sniphist.bsky.social
Irish in Edinburgh
PhD in the history of vasectomy ✂️🍒
Working in performing arts policy/advocacy.
Disabled (EDS & POTS)
sí/í, she/her
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The BBC at least cover it as 'every baby in England'. Honestly it should be a legal requirement for government press releases to have a little tick box list of which jurisdictions the press release covers.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Supplementary question: does Wes Streeting know Scotland exists and/or what devolution is.
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Hate when a writer is so good at describing mud that it feels muddy. I wish a tool could make all literature feel like a business memo.
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the most basic, enduring plea from medicine: stop obsessing over tech solutions for tiny marginal returns when we haven't even mastered the basics of 19thC public health reform, let alone anything more sophisticated.
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Got a stereotypical 'go to Palestine and see how welcome you are there' reply.
Queerness is criminalised in over 60 countries including Indonesia, Jamaica, and Malaysia, predominantly due to colonialism, and it wouldn't justify genocide against any of the people of those nations.
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I saw one for sale last week where the toilet and sink was accessed through the shower cubicle! I can't find the listing now but I'm pretty sure it was £150k+.
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You too!
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Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration.
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I didn't even notice until you pointed it out!
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For context on how glaring an omission discussion of Markiewicz is:
She was a cabinet member in the 1st Dáil, making her only the second woman cabinet member in Europe. She's a significant figure in women's parliamentary history internationally, and her first election was to the UK Parliament.
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Definitely! I want kids. I also want to do it with a coparent that I trust to treat me as an equal human being in that process, I haven't found them.
High cost of living and lack of childcare means I feel unable to do it by myself (though I'd be open to that idea generally).
So, no kids (yet) 🤷♀️
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I have a personal vendetta against Reeves for this book (it's called 'Women of Westminster', btw), because it's such a grim and disinterested look at the history of women MPs, situates them around 'women's issues', when there's such cool radical stories to tell about women MPs.
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Bernadette Devlin doesn't even have an index mention and she is only referenced in relation to Mhairi Black becoming the youngest woman MP ever. Caroline Lucas also isn't indexed.
George Bernard Shaw is indexed twice, for comparison of relevance to a book about historic women MPs.
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Apologies, she does in fact mention Markiewicz was in prison "for treason", but this is the only discussion of the first woman elected to the UK parliament. Astor gets 6.5 pages exclusively about her, plus further mentions.
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Wrote a piece a couple of years ago about this Obsession That Will Not Die.
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Also, having women-only positions (eg in care work or shelters) is a DEI policy, literally protected by the equality act, so I'm hype for Blue Labour to take on JKR and FWS on that one.