‘Former Washington Post staff writer Gillian Brockell has been tracking the movements of ICE-contracted aircraft and documenting repeated stopovers in Shannon since last May.’ - Colin Sheridan @gbrockell.bsky.social www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

yeah so anyways, i’m never voting for gavin newsom

when they have me flying a bomber in Civil War Woke im painting this on the payload

Eliminating gender studies courses helps to ensure that universities and other institutions will continue to protect men who benefit from the abuse of women and girls, either directly or through their connections to those who exploit girls and women for profit. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

DOGE allegedly used ChatGPT to identify 1,400 NEH grants it said were DEI. Grants were terminated April 2025, according to a court filing. E.g. Film: 1873 Colfax massacre Film: first female pilots flying for U.S. military in WWII Film: “Untold Story of Jewish Women Slave Labor in the Holocaust"

No.

“The suppression of gender studies is not only an attempt to suppress a critical analytical tool, but also knowledge itself.”

In a few hours I will be on a plane to Ireland. I am so very tired and grumpy, and I do not want to be doing the thing i have to do there. I shall, naturally, be on the drink at the airport as is traditional.

The guy who first suggested doing double luge must have had to build up his confidence a bit first.

Forget goblin mode. It's all about amorous mothers of radioactive hybrid terror pigs mode from now on.

#SpeirGorm #BookSky

Tour #Scotland 4K #Winter travel photograph and video Blog clip of a Scotsman wearing a kilt and sporran and walking in the rain by a waterfall in Burn O’ Vat #Gorge on #ancestry, #genealogy,# history visit and trip to #Aberdeenshire tour-scotland-photographs.blogspot.com/2026/02/scot...

More than 560 items sold and over $12k raised for ACLU/NARF! Taking orders through March 1

Finding hard to swallow some Irish people saying politics should be kept out of sport when the British Army massacred players and spectators in the largest sporting ground in the country... It was political when IRFU refused to boycott apartheid SA, it is political when FAI refuses to do so for 🇮🇱

Having been blown away by our first ever starling murmuration experience on Monday in Limerick, we returned to the scene for more this evening. #speirgorm Truly amazing. Video doesn't do it justice. #BirdSky

cw: rape and violence Ok, this guy is going down. Please report these posts and the account for Violence > Threats or Incitement. Profile URL to Report: bsky.app/profile/elon...

🧪🏺 Update - authors have new paper showing how useless gen- #AI is for archaeological illustration. All 400 images were multiply inaccurate (physically, socially, technologically, environmentally), even with improved prompts. JUST USE HUMAN EXPERTS & ARTISTS www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

This is a disgraceful way to treat people with disabilities.

From mastodon: two stories side by side in NY Times

GRAND PLIÉ BEFORE ZOD!!! (and donate if you feel so inclined fundraisemyway.cancer.ca/participants...)

"Hang on a second; I just need to remove this torn white linen blouse and use it to wipe the sweat off my impeccably sculpted and fiendishly hairy torso." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/hel...

Not once but twice in the past month I have received visa refusals where it was claimed - falsely - that the marriage/birth certificates had not been attested by the foreign ministry. This is beginning to look like actual malfeasance. #speirghorm

We are seeking to appoint an Assistant Librarian in Marsh's Library. This will be a great position for an early-career librarian. Further details at: marshlibrary.ie/assistant-li...

This is how your email finds me.

With St Valentine’s Day tomorrow, we’re dipping into some of the courtship rituals and games explored in Pious and Promiscuous by @leannecalvert.bsky.social Find out more about Pious and Promiscuous: shop.ria.ie/products/pious

Where has the fabulous stained glass gone ?

The latest iteration of AI hype has everyone being forced to live in some kind of meta fanfic LARP 😒

Next month, government ministers will be relying on Irish arts and culture to open diplomatic doors for them as they travel around the world for St Patrick’s Day – yet, at the same time, they are slamming the door in the face of Irish artists here. www.hotpress.com/opinion/soci...

Love that an English hotel chain sets up in Dublin and five minutes later is going to the courts to try and shut down a long-running staple of our nightlife. Hoxton? More like Poxton, amirite?

SQUEEEEEE Cheers is on @tg4.bsky.social with HARRY THE HAT ❤️❤️❤️

Huge congratulations to Suntou Susso on winning not one, but two Global Music Awards! Gold Medal Winner for composer / composition and for originality / creativity. Congrats Suntou! www.globalmusicawards.com

CW: animal neglect This is Reba. She was surrendered to a shelter extremely malnourished with every bone in her body visible. She needs emergency care to survive, including a feeding tube for nutritional support. You can donate to her care below ❤️‍🩹 1510.fan/reba-bsd

🚨 We have heard that the County Archaeologist for Hampshire is being made redundant, with no plans to replace him. 🚨 If you live in Hampshire please write to your MP and Councillors. If you live elsewhere treasure and support your County Archaeologists, and stand by to protect them. 🏺

Here’s one from a wayzzz back, “Slow Drift,” oil on linen, 30”x24”.

"But Wikipedia’s volunteer community of editors reverted changes within minutes..."

Me & @judesherry.bsky.social are overwhelmed by response to this award winning Poetry-Film featuring #DerelictIreland campaign & our ffud streetart Here's closing sequence It's being screened in various festivals across Ireland, UK & Europe Poem: Jennifer Horgan Film: Philip Denvir #SpeirGorm

'Unique global position' really covering a lot of colonial extraction and genocide.

A 16 year old San Antonio kid was essentially killed by a football coaching staff during an offseason workout. Players were subjected to punishment drills and repeatedly noted the distress of their teammate, to no avail. After he collapsed, the rest of the team was compelled to continue the drill.

Short thread. This is pure institutional cruelty.

"Rather than building courses through faculty expertise or disciplinary knowledge, faculty gather complaints from alums now trying to get real jobs, feed those complaints into AI, and allow the system to revise the course accordingly."

www.bigissue.com/culture/film... I've done quite a few interviews in the lead up to the release of Wuthering Heights. I really enjoyed the Big Issue's focus on Heathcliff as Landlord (yet another thing that goes missing if you chop out the second half of the book in adaptation!)

This is BRILLIANT. Less 'Cathy!', more rent control please

Some of Elric's incarnations are confusing.

I got kicked out of the olympics after they caught me being the secret third person on a doubles luge run

"Racist people are firing and laying off Black women at three times the rate of other women." 😬Yikes! It sounds bad when you say it like that! "Black women are losing jobs at 3 times the rate." Much better! Makes it sound like the Black women just need to be more careful or better at their jobs!

“He got Me Tooed” “He got Epsteined” amazing that people have re-invented the police passive for rapists.

This is an incredibly interesting review. A banger piece of writing, too.

Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights” is a disastrous film of dulled desires, strange optics, and mediocre craft. Out this week: joysauce.com/the-dull-des...

"“It was pretty surreal to listen to that, because there was nothing about Medgar Evers being murdered,” said Michele Storms."