The way Michael leapt to the defense of NGOs as an exception to "Bullshit Jobs" so many times let me know immediately that he's never worked on the operations side of an NGO. #ifbookscouldkill

All we are saying is give peace a chance.

My PhD thesis 'Carrying Capacity: Nitrogen and the Intensification of Irish Pasture Systems, 1945-2007' is finally finally finally finalised!! I'm very proud of it so if you're interested in Irish histories of industrialisation, the Nitrates Directive, natural […] [Original post on social.coop]

Well I'm knee deep in the newspaper archives again. #histodons #mastodaoine

The Black Lion pub in Inchicore, I do love it, but boy is it one of the places where Gender™️ Exists.

I feel almost trolled by this song by Pattie Gonia and Imogen Heap. Like these two artists who I loosely follow and am interested in but not huuuge fans of decided to make decent but sort of ineffectual environmental music (something I think about all the time). And then they made a music video […]

Hello obvious point but if the Minneapolis PD are xooperatibg with ICE to remove filter blockades then they are cooperating with ICE. Resist #frey and the MPD.

Curious why I haven't seen anyone talking about Wuthering Heights in relation to Marie Antoinette. That seems to be the obvious touchpoint Fennel is trying (and failing) to go for.

Does every town have a harp player who is reaaaaally into guitar pedals? I thought there was just one but apparently not!

So many lovely treats in my mailbox today! Excited to play around with this spoke board from @TomVulpes !

Okay so Pluribus is just The Good Place. I'm not a fan and I don't like that everyone was like "oh I can't spoil it for you just watch it."

My mate wrote a lovely piece on Minneapolis organising for Socialist Voice: https://socialistvoice.ie/2026/02/trumps-terrorism-in-minnesota-is-radicalising-american-liberals-says-union-organiser/ #minnesota #socialistvoice

Is Bovril vegetarian ?

This is my home town. Proud of everyone there but it really hurts to see things like this. https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/02/03/as-immigration-crackdown-spreads-beyond-minneapolis-the-small-town-of-northfield-resists #minnesota

Not the Irish Times reporting on Trump's call with the governor of "Missouri" 😅 Starting from: 00:05:45 Episode webpage: https://shows.acast.com/early-edition/episodes/cabinet-to-approve-patricks-day-white-house-plans-and-todays Media file […]

Okay, seriously folks. This is where you watch for what the Trump admin really wants. It's his art of the deal playbook to hit hard and then get concessions when he pulls back. Walz just said to MPR that he would agree to targeted immigration enforcement and would cooperate with the Feds on a […]

Seeing all these reposts of the national guard handing out doughnuts and coffee. 1. As far as people I'm talking to they were around Fri-Sat and cleared out yesterday. 2. It isso clearly PR meant to be cute which, even if they're currently the "good guys," isn't worth falling for.

Such a weak statement from big businesses in Minnesota asking for "peace and focused cooperation among local, state and federal leaders to achieve a swift and durable solution that enables families, businesses, our employees, and communities across Minnesota to resume our work..." Clergy and […]

The bets reporting I've seen on the political organising that has been building in #minnesota and it's impact on the occupation today. https://newrepublic.com/article/205318/minnesota-general-strike-ice-protest

Very supportive of the strike action obviously but "Day of Truth and Freedom?" Can we come up with any name in America that isn't muddled by vague patriotic language? This is has the same weight as if you called it the "Day of Apple Pie and Baseball."

I can't stress how deeply this article and these stories hit me. Every Minnesotan has stories like this people who are affected and involved. My brother has been getting hot chocolate to observers, my cousin meticulously documents what happens in Columbia Heights, my friends who are school […]

Ireland Changes Old WWII 'Éire' Signs To Read 'Not Greenland' #satire #waterfordwhispersnews #wwn #greenland #ireland

Very niche running drama, but there's a whole population of FFG twinks that wants so badly for Dublin Front Runners to turn into Gayns. It makes me want to die. #mastodaoine

My heart continues to go out to everyone in #minnesota, especially now hearing that Hmong people are the most recent group to be targeted by ICE. This administration wants to kill everything and everyone that makes this place so special. Godspeed to everyone who has been resisting and […]

To the person who has been REALLY mad about Junglepussy in OBAA, here are some lyrics: "Bitches love to critique They just swear they unique Holding me to your standards, history gon’ repeat Bitches can’t even see, eyelash on fleek You ain’t talkin’ to me, you must be talkin’ to these n***** […]

Instead of a year end list, I've been thinking about albums I'm bringing with me in to 2026 from whenever. In no particular order I've been listening to and/or thinking a lot about: 1. Lost and Safe - The Books 2. Us - Empress Of 3. Lux - Rosalía 4. Viva La Woman - Cibo Matto 5. Renaissance - […]

Re: #forkiverse, I still don't understand how anyone can engage with Search Engine as a genuine project after @pj labour bullshit at Gimlet. If you've been brought along by the project, happy to have you, and you're welcome to port over to an actual Fedi instance whenever you're ready.

Let's just keep it in our sights people are being dissapeared and families have been and are being broken up every day by ICE. This was happening before Trump, and if we don't stop it it will keep happening after. What people need is a full abolition of ICE and the oppressive powers of Bush's […]

Really tough to go to a watch a play with two act breaks and see the audience reduce by a third each break. Everyone tried their best but the script for Dublin Gothic really just isn't it.

🗣️The new reality TV tax breaks aren't intended to benefit RTÉ programming. They're there for big US production companies like FOX to film their stuff here for even cheaper than before.🗣️

Any transit official worth their salt will tell you that you have to put service in place for it to gain ridership. Public transit needs public money to run because it's a public service, it must be robust to be worth it. Limiting Northstar service then citing low ridership to close it is […]

It's all about oil.

Got into it the other night at the pub with an EU transport lobbyist for Ireland and he was, as you would expect, telling me about how eco-friendly all of Ryanair's flights are. He said something about their green fuel and I asked him what in particular was green about the fuel, was it hydrogen […]

Its a good day to be walking on water. #minnesota #MNastodon #icefishing #lakelife

So, and Merry Christmas by the way, did A$AP Rocky as a stage name evolve completely unrelated to Aesop Rock or is the allusion intentional?

Just hearing from some folks (@emojipedia) who had a wild time watching the third Avatar film in a 4DX cinema and boy I cannot wait for the Jenny Nicholson patreon video that comes out of this.

I passed my viva (yay) and am now waiting patiently patiently patiently for my corrections to be sent on so I can knock them out and properly submit the thesis and send it out to folks. I'm both excited and impatient to have the PhD in the rearview so I can start actually doing things with the […]

Thank you to all the #minnesota folks participating in and sharing info on ICE raids. It's horrible to hear about this while I'm across the ocean, but I'm glad to be able to keep up with it all! Sending love & power your way from Ireland.

I don't really like this brand of post that's like "we asked Grok about ____ and it said/didn't say what Musk would have wanted it to." Like they're never interesting or surprising because it's ultimately just reporting the text an LLM spit out. That isn't a story.

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Trump’s troops abducted a U.S. citizen for asking them a question. #minneapolis #minnesota ‘Tincher, a white woman in her mid-50s who stands 5 feet, 4 inches tall, insists she was at speaking distance from the agent and said that she did nothing to “impede” their actions. “Pretty soon they […]

Department of Justice is being sued for €4m for breaking contract for refugee accomodation centres. That's a whole lot of bike sheds just to weasel out of providing services to vulnerable people. According to the article there may be several upcoming cases like this. #mastodaoine […]

Bloated is the word I would use to describe/ The feeling that I have in my tummy deep inside.

People using the term "polycrisis" is such a red flag to me. Like begging you to say something specific or interesting.

Spent the last couple of days writing a barn-burner of a speech in my head for the #betafestival this weekend. I feel so strongly about my work and how this fellowship has both mangled it and advanced it. It makes me angry and vulnerable and I want to cry.

The #amazon gays are occupying the back lounge of Street 66 and honestly it's a bit gross. Like are y'all even fighting for unionisation?

What Harris isn't saying is that asylum number have gone down this year do to the UK's less-restrictive policies and that the EU immigration pact coming into effect next March will mean faster processing and more restricted movement for refugees without proper documentation. So essentially he's […]

Pretty sure GenV is the best show. It's horrifying and gripping and I care so much about all these characters.

Built a nice ikea desk/shelf today and I'm so happy with it. The room smells like pine 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️