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Reg Coppinger

@regcoppinger.bsky.social

Food, parkrun, football, books, and my dog Ollie. If that's not your thing, you know what to do! Pronouns...she/her/hers. #Speirgorm

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Seth Masket@smotus.bsky.social · 3d ago

It’s important to understand that when 1.2 million Americans are dying from a disease, any government action is excessive and tyrannical, but if a dozen trans women want to play soccer no government action can go far enough

Paul Duane 🥔@paulduane.bsky.social · 3d ago

I needed a passport quickly last year and got one on Christmas Eve. It took less than 24 hours. I didn't contact any politicians about it. Whoever she is, she doesn't know what she's talking about.

Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign@ipsc.bsky.social · 4d ago

As the Infantino World Cup sell-off fiasco showed this week, the FAI is willing to participate in a boycott, just not when it should. #StopTheGame FAI’s boycott should not be applauded since Gaza’s 20,000 murdered children could not elicit such a response www.independent.ie/sport/soccer...

David Kelly: FAI’s boycott should not be applauded since Gaza’s 20,000 murdered children could not elicit such a response

Uefa’s sudden moral stand on World Cup exposes true price of football’s principles

independent.ie

Sophie Molly@sophiemolly.co.uk · 5d ago

The Gender Critical are trying to normalise the idea that trans + people are their birth sex. This is a cynical attempt to erase trans + people from existing. We must not let this happen. Trans women are women. Trans men are men. Non-binary (enby) people are valid and exist too.

Gill Searl@gillsearl.bsky.social · 5d ago

Some days you get a reminder that life is good: first of all Judith, 84, just completed her 150th ParkRun. Then you sit down with a total stranger who tells you she’s had various mouth, throat and neck cancers and now can’t taste food. Count your blessings, Gill, there are plenty…

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 5d ago

Elon Musk is planning to spend at least $100 million to help Republicans in this year’s midterms. That’s just 0.014 percent of his current $702 billion net worth. Oligarchs can rig the system at the expense of everyone else, and only spend pennies doing so. We must get Big Money out of politics.

Imbibe Coffee Roasters@imbibecoffee.bsky.social · 5d ago

While back a business owner said online that we give away what we do for tax breaks. Annoyed me as doing a 1 minute Google search would show that’s not how tax works. That said, in world today, can see why many might struggle to believe any business is trying to good things simply for good reasons.

Strike Map@strikemap.org · 6d ago

SIPTU has reaffirmed that it will support any member who, on grounds of conscience, refuses to participate in the hosting, servicing or facilitation of the upcoming UEFA Nations League fixtures involving the Irish and Israeli national football teams. https://bit.ly/4cdpEw2

SIPTU supports workers' boycott of Israel fixtures and calls on Government to cancel games

When facing an attempt to sportswash a genocide, workers have a right to act in accordance with their conscience and should not face disciplinary action.

siptu.ie

The Author, Séamas O'Reilly@seamas.bsky.social · last wk.

An underreported part of UK Transphobe Lawfare™ is that when they lose, they just... say they won. For all the regrettable sway they do have in courts/govt etc, their real power is in the press. So if they lose, they just pretend they didn't and their press friends print the lie. It's ubiquitous.

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · last wk.

Women's Rights Network/Sex Matters took Feile to court to have their event reinstated. It was not reinstated. The two statements released after an agreement was reached give two very different impressions of what happened today in Belfast's High Court.

Statement from Féile an Phobail Statement from Féile an Phobail Féile an Phobail are delighted with today’s outcome at the High Court. Today’s outcome is a vindication of Féile’s position in standing up for those who are marginalised. Féile’s decision to withdraw this event from our programme stands. The agenda of many of those who involved themselves in this issue was clear for all to see. Many of the very same people line up every year to attack Féile at every turn, to attempt to damage Féile, and to attack the West Belfast community. They will never succeed. Féile an Phobail will continue to provide a voice for the marginalised, and we are looking forward to welcoming the world to West Belfast to join with us to celebrate Ireland’s biggest community festival. Féile Abú!
jeninbelfast.bsky.social@jeninbelfast.bsky.social · last wk.

When Morris went to the Shankill to report on the flag protests, Protestant Coalition supporters followed her around playing clips of violent pornography. I'm sure WRN particular flavour of "protect women" will be just as appalling.

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · last wk.

"What Féile an Phobail row has shown is that women’s rights are at risk — just not from a tiny trans minority" great piece from Allison Morris in the Belfast Telegraph. Please support Allison as she will no doubt be targeted now. Archive link below. archive.ph/oQ2Cs

What Féile an Phobail row has shown is that women’s rights are at risk — just not from a tiny trans minority Belfast Telegraph27 Jul 2026ALLISON MORRIS I’ve thought long and hard about commenting on the controversy over the cancellation of the Women’s Rights Network (WRN) event at Féile an Phobail — not because I don’t have an opinion, but because it is a debate that attracts the most toxic elements. WRN NI was not a group I was familiar with beforehand, so I did some research. No speakers were listed in the Féile programme for the planned event, which in itself is odd as there are for almost every other of the 90-plus debates and discussions. The group has since announced who its speakers were to be in a series of online posts. My research took me down quite the rabbit hole — a who’s who of the anti-trans movement not just on this island but Europe-wide. I don’t pretend to understand their motivation. In fact, I remain baffled as to why in one of the most dangerous places for women to live in Europe, the group — which has spoken out about femicide before — is obsessing about a small minority instead of the actual dangers we face from domestic violence and femicide. I have worked for decades covering violence against women and girls in all the distressing forms that takes. I know the names of every woman and child murdered in Northern Ireland in the last 10 years without even having to look them up. Not a single one was caused by a trans woman — I checked the list twice just to be sure. None of them were murdered in a public toilet either, which having looked at the online posts of WRN and their many affiliates, is apparently the most dangerous place on earth for women, with trans predators lurking in every cubicle. Apart from the absurdity of much of the group’s argument regarding the perceived dangers of trans women, the claim that women are being silenced by Féile is the most disingenuous of them all.
Philip O'Connor@philipoconnor.bsky.social · 2w ago

Solidarity with the queer community in Berlin tonight as thier pride parade is cancelled following a ramming incident. Watch who speaks up in support of them, and who chooses to remain silent, and vote accordingly. We all habe to choose our side, and I know which one I'm on.