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Séamas O'Reilly: Trans people have spent a decade being attacked in a moral panic The poor provision of unisex children’s facilities— which reinforces gender stereotypes and inconveniences women and men both — was, incidentally, an issue I remember being quite talked-about a decade...

The UK's political and media class has spent years heaping sadism on trans people, and they want to do the same in Ireland next. Calls for civility and calm won't cut it. We need to fight them tooth and nail.

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This was such a satisfying project, and one in which I realized for the first time how much my whole life had been spent in a manscape, in places where almost everything was named after men.

Landlord appeals council refusal to scrap Newmarket market space - Dublin Inquirer If it can’t use the spot instead for a convenience shop, it’s just going to have to let it lie vacant, its appeal said.

A landlord has appealed the council's refusal to scrap a Newmarket market space. If it can’t use the spot instead for a convenience shop, it’s just going to have to let it lie vacant, its appeal said. dublininquirer.com/2...

Vacant and derelict properties need to be seized and refurbished. Emergency measures.

Elon Musk's mother moved to South Africa in the year Apartheid was created, and she and Elon left the year it ended. The last Apartheid Prime Minister, a man who refused to testify at the Truth and Reconciliation Committee, was a family friend who stayed at their home. This is not a crazy theory.

For love and local news: The couple behind the Dublin Inquirer on keeping "a terrible idea" alive for 10 years - The Currency The seeds of the Dublin Inquirer were planted at a dinner party in Kyrgyzstan in 2009. Sam Tranum was teaching journalism at the American University of Central Asia in Bishkek when a colleague invited...

"The couple behind the Dublin Inquirer on keeping “a terrible idea” alive for 10 years"

These wonderful buildings were funded and built by communities. We need a joined up approach with the state and religious communities to plan for new, appropriate re-use that is mindful of the past but continues to serve communities in new ways.

The original inspiration for the neighbourhood mapping project was this @claudiadalby.bsky.social article (dublininquirer.com/2021/09/29/i...) and this animation by the late Nick Perry (@historyofstokey.bsky.social) of 80 people's drawings of the boundaries of Stoke Newington...

They should invent a life that isn't spent in daily worry that you're not doing enough.

Listening to a podcast and getting triggered by work guilt every time I hear the word research. #academicchristmas

Hard to keep track of how many countries “the only democracy in the Middle East” is bombing

Heather Marsh may just have some of the most important political/ social ideas that most people are unaware of.

French cities with higher supply elasticity see lower price growth. This variation in supply elasticity is explained by variation in the restrictiveness of local land-use regulations.

Britain joins trans-Pacific pact in biggest post-Brexit trade deal The accession means Britain will be able to apply CPTPP trade rules and lower tariffs with eight of the 11 existing members.

Britain officially became the 12th member of a trans-Pacific trade pact that includes Japan, Australia and Canada.

Close-ups — this is really quite lovely

I got a paper back from an academic publisher a week ago that had clearly been copy-edited by AI. It took three hours to unpick the issues it had caused and the errors it had introduced.

It's v exciting that we now have a product that increases my workload and that my university is mad for.

The FINAL installment of “Field Notes: Repair" is out now, featuring dispatches from people studying, thinking about & enacting repair around the world.

The aim is to open windows into repair — entry points where such work is catalyzed & planetary responsibility becomes shared.

Browse the series:

Indeed, you can get bus 44 that goes through the tunnel, or walk across Erasmusbrug. There's a connection bw Kop van Zuid and Katendrecht too :)

You must see Delfshaven in Rotterdam, and new developments adjacent Deliplein, Katendrecht. Let me know if I can offer some other ideas.

Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh stood in front of the International Court of Justice as part of South Africa's legal team taking action against Israel for it's conduct a... Irish lawyer's stunning speech at The Hague accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza

Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh stood in front of the International Court of Justice as part of South Africa's legal team taking action against Israel for it's conduct against #Gaza.

Irish lawyer's stunning speech at The Hague accusing Israel of genocide ... youtu.be/yhsWyBWGoCU...

Why Won't Silicon Valley Take Teen Girls Seriously? Young women can make or break tech products, so why doesn't Silicon Valley respect them?

"A lot of people invest in what they can identify with,... and when you're in a space where so many of the investors and so many of the tech creators and developers are male, I think there's probably the teenage girls space is the hardest for many [men in tech] to identify with."

this is, de-facto, a total ban on gender-affirming care in the state of Ohio.

if all gender affirming care for every patient, adult or child, requires a psychiatrist, endocrinologist, and bioethicist, there will, quite simply, BE no gender-affirming care.

The ebook can be found here, open access: wpcpress.app.box.com/s/78chmmau89...

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I wrote a piece about the idiocy of figures within the Irish media conflating the left and far right, back when the left were being blamed for far right protests outside the Dail. I'd forgotten its closing lines.

This was ten weeks ago. I present it now without comment.

Every time I say “this is why we can’t have nice things” I need to remind myself that “this” is probably “private equity.”

Croíthe Radacacha: TG4 documentary looks at some of the female couples of the independence struggle The Radical Hearts documentary from Cork-based director Ciara Hyland looks at the evidence and suggests same-sex couples were more common in the independence era than many realised

‘A fascinating documentary’s about the hidden stories behind eight lesbian couples during Ireland’s revolutionary years’. Croíthe Radacacha/Radical Hearts ⁦‪@TG4TV‬⁩, Dec 6th, 9.30pm. #irishwmnhist #skystorians #history #lgbthistories #queerfemininities www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...

Please sign and share. Israeli Ambassador and staff, currently claiming Ireland funded Hamas tunnels in Gaza. Time they are booted out.

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