🏉Anna, jackal princess🏉

Well, that was a round of test rugby or what. 6 Nations, still the best men's tournament in the world. Fantastic.

My, my, my. #GuinnessM6N. Played, Italy.

Tight, defensive, attritional rugby there. #GuinnessM6N

The Guardian would love to see trans people in the UK treated the same way as gay men are in Iran so don't come with the 'ooooo aren't these fundamentalists awful?'

Extremely decent game of rugby, that. Wales maybe worth a bonus point but was not to be. #GuinnessM6N

I really should be in that area myself.

83.5kg. Don't think I've been here since the mid to late 90s.

Three bean (and corn) chili. Bomb dot com. Filling, and batch cooking means I made 7 portions.

“Gender-critical” transphobia now costs every woman athlete £185 if they want to compete in an international competition.

Well done transphobes, this is your doing and no-one else’s. Trans people have long been saying that transphobia would harm cis women. We were right, people just don’t listen.

They should send a bill to Joanne Rowling.

Female athletes must pay £185 to prove their sex Matt Lawton - Chief Sports Correspondent British female track and field athletes are being asked to pay £185 for a sex test if they want to compete internationally. World Athletics requires all athletes to take an SRY gene test before competing in the female category at major championships and Diamond League events to guarantee fair competition by excluding trans and DSD (differences of sex development) competitors. Before the World Championships in Tokyo last September, World Athletics gave $100 per test for the thousand or so female athletes needing one. More money will be provided by the international federation for this year’s World Junior Championships. But British women have been advised by UK Athletics (UKA) to pay for the test themselves, urging them to have the cheek swab, which indicates the presence of a Y chromosome, “as soon as possible to avoid delays around selection”. However, some women have complained it is unfair when the test is not required for men. UKA has a hardship fund to pay for the test and will assess requests on a case-by-case basis. But the situation is symptomatic of a national federation already facing financial challenges, made worse by UK Sport cutting its funding for this Olympic cycle. While almost £32 million was given to the relatively niche sports that won five medals at last month’s Winter Olympics, athletics has had its funding cut from £22.18 million to £20.45 million despite winning ten medals in 2024. It was only last year UKA returned to some form of financial stability, posting a profit of £107,588. But it is now facing a big fine after admitting corporate manslaughter over the death of Abdullah Hayayei, who died in 2017 after a metal cage fell on him while he was training for the World Para Athletics Championships in London.

"Feminism" [Times]

Well, that's not bonkers at all #Eurovision2026 🇬🇧 Eins, zwei, drei.

That's a *great* top 😄

Yummm. For tomorrow I might use some of my garam masala stash and make a sauce for the other chicken fillett.

Chicken fillet, onions on my own homemade flatbread: bomb dot com. 😋

Rather surprisingly, in an enforced period of not drinking, I've come to the conclusion that I'm more interested in flavour that getting scuttered.
Just had a mug of Oxo with some Tiger Khan brand sweet chili sauce. Delicious.

Funny you should say that.

Holy fuck. I've not been this light since October 2022.

Well, yes, trans people are getting drugs; yes, from entirely unregulated sources; yes, without counselling; yes, without blood tests; yes, they are self-administering; yes, without clinical oversight; yes, risking long term harm; yes, it is highly suboptimal.

What did you think would happen?

How Much I Dislike the Daily Mail    I would rather  eat Quavers that are six weeks stale,  blow dry the man bun of Gareth Bale,  listen to the songs of Jimmy Nail,  than read one page of the Daily Mail.    If I was bored  in a waiting room in Perivale,  on a twelve-hour trip on Network Rail,  halfway through a circumnavigational sail,  I would not read the Daily Mail.    I would happily read  the autobiography of Dan Quayle,  1001 Things You Can Do With Kale,  selected scripts from Emmerdale, if it meant I didn’t have to read the Daily Mail.    Far better to  stand outside in a storm of hail,  scratch a blackboard with a fingernail,  be swallowed by a humpback whale,  than have to read the Daily Mail.    If I was blind   and it was the only thing in Braille,  I still would not read the Daily Mail.    Brian Bilston 

Today’s poem is called ‘How Much I Dislike the Daily Mail’.

Gorgeous. Everything.

Congratulations on a fantastic Black Ferns carreer to the absolute queen that is Portia Woodman-Wicliffe. Best of success wishes for her future endeavours.

Abolish the legal gender marker entirely. No government can be trusted to have a database of which people have changed theirs, no government has any business tracking what your gender is "supposed" to be in the first place.

5 authors of at least 5 books that I've read:

Terry Pratchett
Bob Salvatore
Kathy Reichs
Tess Gerritsen
Sue Grafton

#Booksky

One thing about not having enough money for beer is that finding out again that tea is the bomb. It's not Barry's, it's Tetley, but still good.

#LetsHaveABrew

So, ep 1 of The Walsh Sisters watched. Engagingly understated drama but it seems paced differently than Marian Keyes' books.
Fantastic casting.
Can't have been shot anywhere near Dublin, let alone Rathmines: far too much sunshine. 😉

That's really good.

Ah, bead sorting. Should keep them occupied a bit.

Never mind, eh lads. Sure you know yourself, Ireland are in the decline, so they are. #GuinnessM6N

I think I saw them on the same bill as the Hormonal Shits at Mudfest '87.