The bang of entitlement off FFers never goes away.

Also in the Irish Times: "Here’s the unpopular truth: many of us have never had it so good" - Stephen Collins. 🤷‍♂️

Imagine watching Sinatra, son of Dolly & Antonini born in Genoa & Sicily, respectively, and Martin, son of Gaetano & Angela, born in Montesilvano, Italy & Ohio respectively, (Angela to parents born in Monasterolo, Italy), and crusading against the value of children of immigrants to the U.S.

Vi har på riktigt aldrig haft en så farligt illvillig och faktaresistent höger som nu. De har tappat alla spärrar. Hoppas ni är redo att stå emot. Kram och julefrid!

Totally unrelated to the recent social media Big Book trend a very offline friend has been telling me how she recently picked up Anna Karenina on a whim and has been joyously surprised at both how readable and how *fun* it is.... folks is something good happening in the culture?

#MissingPerson #Speirgorm

If, like me, you did NOT get the ONE thing you wanted from Santy (a 95-year-old bachelor farmer with plenty land and a bad cough), treat yourself to a print from an Irish doodler instead - big discounts across the shop, including on bundles, so go on. Go on go on go ON. www.ciaraioch.com/artprints

If Mariah Carey sees her shadow today that means 6 more weeks of Christmas music.

The Wran, the Wran, the king of all birds...the tradition lives in Dingle in West Kerry and in other part of the country where traditional music is strong. jrnl.ie/6908042t

Nu går ni alla till Trollhättan och äter på tasty döner! Basta! www.tv4.se/artikel/4RJG...

Where do I apply for a rage-bait correspondent job

I've seen this going around today and it's beautiful, so here's a gift link.

Big thank you to all the people working through Christmas looking after everyone

This LRB essay (originally posted by @kenanhabul.bsky.social) is fascinating - journalism is not really about truth, and we all want to choose our own competing realities. Whoever can control that can control our political systems. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Fördelen med att vakna kl 6 är att man redan hinner läsa en mycket spännande essä om journalistik, journalister och de vanföreställningar många, inklusive jag själv, har. For likes, delar jag skärmdump med tankeväckande ord av en annan skribent. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

ABSOLUTE INSANITY IN ICELAND It s warmer than summer ! 19.7C Bakkagerði in the middle of the night ! ‼️nearly 10C above JULY average MOST EXTREME EVENT EVER SEEN IN WORLD CLIMATIC HISTORY Records brutalized allover the country

Just saw someone say the Bondi Beach massacre wasn't antisemitic because the killer was motivated by "the Zionist policies of Israel as a state". If your response to the policies of the Israeli state is to go and massacre some random Jews who are not Israeli, then *yes you're fucking antisemitic*

There is no ceasefire. There never was a ceasefire.

The cog itinerary dissonance of #QANAON is one of the most fascinating political chimeras of the 21st century.

“Nothing is as German as a BILD column that lectures the Palestinian mayor of Jesus' hometown that he "didn't understand the Christmas message" because he talks about the suffering of the Palestinians. A last-minute submission for the most idiotic piece of writing of the year. 👏🏆🇩🇪”

His church owes tens of millions to Irish victims that its clergy sexually abused.

And you won't hear a word from Europe's "christian" democrats, nor from their American equivalent, for whom religion is a mere fig-leaf for their white supremacy.

But it won't pass the Occupied Territories Bill in any meaningful form. Judge them by what they do, not what they say.

Where have I seen this before, oh right.

Merry Christmas, you beautiful people. Don't forget to light a wee Christmas candle and bring your own light to this world ✨️ 😎🔥

Christmas can be a difficult, sad, disappointing, or frustrating time for so many of us, but remember you're not alone. I've been quietly hiding behind your sofa until it's over.

Greta Thunberg arrested for holding a sign opposing genocide. When peaceful protest is a crime, democracy is in deep trouble. Happening under a Labour Government.

From all the staff here at Kennys Bookshop & Art Gallery, we wish you and yours a very Happy Christmas and all the best for 2026. Nollaig Shona agus athbhliain faoi shéan is faoi mhaise daoibh go léir, to everyone near and far. 💫

Not mentioning once that this guy was an elected representative for the Tories is an interesting editorial choice www.independent.ie/world-news/b...

A little Christmas thread that might be of interest to #SpeirGorm. Wherever you are in the world today, I hope you're secure and happy, and if you're not, know that there's always hope. ❤️🎄

I don't mind the wait if they made it a more comfortable and evocative area to be. Almost everyone agrees the historical railway aesthetic is pretty and stylish - make rail travel an experience again. Rather than a WH Smith, a stale cafe and some ugly metal seating...

A CHRISTMAS CAROL This night 26 years ago was the lowest point in my adult life. After six months in Sweden I had no job, no prospects and about three euro in my pocket. I didn't want to be here any more. In truth, I didn't want to be anywhere any more. I was a total failure.

Delighted my Christmas jumper arrived in time!!

Have yourselves a fascist little Christmas ...

Traditionen att fira julafton i Folkets Husby fortsätter, i år står dörrarna öppna mellan klockan tio och halv två. En trevlig stund med julmat, pyssel och tomte utlovas för grannar i alla åldrar.

My two cents: I've been privileged to work for some of the biggest media organisations in the world with some of the best journalists and editors on the planet, and in terms of her place in that media food chain, I wouldn't trust Bari Weiss to empty their trash cans. #60minutes

De kommer att spela i #Sverige och #Norge också (Stockholm och Oslo så vitt jag vet) - årets konsert vettja!!

Since the Guardian are doing the "a handful of women’s groups have started to question the “unintended consequences”" thing, time to repost the open letter from Irish feminists telling UK transphobes to piss off

So far TODAY. Driver education is very important, but first and foremost, people need to stop exercising their right to be absolute entitled dickheads behind the wheel.

CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.

Chris Rea was embraced by Irish audiences from the very start. Tonight we are saddened but still playing his songs and sending love to Middlesbrough and Chris's family. youtube.com/watch?v=FT6G...

really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense

Stop giving these oxygen thieves publicity.

One of the problems with modern journalism is that I would not be able to set up a decent independent news site alone, but I could probably build a profitable third-rate site with minimal effort and expense.

Everyone involved in this - including the rich, powerful abusers - needs to be put in jail for life. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Come see us recreate its spirit with a magical line-up incl. Steves Earle & Wickham, Colin Blakey, pedal steel master Roar & all current Waterboys in Glasgow, Valencia, Dublin, Amsterdam, Oslo, Stockholm, Antwerp + London, next Aug & Sept. 3 hour show! Tx: mikescottwaterboys.com/waterboys-sh...

The stupidest thing that ever happend to me on social media was when Nicki Minaj misread the word "donkey" as monkey in one of my tweets and sicced her followers on me - if you think she's thick, wait till you see the clowns who follow her.

Lol.

I've been watching boxing my whole life, and a smaller fighter like Gervonta Davis or Ryan Garcia would arguably give Paul an even worse battering, as he wouldn't be able to run away from them. We need to stop pretending that high-level boxing is something you can just show up and *do*.

I’m hoping that Jake Paul fight and the Andrew Tate fight are a harbinger for what 2026 is going to bring for the whole white male alpha movement because those bitches are overdue…