Germany just can't comprehend that genocide is wrong and that rewarding genocidaires why they are occupying the territory of three countries is wrong. bsky.app/profile/aali...

As an immigrant in the UK, this makes me sick. It also makes me sick hearing similar from some people I talk to in Ireland, saying if Ukrainians have money, they should pay. I've no idea what it's like to flee war or persecution, but at least I try to imagine. I wish more people would try.

Florida grandfather was born inGerman refugee camp after World War II. His family legally emigrated to USA in 1952. He was 5. 7 decades later ICE sent him to Alligator Alcatraz on a decades-old deportation order which authorities had chosen not to enforce. www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...

Russia presented its human-like AI robot. It fell down as it walked onto the stage.

If there isn't a #ThankYouMichaelD hashtag, then there should be. Thanks for 14 years of the kind of leadership the rest of the world is crying out for. #speirgorm

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

"I wish we could ignore Bill Gates. Unfortunately his economic and political power makes that impossible. But unlike him, we can recognise that this power exists and, when it speaks, it does so on its own behalf."

A cartoon by Ali Solomon. #NewYorkerCartoons

"I don't normally share AI things..." So fucking DON'T. Stop normalising the theft and bullshit machine.

A Dublin woman who has crocheted thousands of 'Michael Tea Higgins' tea cosies is preparing for a new presidency

3/ secured the freedoms that the far right and other racists enjoy today. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-4612... Me? I am grateful to all those who fought against fascism and secured the freedoms I enjoy today - thank you.

Orbán sees independence—whether it be independent media, universities, or civil organizations—much like Hungary’s former communist overlords. That anyone would work in support of democracy for all is simply a ruse. Those who give their lives for it are, in the words of Trump, “suckers” and “losers,”

For starters - no Irish State/Gov agencies/politicians should be on Twitter. None. They could do this today and it would actually be more than just empty words.

Make no mistake, this excavation wouldn’t be happening if Catherine Corless hadn’t stuck her neck out and defied people telling her to leave it alone. But the scale of this is unimaginable. It’s not just M&B homes, it’s laundries, it’s industrial schools, it’s giant psych hospitals.

This poster appeared at a bus stop near Tesla's flagship London store overnight… 👏🏼

This is heroic rail worker Samir Zitouni, who tackled the Cambridgeshire train attacker and is still in hospital. Thank you Samir.

New version of Girl Yelling In Guy's Ear at Concert Dropped:

If it’s not called And Another Thing don’t bother

400,000 dead children. They were starved to death by the world’s wealthiest man. They weren’t white, so it didn’t matter to him. And Tesla rewards him with a $1,000,000,000,000 payday.

This is fucking madness, and has to stop.

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Really REALLY important that everyone who enjoys #SpéirGhorm goes through these settings and toggles the switch to enable 'rude' posts. Tis a rare one of us who doesn't have a colourful tongue.

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

Tesla shareholders approved Elon Musk's $1 trillion pay package. Meanwhile, millions of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, can't afford to feed their families, and struggle with cuts to the safety net made to finance tax cuts for the super-rich. American capitalism is off the rails.

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

They really hate mass transit. Even if driverless cars lived up to everything they promised... they're still fucking expensive.

This story comes out the same day the architect of this monstrous policy gets approval for a near-trillion-dollar payout from his government-subsidized company. Utterly despicable.

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1. This is a thread on freedom, and how easy it is to lose. Over the past 2,000 years in Europe, there have been few periods and places of freedom. For much of the time we lived under highly oppressive tyrannies of various kinds, whether small or grand, local or imperial, secular or religious.🧵

I live in a country (Spain) led by a coalition of left parties and we are doing just fine. The reality, the right doesn’t want you to see, is that you can have a universal healthcare that doesn’t cost you an eye, you can have labor rights, holidays, birth leaves. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Pretty excited about this, actually. Can't wait to see who wins it! www.theguardian.com/football/202...

‘X’ is Musk’s far right propaganda engine, designed to push out misinformation and incite civil unrest. It needs a general boycott by all government departments with the exception of MI5.

The haters said they couldn't do it. And they were right. Honestly, great call from the haters.

Have you heard of Palestine Cola? www.irishnews.com/news/norther...

A great day for the golden rule of political analysis: when the right wins it is a resounding ideological victory that humiliates the left and when the left wins it is a precarious fluke that will surely end up humiliating the left. Conservatives are power’s landlords and the left merely tenants

Fuck all of these people - craven, opportunist pigs every one of them, completely devoid of compassion or principles who, when threatened, choose to attack the most vulnerable. May they all rot.

Update: The journalist, Gabriele Nunziati, has lost his job for asking this question.

'You say Russia should pay for the reconstruction of Ukraine. Do you believe Israel should pay for the reconstruction of Gaza?'

It's almost as if letting the ultra-rich own the entire mainstream press and also all the big social platforms had a downside.

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Read @fplogue.bsky.social factual response below.. & listen to the claims made on radio yesterday here: www.rte.ie/radio/radio1... Make up your own mind #Planning #Housing #Speirgorm

The idea that Ireland has ever "gold plated" the transposition of EU Environmental law, is causing a lot of people in my world to chortle manically.

Wow the IT actually printed my letter #speirghorm

Excellent thread here. Stresses the one rather important point that the media usually fail to mention - that JRs very often actually succeed because the applicants' arguments are well-founded.

5b. This is why housing JRs continuously succeed. I know this because I've taken so many. Developers are either badly advised by their planning consultants or are willing to take the risk and the planning authorities and Commission are not interested in upholding development plans,

5a. Time and time again developers apply for housing developments that don't comply with the development plan or which cause serious environmental harm (such as flooding or pollution from sewerage due to inadequate infrastructure).

Despite the click-bait headline my contribution has been accurately reported in this piece by @eithnedodd.bsky.social unfortunately on the industry side the wool has been pulled over her eyes by the usual self-serving rhetoric By way of followup a short 🧵