More reaction shots.

Official result: Republic of Ireland votes resoundingly to overturn abortion ban with voters backing reform of constitution https://t.co/urPAqRybLz pic.twitter.com/cFFqrxUyik

— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) May 26, 2018

Breaking News: Ireland voted to overturn its ban on abortion, the prime minister said, in the country’s latest rebuke to the Catholic church https://t.co/jhdLLnNJ9l

— The New York Times (@nytimes) May 26, 2018

Ireland makes history after an overwhelming majority votes in a national referendum to overturn a 35-year-old abortion ban https://t.co/pKkXDlyjeT pic.twitter.com/IgZSWLZ5gJ

— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) May 26, 2018

BREAKING: It's a big Yes: Stunning victory officially confirmed as 66.4pc vote to reform Ireland's restrictive abortion laws https://t.co/wHLtaDZkFr pic.twitter.com/dfBuVeYiR6

— Irish Independent (@Independent_ie) May 26, 2018

Ireland just

Some Repeal the 8th tweets.

In memory of Savita Halappanavar, never again ☘️♀ #womensart #YesVote #RepealedThe8th pic.twitter.com/06okZJ0tKn

— #WOMENSART (@womensart1) May 26, 2018

https://twitter.com/DancingTheMind/status/1000306630033072129

https://twitter.com/CaoimheSloan/status/1000323212679483392

Best one:

Crowds at Dublin castle chant only one thing – yes pic.twitter.com/GJ3pmXuB4o

— Jordan Moates (@jordan_utv) May 26, 2018

Updating to add another best; h/t Seth.

https://twitter.com/98FM/status/1000431252091101184… Read the rest

RTÉ reports:

The results in the referendum on the Eighth Amendment show the Yes side is ahead by a margin of around 2-to-1.

Most of the 40 constituencies have now finished counting ballot papers and have declared official results.

In what is expected to be the highest Yes vote, 78.4% of voters in Dublin Bay South opted to repeal the Eighth.

On a day described by Taoiseach Leo Varadkar as the “culmination of a quiet revolution”, Galway East was the first constituency to declare a result delivering a decisive Yes vote at 60%.

In the capital all declared constituencies have come in with over 70% for the Yes side.

Donegal looks to be the one constituency that will vote … Read the rest

Fun and games at the office.

A woman who complained of a racist and misogynistic culture in a Scottish government department claims she was taped to a chair and gagged by two male colleagues as a warning to keep quiet.

DeeAnn Fitzpatrick said the restraint took place amid years of bullying and harassment at Marine Scotland’s Scrabster office.

The fisheries officer has taken her case to an employment tribunal.

BBC Scotland has obtained a photo of the restraint incident.

It was taken by one of the men allegedly responsible.

Ms Fitzpatrick, a Canadian national, said it happened in 2010 as a result of her blowing the whistle on a threatening and misogynistic culture at Marine Scotland’s office in Scrabster,

Ireland has voted massively to repeal the 8th amendment.

Ireland has voted by a landslide margin to change the constitution so that abortion can be legalised, according to an exit poll conducted for The Irish Times by Ipsos/MRBI.

The poll suggests that the margin of victory for the Yes side in the referendum will be 68 per cent to 32 per cent – a stunning victory for the Yes side after a long and often divisive campaign. See here for liveblog coverage of events across Friday in the referendum vote.

The Irish Times reported on an issue with the abortion ban in April:

The Eighth Amendment has caused pregnant women with cancer to die and will continue to put

Honestly, they’re still getting this wrong.

The story: senior academic, a male, when a voice on a crowded elevator at a conference invites people to call out their floors, calls out “Ladies’ Lingerie!” Haw haw. Another academic, a woman, makes a complaint, and since this is in the Daily Mail you know the rest.

But then the senior male academic, Richard New Lewbow, telling this sad tale, gets to Tim Hunt.

I know many in my profession are more vulnerable to threats and bullying than I am — at 76 I am near the end of my career. But students and young dons will feel an even greater need to censor their thoughts in a world where people who

Originally a comment on Toby tell us again.

During my first degree in computer science (not at Oxford, at Teesside of all places) in the early 90s there were four women out of about 300 students. There were eight people who were not white. During later degrees at Newcastle and Leeds and having worked in those universities for decades, I didn’t see as much improvement as I’d hoped.

There were women and people of colour in top faculty positions, for sure. But there was also a very obvious funnel: women and people of colour didn’t seem to rise through the ranks as easily as white dudes did. Women of colour in particular seemed to find it difficult to find … Read the rest

Helen Lewis has some characteristically amusing observations on Kermit Peterson:

This is the Peterson brand: interweaving a story of dragons and witches, and masculine order and feminine chaos, around some crushingly banal life advice about trying to be a good person, wash behind your ears, and maybe a slick of deodorant once in a while wouldn’t go amiss, eh? If he was a woman, writing for women, we would see him for what he is: a mash-up of Cosmo tips and My First Book of Myths. But because he’s writing for sad young white men – and their problems are, you know, real problems, not like anorexia or rape or sexual harassment at work – he’s a public

I saw this.

Reporter: “Do you deserve the Nobel Prize, do you think?”

Trump: “Everyone thinks so, but I would never say it.”

That was May 9th.
Two weeks ago. pic.twitter.com/G5J3X1kmwH

— Victor Blackwell CNN (@VictorBlackwell) May 24, 2018

I thought “Really?? He said that?!” I looked it up. He said that.

Trump was asked by a reporter at the White House if he’s deserving of the prize after news broke Wednesday that three American men who had been imprisoned by North Korea were on their way home to the United States.

“Everyone thinks so, but I would never say it,” said Trump, who is preparing to meet face-to-face with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in coming weeks,

David Lammy MP:

630 Black British students get 3 A's and yet 1 in 4 Oxford colleges did not have a single Black British student in the entire cohort in at least one of the last three years. Not one Black British student offered a place for Computer Science or Psychology. Go and find the talent. https://t.co/dbJBnyXnY1

— David Lammy (@DavidLammy) May 23, 2018

Oxbridge gets £700 million a year from the taxpayer and the Oxbridge admissions system decides who gets to be the next Cabinet Ministers, newspaper editors, senior civil servants, FTSE CEOs etc. So it does matter to my constituents and to every person in this country, actually. https://t.co/C0tJJN7vTQ

— David Lammy (@DavidLammy) May 23, 2018

Toby … Read the rest