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ciara2001.bsky.social
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@ciara2001.bsky.social
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A lapsed moment of reasonableness
She/Her
Lover of utter randomness
Irish
(something pithy. poignant and wird will probably fill this space at some point, yes I am doing a little experiment)
"For I have manifested my darkness and become god"
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ciara2001.bsky.social
Kemi has reached the "denying trans kids exist" level of transphobia
Badenoch accused of breaking cross-party support for Cass report after she says 'no child born in wrong body' Wes Streeting, the health secretary, has accused Kemi Badenoch of abandoning a cross-party consensus on the health needs of trans children. He spoke out after the Tory leader declared that “no child is born in the wrong body” and condemned plans for a pilot of puberty blockers for young people to go ahead. Referring to the pilot, Badenoch posted a message on social media saying: No child is born in the wrong body. I cannot believe we are back to square one, with NHS England backing an experimental trial of puberty blockers on healthy, vulnerable children, ignoring the damage already done. The No1 rule of medicine is “do no harm”. This is activist ideology masquerading as research. I’m urging MPs of all parties to sign this letter from me and Shadow Health Secretary @stuartandrew, calling for Wes Streeting to step in and stop this trial before more damage is done to children who are too young to understand what they are doing to themselves In April last year a landmark report by Hilary Cass, a leading paediatrician, said that children who wanted to change gender were being let down because they were being exposed to interventions for which the medical evidence was weak. It called for restrictions in the use of puberty blockers, and it said cross-sex hormones should only be used with “extreme caution” with under-18s. The report was welcomed in the Commons by Streeting, the then shadow health secretary, and by the Conservative party. MPs, like Badenoch, who were alarmed about the increasing number of children getting medical help to transition, were particularly supportive, and in October last year Badenoch praised Cass for producing “a seminal report that has provided clarity and saved many children from making irreversible decisions that would harm their long-term health”. Although Cass expressed caution about children getting medical help to transition, her report included evidence from children who found puberty blockers helpful and she recommended a trial of puberty blockers to establish evidence as to what the long-term effects are. Cass also accepted that gender incongruence is a condition and she said: There is broad agreement that gender incongruence, like many other human characteristics, arises from a combination of biological, psychological, social and cultural factors. Responding to the Badenoch letter, Streeting said: I’ll reply formally and fully, but I’m surprised by this letter. The Conservatives commissioned the Cass Review and accepted its recommendations in full. I did, too, and am implementing it. I’m keen to maintain a cross-party approach on such a sensitive issue Tory aides claim Badenoch never agreed with all the recommendations in the Cass report.
November 25, 2025 at 7:57 PM
ciara2001.bsky.social
Famous Naomi Wolf tweet "No! No!!"
November 25, 2025 at 1:15 PM
ciara2001.bsky.social
Ideas? No we don't really want to hear any alternative ideas
academy of ideas Academy of Ideas @acadofideas Follow What a day in Dublin! W/ @griptmedia 12 15 34 Panels 1. Over-diagnosis? Mental health's expanding empire 2. Gender ideology: Ireland's new religion? 3. Return of patriotism: democratic strain or national renewal? 4. Immigration, integration and cultural cohesion 5. Narrative control: media misinformation and the fight for truth @fbasboll Professor Patricia Casey @stellaomalley3 @kenmclaughlin_ @ForWomenScot @Casey5122dark Maria Steen Niamh Uí Bhriain @john_mcguirk @ada_akpala @LindadeCourcy @fatima_gunning @CormacLucey @MaximumCities @DrDominicGreen Larissa Nola @LPerrins @sarahcatryan
November 23, 2025 at 5:09 PM
ciara2001.bsky.social
🤮
BATTLE of IDEAS festival SAT, 22/11/25 The Church, RDS, Dublin 4 | Saturday 22nd November 2025 | 1pm-6:30pm 1.05-2.05. Session 1-Over-Diagnosis? Mental Health's Expanding Empire CHAIR: Dr. Ken McLaughlin Felice Basboll Prof Patricia Casey Stella O'Malley The language of illness is steadily replacing the language of ordinary hardship. Sadness becomes "depression", pressure becomes "trauma", and normal emotional struggle is now treated as pathology. Diagnoses are rising sharply among children and young adults, while services already strain under demand that cannot be met. Is this a crisis of mental illness, or a crisis of interpretation - a culture teaching people to see adversity as a medical category? If we medicalise ordinary distress, flooding services with the "worried well", who pays the price: those in genuine crisis, or society's capacity to endure hardship at all? 2.15-3.15 Session 2-Gender Ideology: Ireland's New Religion? CHAIR: Felice Basbøll Marion Calder Stella O'Malley Prof Gerard Casey Maria Steen Beyond the UK - dubbed "TERF Island" - gender-identity ideology remains embedded in policymaking across Europe. Ireland's Gender Recognition Act was among the first to permit full self-ID without medical evaluation, allowing legal documents to be changed for a €20 fee. Germany, Spain, and France have since pushed even further, while Hungary has gone the opposite direction, reaffirming biological reality in law. Yet in Ireland, dissent is often silenced. Why does the state continue to treat gender ideology as sacred truth - and what does this mean for free speech, education, and public reason?
November 23, 2025 at 5:07 PM
ciara2001.bsky.social
A may fascinate a man with a fascinum
A collection of fascinum, or Roman flying penis amulets, which interestingly is the root of the word fascinate
November 23, 2025 at 3:42 PM
ciara2001.bsky.social
This is the tweet referenced
MikeD @mjdaly57 X.com The Fraud by Paul Holden - page 89. Rachel Riley met with Morgan McSweeney and Imran Ahmed at the @Labour Together offices in February 2019. She agreed 'to front' their campaign to take on Jeremy Corbyn and left-wing media outlets such as @TheCanaryUK. Thereafter, @RachelRileyRR was one of Corbyn's fiercest critics. In November 2019, shortly before that year's election, she was famously photographed wearing a t-shirt with a doctored photograph of Corbyn that said 'Jeremy Corbyn Is A Racist Endeavour'.
November 23, 2025 at 11:05 AM
ciara2001.bsky.social
The amount of times I'll hear about some new eejit on here and I find they've already self-blocked by following Singal
Profile information showing a user who's on VBB, Jesse Singal lost, also a troll and a transphobe
November 22, 2025 at 10:27 PM
ciara2001.bsky.social
This one
Post from the herald Scotland "For Women Scotland wins Public Campaign or Campaigner of the Year at The Herald Scottish Politician of the Year Awards 2025, in association with ScottishPower https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/25636102.scottish-politician-year-2025-live-updates/ #politicianawards25" With a picture of two badly dressed bigots celebrating
November 21, 2025 at 5:21 PM
ciara2001.bsky.social
Imagine being lectured by the Trump administration for "human rights infringements"
Other policies by foreign governments which US embassies will be told to categorise as human rights infringements include: Subsidising abortions, "as well as the total estimated number of annual abortions" Gender-transition surgery for children, defined by the state department as "operations involving chemical or surgical mutilation... to modify their sex" Facilitating mass or illegal migration "across a country's territory into other countries" Arrests or "official investigations or warnings for speech" - a reference to the Trump administration's opposition to internet safety laws adopted by some European countries to deter online hate speech
November 21, 2025 at 12:35 PM
ciara2001.bsky.social
You may not like it but this is what peak "physique, while not Olympian, places him in the upper echelons for functional resilience and sustained high performance under extreme demands" looks like
Elon Musk emerging from the water after a swim onto a boat looking rather like a beluga that has unwisely hauled itself out of the water for some weird reason
November 20, 2025 at 10:42 AM
ciara2001.bsky.social
The headline in the paper is even worse than you could imagine, "protect" women 🤮
Trans guide to protect women is left in limbo Labour sits on plan to preserve 'safety and dignity' by letting staff turn people away based on looks
November 19, 2025 at 10:32 PM
ciara2001.bsky.social
I'm just going to assume this headline from the Torygraph marks an about turn and is speaking about all the trans kids whose lives have been destroyed since their Tavi story and not read any further 😶
Headline from the Telegraph "BBC trans bias has hurt our children say hundreds of parents"
November 19, 2025 at 10:13 PM
ciara2001.bsky.social
My brother had the soccer version (I think this was it, if not it was very like it)
A 1970s/80s era Mattel electronic soccer game and it's box. It is glorious fake wood plastic, has a 4 way direction controller and two other buttons. The players are represented by leds
November 18, 2025 at 11:09 PM
ciara2001.bsky.social
"That'd be great" meme gender swapped so she now had long brown hair with caption "yeah, let's burn it all down, that'd be great"
November 18, 2025 at 8:06 PM
ciara2001.bsky.social
Lads, lads, I just got followed by John Travolta and he must be the real deal, see, he's got a 001 in his name
A "John Travolta" profile page
November 17, 2025 at 10:59 PM
ciara2001.bsky.social
The torygraph has a story about Trump's shooter and it has this bit: "The 20-year-old's online activity also appears to show that he was part of a "furry" community, which shares images of scantily clad cartoon animals"

I hear Disney are big into sharing images of scantily clad cartoon animals
Donald Duck and Micky Mouse doing that terrorist fist bump thing, suspicious Winnie the Pooh staring into a honey jar
November 17, 2025 at 10:42 PM
ciara2001.bsky.social
Title card for the Two Ronnie's mini-series within a series "The Worm that Turned" showing an animated worm wearing a top hai and looking quite angry attempting to bite the toes of a woman wearing green sandals
November 17, 2025 at 3:59 PM
ciara2001.bsky.social
WPC Peggy Button from Sister Boniface Mysteries looking worried, very worried
November 16, 2025 at 3:19 PM
ciara2001.bsky.social
The graph of a moral panic, you can see it trickling along nicely as a scientific term then magically, come 2020 or so, it rises, because of all the people interested in peer reviewed biology papers I guess 🤷‍♀️ I can't see anything else that would cause such a rise (/s)
The inexorable rise of "biological sex" as a Google search term showing a dramatic rise after 2020
November 16, 2025 at 10:24 AM
ciara2001.bsky.social
Once mighty and feared, this is what the croc in a tree is reduced to these days
A pair of pink and purple croc shoe ornaments hanging on a Christmas tree
November 12, 2025 at 2:01 PM
ciara2001.bsky.social
After reading the beebs reporting on the story I can't say I'm oyn the slightest bit surprised that Rose didn't want to talk to them, you really can't blame her
Rose was approached for comment through the NHS trust but did not wish to speak.
November 11, 2025 at 11:07 PM
ciara2001.bsky.social
Evergreen tweet
Tweet from longwall26 "Confident in my ability to properly tennis, I take the court. smile at my opponent. Serena does not return the gesture. She'd be prettier if she did, I think. She serves. The ball passes cleanly through my skull, killing me instantly" Quoting "One in eight men (12%) say they could win a point in a game of tennis against 23 time arand slam winner Serena Williams"
November 10, 2025 at 4:17 PM
ciara2001.bsky.social
Silly me, I hadn't had enough coffee this morning, looking at the list and it's obviously crafted as bait to get Trump posting about it:

"Anti" Trump
"Pro" DEI
"Pro" trans
"Anti" Isreal

It's a personal tick list of all his shite
US election Racial diversity Biological sex and gender Israel/Hamas war
November 10, 2025 at 12:38 PM
ciara2001.bsky.social
Cat is obviously cosplaying as it's favourite character from the Tescomobile adverts
An animatronic car wearing a wizards cloak and pointed purple hat with stars on it
November 10, 2025 at 11:06 AM
ciara2001.bsky.social
Who hasn't been startled by an enby cartoon mascot
Maya wearing a blue dress standing in front of a wall while a small green Alien wearing a hat peaks over the top of it
November 10, 2025 at 10:14 AM