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This is right and I have been saying it forever. It makes no difference to my life if someone wants to play word games around whether I'm really a man.

Too long to read all of it (especially when I'm catching up on social media after a week or so away from it), but seems good based on a sampler.

2019 video of Heidi the Octopus, captured by Dr. David Scheel, a professor of marine biology at Alaska Pacific University in Anchorage & aired on PBS Nature program "Octopus: Making Contact". We think the color changes are the results of Heidi dreaming as she sleeps. Let's talk about it.

It’s helpful to have an actual Labour MP saying right out that it’s not what transgender people do or say that is the problem: it’s their presence that she objects to, their existence. Yes, this is what it always was, and these people just keep winding each other up and up to ever more extreme views

I hope so, Americans. I really hope so.

There's a lot worth reading closely here

I whimsically made some art last night, and decided that I like it. The title "Goblins' Secret" seems apt.

My #1 feature I wish Bluesky would implement: Mastodon style lists.

We've lost so much, so fast, it's absolutely breathtaking. And people act like us expecting Democrats to clearly say that nothing was wrong with the rights trans people had 5 years ago is an unreasonable activist demand.

@lynne-kelly-42.bsky.social Just watched www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmDQ... no mention of mnemonics.

The _real_ Odyssey www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY4I...

@lynne-kelly-42.bsky.social A video you may wish to share with Damian: Useful Charts on bird taxonomy www.youtube.com/watch?v=0E1k.... Includes a request for feedback before the final printed version is published, I've queried the exclusion of songbirds that are neither passerides nor corvides.

I was going to go to bed a while ago, but instead I've been sitting in my chair for 30 minutes feeling angry with the world. I won't link to the Bluesky posts that fuel this anger by reporting on bigotry and injustice. That would not do me any good right now.

This is a super cool paper (and last chapter of her PhD thesis) from my now-graduated student @import-astrory.bsky.social I would explain more but, really, the headline kind of does the job.

@lynne-kelly-42.bsky.social This one seems like something you wouldn't want to miss, although the linked article is in German social.anoxinon.de/@ninawillbur...

‘Gender critical’ transphobes are the ultimate ‘I demand to speak to the manager’ Karen’s!… Seeking authoritarian rule, to step in and ‘punish’ those they dislike! 😣 They did the same to Mermaids, then Stonewall, now Amnesty…climbing ever higher to stamp down harder! 😖 They are PRIVILEGED BULLIES!

On the topic of useful starting points . . . "The path to wisdom does, in fact, begin with a single step. Where people go wrong is in ignoring all the thousands of other steps that come after it." — Terry Pratchett

Men who feel threatened by the prospect of being beaten by a woman deserve to have their faces rubbed in the fact of their own worthlessness at every opportunity.

@lynne-kelly-42.bsky.social Here's a write-up of some recreational mathematics I did, if you get a chance to look I'd love your feedback app.box.com/s/wux77rk6jl...

This morning I found a counterexample to a mathematical conjecture that I first proposed a number of years ago. The conjecture was inspired by thinking of words in a block of text as ledges in a platform game.

For my newsletter I wrote about how Kier Starmer should serve as a warning for centrist Democrats in the US. It's a real crystal ball moment. www.burnsnotice.com/its-the-cent...

@lynne-kelly-42.bsky.social I just watched a video debunking the 1996 Bent Spoon winner, whose name I shall not utter here. I slipped a mention of your work into a comment, as an example of what to read instead.

My interview with Richard Fidler on 'The Memory Code' is replayed again. Although this is nearly ten years old, they have replayed it a number of times. It is still my favourite book and favourite interview. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr... #Memory #Stonehenge #Neolithic #Monuments #Indigenous

Amnesty International exposed years of anti-trans reporting at four UK newspapers. They ignored it. Research by human rights group identifies nearly 17,000 articles on trans-related topics in just five years

You couldn't get such evil and nonsense "guidance" out of people who just have misunderstandings and ignorance. It's forged out of raw hatred and malice and is designed to cause as much suffering as they can sneak past the very weak moral checks of the public

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there is nothing "logical" or "sex-based" about anti-trans bathroom policies. it's about stigma-contamination: *all* trans ppl are "corrupting" or "corrupted" in their eyes, so we are all banned from women's restrooms: juliaserano.medium.com/penises-priv...

Trans people are not “fighting for unpopular positions that society isn’t ready for.” Trans people are fighting to KEEP the rights we have enjoyed for decades. We have been able to legally change our gender markers since the 70s and before. Same with bathrooms, sports, youth, all for decades.

How amazing is this photo?

@lynne-kelly-42.bsky.social Thought you'd probably like this, the text on Mastodon explains that it was made by a 12 year old child with dyslexia mastodon.green/@pvonhellerm...

Sometimes you make a new comic, and sometimes you redraw an old one because you lost the original high res file 😅

@lynne-kelly-42.bsky.social Just watched a stone circle video by someone who shares your surname (Pete Kelly). Where his view differs most from yours is that he sees the move from earlier monuments like Newgrange to stone circles c. 3000 BC as a move from "god kings" to a more egalitarian society.

@lynne-kelly-42.bsky.social You may have seen that @scishow.bsky.social has a short video out on "The Evolutionary Basis of Autism". If you have any time for it at all, I advise starting from the 2:48 timestamp. That will skip over the introduction and summary and go straight to the substance.

@evanurquhart.bsky.social Re your gender identity essay, I find it troubling because it presupposes a definition of gender identity that I don't believe was ever seriously promoted, though it may reflect a common impression. It conflates failure of communication with failure of theory. Am I unfair?

Anyone who WOULDN'T be repulsed by this is an absolutely disgusting excuse for a human being.

@lynne-kelly-42.bsky.social Watched a video about the 2007 archaeology of West Kennet Long Barrow, claiming that it "collapsed" after just a single lifetime or so of use. There's obviously a bias when "use" is equated with "use for burial", but even so, how do we make sense of this?

I've denoted to this and to two other Minnesota fundraisers, one hundred American dollars each. (150 Australian.)

Meet Veronika, the tool-using cow. Veronika uses sticks to scratch herself, using different orientations and motions, an example of multi-purpose tool use. This suggests scientists may have underestimated cows' cognitive abilities. arstechnica.com/science/2026...

Reading about what ICE is doing in America hurts my brain and anything I could say is inadequate. As much to manage my own cognitive load as anything else, here are two examples: bsky.app/profile/norm... and bsky.app/profile/mari.... You have to want it abolished or you're a terrible human being.