M☿th
@monroetempleton.bsky.social
Often miserable ✨ writer, miniature painter 💅🎨 Orbiting Glasgow 🏴 Queer as folk (they/them, she/her) 🌈 28
My novellette: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CPX6VJ54 (Amazon) https://books2read.com/u/meO2Zz (elsewhere)
My novellette: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CPX6VJ54 (Amazon) https://books2read.com/u/meO2Zz (elsewhere)
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M☿th
@monroetempleton.bsky.social
· Feb 22
HELLO I WROTE A NOVELLETTE, about a trans woman who switches places with parallel selves to avoid the consequences of her decisions (www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CPX6VJ54) and a SHORT STORY about sad gay monks on a vineyard of a ring world (www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CPX8172R)
Spending my pre-work time drawing designs for starfighters :)
November 24, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Spending my pre-work time drawing designs for starfighters :)
at minimum I think any municipal minded social democrat should want to make Red Vienna look like NIMBYism
November 24, 2025 at 1:39 PM
at minimum I think any municipal minded social democrat should want to make Red Vienna look like NIMBYism
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Me when I have an idea just before falling asleep but I don’t write it down in my phone notes:
Terumaru, a bright young lightbulb and the mascot of the Tokyu Denki electric company, trapped in a door yesterday:
November 24, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Me when I have an idea just before falling asleep but I don’t write it down in my phone notes:
There's a great bit in the novel Butter about the power of a turkey roast and how the difficulty of it is the point as an act of ultimate culinary dedication to those you love, and I think about that moment a lot
“if it’s a small gatherng of 4-6 people just buy a rotisserie chicken and skip the anxiety and all the prep of cooking a whole turkey and sixty billion sides”
November 24, 2025 at 10:12 AM
There's a great bit in the novel Butter about the power of a turkey roast and how the difficulty of it is the point as an act of ultimate culinary dedication to those you love, and I think about that moment a lot
I love working for a University that has a high proportion of overseas students studying in the UK, now to take a big swig of coffee and see what the Government is doing to support my struggling sector
i: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 23, 2025 at 10:29 PM
I love working for a University that has a high proportion of overseas students studying in the UK, now to take a big swig of coffee and see what the Government is doing to support my struggling sector
"It's ironic how Death of the Author is reinterpreted to mean the exact opposite-" no it's not it's just very stupid
November 23, 2025 at 10:11 PM
"It's ironic how Death of the Author is reinterpreted to mean the exact opposite-" no it's not it's just very stupid
Glasman is the final boss of class discussion because a literal peer of the realm is ranting about working class and how to win votes
November 23, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Glasman is the final boss of class discussion because a literal peer of the realm is ranting about working class and how to win votes
Oh wow so if you turn off the AI data scraping, Google really does just remove quality of life from Gmail in the most bitter way possible huh
November 23, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Oh wow so if you turn off the AI data scraping, Google really does just remove quality of life from Gmail in the most bitter way possible huh
Maybe the most solved murder in American history, but the idea the leader of a nuclear power could be killed by a single very motivated marksman who had already tried to shoot and kill a public figure melts people's brains
My first political memory - exactly 62 years ago right now, a 4-year-old boy trying to understand his mom's tears - is still the biggest event in my lifetime. We still (IMO) don't *really* know who killed JFK, but we know the public's trust was shattered. It's a straight line to today's mess
November 23, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Maybe the most solved murder in American history, but the idea the leader of a nuclear power could be killed by a single very motivated marksman who had already tried to shoot and kill a public figure melts people's brains
Happy with these guys so far ^-^
November 22, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Happy with these guys so far ^-^
Find Cummings interesting as he's a thoroughly disgraced public figure who has been trying to cope with a loss of political standing by becoming a freak weirdo altRight incel who has twitter fame and is a year away from posting about gooning as am act of enlightenment
November 22, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Find Cummings interesting as he's a thoroughly disgraced public figure who has been trying to cope with a loss of political standing by becoming a freak weirdo altRight incel who has twitter fame and is a year away from posting about gooning as am act of enlightenment
Had Nixon died in 74 like he nearly did, I do think America would have probably had a much healthier fifty years
November 22, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Had Nixon died in 74 like he nearly did, I do think America would have probably had a much healthier fifty years
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The transphobic landlords are leaving.
And yet YP are also platforming SUTR (SWP) activists at their events and courting them
And yet YP are also platforming SUTR (SWP) activists at their events and courting them
November 21, 2025 at 7:08 PM
The transphobic landlords are leaving.
And yet YP are also platforming SUTR (SWP) activists at their events and courting them
And yet YP are also platforming SUTR (SWP) activists at their events and courting them
The American proposals are horrific and demand the Ukrainians butcher themselves, also pretty obvious the Russians won't accept them because it still leaves Crimea vulnerable to blockades without a land bridge lol
November 21, 2025 at 4:44 PM
The American proposals are horrific and demand the Ukrainians butcher themselves, also pretty obvious the Russians won't accept them because it still leaves Crimea vulnerable to blockades without a land bridge lol
Name a non-English film
November 21, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Name a non-English film
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Looking the financial indices out of the UK and apologies if this has ever come up before, but have they considered reviving the economy by joining a large economic and political consortium of countries nearby, say in Europe?
November 21, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Looking the financial indices out of the UK and apologies if this has ever come up before, but have they considered reviving the economy by joining a large economic and political consortium of countries nearby, say in Europe?
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It's the most wonderful time of the year: Scotland's gritter tracker is back! 🏴❄️🧊
www.traffic.gov.scot/gritter-trac...
www.traffic.gov.scot/gritter-trac...
November 21, 2025 at 11:31 AM
It's the most wonderful time of the year: Scotland's gritter tracker is back! 🏴❄️🧊
www.traffic.gov.scot/gritter-trac...
www.traffic.gov.scot/gritter-trac...
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I wonder how Scottish Power's award-winning LGBTQIA+ employee network In-Fuse feel about their company's name being stamped on the awarding of a hate group assaulting the rights of their community.
This was just 10 days ago (reposted without image)
This was just 10 days ago (reposted without image)
November 21, 2025 at 10:59 AM
I wonder how Scottish Power's award-winning LGBTQIA+ employee network In-Fuse feel about their company's name being stamped on the awarding of a hate group assaulting the rights of their community.
This was just 10 days ago (reposted without image)
This was just 10 days ago (reposted without image)
I don't really care about historical accuracy in movies but I do feel like, if you're not going to be accurate, have fun with it and pull a Titus '95 or Richard III
November 21, 2025 at 11:30 AM
I don't really care about historical accuracy in movies but I do feel like, if you're not going to be accurate, have fun with it and pull a Titus '95 or Richard III
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Its quite striking to me the similarity with the no more jury judgements thing Labour wants to do how they say “criminals shouldn’t get juries“ when the reality is that its “people wouldn’t get juries“
Fixed it for you. Idiots! If the exclusion is based on appearance then it will certainly impact cis folks as well as trans folks.
November 21, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Its quite striking to me the similarity with the no more jury judgements thing Labour wants to do how they say “criminals shouldn’t get juries“ when the reality is that its “people wouldn’t get juries“
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Why yes, @microsoft.com, I will HAPPILY provide you feedback on how exactly I feel about Word right now.
November 20, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Why yes, @microsoft.com, I will HAPPILY provide you feedback on how exactly I feel about Word right now.
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THIS IS YORK (1953)
November 21, 2025 at 3:02 AM
THIS IS YORK (1953)
The Ed Gein show has him say he's what
November 20, 2025 at 3:01 PM
The Ed Gein show has him say he's what
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Mill workers were hugely important in the push to get women the vote. Although wages were low they, wielded economic power and were well organised.
They often, unfairly, get overlooked in the popular narrative where the quest for the vote gets cast as a purely middle or upper class movement.
They often, unfairly, get overlooked in the popular narrative where the quest for the vote gets cast as a purely middle or upper class movement.
This has to be one of of the most iconic photographs of the 20th century from March 1907. Sixteen years old suffragette Dora Thewlis. A poor mill worker from Honley in Huddersfield she was a member of the Women's Social and Political Union At a demonstration in London she is
November 20, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Mill workers were hugely important in the push to get women the vote. Although wages were low they, wielded economic power and were well organised.
They often, unfairly, get overlooked in the popular narrative where the quest for the vote gets cast as a purely middle or upper class movement.
They often, unfairly, get overlooked in the popular narrative where the quest for the vote gets cast as a purely middle or upper class movement.
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We need a word to describe how the media makes sure that it sets its own news agenda on TDOR, trans day of visibility, Pride Month, and the anniversary of Brianna Ghey’s murder. It happens every year, and it’s shameless.
I’d like to propose: “flooding” - like “flooding the zone”.
I’d like to propose: “flooding” - like “flooding the zone”.
![Double page spread in the Times - From gender critical beliefs to boxing: what the guidance says
Geraldine Scott - Assistant Political Editor
A trans rights protest outside parliament in April after the Supreme Court ruled that the term sex in the Equality Act referred to biological sex
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The equality watchdog has set out sweeping new guidance on how to apply equality protections for the first time in more than a decade, with a focus on how transgender people should be treated.
The 300-page document, seen by The Times but not yet published, was prompted by a Supreme Court judgment in April that ruled the terms “sex” and “woman” in the Equality Act referred to biological sex.
Here we outline the key elements.
Single-sex spaces
The most significant change is a departure from previous interpretations that transgender people should generally be treated in line with their gender identity in single-sex settings such as changing rooms or hospital wards.
Previously it was thought that excluding a transgender woman from a single-sex setting could amount to discrimination.
The new guidance states clearly that trans people may be excluded from single-sex spaces that do not correspond to their biological sex when it is a “proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim”, such as protecting privacy, dignity or safety.
Reflecting the Supreme Court ruling, the guidance said that for the purposes of the Equality Act “a person’s sex remains their biological sex, whether they have a GRC [gender recognition certificate] or not”. The guidance adds: “A trans man with a GRC is a woman and a trans woman with a GRC is a man, for the purposes of the act.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cyefpiziml7b24sxpd74axq7/bafkreib2buaq3w6z2bphwtq3lvtmf2keurfz5hdbfqdedh7ushy5xdgdru@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 8:14 AM
We need a word to describe how the media makes sure that it sets its own news agenda on TDOR, trans day of visibility, Pride Month, and the anniversary of Brianna Ghey’s murder. It happens every year, and it’s shameless.
I’d like to propose: “flooding” - like “flooding the zone”.
I’d like to propose: “flooding” - like “flooding the zone”.