NeurolawNerd

Well, the lawyers always win in one sense 😆

In some ways worse than thalidomide.

Why Iran is a hub for sex-reassignment surgery It is not because the regime is liberal

Exactly why is there an extraordinary number of trans people in Iran?

www.economist.com/middle-east-...

Moment Trump learned his own team fact-checked his Iranian nuclear claims live

President Donald Trump has starkly cautioned his intelligence personnel that they might encounter "a lot of trouble" for disagreeing about Iran's nuclear ambitions, as revealed in recent comments on Fox News.

Historical Fact: Between March 1946 and August 1947, our airport was used for housing prisoners of war. This taught us everything we know about handling passengers today. #CustomerService

Women Scotland group mulls more legal action after UK supreme court gender ruling Campaigners say they have spoken to Scottish government about lack of action on prisons and schools guidance amid focus on toilets

“We have spoken to the Scottish government and asked them to withdraw some of this guidance, just to say that it’s under review ... it’s clearly unlawful ... They’re telling us they have to wait for the EHRC revised guidance and we don’t believe this is true.”
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Absolutely delighted to have launched our new flight training programme with Sir Richard Branson today!

'It feels like there are winners and losers': SFA chief on difficulty of trans ban The new policy will mean that only those born biologically female will be permitted to play in any women's game played under SFA rules.

Correct.
The winners are the ones who are lawfully included in female sport because they are female.
The losers are the ones who have unlawfully been self-identifying into female sport despite being male.
Justice.
The law working as it should.
news.stv.tv/sport/sfa-ch...

When you go too hard leading ‘Kumbaya, My Lord’ for the Rotary Club day out.

That explains it. They were quite prolific.

Wrote with Boon. Mills&Boon. Very popular in the UK.

Mills.

Today is a great step forward for peace in the Middle East. Hopefully the Iranian theocracy will fall soon.

Picture of a cat named Edgar Allan Purr sleeping

meow

#CatsOfBluesky

It was a tricky one today. The Connections was impossible again.

A black and white spotted bunny sits on straw and wood shavings against a neutral background.

Big piece on how money talks and players will suffer at the expanded Club World Cup, which feels like just the latest example of football eating itself

In this week's @thelondonstandard.bsky.social, out this afternoon

Front view of a fluffy black cat with long whiskers and a small goatee sitting upright beside a sliding glass door. The sun gives his fur a brown glow and makes his whiskers appear iridescent. His head is slightly turned and he has an almost seductive expression.

The Smaller Minion hopes everyone has a wonderful Whiskers Wednesday!

#WhiskersWednesday #Cats #CatSky #CatsOfBlueSky #BlackCats

Some TRAs are truly showing their colours. Simply horrific.

Welcome Tijjani. 🩵🇳🇱

This silly stunt by the 1-ship flotilla seems to have backfired. They just looked like narcissists with no possible benefit for Gazans whatsoever. The "selfie yacht" hit the nail on the head.

Another strange comment is that it "failed peer review several times". What does failing peer review mean? The paper was rejected for publication? Several rounds of peer review is not rejection at all. It's all part of the process. People making comments like that just show their ignorance.

People that have written academic papers know the severe limitations of peer review. Sure, peer reviewed work has an extra layer of scrutiny.
And the Cass Review itself wasn't peer reviewed, so anyone saying it failed peer review is talking nonsense. The key work it relied upon was peer reviewed.+

A robin made a nest in one of my plant pots right outside my studio. The baby birds are hatching today.