That will be such a soft penalty if it’s given #coyg

Irish judge refused to use preferred name of transgender child in State care www.thejournal.ie/tr... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

A depressingly great article www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

Heathrow in a nutshell

"The win had changed her life, but not in the ways she had hoped." A devastating, deeply moving story by my dear friend @caseyparks.bsky.social about how poverty, politics, and cruelty shaped a trans teenage runner's world.

For 100 years, Ireland’s Abbey Theatre has shown that a publicly funded troupe can deliver cultural riches and hard truths. Talya Zax on the instructive history of the institution that inspired America’s Federal Theatre Project:

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

Re-listened to this top @planetmoney.bsky.social pod on Hong Kong & Jimmy Lai, the British pro-democracy billionaire who has spent 5ys so far in prison. www.npr.org/2019/07/19/7...

Who robbed the Louvre ? right answers only:

I said a while ago that the first rule of finance *is* that when the music's playing you've got to get up and dance, and the second rule is never get yourself quoted in the newspaper saying the first rule.

shout out to @katharinehorgan.bsky.social who is mere inches away from finishing the Berlin marathon. I walked half that distance yesterday and I'm knackered so, kudos (Repost and follow her eh? so i can say i did something useful)

Today I offer a reminder of the word ‘forswunk’ (13th century): exhausted from too much work. To be ‘foreswunk’ (my own version) is to be exhausted before you even begin.

Including gillick competence in the heritage paper attempting to define so called trans motivated violence as terrorism is a huge tip that some british knobhead wrote it. Gillick isn't an American thing, it's a UK thing.

This absolute banger

This, from the Quakers, is a pretty good example of how to resist pressure from bigot lobbying groups. Effectively “we legally can allow trans people to use the loo, we morally should, and we tried it and nothing bad happened”

Essential viewing for all you Netflixers

Awful, awful story. There seems to be a chronic lack of accountability in the UK state at the moment. And if you can't trust the courts, where do you even start?

Epic riposte from @jemima.bsky.social - fascinating article on.ft.com/40X7x8f

Wow, ACAS ripping the EHRC to shreds in their consultation response - even a “strongly disagree” in there www.acas.org.uk/consultation...

I’m thinking that the organisational skills of the RWC organising committee are lacking somewhat - so much for superfan passes #superfan #rwc2027

German insanity bookending this match. That was an *insane* save! #Euro2025 #FRAGER

South London 1 - Queue Jumping Assholes 0 (let’s just say they were really leaning into certain stereotypes, but I didn’t resort do che cazzo); when you’re pissing off 10+ people in a queue at Wimbledon that’s impressive…

Gordon’s kitchen nightmares, F1 edition

6 years since my last F1 paddock fix - need to make up for lost time, my chariot awaits #pirellihotlaps

Masses of people, and not just those marching. Seemed to be more nervous energy at the start but further back in the crowd, with great DJs, the energy was great. #budapestpride (had to rush off for flight but glad to have seen such support: Finnish, German, Donegal and Arsenal flags / tops spotted

Funny how Hermann ‘anti choice’ Kelly is all ‘my body, my choice’ when it comes to organ donation and his ‘giblets’, and entirety the opposite when it’s comes to women’s rights over our bodies! Misogyny in so central to far right ideology #speirgorm

Queued behind Paul McCartney at immigration in JFK once - he was offered chance to skip ahead of the person in front of him by staff and said no.

Also: inside the increasing worries among Labour MPs and others about the government’s insistence that the supreme court ruling brings “clarity” when their transgender constituents - and organisations - tell them something very different. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Exclusive: Formal guidance on how organisations should implement the supreme court ruling on gender may not be fully signed off for months, officials and MPs warn, amid increasing worries about the capability of the Equalities & Human Rights Commission www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Representation and allyship matters, even in the small stuff

Hard Labour - Andrew Tate wannabes…

This should be one of the biggest stories in the world right now. Millions of people are either directly or indirectly dependent on the Kafue river for their survival. This is crazy.

new from me: Elon Musk's X appears to be blocking links to directly contact users on Signal Signal, the encrypted messaging app, has recently become a major tool for government workers looking to blow the whistle on DOGE

When a linguistics professor has not met enough Irish people …

Hmm, looks like the @beninldn.bsky.social scoop from 18 months ago is about to be proved correct, sadly (so what other minorities can expect their existence to be “balanced” vs. religious beliefs) www.vice.com/en/article/l...

Love this.

This is a fascinating lunch with Signal's Meredith Whittaker about privacy, surveillance, AI, and the ethics (or not) of Big Tech. I think it will appeal to Blue Sky-ers so here is a free (x300) link on.ft.com/3XLeu9Q

Since disclosing his condition, acquaintances and strangers have been in touch “saying, ‘That was really brave and really emotional.’ But not one person has contacted me to say, ‘OK, I’ve got it as well.’” This despite more than 1mn people having the disorder in the UK. on.ft.com/4czwg5m

Tube doors with built in tasers to stop people blocking them deliberately - @countbinface.bsky.social can we get this in your next manifesto for London Mayor?

Great article

So, first and last in the non-binary category at #helsinkimarathon #bmwhelsinkimarathon - got a participation medal just to annoy the right wingers, and a shout out from the announcers after my (relative!) sprint finish. Now to find where I mislaid several toenails, my sanity, and some cartilage…

The man knows quality!

Well, at least with this course I can duck out half-way through without looking like a total eejit… (and of course the couple in front of me at registration were also Irish, mad feckers by nature the lot of us)