Let's get behind Catherine Connolly for President! It is very easy to donate to her campaign and even the price of a cup of coffee would be helpful so just give whatever you can. There are lots of other ways to support Catherine's campaign too. See here: www.catherineconnollyforpresident.ie/donate

The ECHO Project is a longitudinal study on relationships and mental health in LGBTQIA+ communities. All LGBTQIA+ adults (18+) living in the UK or Ireland can take part. Participants receive a One4All voucher. Learn more & sign up: echoproject-research.com/join-study

More than 200 journalists have now been killed by the IDF in Gaza. And so many journalists here haven’t expressed a single sliver of solidarity or outrage about it.

Israel claimed responsibility for killing five Al Jazeera staff in Gaza, including Anas al-Sharif, in a strike on their media tent outside al-Shifa Hospital, bringing the total journalists killed to 237 since the war began. 🔴 Follow our LIVE coverage: aje.io/1490et

Israel has assassinated the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza, Netanyahu's government carried out the assassination after the team of journalists spent months reporting on Israeli war crimes, collecting daily evidence of ongoing atrocities.

Our colleagues Al Jazeera reporters Anas al-Sharif & Mohammed Qraiqeh, & cameramen Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal & Moamen Aliwa have been killed in a strike on a tent for journalists near Al Shifa hospital. They worked relentlessly through bombing & hunger to document this war. Please remember them

Let's get behind Catherine Connolly for President! It is very easy to donate to her campaign and even the price of a cup of coffee would be helpful so just give whatever you can. There are lots of other ways to support Catherine's campaign too. See here: www.catherineconnollyforpresident.ie/donate

“This is not famine. This is weaponised hunger. The deliberate strangling of a people - not with rope, but with red tape. Not just with bombs, but with bureaucracy… The world did not merely fail Gaza. It abandoned her. And in doing so, it exposed itself.” This is extermination as the world watches.

Your Prime Day reminder that half of Amazon warehouse workers struggle with food & housing costs. A third have had to rely on government assistance like SNAP — which is about to get cut. If Bezos can spend $50M on a wedding, Amazon can afford to treat its workers with dignity.

Ireland spends less than any other country in the EU on social welfare as a % of GDP, and less than half the EU average. Inequality is growing. And the Govnt wants to double defence spending to €3 bn a year.

"Let’s review. On one hand, we have 4,844 children and over 10,000 adults accessing homelessness services. On the other hand, we have €4,500,000,000. Now, this is a puzzle. A quandary for the ages. I’m racking my brain here and I just— Can't we just take the money and—?" This week's Surrealing:

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Really looking forward to taking part in #ISCHP2025 over the next few days Kudos to @chris-noone.bsky.social for bringing this intl conference to our shores...& what a stellar line-up! Attending the #CDoH session @ 9am tmoro is my 1st priority universityofgalwaypsychology.clr.events/event/136643

Fortunately in Canada we have the Canadian Paediatric Society: cps.ca/en/documents...

Toomaj, the famous Iranian rapper and freedom fighter who has been one of the biggest targets of the Islamic regime, has posted this statement. Toomaj has been out of prison for the past few years and has sacrificed a great deal fighting for freedom.

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I cannot emphasize this enough. Reach out to Your SF TD's, MLA's, councillors. They don't know about the NGS. They aren't clued in on the Cass report. The gender conference is early July. I've spoken to several and seen good results. Don't complain about the result after the fact.

Live your life with the confidence of a mediocre man and you too could be a TD saying the British Army never shot at Irish civilians or an MEP quoting Swedish House Mafia to the president of the European Commission

Ten years ago nobody in their right mind gave a single crap where trans people went to the toilet and the only reason anyone does now is because they were radicalised by Facebook and a handful of insane newspaper columnists and that’s just embarrassing all round

There's still time to register for ISCHP 2025! Even if you can't make it to Galway, we promise an engaging online experience that will connect you with those at the conference venue and those attending online around the world. See more here: universityofgalwaypsychology.clr.events/page/2253-un...

Do not try to fucking tell me that this is not the Nazi's again

Biological sex is not a static reality. Scholars have spent decades pointing out how assuming a sex binary is not only wrong but also unethical as it erases the lives of those who are embodied differently. Courts should not give effect to “common sense” when such sense is unethical and unscientific.

I look forward to the day when people completely stop describing this woman as a feminist.

I sent an -admittedly angry - email in relation to the US Military use of Shannon Airport to my local representative Cathal Crowe TD and received an appalling reply. I am posting the correspondence for you all to see.

📢 ICYMI, a new viewpoint in #JIAS and an #HVAD2025 webinar highlight progress in inducing broadly neutralizing antibodies (#bNAbs), a promising path forward in HIV prevention. 🔗 Read: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... 🎧 Watch the webinar: avac.org/event/recent...

I'm watching the Parliamentary debate about the self-ID e-petition and my JAW IS ON THE FLOOR. The MPs speaking are hitting ALL the key pro-trans talking points: - transphobic bias in EHRC - nightmare of SC ruling - toilet bans are awful - must hear trans voices - IGLA rainbow map 1/

Funny how it’s always “we shouldn’t project our modern concept of trans onto the past” and never “we shouldn’t project our modern concept of cis/gender onto the past.”

Like I’ve been saying for a long long while, using LLMs for your work or in your business is like giving US tech CEOs a centralised society-wide bigotry dial for your writing and your research.

Remember that informed consent is the compromised position. It would be great to have it. However. Transition on demand without apology should be the position of those of us on the left. Bodily autonomy for trans people.

Terrible journalism here. No effort to question the false claims of the NGS consultant or to seek other views. They didn't even ask him what risks he talking about. So all this turns out to be is an irresponsible contribution to the moral panic about trans health. 12ft.io/proxy?q=http...

Nail on the head here from @carlkinsella.bsky.social SF have scored own goals by going in the same direction as the government but further on social issues - migration and trans rights, in particular - which is turning off people impressed by their housing policy. www.thejournal.ie/readme/surre...

17th May 1990: The World Health Organisation officially removes homosexuality from its list of mental disorders. This milestone sparked the creation of the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia & Biphobia, now marked globally. #OnThisDay #Queerstory

I've signed this petition calling on the government to give children who were born through Assisted and Donor Reproduction in LGBTQ+ families a legal connection with both of their parents. Will you sign too? my.uplift.ie/petitions/ma... @uplift-ireland.bsky.social

Look over here.

Absolute privilege to speak at City Hall yesterday, on behalf of The Professional Association for Trans Health Ireland, for Cork LGBTI+ Awareness Week on the theme of Trans Allyship. The key messages are simple: Listen to Trans People and Allyship is action not just identity! #trans #allyship #pathi

So will all the Irish media that gave blanket coverage of this stitch up on vulnerable trans children report on it and hold Irish clinicians to account? Will they fuck!!

NEW: The Cass Review into UK trans healthcare is 'deeply flawed', containing biased research, outdated data, and manipulated evidence, an international team of experts has said Read more on this story: www.thenational.scot/news/2516682...

Ireland has internment camps. Once they were the magdalene laundries and the Mother & Baby homes. Now they are the direct provision centers. #speirgorm #Irishpolitics

Situation of LGBTI people in Ireland, ILGA-Europe recommend: Introduce hate speech legislation Conversion practices prohibited Depathologisation of trans identities and provision of trans healthcare through public health system rainbowmap.ilga-europe.org/countries/ir...

Sinn Féin is postponing its conference on trans rights until 2026, after meeting with LGBT+ groups last week to try to rebuild trust. I met with my local SF TD and my impression is that this isn't as divisive an issue as the leadership seems to think. They got it wrong on migration, and now this.

Our article (led by @chris-noone.bsky.social) covering (some of) the failings of the Cass report is now available. We identified all included reviews as having a high ROB and highlight major methodological flaws, ultimately suggesting Cass' findings should not guide policy. l1nq.com/CriticallyAp...

And Mary Lou here at a conference to mark 10 years of marriage equality, listening to the community crying out for better trans healthcare while letting this happen in the North...

Thank you & Congrats to Chris and all - I'm very happy I was able to be a part of this team! The Cass report (and the more recent US HHS "report" which used Cass as a template) should be treated as political documents, not valid scientific reports.

Put simply, we are being lied to. #Ireland

"Israel killed nearly two-thirds of the 124 journalists who died around the world in 2024" - you would imagine this would cause a commotion in the world of news journalism, wouldn't you.

If you check out our website at ischp2025.ie, you'll find that a draft of the conference programme is available now on the menu just below "Register Now". Speaking of registering, places are filling up so please do register soon if you intend to attend the conference! Please share far and wide!

Who would like to read a ten tweet (skeet?) summary of my latest article "Towards a Theory of Cis-Supremacy". For those too tired to read a whole academic article, here's a very short summary thread on cis-supremacy. 1/12

Many LGB folk in Ireland need to acknowledge that part of the reason they feel less safe now is they didn't heed warnings from trans people about what was happening to us and/or act up when they did. Too many people disengaged after marriage equality and that malaise has bitten us all in the arse.

I wanted to read this before I reposted it. I recommend other people read it too. Anyone who's ever been involved in a systematic review will be shocked.