It’s been 6 yrs since my sister rang me about the respiratory illness that she and her colleagues in respiratory medicine, were terrified of. That’s the last time I knew that version of her, the next 18 months traumatised her forever. I know the world had to move on, but its hard to see the erasure

UK labour is currently defined by policies that support genocide, hate disability, are anti-trans, anti-lgbt, anti-migrant, anti-choice, anti-free speech, anti-freedom-to-protest. 'The left' is built on values of equality, solidarity, justice, better lives for all. How is this so hard to understand?

As you begin to build your 2026 reading lists (which is a thing I assume some people do), consider adding my really very short book on AI and Eugenics. Disabling Intelligences:Legacies of Eugenics and How We are Wrong about AI has a lot in under 50k words. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

I am never kidding when I say the sky here is a big reason why I moved back home to Ireland and why I've stayed. *Even* Kilkenny skies. This ephemeral iridescence resets all my bullshit. #SpéirGhorm

How about making a new year's resolution to put alt text on your pics and GIFs?

EXCLUSIVE: An MSP has written to Google after The Sunday National revealed that the tech giant has been giving free advertising to anti-abortion groups targeting pregnant women in Scotland 👇 Labour's Monica Lennon warned that Google could be subsidising misinformation

How did this get ethical approval?? Deliberately upsetting someone to cause overwhelm and then forcibly restraining them is inhumane. It is not therapy. Monstrous. 'Easy to use' - by captors, not the autistic individual. Autism is not an illness. Autistic people are not automatically patients.

You know you're too online when someone sends you the shocked hamster meme and you immediately know they are talking about Jake Paul.

it is almost Christmas which means it’s Muppet Christmas Carol season and that, in turn, means it is time to revisit this delightful interview with Michael Caine, who loves everything about that movie even more than you do

KidA just sent me his design for this year's Christmas tree topper.

All research is exploratory if you’re confused enough

Hope is forged through class struggle & direct action. Optimism is built by understanding our history & that when we fight we win. Reject the naïve toxic optimism & magical thinking of “everything is going to work out fine”. That is centrism spitting in your face. The system has always been broken.

my hot take is that "crudités" and "luddites" should rhyme and no I don't care which way

One time I saw Rachel and Keir hunched over eating spaghetti bolognese off the floor with their bare hands. They both looked at me and said "join us". I replied no and they immediately grabbed a handful of spaghetti and started to gallop on all fours with red Bolognese sauce dripping from their face

Restaurant staff are tough as nails. They have been forged in the fires of the worst of humanity

Your baby will be issued with their mortgage before discharge from the labour ward. Repayments begin on their 1st birthday. They will be placed on the housing list of the local authority in the least populated region. Interest will be pegged to CEO wages. Subsequent generations will inherit debt.

My research touches briefly on epistemic injustice in relation to people with intellectual disabilities trying to get heard in public consultation processes and it will be of zero surprise to any disabled person if AI generated participants are listened to before disabled participants.

Here we go! @lmesseri.bsky.social & I wrote about epistemic risks of synthetic participants ('AI Surrogates') in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social (see 🧵 here) bsky.app/profile/mjcr...

You only have as much rights as the most-vulnerable member of society, so you should make sure that most-vulnerable member of society does not lose any of their rights. Sometimes it really is that simple.

Before I moved to Germany I was volunteering teaching English to migrants and refugees in Dublin. On my last day before moving, a 60-something Ukrainian woman I'd been teaching said "Good luck" then glanced down at her lesson notes, and said "It'll be grand." Fuck off with your "social cohesion" bs

Excuse me, I forgot that “working class” means “white and male” and that “class politics” means “affirming racism and sexism.”

Jim O'Callaghan is a threat to our human rights protections. Ireland has long been a champion and a beneficiary of the ECHR. Why is Jim O'Callaghan undoing that position? Why is he aligning us with UK? Who in government has okayed this?

Can we commission CMAT to write a song about Jim O'Callaghan #spéirghorm

Jim O'Callaghan is a threat to social cohesion.

#birdoftheday #heronsandegrets

I had my first proper near miss driving back from Cork tonight & so so thankful the person behind me was alert and taking it slow. Completely my fault, a perception glitch caused by rain, insane Christmas lights and heavy traffic. No harm done except to my nerves, probably the other driver's too :(

🥰🥰 I don't know where I would be without my emotional support Eilís. Well, I do, I'd be rocking back and forth in a dark room sobbing every time I caught sight of my laptop. Don't struggle alone, kids!

This question has potential to go the way of the ones about bedsheet-changing frequency or washing your legs.

Does Dublin-based newspaperman Stephen Collins not know that Shannon airport is generally jammers with US troops? Why would Russian troops land in the one place in Ireland most likely to be equipped for battle?

Saw the Northern Lights

“I RIP’ed them.” A woman on the bus earlier, talking about replying to a wedding invitation. #speirgorm

Have helped organise a Christmas party for Sun for the children in my building & the person who was meant to be Santy is sick, anyone know anyone with a dream of being Santa in the #Cork area 😂🎅

www.thejournal.ie/charlie-mcge... #BoycottEurovision

Posting this just made me remember something and I’m angry with myself bc I should have said this sooner I have a lot used for testing that ends up not being used, and I have this Xbox adaptive controller and the full kit. Happy to ship it to any gamer who HAS THE NEED for the full controller

I made a Chrome extension that swaps Times New Roman for Calibri on every site or just .gov. It also had Open Sans and Open Dyslexic, because f**k these people. I’m waiting for Google’s approval for it to install automatically, but you can download it and install it in 90 seconds. Instructions 👇

There are only 2 types of dogs, collies and setters.

I have been watching this gorgeous pupper on Dog's Trust for over a year - we're not in a position to adopt a second dog right now - and he has finally been reserved. Really hope it works out, he is such a little dote. #AdoptDontShop #Spéirgorm www.dogstrust.ie/rehoming/dog...

Folks this is the new Speir Ghorm or #Speirgorm feed. It should be identical. Not sure what happened #Irishpol #IrishSky bsky.app/profile/did:...

The cat has taught my dog how to purr.

@markruffalo.bsky.social Mark, you are following 135 people, what do you expect? Follow some Palestinians. Believe me they are talking about it.

No disrespect to @deanbuckley.bsky.social, who is a genuinely good journalist, but it is absolutely mental that he's the one who has had to pick up this Gareth Sheridan shit, as opposed to seeing some accountability from the much more high profile people who initially gave him positive attention

Literal years of disabled people BEGGING senators and MPs to listen to them that death would be offered before the necessary care, and they brushed us off. Only for the obvious inevitable to happen. We fucking told you. Multiple times. What now?!

The absolutely most ridiculously cute couple 🥰🤩😍🤩🥰

Her: 🎶 I really can't stay... Him: 🎶 But baby it's cold outside Her: 🎶 I've got pepper spray... Him: 🎶 But baby it's-- wait what? AHHHHHHHHGHFUCK

"Gareth Sheridan went to Tucker Carlson's Christmas party" is already crazy, but "Gareth Sheridan took a photo with the world's most famous antisemitic conspiracy theorist, then voluntarily posted it on the Internet" is blowing my fucking mind

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Who is the audience for these Kingsman films? This WW1 nonsense is possibly the worst thing I have ever accidentally witnessed.

Your boyfriend small as hell