Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

Got my chess rating back up to about as high as I can manage it which is still very low, but it feels nice to get there. I'm the 17,940,345th best chess player in the world lol.

This is so fucking cynical when she allowed the ban to happen in the first place. Now sinn féin can't ever admit they were wildly wrong and another generation of trans people will suffer. They know they have already caused increased suiciality and death but they'll never admit it.

Knew a lady few years ago whose child was miserable and kept questioning their gender. Parents so supportive, bought a dress and hair ribbons, almost overnight child stopped wetting the bed, ate and slept better, thrived at school, made friends. Outfit and pronoun change did SO much for that kid.

If I was referred today I'd likely be in my 60s before I'd maybe get healthcare. The only silver lining would be that the current team that operates this 'service' would be long gone. 18 years is according to JesALady a generous estimate and could easily be much, much more.

Massive shout out to Jes for this reporting,

The lessons they've learned from the recent wave of oppression of trans people in terms of public life and healthcare rights is starting to be applied to other groups.

Oh look, they realized they could get away with it for trans people and now they've moved onto ADHD. If this gets transposed to Ireland I'm fucked.

Just remember: It's never trans people authoring bills to have random strangers inspect Men, Women and especially children's genitals for things like joining sports or using a toilet. Yet it's something you ALWAYS SEE from Bigoted transphobes using vague language to enable predators in their bills.

I'm not a third sex so I'm not going to use third sex spaces.

Being a child who feels happier and themselves being a different gender is not something that needs to be 'prevented' Jesus fucking Christ. It's no big deal. Stop making it auch a big deal and leave them alone.

Poland experts release clinical guidance on trans youth healthcare. They define the Cass Review as of "low scientific value and credibility". journals.viamedica.pl/endokrynolog...

Them: "Why do birds suddenly appear, every time you are near? Me: *covered in peanut butter and bird seed* "It sure is a mystery."

This is already happening in Northern Ireland

This rules. I love how delighted they all look!

This is both one of the reasons it was so hotly contested and one of the least discussed consequences.

Drop an album that was important to you when you were 19

Oh. It's almost as if attacking trans women harms all women. I wonder who warned about that. ‘Carnage of concern and upset’: Women’s Institute groups close after transgender ban | Women's Institute | The Guardian share.google/9EI8sWYUmXKq...

#FriedGreenTomatoes is such a beautiful movie. Hadn't seen it in 20 years, back when I used to live with my best friend in Darndale. Lots of emotions. Balled me eyes out. If you haven't seen it, do yourself a favour and give it a go. I love it so much. Perfect movie with me wife for Valentine's

1940 Irish language scif-fi book Manannán by Máiréad Ní Ghráda It is the first Mecha Robot outside of Japan and mention of a Gravity assist in fiction. It was never republished or translated.

If I was a billionaire I'd directly finance Richard Baneham or Peter Jackson to direct an epic movie trilogy based on the Tuatha DéDeannan.

What this does to those of us with even the thickest of skins is pretty traumatic at the best of times. It wears you down and out.

Our investigation uncovers that 58 UK public libraries stock parenting books that encourage children to detransition. 📚 Check if there’s a copy in your local library 👇

Today is very much a fuck the Brits day.

The High Court has ruled on our challenge to the EHRC’s interim guidance. The judgment contains some good news for trans rights – but plenty of bad. Read our analysis goodlawproject.org/update/high-...

Making it so you need doctors permission as to how a child can cut their hair and what clothes they can wear is fucking dystopian shit. Fuck sinn féin

#BREAKING EU Parliament votes to accept a report, that calls for "the full recognition of trans women as women" as part of the EU priorities for the UN CSW on "women’s rights and gender equality." #Eurovision #EU

Who's the most famous alum of your high school?

In my ideal world, there would be something like a health ombudsman, who if a significant patient cohort reaches out to them, saying "this service is fucking failing us, a lot", an investigation happens and things get fixed. Not "Government appointed Health Minister gets to play Tropico".

"A conservative network led by Michael Gove and Nigel Farage’s senior adviser James Orr has spent more than half a million pounds pushing far-right and anti-trans voices – some of it fuelled by profits from Russian oil."

There is a lot of speculation that this is part of what Sinn were promised in order to get them to back the puberty blocker ban. As I say, speculation. Still...

Final fantasy remake is the first final fantasy game I've gotten into so far and it's been a blast

I feel some of the PC tech folk with big platforms bigging up dlss/fsr are misidentifying over sharpening with detail, and as someone with a background in video/photography it makes me wince a little.

Yes I'm old. Yes it's still funny

Fucking insane that the Taoiseach has accepted an invitation to celebrate St. Patrick's Day the head of a regime who is overseeing the illegal detention of one of Ireland's citizens, and thousands more individuals of allied nations.

Some fella contacted Radio Kerry last week to suggest that the reason Irish women my age are struggling to find romantic partners is because we swear too much, which means I've been wrongly assigning blame to the fact that I keep feeding potential suitors to rabid badgers

I would say everyone should get If Found during this sale but that's a game that is worth paying full price

Introducing the Games From Ireland Steam Event, a week-long digital showcase. Running on Steam during St Patrick’s Day 2026, 13th March - 20th March, this is an Imirt-led initiative, developed in collaboration with Irish developers and studios worldwide. www.imirt.ie/news/2026/2/...

There's too many yanks and not enough folk from elsewhere on here unfortunately.

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for gradient.horse

Its important to have a game on your wishlist that keeps going on sale every couple of months and you still never buy it.

Yakuza kiwami 3 sounds like the first Yakuza/like a dragon game that I might not bother getting. I only hope it underperforms to the point that sega might pause for thought about how the franchise seems to be going.

Technically poor and hurried, devoid of the original's charm, and full of filler content and baffling changes, Yakuza Kiwami 3 is a 20/100, a 2/10, a one-star game. It's a seismic miss that left me questioning my love for the series. My review: www.gamerguides.com/yakuza-kiwam...

I wish the more reverance was given to the Saturn as is given to the Dreamcast these days, great and all as it was it only really lived for about 18mths. The Saturn's got an unfair albeit understandably negative reputation but It had many wonderful forgotten games & arcade ports & innovations too.

There shld be investigations into sex matters - Tim was a board member - & the wider anti-gender movement's links w Epstein but there probably won't. Sounds like a conspiracy theory when you say it but it's all connected. Rich Paedos attacked queer/trans folk to deflect from their own heinous crimes

Just watched Swiss army man, been meaning to watch it for years. It did not disappoint 😧😵😅

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