Why should I bring him up with a disregard for the thoughts & feelings of others, with the outlook of intimidating & one upping everyone around him, to dominate. Why shouldn’t community members step in & protect boys from intimidation, why don’t they deserve that? They deserve to feel safe

💯 this thread ⬇️ & 👏 for this intervention hard as it may be. As a society, we emotionally cauterise young boys with these messed up attitudes, a handing down of our own trauma. My young nephews high energy & emotionality are a joy to behold...

Who would a married woman whose already a mother need an abortion? 1. 1 in 4 pregnancies are unplanned, no form of contraception is 100% unplanned pregnancies still occur 2. A health condition that means a pregnancy is a bigger risk than normal. This may have come to light in the previous pregnancy

And because of the nearly infinite complexity of the past, and because of the complex nesting of its nearly infinite temporalities, you (yes, you) will "see" things that no one else has ever seen before. If you do the reading. And if you don't surrender this gift of perception to a machine.

No doubt applicable across the board. Currently undergoing minor research thesis using philosophical theory. From building an argument to situating our ways of thinking contextually, there is no way to avoid reading at length for understanding a piece & coming to your own understanding.

To me, there is nothing more evocative of nature than birdsong. Genuinely saddening news that is undoubtedly replicated across Ireland.

this week, i'm talking about the environmental impact of war & why it needs equal airtime to the conversation about data centres (although, as noted within, they are not two distinct issues) last week's heatwave should be a wake up call against further militarisation

Real devolution is about trusting local communities with power, resources and responsibility—not concentrating everything in the capital. Strong democracies thrive when decision-making is brought closer to the people it affects.

This is brilliant...the backstory 😆

This is absolutely wonderful. Communities advocating for themselves....in the absence of any care & consideration for their views.

These threads & their responses are an education. Always found the dismissive framing around carbon footprint dubious. It has some merit to concentrate minds on problem. Very sympathetic to other posters thoughts on AI in education particularly with wholesale institutional capitulation in background

The extent of corporate capture has contributed to a state bereft of ideas & coerced in following the path of least resistance. I imagine the Irish Govt looking on with admiration yet as per Sean's post ⬇️, consequences of such a ban will be far more sinister then current online safety concerns.

Praxis, sister 🙏🌈 #pridemonth

This is a wonderful heart gladdening thread.....the care & attention for this gorgeous little creature 🐝🖤💛

Frankly the list could go on and in, increasingly what you can see is the Far Right’s heavy involvement in race riots and pogroms in the North in the last week and more generally their misuse of what’s happening on the ground to conflate with wider views on migration / race etc more generally.

“Wild salmon connect wild mountains to the sea, their presence or absence a verdict on how humans value, treat and manage the world. Wild salmon are the measure; when they go missing, it signals that things are completely out of ecological whack.“ By me, for @irishtimes.com

[taking the deepest possible breath] the Dutch East India Company was established in 1602,

I hope this doesn't sound patronising but go and see art. The Hockney talk has reminded me again that seeing art in the flesh is a very different experience to seeing it on a screen. You understand why people cry in art galleries. It's not just the gift shop prices.

I am literally in awe of this woman. Wonderful achievement and backstory.

It genuinely feels politics is broken...or always has been 🤷🏻‍♀️ The fight for democracy & the arrest of "elite" encroachment of our public commons continues....admiration from afar to the ppl & movements fighting against this in Albania.

I hope all of Irish history is remembered. I hope much of the culture is preserved, some of the culture is abandoned, and new strands of the culture emerge. What I don't care about if the people of the future doing this have perceived blood links to the island

I have a vivid memory of a David Hockney exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao. These colourful large scale landscape paintings laid out in part in a curvilinear walk way. Not sure which I was more impressed by given the setting. Incredible artist www.guggenheim-bilbao.eus/en/exhibitio...

The interesting yet disturbing dynamic i keep seeing on social media is the racist riots and pogroms in the North are fundamentally occurring - and being coordinating - in Loyalist areas and they are being cheered on by racists from the Republic of Ireland, not nationalists from the North.

“Northern Ireland (and not only Northern Ireland) needs a political leadership willing to challenge misinformation, confront prejudice and speak up for those who have become the targets of systematic suspicion and violence. The question is whether anyone is willing to do so.”

Want to share some thoughts. I know the rioting in Belfast has had lots of coverage. But I still think more needs to be said. This was so incredibly shocking. *people burned out of their homes because of the colour of their skin*.

Brendan has been doing great work covering this with some much needed reality on the public figures & platforms fanning the flames. Not letting Twitter off the hook but FB,Tiktok, Instagram even YT are just as radicalising & worse given reach.

UCD’s early medieval roundhouse under construction (thatching in progress here) at University College Dublin’s Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture (CEAMC) Come study for MSc, Graduate Diploma or online Grad Cert with us! @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social

Another perspective on this: the joy of a library is the chance to explore other areas of thought. Undergrad in Business and Law. Hung out with psychology students, philosophy students, computer science students, political science students…

All books belong in every library. Pay no attention to any argument by loo lahs presenting themselves as concerned parents that *any* book is inappropriate in a library. Ireland was famous for its avid censorship of books throughout the 20th C, the same time it is now famous for abusing children.

To illustrate @worklesshard.bsky.social's point about the volume of slop content circulating online. This monestised YouTube channel appears to have automatically generated 1 AI video "news stories" scraped from Irish right-wing social media influencers a day, every day for a year now. 🧵

'a new study shows that since 2010 the world has been gaining more mangroves than it has been losing - driven by stronger legal protections and increased public awareness of their importance, sparked by disasters such as the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.' 1/2

This “plan for equality and prosperity within planetary boundaries” is the product of 45 authors based on databases compiled by more than 200 researchers from around the world. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Wilful ignorance is not an acceptable dodge when it comes to Aughinish Alumina. Irish "morality" is rightly questioned when government does utmost to prevent ban on alumina exports to Russia www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

Great piece especially last paragraph "The objective is a world in which we are seamlessly shuttled from one managed (and, ideally, exploitable) activity to the next – with no break or chance to look around us – from cradle to grave. The death of the university will bring that world a step closer"

"dressing up a capitulation to planning populism as a solution to the housing crisis." www.irishtimes.com/opinion/edit...

Jesus this is absolutely horrendous. Worker welfare is paramount in high risk industries such as construction industry but I guess given its competitive nature, its sadly taken for granted. The worst implications are clearly this saddening statistic ⬇️

Such sad news, the documentary about his life is very powerful eclipsepictures.ie/video/condem...

Swimming cows off the west coast of Ireland.

This is a really excellent well written article on relatively dry topics (with apologies to author!) of procurement & data management services. Essentially the increasing adoption of AI cannot be a substitute for expert advice & knowledge. I won't say much more as its better expressed in this piece.

It's very lovely to see all the irises in bloom around Dublin 8 at the moment. These hand-coloured beauties are from a mid-16th century herbal or Kreutterbuch.

As I’ve argued for a long time, we’ve been making life harder for kids for decades, from messing with the environment to letting cars and money dominate, to turning schools into qualification mills, from ASBOs to hatred of almost every aspect of youth culture. All of that needs to change. It won’t.

Chatgpt is essentially a failed social introvert masking behind flowery language while failing to get to the point...I feel seen 👀 With sympathy for recipients of such insufferable wordiness. On a serious note, I would feel completely deflated if I was on recieving end of a AI generated email.

A sobering and instructive read. Compliments to Jeff Brown & the BBC. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

I will never understand this govt's priorities. Why are we not investing in education that is organic, curious, fluid & bottom up instead of being constraint by straightjacketing aims of established industry. The institutional "credibility" that underpins our public funding model needs to change.

Near the end of their career, someone I knew who’d worked for decades in sustainability told me “I wanted to save the world, but the world didn’t want to be saved.” I’ve heard similar laments from people near or after the end of their career working on the environment. I think about this a lot. 🧵

current modal shift policy in action - build lots of housing near city but do not enforce restrictions against footpath parking or other uncontrolled parking and definitely do not deliver the bus route planned to serve the development (to protect pedestrians, do paint a stick man on the road 👍)

“Leafy-with-love banks and the green waters of the canal Pouring redemption…”

'I ask everyone to abandon the construction of yet another Tower of Babel and to join forces in building up the common good.' Pope Leo XIV on AI. www.rte.ie/news/world/2...

Perfect time of the year to share this again, visibility in the water is so important & could truly help save your life if you get into difficulty.

Absolutely incredible thread on history of necessary activism against LGBTQ descrimination in U.K as represented by Section 28. It just emphasises how hateful some media & politicians were in their attempts to set moral agenda. Such a good counterpart to the battles that need to be fought today