This is definitely happening in Northern Ireland.

While I do know that Blue Monday was invented by marketing people in the travel business in order to sell summer holidays, I’m prepared to go along with it for the purposes of #RecipeOfTheDay – which is, cheeringly, Sunshine Soup! www.nigella.com/recipes/suns...

In case anyone cares, I do not support banning social media for U16s because regulate tech companies, not young people. And this is just a hunch but I bet there's crossover between those smartphone free childhood ppl and the ones who don't want kids finding out online that it's ok to be queer/trans.

Do not be confused about who the Pink Ladies are.

Please read the ALT text on these pics. Best use of an accessibility feature you will ever see or your money back 😆

The insurrection act was always the end goal - I’ve been talking about this for months. He’s been trying to find a city that would push back enough to give him a (flimsy) excuse to do it

🚨 NEW: Jon Burrows will be the next leader of the Ulster Unionist Party, after Robbie Butler confirmed he will not be running for the position. Mr Butler is currently the deputy leader of the UUP.

I cannot stress enough that you should not do this.

Outrageous. Ministers should be listening to scientists, frontline communities and those working towards a green transition – not hosting the interests of oil giants in their own offices. ✍🏼 - @adamramsay.bsky.social abolishwestminster.substack.com/p/revealed-o...

Unhook ourselves from oil and gas and we unhook ourselves from dependency on dictators, autocrats and expansionist regimes all over the planet. Renewables and other low-carbon energy sources are not just good climate sense. They are also good political sense.

Jesus, meningitis? I think he hates children.

they’re bluffing when they say you can still get knocked off the nice list this late in the game. santa’s been delivering gifts in japan for hours by now; that list is locked, do whatever you want.

How dare you stand up for migrants at a time when we celebrate a Christian story of a migrant family who were chosen by God to fulfil His promise to all of humanity. I for one am furious. 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

On Christmas, we’re reminded of the choice we can all make – to choose love for our neighbor, care, and solidarity with one another. May the spirit of Christmas move all of us to action, and toward a future of dignity and freedom for all.

One day something will happen — a wedding, a graduation, a job promotion, Jake Paul getting knocked out, Andrew Tate getting knocked out the next day — and you’ll want the right outfit to celebrate. Buy that special outfit now, so you’re ready when that next unexpected moment arrives.

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

New Illustration: "We Beat 'Em Before..." Taken from a British WW2 poster, the original features a WW1 German soldier at the top. I just swapped it for the Nazi soldier it had at the bottom.

As we get into the worst period of the year for the public health system, I wrote an article for VIEW magazine highlighting that private healthcare is not going to rescue us - it's making the problem worse. viewdigital.org/private-heal...

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

Got news of the death of a woman I used to know who was a friend of my kid sister and therefore always a kid in my eyes. But she was in her 40s and had spent most of her life fighting the impact of CSA. These are the women that patriarchy quietly kills, because the system protects abusive men. RIP 💔

🔴 Nigel Farage’s Reform is more reliant on super-rich backers than any major party in modern British political history 75% of *all* Reform donations *ever* have come from just three rich men Is this what democracy looks like? New on Democracy for Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/75-of-refo...

"When are we going to have a cost of living special?" Zack Polanski on #BBCQT join.greenparty.org.uk

They should have stood up to the bullies and fought for trans girls. I teach my girlguiding daughter to stand up for people who are being picked on but this organisation has failed to model those values. They let the bullies win. A lifelong commitment to guiding is now broken for my family. 💔

With so much abuse from cis men still covered up , with so much misogyny rife , with anti trans activists starting to turn towards abortion rights - well done to all the bigots who decided relentless abuse of trans kids was the solution #translives

just for anyone who lost track; The inch bigots were given a decade ago has turned into several miles and my friends are suffering for it.

The Girl Guide announcement. What can I say? I’m imagining if it was my child - the conversations and explanations, the apologies, “I’m sorry, so sorry,” trying to comfort but feeling a failure because I couldn’t protect her from GC hate. And the child and parents - a little bit more broken.

To all those feeing sorry for Girlguiding this morning…they have the cash and could have fought a court case. Their proclamations of care and concern, dignity and respect are meaningless drivel.

I found a flowchart which helps you navigate the IT landscape

It’s disgraceful that a @greenpartyni.org bill passed in the last Assembly mandate has still not been introduced by the failing executive at Stormont. The Sinn Fein Minister & her department have failed the vulnerable, who need help to escape domestic violence. Northern Ireland needs #SaveLeaveNow

My southern friends and comrades: anybody with 3 mobile want to register for a Lily Allen Dublin gig presale code today and share it with me? The partitionism is excluding us nordies and frankly I consider it a breach of the Good Friday Agreement. #SpeirGorm

I wanted to be an educational psychologist after my undergrad degree but didn't get into the course. Got a job as a youth worker thinking the experience would help me get into the ed psych course next time I applied but was radicalised by community development & became committed to social justice ✊

PSA to all of those still on X. You can now see where some major British/US "shitfluencers" are really based.

There is one and only position that makes any sense if you really take it seriously: say openly and unapologetically that he must be removed from office. Not just call on people to condemn it, not just fret about norms. He is literally trying to kill you. Act like it.

I feel like we're approaching a moment where American liberals finally realise why violent uprisings happen under oppresive regimes in other countries. Because who do you report a despot to when he controls everything? Your democratic institutions might not be able to save you.

I hate how every nation is living down to its stereotype because I’m trained to look for complexity in things, yet the USA is run by a caricature of crony capitalism that Soviet propaganda would consider too unsubtle, Russia is run by a Bond villain, the UK is speedrunning Children of Men, etc.

They market their cars as weapons and we allow them on the same roads as children cycling to school. And I still get weird middle-aged men in my notifications obfuscating for and defending this. This is not a serious society.

Younger child is coming down with his 37th respiratory virus since school started back a mere 10 weeks ago. Even though I'm exaggerating wildly, the reinfection rate is off the charts this year 🤦‍♀️😭🤧😷

In the year of our lord 2022 the sanctimonious institution & churches of PCI were still protecting abusers. They should have no power or influence at any level of society. They have proven themselves unworthy of telling anyone how to live their lives. #ChurchToo presbyterianireland.org/news/-2

Nobody cares that Paul Givan ordered schools to (illegally) discriminate against trans kids.

Dick Cheney, who invaded Iraq in 1991, became CEO of Halliburton, and invaded Iraq in 2003 after lying to the Security Council, will be remembered for supporting the CIA torture programme and the NSA surveillance programme. May he never find rest. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Absolutely amazing: they've got so much solar in Australia that they need more people to use more of it, so the gov't has instructed energy retailers to offer *at least three hours of free power* during the middle of the day. Meanwhile fossil-addled US struggles with an energy-price crisis ...

Pretty extraordinary story here www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc....

They doused petrol on a building housing of refugee families and set it alight. They were trying to burn these people out, if not actually burn them alive. It was a pogrom. It's important we identify it properly And the government is encouraging the politics behind this. It'll happen again

Imagine being from a working class community, saying you give a voice to ordinary people, but support pulling down union posters outside leisure centres calling for fair pay. Fucking shills for the billionaire class.

I savoured every second of my first listen to West End Girl by #LilyAllen because the world is full of men like Harbour and women telling on them is utterly delicious. The way that a generation of women have found their voices through art and podcasts and friendship gives me pure feminist joy ✊♥️

Saying that it's "too hard" to get on the Irish president ballot when an independent woman got the entire Irish left to back her, got the biggest vote ever and beat two historically dominant parties is not just wrong - it is breathtakingly offensive and outrageously dishonest. #Aras25 #Speirgorm

“Aontú has sacked the leader of its youth wing and dismissed five other members after it learnt of the existence of ­secret WhatsApp groups where some Ógra Aontú members posted racist and antisemitic comments.” Be warned, the messages detailed in this article are absolutely vile.

"Ireland continues tradition of electing left wing, empathetic normies" try that

If you are a non-Irish news outlet reporting that Ireland has a new left-wing President that's fine, but you need to also report that this is nothing new for Ireland and is in fact just the type of president we've been going for the last few rounds