You really need to see this second photograph. #speirgorm

Why don't you want my candidate who stands with racist arsonists and attends insurrectionist meetings? You said you wanted change, didn't you?

UK security services helped devise act that gave amnesty over Troubles killings

A party that cannot get a tenth of the vote in Dublin or Galway retains power. This is dangerous

You'll need to go for a long walk to calm down after you read how the UK got to here on trans rights. If you're only ever going to read one piece on trans people, this would be the one.

Happy "Your American Colleagues Are All Off" Day to those who celebrate. I'm gonna get so much work done today.

If I told you ten years ago all of the Jeopardy winners, doctors, lawyers, stat-focused sports nerds, and premium shitposters escaped Twitter on a pirate ship to a website that was completely inhospitable to Nazis and phrenologists……. I don’t know, man, I’d be pretty excited.

This absolutely shook me to my core as a Dad. What is wrong with people? Why can you just leave trans people alone? That’s all they want.

Pratchett’s politics evolved over the series, because he wrote them over the course of most of his life, and his own thoughts evolved. This does not make his politics “hard to pin down” unless what you’re trying to do is avoid describing the conclusions he reached about, say, trans rights, HELEN.

Far too close for comfort.

There’ll be fuck-all transfers for Thomas from the last two eliminations. I feel like Kyne will be more of the same, but Thomas would be actively damaging for the country, so I’ll take this as a positive. Ogbu and Nic Fhionnlaoich both very strongly positioned for the next general election.

Went to an anti AI datacentre protest march today and a friend of mine got a picture that summed it all up

The idea of Vote Left, Transfer Left was pretty strongly adhered to in Dublin Central as the count went on. What happened was that the voters didn’t consider SF to be left. The SF candidates big transfer moments came from Steenson and Hutch.

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

To quote Terry Pratchett: “Fantasy is the sea in which other genres swim.”

The rest of Ireland rediscovering that Galway West is the SLOWEST vote count in the country, every… single… election. Seriously, don’t expect a winner before late Sunday. Monday wouldn’t be impossible. #speirgorm

The spreadsheet from Gavan Reilly below, and the visualization from Ireland Votes (www.irelandvotes.com/elections/ir...) are both extremely useful for following today's election for Galway West. #speirgorm

🟣 GALWAY WEST after 35 boxes of 197 Kyne (FG) 17.57% Ogbu (Lab) 15.70% Thomas (Ind Irl) 13.17% Cubbard (Ind) 12.60% Lohan (SF) 8.38% Nic Fhionnlaoich (SD) 6.87%

Galway West: one-eighth of boxes tallied, primarily from the city. Helen Ogbu leads (16.75%), just ahead of independent Mike Cubbard (16.23%), Sean Kyne (14.11%) and Noel Thomas (12.96%). Ogbu has quadrupled her share of the vote from 2024, Cubbard also well up. Thomas 2.5% higher.

If you haven't voted yet and you live in Galway City or Connemara (Galway West constituency), you still have a little over an hour to get your vote in! Talk to your friends and family and make sure you all get your vote in. Every vote matters. Vote Left Transfer Left.

He doesn't mean they're doing better now. He just means we stopped helping them.

Prediction: the Galway West election will come down to Seán Kyne, and one of Helen Ogbu or Míde Nic Fhionnlaoich. After that, I can't guess what way it'll go. Noel Thomas will have an initial strong showing which then fades due to a lack of transfers. #speirgorm

Got me sticker.

Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should

The legend @cmatbaby.bsky.social said a lot more in her acceptance speech than what RTÉ are reporting. (Video posted by Lisa McLoughlin on Instagram - www.instagram.com/reel/DYnTKR3...) #Speirgorm

if you're cis and you are asked by your management to police bathrooms, "can you confirm in writing that you are ordering me to approach customers to discuss their sex?" is an email no manager wants to reply to

My ballot for tomorrow’s Galway West election: #1 Nic Fhionnlaoich, Míde (Soc Dem) #2 Ogbu, Helen (Lab) #3 Murphy, Niall (Grn) #4 Garrity, Sheila (Ind) #speirgorm @socialmide.bsky.social @gaillimhogbu.bsky.social @niallgalway.bsky.social @garrityforgalway.bsky.social Vote left, transfer left!

My ballot for tomorrow’s Galway West election: #1 Nic Fhionnlaoich, Míde (Soc Dem) #2 Ogbu, Helen (Lab) #3 Murphy, Niall (Grn) #4 Garrity, Sheila (Ind) #speirgorm @socialmide.bsky.social @gaillimhogbu.bsky.social @niallgalway.bsky.social @garrityforgalway.bsky.social Vote left, transfer left!

I have knocked literally thousands of doors in Dublin Central over the last 5 months and I can say with absolute certainty that the statement that this is "a contest for a parliamentary seat that has been dominated by xenophobia and immigration" is a complete fabrication.

I'm very grateful to Deirdre and the Irish Examiner for giving me the chance to offer a voice for rural Ireland that reflects the diversity and vibrancy of our communities. It is long past time to dismiss the reductive idea that rural Ireland can be reduced to two industries. #Spéirgorm

ABC killed fivethirtyeight.com, pulling down thousands of stories and dashboards. I can bring them back, but I can offer you https://fivethirtyeightindex.com, my new index of everything captured by archive.org.

I am once again begging, praying, weeping for lists of written instructions rather than videos. I do not want to watch your two minute video in the hope of catching the two seconds where you whizz past what goddamn menu the thing is under. Write. It. Down.

Mamdani: I cannot help but think of the words of our 40th president, Ronald Reagan. He famously said, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are 'I'm from the govt & I'm here to help'" I think nine more terrifying words are actually, "I worked all day and can't feed my family"

As I told a reporter last week, nearly all convocation brouhahas boil down to a single issue: Students, even normie non-radical students, rightly understand graduation as a day that is for them, and about them, and which belongs to them. You fuck with that at your peril.

So, that Wonder Man show was a goddamn delight. Just finished season 1. Such a fun, shambling, buddy show, with a totally different feeling from what you’d expect a Marvel show to be. (It’s also a “no homework” Marvel show. Ben Kingsley’s backstory is given plenty of explanation. Jump in!)

You may have read about the woman who gave birth in a Brooklyn courtroom Friday night while waiting to be arraigned. I spoke to an attorney who saw the whole thing, and says it was much worse than has previously been reported, a scene of "complete violence." hellgatenyc.com/birth-in-bro...

The “we don’t have the votes” excuse for refusing to force a vote on impeachment is conceding the point and saying even the opposition party doesn’t think this high crime merits removal from office. It’s not being politically astute and pragmatic, it’s self-defeating in its cowardice.

More than 100,000 children have been separated from their parents during the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, a new analysis by the Brookings Institution suggests. Roughly three-quarters of those children are likely U.S. citizens. nyti.ms/42CBGKt

If I was mad with power, we would have Onion Police, with full Judge-Dredd-style powers of arrest and sentencing, for restaurants who serve woefully-undercooked red onions.

I've always felt the best way to get people subscribe to @dublininquirer.com, is just to publish good articles and wait and hope. But I'm told, that people are busy and might have other things on their minds than us, so I'd better make a pitch, better ask. So here goes. 1/

In Ireland, Gina G is today known as GG4. #IrishFacts

The dude has literally told us twice that he doesn’t give a damn, and the Times still writes it as “critics say.” Some say the NY Times is broken.

Delighted to tell you all that I have a new series in @thejournal.ie where I get to grips with all things Ireland-coded! Have you ever stopped to think... what exactly is a parish pump? jrnl.ie/7040952

”… and that’s why we must stop them from hoping, so they stop criticising us.”

“I don't understand what it's supposed to do. Every time I see a video on Instagram that's like, 'Hollywood is cooked,' what follows is, like, the most stupid dog shit I've ever seen in my life…”

Gerontocracy is how I still occasionally see people talk about AOC being too "young" and "inexperienced" for a presidential run despite the fact that in 2028 she will be 39 and have spent a quarter of that life as a US congressional member sitting on 5 different oversight and finance committees.

This is legitimately one of the most horrifying things I have ever seen in all of the LLM bullshit that's out there. (That "joyful" is misspelled seems especially meaningful.)

A very good afternoon to the absolute hero who organised and parked this beauty in the middle of little Tommy’s far-right hate march. ❤️