Limerick City & County Council's last full regular-schedule meeting of the year is today at 3pm. Will be watching, entirely to get rid of outstanding reincarnation karma or whatever. Traditional commentary added: you are invited to follow along.🧵 #CouncilMeetingThread

I'm thinking tonight of her picketing her own play, rowing out to the island they lived on in Galway, Greenham Common, Armagh jail, her pirate radio work, her women's rights work, Shannon Airport, Limerick Prison, Shell to Sea...she was all over and did everything. An unbelievable woman. ❤️

A "red beret in Waterford" moment.

Gee, it's a real headscratcher Could the current racist who repeatedly makes racist claims currently also have been racist as a teenager? It's like the riddle of the fucking Sphinx, mate

Good morning, fellow munchkins. Limerick City (And, sodit, The County Too) Council's Annual Budget Meeting is today at 10am. Will be watching 🧵, follow along if you like. The joy of watching people learning to subtract in real-time. #CouncilMeetingThread

Once again, we are way too relaxed about the fact that "shooting Irish people is good actually" is a mainstream political position on the neighbouring island.

It’s yielding some really funny results too, though 🤣

imagine the sound of an entire generation of Americans turning in their graves

This is fucking horrifying. Swastikas and nooses are just “potentially divisive”? Are you kidding me?

It's hard to express how problematic non-transposition, and non-implementation of environmental law is. It creates a legal vacuum that means decision makers don't know how to handle planning applications, enforcement agencies can't enforce, and the courts are often called in to plug the gap

He can't drive. His dad has to drop him to those school gates. He can't get that far on foot.

“Befehl ist aber Befehl!” The US military has a track record of - rather ineptly, it’s true - hanging those who tried to rely on that excuse.

This cartoon gets more and more relevant with every passing day

The misogyny is the point

The fact that no one in the room stood up for her says a lot about how we got here bsky.app/profile/pale...

Hi ho, Limerick City & County Council's Metro District November meeting is this morning at 9:45am. Watching for your entertainment (and maybe even periodic useful information). Folly along if yiz like. 🧵 #CouncilMeetingThread

The resonances of this are almost too dark to be accidental.

Look, that man has been giving air handjobs at every rally when music has been played, so I’m half-willing to believe that Trump blew Ghislaine Maxwell’s horse and let them take pictures as keepsakes of a wild weekend.

“Opinion: Beware of the judicial review red herring ..restricting access to justice unlikely to speed up housing & infrastructure. What it will do is undermine one of few tools left to hold govt to account in midst of climate, biodiversity & pollution crises” www.irishlegal.com/articles/opi...

Crooked Hillary Clinton? Instant classic. Lil Marco Rubio? Devastating. Sleepy Joe Biden? Iconic. Marjorie Taylor Brown? Marjorie Traitor Greene? I regret to inform you that Donald Trump has even lost his sauce for insults. It is truly over

We need to get rid of the 12 week limit to abortion access for many reasons. But forcing a teenage asylum seeker who is having mental health problems, possibly due to being pregnant, to go to court to access care is abhorrent www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...

I mean… it’s called the Ulysses, so this was eventually going to happen… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Hope they’re doing ok and make land. BUT IT’S NAMED AFTER THE CHARACTER NAMED AFTER THE OTHER CHARACTER WHO SPENT TEN YEARS AT SEA TRYING TO GET HOME, AND THAT’S JUST THUMBING A NOSE AT THE FATES

The significance here isn't that the Pope is groovy or progressive, but rather that the Pope sets the standard for mainstream conservative thought. Which is to say: if you are more right wing than the Pope, you are really very extreme.

"Statutory rape" doesn't mean it's not *really* rape, or not *serious* rape. It means it is automatically, by law, rape. No ifs, no buts, no blurred lines of consent. Amazing that people have to be told this.

Conservative: I have been censored for my Ancient Western Values Me: Holy shit! You were censored for wanting democracy? Con: LOL no...not those values Me: So...the philosophy symposium? Con: Haha no not those values either Me: Which values, exactly? Con: Oh, you know the ones

And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.

Today I removed the target of doing anything constructive with my day. *Phew* I have succeeded so far!

Area Man Discovers Tariffs Raise Prices and Cause Inflation

There's a (special) Limerick Council meeting this afternoon at 4pm. IT'S ABOUT WINDMILLS You bet your nelly I'm watching that one for the lols 🧵#CouncilMeetingThread

Sepp Blatter did a lot of crappy, corrupt, and morally bankrupt things when running FIFA, but even Captain Dodgy As Fuck wouldn’t have lowered himself to this.

Wild thing looking at the NY mayor election is that the Cuomo campaign appears to consist entirely of AI generated deep fake videos of his opponents. Someone is 100% going to copy that here and we need legislation to be ahead of this

Sorry could I get two gin & tonics, 2 pints of Guinness, white wine, a jameson and 3 packets of tayto thanks

Rather than reflecting on why they got things wrong during the election campaign, a distressingly significant section of Ireland's commentariat instead have gone into an active denial of reality, publishing "analysis" with zero relationship with the real world. This is a self-made crisis for media!

Not only was Joanna Donnelly the only one of these four smart enough to stop her campaign once she realised she was out her depth, she's also the only one here who doesn't come across as staggeringly arrogant and utterly delusional

As someone else pointed out here. "What you platform you amplify". We do not want to go down the same path as the UK.

On the night we elect his successor, this man, this artist, is in my thoughts. What service he has given us. Not only as President but as our first Minister for the Arts. This photo I took on Inis Oirr in 2021 is one of my most treasured. Go raibh maith aige. #Aras25

Remember, respectability politics is a way to keep people in their place. This is incredibly petty, and again, when the worry about Catherine Connolly was that she would not be able to conduct herself at official events properly...

We need to have a word, an offensive one, for these people who want to run for president but think the work of TD, Senator, Councillor, Mayor, MEP or party activist is beneath them. Áras-holes?

This is pretty much it. The angry vestiges of punitive catholic ireland, the rabbit holed ex hippies, the conspiracy theorists, the terfs, the fascists, and the disenfranchised footsoldiers sold on misinformation and hatred. A soup that's been brewing for years, thanks to austerity and rw money.

Highly amused by the lads scribbling on their #Aras25 ballots to spoil them and then posting them on The Internet so that someone will actually see them. I scrawled this myself a month ago on The Internet. Well, I’m off to vote, so I am. Thanks for the extra power, folks.

Local legislator displays the importance of kerning

In the @uk.theconversation.com, I rehearse - in briefer form - my arguments _for_ play in grey space, arguing that it affords opportunities for play, connection and care that green space often can’t, and that it’s politically important to value play in these spaces.

Mamdani is already getting the criminals out of NYC!

Pointed visual metaphors aside about what Trump is doing to American democratic institutions, the current East Wing was built in the 40s to hide construction of the presidential bomb shelter below it. Trump hid there at the start of the George Floyd protests. Is he caking the bomb shelter in gold?

Morning all. The October meeting of Limerick Council's Metropolitan District is at 9:45am. Watching it on the web 🧵, will be adding the usual commentary, feel free to follow along. #CouncilMeetingThread

“I’ve seen articles saying that they engaged with businesses, but there was not one piece of communication with us. No conversation, email, text, or call,” he said. m.independent.ie/regionals/li...

I dunno, man, last year when you were running for election, I got €250 off my winter leccy bills and this year that isn’t going to happen because you’re not running for election again. You’re not going to do anything about the current gouging either, are you…

The best piece of cooking advice I’ve ever gotten: The only time one clove of garlic is appropriate is if you’re making a recipe for “one clove of garlic” and even then you should double it.