Amnesty EU: “Cruel and unlawful betrayal.” www.amnesty.eu/news/eu-isra...

Hey minister - I investigated X and I found CSAM pretty much instantly, so I deleted my account. It's not that fucking hard.

The Government and media who are locked in a rotten symbiosis on X, are trying to suggest something needs to investigated or discovered. But all the relevant facts are both known and undisputed. X dot com launched a paid-for feature that produces images of people undressed, including kids.

"Republicans are using trans people to generate fear—particularly surrounding children, family, and their ideal concept of masculinity—which is priming their base for genocide... [queer people are] testing grounds to desensitize their populations to violence." www.lemkininstitute.com/single-post/...

Once you’ve labelled someone a terrorist, it seems, you can do almost anything to them and get away with it. The silence on this issue across almost all the media is something to behold.

If the Palestine Action hunger strikers die - which they could do at any moment, as they are now very close to the end - it will be the government that killed them. Today’s column explains why. Please share, and write urgently to your MP. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter” Thank you FT for presenting the directors running the circus. In clown face. www.ft.com/content/ad94...

Yes yes, lets depend on capitalism to fix this.

it is just so 🥴🥴🥴 to me that governments and law enforcement bodies across the world have to be begged and pleaded with to even consider investigating what is quite literally sexual crime on an unbelievable scale, taking place openly on one of the most popular digital platforms in the world.

Health of Palestine Action hunger strikers deteriorating, supporters say

I'm writing about the Palestine Action hunger strikers at the moment, any of whom could die at any moment, and the astonishing media and government silence surrounding them. The Establishment seems to have become even crueller than when Thatcher was PM.

Big Oil spent nearly $100M to get Trump elected in 2024. Now Trump is returning the favor, giving them advance notice of his Venezuela attack and sending their stocks skyrocketing by promising them control of the country's oil reserves. This is what oligarchy looks like.

One of the people the USA killed in Venezuela was Rosa Gonzalez, 80 who they blew up in her apartment. Will you hear this on the European News? I doubt it.

This is relevant to the Irish Government's response too. You can't just say "respect for international law" and not say whether it's been broken or not by a party you won't even name.

For a "militarily but not politically neutral" country which depends on a rules based international order, this is incredibly weak stuff

International law won't constrain Trump's thirst for oil. But every solar panel that goes up makes crude reserves that much less valuable billmckibben.substack.com/p/just-possi...

Our friends in Gaza continue to struggle against impossible conditions.

Whatever you might think of Maduro, the seizure and kidnapping of a head of state takes us to a very dark place. Vast, arbitrary, extra-legal power, which could be exercised almost anywhere, regardless of the character of the target government.

So when we hear our government paving the way for us to give up our neutrality, we should ask whose side do you want us to be on exactly? A fascist rogue US? #SpeirGorm

Blimey. It’s one thing to engineer the circumstances of a coup, quite another to abduct the president and evacuate him from the country

It means absolutely nothing to anyone concerned right now but here's what the United Nations says about kidnapping Heads of State. legal.un.org/ilc/texts/in...

Narrator: ‘Musk's Grok AI bot was not fixing anything because only gullible tech journalists would believe it could do that. “Fixing it” was the job of humans who should have been facing time in prison.’

A real news outlet publishing the phrase "Grok apologized" should result in like a week-long timeout. Think about what you've done.

All that is missing is political will. Climate Action & Green Transition is good for people, the economy, & obviously the planet. When Micheál Martin says we can't mitigate against #climatechange & when the gov cancel public transport or back LNG, it's not for the benefit of Ireland. #IrishPol

We might like Bluesky because there is no evil algorithm BUT unlike over on Mastodon where it is part of the culture, folks here often don’t think to boost posts they like. Remember that if there is no algorithm, then we all benefit from others sharing good stuff. Like & REPOST good stuff, people!

A thing I think about a lot is how the hyper powerful and tech billionaires want to be seen as people saving humanity, which is why they create space companies to send us to Mars and invest in gen AI to render us more "productive" And yet, not a single one is working to solve climate change.

ugh.

Every single aspect of this is beyond disturbing, but they are literally broadcasting the intent to commit ethnic cleansing. This is evidence for The Hague.

Delete X. Get rid of it. The entire existence of that company has become an obscenity.

@garygannontd.bsky.social @mariesherlock.bsky.social also my local TDs and I share Brian’s disappointment. When are you going to stop supporting that site? Same question applies to Irish journalists too. #SpeirGorm

Ban could cut hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza off from essential care, Doctors Without Borders warns.

Taken together, these wins tell a clear story Renewables keep getting cheaper💚 Fossil fuel projects keep losing in court ⚖️ & grassroots pressure keeps translating into real limits on extraction✊ The setbacks are real, but so is the momentum, built month by month by people who refuse to give up!

Despite all the gloom, this thread shows there are wins in climate action and a lot worth fighting for. @foeireland.bsky.social #ClimateAction

This thread… we should never forget.

This government abandoned lower speed limits and abandoned reforms to the RSA. Is this what "deeply concerned" and "doing everything" looks like? Red light cameras were supposed to be installed early this year. Where are they?

Last sunrise of 2025 brings a brief glimpse of the sun. #SpeirGorm #Donegal

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

“The elites are ecstatic about imagining a vast, uneducated, and unproductive population forced to pay companies like OpenAI to access the written word and to approximate thought.” Must read piece by Noah McCormack with too many quotaboe lines to select one! thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...

Many in Gaza to 'Lose Access to Critical Medical Care' as Israel Suspends Doctors Without Borders www.commondreams.org/news/israel-...

Here’s the report and it’s worth reading in full. Our current anti-immigrant, anti-integration trajectory is not only morally reprehensible but is leading us toward a demographic disaster #speirghorm www.nesc.ie/building-a-v...

This is really important work and I am amazed by the amount of work that has gone into this project. Please read this.

I'm calling on Media Minister Patrick O’Donovan to scrap plans that would force people to use a state-run Digital ID card to access social media. Will you sign too? my.uplift.ie/petitions/no... @uplift.ie

I'm calling on Media Minister Patrick O’Donovan to scrap plans that would force people to use a state-run Digital ID card to access social media. Will you sign too? my.uplift.ie/petitions/no... @uplift.ie

"Every tonne of greenhouse gases that we add to the atmosphere causes warming and causes damage. On the other hand, every action that we take to limit greenhouse gases, to restore our ecosystems, to transition away from fossil fuels, leaves us with a more secure and sustainable future."

Bernie Sanders: "We need to be thinking seriously about a moratorium on data centers. You gotta slow this process down. It's not good enough for the oligarchs to tell us 'you adapt.' Are they gonna guarantee healthcare to all people? What are they gonna do when there are no jobs? Make housing free?"

I treated myself on Christmas Eve to this, only to get it as a Christmas present the next day! Lucky for me and for the person I’m passing it on to! Read the first few chapters and loving it so far @ronanhession.bsky.social #BookSky #SpeirGorm

Reassuring

A key component of analysis is the distillation of complex situations to the fundamental concepts that underpin them. I never, ever thought in 2020 that the simple concept of, 'I don't want to get infected with a novel virus' would be warped from common sense to a rebellious act.