Slowly but surely they’re saying the quiet part out loud

Will be interesting to see what impact this has. A huge boost to Catherine Connolly I think. www.rte.ie/news/2025/09...

Most Jewish Americans disapprove of the Trump administration withholding funds from colleges to address anti-Jewish sentiment, according to a new survey.

🚨 Scoop by me. EU to propose reimposing duties on israeli trade over war in Gaza www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

White supremacy is not a “legitimate view.” Vilifying migrants is not “reasonable debate.” Eugenics is not a “controversial belief.” Genocide is not a “justified action.” These are all examples of violent racism. We should recognise this basic fact and reject such politics unapologetically.

It really, really isn't. Finland solved the problem almost entirely through Housing First years ago, and they told the Irish government how to do it - the Irish govt just ... didn't bother. This is from 2019: www.broadsheet.ie/2019/05/01/a...

Must-read thread about the Irish Public Services Card ⬇️

Bluesky isn’t perfect but at least its owner isn’t demanding violent insurrection in the UK from thousands of miles away

Any sign of Musk being proscribed in the UK? Also, quite a remarkable disparity in numbers of arrests at yesterday’s violent rally (9) , and last weeks Palestine Action solidarity event when 857 people were arrested for simply being there.

#aras25 poll: Business Post/Red C (Sept 4-9, MoE 3%) H Humphreys 22 ML McDonald 21 J Gavin 18 C Connolly 17 P Casey 6 M Steen 5 N Delehanty 4 G Sheridan 2 others 2 www.businesspost.ie/politics/red...

"The test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members" - Pearl S. Buck

Politicos, hacks, news organisations and buffoons like Stephen King still clinging on to pretending it’s alright to *PAY* Elon Musk to use his platform - or be on it for a start. You’re funding a man calling on hundreds of thousands of people to carry out acts of violence.

Campbell remarked: 'It’s like… two days before Good Friday feels like it's coming together, the British government decides to go and wipe out [Gerry] Adams and [Martin] McGuinness.' http://jrnl.ie/6812618

Whoop 🙌 #TraitorsIrl

It gets easier with each passing year to understand the civil war. #TraitorsIRL

Yer man Eamon is a yoke isn’t he? #TraitorsIrl

This always reminds me of that

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...

Absolutely agree.

Dismayed by the "I loathe Gl**ner but his arrest should scare us all" takes. The bar for arrest over a social media post *should be extremely high*, but a guy who's harassed trans people 19 hours a day for 8 years, telling his 600k fans to attack any trans women they see, clears that bar v easily?

Man I love pedantry

When my dad heard about this meeting, he said that this was like state raqueteering under Yanukovych. Gathering the wealthy and explaining to them how much money they owe you from now on. Great times, America.

Give me your poor, your tired, your hungry…but not your persecuted or abused.

Listening to a podcast of @mellett.bsky.social discussing the 10th anniversary of the death of Alan Kurdi on @newstalkfm.bsky.social Hard Shoulder. A powerful, intelligent, principled and intervention. He would make a very fine President. podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/t...

Listening to a podcast of @mellett.bsky.social discussing the 10th anniversary of the death of Alan Kurdi on @newstalkfm.bsky.social Hard Shoulder. A powerful, intelligent, principled and intervention. He would make a very fine President. podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/t...

Fascinating how the media obsession with "balance" NEVER extends to migrants or trans people, isn't it? Call someone far-right or a racist and you'll be tarred and feathered, but call a brown person a rapist or a trans woman a paedophile or a predator and you won't hear a word of pushback.

King Prawn Puttanesca I adore puttanesca - salty from olives and anchovies (and I also add capers to my recipe) sweet with cherry tomatoes, herby and zesty with parsley and lemon - packed with flavour. You’ll find the full recipe on my Instagram page www.instagram.com/p/DN_VkeRDOJ...

Sand batteries are literally just silos of sand that retain heat exceptionally well -- so well that they can be tied to heat exchange systems to serve as proxy *electrical* batteries. Finland's new model can store enough power (100 MWh) to heat an entire town for a week. newatlas.com/energy/large...

He lost his mind years ago. But this community note😂😂😂

Good news. We need much more of this, but this is excellent. Well done to all the universities involved and to the government departments who made this happen. This is no mean feat in the circumstances. www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

Susan Monarez refused to step down during a standoff with vaccine sceptic Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. http://jrnl.ie/6801256

Nigel Farage says he would renegotiate the Good Friday Agreement in order to take the UK out of the ECHR. What could possibly go wrong?

Just for perspective, a few weeks ago roughly 100,000 turned up for the London Trans+ Pride march. By contrast fewer than 3,000 ACROSS THE WHOLE COUNTRY, have turned up to anti-asylum "protests". Yet we are meant to take the latter as "the voice of the people" and the former as "the minority".

Mark is going to tell his Daddy that the EU is being mean to him.

Famine has not “struck” Gaza. It is not the result of some natural disaster. It has been engineered. Famine has been inflicted upon the people of Gaza by Israel, who have been facilitated by their enabler allies.

We gays grew up hearing politicians claim that gay people having kids was “against nature,” “social engineering,” “grooming,” “ideology,” etc. Now this rhetoric is recycled to degrade trans lives. This is why the fight against transphobia is also a fight against homophobia. Bigots will trash us all.

Happy Monday! Here’s an ancient amber bear carved about 10,000 years ago! This magical find washed up on a beach at Fanø in Denmark from a submerged Mesolithic settlement under the North Sea. National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen. 📷 by me #Archaeology

Stamp shared a flat with Michael Caine at one point and other, jealous actors put about the rumour they were gay. Stamp disappeared completely for a couple of weeks. When he turned up Caine asked him where he'd been. "Those chaps saying we're gay? I've just slept with their girlfriends. All of them"

Feel like this little sob story *could* have mentioned that Boyne's Polari nomination came five days after he wrote a piece referring to trans-inclusive women as the evil wives in the Handmaid's Tale, "ready to pin a handmaiden down as her husband rapes her". www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

The witch trials of 1612 still cast a long shadow.

Fascism is now. 150 people arrested in London, police "working their way through the crowd" arresting more - for holding placards with words on them.

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Dear Politician, You cannot show trans people “dignity and respect” while you misgender them in conversation, segregate them in public life, and deny them access to health care. Respect for someone means that you recognise their humanity and affirm their rights without compromise. Just saying.

A United Airlines flight illegally transported ammunition handling systems – among military cargo overwhelmingly funded by the US government – to Israel through Irish territory this morning. They’re being delivered to the IDF’s largest weapons supplier. www.ontheditch.com/united-airli...

“World Athletics asserts the SRY gene is a reliable proxy for determining biological sex. But biological sex is much more complex, with chromosomal, gonadal (testis/ovary), hormonal and secondary sex characteristics all playing a role.” Sex testing is not only invasive, it’s also inaccurate.

Manchester streets speak back.

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