Rachael P 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 🇬🇧 🇦🇺
@rachael-p
Suffolk-based retired Cambridge physicist. Born 313.2 ppm. Trans woman. Catless mad catlady (she/her)
And most definitely not trans. Oh no, definitely... All I can say is, what a cheek.
Not quite(?) what Vetinari said to Moist von Lipwig? (there was no floor behind the door).
It makes me so happy to see Vegemite back on sale at my local Sainsbury's!
The day before the EHRC Code dropped, Victoria Richards in the Independent Women newsletter, asked what makes us angry. She published my reply in the newsletter yesterday.
When I was attending Charing Cross gender clinic in the late 70s, they had this poem behind reception:
By coincidence bashback's post followed yours. And it was impossible not to wonder whether Malhotra will be one of the first people to find others uncomfortable with sharing a space with her.... I think I'd die laughing.
Feels more like Carnival. An opportunity for others to cos-play. After all, demos don't usually include the people you are demonstrating *against*. /3
You might be too young? by Rudyard Kipling -- Kim is an orphan growing up in pre-partition India, ends up spying. Brilliant -- a love letter to the people of the subcontinent, as I read it. First para:
Apparently, consistency is not Rupert Lowe's strong point
I think the Met Office is overstating how unusual it is to break records by that much. It was 1.6C in July 4 years ago. But maybe they don't want us to panic?
The world's a bit rubbish right now, but while there are purple foxgloves still, there's hope.
So based on reading 13.120, it seems to me that the EHRC has gone to extreme lengths to comply with the ruling in the GLP JR, without actually saying so. Those "other means"? Trans-inclusive spaces are permitted. They are not going to say so, but will claim in court it is obvious.
I've cheated and gone for the AI summary, but my conclusion is that there isn't a lot in it, especially if fuel prices return to pre-Iran values (assuming 1kWh ~ 0.7 litre) BUT, if I have kerbside charging, I can charge @5p a unit overnight (Eon, EDF tariffs). Then you get a worthwhile RoI.
This is Colorado rather than the UK, but the judge's argument is refreshing, and clear. EHRC Scotland's volte face on trans rights seems predicated on their not being many of us. Someone needs to explain "rights" to them? www.erininthemorning.com/p/colorado-s...
There is a familiar ring to this quote from the Kansas Court...
Well, it *is* another of our native corvids. *Very* beautiful when they fly, although like magpies they aren't spectacularly good at it (unlike jackdaws). As I recall, mainly eat acorns, so you need some oaks nearby.
If both sets of figures are correct, then Muslims are more likely to be assaulted than Jews, but less likely to be the victims of hate crime. I guess Muslims are just unlucky. /s
Weather forecasting for dummies.... By inference, "bottom" = "southern". I live near Slade Bottom and Six Mile Bottom, but I doubt that is what they intend. Or indeed the Fens. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Given it's the BBC... Are we to infer that he was therefore a 60 year old Virginian?
As an astrophysicist, might I just say this seems like a very good idea. I have no idea how you would collect them anyway, and I really don't want Jupiter and Saturn any more angry than normal, thank you very much.
I thought a full unboxing video might be OTT, but so pleased to have @badambulist.bsky.social's first Dorley book in *actual book* format. And thanks to @waterstones.bsky.social for selling it.
These are the current Stonewall UK Trustees. I will be writing to them individually to ask them to commit to trans equality, or if they can't do that, to step down. I haven't got their contact details yet, but I think they should be easy to find.
So you wish you were a girl, huh? (although I'll settle for "woman")
Some things never change. Here is Charlotte Bronte on rant in 1849... (I've removed the bit about the monarch being a lunatic and an unprincipled debauchee the real ruler...)