have @tg4.bsky.social covered this yet? 'An Tiarna Ceann-Bruscair?' #speirgorm cc @darach.bsky.social

Also, they're playing on land.

There was an interesting bit in the attempted reformation of the Church in Ireland where the Bishop of Meath and clergy were asked why they were being so slow in ratifying Henry VIII's new marriage and their response was 'well which one?'

a lot of celebratory posts about Ann Widdecombe's death getting hastily deleted right now

in case you missed it @news.rte.ie did another vox pop of luders 'enjoying the nice weather, shur we don't get it very often' followed by questioning an expert with 'can we definitively say this is climate change?' professional malpractice at this stage #speirgorm

FF MEPs now in the same Russia-ambivalent bracket as SF #speirgorm

the @virtualtreasury.bsky.social is an extraordinary resource for Irish historical research and indeed national social and cultural understanding - it must be protected at all costs! long may it continue! many thanks to all involved #speirgorm

this is like something Ardal O'Hanlon would ask (when playing David Brent in an Irish remake of The Office)

Govt has worked hard to ensure that the 'colour of a salmon was correct for the time of year' in the new Irish passport - a species which is critically endangered here because every one of our rivers is extremely polluted #speirgorm

bit random but where would I find an expert on this 👇 guy? #speirgorm

A really interesting subject/thread; however, Hession's law states that if an issue can't be resolved by one pithy post then it is above the pay grade of social media.

so the Dutch get to send two teams to the world cup and we don't even get to send one???!??

Ballybrack Bono strikes again

guy who has definitely quit politics for good

don't be alarmed, but I think there is massive change underway in Irish politics - Mícheál Martin is now saying 'in respect of' instead of his favoured 'in terms of' #speirgorm

whatever about banning under 16s from social media, I have yet to come across a left/progressive/socialist take on internet policy which isn't a recycled cyberlibertarian take ffom the 1990's

The age verification aspect might be misleading - this seems to be just a restatement of the position under the e-commerce directive. But the decision on liability for algorithmic recommendation is *explosive*.

people be like 'social media is a cesspit, somebody should do something about it' and then a government tries to do something about it and everyone goes 'not like that' - every single time

Question to the legal brains. Is there any legal route that can be taken to force a government run facility (in England) to disclose redacted information to the relations of the deceased?

breathing in europe as an american has gotta be like never hearing gunfire for the first time

Academic writing should be addressed neither to the public nor to other academics. It should be addressed to a single interlocutor with whom you have a petty rivalry and whose work you are trying to discredit

If your main concern is not upsetting a single South African billionaire rather than the safety and security of the country you're supposed to lead, then you're unfit for the job. Shameful weakness

I used to go to bed early the whole time, so I did

"They cannot ignore this". Sorry, no, actually, they can. Thanks to years of dedicated, sustained practice, they are *fantastic* at ignoring this. Olympic levels of obliviousness. Northern Ireland is the Eric Trump of the United Kingdom.

British and Irish politicians weren't willing to get off X/Twitter when it became a Child Sexual Abuse Material factory in January; so they're certainly not going to get off it because of some racist pogroms in Belfast.

That moment when a channel that you used to watch regularly starts using Al thumbnails.

every morning, the first thing I do when I come downstairs, is I go out and open the garage to let the swallows out. I don't know how to interpret their chirping at me? is it 'good morning!' or 'what feckin took you so long?'

if I were working comms for any of the opposition parties, I would be placing the word 'workshy' in front of 'government' in every press release I issued. they are completely ineffective in every possible domain

in a different timeline, it would have become Ireland's Windsor

the official 'Tourism Ireland' tiktok account is whoring the folklore #speirgorm

If you come here, you’ll find no mass grave, no evidence that children were ever so buried, and a local police force casting their eyes to heaven and saying 'Yeah, a few bones were found – but this was an area where Famine victims were buried. So?' — Terry Prone

So we have a Government that will not sort the housing crisis or the cost of living crisis, ignores the climate crisis & is now in the process of degrading university research funding especially for the arts,humanities & social sciences (of course this is all interlinked when you think about it)

f. 9v of Nugent's Primer, written to instruct Elizabeth I in Irish so that she might better understand her subjects. But his translation of 'Mary' suggests a more covert motive www.isos.dias.ie/MARSH/Irish_...

yet another example of a do-nothing government

There is something brutally psychically injurious to being constantly told "just do good work and you'll be successful" while watching people who do the most dogshit work possible do all the succeeding.

@clodaghtait.bsky.social hi Clodagh - I know you like the old graves, what do you think of this one? bsky.app/profile/cjam...

probably one of the most interesting characters of his era. tried to live in two worlds as the island changed forever

3 June 1602: Christopher Nugent, 14th baron Delvin arrested by Lord Mountjoy #otd on suspicion of collusion with Hugh O'Neill. In 1564, he had presented Elizabeth I with a primer for learning #Irish #Gaeilge ( @marshslibrary.bsky.social )

“Bill” was found at a bus stop in Ballincollig in 1986 with apparent amnesia, unable to tell Gardai his name or where he came from, and taken into psychiatric care. He lived in hospital for 40 years - there was never a public appeal to find his family www.irishexaminer.com/news/spotlig...

We are growing plants to produce biofuels to burn in order to create electricity to run data centres - poisoning a planet we truly do not deserve

danah boyd recently argued that social media (as we knew it) is mostly dead; what we have now is parasocial media: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... I agree. Networked social media is disappearing, replaced by a new logic/structure of content creator, creator-centered community, & algorithm.

what are the chances, same guy! #speirgorm

🔥𝐌𝐲 𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲’𝐬 𝐈𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬: why should a family in Ireland pay more for electricity so a billion-dollar tech company can pay less? 💵

Sir Hector MacDonald (1853-1903) was a Scottish soldier celebrated by the British Empire. He was also, as this article clearly demonstrates, using the remarkable location of sources previously thought lost, a sexual predator who molested young boys. muse.jhu.edu/pub/15/artic...

even by his meagre standards, it was an extraorindary week of buck-passing by the Taoiseach #speirgorm

weekly trip to the offie vibe killed by seeing a government TD with several hundred recommendations on Vivino

Very narc of me but I do think a big slice of the AI problem is that we're not hard enough on people for being lazy greedy babies