🇪🇺🏳️🌈⚖️🇭🇺 A legal earthquake - CJEU finds Hungary to have violated EU law on multiple counts with its anti-LGBT+ legislation (as expected) but also for the first time in history, in an EU law-reshaping precedent, finds Hungary to violate Art 2 TEU in a self-standing manner.
NI has introduced two weeks of paid leave for women and their partners when they experience a miscarriage. The change will "give people the validation for their feelings, and time to process the loss together" said a volunteer for the Miscarriage Association. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The World Health Organisation have released a call for proposals for community experiences in adapting to climate change for sexual and reproductive health and rights.
Read more here: www.who.int/news-room/ar...
Good casework meeting today @qmucu.bsky.social where we took a bit of time to reflect on the trends coming up. Makes such a difference to see colleagues watching out for each other and bringing unions to life
During the peak of COVID, a number of parents learned or re-learned that teaching is difficult. But this has had no lasting impact. Hasn't translated to calls to increase teacher pay, for example.
Amazing writing from Jennifer Horgan”: Angry men's blockades stopped my mother being with her dying brother-in-law last week. She was not the only vulnerable person whose needs were trampled on” #speirgorm
1926 census entry
1926 Census:
Sean McDermott Street Magdalene Laundry.
30 nuns and over 100 other women.
Occupation entered as: Laundress.
The incarceration of women in the early Free State.
#SpeirGorm
I finally got Manannán transcribed. It is the 1939 Irish language sci-fi book with the first Spaceship using a gravity assist in literature.
Next up is conversion to modern spelling. If you know a list of known changes (annso->anseo) or can even just help by reading please let me know.
On this day in 1989, NYPD officers arrested five teenagers—four of whom were Black and one of whom was Latino—subjected them to coercive interrogation, and charged them with rape despite their innocence. All were sentenced to 5-13 years.
If you or your students research any aspect of British, Irish or British colonial/imperial history (Roman empire to today) and need a tool that will never hallucinate sources, check out the BBIH. It develops research skills rather than repressing them. Instit. & indiv. subscriptions available.
An infographic. There are six panels. 1. "Slow internet. Alt text is shown in place of unloaded images." a drawing shows a phone with poor signal, and alt text is visible where the image should have loaded. 2. "Findabillity. Alt text helps to search content." A drawing shows someone searching 'dog with banana' and a post is shown underneath without the words 'dog' or 'banana'. It is implied to be part of the alt text. 3. "Screen readers. Alt is read out to people using text-to-speech software". There is a drawing of the output a screen-reader would show when viewing an image with alt text on bluesky. 4. "Translation. Alt text can be translated". A drawing shows a post being translated. The alt text is also translated into german. 5. "Readability. Text in images can be made legible" There is a drawing of some truly awful handwriting inside a speech bubble. The alt text clarifies what the text is supposed to say. 6. "Disambiguation. Description helps clarify intent." There is a drawing of a post with a picture of a creature. This is styled after the famous optical illusion of a rabbit and a duck. The alt text clarifies that the animal is a rabbit. It definitely looks more like a duck.
Generally we think of alt-text as the domain of those with accessibility needs.
However alt-text is useful for many reasons, which benefit your viewers, as well as you, the creator!
For the second day, the person engaging in the unlawful practice is not a lawyer or an immigration advisor. Yet this nuance is totally absent from the framing.
For the second day, the specific example on which the article is based makes un-evidencrd links to rising claims.
It's deplorable.
Thanks to @left-foot-forward.bsky.social for this chance to respond to the BBC's deeply flawed 'investigation' into the UK asylum system.
leftfootforward.org/2026/04/we-n...
Child: I know your name. Mamdani.
Obama: What’s his first name?
Child: Mayor.
Mayor Mamdani and President Obama read a picture book to a group of children.
Mayor Mamdani and President Obama chat and laugh with a group of children.
Mayor Mamdani and President Obama chat and laugh.
Children hug Mayor Mamdani.
Today, President Barack Obama and I read to a group of toddlers at Learning Through Play Pre-K Center in the South Bronx.
In between singing wheels on the bus, we discussed our administration’s vision for this City — one where New York’s Cutest have the strongest start possible.
OUT NOW: The Queer Scrapbook tells our history through the playful, messy, personal stories we save. Huge thanks to MUP and 'dream team' co-editors Matt Cook, Rebecca Jennings and E-J Scott. Check out the book, recommend it, and please share widely!
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526165312/
In this free to read article, @lauracforster.bsky.social explores socialist political lecture tours in the late 19th century and how these produced everyday, intimate experiences that could powerfully embody socialist ideas for new audiences. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
Climate witnessing as a practice of memory and justice on a damaged planet
"I've never experienced hate like it," Eileen Flynn told The Journal, after a video of remarks she made in the Seanad about the recent fuel protests went viral in certain circles online on Wednesday.
jrnl.ie/7014874
Inniu, thug an tUachtarán Connolly aitheasc ag an gCruinniú Mullaigh " In Defence of Democracy" in Barcelona.
Ba é seo an ceathrú cruinniú ardleibhéil den tionscnamh, a sheol an Bhrasaíl agus an Spáinn i Meán Fómhair 2024.
president.ie/ga/diary/det...
Follow-up to “The Blockade Is the Message” is up.
3 collapses in a weekend the blockade ended:
📌a gov’t that found €750m for a tractor but not €100m for disability
📌an opposition that filed the right motion on the wrong grounds
📌a tradition claimed by people it was built against
🔗 shorturl.at/j7lWA
A bit of a rarity here - I was interviewed by the brilliant @katebelgrave.bsky.social for her podcast, talking about the government's calamitous attempts to cut PIP:
whovotedforthis.buzzsprout.com/2414550/epis...
Quick hit on why Orban’s electoral defeat dealt a blow to the global anti gender movement
www.opendemocracy.net/en/orban-hun...
The book cover for Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation. It shows two men sat on a bench in the 1930s.
"Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation" is published TODAY by @cornellupress.bsky.social! I tell the story of how queer men didn't just exist in Belfast but could be accepted by friends, family & colleagues... at least until a moral panic about homosexuality in the 1950s. 🧵
TEN post-doc openings at the Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity. Yes, you read that right. TEN.
On 24 April, Distemporalities brings together scholars working on temporal disruption, violence, colonialism and displacement at the University of Stirling. In person only.
Symposium + evening book launch.
bit.ly/47YtirF Register
BBCs coverage isn't just misleading, it is inflammatory. It has predictably been latched onto by the far right and others, including this government, to call for even more restrictions on those seeking asylum. Along with others, I explain here how wrong it is 👇
www.thenational.scot/news/2602505...
Delighted to be welcoming Prof. Tony Anghie to offer Reflections on International Law in a Time of Disorder (introduced by Prof. Ratna Kapur)
The BBC, yet again, helping to skew public understanding of - and encourage hostility towards - migration and asylum
"By moving money away from delivering care that generates health gains more cheaply to drugs that generate health gains at greater expense, the NHS could end up less able to improve overall health from the same budget" - @healthfoundation.bsky.social
www.health.org.uk/features-and...
