Can’t believe no one wants to adopt these two 😭 #speirghorm

This is huge: “A drug that provides near-perfect protection against H.I.V. with shots just twice a year will be made available at $40 per patient annually in low- and middle-income countries, offering new hope… making lenacapavir a realistic choice in countries with constrained resources.”

Random question: I have a vague recollection of an American short story about immigrants who bring their gods with them. By a female author, maybe early 20th century? (I realise this is also the plot of the novel American Gods). Does anyone have a title or author for this? Or am I hallucinating it?

They've lost the 9yos

Looking very displeased that the grubby heathen hoi polloi stymied her immaculate ascension, but if she needs a tissue to dab away a perfect tear, I’m sure she’s got some in that €20K Hermes bag she’s got there

I'm qualified and practising in Irish immigration law for over a decade and I have NEVER seen as many absolutely batshit, not even arguably lawful decisions from the Minister for Justice as I am seeing now I fear our government has terminal social media brain

A quick tally of who was responsible for killing each failed Irish presidential campaign: Nick Delehanty ❌ Kieran Cuddihy Joanna Donnelly ❌ Kieran Cuddihy Conor McGregor ❌ Nikita Hand Peter Casey ❌ too much Jameson Gareth Sheridan ❌ his own hubris Maria Steen ❌ Gerard Craughwell Bertie Ahern ❌ CMAT

Aubrey McCarthy has agreed to nominate Maria Steen. As one of his constituents I have emailed him expressing my deep disappointment, explaining why and asking him why I should ever give him a preference again. Let's see what he has to say for himself because his statement this morning was pathetic.

This argument: "the minority of the electorate that is racist will get super aggro if we don't stop foreigners coming in". As a policy, attempting to placate racists is up there with negotiating with terrorists in terms of odds of success. We are so fucked if this is what Lab has to offer.

Yeah, well, I want a houseboat www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...

State recognition is not a substitute for honouring the obligation to prevent and punish genocide

The anti-trans right heavily praised Gordon Guyatt as the “godfather” of evidence based medicine. He worked for SEGM and was responsible for their GRADE reviews. Now he disavows them, says evidence supports transgender youth care. Great coverage from Henry carnell.

Safe country though

Asking for a friend: can anyone recommend an LGBT-friendly counsellor around the Monaghan/Cavan area who works with teenagers?

The control-de-wimmen caucus in Leinster House want Steen on the ballot so people have a “right to choose”. How ironic. www.thejournal.ie/maria-steen-...

Hamas are pieces of shit and every one of their members can drop dead for all I care but how fucking dense can you be as an Irish politician to claim that terrorist organisations have no place competing in elections. Nearly every major political party on this island is a former terrorist group ffs

lol this is incredible

FF welcomed senior members of the Azerbaijani government to Leinster House during and after the ethnic cleansing of Nagorno-Karabakh but Thomas Byrne wants me to be horrified that Catherine Connolly said Palestinians have the right to determine their government www.ontheditch.com/junior-minis...

The Cords' debut album is so perfectly listenable that it is an instant classic. Out on @slumberlandrecords.com / @skepwax.bsky.social, "The Cords" brings joy indeed. www.apessimistisneverdisappointed.com/2025/09/yes-...

This pilot experiment PAID FOR ITSELF. Ireland spent $105 million on artists providing them basic income, and saw that drop to $72 million after accounting for economic impacts, then with $80 million in psychological wellbeing impacts, that dropped to -$8 million.

So Ebay Ireland has suspended our store, deleted all the listings which took us hours to photograph and post. We appealed, but to no avail. The shop is permanently banned from ebay Ireland and they will not give us a reason why. They will also keep all the money from the sales for 120 days or more

The depth of my contempt for this man knows no bounds

Eh, I can personally attest to the fact that you can’t actually say “whatever the fuck your want” on RTE 🤷🏼‍♀️

It’s easy to condemn a resistance born from oppression when you’re looking through the lens of a free and fair society. How privileged we are to wag our fingers at people fighting for survival while their people are massacred and starved

jfmresearch.com/press-releas... Justice for Magdalenes Research statement in support of the industrial school hunger strikers.

This is exactly it. She will 100% run as the candidate who “knows what a woman is” (and will undoubtedly pick up endorsements from pseudo-feminists because of it)

Shocked etc to see the “right-wing Trump loyalist” from Waterford who is a naturalised US citizen and apparently lives between Dubai and Indonesia has anti-immigration rants all over his X account

Believe trans people when we tell you the 'science' behind the Cass Report is as solid as the 'science' behind paracetamol causing autism.

It must be great to be a Trump adviser and know that you could whisper the most fantastical BS in his ear and the next day he’d be solemnly regurgitating it to the world media as if it were true

We do not need balance on the absolutely insane bullshit coming out of politicians on both sides of the Atlantic. Just say it’s bullshit

On Trump, autism and tylenol: A student I was talking to today had it exactly right on this latest White House bullshit claim “It’s at the perfect intersection of hating disabled people and wanting women to be in pain” There’s not only no link, the claim is both ableist and misogynist.

Appalachian Trail over I-70 Eastbound in Western #MD.

me telling my grandkids what it was like to have vaccines

In an old man pub that’s playing Ceremony by New Order I am now the old man

Only 1 person in the whole study went from identifying as trans to not identifying as trans. The 1/5 number came from youth going between the binary and non-binary spectrum. This headline and post are misleading on purpose to fit the economist's editorial bent on the political issue.

This is how sex workers should be treated by society. Not scandalised, not stigmatised, not rejected or subjected to religious fundamentalists as is the case here in Ireland.

This is the sort of thing designed to sound like "common sense" while actually being the sort of nonsense that only someone deeply ignorant of the subject would suggest, unworkable nonsense that would throw the entire system into complete dysfunction

Baseball

I like how they’re going with the 28 days branding like they”re rage-infected zombies

Yep, and this is why politicians who think they can safely placate racists by stressing their own opposition to only “illegal” immigration are really just helping the far right move the Overton window

This made me laugh because Iran's regime blocked access to Twitter in 2009. They truly have NO idea what a real dictatorship looks like.

I'll note lots of people said having Gardai escort drivelling lunatics into libraries in order to perform book inspections to make sure they weren't too gay would not placate them but radicalize them even more. And here we are.

Letterfrack says Free Palestine

Oh high

Good to see fascists outnumbered in Glasgow once again - and vital context on the hypocrisy of fash organisers outlined in local reporting: "Watt, who was found guilty of abusing two of his ex-partners in 2018 [...] campaigns against immigration, often raising fears of women's and girls’ safety."

"SIR KEIR STARMER and his Cabinet face losing their seats to Left-wing candidates, analysis shows. "Labour’s 411-seat majority would plummet to just 126 seats if an election took place this summer, it suggests." [Sunday Telegraph]

And, as ever with the transphobic @thetimes.com, they fail to mention what Boyne had actually said that upset people: He compared women who support trans rights to the wives in the Handmaid’s Tale who hold down young women for their husbands to rape. They unethically hide that from their readers.

I have so many questions