Andrea

Transgender woman. Pronouns she/her.

[Mike Carlton @MikeCarlton01]

I am a card carrying atheist, but I’m increasingly liking this Pope.

https://t.co/8vlxbZuTSh via @NYTimes

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Dear Microsoft, when I hit the Windows Start menu key and start typing a word to autocomplete a search, I never, ever, EVER want it to return results of something not on my computer. Ever. Like, ever, ever, never.

[Miss Ally @MissAlly_01]

To stop ants coming in to your house leave a saucer of milk outside. The adult ants drink it & it has an effect on ant reproduction. The young are born without toes so they can't climb in to your
cavity walls.

This effect is called lack toes in toddler ants.

[💙Brittney💙 @AZ_Brittney]

Raise your hand high if you support LGBTQ rights! ✋

[Kirsti Miller @KirstiMiller30]

The hemoglobin level in your blood is important for taking up and using oxygen in your muscles heart& lungs. It’s perhaps the single most important reason that men outperform women in endurance events, because of the higher hemoglobin level.

It has been long noted that hemoglobin levels are closely tied to testosterone levels.

When transgender women lower their testosterone levels to female levels, which happens universally when trans women under undergo medical transition, trans women move from male levels of hemoglobin to female levels of hemoglobin.

Loughborough University’s research, looked at how the protein in our red blood cells that helps oxygen flow to our muscles for aerobic activity is affected by hormone replacement therapy in trans women.

Loughborough University’s findings show the hemoglobin level in transgender women falls to levels in line with c_sgender women in the space of 3 to 4 months on average.

https://t.co/at5aKOuB5g

That is a huge change and it affects all endurance sports, and, in fact, any sport where you were being active for more than a few minutes.

With the reduction of the oxygen-carrying hemoglobin in blood to c1sgender female levels after around 3-4 months of GAHT, and a trans woman's body will be significantly underpowered.

Trans women have less delivery of oxygen to their working muscles produces a higher rate of metabolites and consequently results in muscle fatigue.

For those who suggest trans women have advantages: we allow advantages in sport, but what we don’t allow is overwhelming advantages.

Trans women also have disadvantages in sport. Our larger bodies are being powered by reduced muscle mass and reduced aerobic capacity, and can lead to disadvantages in quickness, recovery and a number of other factors.

The bottom line is, we can have meaningful competition between trans women and c1s women. From my point of the view, the data looks favorable toward trans women being allowed to compete in women’s sports.

https://t.co/lF3ZHkwskm

[Akhilesh Mishra @livingdevops]

- A sysadmin wrote a config file
- That config file became a best practice
- That best practice became a Stack Overflow answer
- That Stack Overflow answer trained an AI model
- That AI model became a $20/month coding assistant
- That coding assistant now writes config files

The knowledge you gave away for free
is being sold back to you with a chat interface.

And they’re calling it the future of engineering.

[Stewart Copeland @copelandmusic]

Random Rhythm Nº 1

[Daniel Lismore @daniellismore]

The NASA pride flag is amazing

[PRIDE 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇧 @prideukorg]

❤️🏳️‍⚧️

[Anthony Albanese @AlboMP]

I love you, Jodie.

[Andrea @andrea_cd71]

@NoContextBrits Cheese with Christmas pudding (in Yorkshire)

[Andrea @andrea_cd71]

@dannolan Yes. Our first one lasted 16 years. Just bought another and it’s whisper quiet.

[Andrea @andrea_cd71]

@NASA @Space_Station Even more proof that Americans will use anything but the metric system to measure things

[Andrea @andrea_cd71]

@danilic Love my mower & wipper snipper. No more f@€king around with fuel.

[Andrea @andrea_cd71]

@CityofPerth There will be flags at half mast at gym’s all over Perth today.

[Magda Szubanski AO @MagdaSzubanski]

Pls RT
One of this country’s greatest humanitarians, “Australian Living Treasure” Prof Fiona Stanley, gives the FACTS on why #TheVoice WILL make a difference to First Nations people 🙌🙌🙌 #auspol

[Adam Hills @adamhillscomedy]

Conducting my own poll here.
Whenever I tweet about Voting Yes in the Voice Referendum I get hundreds of negative replies. But loads more likes. So I’m gonna turn off the replies and simply ask you to give this tweet a like if you’re gonna vote yes. Over to you. Feel free to RT

[The Shovel @TheShovel]

A lot of people don't know this, but at the end of each #KitchenCabinet episode Annabel Crabb actually cooks her guests. Here she is with Peter Dutton