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Ben Falkner
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Antenna engineer who dabbles in 3D. UK. He/him.
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"attacks in Asia, especially around the India-Pakistan border and the Mainland Southeast Asia are seeing an uptick in activity, with Thailand and Cambodia also seeing some activity"

www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks...
GPS Spoofing Attacks Spike in Middle East, Southeast Asia
An Indian disaster-relief flight delivering aid is the latest air-traffic incident, as attacks increase in the Middle East and Myanmar and along the India-Pakistan border.
www.darkreading.com
April 23, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Okay. Not-a-lawyer-butt.

This to me is the tell. Women's oppression defined explicitly as a "shared disadvantage" resulting from "shared biology".

These are steps to formalize womanhood as a reproductive role, synonymizing it with certain features of anatomy that are "naturally" disadvantaged.
A certificated sex interpretation would cut across the definition of the protected characteristic of sex in an incoherent way. References to a “woman” and “women” as a group sharing the protected characteristic of sex would include all females of any age (irrespective of any other protected characteristic) and those trans women (biological men) who have the protected characteristic of gender reassignment and a GRC (and who are therefore female as a matter of law). The same references would necessarily exclude men of any age, but they would also exclude some (biological) women living in the male gender with a GRC (trans men who are legally male). The converse position would apply to references to “man” and “men” as a group sharing the same protected characteristic. We can identify no good reason why the legislature should have intended that sex-based rights and protections under the EA 2010 should apply to these complex, heterogenous groupings, rather than to the distinct group of (biological) women and girls (or men and boys) with their shared biology leading to shared disadvantage and discrimination faced by them as a distinct group.
April 16, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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The harms to young trans people in Wales described in this article are literally those I warned of in my evidence to the Commission on Human Medicines: ruthpearce.net/2024/12/11/p....
March 10, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
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There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience. No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent. And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted. ... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.
March 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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🌷trash🌷 (2020)
March 3, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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In the Netherlands for an Antenna Workshop at ESA. Most importantly said hello to Micky.
Micky, a ginger cat, sitting in a cat tree in the ESA ESTEC reception area.
November 15, 2024 at 4:46 PM
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Tiny pixel chimp (17x17 pixels)
#pixelart
November 8, 2024 at 9:59 PM