Conor Mc Bride

a wooden hatstand with a coat hanging on one of its hooks and a cardboard stovepipe hat on top, next to an untidy desk under an office window, with a pair of white stilettos tucked underneath the desk drawers

gratuitous hatstand photograph

Yes, but thinking of it as "dirty stuff" is exactly wrong. The point is that it's *extra clean*. Not merely a function but a monoid homomorphism!

For Whoish people, I'd recommend "Who is Benedetto Trovato?" as a good intro. It's out there on yt somewhere, and if you can't find it, hit me up.

Lots of Who actors and writers show up, cutting their teeth, and not a few Blake's 7 folk. It is drama conjured by testimony from within the single courtroom set. But it can go anywhere, narratively and emotionally, in contemporary human experience. There's a lot of it on youtube.

AI
It's not your fault.
It is your problem.

I also watched Oil Strike North and Buccaneer, because I have to see all the Glaister.

McCoy Who (that's just where I am in the cycle). Crown Court (because wow, so cheap, so good). Am tempted by a bit of Lotus Eaters / Ferryman / Aphrodite. Totally did Look and Read - Cloud Burst, and a spot of gratuitous location tourism, too.

Almost nice but only because accumulation in *free* monoids.

The only effective Scottish Independence strategy is a gerrymandering strategy. We have to be convinced that there is a political objective that matters more to us than a union which thwarts that objective from outside. It has to be clear in what way we're no longer ok to be steamrollered into line.

There might be fun in *foiling* manufacturers of misery.

I want the worker to be a foldMap. Accumulations out of lists should talk about a typical single element. It would be nice to be able to talk about elements of some fieldwise monoidal record type by only mentioning the non-neutral stuff. I dream on.

That Horndean Special Bitter!

🎉 40,000 women have signed - and we’re not stopping here.

We’re united in rejecting discrimination against the trans and non-binary community. We refuse to let our voices be used to divide. This is our moment — and we’re heading for 50,000...and beyond! 🚀💥

📢 Here’s how you can help us get there...

“The ‘grown women’ of Ireland remember very well what erasure and control and lack of bodily autonomy feel like and it’s for this very reason that we stand so passionately with the trans community today”

#TransRightsAreHumanRights @independent.ie

A photo taken through the window of a train. The name of the station "Newton for Hyde" can be seen on a sign. Inside the train a piece of paper is held up to the window with a sketch of a bewigged gentleman holding up a sign saying "Leibnitz for Jekyll"

Nerdy joke warning. 😁 I've been planning this since I first saw the Newton for Hyde sign.

Conversion therapy to pacy expensive television has been attempted, but has proven utterly ineffective.

In case I can help anyone, or in case anyone can help me, my Crown Court archive is missing 43 stories out of 280.

Although trans people are a small minority, the issues surrounding trans rights are not.
The reason this should matter to everyone, cis or trans, is that the erosion of bodily autonomy, and Gillick Competence (and Scots equivalent) are dangerous rollbacks of human and civil rights.

Austerity decides certain groups are an unaffordable luxury, useless eaters, and makes their lives impossible.

Under Blair it was the disabled. Now it's refugees and trans people.

Once you've made eliminationism popular and acceptable, fascism can offer to do it more whole-heartedly.

“History shows that increasing wealth inequality consistently precedes collapse”

I can be beaten to death with the trans friends they love. I just can't be one of them because I'm family.

I stand accused of sailing through the world fearlessly as a man.

And, for one, I do not leave my house without fear of street harassment.
And for two, even when I was some kind of man, I never took my eyes off the street, because in Belfast you've got to see it before it sees you.

I'm sick of being told what I shouldn't wear because men are rapey. Or rather because I can some how wear those clothes with privilege and without consequence

No matter what I wear, men want to rape me for a microsecond before they *reallly* want to murder me.

I'm scared anyway. I wear my jam.

MEN EXPERIENCING LONELINESS I will become right wing WOMEN EXPERIENCING LONELINESS Iwill develop a heretical theology and meet other women who have done too many drugs and do the same. We willattack and dethrone god.

Ult The whole point of "AI" is that there is no apparent way to correct it when it goes wrong. Rather, we the humans are to blame for our failure to conform to its stupidity. The people who are doing this to us, I promise you, can survive without oxygen.

Amongst other things, an AI now seems to be deciding which of my skills go with which jobs I've done, and there's no apparent means to correct it when it gets things wrong.

I'm scared of bog cops. They might be colleagues (I hope not). They might be students (I can't refuse to teach evil students.) They might be opportunistic vigilantes. My institution is doing nothing to discourage bog cops.

I spent seven years writing a book on this and she just… said it in three succinct paragraphs to politico.

Mary-Ann Stephenson will, no doubt, ensure that her term of office as EHRC is nasty and brutish. The rest of us must ensure that it is short.

It does not feel good to have one's Government declare war on one's identity. I do not like war, but I'm used to it.