Really struck by this BBC article outlining how Gen Zs choice to drink less is harming the profits of a company worth billions. The solution, RAMP UP THE ADVERTISING. Corporate profit seeking was always prioritised over human health but in the Trump era, everyone says the quiet part out loud.

Psychopharmaco-psychosocial treatment for substance misuse among individuals in a Canadian forensic psychiatric program - www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Just think it’s a bit weird that society has been brainwashed in to thinking that rich people and massive corporations having a bit less money is the main thing we need to avoid no matter what.

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

Vote, vote, vote #connolly4president #aras2025 #speirgorm

For the second time, in less than 10 days I saw ‘A Want in Her’ Myrid Cartens documentary which centres around her relationship with her mother who lives with both mental health and substance use issues.

The reason I'm concerned about Maria Steen being on the ballot isn't that she will win (she won't). My worry is that if she is nominated, it will mean a month of national airtime for a hate campaign against vulnerable groups, carried by a media too scared of being sued to call it what it is

Trans rights are human rights.

More than 100,000 people marched in Hungary’s annual Pride parade in Budapest on Saturday after Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s ban on the event backfired, turning what is usually a low-key parade into a mass rally against his government. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/w...

When you see this reality & realise that all the gender critical ‘feminists’ are still obsessed with who goes into bathrooms - a myth that never has or will become reality …easier to ignore where violence against women is actually happening -in the home #speirgorm www.irishtimes.com/ireland/soci...

Seventeen EU member states have just condemned #Hungary’s new Pride ban and called on the European Commission to act. www.government.nl/documents/di...

Ah for gods sake!! I can’t anymore with SF! Biological determinism which feminism has long fought against has always been the route through which women and girls, and their bodies were / are survelled, controlled, governed and oppressed - read a bit of feminist theory ffs! #speirgorm

On the morning of such news from the UK, we are here in @ucddublin.bsky.social talking about resistance, resilience, queer solidarities & queer joy in the face of the backlash - we have been here before and we will prevail #queeractivism

Thousands of people are ditching Tesla. Here’s one of them with a message you can see from space. Location: Black Rock Sands, Wales, UK By "Led By Donkeys"

Oh my God. Donald Trump and JD Vance are attacking Zelensky in the Oval Office. This is a complete fucking embarrassment.

Putin says Trump must go further before he’ll even agree to meet. Putin is entirely in the driving seat. The US has alienated its own allies, given Russia nearly all of what it wanted, bought Putin’s warped view of reality, and can’t even guarantee a meeting. The art of the deal, indeed.

Have written about JD Vance’s Munich speech. In what may prove to be the biggest week for European security since 1991, it’s time Europe listened to what Trump and his Vice President are telling us. open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

The always amazing Judith Butler www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is why the media gives people like Donald Trump such an easy ride and people like Keir Starmer such a hard one iandunt.substack.com/p/journalism...

Rachel, please listen to Louise: “I wonder what you were thinking, when things could still be changed, when science predicted the consequences of global warming with great certainty, when people who knew what they were talking about rang alarm bells all over the world” #WeTheHopeful wethehopeful.org

And there it is: China emissions down 0.3% in 2024 compared to the previous year, according to Carbon Monitor's estimate

Europe has a message for Elmo.

Thailand has become the first country in southeast Asia to hold legal same-sex weddings, with LGBT groups aiming to mark the occasion with more than 1,000 marriage registrations in a single day

Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris #climate agreement is an act of environmental vandalism & shows what the fossil fuel industry can buy with their $75m donation to his campaign. But it’s important to remember leaders across US are already taking stronger climate action & the economic case is clear

“Trump’s election was a response to the cruel failures of neoliberalism, but it will also be their ultimate expression. It was a response to the corruption of the political system by private money. And it will be the system’s ultimate corruption” @georgemonbiot.bsky.social 👏👏👏

I’ve reported on homelessness for years and met many, many people who have found themselves in awful situations Every single one of them had more decency and integrity than this privileged plutocrat

I was so delighted to join so many others tonight on the eve of the general election canvassing for Hazel Chu and the Green Party. A sustainable just transition is needed as we are faced with the ever frequent consequences of climate change. We need green voices to ensure this. Vote green tomorrow!

Delighted to have this article published: it is based on an international policy analysis of relational & cultural continuity in foster care, focused on children from migrant background. Lead author is Milfrid Tonheim, co-authors Ketil Eide and Ala Sirriyeh: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Congratulations @drmuireann.bsky.social and co authors on this new publication www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Sally Rooney: When are we going to have the courage to stop the climate crisis? www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

Social work colleagues are filtering across to Bluesky I made an ‘Ireland / NI Social Work’ starter pack for people and organisations doing interesting things on our island. DM me and I’ll add you. If colleagues could re-post that would be great ❤️☘️ go.bsky.app/sb2w3t

Congratulations to my UCD colleague Hilda Loughran and co-authors on the publication of this new article on women’s lived experiences of substance use and social work - published in Social Work Education www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....