Be sure to tag #speirgorm for this sort of thing.

Someone stole my wife's maroon Raleigh Motus bike in Dublin City Centre this afternoon. If you see it, give me a shout

"legitimate questions" "just protecting women"

the far right have spent over a decade completely wrecking british institutions and turning those institutions in to propaganda outlets that persecute minorities. instead of fixing that the 'centrist' crowd are running around demanding that minorities stop criticising those institutions. 🙄

Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. “Big tech has made their choice.” www.404media.co/google-has-c...

Merry Christmas

This exposes the core lie on which the entirety of “gender-critical” transphobia is based. The transphobes’ entire campaign is based on the false claim that they represent cis-women. The number of signatories to this, is way higher the number of signatories to their transphobic WDI “declaration”.

Thrilled to hear that this trial has gone so well for Jonatan & that he can stay on the medication indefinitely! Kudos also to his mother, Aneta, who has fought like a tiger for Jonatan always. I hope 2026 brings many more good things to the Safiak family!💖

So far, the only outlet that has an accurate Brigitte Bardot obit headline is @aljazeera.com:

“This invisibility breeds resentment, creating fertile ground for some middle-aged individuals to drift into the conspiratorial corners of the internet… many experience isolation just as they are searching for meaning, and online, they find communities ready to supply it” 👆🏻Also TERF origin story!

Trump’s Christmas Day attacks on Nigeria a complete failure and cost nearly $30 million. Witnesses report the US struck fields and farmland in areas with no history of terrorist activity or presence. On top of that multiple US missiles failed to detonate & sunk into the dirt.

Filming them committing terrorism is now itself an act of terrorism?

The BBC is really showing its arse with its editorial guidelines recommending the use of a pseudoscientific dogwhistle in reporting that mentions trans people. It's important that they're not allowed to continue using fake-scientific insults in peace. New piece: oolong.medium.com/biological-m...

I'm not sure if people realize the murder strikes are taking place across a large region. It's quite staggering. www.newsweek.com/map-us-strik...

Happy Christmas

1/🧵 I take it for granted that everyone deserves to be treated with dignity and respect. The real question is whether trans people get equality and justice: specifically, whether the law protects trans people and provides effective remedies against wrongful discrimination. Also…

In case you need a positive reminder: How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Happy Wran's Day! The Wren, or Lá An Dreoilín, is still strong in parts of Ireland (notably Kerry), with elements entwined with nature and the pagan roots of this time of year. "Up with the kettle And down with the pan Give us a penny to bury the wran" Prints: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...

Back to work today.

Matt Treacy setting the Christmas tone over at Gript Grange with an impassioned plea for literal Lebensraum. 😬

Anti-trans demagogue and fifth place swimmer Riley Gaines earned $470,000+ last year from a conservative non-profit. Notably, $420k was incentive-based. A neat little window into the way the transphobic grift is being compensated. I wonder what the per-post rate is?

Here's a particularly juicy nugget I found in my reporting . . .

Reginald D Hunter: Judge quashes antisemitism case brought by Campaign Against Antisemitism share.google/ZTaIKxV9sgmv...

Gotta say, as a survivor, I’m not super loving this thing where the Department of Justice is running a cover-up of evidence the President sexually abused minors.

In our second most-read story from March 2025, a family speaks out following the failure of a school and the WRC to address homophobic bullying their son experienced. #YearInReview

oh the weather outside is frightful the lack of snow is not delightful the temperature's way too high we're gonna die, gonna die, gonna die

The mark of a free society is that there is the right to protest & to free speech. Greta Thunberg has been arrested in London for holding a pro-Palestine poster; tens of thousands of far right rioted at the Cenotaph pro-Israel, causing public disorder & violence. Only 25 of them were arrested!

Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.

GUYS EVERYBODY KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR LOVELY SWEET ERNIE SO HE CAN BE HOME FOR CHRISTMAS

◽ The TERF establishment's opposition to Scotland's self ID scheme was not 'grass roots' ◽'Gender critical concerns' are unscientific from start to finish ◽"Women's groups" have not opposed this. Transphobic hate groups have. ◽Laoise de Brun has some interesting friends:

It's like the 12 days of Streisanding.

I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

Man’s cohabiting partner entitled to provision from estate after father loses appeal - - some still trying to put lgbt surviving partners out on the road. Thankfully the law has changed and recognised non marital relationships.

[INT. LIVING ROOM ON DECEMBER 23] FOUR-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER: [suddenly sounding bereft, surrounded by almost empty advent calendars and literally within five feet of the Christmas tree] When is it going to be Valentine’s Day?

Just to be clear, as long as you use the Bible as justification when you write the most banal, semiliterate essay at the University of Oklahoma, you will be passed otherwise they'll sack your lecturer.

"My husband voted for Donald Trump believing he would only harm people who don't look like us. Then he harmed people like us".

Footage of drones off the Irish coast during Ukranian president's visit may be kept from the public www.irishexaminer.com/news/politic...

And now someone has uploaded a version that wasn't filmed off a TV. There's also the torrent link there, which is probably the fastest way to download the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT if you want to save the file locally to your computer.

If you're having trouble watching other versions, here's an Internet Archive link for the 60 Minutes CECOT segment suppressed by Bari Weiss in the U.S.

What if we built a Cybertruck for the water?

holy shit it's happening they streisand effected themselves

Today in "Turkeys who vote for Christmas..." youtube.com/shorts/N3Aha...

This is becoming a very very shameful episode - and a tragedy for these young and courageous people and their friends and families filtonactionists.com

Join us at 2pm on Wednesday 31st December at the Ha’penny Bridge, Dublin to attend our annual New Year’s Eve vigil for the people of Palestine, especially those in besieged in Gaza – to remind people that despite the attempts to gaslight us, ‘There is NO ceasefire in Gaza’. #FreePalestine