Spotted this morning on Washington St! ♥️ #Cork #Corcaigh #Speirgorm

oof

Getting past people's reflexive state brain is so difficult in this. As soon as you say something might be harmful it has to be criminalised, banned, crushed by some greater power. And that greater power is of course not neutral. It is the power of and in defence of abusers.

Good morning, Cork❗️It's a little chilly- but gorgeous- stay with us and have a good one 👌

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The 90s Irish childhood cannon

Barthes discovering subjectivity in real time

“What, me?” said Appeasement, “You want me? After all these years quietly gathering dust in the history books, you want me again?” “Yes, of course! It’s your time to shine once more! Come on buddy, look sharp, you’ve got a lot of work ahead of you”

Personal elevator pitches from hell

Such a weird idea that fascists should have had to learn how to harass, muzzle, censor, and persecute people from the so-called «woke» left

Increasingly baffled by why Micheál Martin wanted to be Taoiseach in the first place, he clearly does not enjoy having to run a country

The Irish government said they would make this life-saving change but then they went back in their word so a whole bunch of pedestrians and cyclists are going to die for no reason. #SpeirGorm

Irish Mammies: ‘If America went and jumped off a cliff, would you do it too, would yeh?’ #SpeirGorm

I choose to believe that it is very sassy of @tearma.bsky.social to select múscailte as the Irish for woke, mocking everyone's least favourite divorced Boer by linking his name to the worldview he hates. A coincidence, I'm sure 😉

In their defense, asking ChatGPT to do a draft is significantly more effort than the current workflow of "Copy and paste press release, Publish"

There's no way to exaggerate how far the *paid speaking gig, including dinner with a bunch of fawning admirers at a decent restaurant* is a cornerstone of the freeze-peach economy, and the risk of being deprived of a regular stream of them seen as abhorrent in itself.

It would be worth living forever to watch this unfold

Hard agree. I've never understood why there's a sport section but no arts.

don't underestimate how daunting this task will be, two centuries from now after the internet is gone, when all the data we unquestionably put in the cloud evaporated, the silicon-based electronic storage devices degraded or lost, Windows, Linux and Python languages dead and forgotten

It explains so much about the Irish state’s attitude to privacy and technology if it did not even attempt to secure its own communications. I have no trouble believing that sensitive calls about Brexit were held in the clear on public networks. archive.is/3H4gK

Three weeks into this convalescence, and I'm ready to read some smart, clever analysis of all the Kdramas I'm compulsively consuming. Any substack recommendations? Where are the nerds teasing out The Graduate refs in Because This Is My First Life etc?

Today’s #Gaeilge lesson: #SpeirGorm

No wonder Musk is impressed, the London march stretched all the way to the Arc de Triomphe

It is important to understand that some places become ghost-soaked not through collecting death, but by the accretion of being lived in. You can call this psychic playback or spirit seepage, you can call it a dozen things, but all of them will still mean haunted. – #CJosiffe #Ghosts

a single billionaire is asking for the same amount of money it costs the irish state annually to fund 2000 artists on its basic income pilot scheme so that he can host a golf event *turns slowly to look at camera* www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

From 15,915 to 16,058 without a home & thats not counting hidden homeless This government continues to break all wrong records Manufactured housing crisis with empty homes everywhere @judesherry.bsky.social & I updated register on Lower John St, Cork City ffud for #DerelictIreland 🎵 Meryl Streek

"Ryanair has sought to take advantage of its high market share in Spain to transform this symbiotic relationship into one of vassalage" Wow.

Outstanding typo in the Irish Times this morning:

Those of us in our 49s & 50s would want to start paying attention too, the Bertie's & brown envelopes are why our adult children can't leave home, college going means debt or long commutes, 2nd lvl & primary kids are in overcrowded schools or bussed out of town Yeah, they hurt me #speirgorm

I’m reading Victor Klemperer’s diaries now, which describe waves of rumors and years of changes in emotional atmospherics, sometimes within the same day. So I assume the current rumor is more indicative of life under authoritarianism than anything else.

I’m up late into the night, with my brain spinning in circles. So I drew a bird. Or…I started drawing, and it became a bird.

Worth remembering that any time I say "It's happening!" I'm talking about Paramount making James T. Kirk canonically bisexual

My first time being mentioned in Hello! magazine (or its website anyway). www.hellomagazine.com/film/852899/...

Ah, a penisula.

Humans' first words: what happened your socks?

Our conference is approaching soon! There is still time to book to explore & celebrate the challenges of uncovering the presence of women within archives, libraries, museums & personal collections. Info here: womenshistorynetwork.org/the-womens-h... #WomensHistory #GenderHist #Archives #Museums

The first flight with an estimated 27 students will arrive in Dublin today. The complex operation has involved coordinated action by a number of Irish unis inc. SETU, TCD, UCD, UL and Mary Immaculate College in Limerick, University of Galway, Maynooth University, ATU, RCSI, TU Dublin and DCU.

I ❤️ school Secretaries & Caretakers & most parents know of their incalculable value. Irish Government does not 🤦🏾‍♀️ “Without these essential staff, schools cannot run effectively and we support their call for a just resolution.” www.rte.ie/news/educati... #spéirghorm #SchoolStrike #IrishPol #WRC

Some thoughts from a convalescent's couch: romance K-dramas are the true heirs to golden age Hollywood's rom-coms. Park Hyung-Sik is as beautifully dressed and adorably goofy as Cary Grant ever was.

Calls for progress on returning African relics held at the National Museum of Ireland. Most are weapons, taken as souvenirs of colonial wars, said Olusegun Morakinyo, Africologist and former visiting scholar at the TCD. Read more here www.dublininquirer.com/calls-for-pr...

The Irish government and state remains totally unprepared for this. He's already talking about revisiting the GFA. The British press have basically decided he's the next PM. We are not prepared

A wonderful opportunity for unpublished novelists with our friends over at the Irish Writers Centre ⬇️

hahhaha this is very funny (at my expense)

Love this pod #SpéirGhorm

There'll always be a Gland

Customs are the real power in any land, controlling entry and exit of people, goods and the ideas they transmit. We don't notice how powerful they are. Most of the time.

Flipping heck 😳