I found this 17 year old opinion piece on The Guardian from back when Benny 16 lifted the excommunications. It, ah, explains the ick that guy gave me to the point I stayed away from mass until a year before Francis passed. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is really good

This is a fascinating discussion of laws named for people- often victims - like cocos law in Ireland. Might interest @jodymooreponce.bsky.social

Fascinating stuff, has this crossed your radar, @aislingwalsh.bsky.social? Looks right up your street!

Great thread

This is a piece that's very personal to me. Thanks a bunch to the greatly supportive editors and reviewers of the REACPOL network and Red Lines for making its publication possible.

On March 26, 2026, during a debate on violence against women in Germany’s Bundestag, left-wing MP Kathrin Gebel was repeatedly interrupted by AfD MP Martin Reichardt. She responded: “Mr. Reichardt, the clitoris has 3,000 nerve endings, and you’re still more sensitive. That’s quite an achievement.”

As someone who researches and writes in the trauma space (decolonial & post-conflict) this book is unavoidable and yet there are so many better texts written by feminist researchers without dubious professional records that deserve attention... I am so here for this takedown 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

My twins are doing the Junior Cert so I'm reading the exams every day. Today was science. And look at this.... I'm assuming that points will be given for the following answers: Consent, autonomy, freedom, choice, violence, coercion, equality, force, oppression....

Paging @jodymooreponce.bsky.social

Loved this piece. @darach.bsky.social represented all that was best about Irish twitter, and judging by the first column, this new series could be a snapshot of that fascinating, surprising, funny, friendly space we used to have. 😮‍💨

Dream PhD opportunity 🥰🥰

When my son was aged about 2-5yrs he had long hair & liked pink. I remember looking at children's books in a progressive bookshop in London & noted that too many of the "boy books" were things like "boys can like pink too" "stories for boys who are different because their hair has grown long"...

Crowd-sourcing question for cis people with trans +GD young people in their lives: What are the books, films or other creative outputs that you love, or recommend to others? It's for a presentation at a conference on the arts + healthcare. RT! @mams4transrights.bsky.social @mimmymum.bsky.social

I don't think it can compete with "aibohphobia", the fear of palindromes.

I think this is my favourite so far. Alice Knox in Blackrock, Co. Dublin who is very glad to be single. #1926census nationalarchives.ie/collections/...

Here's a link to the website for the Norwegian campaign against enshittificatiom, and below is the table of contents of the associated report: www.forbrukerradet.no/breakingfree/

Brilliant analyse by Jen Keane: I’d love to integrate this in a gender & public policy class…

Imagine if we could have such an impact with our bicycles…

Financial Times issues a correction that defines an era.

Employers should cover work-related travel and other expenses directly rather than require employees to float their employer an interest-free loan while subjecting them to a byzantine reimbursement process that will take at least a month and entail multiple rounds of paperwork.

Very good article, on the nexus created by media coverage of legal cases in the UK. Nicely maps some of the ways that a broadly trans-inclusive society got reshaped into one of the most trans exclusionary places in Europe.

Excellent thread, sharing to bookmark.

If you’re interested in how sporting organisations assign sex, and the many problems with this, this short piece is an excellent primer and usefully clarifies the trans-obsessed spins in the msm.

Let’s do this Ireland… 🇮🇪⚽️ #COYBIG

Announcement on Galway-Dublin train: arrival time 8.00 This is a message for the passengers in coach B holding the doors open. You’re delaying the train, we all want to get home to see the match. To the passengers in coach B, we want to watch the match! #COYBIG

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The NYT style guide

"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school

I cannot wait to see the hundreds of thousands of people demonstrating against this in EUrope's streets.... 🙄

Celebrate author Jennifer Johnston! Jennifer died last year at the age of 95 and her family have asked renowned sculptor Rowan Gillespie to memorialise her. They'd like to place the statue overlooking Sandycove Bay where she swam daily but the Council need persuading. Please sign & repost @uplift.ie

Some reasons to feel positive today. Well done to all those women who push back on legal challenges, and push through resolutions notinourname.org.uk

Are academics fun enough to have a drag queen mascot called Athena SWAN

I can’t recommend this fascinating historical essay enough

This is brilliant and urgent research with pertinent relevance far beyond the UK, including in Norway.

Just in case any criminology lecturers are stuck for real world material this week….

People like to whine about echo chambers but to develop a clear analysis and agenda you actually do need to be in a closed dialogue with people who share your values sometimes. It is how you refine your position and get a sense of what next steps are collectively possible.

All that ‘protect-our-sovereign -borders-against-people-with-no -guns-in-tiny-dinghies’ rings hollow in a world where our so-called allies kill or extract leaders extrajudicially and by invading sovereign territory. Borders are being breached illegally and violently & not by people seeking asylum

"The notion that queerness is "un-African" is one of Britain's most successful lies, and most enduring exports." www.wearequeeraf.com/the-colonial...

What a delicious #bookmas, 🎄 📚 I am stoked to get stuck into this pile and most especially this one by @badaude.bsky.social

This thread by a former NYT editor documents how the NYT came to push the Cass Review so hard over other reviews. It was dictated from the top by editors. They sidelined their own London reporter to put Azeen Ghorayshi on it.

A colloquial German word about someone viewed as low on intellect, especially popular in the 1990s, was Teletubbyzurückwinker. It means “one who waves back at the Teletubbies.”

If you see this please share (i.e. repost, not just like)! The Barbellion Prize is a unique award for writers with disabilities. We need to raise £20k to secure its future, so please make a donation, no matter how large, no matter how small, here: barbellionprize.org/donate/ Thank you!

Sadly, I know nothing about publishing, but I suspect this is the correct take. It was dreadfully bookless, as book segments go.. #toyshow

I feel the book section is insufficiently bookish #toyshow