They're calling it the best democracy ever. www.ft.com/content/7529...

would love to be able to watch the consternation happening in Lego HQ with all the Iran Lego stuff lmao

One pretty important detail missed in the daily bluesky staff hate is that they only have 40 people on staff compared to 7,500 on Twitter pre-Elon for example, feel like people need to cut them a little slack

you shouldn’t learn about bands from shady TikTok manipulation, you should learn about bands by hanging out with a girl you like but are also extremely afraid of

I'm kind of fascinated by the spiritual world of Werner Herzog. On the surface, it's all nihilism and grimness but he is clearly animated by a driving belief in art and the universe.

virgin mary punching the devil, england, 13th century

saw some fish in Lisbons oceanarium today and was struck by how unnecessarily complicated humans have made existence when all you need to do is just chill and eat good food occasionally and also saw these guys

Have been chatting with him and he’s looking for work asap in Ireland (has relevant documentation) - if anyone knows of any warehouse or cleaning jobs going, I’ve gotten his number

I love hearing someone talk about how they’re “politically homeless”, please tell me more about your amazing brain

Love low poly pigeon

I am going to become the Irish Joker

they should create a type of government that benefits citizens

Legend

They attacked the Muslim Sisters of Éire, one of the kindest and mostly welcoming groups out on the streets of Dublin providing meals to the unhoused. Fuck every single one of these rat fucks.

The rise in fuel bills is too high. But so is the rise in rents. TDs asking for a cap on the former are the very ones who just voted to remove restrictions on the latter. Renters abandoned to the mercy of the market. Businessmen apparently need protection from it. The Irish caste system at work.

Not the first or the last to make this point, but the protests really lay bare who is considered a “worker” by many people. Lads who run plant hire companies ✅, but Deliveroo drivers and women doing the admin in offices are the liberal elite

I totally get how many people are distressed, alarmed and seriously at risk due to fuel price increases. However, the leaders of this protest are a fucking disgrace. They are causing untold harm to people and to the economy, without having done even the most basic analysis of the problem.

by making a virtue of having no ideas, by presenting itself best option for falling in line with the tide of the world, by pretending that stasis is the same thing as stability, this government has rendered itself irrelevant, unnecessary and ultimately probably despised by more people than not.

this government’s approach, for a very long time, has been to project powerlessness in the face of every inconvenience. to blame “global megatrends” as Varadkar did in his goodbye speech. to make the public feel insane for even suggesting that the government can solve problems.

one thing that’s clear, whether you’re right or left or whatever worldview, is that Irish people want a PROACTIVE government that DOES things, that TELLS them things, that PREPARES for things. the Irish government does absolutely none of this, it does as little as it can do, and nobody likes it.

Honestly think I’m burned out on just how fucking stupid everything is at the moment. Just absolute dopes and shitheads giving themselves the run of the place all over the world.

hard to imagine a gov less suited to the current political environment than the one in there at the moment tbh, they’re gonna stumble into some sort of farmer coup through sheer incompetency

Glad Solidarity have ditched that god-awful star logo they've been using since 2017, new one is actually quite nice

"who cares about Palestine etc, we need to care of the irish" first off where the fuck do you think this fucking fuel comes from. a fundamental problem of the human condition is people do not see the interdependence of life. esp, life in the 21st century. "no farms, no food" no atmosphere no farms.

Instead of calling in the army why don’t the gardaí do literally anything at all first

The threat to use Defence Forces against protesters is extremely worrying. It should be withdrawn. People have a right to protest without the army being sent against them. This will create a dangerous precedent that will be used against other protesters in future.

just witnessed an exchange on tiktok live where a tractor driver was explaining the reason for the protest to an american tourist who said “well i’m sorry for our president’s role in causing this” and the tractor guy said “trump didn’t do anything wrong”

it is beyond obscene that israel is allowed do all the stuff on the international culture/sports scene russia is barred from. the worst, sociopathic bully nation on earth.

How Israel can continue to make me despair even after everything that's happened since 2023

Massacre upon massacre in Beirut in the last hour. AUBMC announced a “code disaster.” Over 100 airstrikes in 10 minutes across the country. One hit right behind my house. Sirens ambulances & the smell of sulphur. The city is in total chaos the people in complete panic

BIG: Lebanese Prime Minister: Our friends are called upon to help us stop the Israeli attacks by all means.

Have been going back to this video all day I love it so much hahahah

Dublin clampers have the opportunity to do the funniest thing right now...

this goes hard as fuck

responding to the looming risk of a catastrophic disruption to global supply chains that could last for months if not years by shutting down the national road network to demand tax cuts is a more cutting indictment of the pettiness of Irish politics than I could ever write

I absolutely loathe these people. Not just cos they’re infiltrated by the far-right and conspiracy theorists, but also because they only ever show up for their own narrow self-interest. When have they ever shown solidarity with literally any group in society other than themselves?

knew I shouldn’t’ve thrown out all those brent crude oil barrels my granny had lying about when she died

NOW: B52 bombers are literally in the air on their way to Iran and hundreds of thousands of Iranians are in the streets waving flags and surrounding bridges & power plants. Difficult to imagine this has any precedent in modern warfare. (🎥 Al Jazeera)

protesters blocking one (1) road after Irish citizens are illegally detained by the Israeli state vs getting ready to shut down the national roads network with a temper tantrum over fuel prices

I will never forget how a threat to annihilate the Iranian people has been met by silence from European govts, especially the Irish and Swedish ones. I didn't expect them to say anything, but that doesn't make it any easier to live with the fact that we are ruled by gutless cowards and racists.

gotta say, getting all these messages of unfathomable wonder from the astronauts currently further from Earth than any other humans have ever been at the same time the insane American president is vowing nuclear genocide is a bit too "interesting times" for my personal taste

I've checked my Irish Media Protest Manual and it says that if you trap people in their cars over a period of time then you are falsely imprisoning them and you should be charged and sent to prison

Seems like a pretty significant change for the BBC to make in a story quietly

Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.

death to the great satan

death to america, of course

Too many people ignored and normalised genocide to the point that we've got world leaders openly threatening to commit another one.