Okay, not the main issue, but imagine being an Irish person living quietly in the UK, and then one day they're like, "okay, here's your Brit Card." www.rte.ie/news/world/2...

Seeing some media figures saying that the Presidential race would have been more "entertaining" with Steen involved, like that's a good thing. Rather giving the game away, isn't it?

If this intends to make it legally compulsory for every adult in Derry to carry something called a "Brit Card", then I'm willing to offer some high-paid consultancy on why this plan might be flawed.

TBF, from what I’ve seen, it’s the old boys supporting Steen who think she’s a baddie…

i won't be voting for her but i'm happy to give her a platform to harm vulnerable groups ❤️

"Catherine Connolly endorsed Hamas!!!!"

I wonder what David Quinn and Breda O'Brien will be writing their columns about over the next few weeks

Trying to figure out if this is 50,000 separate oven gloves, or one designer oven glove that costs €50,000

Let's not dismiss Maria Steen – if you can't wear a €20,000 handbag in your greatest diva down moment, when can you?

i'm imagining the vibe in the iona office is mia goth in pearl screaming "i'm a star" rn

when u see someone else getting a lot of success and admiration and youre feeling envious take a deep breath and remind yourself that there is only so much love and happiness in the world and they are hoarding it

This pair look like the villains in a movie where the hero is a dog.

Unless that’s a knock-off, she’s clutching a Hermès bag that costs about €20,000.

Just had a look on Twitter and it really is funny stuff. Paul Treyvaud tagging a fake Bertie Ahern account begging him to 'work his magic' and get Steen the final two nominations. Declan Ganley fantasising about Charlie Haughey making Steen the FF nominee. Headloss beyond belief.

I'm qualified and practising in Irish immigration law for over a decade and I have NEVER seen as many absolutely batshit, not even arguably lawful decisions from the Minister for Justice as I am seeing now I fear our government has terminal social media brain

People have been able to get nominated in previous elections, those tended to have a record of doing something in the community or are known. So the process works. It just doesn't work if you're an extremist or have no record of doing anything positive for the community. #aras25

Does anybody need 50,000 Maria Steen For President oven gloves?

Diva down

Looking very displeased that the grubby heathen hoi polloi stymied her immaculate ascension, but if she needs a tissue to dab away a perfect tear, I’m sure she’s got some in that €20K Hermes bag she’s got there

Happy she isn't going to be able to run, sorry I won't see the hot husband on the TL

An aspect of drone warfare not wholly reckoned with is that it permits state actors to use violence in public without getting their hands dirty and under the cloak of plausible deniability.

Steen claims that being taught to read before she went to school (this is hardly rare!) is the reason she does home schooling. This is absolute horse puckey: she does so because she is a religious ultra-conservative.

Fight misogyny by eliminating women.

It's alarming how many people need to hear this: racism is not the natural and inevitable response to the presence of (the wrong number of) racialised Others. It is a learned response, and as such it is contestable and replaceable. This is anti-racism 101. Entry level stuff.

I wonder if anyone introducing automated meeting notes, summaries etc to their teams has ever also considered the truly radical, disruptive approach of... having fewer meetings. 🤔

State recognition is not a substitute for honouring the obligation to prevent and punish genocide

POV: You are watching TV in 1994 as my grandfather tries to use the remote to increase volume but pumps up the contrast instead.

The Irish government has released a report on the benefits of the pilot for a Basic Income for the Arts, and in a total shocker, it seems like it was good for the country as well as the artists. Nobody could have seen this coming. #SpeirGorm #UBI www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

Hey, I'm your streaming app. Did you want to continue watching all these shows with 11 seconds remaining on the episode? Don't you want to know who dubbed them in Svensk?

This is *stunningly* disingenuous, and the fact that Singal continues to enjoy a career writing at the highest levels about a topic that he either unwilling or incapable of discussing honestly is such an indictment of the Anglo-American prestige media.

Honestly impossible to think of a better time to do this, I doff my cap.

I'd no idea that random Irish-MAGA chancer in Indonesia was posting mad stuff about Micheál Martin and Jim Gavin on X until the Irish Times and Independent helpfully signal-boosted him with stories on their homepages.

all this time I thought tylenol and advil had been some powerful painkillers that were illegal in this country but turns out they're just brand names for paracetamol and ibuprofen

Some great advice I got. When a landlord or boss wants to move an email conversation to the phone, take detailed notes of the conversation, then maybe write them up and email them, either to the person involved or to a friend. Even just the written notes will carry huge weight in any proceeding.

Kamala Harris on MSNBC now saying she “always believed titans of industry” would be guardrails for democracy but now—shocker—she reports that turns out they’re not. Only, she still’s waiting! “At some point they’ve got to stand up.” This kind of willful naïveté & denial doesn’t need airtime.

Back to work after a couple of weeks 👋 With some good news, the Irish Government will use Jordan as an evacuation route to get a new group of sick children from Gaza to Ireland, in an “imminent” operation expected to take place in October www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

oh boy this is gonna get a lot of use in the group chats

Today is perhaps a good day to remind people that Jimmy Carter personally and publicly pled with Obama to recognize to the State of Palestine before his second term ended and Obama just ignored him lol

Everything about this headline is hilarious. And the YouTube views are a reflection of how wildly the right has overblown the number of people paying attention.

While I absolutely agree that threats to politicians need to be stopped. But so do threats to librarians, migrants, teenage girls, any woman who does well and speaks up, I could go on. Online threats need to stop.

Dua Lipa fires manager after his attempt to stop pro-Palestinian rappers Kneecap from Glastonbury. telegrafi.com/en/Dua-Lipa-...

Oh shit oh fuck the xenomorphs have Adidas now

The debate around what is or isn’t “cancel culture” really just obscures a simple truth that it’s BAD to be massively racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic and it’s GOOD to speak out against injustice. Some things are good and some things are bad and it’s okay to say which you think are which.

🚨Sinn Féin backing Catherine Connolly #Aras25 #Aras2025

I know 6 people who have or very recently had COVID. While it never went away it seems like there is a surge at the moment. Please continue to test if you feel unwell. Please rest if you do get it. Please consider wearing a mask in general.

Only Dublin could treat the provision of public toilets as if they were being asked to land people on Mars.