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marykmac.bsky.social @marykmac.bsky.social · 3h

human rights do not flow from "innate characteristic from birth"! are you in key stage one?!

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 18h

“The existence of even one ex gay dismantles the central lie of homosexuality, that it is an innate characteristic from birth and therefore should have human rights awarded to it.”

Same shit different era.

Chloe Cole: The existence of even one detransitioner dismantles the central lie of transgenderism, that it is an innate characteristic from birth and therefore should have human rights awarded to it.

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marykmac.bsky.social @marykmac.bsky.social · 1d

cycling home now, pray that i don’t get hit by an irony.

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marykmac.bsky.social @marykmac.bsky.social · 1d

or pelvic floor.

marykmac.bsky.social @marykmac.bsky.social · 1d

yessss! I went to a class there in the summer. It's a gorgeous space up in George Street Arcade.

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marykmac.bsky.social @marykmac.bsky.social · 1d

YES! Where is it? Aerial Cirque or somewhere else?

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marykmac.bsky.social @marykmac.bsky.social · 1d

and I’ve bumped into three separate people from my old job! this feels like a slightly contrived film where I die at the end of the day.

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marykmac.bsky.social @marykmac.bsky.social · 1d

somebody else there was from my aerial hoop class! there were pronouns badges and blue hair on people other than me!

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marykmac.bsky.social @marykmac.bsky.social · 1d

am in a bike / sustainable travel workshop in a room full of sewing machines, it’s like the inside of my head went big.

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marykmac.bsky.social @marykmac.bsky.social · 1d

I'm convinced they don't know what trains are. Who cycles to a station for a round trip that takes less than 2 hours?

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marykmac.bsky.social @marykmac.bsky.social · 1d

I see the key competency of athletes as "keeps doing the thing even when it's boring and/or it hurts". Despite ~30 years of doing intense physical activity, she still sees it as "is naturally slim".

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marykmac.bsky.social @marykmac.bsky.social · 1d

I have a friend who's had a terrible body image since we were kids. She does Ironmans, and her casual Sunday afternoon bike rides are ~50 miles, but she once referred to another woman as "athletic, not like [her]" and was confused when I was like 😲

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marykmac.bsky.social @marykmac.bsky.social · 1d

(I did it on my phone (iphone) where it's straight hair ginge - on my computer (microsoft) it's a curly ginge. It hadn't occurred to me that it only works as a self-portrait for E on iphone!)

marykmac.bsky.social @marykmac.bsky.social · 1d

What does this appear as to you? Ginger daughter considers it a self portrait. 👩🏻‍🦰

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marykmac.bsky.social @marykmac.bsky.social · 1d

That’s the article I was thinking of! But if I know about it, why isn’t it standard practice for reviewing cctv tape?!

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Bouba's Delivery Service @fernmonkey.bsky.social · 1d

I know I keep banging on about this, but it's important: what they dislike about the EU's Freedom of Movement principle isn't the existence of migrant workers, but the existence of migrant workers WHO HAVE RIGHTS.

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marykmac.bsky.social @marykmac.bsky.social · 2d

(obv this is an exaggeration but from the UK - and England specifically - it does make you weep how much more probable "person with relative power has experienced shitty end of housing crisis" is.)

marykmac.bsky.social @marykmac.bsky.social · 2d

a really big difference between Ireland and the UK is that someone with the temerity to be the a member of the tenant class simply would not rise to be deputy editor of a national newspaper.

Joe Griffin @thejoegriffin.bsky.social · 2d

- You owe me 3 grand!
- Pfft, what are you gonna do about it? Become the deputy editor of a national newspaper and bring this to the country's attention shortly after I announce my candidacy for president of Ireland?

Daithi @daithig.bsky.social · 2d

From the Phoenix - x.com/ThePhoenixMa...

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marykmac.bsky.social @marykmac.bsky.social · 2d

right, it's very "bikes and trains aren't a serious form of transport that people rely on, they're just for fun".

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marykmac.bsky.social @marykmac.bsky.social · 2d

Even in London I bet it would only be a minority of instances that people are there and back within two hours!

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marykmac.bsky.social @marykmac.bsky.social · 2d

(also isn't this exactly what search algorithms are for? you don't look at 8 hours of footage, you look at a screenshot of 12noon and see if the bike is there. If it is, you look at 2pm. If it's not, you look at 10am. If it's not there at 10am, you look at 9am etc. this should take less than 2mins!)

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marykmac.bsky.social @marykmac.bsky.social · 2d

a surprising oversight for ... the British Transport Police.

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marykmac.bsky.social @marykmac.bsky.social · 2d

whereas "cycle to station, train to work, back 9 hours later" has been my main commute for three different employers over the last 10 years.

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marykmac.bsky.social @marykmac.bsky.social · 2d

genuinely can't think of a train journey I could do where I'd be back in two hours. If was just going to a suburban station, it would be quicker to cycle straight there. If I was catching a train to Bradford or York, I'd have just enough time to buy a sandwich before it was time to go home.

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marykmac.bsky.social @marykmac.bsky.social · 2d

TWO HOURS? Do they understand what stations are? If you're going somewhere by train and coming back again within two hours, you could probably get there just as fast by staying on the bike.

Will Yeates @wyeates.bsky.social · 2d

The British Transport Police (BTP) says it will not investigate bike thefts outside stations where the bicycle has been left for more than two hours.

Bike thefts at stations 'decriminalised'

Bike thefts at stations 'decriminalised'

The British Transport Police will not investigate many categories of bicycle theft, the BBC learns.

buff.ly

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marykmac.bsky.social @marykmac.bsky.social · 2d

good news for small furry animals though.

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