You could make a case ( I wouldn’t) for abolishing the women’s category in a competitive sport, opening it to all humans. But there is no case for a separate women’s category if men such as Lia Thomas & Imane Khelif are allowed to gatecrash it. You cannot have it both ways.

I wish the Central Statistics Office, Ireland @CSOIreland provided comprehensive straightforward reports on religion - like they used to - as well as, or even instead of, the ‘interactive tables’ that, tbh, absolutely wreck my head. Now, for me, it’s a complicated mess.

BREAKING: Mamdani's odds collapse in NYC Mayoral Election. If he continues falling at the rate he has the past 24h, Cuomo would be the projected winner.

Whenever we proceed from the known into the unknown we may hope to understand, but we may have to learn at the same time a new meaning of the word "understanding." -- W. Heisenberg

The content from Sudan in my feed is horrific. A conflict that's mostly absent from radio news bulletins and the home pages of many Irish print media.

"Children and teenagers who believe they're the opposite sex should be put on puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones." "No, it's wrong to chemically sterilize children and teenagers." "Why are you so preoccupied with adolescent gender and sexuality?"

This company is flying - Do you know why ? They just announced a 300-acre AI-energy and EV project, the size of over 200 stadiums. YES, SIZE OF 200+ Stadiums I cannot even imagine, each time i go to a game, now think of 200 games one near another...this is massive...

' I’m surviving life in Afghanistan and maybe dreaming is its own kind of freedom' Shadmana is fifteen, writing, learning and teaching entirely online, mostly in English. Please pass her poem on. @WRNAfghanistan

‘Should gender equality mean identical outcomes, or identical freedom to follow one’s interest?’

'The Poppy Field' Pastel Karen Margulis (American contemporary artist)

How we attend to the world changes the world. The genius that is Iain McGilchrist… ‘you do not see what it is that you no longer see’ What is it you - I - we - no longer see?

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How would people react to a religious cult that advocated for children’s puberty to be halted by medicalisation, for teenagers and young adults to have their healthy sexual organs chopped off, for women to give up their women-only spaces to men?

A Symbolic Reading of the Divine Comedy In this video, I read and reflect on the first canto of Dante’s Divine Comedy — the opening of Inferno. This incredible canto puts the entire poem in perspective, serving as a microcosm for Dante's journey through inferno, purgatory, and

Discipline is a bad word in our culture. People associate it with having to do what they're told. But discipline is quite a lovely word. It comes from the same root as 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘱𝘭𝘦 and it means seeing yourself through the eyes of the teacher who loves you.~Marion Woodman

Back in the 12th century, French sculptor Gislebertus carved this angel as (s)he appears to the three Magi as they dream, waking one with the delicate touch of a finger, and pointing her other forefinger toward the Bethlehem star (Cathedral of St Lazare, Autun)

As traditional religiosity declines, morality comes more and more under the purview of the state. Thou shalt not hate.

Hugh O'Flaherty, an Irish Catholic priest, saved approximately 6,000 Allied soldiers and Jews in Nazi-occupied Rome during World War II. Operating from the safety of the Vatican, he masterminded a vast underground network of safe houses, farms, and convents to shelter those in

“I asked Roisin Murphy why now felt the moment to speak unequivocally. “I know I need to create,” she told me. “I’ve been avoiding it. I need a clean slate. I think of who it could be for when I write, and I want to think happy thoughts. I need the audience to be a muse, the

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From the government shutdown to views on the state of our political discourse, @brentbuc and @ChrisLaneMA cover the latest data from our National Voter Trends (NVT) poll. 🧵 on turbulence, turnover, and taking sides in America today...

Thanks for all the love for Neda's poems. It has had a huge effect on her. She is filled with hope despite the restrictions on her life in Afghanistan. She wrote this in my zoom class today. She is still 11.

My favourite band since the mid-90s. Their Olympia gig in Dublin. Radiohead. And they tolerate difference of opinion when increasing intolerance, radicalisation and polarisation is on trend. I love them more than ever:

For anyone interested in religion and emerging religious divisions, this is interesting: