Soon they’ll be calling themselves commanders and requesting handmaids

Posting this for no other reason than to get some Looney Tunes media floating around Bluesky.

Trump never had a fan base. He had an army of bots who sold his racism and misogyny and xenophobia to uneducated Americans who took voting advice from bald eagle profiles posting Tweets from Eastern Europe. It’s as stupid as it sounds.

I recently rented a car where every single thing on the dash was a touch screen. It made me feel distracted and reckless anytime I needed to adjust a setting. Bring. This. Back. 👇

Most Irish politicians ignore the massive costs of our car-centric transport system, doubling down on cars as a 'win' for society. We all pay for this. Meanwhile, investment in active travel keeps shrinking, and the rollout of the little infrastructure we do get crawls along at a snail’s pace.

The Epstein story gets a something that is tearing at the heart of the electorate: elite impunity. The idea that wealthy and powerful people can do terrible things *at scale* and face no consequences for them. Whatever political party actually stops it could rule the country for a generation.

Not all delivery trucks are justifiable in cities. We can create jobs, boost sustainable transportation, and create safer streets with better infrastructure through cargo bike logistics. The solutions, designs, and tools already exist. All we seem to lack is the political will to implement them.

“The absence of farming activity from our national parks "has undermined habitat conservation leading to biodiversity loss". The absolute state of agri doublespeak today. www.agriland.ie/farming-news...

This is what makes Miller so dangerous. He knows he’s violating the law and he knows that justice should catch up to him. But his entire project will ensure that it never can.

“It’s a matter of calling out truth to power.” #CatherineForPresident

Connolly will be a principled President with a spine, much like Michael D. Higgins. Humphreys will be the opposite, blasé-ing her way through the term. #CatherineForPresident

If you’re looking for the debate #ConnollyForPresident www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

The standard for advocacy has to be higher than just saying "streets are dangerous". ​We need to be the ones who can explain why a design like this is safe and then demand it. That's the real work that gets good projects built and I'd like to see more safe streets advocates learn more about design.

Aaaaaannnnddddd my flight is 17 hours delayed

It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.

Three of the kidnapped Irish participants on the Global Sumud Flotilla arrived home to a huge welcome last night. They talk about why they tried to break apartheid Israel's illegal siege of Gaza, acting because our governments refuse to. #FreePalestine #LiftTheSiege Video RTÉ News

This is what creating "psychological friction" for drivers looks like. The changes in pavement height, color, and texture break a driver's autopilot mode. It sends a clear message that "You are entering a space designed for people. Slow down. Be alert." Design details do the work that signs can't.

Demonstrations in more than a dozen cities have jolted Morocco for a week straight, with the young people behind them showing they can translate digital discontent into a real-world movement that authorities can’t ignore.

🚨 Jim Gavin has withdrawn from the Presidential Election. #aras25 @virginmedianews.bsky.social

Fianna Fáil's candidate Jim Gavin has announced he is withdrawing from the Presidential Election "with immediate effect"

I am just so fucking proud of her.

The Sora AI thing is proof of something very important: The technology itself is useless without the ability to use the likenesses of real, living, unpredictable people, and the art they create. And the only way to get those likenesses or that art is to summarily steal it.

Italy's largest union, with over 5.5 million workers, has called a general strike for Friday in solidarity with the Global Sumud Flotilla. And smaller Italian unions have said they will join CGIL's general strike.

I’m confused how it is despicable to ask that question. These are exactly the kinds of questions we have been begging reporters & TV hosts to ask. You see when they do get asked how sensitive they are about it. Much, much more of this. More crypto questions, Qatar, UAE, etc bsky.app/profile/atru...

AOC: I think there's two things that are happening at once: One, there absolutely is an unprecedented abuse of power, destruction of norms, erosion of our government and our democracy in order to prop up an authoritarian style of governance However, they are weaker than they look…

Remember: Undocumented immigrants pay billions of dollars in taxes every year. They pay into government funded healthcare programs, but can't access them except in case of emergency. Emergency Medicaid spending accounted for less than 1% of total Medicaid spending in 2023.

✊🏼 No matter how hard the British government, and other states, try, they will never shut down solidarity with the Palestinian people. As for trying to silence Mo Chara and Kneecap, a fool's errand... Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh, Mo Chara, soeaking as the case against him is thrown out today. #FreePalestine

It's almost as if, before the Gaza famine was officially recognised, it was a story, as media organisations could generate controversy by hosting Israeli government spokespeople and our own rightwing blowhards, insisting it was all a fabrication. Now that it can no longer be denied ... no story.

Car-free cities are: ✅ thriving cities ✅ healthy cities ✅ care free cities ✅ fun cities ✅ active cities ✅ inclusive cities ✅ free cities #WorldCarFreeDay

Several thousand people have taken part in a national protest today, calling for greater funding and equality for the Irish language and the Gaeltacht

Would love to see this in Dublin! #ReimagineDublin

Please, for God's sake, put aside petty differences and practice some solidarity. We desperately need coherent and effective alternatives.

💧 Last weekend’s #LiffeySwim should act as a reminder of what we are missing in Dublin. While cities across Europe are reclaiming their #BlueSpaces for swimming, we continue to treat ours like an open sewer. It’s time to imagine, no demand, a swimmable Dublin. 🌊 #BlueHealth

Any recommendations for record players? Do I need speakers? #musicsky

Isn’t it crazy that we spent two years debating whether a state was committing genocide, instead of cutting trade, diplomacy, and social ties to ensure it wasn’t?

A massive, dangerous and disgusting scandal, of which far too few people are yet aware. At @fightingdirty.bsky.social we'll keep pushing to stop it. Congrats to @rachelsalvidge.bsky.social for continuing to shine the light: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

In Ireland, we have a choice: to allow the loss of nature to continue, or to ensure that future generations witness a resurgence of the natural world. 🌱 My piece in the Journal this morning.

The belief that poverty and homelessness are about "individual choices" didn't arise on its own. It was manufactured through decades of messaging designed to protect the policies and interests that create mass precarity. As this new poll shows, that propaganda campaign has been wildly successful.

This is infuriating. What is the point of a Marine Protected Area if trawlers are allowed to keep ploughing it? Yet again, the government has succumbed to commercial lobbying. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This is serious solidarity with Palestine and it's great to see Irish film workers here. No cooperation with Israeli apartheid and genocide. #BDS #FreePalestine Irish film workers among 1,800 refusing to work with Israeli firms ‘implicated in genocide’ www.thejournal.ie/irish-film-w...

890 people were arrested, most of them for speaking out truthfully. Meanwhile, in the corridors of Westminster, 'Friends of Israel' politicians actively support the ongoing and deliberate starvation and murder of thousands of innocent Palestinians. The wrong people are being arrested.

The President of the United States just essentially declared a war on Chicago because — wait for it! — Black and Brown people live here. This is not normal. This is not okay. And we are going to fucking fight back.

What is your favourite sci-fi film? Arrival will always be one of my all-time favourite film experiences #FilmSky

NEW | China installed more than twice as much solar capacity in the first half of 2025 as the rest of the world combined ☀️ 256 GW in just six months... 🤯 The rest of the world combined installed 124 GW.

Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.