The Lockdown Book Club 🏳️⚧️
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your fav online book club. run by Aoife Martin (she/her), @emer.bsky.social (she/her) & @littlehux.bsky.social (they/them). Posts by Aoife.
Get yourself a president who supports the trans community. 🏳️⚧️
@teni.bsky.social don't seem to use their bsky account so I'm posting this over here from their facebook because people should see it: one of the first things our new President Connolly did last week was write the community a letter for TDOR 🏳️⚧️
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November 24, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Get yourself a president who supports the trans community. 🏳️⚧️
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@teni.bsky.social don't seem to use their bsky account so I'm posting this over here from their facebook because people should see it: one of the first things our new President Connolly did last week was write the community a letter for TDOR 🏳️⚧️
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November 24, 2025 at 6:51 PM
@teni.bsky.social don't seem to use their bsky account so I'm posting this over here from their facebook because people should see it: one of the first things our new President Connolly did last week was write the community a letter for TDOR 🏳️⚧️
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Dear #SpeirGorm
If you could kindly share, I would be most grateful.
Does anybody have first hand experience of the timescale when applying for #CORU #SocialCareWorker registration under Section 38 (Graduates/New Entrants) route.
If you could kindly share, I would be most grateful.
Does anybody have first hand experience of the timescale when applying for #CORU #SocialCareWorker registration under Section 38 (Graduates/New Entrants) route.
November 15, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Dear #SpeirGorm
If you could kindly share, I would be most grateful.
Does anybody have first hand experience of the timescale when applying for #CORU #SocialCareWorker registration under Section 38 (Graduates/New Entrants) route.
If you could kindly share, I would be most grateful.
Does anybody have first hand experience of the timescale when applying for #CORU #SocialCareWorker registration under Section 38 (Graduates/New Entrants) route.
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A local bakery just posted this photo on Facebook. I’ve gotten stuff from her before. Nice older lady. I do not know if she made it but…it’s perfect. Perfect.
November 15, 2025 at 4:07 AM
A local bakery just posted this photo on Facebook. I’ve gotten stuff from her before. Nice older lady. I do not know if she made it but…it’s perfect. Perfect.
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happy Partially Muscled Skeleton Stands by the Perimeter Fence and Screams for Thirty Seconds Before Vanishing day
November 14, 2025 at 6:39 AM
happy Partially Muscled Skeleton Stands by the Perimeter Fence and Screams for Thirty Seconds Before Vanishing day
Paul is an excellent and insightful interviewer. i wish I could attend all of these.
Here's a thread of things I will be doing in November, in case you have a deep desire to be in a big room that also contains me.
November 3 - I'm talking to director Charlie Shackleton (The Afterlight) about his new movie at @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social:
ifi.ie/film/zodiac-...
November 3 - I'm talking to director Charlie Shackleton (The Afterlight) about his new movie at @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social:
ifi.ie/film/zodiac-...
ZODIAC KILLER PROJECT + Q&A - Irish Film Institute
In this wholly original, self-aware film, the true crime boom is put under the microscope as filmmaker Charlie Shackleton (The Afterlight, 2021) tells the story of his abandoned documentary about the ...
ifi.ie
October 30, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Paul is an excellent and insightful interviewer. i wish I could attend all of these.
He’s not the messiah, he’s a very naughty byte.
Nowhere in this article does it say *how* this AI will 'hasten the coming of Christ's return,' but I can't help thinking of Arthur C. Clarke's story, 'The Nine Billion Names of God.' Tread softly, techbro. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’
Patrick Gelsinger, executive chairman of Gloo, has made it his mission to advance Christian principles in Silicon Valley
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 2:50 PM
He’s not the messiah, he’s a very naughty byte.
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absolutely raging that philip sutcliffe represents my area and I’m so sickened by his horrible spoiled vote/fucking zodiac killer hate scrawl that I’ve made a complaint to the dcc ethics registrar. the info is at the link below and he’s in direct contravention of section 9.4 of the code of conduct
Here's where it can be reported that will have an effect www.dublincity.ie/council/abou...
Code of Conduct for Councillors
Find out about the standards of behaviour which councillors are obliged to meet and how to make a complaint.
www.dublincity.ie
October 25, 2025 at 11:10 AM
absolutely raging that philip sutcliffe represents my area and I’m so sickened by his horrible spoiled vote/fucking zodiac killer hate scrawl that I’ve made a complaint to the dcc ethics registrar. the info is at the link below and he’s in direct contravention of section 9.4 of the code of conduct
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I’m just a girl, standing in front of a national media, asking it to please please not hyperfocus on spoiled votes today.
Spoiled votes, like their voters, should be ignored. At best a footnote.
Spoiled votes, like their voters, should be ignored. At best a footnote.
October 25, 2025 at 9:03 AM
I’m just a girl, standing in front of a national media, asking it to please please not hyperfocus on spoiled votes today.
Spoiled votes, like their voters, should be ignored. At best a footnote.
Spoiled votes, like their voters, should be ignored. At best a footnote.
All first time watches and absolutely hitting it out of the park.
October 10, 2025 at 1:48 PM
All first time watches and absolutely hitting it out of the park.
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I feel like most Irish and British writers who complain about being silenced have never done anything as brave as what Naoise has done here
Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann is gravely concerned about the detention of writer Naoise Dolan...The flotilla was illegally intercepted last night and seized by armed Israeli forces in international waters.
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Thousand Madleens flotilla Statement - Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann
8 October 2025 Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann is gravely concerned about the detention of writer Naoise Dolan, one of several Irish citizens taking part in the Thousand Madleens f...
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October 9, 2025 at 8:21 AM
I feel like most Irish and British writers who complain about being silenced have never done anything as brave as what Naoise has done here
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I have so much respect for Greta Thunberg because she easily could have coasted on speaking gigs and Davos appearances for the rest of her life
October 5, 2025 at 12:34 PM
I have so much respect for Greta Thunberg because she easily could have coasted on speaking gigs and Davos appearances for the rest of her life
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With news that Bari Weiss is going to be the new EIC at CBS News, I wanted to reup this piece I wrote 6 years ago about how she and Bret Stephens helped turn NYT into a moral panic factory www.mediamatters.org/new-york-tim...
How Bret Stephens and Bari Weiss have taken the NY Times’ campus concern trolling to new heights in just 2 years
www.mediamatters.org
October 2, 2025 at 8:41 PM
With news that Bari Weiss is going to be the new EIC at CBS News, I wanted to reup this piece I wrote 6 years ago about how she and Bret Stephens helped turn NYT into a moral panic factory www.mediamatters.org/new-york-tim...
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The Hampstead ponds have REPEATEDLY voted to include trans women. But the officious pricks at Sex Matters don’t care what other women think and are forcing a public consultation anyway. Throw the ponds some support.
🚨 Consultation survey launched on whether trans people should be able to access Hampstead Heath ladies' pond following Supreme Court ruling
The consultation is open until 12:00 on Tuesday 25th November 2025.
(Survey link in next post)
www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...
The consultation is open until 12:00 on Tuesday 25th November 2025.
(Survey link in next post)
www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...
Survey launched on trans access to Hampstead Heath ladies' pond
The ladies’ pond at Hampstead Heath currently admits biological women and transgender women
www.standard.co.uk
October 1, 2025 at 6:59 PM
The Hampstead ponds have REPEATEDLY voted to include trans women. But the officious pricks at Sex Matters don’t care what other women think and are forcing a public consultation anyway. Throw the ponds some support.
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On Friday I’ll be joined in Chapters by a fabulous panel of authors to celebrate the launch of THE UNFATHOMABLE CURSE! I would love to see you there - I will have themed friendship bracelets and I promise a night of Curses & Chaos ✨👻
Tickets: campsite.to/cswritesbooks
#speirgorm
Tickets: campsite.to/cswritesbooks
#speirgorm
September 24, 2025 at 6:25 PM
On Friday I’ll be joined in Chapters by a fabulous panel of authors to celebrate the launch of THE UNFATHOMABLE CURSE! I would love to see you there - I will have themed friendship bracelets and I promise a night of Curses & Chaos ✨👻
Tickets: campsite.to/cswritesbooks
#speirgorm
Tickets: campsite.to/cswritesbooks
#speirgorm
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The same bs they're spewing about autism and tylenol is the same bs they're spewing about trans people's healthcare. It's the exact same playbook and the fact that the media can see through one and not the other is a damning indictment of how complicit they are in the attack on trans lives.
September 23, 2025 at 1:54 PM
The same bs they're spewing about autism and tylenol is the same bs they're spewing about trans people's healthcare. It's the exact same playbook and the fact that the media can see through one and not the other is a damning indictment of how complicit they are in the attack on trans lives.
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I will never forget how the fully fictional “concerns” of TERFs and billionaires about trans people have contributed to the rapid rise of fascism. There they are, egging it on, not listening to science, history, medicine, and individual experience, fiddling their own prejudices while society burns.
September 21, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I will never forget how the fully fictional “concerns” of TERFs and billionaires about trans people have contributed to the rapid rise of fascism. There they are, egging it on, not listening to science, history, medicine, and individual experience, fiddling their own prejudices while society burns.
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Here is the link for tonight's #BeyondFriday THE NIGHT STALKER. See you in just under 2 hours.
RT to save a life!
youtu.be/Dcd-U70SYgI?...
RT to save a life!
youtu.be/Dcd-U70SYgI?...
The Night Stalker Movie 1972
YouTube video by Last Writes Ink
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September 19, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Here is the link for tonight's #BeyondFriday THE NIGHT STALKER. See you in just under 2 hours.
RT to save a life!
youtu.be/Dcd-U70SYgI?...
RT to save a life!
youtu.be/Dcd-U70SYgI?...
You can see in the dark, through the eyes of Laura Mars
Quote a line from a Song.
September 18, 2025 at 6:58 PM
You can see in the dark, through the eyes of Laura Mars
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It's physically unsafe for people like me to go into the centre of our home city this Saturday on account of the colour of our skin.
Most politicians are either failing to stand up to this or actively contributing to the situation.
We don't owe any of those politicians our votes. Not one of them.
Most politicians are either failing to stand up to this or actively contributing to the situation.
We don't owe any of those politicians our votes. Not one of them.
September 13, 2025 at 2:01 PM
It's physically unsafe for people like me to go into the centre of our home city this Saturday on account of the colour of our skin.
Most politicians are either failing to stand up to this or actively contributing to the situation.
We don't owe any of those politicians our votes. Not one of them.
Most politicians are either failing to stand up to this or actively contributing to the situation.
We don't owe any of those politicians our votes. Not one of them.
A great week, and all seen on the big screen.
September 12, 2025 at 2:01 PM
A great week, and all seen on the big screen.
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Imagine thinking the defense to "you mocked a young girl" is "I didn't, I mocked a boy" makes you any less of a creepy bully
OOF. So per John Boyne, it's acceptable to mock a teenaged girl for wearing makeup to a sporting event because she's trans there for "really" a boy & it's acceptable to mock a boy for that?
When TERFs claim to be inclusive of gender nonconformity, they are lying.
When TERFs claim to be inclusive of gender nonconformity, they are lying.
September 5, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Imagine thinking the defense to "you mocked a young girl" is "I didn't, I mocked a boy" makes you any less of a creepy bully
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I once had the opportunity to ask a former close collaborator of Graham Linehan about him and the person shook their head sadly and said "He's gone mad".
September 5, 2025 at 10:46 AM
I once had the opportunity to ask a former close collaborator of Graham Linehan about him and the person shook their head sadly and said "He's gone mad".