The deeply stupid part of this legislative tack is that any legislation that attempts to do this will be challenged, first in our supreme court, and should the challenge not succeed there, it will be challenged the ECJ, for being unconstitutional.

"we saw you across the Narcissus and really liked your vibe"

Ah jaysus, I was playing AD&D in Jobstown in 1992 and one of the players had a hermaphroditic Paladin of Artemis who veered between genders with the moon You'd have to be very unimaginative in your make-believe game to be getting annoyed by anything others do in it

My heart goes out to all the Oireachtas lackeys, at least with all the colours, emboldened, All-Caps, and underlined paragraphs of text, it was obvious when a loon was going to be claiming that they were the High King of Ireland. How much time to they have yo waste now to identify the crazies?

Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.

I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

A 2500 year old letter from a soldier named Hananyahu, deciphered through super-modern multispectral imaging, begins with “If there is any wine, send” journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... #grunts #invinoveritas #dogsofwar #pluscachange

I for one will enjoy sending balloons with USB keys filled with banned books off across the Irish Sea to rain down upon Pyongyang-upon-Thames

Deployment of Pershing II missiles in West Germany circa. 1983

Today, I saw a driver overtake a stopped bus and plough through a pedestrian crossing. He beeped three times as he sped though. The beeping was to warn people because, as he had overtaken a bus, he had zero visibility of who was about to step out onto the crossing. But sure, more hi-vis, everyone

Bob Vylan put on a great show in Dublin last night. They seemed pretty amused by the spontaneous "Death, death to the London Met!" chant that the crowd started. Epic mosh pit action, too. #BobVylan #FreePalestine www.hotpress.com/music/live-r...

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I noticed that my local racist cllr Malachy Steenson ran for the Workers Party back in the 2000s Does anyone know if there's a link between him and the INLA/IPLO Gerry Steenson?

If any of ye know Alan Shatter... Can you tell him that the G-spot is a coded reference for Gaza, so that he can include it the think-piece some Sunday rag is inevitably going to print for him?

The one billion is a figure from before COVID (when the publicly acknowledged number was €250 million). So probably somewhere north of €2B now. Imagine what kind of luas system you could put into the city for a quarter of that.

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

Another instance of copying British policy without any reference to how well things are going over there. We do it on housing, on education, social welfare, privatisation etc. just with a lag that ranges from months to decades. And never with an eye towards how those policies are working out

I've had more than one lecturer over the years tell a class that they had a book which was a good match for the course, but that we should not buy it, because only Elsevier would benefit from that. And then they'd helpfully point out that there are websites where it can be found. open-slum.org

And rakes of people see apparitions on toast. Scientists say it's time to consider whether we should tell the people who really believe it's Jesus on the toast that they're dumber than bottled shite.

The grave issue here is that the only credible threat to Ireland comes from our rapidly destabilising nearest neighbour. I can see why lots of countries that were invaded by Russia want to be part of Nato now. But I'm just not sure whom can we join forces with for our problems.

The only thing that might get me to buy the Sunday Independent is if they did a full spread on Ireland's 15 least sympathetic households (who just happen to be the Dartmouth Sq residents who are objecting to the Metro being built).

Where Irish_Patriot_1916 blue ✔️ accounts on twitter are based youtu.be/V1508wboZXk?...

As someone who's been trying to lift files off old hard drives with bad sectors for an older friend of mine recently..... Do make sure you have copies, and backups. Noting exists digitally unless you've three copies

Starting to think that the chinless wonder with daddy/abandonment issues might not be a great guide for relationship advice

Trump in a room with a very charismatic person results in like half a day of Trump agreeing with everything that person said, so this has the potential to be very, very funny.

I don't have words for the sort of confused this makes me feel.

Nothing but respect for our foxy brethren

It's something that I talk about with my pals but I never hear talked about in general - my world was unimaginably more violent when I was a kid. And I don't mean getting smacked - though my most 80s memory was watching a 5y.o. get kicked and slapped down an aisle of Dunnes Stores in Kilinarden.

I am moving to Dubai because England is so dangerous. www.ft.com/content/9bf6...

@nualaoconnor.bsky.social can I drop you (an entirely professional) dm? I've a question for you

Dick Dastardly's dog wasn't well so he borrowed another one. It wasn't *exactly* the same, but it was a proxy Muttley.

One of our Sheela-na-gigs is now on display at @immaireland.bsky.social. This piece from Seir Kieran, Co. Offaly (2206:W13) features in Cecilia Vicuña’s Reverse Migration Exhibition, on view until 5 July 2026. Explore more online: #SheelaNaGig #IMMA #IrishArt www.museum.ie/en-ie/collec...

I was once ambivalent about youth voting. Then I did some research into the resistance towards women getting the vote. Every argument I encountered regarding how women were unsuited to voting was an argument that I'd seen applied to younger people, and with equal validity.

Jaysus, the ads situation on the YouTube app has become so intolerable that I've had to delete the thing. God be with the days when people didn't look at brand value as something to mine for Q4 revenue growth.

"Let's go dig up Maggie's grave and ask her where the drink went"

If it wasn't in earnest this would be a god-tier shitpost

Have been sent the clip of Bernese Mountain Dog owners sending off Michael D twice by heart-melted people outside of Ireland. What a country.

On this, the last day of Michael D. Higgins' presidency, I think it's important to acknowledge that a 5'3 man deciding to be followed everywhere by two enormous Bernese Mountain dogs was a great bit.

Client confidentiality... I knew a guy who did Yates's training and the impression i got was that it was a boozey lunch and a half day of yarns/shite talking (with some light networking) for €3k each, on the company account. I suppose, he could hardly say that the training was bollocks, could he?

The smarter half is doing a bioinformatics course at the moment, and a slide earlier pointed out that any two unrelated humans will share 99.9% of their genes, and that the average between is is about 3.5 Mb If the billionaires ever make it to space within a century they'll be equivalent to pugs

One of the reasons why Finland is the happiest country in the world is that the public broadcaster Yle sends a live feed of the first 8 weeks of a pack of puppies every fall. It’s already the fifth edition of ”Finland’s most therapeutic live feed”. This is what I call value for my tax money

the only instance in recorded history of a traffic collision between a car and a u-boat!

Old cyanotypes revisited 03

Resetting all the filters to "I'm an adult who has no fear of cursing", has resurrected many of the Irish #Speirgorm that'd vanished from my feed

Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default. Here's how to turn it off. First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner

*for an extremely narrow definition of "general", and a low opinion of what constitutes human intelligence. The row-back on the hype re: AGI suggests that the Samhain of AI is past us and the Winter is coming

“Interrogating the arguments for small homes as a solution to the Irish housing crisis “The paper critically interrogates main justifications & argues role of small homes as a potential solution to Irish housing crisis is overstated” new research-Dr Mark Jordan www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

he literally did the meme

Just had a lovely woman in our shop in Donegal, searching for her lost twin sister. Appreciate it if my Irish followers would retweet this. Thank you.