The apparent success of the boycott in defence of an incredibly wealthy white man, who has an extensive resources, cannot be where y’all put down your pitchforks. Take the win, turn the momentum to the defence of Mahmoud Khalil. Free speech, right?

A likeable as well as intelligent team there from Merton #UniversityChallenge

It's disgusting that a man can he prevented from running for President just because nobody has heard of him and he's never done anything or filed the required paperwork

Tusk, next breath: "“Trump is doing the opposite of every single one of those things,” he says. “There is definitely potential that he will destroy everything that makes the US economy unique and successful.”" After offering green cards he pulled them away with MAGA backlash. $100k H1b visa fees

Looking at RFK's recent moves, including an attack on the hepatitis B vaccine and on painkillers for pregnant women. The common theme: That all children's health problems are due to "bad" mothers. This isn't about making kids healthy. It's misogyny. www.salon.com/2025/09/22/r...

If anyone’s looking for these in Dublin, send me a message and I’ll point you to the charity shop. #StarTrek

I had the privilege of doing some training in Restorative Practice with Emma - it is so worth doing if you get the chance.

Check out their work on Developing an Irish Restorative Community — Insights, Lessons, and Theory Contributions: www.ncirl.ie/Research/Res...

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Sadly the current right-wing coalition government in Finland has cut the funding for the nation’s “Housing First” success story, & homelessness is now on the rise again. That just reinforces the fact that such programs work, if political ideology doesn’t stand in the way. ysaatio.fi/en/news/home...

Hatred

I had a very frustrating time after the pub last night being completely unable to secure a taxi. But the really annoying bit was THEY ALL HAD THEIR LIGHTS ON! They gave me false hope signalling they were available. Should they not turn their lights off as soon as they accept a booking?

Why, if they are scared shitless of women, gays, trans folks, brown people, and even the disabled having any kind of power (or in some cases just existing), is it called the "strong man" politics? "Pants-wetting coward" politics more like.

Ah! That’s Bass!

On X I used data to show London does not have the highest crime rate in the world. 10 mins later a right winger linked to my book. 10 mins after that I got 40 1-star reviews from unverified accounts (previously 4.9 star avg). Fair play to Amazon - they removed them all. But that's how it works.

Sinn Féin has announced that it will support Independent candidate Catherine Connolly in the Presidential Election, ending months of speculation over its position

A pal got this sticker at Belfast Pride. I’d like to buy a few of them. I can’t find a shop on the Belfast Pride site. Does anyone know who made these stickers and/or anywhere I might be able to make a purchase?

My normally reserved husband took great joy in cancelling our subscription and specifying why.

It’s here! We’re elated to share that WTF Happened: #WakingTheFeminists and the Movement That Changed Irish Theatre by Sarah Durcan with Lian Bell has arrived in the world. Learn about the story behind this groundbreaking feminist movement. 🔗 Order at bit.ly/WTF-Happened or bookstores nationwide

“President Reagan just signed the new tax law. But I think he was in Hollywood too long. He signed it, ‘Best wishes, Ronald Reagan.” — Johnny Carson Carson constantly poked fun at Reagan. Never had the FCC telling him he couldn’t. Because it was his constitutional right.

If you have little ones, it might suit you that National College of Ireland kicks Culture Night off at 4pm with lots of family fun, including access to the PlayLab and Sanctuary. www.ncirl.ie/Events/ArtMI...

Learning to live with the knowledge that you could lose everything at any time, to accept that as a core fact of the universe, is one great strength of religious practice, but you don't need religious practice. You do need to accept the point of building is to build, the point of living is to live.

For some inexplicable reason, this brilliant 1938 anti-Appeasement cartoon by the great David Low came to mind when I looked at the list of the Mega-Powerful / Hyper-Rich at yesterday’s Windsor Castle nosh up for our superhuman masters.

Corporate clients often deem AI-generated art "good enough"—especially when it won't be public-facing and thus subject to backlash. As such, artists describe dramatic reductions in work over the last two years, an influx of gigs fixing AI output for less money, and vanished jobs altogether.

Data showing the specific movement of tens of thousands of smartphones in Ireland is available to purchase from companies working in the digital marketing and advertising industries, an undercover Prime Time investigation has found. www.rte.ie/news/primeti... #spéirghorm

I see that free speech finally died in America last night. Will be cancelling Disney+ later today. A small gesture, but am certainly not going to be funding ring kissers.

The bus is a swamp of disease - will my carrageenan nasal spray and mask protect me enough?! 😱

I chatted IRL with a male colleague this morning, who would sometimes be served snippets of CK talking at universities, seeming quite reasonable, unless you clicked through to hateful diatribes. He reckons a lot of people will only have had that passing, superficial 'he debated people' view of him.

I wanted to get this from further back, with the derelict City Arts Centre to the right, but there is too much street furniture, poles, signs, lights. Maybe better to make this a hopeful than a depressing pic!

I decided to bring the big umbrella today, which means it’s unlikely to rain as much as originally forecast

Channel hopping and saw a mention of the Window Tax - can’t help but think that licensing commercial drones is similar - trying to monetise airspace rather than light.

"It is not just, for instance, that Kirk held disagreeable views—that he was pro-life, that he believed in public executions, or that he rejected the separation of church and state. It’s that Kirk reveled in open bigotry."

If you see this, quote the energy you bring to bluesky (I wish)

I maintained this list for a bit over two years until it got too depressing, and it was getting to large to fit in a single graphic. With research assistance, I'm willing to continue. The last victim, a Black man, got in the way of a gunman in Winston-Salem NC on 6 Aug 2019.

Once again we remind everyone that "a generous welfare state, but only for people we like, and who are like us" is an absolutely core proposition of European Fascism, and is absolutely what this means.

Not my best #UniversityChallenge, too much geography! Glad LSE got through cos of Beirne, but thought the teams well matched: was tighter than the final score might suggest.

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

Now I am being silenced by the Washington Post for -- *checks notes* Lamenting America's acceptance of apathy towards political violence and gun deaths-- especially when the violence is encouraged and carried out by white men.

My OH is excellent at finding ‘traditional’ wedding anniversary gifts. 24 years today, so a little opal cat was waiting for me in the spot I normally have breakfast. I love opal but knew there was some bad feeling about it, so I looked it up and was reminded of the power of popular fiction.

Elon Musk has shown time and time again both (A) a propensity to tip algorithmic and financial scales in favour of his far-right faves and (B) an obsession with Irish matters. In a sense, McGregor probably is right - it might not be the end of his political agitations.

OK, I think it's time to start rowing back the amount of X, the Everything App screenshots on here. I feel sufficiently aware that many posting there have hypocritical, even incoherent, views on current events.

I’d say it this way: Conservatism consists of exactly TWO propositions, to wit: that conservatives have an exclusive license to to defend themselves from threats; which bestows an irrevocable license to commit any act of violence against any perceived threat, however slight or hypothetical.

Conservatives don’t want to admit that the times they hearken to were times of a vast dehumanizing injustice, but it’s hard to miss the fact that the only way they can think of to restore us to those times is by restoring the legal and cultural apparatus of that vast dehumanizing injustice.

I wish Boy Parents paid as much attention to what their offspring are up to as Girl Parents and middle school teachers have to do to prepare our daughters for their Tate-addled -chan-reared sons.

Bongino: so i hea you don't like dat charlie koik King: honestly, no King: i don't like that he spent his life spreading hate Bongino: whoa whoa whoa dere stephen king Bongino: sounds to me like someone hea wants ta get disapeared

“Well, I won’t be losing any sleep over it,” he says, having threatened legal action on the society in order to force a reply from them…

Bullies feel entitled to pick on others. They scream very loudly if anyone hits back. They are often surrounded by sycophants excited by the drama and power dynamic, who will defend them and amplify their complaints. If bullying is reported to you, don’t listen to the loudest cries, track actions.

The other shooting in America. A 16-year-old boy who shot two students and then himself at a Colorado high school "appeared to espouse white supremacist views online"... "with references to mass shootings and antisemitic views".... www.denverpost.com/2025/09/11/e...

"There is a separation of white people and colored people in the United States. That separation is not a disease of colored people. It is a disease of white people. I do not intend to be quiet about it." - Albert Einstein, 1946

I seriously don't know how to explain to people that it is not in fact a sign of maturity and democracy to peacefully debate whether certain groups of people should be allowed to exist