Personal
Trans rights aren't up for compromise.
On Prospect's 2026 National Conference, the motions it passed on trans rights, and why I don't think this is an issue where the union needs to be a 'broad church'.
Mathew Sims
40-something, gay, living in Oxfordshire for the last five years, but still proudly from Wigan and Manchester. A software engineer by trade, now, but formally a journalist and education professional. Trade union rep, too, currently for Prospect.
Tech
The stack behind this blog (and everything else I self-host).
This post is served from a Mac Mini sitting on my desk, not from a hosting provider. I recently moved this blog off Ghost's managed platform and, at the same time, consolidated the various self-hosted services I already ran into a single, documented infrastructure-as-code setup.
TIL
Setting boundaries is a good thing.
As someone who thinks differently to many others, and has some long-term mental and physical health issues, I've been thinking for a while about how to set boundaries with work colleagues. To that end, I wrote a quick note, which is linked to from my email footer.