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The Notorious Margie Fancypants @margiefancypants.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A factoid, apropos of nothing Dora the Explorer has a sidekick, a monkey named Boots. In Latin, the monkey is named Caligula. 🤔

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The Notorious Margie Fancypants @margiefancypants.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Just took a stroll through the Wellington Botanical Gardens. In the herb garden, a sign invites passers-by to learn about "aromantic herbs". This proves that while you can take the girl out of the proofreading job, the converse is impossible.

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The Notorious Margie Fancypants @margiefancypants.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Peace Flame "Tree let your naked arms fall, nor extend vain entreaties to the radiant ball. "This is no gallant monsoon's flash, no dashing trade wind's blast. "The fading green of your magic emanations shall not make pure again these polluted skies... for this is no ordinary sun."

The Peace Flame at Wellington Botanic Gardens

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The Notorious Margie Fancypants @margiefancypants.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

"What do you mean you're serving quark soup for dinner?" "Well, our guest is gluon intolerant."

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The Notorious Margie Fancypants @margiefancypants.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Today I received my PTSD/cPTSD AstralPride flag, the latest design from astralpride.com, designed by @betterthanember.bsky.social — thank you, Ember, for this lovely intersection of Pride, science, and art 🩷

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The Notorious Margie Fancypants @margiefancypants.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

What do you do when you can't remember the word aphasia?

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The Notorious Margie Fancypants @margiefancypants.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Crux (the Southern Cross) on the right; Alpha Centauri, far left. I find astronomical observation awe inspiring, since I am *not* looking at a display but at real objects, mindbogglingly distant.

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The Notorious Margie Fancypants @margiefancypants.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

@bencollins.bsky.social As a victim of InfoWars violence, I have a suggestion for a meaningful use of that wretched name. Make it into a REAL news source. Rigorous research, citations, science, ethics: aim directly at ending fascism & hatred. The Onion is fine satire; we need serious journalism.

Screenshot of InfoWars hit piece on me. I am holding my baby at the Goldfarb breastfeeding clinic.

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The Notorious Margie Fancypants @margiefancypants.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

"Strength is walking into a place where people are saying insane shit about you — and keeping on walking." Fuck you, Alex Jones; fuck you sideways with a bastard rasp. Sincerely, your victim Margie Fancypants. Thank you, The Onion.

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Leila Brillson @leilza.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

It’s finally happened. After 18 months. Finally, a media merger you can root for.

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The Notorious Margie Fancypants @margiefancypants.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Preposterous sunglasses are self-justifying purchases. These ludicrous examples are from the inimitable Paper Bag Princess Op Shop. If you're in Wellington, go there and give them your money. It'll be worth it. #fashion #fabulous #freakflagfly

Margie wearing sunglasses with round golden lenses, angular transparent frames, and six-petaled white flowers around the lenses.

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The Notorious Margie Fancypants @margiefancypants.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Trans people are awesome, in the fullest sense of the word. We possess the vision to imagine the greatest possible version of ourselves — and the audacity to realise it. We aren't confused; quite the opposite. #transgender #pride #authenticity

Two stickers, printed in the blue, pink, and white of the transgender Pride flag, on Margie's laptop lid. One, showing a hormone syringe, reads "self-made"; the other is purely typographical and reads, "unapologetically me".

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The Notorious Margie Fancypants @margiefancypants.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

There are few things crueler than Queer people violating the ideals of our community to demean, harass, ostracise a powerless community member. Reading Sophie's story was frighteningly familiar to me. There is no shortcut to fundamental justice. open.substack.com/pub/sophieas...

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Eight Reasons for Something Terrible

People Are Uniquely Cruel to Me and I'm Tired of Pretending They're Not

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The Notorious Margie Fancypants @margiefancypants.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

ParallaxNick is an excellent science commentator. The algorithm is being cruel to this video; this is entirely unjust. Hypatia led a remarkable life, and a horrifying death, as a philosopher woman in the blazingly misogynistic Greek society. youtu.be/pojWdrfpthk

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Hypatia: Science's First Martyr

YouTube video by ParallaxNick

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The Notorious Margie Fancypants @margiefancypants.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

I just saw a clip of Bernie Sanders talking. The camera cut to a crowd shot, including a sign reading "NO WAR BUT CLASS WAR"... but thanks to lucky positioning of someone's head it was partly occluded and appeared to read NO WAR BUT ASS WAR

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The Notorious Margie Fancypants @margiefancypants.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Got a fantastical makeover yesterday at the CubaDupa Festival, by Wētā Workshop and BodyFX, had an amazing day, and brought smiles to so many faces! I said to a vendor, "CubaDupa is great because it really brings out the Welly in Welly!" Special mention to the punk band Bin Day, you rock, grrrrls!

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The Notorious Margie Fancypants @margiefancypants.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

## A Little Story Three years ago, right about now, I walked into my local Jean-Coutu pharmacy, and picked up a neonatal pack for my last baby, and an HRT starter pack for me. It was the most family medicine order ever. You should have seen the look on the pharmacist's face. It was classic. 😊

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jake balatro @baronduki.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

all my mint enthusiasts, please rise 🙌

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The Notorious Margie Fancypants @margiefancypants.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

"We don’t know why we know what we know about ourselves, but we do know that we know it." — Amethysta Herrick @amethysta.io

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The Notorious Margie Fancypants @margiefancypants.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Nov 25: International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. Gendered & hate violence don't solely affect women, nor are they solely by men. this violence blocked my perception of my own transness for a solid twenty years. This violence continues even today. #WhiteRibbonDay

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Kay in the End Times 🏳️‍🌈 💗💜💙📚 @jennykaynz.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Professional Association for Transgender Health Aotearoa (PATHA) condemns decision by Minister of Health Simeon Brown to ban new prescriptions of GnRH analogues (puberty blockers) for transgender children and young people who are not currently on them. #NZpol 💗🤍💙⚕️ Full release at patha.nz/news

Puberty blockers save lives

Professional Association for Transgender Health Aotearoa (PATHA) condemns the decision from NZ Minister of Health Simeon Brown introducing a ban on new prescriptions of puberty blockers for transgender children and young people who are not currently on them. This ban will have a devastating impact on lives and wellbeing of NZ's transgender and gender diverse young people.

We know children, young people and their whānau will be highly distressed by this decision. We also acknowledge health professionals’ frustration at the way their expertise has been ignored and disregarded.

The ban will lead to a deterioration in mental health, increased risk of suicide and increased dysphoria in gender diverse children and young people. It will put them at a higher risk of experiencing marginalisation and discrimination,” says Dr McElrea, GP specialist in gender affirming care and PATHA Vice-President.

“The prescribing of puberty blockers is undertaken with the utmost care and consideration. They have been prescribed safely for decades for transgender children and banning their use will lead to profound distress in this already vulnerable group.

This decision is not supported by the Ministry of Health’s November 2024 evidence brief on this care.

PATHA supports evidence-based medicine, which consists of academic evidence, clinical experience, and patient preferences and values.

The NZ restrictions would be in place until the conclusion of clinical trials in the UK, which are not due until at least 2031. In no other area of care would life-saving medication be withheld from a vulnerable population for six years. This will have a traumatic impact on a generation of transgender children. PATHA is strongly against the decision. It is a shocking act of discrimination against transgender children and young people.

Banning puberty blockers will not prevent children from being transgender.

Qs: info@patha.nz
Full release at https://patha.nz/news

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The Notorious Margie Fancypants @margiefancypants.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

## a quick poem for today I took some prog My breasts are sore That magic grog Of chests galore

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The Notorious Margie Fancypants @margiefancypants.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

602,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 beers on the wall, 602,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 beers, You take one down, pass it around, 601,999,999,999,999,999,999,999 beers on the wall This could take a while

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The Notorious Margie Fancypants @margiefancypants.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

"There are some people who do not love their fellow human beings, and I hate people like that." — Tom Lehrer

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The Notorious Margie Fancypants @margiefancypants.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Transition timeline, three stages - Before; June 2021 - Egg cracking announcement, December 2022 - Recently, October 2025 #transitiontimeline

Me, June 2021, with a badge reading ADEPT ROBOT which I had found on a machine in a scrapyard.

Me in December 2022, days after my egg cracked, in the photo I used on the post coming out on Facebook.

Me in October 2025, boldly presenting on Cuba Street in Wellington.

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The Notorious Margie Fancypants @margiefancypants.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

My interview with Dr Amethysta Herrick has been released as its own video. Exclusion from our community should be a last resort, never a first choice, but my experience shows the contrary is usually the case. youtu.be/bYQYmuTaJao

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Discrimination within the Transgender Community - with Margie Fancypants

YouTube video by Amethysta Herrick, Ph.D.

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The Notorious Margie Fancypants @margiefancypants.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Hooray, hooray! All sex is gay. This I proclaim, As June fades away.

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niki grayson @nikigrayson.com · 24/06/2025

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The Notorious Margie Fancypants @margiefancypants.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

They want to stop the ones who want prosthetic foreheads on their heads; but everybody wants prosthetic foreheads on their real heads.

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The Notorious Margie Fancypants @margiefancypants.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

I have designed a mug based on Dorley canon. "The family that spays to get her, stays together." This design blends castration chic with Russian Constructivism, and adds a good dose of '80s greeting card cocainey je'n'saiquoi. Melikes. @badambulist.bsky.social #dorley #noveltymug #orchi

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The Notorious Margie Fancypants @margiefancypants.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Inspired by a Tumblr post, I have ordered another Novelty Mug. I sense a potential hardcore addiction here. I'm okay with that. www.tumblr.com/soup-mother/... @badambulist.bsky.social #dorley #noveltymug #forcefem #basement

Pink and white novelty mug, reading "I Support UBI: University Basement Intake".

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Moxie Meow @moxiemeow.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Every demand that trans rights should be limited should be met immediately by a demand for evidence. You claim trans women are a danger in ladies' rooms? Show high quality evidence backing it up or SHUT UP. You claim youth transition hurts youth more than it helps? High quality evidence or STFU.

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The Notorious Margie Fancypants @margiefancypants.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Today I protested outside 'The Beehive' — the NZ parliament buildings — against a preposterous, tautological private member's bill claiming to "define gender" under law. A woman, it asserts, is an "adult human biological female". I'm all of these things; yet it'll deny me womanhood. Poppycock!

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The Notorious Margie Fancypants @margiefancypants.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

My Dorleypilling continues this morning, as I ordered this mug combining an authentic detail from the books with my favourite Simone de Beauvoir quotation. I also ate Weet-Bix for breakfast. @badambulist.bsky.social

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The Notorious Margie Fancypants @margiefancypants.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Good morning from New Zealand, fine people! - Happy Easter, if you're into that - Happy 4/20, if you're into that - Happy Bicycle Day, if you're into that - Happy exterminating Nazis on Hitler's birthday — we are ***all into that.***

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The Notorious Margie Fancypants @margiefancypants.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Yesterday, I got my annual influenza vaccine. I expect, like every one of the vaccines I have had my entire life, that it will not give me autism. What a damn rip-off.

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The Notorious Margie Fancypants @margiefancypants.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Oh,Ethel, HEAR HEAR! Asexual people are subject to revoltingly elevated levels of sexual violence. As a survivor of multiple devastating r@pes, and of SA several times *in the past few months,* I stand in solidarity with ALL victims, and decry the dismissive hatred of bigots. youtu.be/F8h8I7Jzl-Q

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J.K. Rowling Spits in the Faces of Asexual Victims (And All Victims!)

YouTube video by EssenceOfThought

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The Notorious Margie Fancypants @margiefancypants.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Had I made a very long list of things I might be doing this weekend, bodysurfing would not have been on it. And that list would have been wrong, today was an amazing day on the beach. However, for the rest of today, my name is spelled Margei. Because, of course, it's "I before E, except after sea."

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The Notorious Margie Fancypants @margiefancypants.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Today, I got an appointment for what I hope is meaningful mental health care. This has taken literally decades. It was systemically and systematically denied to me in Canada. Sometimes maliciously. April 29 is the date. I'm still processing this.

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Lisa the Leftist @lisatellstruth.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

concur with most of this - minus the grace meeting cruelty & being kind whilst being disliked Fuck that #progress It’s a bloody battle

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Andrew Parnall from Derby @dontbrexitfixit.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Usefulness of the latest update to GPS voice directions questioned, as the only direction given is to take the Third Reich only

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The Notorious Margie Fancypants @margiefancypants.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Today, someone stated their justification for excluding me from a social group as the fact that I am a victim of assault and bullying. They are therefore using previous bullying as justification for further bullying: incontrovertible proof of the utter cowardice and immorality of bullying behaviour.

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