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@astromaker.bsky.social

Humanist software engineer. Woodwork, Astronomy and all things sciency. More replies to others than original posts. I have a couple of 'controversial' opinions but always try to be polite.

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Exactly, it's like we're regressing. We've been trying to break those stereotypes for decades and now we seem to be enforcing them again.

12.02.2026 14:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Do you have links to support your assertion that gender critical people are saying this attack implicates all trans women and are using it to justify GAC bans?

12.02.2026 13:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Just that reporting should be accurate. If someone's sex is not relevant, don't report it. If it is relevant, report it accurately. This has nothing to do with GAC, it's just about reporting the facts of a crime accurately.

12.02.2026 12:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I could go all pedantic and say that does not represent a solvable cube, but making one would involve some serious dedication and what's there is already impressive enough.
Nice work.

12.02.2026 11:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Obviously I'm not claiming to know the mind of a mass shooter, but...

Surely when going on a killing spree, you'd naturally wear the most practical of clothing you have to hand. Unless you're deliberately dressing to advertise your conformance to some stereotype?

12.02.2026 09:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

If their sex is important enough to report on, then it is important enough to report on accurately. That is all.

12.02.2026 08:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I believe it's true that the police (mis)identified him as a women. What the guardian did wrong was to wait 10 more paragraphs before correcting that.

12.02.2026 08:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Gender critics are not saying this implicates all transwomen, just as most mass killers being male does not implicate all men. But this specific perpetrator was male.

12.02.2026 08:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I would like to assume that they described the sex correctly. I don't know why they would feel the need to describe the clothing, do they tend to do that with male mass shooters?

11.02.2026 19:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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โ€˜The normal should be darknessโ€™: why one Belgian national park is turning off โ€˜pointlessโ€™ streetlights The radical project is an attempt to preserve wildlife in one of Europeโ€™s most light-polluted countries, but can they persuade local people they will still feel safe?

โ€˜The normal should be darknessโ€™: why one Belgian national park is turning off โ€˜pointlessโ€™ streetlights

11.02.2026 12:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 161    ๐Ÿ” 39    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5

I โค๏ธ this analogy.

09.02.2026 15:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Superb tool, but some of the groupings seem a bit 'people's front of Judea'.

09.02.2026 12:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Indeed.

06.02.2026 19:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Thanks. Found a link:
www.leparisien.fr/sports/je-ne...

I do have sympathy for the guy, he probably thought he was female right up into puberty. To find out you are not the sex you thought you were has to be a shock.

06.02.2026 13:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Do you have a reference for that quote?

06.02.2026 12:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I apologise, I failed to detect the sarcasm.

05.02.2026 16:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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I don't think anyone would have been depicting a woman like that. Trans or otherwise.

05.02.2026 16:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

In what way is that transphobic?

05.02.2026 16:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Good point. I just checked and other labelled accounts do have the label on their profile page. I automatically assume it's the account that's ben labelled but maybe Cathy's isn't. In which case yes, that post didn't deserve a label.

05.02.2026 11:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Her entire account has the label. Everything she posts inherits it.

She could post the most anodyne cute cat picture and it would be labelled intolerant.

05.02.2026 11:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The GC side is definitely associated with some idiots, it's galling that one of my positions is shared with these people.

The Gender Ideology side seems to have captured many well-meaning but somewhat naive people.

Who do you think on that side is actually 'bad company'?

04.02.2026 15:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I agree, it would. Unfortunately I assume they felt they had to quote the secretary of state for Health and Human Services, even though the guy's an utter nutcase.

Do you want to discuss the rest of the article at all?

04.02.2026 14:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Cathy. The OP.

But I see you are referring to a quote in the article Cathy posted. Fair enough, I certainly would avoid quoting him. But is there actually anything wrong in the article?

04.02.2026 14:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Ah, there's a quote from him in the article. Yes. I'd avoid quoting him if possible. But the quote is aside from the data and advice.

Is there anything actually wrong in the article?

04.02.2026 13:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I don't think she did did she?

04.02.2026 13:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I would definitely double-check a Dr Oz assertion. But he's not the source for this quote as far as I can see.

04.02.2026 13:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

J.K.Rowling was on the same side as Epstein?

03.02.2026 22:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It seems this was from 2019 and nothing whatsoever to do with Trump or his Nobel demands. Though it would be nice if politicians responded to the orange idiot like this, the caption is false and misleading. Please delete this post, it's not helping.

03.02.2026 10:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thought it might be something like that.

02.02.2026 23:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

So doesn't seem entirely unsubstantiated to me.

02.02.2026 21:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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