This is a weird observation but isn't it interesting that individualism has really risen over the last few decades in our movies, in society's priorities, in the media etc etc, yet at the same time in architecture open plan living became really popular

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"Most people with an intellectual disability in Ireland are cared for by their parents. But as those parents grow older, families are being forced to confront an uncertain future." www.rte.ie/news/primeti...

No oil means no electricity. No electricity means no water pumps. No running water means no sanitation. No power for hospitals. No fuel for ambulances. No refrigeration for drugs. Mass death soon follows. This is a crime against humanity.

The most Irish thing you can do today is shout for a free Palestine

We were at the Ha’penny Bridge today to say no shamrocks for genocide and Ireland stands with Palestine, always. #FreePalestine

the Choctaw Nation here is doing a St. Paddy's Day thing because they have links/friendship with Ireland (they sent help during the Famine). I think that's cool. I just like that those two nations have a friendship bond over that that's lasted almost 200 years at this point.

I vote we send the taoiseach to visit the Choctaw Nation every St Patrick's Day instead of the White House

Having a chronic illness with ADHD is an actual nightmare. I haven't been able to leave the house in weeks and I literally want to crawl out of my skin I'm so understimulated

Philip Pullman said that anything that a child might encounter in their childhood is appropriate material for a children's story.

🇵🇸 Events in solidarity with the Palestinian people around the country this weekend. All out for Palestine! #SolidarityIsAVerb #FreePalestine 🇵🇸

A huge part of the Irish language revival in Ireland is due to Palestine. Colonialism becoming everyday conversation woke a lot of people up to the fact that we are still colonised. And watching the Palestinian people fight against colonialism, and their efforts to preserve their

"About one in 10 teenagers coming into Headspace centres have brought up the social media ban as their reason for seeking support, she says... Thain urges governments looking to follow in Australia’s footsteps not to assume they know better than young people, and to include them

Cannibalism. Also hunting human beings

A round of community funding from the council just went out in Belfast and every single group got their funding cut, causing job losses and jobs being downgraded. Every single organisation.

So so funny seeing someone claim the left has a media literacy problem and then following it up with a complete misunderstanding of both media literacy and the entire media industry

‘The plane flew and started spraying’: Israel accused of poisoning Syrian farmland with chemicals

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez: “Today more than ever, it is essential to remember that one can be against a hateful regime as is the case with the Iranian regime…and at the same time be against an unjustified, dangerous military intervention outside of international law.”

The people who are doing away with the triple lock and are desperate to end our policy of neutrality ‘can’t say’ that a clearly illegal attack under international law was illegal.

The Constitution commits Ireland to respecting international law - the Minister ought to know the first principles.

From the archive on #IrishTravellerEthnicityDay, we revisit this interview with Traveller activist Rosaleen McDonagh on the importance of intersectionality. Read 👉 buff.ly/AMAntWw #GCNnews

Linking absences to future failures as though it's the absences that caused the failures rather than an external factor causing both, is not a logical thing to do. This is a good example of why relying on statistics alone will never give you a full picture. www.thejournal.ie/absences-of-...

It is nice to be on one of the few remaining types of social media that isn't absolutely riddled with genAI sloptivity. They may take our images and videos but I'll be damned if they take our pithy short-form written existential angst

This reminds me of that Frankie Boyle joke about how Americans not only come to your country and kill your people, they also come back twenty years later to make a movie about how killing your people made their soldiers sad.

Need deep, meaningful connection but also to be left the jaysis alone, you see the predicament

17,112 people homeless, the highest level of in the history of the state. Not just numbers, real people, real lives.

So, two totally unrelated things: Minnesotans are gathering outside ICE agents hotels and having a loud music party so they can't sleep. On an unrelated note, the Ireland v Israel game will take place in Ireland

They have every choice, actually. And we have the choice not to support them moving forward, too, if they proceed. #speirghorm #ireland

excited to hear tech companies will now be allowed to build their own power plants for their data centers. i am sure the makers of "the app that tells kids to kill themselves" will responsibly operate coal plants

My response to the Minister - and his suggestion that universities compress lectures into fewer days so students commute less. No way he’d agree for affordable and available student housing so students could have the full third level experience! #spéirgorm

Discord was going to use age verification that literally pipes your information straight to the fascist US government, until hackers exposed it. “The state wants to see everything. The corporations want to see everything. And they've learned to work together.” www.therage.co/persona-age-...

British journalists are always like "I only had 4 annual european holidays growing up, because my father, the Baron, was a bit of a cheapskate, so really I am working class" then 5 minutes later decree an actual working class person a faker because they drink coffee

Readers shouldn't be tasked with this. Reporters being flip about these lines also makes life harder for all literary nonfiction features writers who do follow the rules.

She's not an expert. She was chosen to perform the review because they couldn't find anyone with actual expertise in the area who would have produced the desired outcome of providing an official rationale for government measures to remove trans people from society altogether

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I'm aware that a lot of people find it fun to attack minorities @news.rte.ie. But we're talking about children here. Kids are dead because of Hilary Cass, her transphobia, and her decision to lie about medical research. Please have some decency and remove this article from publication.

hilary cass has no expertise in any field relevant to gender affirming care or the endocrine system or psychology or psychiatry. she's literally just a transphobe hand picked by kemi badenoch to rubbish decades of fully peer-reviewed medical science. it's a massive scandal and the dam will break.

Join Limerick @ipsc.bsky.social Wednesday 25th February, 7pm, Absolute Hotel. Palestinian citizens of Israel face an escalating campaign of repression, criminalisation and state-backed efforts to erase not only their Palestinian identity, but their very presence in their homeland #FreePalestine

Simon Harris on the radio trying to muddy the waters around the Occupied Territories Bill. The one side only ceasefire in Gaza is irrelevant. Israel is still robbing Palestinian land and installing settlers against International Law. They shouldn't be allowed to profit from it. #SpéirGorm #BDS

There are thousands of songs about love but only one song about the atypical tetracyclic antidepressant, Mirtazapine youtu.be/dMrh5CW6IhI?...

it’s hot if you alt text your art

there should be an oscar for bluesky story arc and @notalawyer.bsky.social should win

No mention of the increased rate in suicides amongst trans kids since care changed after the report came out. goodlawproject.org/new-data-sho...

I was at a party and few years ago when this discussion came up. The only opponents of UBI in the room were the people who said they themselves would "abuse" it. They assumed the rest of us are as lazy as they are so they'd prefer that nobody has it. It's nonsense.

Interesting that there's no name attributed to this piece which speaks uncritically about the Cass review, a biased & unscientific piece of propaganda that resulted in the death of dozens of children. What's the play here RTE? Stoke up a bit of transphobia in Ireland?