Reactive public health messaging just doesn't cut it anymore. While you're defending paracetamol, these charlatans will have already moved on to banning condoms or period products. Public health (what's left of it) needs to get loud and proactive now, before everything is gone.

So news media are now pushing back against medical misinformation – in a way they haven't about vaccine & Covid-19 pandemic misinformation – but I think drawing the line at over-the-counter painkillers was maybe a few steps too far, no?

Just because I was walking past in the sun and I love it 😍

Imagine if your workplace had slippy floors, and your employer provided safety shoes, but they didn't have non-slip soles, and they were one-size-fits-all & uncomfortable, and didn't stop people from slipping anyway, so everyone stopped wearing them. This is about masking in healthcare settings.

I wanted to create a Sculpture reminiscent of old Sepia Photographs. This Freehand Lapwing Wire Sculpture has been created using Copper,Vintage Copper and Iron Wire. #lapwing #birdart #birder #wireartist #wirebirdsculpture

There's plenty of blame to go around, incl. the failing EPA licensing system which failed to prevent the repeated pollution events which would undoubtedly have weakened the resilience of any wildlife in the river,making them more vulnerable to whatever pollutant ultimately caused the huge fish kill.

To wit www.rte.ie/news/dublin/...

Better candidate for the Áras than, like, >90% of the field. www.independent.ie/regionals/we...

Every single time a form of UBI is implemented, it is successful.

Me: It looks like a good day to cycle to the playground in Newport. Narrator: It was not, in fact, a good day to cycle to the playground in Newport.

Also a really bad time for every living creature (including me) that would like to not live in a polluted biosphere.

There's really not enough said about the role of Irish judiciary in actively undermining even the most basic road measures Think also of activist judges who effectively neuter speed limits they don't like www.independent.ie/regionals/ke...

Roses are red Sweetly sings the lark

"Every country was put on notice by the ICJ that there was a plausible risk of genocide in Gaza.. every country became obliged under the law.. not to speak fine words, to take action to prevent genocide.. that obligation was activated on 24th Jan 2024" Chris Sidoti spells it out

Is Jim Gavin being run solely to smooth the passage of any legislation that would remove the Triple Lock? I don't see much else going on with his nomination.

Is Jim Gavin being run solely to smooth the passage of any legislation that would remove the Triple Lock? I don't see much else going on with his nomination.

Coffee prices up 21% year on year in the US , the largest annual increase in 29 years. #TrumpSlump

I love when there's an attempted moral panic about crime in Dublin, and then people who were around in the 80s are like, "Well, crime was so bad then that you could ring the local car thief and have your car stolen by appointment, so that it wouldn't get stolen on a day you *really* needed it."

If government department, Minister and official source put out statements on Mastodon an hour before anywhere else every journalist in the country would be on it in a hot second and you'd build an alternative distributed ecosystem in a few days

Same goes for Ireland. The best time to quit was years ago, the second best time is now.

If Micheál Martin really believes that there is "no justification for violence in democratic debate," then he needs to get the fuck off Elon Musk's social media platform.

One in three fatal crashes is linked to speeding. Yet speed limit reforms have been shelved. 🚦 Road safety is not urban vs rural, or green vs anti-green. It’s a public good. My latest @independent.ie opinion column 👇 #RoadSafety www.independent.ie/opinion/comm...

Look, it's a Friday. Let's all try to enjoy the next five hours or so before the Americans wake up.

This is a just snippet from a Journal article about the Russian drone incursion on Poland, but I wonder if there's more to come from this story of the Ryanair flight that circled over Warsaw before diverting. Full article here: www.thejournal.ie/drone-warfar...

- you clean up that banksy? - sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked

It is with heavy heart (and, unfortunately, deep affection) that I must reshare a snippet from the 1980s masterpiece “Yes, Prime Minister”, in relation to Russia’s drone attack on a NATO ally.

It is now a month since this major ecological disaster and there is still no definitive answer as to what caused it. Infectious diseases appear to have been ruled out. Chemical spill seems likely, but no source identified.

Israel offered a distraction at a time of need; how could he refuse?

This looks like an incendiary bomb, probably white phosporus, and its use against civilian targets is monstrous. (This is terrorism.)

Is there going to be any push-back AT ALL from the Irish Gov on Elon Musk, targeting our deputy leader, who has had death and bomb threats to his family? Have we surrendered our sovereignty to the Tech Oligarchs? WTAF is going on here? JFC

a single billionaire is asking for the same amount of money it costs the irish state annually to fund 2000 artists on its basic income pilot scheme so that he can host a golf event *turns slowly to look at camera* www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

📌 excellent thread on why we should loudly shame institutions using GenAI/LLMs: not only because it's wrong more than it's right, bad for mental health and horrifyingly awful for the environment, but because teaching people to use is 'better' (aka, more) IS NOT HARM REDUCTION in any shape or form. 👇🏽

Around $13b has been invested in this factory by Hyundai and LG, and it's nearly finished construction. Why would those companies stay now? This just looks like state seizure of an asset by Trump, or a protection racket shakedown. Mafia state. (Like post-USSR Russia.) jrnl.ie/6809847

At face value, this is a dumb racist act. Scratch a little deeper, and it seems like it might also be attempted state theft of an asset: The factory is almost operational. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"Delehanty is just a guy who used to work for Arthur Cox or something. Now he owns a daycare for dogs. I have absolutely no idea why he gets to be on TV, or why we should be hearing from him, other than he wants to be president." This week's column is about the presidential election.

This article hits the nail on the head. What we get from our Government is nice words, empty promises and little action, while our precious waterways die. 'That response highlights again our enthusiasm for enacting laws but not enforcing them.' www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

The blast wave rips through a tented village full of displaced people. Just war crime after war crime by a terrorist state.

Let’s raise children who can name more plants and animals than celebrities and brand names. Let’s raise children who enjoy, understand, and respect nature!

I'm happy to have been a signatory of this letter. We must stop accepting the high levels of school-acquired illness as the norm.

You know who'll feel emboldened by this? Netanyahu. I fear for the aid ships trying to reach Gaza.

Why doesn't the leader of our government just fund hospice care directly - from the government he controls - instead of shilling for Bewley's? Am I completely crazy for thinking that's how government should work? Funding vital services from the public purse?

Some of the most remarkable lost artefacts from the ancient world were the titanic wrecks of the Nemi ships, built for a Roman emperor. In their first-century heyday they held gardens, palaces and baths in a floating wonderland. But barely a decade after their recovery, they were lost forever.

Beavers pause while chewing trees to listen for movements so that the tree doesn't fall on them.

It feels like too many Irish people (>0) have been assaulted by German police recently and the Irish government doesn't seem to have reacted with even the meekest, "Could you not do that to our citizens please?"

my wife just got back from her book club of mostly offline people and i can report that the rumor has broken containment

Sand batteries are literally just silos of sand that retain heat exceptionally well -- so well that they can be tied to heat exchange systems to serve as proxy *electrical* batteries. Finland's new model can store enough power (100 MWh) to heat an entire town for a week. newatlas.com/energy/large...

"To me, personally, the lough is dead. It's not dying, it is dead." Realistically, nobody seems to care" - how will we explain to future generations that we allowed this to happen? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Lots of people are increasing their wealth on the back of this though, so it's not all bad news, right?