Rajesh Mohan

Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court strikes down St. Lucia laws criminalizing gay sex The laws against “gross indecency” and “buggery” are unconstitutional, the court ruled.

Good news!
St. Lucia has struck down colonial-era laws that criminalised homosexuality.
While much of the world is edging backwards on LGBTQ rights and acceptance, St. Lucia becomes the 5th Eastern Caribbean country to decriminalise same-sex relations in the last few years.

A photo of a yellow, iridescent blue, black and shimmery gold moth sitting on my finger from above. The moth's wings are spread, the head is black. The forebody is yellow with dark blue iridescent stripes The forewings are yellow with the dark blue iridescent stripes on the front part, the rear part of the forewings are yellow with three rows of tiny iridescent blue spots. The hind wings are black with a bright golden sheen to them.

A photo of the moth from the side showing the yellow and dark blue iridescent stripes and spots on the wings

In honor of #NationalMothWeek I will be posting #moths. We start with the amazingly beautiful Hieroglyphic Moth, Diphtera festiva, which I have only seen once.

It's South Asian Heritage Month 2025!

Stay tuned for upcoming content to celebrate South Asian Heritage Month which will include a special podcast, a webinar and a blog post.

Government inheriting poor value assets due to bad handling of PFI contracts, watchdog says Public accounts committee warns UK infrastructure risked becoming ‘stony ground’ for investors without major overhaul

UK Govt inheriting poor value assets due to bad handling of PFI contracts.

PFI is part of corporate welfare. For every £1 of private investment govt repays more than £6 + more for services.

Cheaper for govt to borrow.

Yet govt is entering new PFI deals lasting to 2052-53.

Michael Marmot

"The areas with the greatest need saw the biggest reductions in support. Is it any surprise health inequalities widened?"

@michaelmarmot.bsky.social on how government decisions shaped health inequalities, racism, and a million UK children living in destitution
www.bmj.com/content/390/...

Wishing all of my friends in the United States a happy Independence Day. Only took you 249 years to go back to having a King... 🇺🇸

Here’s the next book on my list that I’ll be getting into. I “read” it senior year of high school (basically used sparknotes) and also didn’t have the capacity to appreciate and understand the contents of this book. So, I want to give it another try especially given our political climate now 😒

Newspaper articles including the headline “Britain’s most dangerous prescription drug”

Shows how some ethnicities have benign neutropaenia, which is not a risk factor itself but can lead to treatment cessation or burden of extra tests

Summary that clozapine is underused and life-saving, despite known risks

Today at #BAP2025 we heard from both lived-experience and pharmacology experts that clozapine,“Britain’s most dangerous drug” is lifesaving for people with treatment-resistance— with current thresholds for discontinuation racially unequal (some people have naturally lower but safe neutrophil levels)

Budapest Pride to proceed despite Hungary's LGBTQ+ event ban A Pride parade protesting Hungary's LGBTQ+ crack down has been backed by over 30 foreign embassies – but not the United States.

Despite being banned by new Hungarian legislation, Budapest Pride will still take place on June 28.
Throughout history, laws and society have attempted to deny, erase or crush LGBTQ lives.
They have always failed.

EHRC formally abandons single-sex toilet stipulation | Good Law Project The EHRC’s rushed guidance caused harm from the moment it was released. But now they’re u-turning.

The EHRC withdraw its daft, cruel and unworkable directive that all employers need provide single-sex toilets.
Well fought @goodlawproject.bsky.social!

Dismay as council removes Pride flag in Derbyshire after Christians complain LGBTQ+ standard disappears from Matlock high street as Christian bookshop manager says they are ‘not happy with the gay rights situation’

Yup!
We now live somewhere where Pride flags are removed because they’re ‘promoting homosexuality.’
Deja vu. 🏳️‍🌈
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Juneteenth Brought Freedom, But Not Equal Rights for Americans An essay about the unfulfilled promise of racial equality

Fresh words ✨

allyfromnola.medium.com/juneteenth-b...

SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft exploded on its test stand on Wednesday, sending a large fireball into the sky. The company had cleared personnel from around the site. wapo.st/4kUmz6G

Honored to share my newest piece, this one around the framework I created years ago for myself to navigate my suicidal thoughts.

Especially during these times, we need to have open conversations around mental health to save lives. I love you all.🌙💖🐦‍🔥🦄🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🦸🏽‍♂️✊🏽

Link: www.wondermind.com/article/psyc...

This is so true from history books! Men sat down & pondered long and hard if women should have rights or be allowed to vote - thought it wasn’t a good idea too!

I don't know how many people understand that disabled people are looking at losing £450 a month, every month, potentially for life.

Money that pays for the help, aids, and adjustments that they need to exist in the world. There are disabled people who wouldn't survive these cuts.

...and she won! 🥳

Starting off the week with some great news: Dr. @asilayseker.bsky.social won Higher Resident Dr in the 2025 RC Psych London Awards! We admire her dedication to improving care for neurodivergent children & young people, & her consistent support of other trainees. Well done Asilay!

Completely agree

A&E

The NHS recently announced it will open specialist mental health centres as an alternative to A&E.

But patients don’t always present with cases that fall neatly into “mental” or “physical” boxes, says @jamesldowns.bsky.social, and this risks reinforcing the divide
www.bmj.com/content/389/...

Do hormones and surgery improve the health of adults with gender incongruence? A systematic review of patient reported outcomes Gender diverse people in Australia have higher levels of psychological stress, suicidal ideation and suicide attempts and have poorer self-reported health than cisgender people. A systematic review a...

Important #PrideMonth systematic review of 81 (eighty one! 👏) papers.

'hormones and surgery as a collective for adults with gender incongruence has therapeutic value and should be considered for funding within Australia's healthcare systems.'
#MedSky 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Bottlenecks in postgraduate medical training are an abject failure of medical leadership, writes @mancunianmedic.bsky.social
www.bmj.com/content/389/...

I just hope dog owners will keep their pups on leads anywhere near them. Otherwise we could have a Greenwich version of Fenton.

Deer photos released after return of the Greenwich Park herd The first photographs of the Greenwich Park deer are released a month after their return.

First view of the Greenwich Park's herd of eight fallow and red deer, introduced in May 2025 - such wonderful news
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Measles Update: 1168 cases and counting—we're now 106 shy of the 1274 from 2019, which would make it the worst outbreak in over 30 years.

Given recent airport exposures, we'll probably get there.

Meanwhile, RFK Jr is like "nothing to see here—vaccines are the problem."

www.cnn.com/2025/06/05/h...

NHS to get £30bn boost over three years at expense of other services Policing and local councils among areas facing real-terms cuts in the spending review on Wednesday The NHS is set to receive a £30bn funding boost in the spending review next week, at the expense of other public services. The Department of Health is expected to emerge as the biggest winner on Wednesday with a 2.8% increase to its day-to-day spending budget over a three-year period, amounting to a £30bn rise by 2028. Continue reading...

NHS to get £30bn boost over three years at expense of other services

Book by Haig N Najariah called "Sex Lives of Animals without Backbones"

trying to understand my ex better

Alan Turing’s blue plaque in St Leonards reads: Alan Turing 1912 - 1954 Founder of computer science and cryptographer, whose work was key to breaking the wartime Enigma code, spent his childhood here.

Portrait of Turing smiling rather frutily.

Today is the anniversary of Alan Turing’s suicide, in 1954.
Turing was the father of modern computing. His codebreaking helped the Allies to win WWII.
Arrested for being gay, he chose chemical castration over a prison sentence. He lost his security clearance, as all homosexuals were deemed a risk.

"This was an experiment by a kindergarten class. They dropped seeds in the cracks of the sidewalk to see what would happen.
This would help our bees "
via I Love Bees

Me on the Reclaim Pride March in 2022 holding a placard that reads ‘Stonewall was a riot Pride is a protest’. My arms are large and my hair awesome.

Pride is a protest, pass it on.