Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 7hYou can understand why the dumbest fucks on the planet would want to feel they control 'super intelligence' 26811
Reposted by Lee HurleyAida @aidap.bsky.social · 7h... Like who exactly is labour fighting with over trans rights if they are pro-trans rights? 0443
Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 7hI don't mean to be that person but this is a Labour event and Labour are the government and Labour appointed the chair of the EHRC and Labour could stop this all any time they wanted. 718735
Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 8hThey're allowing Nandy out and about. Has she said anything about the biggest British sporting scandal yet given her brief? Apparently City had the verdict in July so if that's true she'd have known then too. Anything? 4243
Reposted by Lee HurleyA.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 8hDon’t get me wrong: I’d love to see positive, radical change in this moribund country—this is my home. But that’s also why I have little faith that it’ll happen. The past is prologue, and for most of my life, the only politics allowed has been a competition between different models of decline. 1193
Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 8hIf a politician crying on a stage in a speech he would have planned meticulously is all you need to jump back on board the Labour train, you were never really off it and care more about performative politics than actual cruelty. 215324
Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 8hMy Arsenal account is barely usable tonight and this one is mostly fine 2120
Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 10hThe official verdict is out - £900m of unprecedented financial cheating. The biggest football scandal Britain has ever seen, described today by Jason Burt as a 'rules row'. Read the findings for yourself now: 26911
Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 13hYou all know I've been (intermittenly) working on the history of a trans man in Belfast in the late 1800s. There isn't that much actually about him but I have found out loads about the pub he was in on the day he died (he fell drunk down some stairs), including 2 murders, a possibly-connected Lord.. 1421
Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 14hI would like it put on record that I fucking hate this tiny bastard of a roundabout. Look how many pedestrian crossings there are, who designed this shit? Pedestrians hate it, too. You need about half an hour to get through this at rush hour. 14361
Reposted by Lee HurleyJohn Watts @wattsgoingon.bsky.social · 14hAlso, if a particular behaviour is illegal, it should surely be illegal for everyone - the fact that you're elderly or wearing a dog collar shouldn't matter. 171
Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 14hWhen I say the north of Ireland has been dealing with the 'flag issue' for a a long time, this is from 1881 1183
Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 15hThis would be at least somewhat believable if the police, operating on instruction from the Home Office, hadn't done just exactly that with apparently eager willingness. 812330
Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 16hI'm researching the previous owners of a pub from the late 1800s and have ended up reading about Lord Darnley, who "eschewed all romantic and intimate relationships, as he believe he was a teapot and it might damage his 'spout'" 1112818
Reposted by Lee HurleyEvan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 16hAs a survivor reading between the lines of this very carefully written story it sounds like Jonathan McKinsey was a trans man in an abusive and controlling marriage who was targeted for violence repeatedly by his ex-wife and her parents and eventually murdered. But as a reporter? I can't be sure.nytimes.comCouple Accused of Killing Their Son-in-Law in Bay Area Park (Gift Article)Jonathan McKinsey, an engineer who worked in the games department for The New York Times, was fatally shot Saturday in a San Francisco suburb. The police have accused his parents-in-law, both 76. 1147792
Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 17hBought an adapter to allow me to use my Olympus lenses on a Nikon but got the wrong one because I stupidly thought 'Olympus to Nikon' was what I needed and not 'Nikon to Olympus' 🙄 5351
Reposted by Lee HurleyThe National Union of Journalists @nujofficial.bsky.social · 17hAt a vigil in Belfast yesterday, the NUJ's Assistant General Secretary called for the immediate release of the Police Ombudsman’s report into police handling of Martin O'Hagan's murder, and for a new independent investigation. 📷 credit: @kevinc55.bsky.social www.nuj.org.uk/resource/nuj...nuj.org.ukNUJ demands justice on 25th anniversary of O’Hagan murderA large crowd gathered in Belfast yesterday (28 September) to remember NUJ member Martin O’Hagan and demand justice. 067
Reposted by Lee HurleyMicroplastics Inc. @microplasticsinc.bsky.social · 19hThis is the journalistic equivalent of telling ghost stories around a campfire with a torch under your chin. Risible. 07818
Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 19hHappened at the same time as Jack the Ripper, has never been solved. The woman was believed to be around 24 but they don't know who she was. Had never heard of this. 1200
Reposted by Lee HurleyPress Gazette @pressgazette.co.uk · 19hFormer Conservative Party deputy chairman Lord Ashcroft has acquired a minority stake in Mirror publisher Reach dailybusinessgroup.co.uk/2026/09/tory...dailybusinessgroup.co.ukTory backer Lord Ashcroft takes stake in Reach – Daily BusinessFormer Conservative party deputy chairman Lord Ashcroft has acquired a minority stake in Reach, publisher of the Daily Record, Mirror and Express 135
Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 19hIt's quite a thing to see one of the most well known sports journalists call the biggest cheating scandal in the history of British football a 'rules row'. Telegraph, obviously. 810414
Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 20hThe papers are really desperate for that RAF thing to be terrorism, eh... 4862
Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 20h"Ireland players have alleged that goalscorer Adam Idah was racially abused by Israel fans during the controversial Nations League match in Hungary on Sunday night." [Times] 34516
Reposted by Lee HurleyMic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 21hStill putting ‘bomb plot’ in headlines in the glaring absence of any bombs. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...theguardian.comRubio says foreign actor was ‘clearly’ behind suspected RAF Fairford bomb plotThe US secretary of state offered no evidence for his claims, and also said many people were ‘disturbed’ that the five suspects had been released on bail 74810220
Reposted by Lee HurleyBrendan Harkin @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Not in a major sense, think it was an opportunistic attack cause some landrovers had stopped up in the street beside the park which was basically entirely dark. Two petrol bombs were thrown and mercifully no further as I skedaddled my way past. 2132
Reposted by Lee HurleyBrendan Harkin @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Actually just dwelling on how insane the aggro must be at the loyalist gathering, which was through the underpass, that a TSG officer would advise "risk the petrol bomb gauntlet instead". 2183
Reposted by Lee HurleyBrendan Harkin @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I've been advised to keep to one side of the road and move quick to reach the station as petrol bombs had been thrown at landrovers parked along the road here. Small fire still smouldering in the park and landrovers pulling further back. 4374
Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 28/09/2026I turn 51 in two weeks. Epic timing to be born in time to enjoy this. 1621
Reposted by Lee HurleyAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/09/2026This is a formal request to SCOTUS to forcefully detransition dozens of incarcerated trans people and to subject them to medical experimentation. That's what this is. 7431170
Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 28/09/2026People have been asking why it has all kicked off again at Drumcree after 28 years. The reason is simple. The police said it would all be fine. 618744
Reposted by Lee HurleyBrendan Harkin @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Few hundred people gathered up by Garvaghy Road. Marquees are set up distributing food and coffee. Much livelier than the atmosphere up Drumcree hill where a smaller group of supporters were waiting, a group on folding chairs with a blanket over them. 4377
Reposted by Lee HurleyJoe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"I repeat and call for the use of the pagers we have distributed throughout Ireland.” - Israeli comedian.independent.ieIsraeli comedian calls to ‘activate the pagers we scattered in Ireland’ following Nations League defeatIvgeni Zarubinski made his comments in response to ‘incitement against Israel’ and ‘anti-semitism’ 107237
Reposted by Lee HurleyAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/09/2026The entire motto of this administration towards LGBTQ youth is "fuck them kids." thehill.com/homenews/edu...thehill.comEducation Department formally rescinds Title IX protections for LGBTQ studentsThe Education Department announced Monday it has formally rescinded the Biden-era Title IX interpretation that gave sex-based discrimination protections to students on the basis of sexual orientati… 28927299
Reposted by Lee HurleyChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026BREAKING: DOJ asks SCOTUS to erase trans people from the law in case over trans care in prison. Solicitor General John Sauer made the alarming, all-encompassing argument — previously covered at Law Dork — to the Supreme Court on Monday morning. Today, at Law Dork:lawdork.comBreaking: DOJ asks SCOTUS to erase trans people from the law in case over trans care in prisonSolicitor General John Sauer made the alarming, all-encompassing argument — previously covered at Law Dork — to the Supreme Court on Monday morning. 18506295
Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 28/09/2026“We’re proud to wear the national team’s uniform and to be Israelis; proud of our country and our soldiers. And they can pull all the stunts they want and do whatever they want. We are Israelis, we love our country – and that’s how it will always be.” Israeli national team captain after Ire game 1160
Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 28/09/2026This is reaching Trumpian levels of 'what else can we slap it on' 4623
Reposted by Lee Hurleygav @gavinmit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026'i once got the president of the united states to congratulate us on the arrest of some doggers we found in a lane in gloucestershire' 016434
Reposted by Lee HurleyRose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Basically she has a choice: -implement trans segregation -get yelled at by the telegraph And oppressing an entire minority is a lesser, frivolous cost to her 10575144
Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 28/09/2026There was no COBRA meeting when masked and organised fascists were burning people out of their homes in Belfast in the summer 821755
Reposted by Lee HurleyDuncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026For all that it's been barely reported in the UK press, it's still hard to understate the importance of the stance @labourunionsuk.bsky.social has taken on trans and non-binary rights this week. Every single trade union affiliated to the party of government has stood up and said we will not comply. 12960354
Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 28/09/2026Completely and utterly out of his depth, which is pretty standard tbf so good job Chris 👍 1313722