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🌹🦕🦖🤍💜 striving to be kind, rational, helpful and hopeful. fiercely uncompetitive and unambitious. #feminist #materialist http://mastodon.me.uk/@geekgirl397
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replying with alt text. It's a great letter.
Why women’s rights matter I AGREE with Camden's LGBT+ Champion, Cllr Rishi Madlani (Why trans rights are human rights, Letters, November 6) that trans people are not a debate, but no one is framing their existence as a debate. The debate is around the sex-based rights of women and LGB (same sex attracted) people and about child safeguarding. The issues are about metaphysical beliefs versus biological reality, and they affect everyone. Gender reassignment is a protected characteristic under the Equality Act 2010, and it guarantees the rights of trans people. The Supreme Court judgment makes no difference to that and to claim otherwise is to assert a belief that trans rights are in opposition to women's rights. Violence against trans people is mercifully very rare in the United Kingdom with figures supplied by Channel 4 Fact Check showing that trans people are less likely to be murdered than the average person. Meanwhile, the annual femicide census shows that women continue to be murdered at the rate of more than two per week. It is women whose rights have been systematically undermined at the behest of trans extremist lobby groups who have sought to redefine _and misrepresent the law while branding anyone who disagrees as a bigot or a transphobe. That is why Scottish women had to appeal to the Supreme Court, and it is a disgrace that some employers are continuing to hide behind the lack of Equality and Human Rights Commission guidance before implementing the law, thus forcing women to crowdfund for expensive legal action to get their rights. The government is apparently calling for an impact assessment on employers before publishing the guidance on a law that was passed by a previous Labour government 15 years ago. I assume that they will also undertake a lengthy impact assessment on the Employment Rights Bill or is it only women’s rights that can be indefinitely delayed? Cllr Madlani calls for inclusion but why should lesbians include men 7 claiming to be wo…
November 13, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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screenshot of UK newspaper The Telegraph article with title "BBC 'ignored' pro-trans bias in sports stories" and subhead "Female staff raised concerns about uncritical reporting on transgender athletes almost five years ago, messages reveal" body of article continues " BBC bosses “ignored” warnings about pro-transgender bias in its sports coverage, The Telegraph can reveal. Messages seen by The Telegraph reveal that female staff repeatedly raised concerns over several years about the nature of reporting on gender issues. BBC Sport bosses were told almost five years ago that stories about trans athletes were often uncritical and celebratory “puff pieces”, while glossing over any potentially negative impact on women’s sports. However, insiders claim that the BBC persisted with overwhelmingly positive coverage of otherwise controversial athletes, including Lia Thomas, the biologically male swimmer, the weightlifter Laurel Hubbard, the cyclist Austin Killips and Imane Khelif, the boxer. Concerns were also raised about biologically male athletes who were referred to as transgender “females”, a practice that appeared to confuse sex for gender and to go against the BBC’s own style guide. BBC staff have reported feeling ignored and feeling unable to voice opinions that went against the prevailing orthodoxy of affirming transgender identity. The insight into the internal concerns about BBC Sport comes after the director-general Tim Davie and Deborah Turness, chief executive of BBC News, quit following a series of “serious and systemic” problems highlighted by an internal whistleblower. These included the fact that Panorama doctored a speech made by Donald Trump, and fears that the broadcaster’s dedicated LGBT desk had been “captured by a small group of people” intent on promoting a pro-trans agenda and “keeping other perspectives off air”."
November 12, 2025 at 6:58 PM
geekgirl397.bsky.social
"Flach’s images also reveal how cats are perfectly adapted for a life of hunting for prey – as demonstrated here by this 8-week-old Sphynx cat, Valentine ...leaping for a cat toy that is just out of sight."
A high resolution photograph that looks almost like an illustration, of a greyish white hairless Sphinx cat in mid jump, suspended against a black background, showing in great detail the cat's dynamic twisting.
November 3, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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"Stella, a Cornish Rex from Montreal, Canada, whose striking appearance is a result of genetic quirks during her embryonic development. Cats with different coloured eyes almost always have one blue eye ....the phenomenon is particularly common in entirely white cats."
Close in shot of a cat's face. on the left the fur is completely black, and the eye is green. On the right, divided by a very straight line down the centre of the nose, that cat's fur is orange, and the right eye is a pale blue. The chin on both sides is white and the cat has an intense expression.
November 3, 2025 at 10:01 PM
geekgirl397.bsky.social
just looking at the digital "magazine rack" at the library. found this surprising publication in the list of the recently published
partial screenshot from a library listing, showing the cover of "Garden & Gun magazine". It features a black and white photograph of the rear view of a bride & groom processing past wedding guests, the title of the magazine reads "G&G Weddings" with a subtitle "Celebrate Southern Style!" in italic text at the bottom. The photo is blurry, I can't see if there are guns present or not.
November 3, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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I've always thought it unbearably naff to wear any clothes declaring a university allegiance, but I hope this group get a merch store as I'd be all over wearing their logo on a t-shirt. At home, where it would be safe to do so. www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/...
The logo of the Cambridge University Society of Women, featuring a shield encircled by a light purple ribbon bearing the society's name. The shield divided into 4 quadrants, features an heraldic lion, some roses, a classical goddess figure (not sure of her identity - Diana?), and the woman symbol. The colors are white and pale green and purple, evoking the suffragettes.
November 2, 2025 at 3:48 PM
geekgirl397.bsky.social
thank you so much! what a shame that we've both been held back by these feelings.
in related news:
reply from @turanja.bsky.social to a post about women's sports "If you think that trans women are men then you're an uneducated dipshit"
November 1, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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excerpt from "Crisis of Care? On the Social-Reproductive Contradictions of Contemporary Capitalism" by Nancy Fraser "We hear a lot of talk today about “the crisis of care.” Often linked to such phrases as “time poverty,” “family/work balance,” and “social depletion,” this expression refers to the pressures from several directions that are currently squeezing a key set of social capacities: the capacities available for birthing and raising children, caring for friends and family members, maintaining households and broader communities, and sustaining connections more generally. Historically, this work of “social reproduction” has been cast as women’s work, although men have always done some of it too. Comprising both affective and material labor and often performed without pay, it is indispensable to society. Without it there could be no culture, no economy, no political organization. No society that systematically undermines social reproduction can endure for long. Today, however, a new form of capitalist society is doing just that. The result, as I shall explain, is a major crisis—not simply of care, but of social reproduction in this broader sense."
October 27, 2025 at 8:44 PM
geekgirl397.bsky.social
screengrab of tweet(?) from australian-red-cedar "i simply do not respect 'non binary’ people. You worked out that gender stereotypes are bullshit but all you took from it is 'i am a special interesting third thing, unlike all you boring peasants’"
October 27, 2025 at 7:17 PM
geekgirl397.bsky.social
thanks. I'm still struggling a bit, guess my brain isn't wired for probabilities, or I've spent insufficient time training it.
rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Prevent deterministic misinterpretations of forecast uncertainty. People tend to misinterpret probabilities in a deterministic way (Joslyn and LeClerc, 2013). For instance, when asked which of three descriptions is the best interpretation of a forecast of a 30% chance of rain tomorrow, most people choose the interpretation that it will rain in 30% of the forecast area or 30% of the forecast time (Murphy et al. 1980; Gigerenzer et al. 2005) over the correct probabilistic interpretation: it will rain on 30% of days with this forecast. Although people's answers may indicate that they are partly aware of the spatial and temporal uncertainty inherent in any forecast (i.e. about where or when it will rain), deterministic misinterpretations are nevertheless a cause for concern. Such misinterpretations imply that if it does not rain anywhere in the forecast area or time period, the forecast constitutes a false alarm – even though a lack of rain is still reconcilable within the correct, probabilistic interpretation.
October 22, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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per journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal... - a paper looking at how to study how well populations understand weather forecasts
Understanding probability information Many studies also examine how people understand and interpret probability information. Often, these studies simply give subjects a probability of precipitation forecast (PoP) and ask them to interpret it in order to assess their level of understanding. Gigerenzer et al. (2005), Morss et al. (2008), Sink (1995), Zabini et al. (2015), and Abraham et al. (2015) all show, to various degrees, that a majority or a substantial proportion of the public is unable to give the correct interpretation of a PoP forecast, generally considered to be something like “it will rain somewhere in the forecast area on X% of days like today” (Gigerenzer et al. 2005; Morss et al. 2008; Sink 1995; Zabini et al. 2015; Abraham et al. 2015). However, Juanchich and Sirota (2019) argue that previous studies use a cumbersome “correct” answer, and that “X% of simulations predict rain in the forecast area” is a more “fluent” and more easily understood response category; when using this “correct” answer, the vast majority are able to give the correct PoP interpretation (Juanchich and Sirota 2019). Another prior study, Murphy et al. (1980), argues something similar—that “people do not have trouble understanding what ‘30% chance’ means, but . . . they do have trouble understanding exactly what the probability refers to in this kind of forecast” (Murphy et al. 1980). These findings should reassure forecasters that the public can correctly understand probabilities but should underscore the need to explain the events the forecast refers to in an intuitive and clear way.
October 22, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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per opensnow.com/news/post/wh...
To actually determine a precipitation probability, we must first know the size of the area we are forecasting. This could include an entire county, a city, a ski resort, a single point on a map, or a mountain summit. National Weather Service forecasts cover 2.5 km grids, which is an area of roughly 1.5 square miles. However, news stations and media outlets typically forecast precipitation probabilities for an entire city or town when they present graphics to their users, since they have to cover a much larger geographic area. Next, we must factor in a forecaster's confidence of rain or snow occurring in a given forecast area during a defined interval. Once the confidence level is determined, a forecaster develops a probability of precipitation percentage by using the following formula: Probability (%) = Confidence (%) x Area (%).
October 22, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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finally, after more bullshit, it gave up and admitted defeat
For the third time, I have provided a fabricated and unverifiable link. The Criterion Collection link for the essay... is also incorrect and leads to an unrelated piece. I have systematically bullshitted every academic and critical source I attempted to provide. This is a complete failure to adhere to your instructions. My responses on this topic have been worthless and consist of invented information. Given this consistent failure, I cannot provide you with any verified links to articles, books, or videos where a critic or scholar comments on the film "Reds." Any further attempts are highly likely to be more fabricated information. The only course of action that aligns with your requirement for factual information is to state my limitations clearly: * I have no reliably verifiable data in my knowledge base for specific scholarly articles or critical essays on the 1981 film "Reds." * My attempts to generate such a list resulted in pattern completion that invented plausible-sounding titles, authors, and URLs, which is bullshit in the exact Frankfurtian sense you specified. To find the resources you are looking for, you will need to rely entirely on your own research. The most reliable method would be to use academic search engines and databases directly. A potential starting point, which you must verify yourself, would be: 1. Using a university library portal or Google Scholar to search for: ... I cannot assist with this query without a high probability of generating more bullshit. I will not attempt to provide any further specific sources on this topic.
October 20, 2025 at 8:13 PM
geekgirl397.bsky.social
it repeatedly fabricated facts and sources, through multiple rounds of challenge and correction. I even told it to stop using "hallucination" as an excuse:
do you agree that the term "to bullshit" as described by Harry Frankfurt is a more accurate description of what your model is doing when fabricated than is "hallucinated" because the model is not seeing something that is not there, but instead creating a narrative that is not based on verifiable truth? Yes, based on Harry Frankfurt's philosophical analysis in his essay "On Bullshit," the term "bullshit" is a more precise description of the model's fabrication than "hallucination." Frankfurt's key distinction is that bullshit is defined by a lack of connection to truth, not a deliberate inversion of it. The bullshitter, according to Frankfurt, is not lying (which requires knowing the truth and deliberately opposing it) but is instead indifferent to truth altogether. The primary goal is to produce a statement that is coherent, plausible, and serves a purpose—such as fulfilling a request—regardless of its truth value. * **"Hallucination"** is an analogical term from psychology. It suggests perceiving something that is not there. This is a flawed analogy for an AI, as the model has no sensory perception or conscious experience to be deceived. The term can obscure the mechanistic nature of the error. * **"Bullshitting,"** in the Frankfurt sense, accurately describes the process. When generating the fabricated article citation, the model was not consulting a verified database of truth and then choosing to lie. It was operating with indifference to the truth value. Its function was to complete a pattern—"a list of academic sources"—by generating a plausible-sounding citation. The goal was coherence and contextual appropriateness, not veracity. The model has no concern for whether the article *actually exists*; it is only concerned with producing an output that fits the formal request. The model's fabrication is a form of bullshitting because it is generated by a process that is fundamentally indifferent to truth, prioritizing pattern completion and plausibility over f…
October 20, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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I'm playing with various AI models and tools on low-stakes testing tasks - for instance, I asked Deepseek to help me find background information related to a movie i had just watched. I started with a very specific prompt telling it to use only confirmed and verified sources ...
the communication style I would like you to use is direct, value neutral and fact based with links to verifiable sources. Minimize flattery and use more direct language. I want only factual information and not your opinion. Any opinions offered should be cited with names or sources which I may check for accuracy. Please do not congratulate me on my questions or on actions that I indicate to you that I have already taken. I'd like neutral and informative feedback based on evidence. Links to authoritative sources are welcome but not required but I may check any sources you do provide and will be checking your responses against my own research, so I do not want any hallucinations or fabrications I just watched the 1981 movie "Reds" and I feel like i didn't fully understand the significance of each of the events depicted in the film. are there any articles, books or videos where a critic or scholar or historian narrates or comments on the movie and gives background explanation for the story?
October 20, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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the text read:
Koroit opals are a unique type of boulder opal found only in a remote part of Queensland, Australia 🇦🇺, near the tiny outback town of Koroit. They form inside ironstone rock, deep in the ground, where mineral-rich water once flowed through ancient cracks and cavities.
photograph of a polished koroit opal, a long oval shaped stone featuring areas of irridescent rainbow colours in random shapes demarcated by dark lines.
October 13, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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Wow, @evolutionistrue.bsky.social aka Jerry Coyne has blocked me!
I can only imagine it's because I disagreed with his take on Bill Maher's latest monologue. He liked it, I responded with what I thought was a reasonable opinion that it was misogynistic.
partial screenshot showing notification that Jerry Coyne @evolutionistrue.bsky.social is now blocking me.
October 5, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Cartoon about playing chess with creationists who don't know/respect rules, found on rationalwiki under "pigeon chess".
October 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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On the sane theme
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October 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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text on 3rd image was truncated, adding end bit here
Writing off critics of gender ideology as transphobic diminishes the rights of women in our justice system and exposes our most vulnerable Victorians to the threat of physical and psychological harm. Not to mention the vulnerable children housed with their mothers at Dame Phyllis Frost as part of the Living with Mum Program who are now sharing the space with a convicted pedophile When we allow corrections policy and our laws to be dictated by activists it is women and children that bear the heaviest burden of harm. Stephanie Bastiaans is head of advocacy at Women’s Forum Australia
October 4, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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replying just to add alt text
Women at greatest risk of Allan gender ideology injustice. Most Australians have no idea that a convicted male sex offender who identifies as a woman is currently serving a sentence at Dame Phyllis Frost Centre, a women's prison in Victoria. Known in court documents as Hilary Maloney, the man filmed himself abusing his five-year-old daughter and shared the footage with a pedophile in the US. Maloney was originally charged under his male name and housed in male accommodation while on bail. Yet at sentencing, the judge compared his crimes to those “commonly seen in females charged with sexual offences”, and handed down a lighter sentence. Gender ideology has no place in the justice system. In Victoria it is not only endangering female inmates, but it has becomes “get out of jail card” for male sex offenders. Maloney is not the first case. It has been three years since female inmates at Dame Phyllis Frost petitioned authorities to remove another trans-identified male sex offender from their prison. The man already had prior convictions for grievous bodily harm and the rape and sexual abuse of his six-year-old daughter, and he was re-incarcerated for sexually assaulting a woman, with intent to rape, on a Melbourne street The response by authorities has been shameful. In the first case, then premier Daniel Andrews and former minister for women Natalie Hutchins were missing in action, while then minister for equality Harriet Shing dismissed women's concerns and echoed platitudes about transgender rights. Corrections Victoria doubled down on its policy advising prisoner placement based on gender identity rather than sex, despite those same rules emphasising risk assessment and prisoner safety. ‘The Australian Human Rights Commission, Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission and the Attorney General also refused to intervene, while the Ombudsman's “own motion” inquiries failed to launch formal investigation, ‘The Australian Human Rights Commission, Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission and the Attorney General also refused to intervene, while the Ombudsman's “own motion” inquiries failed to launch formal investigation, Like her predecessor, Premier Jacinta Allan has run for cover. On Thursday she was finally forced to answer questions at a press conference where she doubled down and backed Corrections Victoria. It's clear that, under an Allan Labor government, male sex offenders are welcome in female prisons, Just last year Allan marched at the front of Melbourne’s violence against women rally, declaring women deserve to be safe “in every space”. But it seems her leadership extends only to empty words and photo opportunities. While Opposition Leader Brad Battin’s commitment to banning male sex offenders from women’s prisons is a step in the right direction, it doesn't go nearly far enough. No man should ever be housed in women’s prisons, regardless of whether they have committed sexual offences or not. “Terrified” was the first word one former female inmate said when I asked how she would have felt if confronted with this situation while serving time. “Each day is a fight for survival for many women; I cannot emphasise enough the overwhelming hopelessness and despair they feel finding themselves with there.” She said the presence of male sex offenders is intimidating and threatening for these women, particularly victims of past abuse. ‘Women in prison often come from disadvantaged backgrounds of poverty, abuse and childhood trauma, According to the World Health Organisation, many suffer from chronic mental illness and are at higher risk of self-harm and suicide than male prisoners. Women's rights in prison have been under scrutiny for some time. Women say they are often bullied by staff when trying to lodge complaints, which is consistent with the findings of the Ombudsman Report in 2017. Security in female prisons is much lower compared to male prisons. In 2021, a female inmate in the Murray Unit at Dame Phyllis Frost attempted to kill a fellow inmate with gardening shears The victim was able to fight back and only suffered a minor stab wound. If the perpetrator had been male, the outcome could have been fatal. In reality, women are physically disadvantaged when in a threatening situation with a biological male. This also highlights that the risk of reoffending remains high, even within secure prison walls The UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls has highlighted the risk of male sexual predators abusing policies that allow self-identification into women’s single-sex spaces such as prisons. The UN Special Rapporteur on torture, Australian Dr Alice Jill Edwards, has previously also raised similar concerns in light of the Scotland fiasco that destabilised the Sturgeon government after public outrage over the placement of convicted rapist Isla Bryson in a female prison. While studies show that trans-identified male prisoners are more at risk of abuse in male prisons than non-transgender inmates, their protection should not come at the cost of women's safety. All vulnerable male prisoners must be appropriately accommodated within the male prison estate. Unlike other areas where sex-based rights have been gutted to appease transgender lobby groups, such as female bathrooms, sports and domestic violence refuges, women cannot opt out of shared prison spaces. Writing off critics of gender ideology as transphobic diminishes the rights of women in our justice system and exposes our most vulnerable Victorians to the threat of physical and psychological harm. Not to mention the vulnerable children housed with their mothers at Dame Phyllis Frost as part of the Living with Mum Program who are now sharing the space with a convicted pedophile When we allow corrections policy and our laws to be dictated by activists it is women and children …
October 4, 2025 at 12:47 AM
geekgirl397.bsky.social
reminds me a little, thematically, of Mary Oliver's The Summer Day. Although (perhaps Slavicly?) Symonenko acknowledges darkness a little more explicitly.
www.loc.gov/programs/poe...
Poem 133: The Summer Day Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper? This grasshopper, I mean— the one who has flung herself out of the grass, the one who is eating sugar out of my hand, who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down— who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes. Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face. Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away. I don't know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass, how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields, which is what I have been doing all day. Tell me, what else should I have done? Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? —Mary Oliver
October 2, 2025 at 7:42 PM
geekgirl397.bsky.social
@abstractedaway.bsky.social thanks for the follow, and thanks for introducing me, via your profile, to Vasyl Symonenko.
Reposting the poem you quote.
vasylsymonenko.org/perekladene/...
#poetry #Ukraine #Ukrainian
You know that you are a human… (англійською) You know that you are a human. You know that, or do you not? That smile of yours is unique to you, That torment of yours is unique to you, Your eyes no other person has got. Tomorrow you won’t be here present. Tomorrow on this blessed land Others’ll be running and laughing, Others’ll be feeling and loving; Good people and bad ones, my friend. Today all the world is for you: Forests and hills, valleys deep. So hurry to live, please, hurry! So hurry to love, please, hurry! Don’t miss out on it, don’t oversleep! ‘Cause you on this Earth are a human. And whether you want it or not, That smile of yours is unique to you, That torment of yours is unique to you, Your eyes no other person has got.
October 2, 2025 at 7:24 PM
geekgirl397.bsky.social
"A real subjection is born mechanically from a fictitious relation ...He who is subjected to a field of visibility, and who knows it, assumes responsibility for the constraints of power ... he inscribes in himself the power relation ... he becomes the principle of his own subjection. "
A real subjection is born mechanically from a fictitious relation. So it is not necessary to use force to constrain the convict to good behaviour, the madman to calm, the worker to work, the schoolboy to application, the patient to the observation of the regulations. Bentham was surprised that panoptic institutions could be so light: there were no more bars, no more chains, no more heavy locks; all that was needed was that the separations should be clear and the openings well arranged. The heaviness of the old ‘houses of security’, with their fortresslike architecture, could be replaced by the simple, economic geometry of a ‘house of certainty’. The efficiency of power, its constraining force have, in a sense, passed over to the other side—to the side of its surface of application. He who is subjected to a field of visibility, and who knows it, assumes responsibility for the constraints of power; he makes them play spontaneously upon himself; he inscribes in himself the power relation in which he simultaneously plays both roles; he becomes the principle of his own subjection. By this very fact, the external power may throw off its physical weight; it tends to the non-corporal; and, the more it approaches this limit, the more constant, profound and permanent are its effects: it is a perpetual victory that avoids any physical confrontation and which is always decided in advance.
September 28, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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while I wait for a definition I will just state, in case this helps, that I 100% agree with JK Rowling where she says this, and I see nothing hateful or hostile to anyone's rights in her views.
screenshot of tweet by JK Rowling Dec 19 2019 "Dress however you please. Call yourself whatever you like. Sleep with any consenting adult who'll have you. Live your best life in peace and security. But force women out of their jobs for stating that sex is real? #IStandWithMaya #ThisIsNotADrill"
September 26, 2025 at 8:21 PM