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Geek, Cyclist, Parent, UCU, Goth, Knitter, Cis, Bi, Fat, Queer, she/her. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Other places you may know me from: https://lnr.dreamwidth.org/650568.html Trans rights are human rights.

A rather blurry photo of my two arms held up crossed, so you can see one smart watch on each wrist. It's not very well in focus because it was taken with a timer on my phone sitting on my lap in selfie mode.
A screenshot from Strava of two rides on the same route, at the same time, from two different devices. Fitbit has a smidge more distance but nearly three times the (small) elevation gain of the Garmin.
A screenshot of how this shows up on my feed. Original post, a view full thread link, my reply, and then OP's response to my reply. It feels like maybe too *much* context maybe.
The view from the reed-bed hide at Fowlmere. The water level is really low in the lake between the reeds and there are lapwings paddling knee deep alongside a little egret whose feet are only just submerged. On the muddy shore is a greylag goose, and behind it, right at the edge of the reeds is a marsh harrier. We were reliably informed it was the female, a large brown bird of prey with a distinctive orange head. None of this detail is actually visible in the photo because I took it on my phone, but the reeds and trees are green and the lake and sky are grey and it still looks pretty
A photo taken from a moving bus of the busway where it crosses Milton Road. There is a big "Road Closed" sign and cones and then the busway is completely fenced off behind them.
A concrete footbridge over a motorway in a cutting through the moorland landscape, held up by two sweeping buttresses which almost make an arch. Simple and elegant and concrete.
A screenshot from the National Rail app showing the price of any Anytime Day Single on a very bold background with a green tick. Above the price in fairly small text it says "Valid only on Avanti Wet Coast services". Below the price is a much more subtle box with a + symbol which says "View more Anytime ticket options". It gives the impression at first glance that you've selected the only available option, not that this is the cheapest one and has restrictions.
A selfie taken at Lydney Station. You can just see the train we've arrived on behind us, as the three us of are grinning at the camera, looking a bit washed out in the bright sunshine.
A bright yellow measurement train carriage and a rather funky grey Euro Phoenix loco
A laughing selfie in front of the Cambridge South sign on platform 2. Matthew us peeking out from behind me and Mike and giving a thumbs up.
A graph from my weather station yesterday. There are coloured lines for various readings, and a time scale along the bottom. A vertical line marks a highlighted point in time: 2026-06-24 13:50 Temperature: 31.5 °C Feels Like: 35.6 °C Dew Point: 22.4 °C Further right is a big orange circle which indicates the max temperature for the day, it's at approximately 16:00 on the time scale, and says 33.5
On a kitchen counter crowded with cans and bottles sits a striped rainbow sandcastle jelly, on a floral plate. It is leaning to one side, drunkenly mid-wobble. In the background you can see the purple bucket used to make it.
A table showing the three appointments needed, and the cost of each in both inside and outside Greater London. As I'm outside GL I'd by £233 for the initial consultation, £810 for the hydrodilation and £170 for a follow-up appointment. About £1200 in total.
A cafe menu picture of a pie and chips and peas. The peas are upside down.
Some tiny Dragons by Dragons of Wales. The Understory, featuring a poem by AJ. And the Murder of Wickham, which wasn't written by one of you, but reviewed by the Plashing Vole. I've just finished the latter to much amusement. (Not pictured because it only just arrived is another Toby Daye book by Seanan Mcguire as I work my way through the series)
The same photo, but the curb has been made into a diagonal, and the rain garden expanded to fill in a larger area, with a new arrow on the road and much easier cycling turns. It has been drawn by hand on a photo editing app on a phone and is very basic :)
A blue door in a white frame in a yellowish brick wall. The door has two window panels, with frosted glass. The door knocker, handle, letterbox and numbers are in chrome. It has a slight wood-look texture, but is in fact made of plastic.
Three people in boiler suits and caving helmets waving at the camera in a woodland setting. We're all looking a bit grubby, but I have distinctive stripes on my face of the different colours of ochre found in the caves, which were pointed out by our guide.
A photo of the front of our house. There is a white door, with the number 52 on it. Leaning on the wall next to it is a second door, in a lovely shade of blue, with frosted glass windows and a chrome letterbox and handle, just about to be installed, by the installer UItlander used for theirs!
A photo taken from our back doors, of the field and trees outside and the clouds above them. There is a golden light and long shadows across the grass, and the blue sky is generously scattered with white fluffy clouds, with just a few darker ones towards the horizon. It's a beautiful evening.
A cadbury chocolate house on a plate. It's like a gingerbread house, but made of chocolate and stuck together with (you guessed it) melted chocolate. Still has some piping icing decoration. And three little smileys on giant chocolate buttons to go with it.
A screenshot of a pop-up error from Google Health which appeared when I pressed the delete icon in the background: "We are still working on this feature and it will be available soon"
A Cambridgeshire Libraries webpage screenshot of Tom Cox's Villager, showing their one copy is currently at Great Shelford Library, not currently available to reserve, but recently returned! So at least one person has read it!
An office wall with two marker boards and a pin board between them. On the right-hand marker board, held up with picture magnets, is a "UCU Supports Trans Rights" poster, which has been there since last April. On the pinboard, covering almost all of it, and dangling nearly to the floor, is a Bi Progress Pride flag, with the traditional bi colours and the intersex progress pride triangle.
An anonymous news clipping with the timestamp "now 11:31 BST": Headline: New health secretary James Murray says he would no longer say trans women are women. James Murray, who recently replaced Wes Streeting as health secretary after Streeting resigned so he could start campaigning to be the next Labour leader, has said he is "absolutely clear" that single-sex spaces within the NHS should be "protected on the basis of sex". He made the comment in an interview on the Today programme where he also said he would no longer use the phrase "trans women are women". Murry [sic] said he had thought "in quite some detail" about the use of language when it was put to him that he had in the past stated that "trans women are women". Asked if he had changed his mind he replied: "Yeah, I have changed what I would say. I wouldn't say that phrase any more. And I think that, you know, over the last few years, I think a lot of us, myself included, have thought about this question in quite some detail. The supreme court has obviously ruled very clearly that biological sex is what matters when it comes to the Equality Act, and determining the importance of single sex spaces... I believe that single-sex spaces should be protected on the basis of sex, on the basis of biological sex, whilst at the same time believing in dignity for trans people, recognising that sex and gender are different things, but being absolutely clear that single-sex spaces within the NHS, for instance, need to be protected on the basis of sex.
A sandcastle consisting of three linked pools, each over a metre across, surrounded by walls, some of them reinforced with large stones. In the nearest pool a small castle shaped mound sits on an island, and there are some larger mounds nearer the sea. In the background are Whiby's iconic piers, and some breakers can be seen.
A view of the piers and the beach at Whitby taken just now from the window of our holiday flat. The tide is fairly out, the sand is smooth and not yet full of people, the sea is pan flat and the sky is blue. Its a beautiful morning.
A somewhat dreadful zoomed in photo of the beach. Towards the centre you can just make out a large heap of sand surrounded by water, with a stream flowing out from it towards the sea.
A photo of a man and a teenager on a sunny day on the coast just off the Cleveland Way near Robin Hoods Bay. They're standing on a grassy hillside, with a stunning blue sky and sea behind them.
A view from our window, looking right across the calm harbour to see the Abbey and church on the headland above Whitby in the golden evening sun, beneath a gentle blue sky streaked with light cloud. In the foreground you can see a bright pink funhouse: "house of mouse".
Entrance to Hobson Park by the busway. A path is leading to the park, and another path towards Cambridge South is on the left, currently blocked by a fence as it's not open yet. Slightly obscured by the fence is a brand new No Cycling sign. Cycles will now all need to take the other path to the right (just out of shot) which leads around the edge of the park, using paths and quiet roads, rather than taking the off-road path through the park itself.
Another selfie on a train, this time in a purple FFP2 mask. I am briefly sticking my tongue out for the photo.
A very silly selfie sticking out my tongue, which is rather bright pink :)
Next to the original image is a piece of text: "I was on the train to Highbury & Islington and I noticed some guy standing near us who was hurling abuse at this other dude, calling them derogatory names and giving them a hard time about their outfit. So I went and sat next to them and said:" Text continues in the image, on the bottom of the shoe: "I really like your trainers"
A photo of me and my colleague Cathy outside Engineering. I'm wearing my UCU colours and a UCU badge, and Cathy is holding a Unite Official Picket banner.
A photo of 6 scones on a baking tray. Three cheese and three plain. We ate them for tea, still warm. Yum.
A photo from lunchtime today of the tangle of plants under the rose bush and behind the back of the shed. Two big peonies are the star of the show, but you can see red valerian out of focus in the background, and some of the pretty yellow roses.
A photo of a set of shelves with kitchen equipment. At the end of the middle shelf is what used to be a bag of potatoes. Red root-like tendrils have emerged from the bag and are spreading everywhere, coming up behind the shelf, and reaching half a metre up the wall, as if it's trying to take over the world.
A school photo from the late 1980s. 23 young people in royal blue jumpers and grey trousers/skirts are arranged formally around our class teacher Mrs McKeown. Shirts were supposed to be grey or light blue, but a couple of people are wearing white! I'm in the front row second from the right. I still recognise some of my friends :) Whoever arranged people by height got the back row wrong!
Southbound lane. You can see double yellow lines and a white bike painted inside a narrow red bike lane. A tape measure is sitting on the kerb extended to 150cm, and sticks well outside the lane, which is about its widest at this point at 100cm. This is the point where the lane ends.
A road. You can see the join between the new surface and the old surface, and the bike lane repainted and resurfaced in red, at exactly the same width as the old one.
A photo from the OU RPGSoc anniversary event. I'm wearing a black velvet strappy dress with black fishies for earrings, and I have purple hair, a purple velvet choker and very purple round sunglasses. You can see my phone taking the selfie reflected in them.
Lilac blossom, just opening, in sunshine but against a dramatic spring cloud sky.
A slightly mossy thatched roof in a rather zoomed-in image from Google Streetview. Perched on the top is a straw effigy of a round creature, with distinctive noodly appendages.
A mossy rock under an overgrown hedge. It's surrounded by greenery, and a number of bluebells that don't show up very well. Behind the hedge is a green field of young wheat and a blue sky.
13 year old and 45 year old cycling on a byway up a hill in the glorious spring sunshine this afternoon. The leaves are just coming out on the trees, and the field of wheat is looking gloriously green.
A chocolate ring-cake covered in chocolate buttercream icing and decorated with broken cadbury flake bars to look like a nest. The centre of the ring is full of colourful chocolate speckled eggs.
An information noticed inserted in my feed on Bluesky: We ran out of posts from your follows. Here's the latest from Discover.
Three photos of a clock in the garden. This one reads midnight.
A selfie taken just now. I have a purple and black striped hoodie, a purple coat, slightly wild purple hair and a big grin.
An animated spinning gold star emblazoned "WELL DONE" surrounded by fireworks.
A birthday cake with two lit candles in the shape of a 1 and a 3, either side of a huge indoor firework shooting sparks.
Today's power generation curve graph.
Me, rocking a woolly hat, at the beach. I'm also wearing sandals, and a swimming costume. You would be forgiven for not realising this was taken in August. I am making a muscle-man style pose and grinning like a loon. It was 16 degrees. In the background by the water you can see Mike and Matthew who are wearing shorts. With hats and jumpers.
A screenshot from Google's streetview, showing at least 12 bollards in under 100 metres to stop cars using the pavement on Hobson Avenue in Trumpington, Cambridge.
A photo of a pump clip on the bar at the Haymakers pub in Cambridge. The beer is a dark mild called "Pressed Rat & Warthog" By Triple fff Brewery. (Are they very loud?)
A screenshot from the Met Office app, showing the weather for the next four days. Today: 🌞 max 17 min -0 Fri: 🌞 max 15 min 1 Sat: 🌞 max 14 min 0 Sun: 🌞 max 14 min 4 Temperatures are in degrees Celsius.
Primroses, mini tete-a-tete daffodils (nearly finished), dogwood in the foreground, and bright yellow berries at the back. Maybe a variant of pyracanthus?
Me, grinning broadly, with a copy of Seanan Maguires latest Wayward Children book: Through Gates of Garnet and Gold.
A pretty good line drawing of a Creeper from Minecraft. It has nailed the shape, and the basic colour.