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Formerly working at Roll7 on QA fun times. Posts and views are always only my own.
I can now say I no longer work at Roll7 and am looking for work oppertunities!
Really sad to be no longer working with some of the finest colleagues I have ever had the pleasure to work alongside!
Yes. Nor does the UK. Otherwise Scotland wouldn’t have been able to have an independence referendum to break up the UK. Borders and governments and governing regimes change all the time.
People have a right to exist, not states.
One of the strangest things about the gender-critical movement is the level of science it relies on.
Not advanced biology. Not medicine. Not endocrinology or neuroscience. Basic school-level biology. The kind most people last encountered around the age of 13 or 14.
Chromosomes. XX. XY. A neat diagram. Lesson over.
That is where the learning stops.
Everything that comes after is ignored. Developmental biology. Prenatal hormone exposure. Brain differentiation. Receptor sensitivity. Intersex variation. Neuroanatomy. The reality that human sex development is a process, not a single moment.
Modern medicine does not treat sex as a light switch. It treats it as a cascade.
Here is the part that is almost never explained in public debate.
All human embryos start from the same template. In the early weeks of pregnancy, every fetus develops along a default pathway. That is why men have nipples. They form before sex differentiation begins. No mystery. No ideology. Just timing.
Genital development begins later, driven largely by hormones. If certain hormones are present, external genitalia masculinise. If they are not, they do not. This process happens in a specific window of pregnancy.
Brain development related to identity, body mapping, and self-perception happens on a different timeline. It is also shaped by prenatal hormones, but not at the same moment as genital development. These processes are separate. They can align. They can also diverge.
When they diverge, you get transgender people.
This is not speculation. This is documented across endocrinology, developmental biology, and neuroscience. It is observed across cultures and throughout recorded history. It is why gender identity has a neurological basis and why attempts to suppress it consistently fail.
The same biological reality that explains why men have nipples explains why trans people exist. Development does not happen all at once and it does not always line up neatly.
Gender-critical arguments depend on pretending none of this exists. They collapse complex human development into a primary school diagram and then insist that anything beyond it is fantasy.
That is why their explanations feel so confident and so shallow at the same time.
They are arguing from a stopping point, not a starting point. From what they were taught before the science moved on.
Medicine has moved on. Biology has moved on. The evidence is not new. What is new is how loudly people are insisting on staying behind.
When people finally see the timelines laid out side by side early fetal development, genital differentiation, later brain differentiation the reaction is almost always the same.
Oh. I didn’t know that.
And once you know it, the idea that trans people are “pretending” or “ideological” stops making sense. This is not belief. It is biology playing out over time.
You cannot argue human development back into a worksheet.
The r/bald subreddit is going viral as thousands of men support each other through hair loss with compliments and encouragement
"This has to be the most supportive community on the Internet you guys are making me blush"
Palestinians literally died to get images out. I remember a nurse in one of the hospitals was shot by a drone while trying to broadcast an IDF attack. The sheer number of journalists 'israel' killed??!
If you're not in a blood boiling rage over genocide you're useless.
Wow. The allegations made here about the methods employed by Starmer and his Cabinet to avoid defeat in the welfare bill vote are staggering.
And not one scrap, anywhere, of concern for the disabled people at the heart of it all.
Shocking.
#TakingThePIP
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I never thought I’d see Nada again.
She was trapped under an 8 story building in Gaza which was reduced to rubble in an Israeli airstrike. That air strike killed 7 of her siblings, her grandmother, and would have killed her. I was with the search and rescue team and heard sounds from under the rubble. It was the light from my camera flash which discovered her. That image — one of Time’s top 10 photos of 2023 — captured a moment I can’t forget and saved her life.
Nada survived; because Nada was evacuated and eventually made it to the U.S. for treatment thanks to Senator Van Hollen, Dr. Tuffaha, and Johns Hopkins. After 67 surgeries her leg was saved and she can walk again.
Seeing her again gives me hope and purpose.
But so many others are still in Gaza — still injured, still waiting, still trying to survive this genocide. Gaza now has the largest cohort of child amputees in the history of the world.
Please don’t forget my people.
Keep your eyes on Gaza.
Support those who are still living through genocide and fighting to survive.
The IDF should be proscribed and any British person who enlists for it should have their citizenship automatically revoked. The world is appalled at the heinous war crimes they are responsible for. You can shove those pearls you’re clutching up your backside
It is a night of HORROR
Since the evening until now, Israeli fighters have not stopped their attacks.. The last attack was so close to my home.. It shook the rubble over my head.. My children started screaming and didn’t stop.
Pray for us 🤲
Every morning, piles of bodies are gathered at hospitals.
This is a genocide unlike anything history has witnessed—committed by a brutal entity with no regard for values or norms, thriving on a false narrative of victimhood.