Dear journalists who left the nazi bar. Please leave the other nazi bar. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...

Would these be the same Midleton residents who previously objected to a new solar farm? On the grounds that it works be "too noisy"? RTE news : 'Nothing is stopping a flood,' say Midleton residents www.rte.ie/news/munster...

We need just 569 more Irish people to sign this official EU citizen initiative to pass our threshold. If you truly support #JusticeForPalestine and you haven't signed, why not? 🇵🇸🙏 #SpeirGorm #SpeirGhorm #IrishSky #Ireland

Remember the # when this was breaking? #800deadbabies This is just Tuam, there are many more 'Mother & baby' 'homes' around the country, which still need to be investigated. #SeperateChurchandState #speirgorm

What if your government knew nothing, understood less but loved to chase shiny paper on a stick?

Nice to see this from the Irish Games Association! iga.ie/deactivation... You can still follow the IGA socials on insta and facebook and join the discord! (Links to socials on the top right of the webpage)

If you're not yet signed up to @Ciaraioch 's newsletter, and like finding out about bits of Irish folklore, history, and occasional laugh out loud ancient dating habits - then you should be! www.ciaraioch.com

Dammit, Chandra, I need to sleep! #Chandra

This is how it's done. Congratulations to everyone involved running the Nazis out of their town. No pasarán.

"First, we give them free marketing tat to decorate the place. Then, we offer them a few free kegs and all they have to do is replace a local independent craft beer tap with one of ours. It can even be one that doesn't sound like it's ours. Moretti or Madri, like! Then we put up the price!"

“I was standing beside you in a high visibility jacket and you still didn’t see me." www.linkedin.com/posts/an-gar...

Nine years to the day since Graham Linehan foresaw his own fate.

Anyone who thinks cyclists “come out of nowhere” should not be in control of a vehicle. I was there when you did not see me because you did not look. www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

If I think about the fact this is even a question that has to be asked I think I'd pack it all in and go live in woods

Pew Research Institute (2023): • Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants • Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants • Blue State Minnesota has 130,000. And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration." It's *not* about immigration.

This is such a cool illustration of how the Mercator map distorts the size of Greenland, which looks as big as the whole continent of Africa on that map but is actually the size of Mexico.

Astronomy guy says: Major solar storm coming! Huge aurora possible in the next 48 hours! Irish weather says: Ha ha, no.

Heh, serendipity. @natural20.bsky.social also introduced me to qobuz and I've been trying it out for the last couple of weeks. It's dearer than Spotify, but pays its artists considerably more than them. US$18 per 1000 streams. Spotify won't release their data but we do know it's far less, and /

Yesterday, Holly Cairns directly raised the existence of an abuse image factory being set up in Fenian street with the Taoiseach. He responded by saying he didn’t know if there was any investigation into it by the polic

I find it astonishing that the idea that children should upload selfies to X as part of a state-mandated age verification scheme is still being floated.

I'm not encouraging people to set up a fake Tinder/Hinge profile, go to one of the hotels where ICE are barracked, reduce the match radius and then Catfish any agents within but I am saying that it would be very easy to do.

This is a great moment for people to stop engaging with Roblox.

"If it continues" implies that the current amount of CSAM is fine. That there is a tolerable amount of CSAM and we haven't yet reached the threshold of that. In trying to hedge his bets, he's basically said that a little CSAM every once in a while is fine actually. Christ almighty.

So they're ok with using apps that will not prevent CSAM from being created using the tools said apps provide, but would back EU legislature to end encrypted messaging... *checks notes* protect children. Got it.

This is 1) flat wrong on the facts 2) flat wrong on the law 3) flat wrong on the impulse to shield a company from the consequences of its own actions in offering the creation of CSAM-as-a-service This is the sort of morally bankrupt statement that should have its speaker be booed off every street

By pushing an anti-green, anti-sustainability agenda, farming unions in Ireland and the EU have helped to create the political conditions for #Mercosur to pass. My letter in today's Irish Times.

Top notch trolling from the FT.

I'm gonna feel like a real idiot filling out my next Garda vetting forms, visiting the organisation in person to have them processed before I even do any work with them, all in the name of ensuring kids stay safe, when the Government can't find it in themselves to stop posting on the CSAM site

This minister seems to believe that the State has no responsibility with regards to preventing a company, based here in Ireland, from providing the tools by which child sexual abuse material has been generated by its own paid subscribers. A truly bizarre thing to say. jrnl.ie/6921190

Oh hey, listen, just a quick word. Do not do this.

Every media figure and politician could do exactly this right now. @garygannon signs off from X, the deepfake child sexual abuse material generation app.

Job moved, so I'm now using the bus stop opposite Connolly Luas again. They finally took the chains down from outside the Social Welfare office there! It took long enough - that was actively dangerous for pedestrians! Next, maybe the anti-homeless bars? Or is that a step too far?!

Fuck you, RTÉ! It's not "several" aid agencies being banned from #Gaza, it's thirty-fucking-seven of them! #GazaGenocide #RTÉ #bias

Following @leinsterrugby.bsky.social is like using Google. Both get rid of things I really like! The latter cancelled Wave, G+, and Reader. Leinster have cancelled physical season tickets, annual season ticket holder scarves, and now Ciarán Frawley! #LeinsterRugby #Leinster

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... (Ironically, I'm also stripping out the unique tracking from this URL, because privacy... )

My final Christmas present of the year was treating myself to some original Irish art from the wonderful Ciara!

This exposes the core lie on which the entirety of “gender-critical” transphobia is based. The transphobes’ entire campaign is based on the false claim that they represent cis-women. The number of signatories to this, is way higher the number of signatories to their transphobic WDI “declaration”.

I've decided that I'm officially on holiday from my pay gap work now too. I think I deserve a few days of properly off time, and it'll help keep me going next year. So here's where I draw the line for 2025, with almost 1100 reports gathered already. Not too shabby.

I understand it used to be the case in Ireland that for health insurance, if a company offered Plan A at €x amount but also offered Plan A at 90% of x to group scheme members, you could request & had to be given the group scheme rate, even if not a member of that group scheme. Still the case?

Can't figure out if the slump in Christmas sales this year is a result of not using Twitter on principle, the general economic climate, or fact I accidentally revealed that I've stuffed a small amount of poison into one in every three orders to reap victims for the Old Gods

we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫

Did the latest #BundleOfHolding mailshot just spoil one of the the big reveals of @mytholder.bsky.social 's #TravellerRPG Secrets of the Ancients campaign? I think it did! 😱

JFC - just had a look at our health insurance renewal (my partner looks after this generally) and Irish Life are putting the price up, reducing cover, &, reading through it, I see they actually pay for fake woo bullshit treatments like homeopathy and reiki?! Fuck's sake! #IrishLife #HealthInsurance

Happy Hanukkah!

I bought the re-issue of "I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got" and am listening to it now for the first time on vinyl, with the volume up, and OMFG what a talent Sinéad was! (I always knew this, I hasten to add!)

Lena Headey's Irish accent in "The Abandons" is very good! I'm questioning the pronunciation of fidchell, though (and, in fact, it's inclusion at all). "Fitch-il"? Not "fih-hil"? Also, does Gillian Anderson only ever play evil now?! #TheAbandons

JFC there's a guy on the bus about three or four seats ahead, headphones on, singing to himself, badly. Oblivious to the looks people are throwing him. Like, wtf? 🤣