What happens in the US happens 10 years later in the UK and 5 years after that in Ireland. We could sleepwalk into this.

A brilliant post, so many quotable parts. "Pick the pencil back up". Fantastic.

i literally just wanted to own a two bedroom home in a walkable neighborhood where i can have three cats and a dog and wear nice outfits to go feed pigeons and now society is about to collapse

Yes, I did want to see this, tyvm.

“Ireland is described as “a live cautionary example” of energy demand running ahead of infrastructure, with data centres using electricity equivalent to all urban households combined” Everyone always says how fun it is to be held up as a cautionary tale by the UN www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

NSFW [picture of carpenter wearing a tie]

'Into The White' - and the many colours of Pixies - last night at King John's Castle* in Limerick. Wonderful to celebrate 40 years of @pixiesofficial.bsky.social with a great gig in a great setting.

Thanks @dolanslimerick.bsky.social, you did it again! Bringing the best acts to Limerick. *Pixies* tonight "Live at The Castle", was a fantastic gig - and King John's Castle proved itself yet again to be a spectacular and unique music venue.

Chatting recently about the idea 'can poetry change the world?' Maybe it can’t, but it can change how we think & feel, & that can change the world Heaney offers a dream of a society of peace & equality where ‘justice can rise up & hope & history rhyme’ #poetry #poemoftheday #seamusheaneysunday

And it was all yellow ... with a little pink #bloomscrolling

At some point the State decided it was going to stop building public housing. Nobody ever put that in a manifesto. The Ministers under whom the policy was implemented explicitly denied it was their policy. But it happened. And it has hobbled our society ever since.

Anyone who writes emails with fucking ChatGPT should be hung drawn and quartered in the fucking public square and anyone who doesn't agree with that has either never been on the receiving end of fucking ChatGPT emails or is using fucking ChatGPT for emails and should be first on the fucking list

Lunch 😋 #speirgorm

Even show a bit of solidarity and the next journalist repeat what the previous journalist asked, and every journalist ask the same question until he bloodywell answers

Also, blood-thinning/anti-clotting drugs like Warfarin (which I'm on because I have a metal valve, but are often taken by people after strokes/dvts) are very heat sensitive.

Mongolian throat singing and American bluegrass in a pub in Ireland (@bataajambaldorj and @taylordallasvidic on insta)

🔥Tonnteasa🔥

It was such a gloriously sunny day yesterday that we actually visited 3 different Co Clare beaches to walk and "take the air" (& Vit D!) Good for the body & the mind - Doughmore Beach, Whitestrand (& cliff walk), and even a quick pop into the (very busy) Lahinch. Beautiful Clare beaches #speirgorm

As to be expected when we've a rare hot & sunny spell, my feed is full of Irish people 'not wanting to be at work' today. This clip is not meant to "rub any noses in it', it is shared as a *timeline cleanse*. A 15 second clip from Doughmore Beach, Clare yesterday. Sound on, & breathe ..🌞 #speirgorm

The DRYING out there today

I know "one swallow doesn't make a summer" (especially here in Ireland), but, what if it's two?!? Hanging around on my clothesline on a Sunday morning. Made my morning, anyway. #speirgorm

With 90% of the food we produce leaving the country, and 90% of the food we actually eat being imported into the country, do we need to shift farming subsidies? #RTECountrywide #Speirgorm Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Samantha Libreri, reporting on the Dublin #ByElection on @news.rte.ie this lunchtime, is so professional that she matched her outfit with the "Polling Station" sign. #speirgorm

When I used to write for The Guardian, every time I wrote the word “meow” the editors would change it to “miaow”. It used to really get on my wick. Don’t try to make my cats sound like your upper middle class London cats, you fuckers. My cats did not go to your posh cat schools. They say “meow”.

"You were correctly outraged by how Ben-Gvir treated your nationals. Please think of how he treats ours.”

What happened on the flotilla was obviously bad, and should be condemned. But it shouldn't be condemned more strongly by our leaders than Israel's atrocities in Palestine and Lebanon. Temporary mistreatment of Europeans is obviously not worse than permanent annihilation and displacement of Arabs.

I'm sorry but the kids are SO alright

Other work of the Ladybird artists. ‘The Swallows’ Rendezvous’ (1937) Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

I have been forwarding this edition of @billmckibben.bsky.social's newsletter to everyone I know. The impact of Musk and Trump's cuts to USAID didn't hit right away, but they are hitting now. And in Somalia and the DRC it looks a lot like racist culling. billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-question...

#BOTD, 1908. 'Happy Birthday' to my all-time favourite "film star"; James (Jimmy) Stewart.

A poem for World Bee Day.

The fact that humans are spending national GDP sums of money so we can surrender our thinking to a machine that doesn’t understand truth, reality or morals, hoovers up resources and destroys the environment, even as the climate crisis threatens to end our civilization, is undermining my sanity.

Mr Sakila didn’t just become passively unresponsive at the scene - the video shows multiple men restraining him on the ground with their body weight, including one who knelt and then with his hands pressed down in his neck. Truly disturbing footage www.thejournal.ie/yves-sakila-...

We've created a huge incubator for deadly antibiotic resistant bacteria but neither SF or DUP will vote for measures to curb it because they both want votes from farmers.

When ChatGPT calls you Shirley instead of your real name, check if your phone is in airplane mode.

I ❤️ sport. I ❤️ Craig Casey. MoTM & CaptaIn Fantastic for #Munster. I loved Thomond Park tonight. The best Saturday 'night out" I've had in ages. The only show in town. A proper game of rugby. #suaf #proud

There is something powerful in the repetition in the line “There will be dying, there will be dying,” & then stepping away, a deliberate turning of attention What remains is what continues in spite of everything, he's not arguing for hope, he notices it #poetry #poemoftheday #MentalHealthMatters

Mid-May. Pastoral. Peaceful. Growth. Hope. Home. #speirgorm

in a way, isn’t causing men to crash out before she’s even done anything just proof that Lupita is perfect for Helen of Troy

Good news, everyone www.cnn.com/2026/05/14/h...

This is a nice rebuttal to the 'Bluesky is dying' alarmists. The metaphor makes perfect sense to me, and I like record stores too. Bluesky will never match Twitter at its peak, but, with "X" gone the way it has - further right than I ever imagined - I'd rather potter around here any day.

I'm sorry to say, as a Limerick woman, that I've never been in this pub - but having read this interesting piece I'm very inclined to try it out. A mixed reception originally, it seems, for the new owners, but lovely to read of the "friendship and advice" from other local publicans. #speirgorm

A strong contender for the most impactful joke I ever saw on normal TV as a kid. Short, perfect, and ingeniously stupid. A high watermark of the smart-dumb gag!

I set a similar assignment for my Philosophy of Mind and AI undergraduate students. The vast majority conclude that LLMs are unsuitable for academic writing, and realise that they can do a lot better themselves, which is a real eye-opener for some. 👀

this is an actual Bluesky Rule: if you have ever so much as exchanged a single like, you are required to hold up the book in the shop and say "hey my friend wrote this"

I love those little "lost in translation" things spotted when travelling. Was sent this today by my son from his holidays;

Insightful Oped from Sarah Clancy on far right influence in the fuel protests: the danger is otherwise good people espousing evil politics clarechampion.ie/opinion-with... #speirgorm #farright