June 17th, 2025
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posted by [personal profile] kaberett at 11:47pm on 17/06/2025

The watch tells me I achieved +102 "body battery" points, which I am amused to see.

But I have also visited the allotment (on my way back from physio) and have eaten: raspberries, a strawberry, a cherry, redcurrants, jostaberries, peas, broad beans, kohlrabi. V pleased.

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posted by [personal profile] j4 at 10:40pm on 16/06/2025 under
Hi. I don't post much any more because I don't even know where to start and I don't know how anybody would hear it through all the noise.

Everything is deafening. The pressure of it on my ears is giving me the bends. Apparently not everybody has words clattering around in their heads all the time? Is that how they get things done? Does anybody still get things done?

I used to be able to pick words out of the noise and put them down on paper.

There used to be a poem here )
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posted by [personal profile] squirmelia at 03:57pm on 17/06/2025 under
I was going to visit the Thames Barrier and wanted to go mudlarking on the way, but didn't quite manage to.

I started at Woolwich - the first set of stairs I looked down were too muddy and the foreshore was similar. The second set, I walked down but they got muddier and I started slipping so turned back. A man saw me doing this and told me there were steps further on that would be better. We walked together to the steps but then found them padlocked.

The steps nearest to the Thames Barrier, outside the Hope & Anchor pub (now closed) seemed to be missing steps and also looked very slippery, so I gave them a miss too.

So mudlarking 19 did not happen that day, and instead the day after.

I headed to Rotherhithe and it was blissfully quiet, I was the only person on the foreshore.

I found a few pieces of shoe soles and picked one up, wondering if anyone had worn it or if it was just surplus.

I found some pottery sherds and a few pieces of glass, and a few bits of pipe.

I headed back up the steps.

“Are you okay?” a man asked after I'd taken my gloves off and wiped my nose.
“Yeah”, I said, nodding.
“Are you a tourist or you live around here?” he asked.
“Neither,” I replied, and he walked off before I could elaborate, seeming annoyed. Then he started cheering random joggers who were running past, who looked at him confused.

Mudlarking finds - 19A

I headed to Limehouse after that and there were Canada Geese and goslings, and swans.

I found my first face! I am not sure who he is, although he looks familiar somehow. It may have been part of a Bellarmine jug.

Sherd

I found quite a lot of sherds with words on:

“Oat” - A part of what looks like a small white pot that says “oat” on the bottom. It seems there was once a face cream called Oatine, so this little pot likely held that. It looks like Oatine was sold in the UK from 1905 to 1960s, but was most popular around the 1920s. Article I found on Oatine: Oatine: The food for the complexion.

Oatine

“unt” - a small sherd with what looks like “unt” visible. The letter before could have been a “o” so perhaps it spelt county or mount?

“ho” - a sherd where most of the glaze has come off and all that is left looks like it spells “ho”.

Also glass shards with words on:

“ark” - this shard was obviously from Noah’s Ark.

“c.” - a nice letter c and a full stop, but whether the rest of the word was Isaac or maniac or automatic, I don't know.

“by” - possibly, or it could be “ry”, but I think it looks more like “by”.

One where they are obviously letters but what remains of them is too difficult for me to tell.

I found a terracotta coloured stone that looks like it has a little pink heart on it.

I found a button and a blue circle of glass with two holes, which could have been a button also but it could have been on a necklace, perhaps?

Limehouse finds are colourful!

Mudlarking finds - 19B
June 16th, 2025
posted by [personal profile] mjg59 at 09:20pm on 16/06/2025 under ,
I'm lucky enough to have a weird niche ISP available to me, so I'm paying $35 a month for around 600MBit symmetric data. Unfortunately they don't offer static IP addresses to residential customers, and nor do they allow multiple IP addresses per connection, and I'm the sort of person who'd like to run a bunch of stuff myself, so I've been looking for ways to manage this.

What I've ended up doing is renting a cheap VPS from a vendor that lets me add multiple IP addresses for minimal extra cost. The precise nature of the VPS isn't relevant - you just want a machine (it doesn't need much CPU, RAM, or storage) that has multiple world routeable IPv4 addresses associated with it and has no port blocks on incoming traffic. Ideally it's geographically local and peers with your ISP in order to reduce additional latency, but that's a nice to have rather than a requirement.

By setting that up you now have multiple real-world IP addresses that people can get to. How do we get them to the machine in your house you want to be accessible? First we need a connection between that machine and your VPS, and the easiest approach here is Wireguard. We only need a point-to-point link, nothing routable, and none of the IP addresses involved need to have anything to do with any of the rest of your network. So, on your local machine you want something like:

[Interface]
PrivateKey = privkeyhere
ListenPort = 51820
Address = localaddr/32

[Peer]
Endpoint = VPS:51820
PublicKey = pubkeyhere
AllowedIPs = VPS/0


And on your VPS, something like:

[Interface]
Address = vpswgaddr/32
SaveConfig = true
ListenPort = 51820
PrivateKey = privkeyhere

[Peer]
PublicKey = pubkeyhere
AllowedIPs = localaddr/32


The addresses here are (other than the VPS address) arbitrary - but they do need to be consistent, otherwise Wireguard is going to be unhappy and your packets will not have a fun time. Bring that interface up with wg-quick and make sure the devices can ping each other. Hurrah! That's the easy bit.

Now you want packets from the outside world to get to your internal machine. Let's say the external IP address you're going to use for that machine is 321.985.520.309 and the wireguard address of your local system is 867.420.696.005. On the VPS, you're going to want to do:

iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -d 321.985.520.309 -j DNAT --to-destination 867.420.696.005

Now, all incoming packets for 321.985.520.309 will be rewritten to head towards 867.420.696.005 instead (make sure you've set net.ipv4.ip_forward to 1 via sysctl!). Victory! Or is it? Well, no.

What we're doing here is rewriting the destination address of the packets so instead of heading to an address associated with the VPS, they're now going to head to your internal system over the Wireguard link. Which is then going to ignore them, because the AllowedIPs statement in the config only allows packets coming from your VPS, and these packets still have their original source IP. We could rewrite the source IP to match the VPS IP, but then you'd have no idea where any of these packets were coming from, and that sucks. Let's do something better. On the local machine, in the peer, let's update AllowedIps to 0.0.0.0/0 to permit packets form any source to appear over our Wireguard link. But if we bring the interface up now, it'll try to route all traffic over the Wireguard link, which isn't what we want. So we'll add table = off to the interface stanza of the config to disable that, and now we can bring the interface up without breaking everything but still allowing packets to reach us. However, we do still need to tell the kernel how to reach the remote VPN endpoint, which we can do with ip route add vpswgaddr dev wg0. Add this to the interface stanza as:

PostUp = ip route add vpswgaddr dev wg0
PreDown = ip route del vpswgaddr dev wg0


That's half the battle. The problem is that they're going to show up there with the source address still set to the original source IP, and your internal system is (because Linux) going to notice it has the ability to just send replies to the outside world via your ISP rather than via Wireguard and nothing is going to work. Thanks, Linux. Thinux.

But there's a way to solve this - policy routing. Linux allows you to have multiple separate routing tables, and define policy that controls which routing table will be used for a given packet. First, let's define a new table reference. On the local machine, edit /etc/iproute2/rt_tables and add a new entry that's something like:

1 wireguard


where "1" is just a standin for a number not otherwise used there. Now edit your wireguard config and replace table=off with table=wireguard - Wireguard will now update the wireguard routing table rather than the global one. Now all we need to do is to tell the kernel to push packets into the appropriate routing table - we can do that with ip rule add from localaddr lookup wireguard, which tells the kernel to take any packet coming from our Wireguard address and push it via the Wireguard routing table. Add that to your Wireguard interface config as:

PostUp = ip rule add from localaddr lookup wireguard
PreDown = ip rule del from localaddr lookup wireguard

and now your local system is effectively on the internet.

You can do this for multiple systems - just configure additional Wireguard interfaces on the VPS and make sure they're all listening on different ports. If your local IP changes then your local machines will end up reconnecting to the VPS, but to the outside world their accessible IP address will remain the same. It's like having a real IP without the pain of convincing your ISP to give it to you.
June 15th, 2025
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posted by [personal profile] kaberett at 11:59pm on 15/06/2025

... and has been doing very little of anything else. SHOCKINGLY.

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posted by [personal profile] mtbc at 08:00am on 15/06/2025 under ,
It is disappointing to be starting my new job by missing out on an infrequent on-site meeting in New York City later this month. Unfortunately, my US passport is being renewed and it would not be legal for me to visit on my UK passport instead. At least this kind of problem comes up only every few years.

When I renewed my US passport, I looked into if I could do it in person at the consulate but the anticipated travel wasn't soon enough to qualify. Now, the by-mail option turns out to be taking a couple of months and expediting the processing at this point still wouldn't be quick enough. So, there seems to be an awkward mid-range duration that the advice could be adjusted to cover rather better. After my application arrived at the US Embassy in London, it still took over a week for it to be received at a processing center so perhaps everything has to go from London to the US and back these days.
June 14th, 2025
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posted by [personal profile] kaberett at 11:59pm on 14/06/2025

Item the first: I have no idea what the hell made the ominous donk-slither-donk noise in the portaloo at about midnight last night, but the phone I'd convinced myself it was was in a neat little pile with my laptop, in the tent, in the morning -- after I'd spent some time being sad about inadequate backups of photos of tiny sleepy rhinos -- which was an enormous relief (though I am also very pleased with myself for how well I handled things). (Especially given that my conviction that this was what had happened was in part based on being as aware as I could be of how abruptly my cognitive function had deteriorated with Surprise Unscheduled Migraine Onset.) (Still haven't worked out what on earth the donk-slither-donk was, but it's none of the obvious Truly Upsetting things to have lost, so I'm Currently Fine With This.)

Item the second: it is hot. This field contains lots of chamomile, and also lots of people. I am really enjoying the way it smells.

Item the third: I am really enjoying the dark chocolate + salt + nuts snack bars that crew welfare is providing, which I'd not previously noticed.

Item four: THE HALBARD THAT IS A SHARK.

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posted by [personal profile] rmc28 at 08:18am on 14/06/2025 under ,

On an ice hockey camp in Slaný, near Prague. I flew out on Thursday afternoon with two friends from Kodiaks. We arrived at the rink hotel in time to check in, have a little walk down to the nearby supermarket and get food, and settle in for the night. For reasons the three of us were all sharing a dormitory room the first night, and we decided the perfect film to watch over our picnic dinner was Inside Out 2 - also set at a 3-day hockey camp. I hadn't seen it before, though the other two had, and I enjoyed it very much.

Friday morning was pretty relaxed; a fourth Kodiak joined us after leaving home at awful-o-clock in the morning, and we were moved into the nicer ensuite twin rooms in pairs for the rest of the camp. We met in the dressing room at 1pm, were on ice at 2pm and again at 6pm, with a stickhandling session in between. Then dinner at 8 and falling into bed not long after.

It's excellent coaching, I'm being pushed well out of my comfort zone and the balance of drill and rest in each session and between sessions is just right. I hit my "cannot actually skate any more" limit about 3 minutes before the end of the last ice session.

Today will be two ice sessions at either end of the day, with video review (argh), optional swim+spa (yes!), and stickhandling again in between. My muscles this morning are making themselves known but I'm not exhausted. All is good. Time to go get changed.

June 13th, 2025
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posted by [personal profile] mtbc at 03:46pm on 13/06/2025 under , ,
We have been somewhat lucky with the weather recently. We had a lovely day for when my two children visited for some walking and shopping in Glasgow city centre. We similarly had a lovely day for visiting Edinburgh, we finally got to explore the botanic garden. Our luck runs out this weekend: we had planned to go camping again. Last time went well but the weather forecast for tomorrow looks grim so we will get things done here at home instead.
June 12th, 2025
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posted by [personal profile] kaberett at 11:53pm on 12/06/2025

I am already very very tired.

But.

In a magnificent example of Prosocial Mammals: yesterday, when we were like 3/4 of the way to site, I realised that I no longer had "migraine stabs" on my packing list because I had carefully arranged things so that stabs would be due on a Tuesday so I would never need to faff with stabs in a field again.

... which I completely forgot. Until. 3/4.

... so I put out a Wail addressed to Londoners who would be Heading To The Field, and one of them ACTUALLY WENT on the terrible multi-borough fetch quest to get me my stabs so I HAVE BEEN STABBED and was only one day late, not a week! which is probably going to make the next month much more pleasant! and I just. continue delighted about this.

There you go that's your anecdote of the day.

June 11th, 2025
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posted by [personal profile] kaberett at 11:54pm on 11/06/2025 under

Okay. So.

Admin: the LRP has a variety of in-game resources. One of the more valuable ones is mithril, which gets used for all sorts of things, like armour and weaponry and building works, particularly military ones.

This event we are seeing the launch of The Cow Stock Market. This inevitably was a topic of discussion over this evening's pizza: discussion of the designs of the I Promise To Pay The Bearer On Demand One (1) Cow slips! speculation over Cow Futures! debate over the impact on the gold mithril standard!

It'll be fiiiiiiiiiine, says A. It'll all be TOTALLY fine. You can absolutely build fortifications out of cows!

-- and at this point, for those of you who are abruptly cackling, I need to point out that A has not read Nona the Ninth.

I also need to point out that I am in a specific groupchat, specifically set up following the event where someone managed to get their hands on some copies of Nona a few days before official release and there was consequently significant in-field bartering for who got to be next in the queue to inhale them, that is named after. well. the cows. did you know that cows have best friends.

But A had no idea why I was abruptly losing it, and I decided that rather than attempt to explain I was in fact first of all going to Depart Our Table, find my Nona dealers, and relate unto them the story of The Thing A, All Unawares, Just Said.

The reaction was extremely gratifying.

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posted by [personal profile] squirmelia at 10:38am on 11/06/2025 under
A busy day of immersive theatre and when I left it was pouring with rain, but when I walked through Blackfriars Station to the other side of the river, it magically stopped raining and I headed down to the foreshore!

It was quiet, as people had been put off by the rain.

Earlier in the day, in an Ambient Lit workshop, I had pretended to be a dog and chased pigeons. “Woof”, I said to the pigeons on the foreshore.

There were patches of metal objects, nails, screws, objects once used.

I picked up pipes, pottery sherds and pieces of glass, and also a tiny heart shaped sticker. Thanks for the love, dear Thames.

Mudlarking finds - 17
June 10th, 2025
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Two things:

  1. I keep (especially post-surgery, cotemporal with relearning how to walk) finding more small ways that how I've been doing my various physio exercises isn't quite right. This is a good thing! Isn't it fascinating to be learning more about embodiment and how my body works and how I can best deploy my various muscles!

  2. Up until the hypermobility clinic, all the physio I was ever prescribed made me worse, not better.

It abruptly dawned on me, all at once, that the subtlety of the changes I'm making with adjusting how I'm shifting my weight around and so on and so forth? Are almost certainly not actually externally visible. Like, yes, people not understanding hypermobility and problems with it was also Definitely A Problem, but -- the part where I'm still, mm, not necessarily fixing things but certainly developing them, finding places where even with What The Hypermobility Clinic Told Me To Do I wasn't getting quite right... well, the hypermobility specialists clearly went "eh, good enough", and in terms of the effects on my ability to Things I think they were clearly demonstrably provable correct, but -- yeah, okay, sudden understanding of some of just how difficult it would have been to correct some of this stuff.

(I'm very sure that all my various epiphanies will turn out to be about things that still aren't quite right, that I can still refine further -- I'm having an extended phase of that with Pilates right now -- but this is a good thing, actually. It's really nice to have such clear evidence that I'm getting to know and understand myself better.)

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posted by [personal profile] davemerrill at 04:48pm on 10/06/2025
Well, Anime North happened and it was kinda fun! The weather was cold and blustery, with a little rain every single day, but the fans seemed happy and the show was crowded. My events went well, the room party was not super crowded but floor-sitting crowded, lots of people who didn't previously know each other getting to know each other, eating junk food, listening to vintage anime music from vintage cassette tapes played on a vintage boom box that only ate one tape.

I bought two manga from The Beguiling's table, that's all I bought, everything else in the vendors hall was t-shirts and funko pops and magic cards and swords and dice. No thank yous

I got two fillings, they gave me a mouth guard for my sleep grinding, I have one more doctor's appointment next week and then I might be done with the doctor for a while, I hope.

Weather has finally gotten close to where it should be this time of year, though still on the colder side. We saw FRIENDSHIP in the theater which is an extended I Think You Should Leave sketch, in a good way, never wears out its welcome. We also saw SINNERS and that's about the best film I'm likely to see this year; fun, angry, joyful, super horny, and you'll wait a while for the automatic weapons to show up but it's great when they do.

Now that the anime con is out of the way I'm spending more time getting my next comic finished and the goal is to have it debut at GRAFFICKER ALLEY, the manga/comics/zine festival happening September 6, save the date.
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posted by [personal profile] squirmelia at 08:48pm on 10/06/2025 under
It was just before low tide and the foreshore was busy with people, teenagers on a guided mudlark tour, and others searching.

The foreshore emptied and then there were more geese than humans and the goslings pecked at the wall, green with algae.

That day, I kept finding stripey pottery sherds. As I was going to meet Ingress players afterwards and our team colour is green, I started to concentrate on picking up green sherds. Green triangles!

I found another pipe with an “S” on it, different to the last. The other side looks like it could be a “P” so perhaps it was made by Solomon Price.

Another piece of Staffordshire Slipware, some more pink slag, and a sherd with a letter “E” on it.

It seemed appropriate to go to the Mudlark pub after that to meet friends and show them my bag of finds. On the walls of the pub were pictures of the foreshore and of pipes.

Mudlarking finds - 16
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posted by [personal profile] watervole at 07:06pm on 10/06/2025 under

 Hobbies can sometimes lead to useful transferable skills.

 

Decades ago, I ran a commercial postal RPG called 'Delenda est Carthago'  It even won an award.

I employed several people over the years - one interview was with a Dr Who fan, the kind who knew every detail of pretty much every episode.

That was what got him the job - it demon stated his ability to get involved with a fantasy world and to learn all the relevant details.  And he turned out to be a very good GM.

 

My daughter hs a volunteer at Little Woodham - the 17th century replica village. She's become a dab hand at entertaining the visitors with leather-working demonstrations, all sorts of interesting historical facts and also by organising groups of children into being the crew of a canon! (I gather the kids absolutely love it, even the ones who get 'killed' by standing in front of the barrel when loading it, etc.)

Turns out that this is a transferable skill also.  It was her time at LIttle Woodham that got her an interview with a company doing coach tours (she has a bus-drivers licence, but that wasn't the critical element).  They were looking for someone could entertain the passengers as well as drive them safely.

Monday Passenger: "You're very knowledgeable.  How long have you been doing this? It must be a couple of decades."

Lindsey: It's my first day...

She'd done a lot of research and stacked up anecdotes about all the places they would pass en route.  A bridge Winston Churchill fell off as a boy; another bridge that had a Civil War fight where a dozen cavalry held off around 200 infantry, stuff about Lulworth Castle, etc.

So, if you ever take a coach tour from Bournemouth rail/coach station to the Jurassic Coast, maybe you'll meet her!

  

June 9th, 2025
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posted by [personal profile] fanf at 10:00pm on 09/06/2025

After I found some issues with my benchmark which invalidated my previous results, I have substantially revised my previous blog entry. There are two main differences:

  • A proper baseline revealed that my amd64 numbers were nonsense because I wasn’t fencing enough, and after tearing my hair out and eventually fixing that I found that the bithack conversion is one or two cycles faster.

  • A newer compiler can radically improve the multiply conversion on arm64 so it’s the same speed as the bithack conversion; I've added some source and assembly snippets to the blog post to highlight how nice arm64 is compared to amd64 for this task.

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Books on pre-order:

  1. Queen Demon (Rising World 2) by Martha Wells (7 Oct 2025)

Books acquired in May:

  • and read:
    1. Copper Script by KJ Charles
    2. Red Boar's Baby by Lauren Esker
  • and unread:
    1. The Wrath & The Dawn by Renée Ahdieh [3]
    2. The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra by Vaseem Khan [3]
    3. Kidnap on the California Comet by M.G. Leonard & Sam Sedgman [3]
    4. Betrayal (Trinity 1) by Fiona McIntosh [3]

Borrowed books read in May:

  1. The Good Thieves by Katherine Rundell
  2. One Christmas Wish by Katherine Rundell
  3. You Have a Match by Emma Lord [2][6]

I continue to not read much (by my standards). I did not manage to read any of the physical books I had out of the library until they needed to be returned, and I've got several half-finished books in progress. (Oh, and in writing this I've realised I already have the Renée Ahdieh book in ebook, and haven't read it there either!)

[1] Pre-order
[2] Audiobook
[3] Physical book
[4] Crowdfunding
[5] Goodbye read
[6] Cambridgeshire Reads/Listens
[7] FaRoFeb / FaRoCation / Bookmas / HRBC
[8] Prime Reading / Kindle Unlimited

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posted by [personal profile] squirmelia at 07:23pm on 09/06/2025 under
Mudlarking - 15A

It was lunchtime and not much beach could be seen. I’d gone down an alleyway that didn’t smell pleasant, and then down steps, and past flies. I walked back and forth on the small patch of shore anyway, while the tide went out and the beach gradually grew.

I found a small piece of glass, a blue and white sherd, and a mysterious brown metal object. It is not the telescope I imagined it was when I picked it up.

A man sat on the steps, but the tiny patch of foreshore was entirely mine that day.

Mudlarking finds - 15A



Mudlarking 15B

An after work trip to the foreshore, low tide was a few hours before.

A religious looking poster floated in the water, but later appeared on the shore.

An Egyptian goose walked by.

I found a tiny green plastic bottle with a swirl on it and I wondered what it once contained.

I found another square small black tile that looks modern, but I have about 4 now. Maybe I’ll find enough to make a space invader mosaic eventually.

There were a few broken pipe bowls, and what I thought was a piece of green pipe, but now looks like something else.

I found a stone with delightful stripes, or is it a fossil?

Mudlarking finds - 15B
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posted by [personal profile] lnr at 11:14am on 09/06/2025 under , ,

We still haven't met with Senior Management: it's now due tomorrow, in person. I'm gently trying not to panic.

There's still been no message of support to all members of staff and students from the University, and nothing at all from the department. Though I understand they're still in discussions in the background. This is frustrating.

The subject was raised at a recent All Staff meeting (in which people submit questions as text, and senior management attempt to answer them). We were given broad assurances that the university values and supports trans people, but nothing actually useful or genuinely supportive was said.

In the meantime a new EHRC chair is due to be appointed, and they're considering a person with a known anti-trans background. There's an Open Letter available to sign in protest, written by a very good friend and colleague: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe_Y77t7CQqKjdGifNa0lE3HKjDAb1UoJdjuLAbInhIQsRMhw/viewform

I've also seen a good template if you want to write directly: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1865KMfu24JgmwnWmYXaVc3jlzj5uQFEq69hXMxKP6BU/edit?tab=t.0

And I wrote my own version:

9th June 2025
Dear Women’s and Equalities Select Committee and Joint Committee on Human Rights,
Cc: Pippa Heylings, as my MP

I am writing to express my grave concern about the proposed appointment of Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson as the Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission.

I won't include a string of references here, because I think you will have seen them all already, but I think it is imperative that the next person appointed as Head of the EHRC should not be seen to have a strong anti-trans background. Trans people are currently scared. Scared for their jobs, if they cannot access their workplace in safety and dignity. Scared of being assaulted if they go to the "wrong" toilet. Scared of being outed as trans in public if they try to follow the new guidelines.

And I am scared as a cis woman, a woman who is not trans, at what is happening in our country, and what this means for my friends and colleagues and for trans people in general. For intersex people, non-binary people, and any woman who might be mistaken for being trans. Other women need to feel safe too, but excluding trans people is not the way to do this.

The EHRC needs to stand up for the rights of everyone, and to be seen to do so. I sincerely hope you will take this into account.

Kind Regards,

Eleanor Blair
Great Shelford, Cambridge, CB22

I'm not even going to attempt to get into the member of the EHRC who was quoted as effectively saying that trans people have been misled about their rights under the Equality Act for the last 15 years, and there will now be a period of adjustment, but they should just get used to having fewer rights than they thought they did. The Guardian changed their headline and reporting three times as a result of her protesting about being misquoted, but that seems to have been the gist of it. Not mentioning that the "misleading" guidance came from the EHRC themselves, and was based on the previous understanding of the Equalities Act and entirely consistent with it. FFS

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