Conor Mc Bride
@pigworker.bsky.social
they/them
I'm Conor. I'm a nonbinary
Computer Scientist. God loves irony.
Femme presenting apartheid target. Cardiac outpatient. Hatstand owner. Tomato grower. Doctor Who fan.
@[email protected] on fedi
I'm Conor. I'm a nonbinary
Computer Scientist. God loves irony.
Femme presenting apartheid target. Cardiac outpatient. Hatstand owner. Tomato grower. Doctor Who fan.
@[email protected] on fedi
I was on my way home from work tonight, when a wee scrote with a stubbly mustache waited until I had walked past his tracksuit but was not out of earshot to say, in an affected camp, "Oh hi-ya! Am gonnae bum ya!".
Naturally, I considered that his hesitancy made the offer not worth considering.
Naturally, I considered that his hesitancy made the offer not worth considering.
January 19, 2026 at 9:17 PM
I was on my way home from work tonight, when a wee scrote with a stubbly mustache waited until I had walked past his tracksuit but was not out of earshot to say, in an affected camp, "Oh hi-ya! Am gonnae bum ya!".
Naturally, I considered that his hesitancy made the offer not worth considering.
Naturally, I considered that his hesitancy made the offer not worth considering.
When they call the USA "the land of the free", they mean to distinguish it from all the other lands.
January 19, 2026 at 1:22 AM
When they call the USA "the land of the free", they mean to distinguish it from all the other lands.
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As white people we are socialised to see ourselves as white saviours, more ‘civilised’ (ha!), advanced, etc. But black people worked out so much stuff that white people are going to need to learn from if we want to come out the other side of all this.
January 18, 2026 at 9:41 PM
As white people we are socialised to see ourselves as white saviours, more ‘civilised’ (ha!), advanced, etc. But black people worked out so much stuff that white people are going to need to learn from if we want to come out the other side of all this.
I'm rewatching "Wish Me Luck" and enjoying its not being Glaister. It's a story of women being scared and doing it anyway. Oh, and men being a bit rubbish.
January 18, 2026 at 6:44 PM
I'm rewatching "Wish Me Luck" and enjoying its not being Glaister. It's a story of women being scared and doing it anyway. Oh, and men being a bit rubbish.
Take a tip from John Lennon and
TURN LEFT AT GREENLAND!
TURN LEFT AT GREENLAND!
January 17, 2026 at 8:57 PM
Take a tip from John Lennon and
TURN LEFT AT GREENLAND!
TURN LEFT AT GREENLAND!
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FOI reveals that within the first week in office, Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson requested a meeting with Sex Matters to discuss "mutual priorities and ways to work together going forward"
January 17, 2026 at 3:53 AM
FOI reveals that within the first week in office, Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson requested a meeting with Sex Matters to discuss "mutual priorities and ways to work together going forward"
Trump is not a national embarrassment. Trump is a national failure.
January 17, 2026 at 3:15 AM
Trump is not a national embarrassment. Trump is a national failure.
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A good blog on the Darlington bigots ET tribunal decision today. A bad decision, which effectively says it’s reasonable to segregate away trans people. Not judicially precedent-setting but in the epilegal sphere of HR departments likely to be quite influential.
When Discomfort Becomes Law: The Dangerous Logic of the Darlington Nurses Case
How an employment tribunal turned prejudice into principle and left trans workers with nowhere to go
open.substack.com
January 17, 2026 at 1:18 AM
A good blog on the Darlington bigots ET tribunal decision today. A bad decision, which effectively says it’s reasonable to segregate away trans people. Not judicially precedent-setting but in the epilegal sphere of HR departments likely to be quite influential.
Polite is Ximenean for thinking nothing of being made to eat shit.
January 14, 2026 at 11:09 PM
Polite is Ximenean for thinking nothing of being made to eat shit.
Would UK Labour please notice that chasing Farage to the right is electoral suicide?
There will be just as fast a wipe-out in Scotland as there was a wipe-in last time.
And as a trans observer, I shall be keen to point out exactly how they asked for it.
There will be just as fast a wipe-out in Scotland as there was a wipe-in last time.
And as a trans observer, I shall be keen to point out exactly how they asked for it.
January 14, 2026 at 10:33 PM
Would UK Labour please notice that chasing Farage to the right is electoral suicide?
There will be just as fast a wipe-out in Scotland as there was a wipe-in last time.
And as a trans observer, I shall be keen to point out exactly how they asked for it.
There will be just as fast a wipe-out in Scotland as there was a wipe-in last time.
And as a trans observer, I shall be keen to point out exactly how they asked for it.
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OTD 1967: #TheAvengers From Venus With L💘ve
The Avengers – IN COLOR!
A fantasy of Britain starts its biggest run of international success
Venus, planet of the hats
And what a Doctor Who crossover:
loveandliberty.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-...
The Brigadier (but probably not the one you were expecting)
The Avengers – IN COLOR!
A fantasy of Britain starts its biggest run of international success
Venus, planet of the hats
And what a Doctor Who crossover:
loveandliberty.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-...
The Brigadier (but probably not the one you were expecting)
January 14, 2026 at 9:16 PM
OTD 1967: #TheAvengers From Venus With L💘ve
The Avengers – IN COLOR!
A fantasy of Britain starts its biggest run of international success
Venus, planet of the hats
And what a Doctor Who crossover:
loveandliberty.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-...
The Brigadier (but probably not the one you were expecting)
The Avengers – IN COLOR!
A fantasy of Britain starts its biggest run of international success
Venus, planet of the hats
And what a Doctor Who crossover:
loveandliberty.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-...
The Brigadier (but probably not the one you were expecting)
Dear USAans, do you trust the highest Court in the land to defend your First Amendment rights?
Also, there's a bridge from Manhattan to Brooklyn which I can offer you on *very* favorable terms.
Also, there's a bridge from Manhattan to Brooklyn which I can offer you on *very* favorable terms.
January 14, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Dear USAans, do you trust the highest Court in the land to defend your First Amendment rights?
Also, there's a bridge from Manhattan to Brooklyn which I can offer you on *very* favorable terms.
Also, there's a bridge from Manhattan to Brooklyn which I can offer you on *very* favorable terms.
False. They have actual fingers.
What they *should* do is weakly correlated with what they *can* do.
Yes, this is a grammar flame as well as a political observation. You're weak so they fuck you.
What they *should* do is weakly correlated with what they *can* do.
Yes, this is a grammar flame as well as a political observation. You're weak so they fuck you.
The First Amendment protects the public’s right to:
1. Film ICE in public
2. Photograph ICE in public
3. Observe what ICE does in public
ICE and DHS officials cannot lay a finger on any American who is peacefully exercising First Amendment rights.
1. Film ICE in public
2. Photograph ICE in public
3. Observe what ICE does in public
ICE and DHS officials cannot lay a finger on any American who is peacefully exercising First Amendment rights.
January 14, 2026 at 6:28 PM
False. They have actual fingers.
What they *should* do is weakly correlated with what they *can* do.
Yes, this is a grammar flame as well as a political observation. You're weak so they fuck you.
What they *should* do is weakly correlated with what they *can* do.
Yes, this is a grammar flame as well as a political observation. You're weak so they fuck you.
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My inbox is full of 38Degrees petition requests, and I agree with @goatsarah.org that they really should all begin "Flash, I love you, but...".
January 14, 2026 at 3:39 PM
My inbox is full of 38Degrees petition requests, and I agree with @goatsarah.org that they really should all begin "Flash, I love you, but...".
Glasgow High Court has today excused me from jury service for being the same person as a person with a different name, address, and nationality, who did jury service two months ago.
How refreshingly unkafkaesque!
How refreshingly unkafkaesque!
January 14, 2026 at 3:23 PM
Glasgow High Court has today excused me from jury service for being the same person as a person with a different name, address, and nationality, who did jury service two months ago.
How refreshingly unkafkaesque!
How refreshingly unkafkaesque!
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Scott Adams will be remembered for his famous comic Dilbert by some, but most will remember him for this:
January 13, 2026 at 6:27 PM
Scott Adams will be remembered for his famous comic Dilbert by some, but most will remember him for this:
If you believe that it's unfair for cis women and trans women to compete with each other at sport, then I disagree with you. But even assuming this view, it does not follow that "women's sport" should stay being called "women's sport" when it excludes women.
January 13, 2026 at 5:56 PM
If you believe that it's unfair for cis women and trans women to compete with each other at sport, then I disagree with you. But even assuming this view, it does not follow that "women's sport" should stay being called "women's sport" when it excludes women.
People are commenting on the iron cross aspect of the new UKIP logo, but hello? Circle with north east spear?
January 13, 2026 at 5:46 PM
People are commenting on the iron cross aspect of the new UKIP logo, but hello? Circle with north east spear?
TOO LATE!
ICE now require impunity. It is ICE, not Trump, who will destroy American democracy, because the alternative is their punitive comeuppance.
ICE now require impunity. It is ICE, not Trump, who will destroy American democracy, because the alternative is their punitive comeuppance.
We must NEVER allow ANY President to have ANYTHING to do with VOTING!
Especially THIS “President”. He and his minions will be cheating as hard as ever to steal this next one.
If Mafia Don succeeds in GETTING ON the Ballot, it will BE THE END of America.
Especially THIS “President”. He and his minions will be cheating as hard as ever to steal this next one.
If Mafia Don succeeds in GETTING ON the Ballot, it will BE THE END of America.
January 12, 2026 at 10:47 PM
TOO LATE!
ICE now require impunity. It is ICE, not Trump, who will destroy American democracy, because the alternative is their punitive comeuppance.
ICE now require impunity. It is ICE, not Trump, who will destroy American democracy, because the alternative is their punitive comeuppance.
I was desperately hoping this would turn out to be a rickroll, but I guess I'm too used to fedi.
It seems that we have a new wave of people and organisations choosing to leave the other place and set up on Bluesky.
So now is a good time to resurface this starter pack of LGBTQIA+ orgs to help get you going here on Bluesky.
go.bsky.app/PSBhHbT
So now is a good time to resurface this starter pack of LGBTQIA+ orgs to help get you going here on Bluesky.
go.bsky.app/PSBhHbT
January 12, 2026 at 10:30 PM
I was desperately hoping this would turn out to be a rickroll, but I guess I'm too used to fedi.
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Apt retort to Sir Paul Nurse’s recent comment that “There’s many bad people around, but they have made scientific advances.”
Following coverage over the weekend of Sir Paul Nurse's comments that suggested that the only reason that a Fellow should be expelled from @royalsociety.org is scientific misconduct, I have written to him to explain the risks such an attitude poses of increasing sexual harassment in STEM.
January 12, 2026 at 12:58 PM
Apt retort to Sir Paul Nurse’s recent comment that “There’s many bad people around, but they have made scientific advances.”
X abbreviates Christ.
X abbreviates trans.
It would be a shame if things got a bit jumbled up.
X abbreviates trans.
It would be a shame if things got a bit jumbled up.
January 11, 2026 at 7:35 PM
X abbreviates Christ.
X abbreviates trans.
It would be a shame if things got a bit jumbled up.
X abbreviates trans.
It would be a shame if things got a bit jumbled up.
This is correct. The "calm down" crew are saying "calm down" to people who are calm already, and forensic about what is wrong. It is the "calm down" crew who seek to raise the fog. They are right about one thing only: that effective resistance benefits from strategy more than anger.
There are good journalists out there who grasp that we are living in an emergency moment, at the mercy of serial liars, bigots, and government thugs. They are steady. They are clear-eyed. They understand what is needed. And they have been right exponentially more often than the "calm down" crew.
January 11, 2026 at 7:20 PM
This is correct. The "calm down" crew are saying "calm down" to people who are calm already, and forensic about what is wrong. It is the "calm down" crew who seek to raise the fog. They are right about one thing only: that effective resistance benefits from strategy more than anger.