Per most recent figures, net migration to NI *over the past 22 years* has been ~62,000 people. Only 3% of Northern Ireland’s population currently belong to an ethnic minority. Pogroms in Belfast (as with Ballymena last year) are just gutter-level "One Is One Too Many" racism, and nothing else.

The reluctance among media outlets to specify that these pogroms are the work of far-right loyalist thugs is particularly weird, given that they sign their work! The LVF spray tags on the houses of the people they burn out, whether Catholics, migrants or refugees. They've done this for decades!

As I wrote at the time of the Ballymena pogroms, I'm old enough to remember when the LVF attacked the home of disabled child because he was insuficciently Protestant. I'm old enough to remember this because it happened in 2024. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

We’ve now had two nights of violence in Belfast and yet almost nobody talking about loyalist paramilitaries, the marching season etc Look at where violence is. These are very particular parts of Belfast And yet hear more about ‘Protestants and catholics coming together against migrants’ than this

tradcath (calling in favors from your brother, the pope)

"maybe if you do it ex cathedra you can actually tell me how to fix my router this time"

27 people were made homeless after Tuesday night's violence in Belfast, including children.

This should be the news coming out of Belfast today. The Finucane family have fought for years to get to this point & the inquiry opens with a UK Govt apology that will get lost in today's news. Pay attention to this - the past hasn't passed here, as days of unrest show: www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

When these people insist the mere presence of people unlike them is an attack on them, their country, or their rights, this is exactly the outcome they are seeking, and disappointment among far right Trumpists is largely that he failed to produce events like this here. www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...

People apparently being put out in Ligoniel and Tigers Bay right now, Sandy Rowe is cordoned and people are being evacuated

X is entirely as expected about Belfast, massive amount of incitement to violence and thousands of likes on posts of pure hatred, don't understand why anyone even vaguely normal is still posting there

If you're in the areas affected, mind yourself. So worrying.

You'd imagine, as with the Dublin riots, when violence is being publicly planned on social media that people whose job it is to prevent this would get ahead of it. And yet.

Belfast Live have images of a family being evacuated in a landrover as houses go up in flames. I won't be linking to it because Belfast Live allow their comments sections on social media to be an open unmoderated platform for inciting hate and racist violence.

There is at least one house now fully ablaze.

Multiple homes and vehicles on fire. Loads of properties having their windows smashed. Cars being stopped and their passengers skin colour checked. Reports of people being forced from their homes in multiple locations. Masked men roaming the streets. Journalists threatened.

there's an absolutely wild amount to unpack here but that's a Côte d'Ivoire flag

wild that we got a new turn-based Final Fantasy before Elder Scrolls 6

if our current crop of politicians had been in Mayo in the 1880s they'd have been telling locals that action against Captain Boycott was not actually in their best interests and would cause more harm than good

“if you died nothing in my life would change”: a twitter exchange about a pizza “face god and walk backwards into hell”: a dril tweet about hollering at zoo animals “you cannot kill me in a way that matters”: a tumblr shitpost about mushrooms

the internet has given millions of keyboards to millions of monkeys and while we may not have produced shakespeare we have written some of the hardest lines ever conceived in an effort to be funny online

gotta level with you folks I am sick to the back teeth of these fucking fascists

I don't think extremely rare random acts of violence should determine national policy

these people are genuinely deranged

Nightdive are doing a Thief remaster I am going to fucking nut

youtu.be/K2hcks9X50E?... there's a star trek horror game with Ro Laren in it

The problem with this piece isn't that it doesn't attempt to debunk the idea of "two-tier policing" with facts. It's that it treats the idea as a valid (if wrong) political argument, rather than part of a racist and fascist attempt to justify white supremacy, mass deportations and race war >

"Two-tier policing" is part of a bad faith effort by the far right to portray white people as oppressed by malign, racially conceptualised forces & ultimately needing to fight back violently. Either Kuenssberg doesn't know this, or she does but chooses not to say so. Either ought to disqualify her >

Once again, the BBC, and Kuenssberg specifically, are proving themselves at best wholly unequal to the task of defending our democracy against extremism and at worst actively conniving with its destruction

these are getting weird

nobody writes teh anymore

significant parts of the Republican coalition are held together on the basis of “you don’t really believe what you say about us when it comes down to it because we’re all on the same team” and, well, turns out some of them actually do

Mad Max: Fury Road Babe: Pig in the City

what if

Departing for Thrax.

What country flag is 🏳️‍⚧️ and why are all their men so hot?

the film industry is shocked and confused as THE MOST POPULAR YOUTUBE SERIES IN THE WORLD: THE MOVIE beats out THE BOY GHOSTBUSTERS MEET THE GIRL GHOSTBUSTERS: PART ONE at the box office

Happy Ronald Regan Death Day to all those who celebrate

"If you remove the English Army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle, unless you set about the organization of the Socialist Republic your efforts will be in vain." -James Connolly

people are pirating BRAZILIAN DRUG DEALER 3 I OPENED A PORTAL TO HELL IN THE FAVELA TRYING TO REVIVE MIT AIA I NEED TO CLOSE IT the way god intended #games #indie #steam #boomershooter

Every few months a police WhatsApp group gets leaked and we get to read the rape and murder fantasies of a bunch of Nazi cops but, sure, they’re all too woke and white people are the ones to suffer, ok, fine.

A policeman who had the nickname “the rapist” kidnapped, raped and murdered a woman and the reactionary right went “look away, nothing to see here, leave the boys in blue alone, ladies, just flag down a bus if a policeman tries to murder-rape you”.

nice to see its not just the uk media who are batshit about bikes

CYCLE OF HATE and then the pic is this

let's do it