinking.
September 2, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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For the overwhelming majority of people who practice it, sports is not about competition. It's about social belonging. Once you understand that, the reason why transphobes want to ban trans women from it even outside of competition and even in disciplines like darts is pretty obvious.
August 4, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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All famines are man-made, all famines are political. Historians of empire and humanitarianism have known this forever. Gaza is not starving, Gaza is being starved, by Israel, and this starvation is enabled by our government and by every other government that does not step in to force food and aid.
July 24, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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There is only one possible ending to this story, and sports aren't the last chapter. I guarantee that if you haven't lost five decades of rights in two weeks, you have no idea what this feels like, so I'm begging you: protect trans kids right now with everything you've got.
July 3, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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We inhabit a world where Bob Vylan can't visit the United States, but Netanyahu was invited to speak to Congress. There really is no excuse for this.
July 2, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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It’s Disability Pride Month.

Many people can’t understand why we would be proud of our disabilities because ableism is everywhere.

This month we celebrate disabled lives and push back on ableism & eugenics.

We are not less than

We are not expendable

We will keep fighting
July 1, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Disability Pride Month is here! Here is a surprisingly insightful article from…Good Housekeeping? On the origin, history, and meaning of our Pride flag.

www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/a438769...
Understanding the Design of the Disability Pride Flag
Here's what you should know about the flag's symbolism and origin.
www.goodhousekeeping.com
July 1, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Happy corporations remove their rainbow logos on social media day to all who celebrate
July 1, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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I’ve spent 5 months working in a migraine research lab. It’s more common than asthma or diabetes and nearly half go undiagnosed.
This post covers the epidemiology of migraine regarding who it hits hardest and when, and who gets missed.
theedgeofepidemiology.substack.com/p/migraine-w...
Migraine: What We Know and Who It Hits Hardest
Migraine is one of the most disabling conditions we know of. Here's what the data says about who gets it, who doesn't get help, and why we still don't quite understand it.
theedgeofepidemiology.substack.com
June 30, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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no no, Echo Chamber was my father’s name. please, call me Allowed To Have Boundaries chamber
June 9, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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New results of the G-2 experiment are expected to be presented at a Fermilab colloquium later Today. Now, why is this #gminus2 experiment so interesting and gets even jaded particle physicists like me excited? A thread:

(today at 10 am Chicago time, www.youtube.com/@fermilab )
Fermilab
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory is the premier particle physics lab in the United States. Founded as the National Accelerator Laboratory in 1967, it was renamed after physicist Enrico Fermi in…
www.youtube.com
June 3, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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reminder, bsky has a clever way to display pronouns that's built in!

but you only see them if you yourself opt in, so please feel free to here by subscribing and then choosing which applies!!

@pronouns.diy
June 2, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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Another U.S.-run aid center was the site of a massacre in southern Gaza after Israeli forces opened fire on civilians. “The Americans and Israelis set a huge trap for us to lure us here and kill us,” an eyewitness told Mondoweiss.

mondoweiss.net/2025/06/aid-...

#Palestine #Israel
Aid massacre: Israeli forces kill 31 Palestinians at U.S.-run aid distribution center
Another U.S.-run aid center was the site of a massacre in southern Gaza after Israeli forces opened fire on civilians. “The Americans and Israelis set a huge trap for us to lure us here and kill us,”...
mondoweiss.net
June 2, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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guys we HAVE to get rid of DEI. it’s about FAIRNESS
June 2, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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on the one hand edi policies improve business and society, but on the other hand racists don't like them, so who is to say whether they are good or not?
June 2, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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every company from june 1st until june 30th
June 1, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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This is quite something - massive respect to Kate Nash for putting this out into the world. Give it a listen.

Kate Nash - GERM
youtu.be/q2MoQJP-PhA?...
Kate Nash - GERM (Official Lyric Video)
YouTube video by Kate Nash
youtu.be
May 28, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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gender-affirming care has regret rates significantly below completely uncontroversial interventions like knee replacement surgery

no study will ever tell you differently

let trans people get the care they need
Republicans in Utah commissioned an investigation into gender-affirming care for trans youth after banning it in 2023.

They're now rejecting the findings of that investigation which showed access to care reduced suicides and improved "positive mental health and psychosocial functioning outcomes."
Utah lawmakers’ own study found gender-affirming care benefits trans youth. Will they lift the treatment ban?
The Utah Legislature's own newly-released study found that gender-affirming care benefits trans youth. Now, will lawmakers lift the treatment ban?
www.sltrib.com
May 24, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Physics is learned by solving physics problems.

A guy who "learns" physics by talking to chatgpt for hours a day, can spend an entire year never once solving a single problem, but thinking that he is learning physics.

A freshman on their very first day, has learned more physics than he has.
A year with zero calibration, happily regurgitating nonsense back and forth with the answer-shaped object machine, and you now have a guy who is *ruined* for the next several years. It'll take years of hard effort to fix what he mutilated.
May 19, 2025 at 6:13 PM