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Jamie

@jamieshorten.com
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Born @ 353ppm Dubliner, exported South African, amateur photographer, queer, non-binary trans woman. I mess about with code for work. She/they

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🦇 Katra Scariello, Spooky Apple Audio 🦇🏳️‍⚧️ @katrafiy.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Furthermore, you need to get it through your head that there is nothing inherently wrong with trans women winning sometimes. "Fair" is not a system in which trans women are only ever allowed to lose. We can and should be the best sometimes, and that's perfectly fine.
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🦇 Katra Scariello, Spooky Apple Audio 🦇🏳️‍⚧️ @katrafiy.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
The actual truth is that in every sport trans women have ever been allowed to compete in (Did you know we've been allowed to compete in the Olympics for 25 years?) we have tended to underperform and be underrepresented relative to cis women.
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🦇 Katra Scariello, Spooky Apple Audio 🦇🏳️‍⚧️ @katrafiy.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
"Okay well Veronica Ivy broke a world record in cycling, when she was 35!" Yeah, she broke a world record specifically in the 35-39 age bracket. Her record was also slower than same record in the 40-44 age bracket and it was beaten by a cis women 3 months later... funny how you didn't know that part
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🦇 Katra Scariello, Spooky Apple Audio 🦇🏳️‍⚧️ @katrafiy.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
"Andraya Yearwood and Terry Miller broke all of those school records in Connecticut!" Yeah, and then they both bombed when they went to regionals; because there was nothing exceptional about either of them, their school's women's athletic program was lagging that far behind the rest of the state.
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🦇 Katra Scariello, Spooky Apple Audio 🦇🏳️‍⚧️ @katrafiy.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
"Fallon Fox crushed a woman's skull!" no she did not. She gave one of her opponents an orbital rim fracture, which is one of the most common injuries that can happen in MMA. Fallon Fox won against a bunch of low/mid tier fighters and then lost to the first competent fighter she faced in the ring
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🦇 Katra Scariello, Spooky Apple Audio 🦇🏳️‍⚧️ @katrafiy.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
The fact of the matter is that the handful of trans women who excel in sports are the exception, but even then their achievements are often grossly exaggerated to stoke right wing fearmongering, and you incurious fools eat it up every single time.
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🦇 Katra Scariello, Spooky Apple Audio 🦇🏳️‍⚧️ @katrafiy.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Because the thing about trans sports is that those "necessary conversations" have already been happening for literal decades and those "legitimate questions" have answers, you just don't want to actually know what they are if the answers show that you should be supporting us.
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🦇 Katra Scariello, Spooky Apple Audio 🦇🏳️‍⚧️ @katrafiy.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
transphobic liberals in 2025: "I just think there are conversations that need to be had about the trans sport issue." No you do not. You just use the pretense of "there needing to be a conversation" so you can avoid ever actually having one or engaging with the actual science or with trans people.
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Handy Dani Dyke @sharpdresseddyke.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Especially this point. There was a trans woman in bicycle racing years ago whose opponent claimed that she had an unfair advantage because the trans woman won 2 out of 11 times they raced each other.
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🦇 Katra Scariello, Spooky Apple Audio 🦇🏳️‍⚧️ @katrafiy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
it's so exhausting that over a decade into this anti-trans culture war so many of our "allies" still refuse to listen or care, because heaven forbid they ever stop to examine their own preconceived notions about trans women's bodies.
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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Cis people, trans people are under constant attack, in so many ways, all day long every day. That a single one of you has the gall still to cave to fascist pressure, to run as a Dem scapegoating trans kids, all this horseshit I'm still seeing: Go join the GOP, at least it's honest.
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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
*History* will regard you as a fascist. It will talk about how you were given a chance to do something brave and instead you threw vulnerable kids to the fascist fire, to what, try to save your little job? Fuck you.
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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Cis adults who are letting trans people be your bargaining chips with fascists: Congrats, you're fascists.
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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Delaying our puberties, making us transition mid-life and mid-career, this fucks trans adults up. Letting teens especially have access to gender-affirming care, this saves lives. Full stop.
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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Cis allies: Here's some more (unfortunately quite evergreen) advice from me. If you feel afraid or angry or like you don't know what to *do*, that's fully fine. And I promise, trans folks we feel all this and so much more. This situation's nightmarish. whats-helping-today.beehiiv.com/p/to-cis-peo...
whats-helping-today.beehiiv.com
To Cis People Who Feel Despair
I get it! Some thoughts.
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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Cis allies: I NEED you to wake the fuck up. I need you to speak up, when some fellow parent thinks Harry Potter is okay. I need you to actually defend trans people when your relatives say whatever transphobic bullshit they've heard in the NYT or on Fox News. I need you to start getting real here.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
every day of my life I think about the people using “she” to describe this computer program who still need to be convinced to use it for trans women
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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 19/09/2026
They are built for a mission which is definitionally impossible. You cannot beat the sea. This Earth should be called Ocean and the water is the most powerful thing on it. But these folks volunteer to go out there and fight it anyway because humans should take care of humans.
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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 19/09/2026
The RNLI is the closest you will ever get to actual Batman. When rescue is visibly, viscerally, obviously impossible; when the water is a smothering, thundering black wall and the wind is screaming straight from Hell; when you are absolutely going to die: someone’s hand pulls you out and you don’t.
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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 19/09/2026
I’ve worn a grubby RNLI cap for decades. I sound London, but I was born in Truro and I was a basically feral (Gen X) kid wandering the coast path with a dog until sunset for a lot of my early life. The lifeboats are in the fabric like trawlers and farms and pasties and fish and chips.
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Tracy Lord of the Nazgûl @seeemilyplay.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
everyone’s culturally irish til you ask em to show even a fraction of the moral courage sinéad o’connor did
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Transgender For Everybody! @ktfalvey.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
... into their wealthy neighborhood, and make sure Harvard didn't admit too many Jews. I think we should popularize the term "genteel transphobia" for the many centrists who freak at being called transphobic but who have "reasonable concerns" about trans people having same rights as cis peeps. 2/2
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MokuseiFox 🔞 @mokuseifox.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"‘Liberal Zionism’ Is Dead, Says Leading Israeli Historian" The idea that Zionism is compatible with democracy, or even basic humanity, is absurd as the events of the last three years have proved, argues legendary Israeli author and academic Avi Shlaim for Zeteo UK:
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‘Liberal Zionism’ Is Dead, Says Leading Israeli Historian
The idea that Zionism is compatible with democracy, or even basic humanity, is absurd as the events of the last three years have proved, argues legendary Israeli author and academic Avi Shlaim.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
guys I am enjoying the new “Tommy & Tuppence” I was dubious about updating it to Now Times, but actually Tuppence being out of a job after the war ends because no one is hiring women anymore translates extremely well to millennial vibes also love making Albert a flamboyant gay instead of a kid
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The time to push candidates toward more progressive policies is NOT after they get in office. It’s before. We have to look out for everybody. That may include a type of person that is not in your life!
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff like this.
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The Democrats defend the Kennedy Center but not trans people.
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@treewarrior.bsky....
maybe because defending everything about a super small minority of the population is not worth losing to fascists
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Jesus Lizard Superstar 🖤 🐀🐀🐀 @acekatana.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
As a Jew any time someone starts talking about the size of a population as a reason for not defending them I get mighty fucking suspicious
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An Anarchist Who Tried Her Best @nataliereed84.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Ask anyone what beliefs in the current age they think will be frowned on by people from the future, they’ll have dozens of answers. Ask them which of *their* beliefs will be, and they’ll stare blankly.
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punished brian @brilandia.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
or worse, they're willing to be on the right side of history only when it's history
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Gabrielle @gabbklein.myatproto.social · 19/09/2026
There it is. Everybody cares about the human rights of the people they think are actually human.
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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Classic #resist hero: repost vs. actual beliefs.
Repost from the transphobic bluesky user Paul f. Tompkins is talking about. They have reposted a screenshot of a post that says “ every time I taught the diary of Anne Frank, the students in my class would ask how in the world could that have happened? How could normal people let it happen? Look around, friends.”Post from the person that Paul F Tompkins is talking about. It says “I’m saying trans People are a mental and physical illness and should be treated as such and I’m not going to let my kids die of climate change because someone thinks they are the wrong gender.“
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
You can’t have it both ways. You can’t be “It’s simple math, vote blue no matter who, grow up” and ALSO believe you are fighting fascism by making calculations as to who’s expendable. The world we’re in now demands more from us. More from everyone.
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I assume anyone who points out how small the trans population is doesn’t know any trans people & I guess that’s what it takes to care? Because if you know even ONE trans person, like a person in your life, how can you think about that person and conclude it’s okay if they get thrown under the bus?
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Lyra 💕 @lyra-scotland.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
And if you are gonna put in new standards do it to cis men too It fucking reeks of misogyny as this is never an issue in the men's category, that men are treated as perfect sporting bodies that are allowed to dominate due to natural advantages Either it's a problem or it's not. Be consistent
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Lyra 💕 @lyra-scotland.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
If you can prove an attribute is unfair in a sport measure and ban that attribute, cis or trans. That should be the absolute worst case this should get to that would still be bad but at least it would be consistent and not directly based in bigotry.
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Lyra 💕 @lyra-scotland.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The only way in which blanket bans can ever be justified is if trans women are not women This is what you accept, you demolish our whole lived experience & go anti science & a-historical We spent decades fighting to get to a reasonable place on sports and we still had ground to make on top of that
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Lyra 💕 @lyra-scotland.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
To accept the framing of the sports question is to accept trans women can never be women. its accepting the framing of the argument. I would not support a democrat who said abortion is murder because the framing you accept by doing so is the argument. You cede the ground and lead to further harm
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Mummy Marshal Heidi 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️☭ @theonetrueheidi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Let me break this down for cis people: If a candidate ran on a platform that you aren't who you know you are, that you should be unemployed, that you physically should be miserable, and you have an increased risk of suicide would you vote for them even if the other option just wanted to shoot you?
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Bugs, Yaoist @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
it's genuinely baffling that cis people would rather yell at trans folks when we say that we don't support voting for a democrat who is doing a transphobia, and they insist that we're supporting republicans in doing so. like no dawg we're saying don't vote for transphobes. because we're trans.
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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 16/09/2026
obviously trying to stake out social problems as "addiction" is part of a process of medicalization that's not always helpful but fucking come on taylor, these are products explicitly designed to be compulsive and they haven't been about "chatting with your friends" for years
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Siobhan "Shiv" Craig - DarkEden21 @darkeden21.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
if a trans woman was recording cis women in the toilets/harassing someone minding their own business, we'd hear nothing else for days in the news on LBC It happening TO us, and then 50% of the comments being "Good, confront evil" and 50% being "Don't harass them unless they [normal action]" is wild
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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 11/09/2026
LGBT people as a whole have high levels of political engagement. We vote for Dems in Assad numbers. Extremely Online anti-voting leftists are not why turnout numbers are low. If the mind of the median voter is mysterious, the mind of the low-propensity voter is Hic Sunt Dracones.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 10/09/2026
Hopefully this is a little bit helpful to anyone who's been confused by how strident people get about this issue
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 10/09/2026
Once you've granted the idea that it's dangerous to allow trans kids to play organized sports, you're already 99% of the way to agreeing to bathroom bans. You've stipulated to the transphobes' central argument.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 10/09/2026
Which is exactly why they've turned it into the Most Important Issue Facing America. It's not because they give a shit about youth - especially girls - sports. They obviously do not!
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 10/09/2026
And that, not to be cute about it, is ballgame
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 10/09/2026
People get confused about the trans sports thing because at a glance it seems like a small issue that impacts a very small number of people and thus makes sense as a "reasonable" concession. But it isn't, because conceding that is accepting that a kid's trans identity is on some level fraudulent
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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
As @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social argued last fall: “Shame serves as a robustly liberal alternative to the political violence that Ezra Klein & company rightly abhor. It is, quite literally, the least one can do to ensure rules of social conduct that uphold minimal levels of dignity for all involved.”
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How Can We Live Together?
Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.
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Dyke Spiegel @cowgirlshebop.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
If neither party wants me to have rights then neither party gets my vote. It’s just that simple
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