As a casual observer of our neighbours politics this is very surprising. From all the breathless coverage you'd swear they had swept all before them

Mourning Wood

fair play to Martin, using RIP dot ie the way the lord intended #speirgorm

Saverio, a 19 year-old Italian tuxedo cat, is living a happy life in the medieval streets of Poppi (Italy). He has become the official mascot of the village.

I am so sick of the criticism of the "designer" bicyle storage facility in Kerry Hospital. Lets have a look at these costs, understanding them is about reframing what was actually built, and comparing it fairly against the infrastructure society routinely accepts for cars. 1/

I honestly don't know whether it would be worse if the human beings behind this statement believed it or if they just thought it was savvy marketing.

You'd never guess he took a big chicken bone earlier and hid it *somewhere* in the apartment

Skater Girls of Ethiopia #WomensArt 🛹 (Photo S. Tanna)

Hungary’s parliament sings “Ode to Joy” — the anthem of Europe — after Péter Magyar is sworn in as prime minister. Hungary is once again a proud member of the European Union.

Really important research is being done right now to see whether we’re meeting UN obligations under UNCRC for LGBTQIA+ kids (spoiler: we’re not) It’s never been more important that trans & LGBTQIA+ voices are heard by policy makers @ocoireland.bsky.social @ucc.ie Please fill out this form 👇

As a seagull based economy, Dublin City Centre needs to speed up the transition away from the plastic-bags-on-the-footpath system of commercial waste collection

Side note: if you image search even for something quite specific like "gorilla story Netflix" you still get AI slop and I fucking hate it 🙄

Watching Attenborough's Gorilla Story on Netflix - it's great. And when Ubwuzu the powerful up-and-coming silverback first appears it's stunning. If I was in the group I'd be the gay one secretly in love with him trying to avoid getting killed by becoming his scheming vizier as he rises to the top!

2nd day in a row, Hutch won't need to spend a penny campaigning with the amount of free publicity he is getting from the IT.

The strength and resilience of Labour's branding as a left wing party is really quite remarkable considering they haven't been left wing for a few years now

Sorry, I just remembered that two years the CEO of Telegram, Pavel Durov, was unceremoniously dragged from his private jet at Le Bourget Airport and was thrown in a Parisian jail for six days for failure to cooperate with French investigations into CSAM on his platform, and now I'm taking a moment.

England is going to first-past-the-post itself right into full-throated fascism at the next general election

And if you are cynically weaponising this non story for political gain, we are now sworn enemies

If you are whinging about a secure safe bicycle storage facility at a hospital which cost about what you'd imagine it would cost, we can't be friends

Every three minutes on Bluesky today: oh that's a delightful name for a town! Dudly-on-Friendton. I see they have voted for the Murdering Orphans party.

Got a similarly simple solution to the Transgender issue. Just let people transition and be fucking normal about it and mind yer own beeswax

There really is a simple solution to migration. And its to be fucking normal about it and stop being a nationalist racist

Kate Nash is this week's guest on the Nialler9 Podcast and I talk to her about Sinead O'Connor, her Irish heritage & kicking against the pricks of the music industry nialler9.com/kate-nash-on...

I got a Google Alert for my name yesterday, pointing to an article for an outlet I’d never spoken to, full of quotes I’ve never said. It’s now corrected…but the editor told me ‘I asked Google to find an expert but I think it used AI.’ Isn’t it your job to check..?

I asked Gemini for some quotes from me on this topic…and they’re all sourced from that article! AI eating its own tail and poisoning its own dataset…

He's back pedalling but his interpretation of "anti union" is also bizarre

He basically says on more than one occasion in this thread that he's making a bad faith argument ("they probably don't actually mean what I'm saying they might mean") and people are clapping for him 🤷🏼‍♀️

Ok. Now cost the car parking

This is an extraordinary thread 👇 #booksky @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social @ravenbooks.bsky.social @bobjohnstonbooks.bsky.social

COLBERT: How dumb do you think it is for people to say that I should run for president? OBAMA: Well, you know, the bar has changed. I think you would perform significantly better than some folks we've seen. COLBERT: Is that an endorsement? OBAMA: It was not

OMG, I WAS JOKING BUT IT'S LITERALLY THE WAIFUS

European Movement Ireland’s annual poll, as usual, shows 82% of RoI residents support EU membership. But one striking finding elsewhere: residents of N Ireland are also surveyed, and 63% (!!??) would vote in favour of a United Ireland. No mainstream poll has *ever* recorded a margin like this…

I’m Irish. My parents were teaching in Zambia when I was born, and moved back to Ireland when I was one. Reared there until I emigrated. Never had another passport until I was 45. Thanks to McDowell’s feelings about “African mothers,” I can’t pass on my Irish citizenship to my California child.

LAND SHARK. I have gone past this millions of times, delighted to learn more about it!

66% of people agree "Immigrants contribute to our culture and we're all the better for having them here", up from 64% in 2024. - 77% believe people seeking international protection should be supported to become part of the communities they live in.

“75% of far right commentary about Ireland comes from outside Ireland” www.thegist.ie/the-gist-sun...

It's been proven that telling an AI it's an expert in any domain makes it less accurate (see: arxiv.org/abs/2603.18507). Marc Andreesen is a fucking idiot, not an engineer.

Always love to be reminded of this. A lot of it was hand-stitched too. Really amazing, precise work. Women’s work is so often minimised and forgotten.

As Ardnacrusha gets spun by everyone from tech boosters to nuclear advocates, let's be clear. Ardnacrusha was built by the ESB, the first public, national energy utility in the world, *because* the private sector did not consider such projects to be profitable. www.thejournal.ie/readme/irela...

"Lock 'em up" a brave policy position for someone with his background.

We’re probably just going to have to get used to furious and/or hysterical news cycles about Zack Polanski for the foreseeable future.

Literal pogroms

In totally unsurprising news, Richard Dawkins is developing AI psychosis. Paywall bypass: archive.is/6RdK9

Shane O'Brien, one of the Irish citizens involved in the Palestine solidarity movement in Berlin who was threatened with deportation from Germany, has been acquitted on all charges related to a protest. A video provided by his defence appeared to contradict key testimony by police officers.

TERF ideology is like a black light except instead of revealing grim stains on your hotel sheets it reveals grim people who were previously hiding in plain sight

We saw you from across the bear bar and we like your vibe

A piece of Ireland’s cultural heritage many will remember fondly is being lost to #climate change. #RTECountrywide #Speirgorm

This mortal coil.

Josh O'Connor, on the incredible performance note he got from Steven Spielberg while shooting Disclosure Day apnews.com/article/disc...

All day every day at the moment it's just non stop seagull pornography in Dublin 1