'Small changes to the tone of posts fed to users of X can increase feelings of political polarisation as much in a week as would have historically taken at least three years, research has found.' 1/3

Starting a campaign to have this kick off ‘the season’ every year. Like when it snows and everyone uses that bit from The Dead. #spéirghorm #spéirgorm I am sorry. I can not invite you home for Christmas because I am Irish and my family is mad.

If anyone is attending tomorrow's IPSC march in Belfast, be aware that fash types are openly planning some kind of confrontation. If someone sticks a camera in your face, do not engage. If you see instigators within the march/rally, point them out to stewards. Keep yourself and your comrades safe.

Yesterday in France, there were 4 femicides. Four. Four. Killed by their partners and ex-partners. In 1 day.

An important reminder from Justine McCarthy amidst the Black Friday ballix. @irishtimes.com

This is poignant.

At least nine Palestinians were killed in Gaza in the past 24 hours.

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

And yet they still hired him

These are the "voters" Martin, O'Callaghan, Harris and the rest of them are pivoting to racism to please. If ever two groups needed reminding that Twitter and Facebook are not real life, it's journalists and politicians.

Male ✅ White ✅ Local ✅ Every. Single. Day.

I prefer journalists who ask the hard questions that make Traitor Trump uncomfortable and angry.

We need a drum beat for universal basic income and healthcare that only gets louder and louder. Consider taking a moment each day to post at least one thing about the need for them, or to repost what others have posted. I do this every day. You can use my timeline to save time. To those who do, TY!

MeToo did not go far enough. People were saying "MeToo has gone too far" when it had barely just picked up momentum. It was an attempt at reckoning with how institutionally misogynistic and sexually exploitative most institutions are and what women are constantly put through. So it was crushed.

Love this so much. 💜

It's all about Troy Parrott tonight and rightly so, but after watching most of the game back there, it's worth celebrating Caoimhin Kelleher's contribution over the two games. What a ball into Scales! #COYBIG

I'm just waiting for Traitor Trump and Heroin Bob RFK Jr. to tell us that releasing the Epstein files causes autism.

To knit together two stories: through intimidation, litigation & extortion, Trump is clearly trying to create a media ecosystem where nobody asks him about Epstein - or indeed anything discomfiting. It is appalling to see so many UK media individuals & institutions aiding & abetting his corruption.

Most Irish moment of the presidential inauguration: 'there's the president's husband, a woodwork teacher for many years, and of course her father was a carpenter's, and she has a brother who's very involved with Galway hookers'.

Hard to imagine how this could be any more horrifying but in 2018 @psni.bsky.social were using their resources to spy on and arrest two investigative journalists. @barrybelfast70.bsky.social @thedetailtv.bsky.social #speigorm #speirghorm @rte.ie @irishnews.com www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

Lunatics like this are emboldened when the Tánaiste & other gov ministers scapegoat migrants for their neoliberal decisions of austerity that suck the country dry. I know we all know this, but it still needs to be said every time. www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co... #IrishPol

Buy books from bookshops! In Ireland some fab options are @kennysbookshop.bsky.social @booksupstairs.bsky.social @omahonysbooks.bsky.social

Don't support that bald dick-with-ears Bezos. To hell with Amazon orders. You don't need that shit. Support small businesses instead.

Lot of nonsense today on the timeline about the origin of the term Hallowe’en. Just to be clear it’s derived from the Ulster Scots ‘Hello Wains’, which is how dressed up children were greeted when they were out knocking on doors. #HalloweenFact #Samhain

So if you voted for CC last week, today would be a good day for a polite email or phone call to your local FFG TD explaining that you didn't do so because you thought immigration policies were too soft..

Stop using Amazon for shopping and cancel Amazon Prime. He’s fucking over employees before the holidays to use AI instead of human labor. You bald Dick-With-Ears, how much money do you think you NEED?

Still incredible to me you‘re a wokescold cringelib or whatever if you think mainstream Irish journos and political parties shouldn’t be using a website run by this man

Israel is bombing tents again with F35 jets. They commit genocide with impunity. There was no ceasefire, they broke it every single day. They must be held to account. Speak up. Take action. Free Palestine 🇵🇸

Given the party's refusal to act on Pochin's brazen racism, it should be as socially unacceptable to vote for Reform as it was in the early 2000s to vote for the BNP. And we should be prepared to say this to people's faces.

And yet the PSNI’s Professional Standards branch refuse to hold misconduct hearings for most of those involved. This is the organisation tasked with tackling the epidemic of violence against women and girl in the north where 29 women have been murdered in the last five years.

Much like Hillsborough, you have to marvel at how Britain as a system is so utterly impervious to accountability: decades of orchestrated bullshit, legal shenanigans and institutional roadblocks, and then one final great rasping fart of “maybe it was elves that did it, and fuck you”.

Here's a sample piece of "journalism" from one of the "news" outlets that signed the DoD rules. Welcome to the new press corps.

Conor McGregor sexually assaulted a woman in a hotel. At the time, I didn't see gangs of angry people trying to burn down boxing rings or ban MMA fighters from entering the country. Maybe because the riots last night in Dublin weren't about the victim but about racism and right-wing nationalism.

It must have been absolutely terrifying for the people staying at City West last night - and no less today I’m sure. It’s heart breaking - and fucking enraging

Others have noted that this doesn’t have anything to say about who rioters were. But neither does it have a single word to say about the terrified people inside City West who were the intended targets of the mob’s violence

The rioters didn’t go there to attack gardaí, they went to attack the residents. Condemn the ideology, the hate.

The average age of U.S. homebuyers is now 56, up from 49 last year. In 1981, the year trickledown economics began, it was 31.

Apartheid Israel murdered at least 44 Palestinians in Gaza today in violation of the ceasefire. On Friday, they murdered a family of 11. The international community will hide behind the so-called ceasefire to avoid ending the impunity that enables these crimes. We can't let it. #EndIsraeliImpunity

If you share this thread or images, please credit @thenerve_news. We are only 3 weeks old (!!) & can only do this work with your support. And if there was ever a story that proves why Britain needs fiercely independent news outlets, it’s this. 8/ 🙏🙏🙏 www.thenerve.news/p/nathan-gil...

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion. Read that back. When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

Every time you use stupid ChatGPT, a thing that I once saw get a long multiplication sum wrong, it uses ten times as much electricity as searching the same thing on Google and the server cooling systems mean each use consumes half a litre of water.

Catherine Connolly crossed me on the stairs after leaving the hall light AND the immersion on. #speirgorm #smearthebejaysus

I read on IMDB that when TJ from My Girl was dying from anaphylactic shock after been stung by a bee Catherine Connolly was behind a tree with an epi-pen in her pocket breaking her hole laughing.

Catherine Connolly mugs hamsters and she has three tea pots and she once smiled for no reason and Fine Gael‘a first leader was a fascist.

"Is this the road we're going down now, to go lockstep with many other European countries in terms of brutalised repression against protesters?" Horrifically violent footage from Saturday. And still no statement from Minister for Justice Jim O'Callaghan, nearly a week on. #SpéirGhorm

Mental Health

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The Poems of Seamus Heaney review – collected works reveal his colossal achievement www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

#OtD 10 Oct 1937 fascist leader Oswald Mosley was knocked unconscious and hospitalised in Liverpool by a stone thrown by anti-fascists who attacked a Nazi meeting at which he had attempted to address the crowd stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8245...