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Just got a message from a former youth club member - they went to see @viktorcomplex.bsky.social in January and last night made their own drag debut and I have never heard them so happy and confident. Spread your joy, whatever it is, it might be catching.

This is how you do it. #Accessibility #InclusiveDesign

and the last two:

Not a great fan of either, my housemates watched them, but I did feel the UK version would've been improved if it hadn't cast Gervais. He's a woeful actor with one overdone bit going on, should stick to writing.

Wheeling out this classic. RIP Anne "Bone Farmer" Widdecombe

You'd be forgiven for thinking that geography had already been abandoned, the UK has become so lost, directionless and devoid of a moral compass.

It has been criminally underreported but Kelsey Pfendler has just rowed solo across the Pacific Ocean from the US coast to Hawaii in record time. A 2,400-mile unsupported journey in 43 days, 17 hours, and 55 minutes. Notably beating the Men’s record by 9 whole days.

Please #SpéirGhorm #SpéirGorm, please, for the love of whatever you happen to hold holy, if you know someone who has room in their home for an autistic unemployed-but-with-HAP woman in Dublin, let me know. I cannot overstate how grateful I would be. My current situation is just not sustainable.

After flag gesture, Egypt team's coach urges: 'Let the Palestinian people live' He added, “people who have no empathy for Palestinian civilians have lost part of their humanity.” www.haaretz.com/sports/2026-...

Maybe Musk should hire her instead of dismissing her, the curve of her back alone possesses the power to launch an entire Mars-bound armada. (And hopefully we'd be rid of him).

Colombia v Switzerland being referred to as Charlie v The Chocolate Factory.

[US politics] Any normal-minded person would have gotten the ick at "progressive oysterman", how on earth did you all let it get this far?

Remembering Trans March a couple years ago where I almost dropped my skirt in the urinal of a port-o-potty. “IT IS TOO EARLY IN THE MORNING TO BE COVERED IN THE PISS OF STRANGERS,” I shrieked. One port-o-potty away, a pitch-perfect Gandalf replied “AND WHAT ABOUT THE PISS OF VERY OLD FRIENDS?”

not just insecurity, but contempt for Irish culture itself. it's a prop for them, at best. no time I felt more completely certain I wouldn't run into Clonmel fash than when I was stewarding at the Fleadh Cheoil Thiobraid Árann last year

Pico Lopes behaves on camera like a guy who has always been a superstar. And his line about catching up on his share of the night feeds was very sweet.

Love this dude. Long may his legs run. #StopTheGame #StopTheGenocide www.thejournal.ie/pico-lopes-i...

I grew up close to Black Castle, my parents are buried in the neighbouring graveyard,we used to catch gudgins in the river, the fairy fort featured strongly in our myths. This is a lovely piece, yet still it doesn't do the magic of the place or the family justice. www.independent.ie/lifestyle/ho...

Ooof! This is chaotic and awful but I'm glad I stayed up. C'mon Mexico! #mexveng

Ah, so it was a red card all along. #mexveng

Well feckit. #ABE #COYBIG

It has to be @girvinia.bsky.social 💕

I'm sorry, Lyra. I'll never forget how angry you were in my car, talking about how many people's families and loved ones were denied justice because of the culture of intimidated silence that surrounded paramilitary murders in Northern Ireland. It's dark that you have now joined that long list.

There's a problem with posting about how your lovely barbecue today is the real USA. It's that a society where someone must put up with what this woman is putting up with is failing That's also part of the real USA. Same goes for Ireland and the UK. Complacency is easy when you're not the target.

Niamh Bonner's craftivism leading the way to the rally to mark 1000 days of genocide at Banba Square in Nenagh this morning. Guest speakers included Medea Susan Benjamin and members of North Tipp IPSC. #1000DaysOfGenocide #FreePalestine

Asking how people can partake in joyful acts during a period of immense suffering leads me to believe this is your first time at the suffering rodeo.

This is my neighbour's cat, big chonky Bounty. Her hobbies include freaking us all out by pretending to be roadkill and sitting in the middle of the road on the estate to terrorise learner drivers #Caturday

the joke going round is that Ukraine requested these be donated to Russia instead

The findings in Baroness Amos’ maternity report are desperately sad and frustrating. They reveal a maternal health system that has been systematically weakened and the results are that women and babies lose their lives unnecessarily.

Very proud of this attempt at a card I made for my cousin's wedding tomorrow. Think I captured his bould Cork sneer and the relentless patience of his betrothed. Even managed to get the sweatmarks off it.

It has hit 31⁰C in Nenagh. It's never been recorded this high before. KidA went to the lake. B is sitting in front of a fan in a dark room. D is working, I don't know how. Cat, dog are stretched out motionless on the kitchen floor tiles. I am mostly steaming liquid, can't speak coherent sentences.

'I don’t understand a world where the consequences of speaking out against a genocide seem worse than the consequences for the people actually enacting a genocide' - Ciara Mageean

Stay gold, Ponyboy. yes i said yes i will yes

The Garda FRT bill passed last night in the Seanad. But not before @aliceeire.bsky.social asked again and again why it narrows the EU definition of biometric identification It narrows it to comparisons of bio data against databases of named ppl but the AI Act doesn't require named individuals

My strongest memory of Starmer will be his 2024 conference speech, where he said "every child deserves respect", a young activist said "does that include the children of Gaza?", and he laughed and said "he's obviously got a pass to the 2019 conference".

If you are involved in disability/health/social care/advocacy/rights and have an employer who would support you to do a postgrad, consider the LLM in International & Comparative Disability Law & Policy at @uniofgalwaycdlp.bsky.social. It's a life-changing experience.

Irish people, confused by a British government thrown into disarray, reflexively declare independence again

Kermit and Piggy are central casting for Leopold and Molly Bloom. Stephen is the one human character, played by Timothée Chalamet. Link Hogthrobb is Boylan; Rizzo is Buck Mulligan. Sam is A.E. Gonzo is Simon Daedalus. His chickens are Misses Douce & Kennedy. Statler & Waldorf are the Citizen.

Sharing food ideas is a good plan. Because frankly eating isn't fun when it's a zillion degrees out. Ice cream. Maybe ice cream is breakfast if it's all that sounds good. I like to make seasoned rice and then put chopped salad on top of it like low rent chirashi.

Sis didn’t stammer or stutter! History will remember how our leaders failed to protect the transgender community. They are children of God, they are children of Light and they deserve to be treated as such. Do better! #ProtectTheTransCommunity #SheShed #Pinks

Paula Dennan, ARC and Kerry for Choice spokesperson, spoke to Kerry Radio yesterday morning, about the result of the vote in the Dáil to remove the 3-day waiting period. You can find the link to listen, and full transcript of the segment on our website. www.abortionrightscampaign.ie/paula-dennan...

Still supported by the European Union.

1/ Many Palestinians in Gaza are descendants of families displaced from Jaffa in 1948, and many people in Jaffa today have relatives in Gaza who have lived through the horrors of the genocidal war. The distance between Jaffa and Gaza is measured in kilometers and in decades of separation and loss.

A challenge for the talented knitters and pattern-matchers of the craftiverse 🧶

🚨✅ Dáil approves a Sinn Féin bill removing the mandatory three-day waiting period for GPs’ abortion services within 12 weeks. TDs voted 86 to 70, with government backbenchers not having a whip. Bill is now referred to Oireachtas Health Committee for scrutiny of possible amendments.

Today at #17thDSS we reflect on missed opportunities in the UNCRPD, adapting to emerging challenges and consider the UNCRPD in conversation with other human rights instruments.

Hey lovely people, especially all you lovely Tipperary / Munster /Midwesht types. Any chance you could give @tippforchoice.bsky.social a quick follow or a boost? It seems hibernation was never an option so we're trying to rebuild our repeal gang here on Bluesky. Thanks for any help you can give us!

I just—like, sure, being a trillionaire is cool I guess but what’s it all for if you haven’t even seen the wreckage of the titanic firsthand

I'd like to think if you shot / hit a trillionaire coins would fall out like Sonic the Hedgehog idk anyway someone should try it

@clairehanna.bsky.social : "Last week, in a very high profile case, the murder of Natalie McNally, the judge.. talked about a frenzied knife attack, he talked about wounds so bad the cause of death was unable to to be determined. There were no riots over the perpetrator of that brutal crime"