Alex
@transaurusrx.bsky.social
Loud, queer, disabled and proud. They/them
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Listen to her.
“During the strip searches I was raped.”
German journalist Anna Liedtke, detained after Israeli forces intercepted the Gaza bound Freedom Flotilla ship Conscience in fall 2025, accused Israeli prison authorities of raping her during a strip search while being transferred.
German journalist Anna Liedtke, detained after Israeli forces intercepted the Gaza bound Freedom Flotilla ship Conscience in fall 2025, accused Israeli prison authorities of raping her during a strip search while being transferred.
December 26, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Listen to her.
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The Irish State's positioning on Palestine is cynically hollow
Designed in no small part to assuage the conscience of the public
Designed in no small part to assuage the conscience of the public
Palestinian cultural tour to Ireland in limbo as Government tightens visa policy
www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...
www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...
December 26, 2025 at 12:17 PM
The Irish State's positioning on Palestine is cynically hollow
Designed in no small part to assuage the conscience of the public
Designed in no small part to assuage the conscience of the public
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My dog’s favourite thing in the whole world is getting the wrapping paper from your gift and tearing it to shreds. Huge day for him today.
December 25, 2025 at 2:33 PM
My dog’s favourite thing in the whole world is getting the wrapping paper from your gift and tearing it to shreds. Huge day for him today.
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Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan…
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
December 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan…
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
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Wow
"Strong growth and robust pipelines" so don't worry 'bout failed social housing targets
Tell that to the 2,484 families in emergency accommodation while empty homes blight the country
Some kids are spending their 4th Christmas
Shame on successive Governments #DerelictIreland #SpeirGorm
"Strong growth and robust pipelines" so don't worry 'bout failed social housing targets
Tell that to the 2,484 families in emergency accommodation while empty homes blight the country
Some kids are spending their 4th Christmas
Shame on successive Governments #DerelictIreland #SpeirGorm
December 23, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Wow
"Strong growth and robust pipelines" so don't worry 'bout failed social housing targets
Tell that to the 2,484 families in emergency accommodation while empty homes blight the country
Some kids are spending their 4th Christmas
Shame on successive Governments #DerelictIreland #SpeirGorm
"Strong growth and robust pipelines" so don't worry 'bout failed social housing targets
Tell that to the 2,484 families in emergency accommodation while empty homes blight the country
Some kids are spending their 4th Christmas
Shame on successive Governments #DerelictIreland #SpeirGorm
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Let's be clear - not ONE of the Palestine Action hunger strikers have been found guilty of a crime.
They haven't even been tried yet.
They are being held on remand charged with terrorism offences. They have not been found guilty.
As such they are legally innocent.
And dying in British jails.
They haven't even been tried yet.
They are being held on remand charged with terrorism offences. They have not been found guilty.
As such they are legally innocent.
And dying in British jails.
"City of London Police said a 22-year-old woman has been arrested for displaying a placard in support of proscribed organisation, Palestine Action, contrary to Section 13 of the Terrorism Act 2000."
Read her sign again:
Read her sign again:
December 23, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Let's be clear - not ONE of the Palestine Action hunger strikers have been found guilty of a crime.
They haven't even been tried yet.
They are being held on remand charged with terrorism offences. They have not been found guilty.
As such they are legally innocent.
And dying in British jails.
They haven't even been tried yet.
They are being held on remand charged with terrorism offences. They have not been found guilty.
As such they are legally innocent.
And dying in British jails.
The failure of trans healthcare and non-existent support for trans kids leaves us with a ridiculously low quality of life, in sharp contrast to the day to day sentiment of most people who hold no ill will towards trans people at all
If only we had similarly thoughtful, informed-consent based trans healthcare, with reasonable wait times, we’d be pretty close to being a good country for trans adults.
But we don’t.
But we don’t.
December 23, 2025 at 4:42 PM
The failure of trans healthcare and non-existent support for trans kids leaves us with a ridiculously low quality of life, in sharp contrast to the day to day sentiment of most people who hold no ill will towards trans people at all
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Probably worth noting that the British government allowed so many Irish people to die on hunger strikes at various times that it has its own Wikipedia page:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categor...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categor...
Category:Irish people who died on hunger strike - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 21, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Probably worth noting that the British government allowed so many Irish people to die on hunger strikes at various times that it has its own Wikipedia page:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categor...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categor...
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Other people the British state allowed to die on hunger strike include a Suffragette and an animal rights activist. They're going to be sitting around watching Love Actually while these people die, and it will not cost them a moment's thought to do so.
December 21, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Other people the British state allowed to die on hunger strike include a Suffragette and an animal rights activist. They're going to be sitting around watching Love Actually while these people die, and it will not cost them a moment's thought to do so.
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The Irish govt needs to stop bullsh*itting and pass the Occupied Territories Bill already - for goods AND for services!
Also; Blinne ní Ghrálaigh KC rocks!
#FreePalestine
#spéirgorm
#Spéirghorm
Also; Blinne ní Ghrálaigh KC rocks!
#FreePalestine
#spéirgorm
#Spéirghorm
"There is no basis in international law for differentiating between trade in goods and trade in services [as] proposed, and no international law justification for legislating for less than full compliance by Ireland with an international obligation articulated by the ICJ."
- Blinne ní Ghrálaigh KC
- Blinne ní Ghrálaigh KC
data.oireachtas.ie
December 20, 2025 at 7:50 PM
The Irish govt needs to stop bullsh*itting and pass the Occupied Territories Bill already - for goods AND for services!
Also; Blinne ní Ghrálaigh KC rocks!
#FreePalestine
#spéirgorm
#Spéirghorm
Also; Blinne ní Ghrálaigh KC rocks!
#FreePalestine
#spéirgorm
#Spéirghorm
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Cloudy ot not, using modern technology to allow us to continue to witness something the people who lived on our island built in connection with the seasons and the universe thousands of years ago is pretty cool, actually
December 21, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Cloudy ot not, using modern technology to allow us to continue to witness something the people who lived on our island built in connection with the seasons and the universe thousands of years ago is pretty cool, actually
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Listened to Brent on the latest urbanist agenda pod and really liked his "it's just geometry" argument about getting cars off of roads. This is a good visualisation of that:
What does it take to move 1000 people? Smart infrastructure supporting choices that don’t take up so much space (or produce so much emissions/pollution, cost so much public money etc).
Mobility in cities is about space.
Graphic via @seattlesubway.org based on a Sydney graphic I spread years ago.
Mobility in cities is about space.
Graphic via @seattlesubway.org based on a Sydney graphic I spread years ago.
December 20, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Listened to Brent on the latest urbanist agenda pod and really liked his "it's just geometry" argument about getting cars off of roads. This is a good visualisation of that:
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UK Key economic sectors face post-BREXIT challenge in 2026: the Gender Critical Data Chickens come home to roost.
Today, Trans Exile Network, which helps trans+ people, their families and anyone perceived as trans to flee the UK in the present climate released the following update.
Today, Trans Exile Network, which helps trans+ people, their families and anyone perceived as trans to flee the UK in the present climate released the following update.
December 19, 2025 at 10:04 PM
UK Key economic sectors face post-BREXIT challenge in 2026: the Gender Critical Data Chickens come home to roost.
Today, Trans Exile Network, which helps trans+ people, their families and anyone perceived as trans to flee the UK in the present climate released the following update.
Today, Trans Exile Network, which helps trans+ people, their families and anyone perceived as trans to flee the UK in the present climate released the following update.
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The HSE has said the National Gender Service does not have the authority to close its waiting list to new patients.
The NGS provides specialist support to people aged 17 and older who are seeking medical and surgical interventions to help them affirm their gender.
jrnl.ie/6902636
The NGS provides specialist support to people aged 17 and older who are seeking medical and surgical interventions to help them affirm their gender.
jrnl.ie/6902636
HSE says National Gender Service does not have authority to close waiting list to new patients
The National Gender Service had said it was closing its waiting list to new patients in March.
jrnl.ie
December 12, 2025 at 10:30 PM
The HSE has said the National Gender Service does not have the authority to close its waiting list to new patients.
The NGS provides specialist support to people aged 17 and older who are seeking medical and surgical interventions to help them affirm their gender.
jrnl.ie/6902636
The NGS provides specialist support to people aged 17 and older who are seeking medical and surgical interventions to help them affirm their gender.
jrnl.ie/6902636
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The Govt have announced they plan to pass the Facial Recognition Technology Bill through the Dáil on the last sitting day before Christmas. They’ve also removed most of the safeguards the legislation had at earlier stages and widened the scope of use.
Basically stuffing coal down all our chimneys
Basically stuffing coal down all our chimneys
December 11, 2025 at 10:35 PM
The Govt have announced they plan to pass the Facial Recognition Technology Bill through the Dáil on the last sitting day before Christmas. They’ve also removed most of the safeguards the legislation had at earlier stages and widened the scope of use.
Basically stuffing coal down all our chimneys
Basically stuffing coal down all our chimneys
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the worst part is how effective it all is
if you're the average person out there casually skimming over 50 headlines a week saying "being transgender is bad and trans people are evil" - not even reading the main body.
You're gonna start to believe it. That's just how persistence works.
if you're the average person out there casually skimming over 50 headlines a week saying "being transgender is bad and trans people are evil" - not even reading the main body.
You're gonna start to believe it. That's just how persistence works.
Something I have to reiterate is that you are being straight up lied to about trans people and our healthcare on an unfathomable scale, this instance reporting is already being torn to shreds by other people commenting, but the frequency of this kind of reporting is astonishing, it's neverending.
You might think from the headline that this is a story about a trans kid suffering medical consequences from a large drug dose but nope! It is just an interview with an estranged father who is angry that his child happily transitioned.
archive.ph/Tmthz
archive.ph/Tmthz
December 11, 2025 at 1:42 PM
the worst part is how effective it all is
if you're the average person out there casually skimming over 50 headlines a week saying "being transgender is bad and trans people are evil" - not even reading the main body.
You're gonna start to believe it. That's just how persistence works.
if you're the average person out there casually skimming over 50 headlines a week saying "being transgender is bad and trans people are evil" - not even reading the main body.
You're gonna start to believe it. That's just how persistence works.
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Ireland has officially got no Trans healthcare, but then again did it really ever have, it was more of a conversion 'therapy' outfit, believe me, I went there and am still traumatised to this day.
Transgender care waiting list to close due to resourcing concerns
The National Gender Service (NGS), which provides healthcare for transgender adults, is closing its waiting lists due to a lack of resources, Prime Time has learned
www.rte.ie
December 11, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Ireland has officially got no Trans healthcare, but then again did it really ever have, it was more of a conversion 'therapy' outfit, believe me, I went there and am still traumatised to this day.
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And be aware that voters organising themselves online to object to the established policies of the civil war parties has been one of the main drivers for today’s efforts to introduce state controls on access to online spaces.
December 11, 2025 at 7:28 AM
And be aware that voters organising themselves online to object to the established policies of the civil war parties has been one of the main drivers for today’s efforts to introduce state controls on access to online spaces.
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I genuinely cannot emphasise enough how much Jim O'Callaghan fuckin sucks
European court interprets inhuman and degrading treatment too broadly, says O’Callaghan
European court interprets inhuman and degrading treatment too broadly, says O’Callaghan
Ireland shares concerns over challenges posed by convention on human rights in relation to migration and deporting criminals, Minister tells meeting
www.irishtimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I genuinely cannot emphasise enough how much Jim O'Callaghan fuckin sucks
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If you have a spare minute, please sign the petition to the NZ government to repeal the ban on puberty blockers for trans and Takatāpui youth 🩷🩵🤍
our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/re...
our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/re...
Reverse the decision to deny transgender and takatāpui young people access to puberty blockers
Dear Minister Simeon Brown
We write to you as transgender and takatāpui young people of Aotearoa New Zealand to ask you to reconsider your decision to ban the use of puberty blockers (gonadotropin-re...
our.actionstation.org.nz
December 4, 2025 at 10:18 PM
If you have a spare minute, please sign the petition to the NZ government to repeal the ban on puberty blockers for trans and Takatāpui youth 🩷🩵🤍
our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/re...
our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/re...
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Check out @jennymaguire.bsky.social in the Indo this morning. It's a very important article. The recordign referenced is shown below.
archive.is/T27ap
archive.is/T27ap
December 7, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Check out @jennymaguire.bsky.social in the Indo this morning. It's a very important article. The recordign referenced is shown below.
archive.is/T27ap
archive.is/T27ap
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SWAI Statement on Closing
We are heartbroken to announce that the Sex Workers Alliance Ireland (SWAI) is closing our doors after over 16 years, due to a lack of funding.
Since our foundation in 2009, we have brought an alternative voice to the dominant narrative about sex work in Ireland.
We are heartbroken to announce that the Sex Workers Alliance Ireland (SWAI) is closing our doors after over 16 years, due to a lack of funding.
Since our foundation in 2009, we have brought an alternative voice to the dominant narrative about sex work in Ireland.
SWAI Statement on Closing
We are heartbroken to announce that the Sex Workers Alliance Ireland (SWAI) is closing our doors after over 16 years, due to a lack of funding. Since our foundation in 2009, we have brought an…
sexworkersallianceireland.org
December 4, 2025 at 1:15 PM
SWAI Statement on Closing
We are heartbroken to announce that the Sex Workers Alliance Ireland (SWAI) is closing our doors after over 16 years, due to a lack of funding.
Since our foundation in 2009, we have brought an alternative voice to the dominant narrative about sex work in Ireland.
We are heartbroken to announce that the Sex Workers Alliance Ireland (SWAI) is closing our doors after over 16 years, due to a lack of funding.
Since our foundation in 2009, we have brought an alternative voice to the dominant narrative about sex work in Ireland.
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The tenants of "The Complex" the brilliant arts space just off Capel St Stop are being evicted in January and the city can't afford to lose yet *another* cultural space.
Please sign & share the petition to save The Complex
Please sign & share the petition to save The Complex
Save The Complex in Dublin
I'm getting behind the The Complex Cultural & Arts space. Stop the eviction! Please sign & share
my.uplift.ie
December 4, 2025 at 11:18 AM
The tenants of "The Complex" the brilliant arts space just off Capel St Stop are being evicted in January and the city can't afford to lose yet *another* cultural space.
Please sign & share the petition to save The Complex
Please sign & share the petition to save The Complex