The thing about someone ‘improperly receiving benefits’ is I don’t care. Oh no did someone get food or health care? Good!

I work near here and it's gross to see all the shops that cater explicitly for the googlers and silicon dock types and not to the locals. It really reminds me of being in Münster when the RAF base was there, the military families could have been anywhere on the planet and were just marking time.

Used to work on an outreach project funded by Google, part of it was working with youth clubs near their HQ, likely a condition of the various pots of education funding they pulled from ("we'll improve the area") The YCs were sick of them pretty soon cause they never delivered on what they promised

The sign saying it's a driving test centre... and a sign of it being a driving test centre.

Almost every front garden on our road has been turned into a driveway. Ours is full of our one car and blackberry brambles and every year I pick blackberries with my kids to make blackberry muffins 😁

Trans people are roughly as common as someone who has the same birthday as you. Imagine if all people with your birthday are to be banned from toilets, sports, affirming your birthday at school etc etc. it's so fucked up and hardly anyone with a different birthday is doing anything to stop it.

International students who have studied in Ireland have said they were sold “fake dreams” and "aggressively pushed” into coming here while at an Irish government education roadshow in India. jrnl.ie/7088907

This video of a woman telling an anti-abortion asshole to, "Shut the fuck up" is exactly what I needed to see on a Monday morning

And if you’re wondering about the “delicious diversity” that Skerries has got a taste of … the man charged is named Seán McGlone

Breaking: Gardaí to add new offence to list of traffic offences they don't enforce.

Front line healthcare workers who cannot work from home for obvious reasons are going to be given a higher pay rise so right? Right?

[AFTER KEIR STARMER RESIGNS] ME: PAL: ME: PAL: Lot of human rights abuses for a hu- ME: A LOT of human rights abuses for a human rights lawyer!

Happy Monday Here is a bee that I found panned out on a napkin on my clothes line having a snacky snack

trump has also debanked Italian citizen Francesca Alabanese for her work at the UN to condemn Israel’s genocide of Palestinians. she is on an international blacklist created for terrorists and it is also illegal for anyone to bank for her — she must live entirely economically isolated and on cash

I'm supporting Spain but I don't have a Spanish jersey so me and five of my friends are going to walk up and down Grafton Street wearing identical schoolbags instead.

Infantino: You get me that trophy case? Lacky: Sure did boss, real fuckin tacky just like you asked. Infantino: Perfect. Exactly what I wanted. Excellent work.

As The War with Cars made the point recently. Yes it is basically a necessity to own a car in order to have children. That should be changed. You shouldn't need a car to get to school, the doctor, the shops, playground. These things should be reachable without a private vehicle.

I had the monopoly on compassion, but European anti-competition laws took it away from me

Watching Spiderman 3, he was crawling in the roof of a tunnel and my friend got a fright. She jumped and yelped and people laughed and then in an effort to explain herself she whispered "He was like some sort of giant spider!" and everyone laughed again

Got me thinking.. What's the strongest reaction you've seen an audience member have to a scene in a cinema? During the birthday party scene in SIGNS I saw a whole row of young women literally throw their popcorn in the air like a cartoon.

i am begging venues & bands to rediscover clipart

Welcome to BlueSky, here's why your joke is factually incorrect.

People who keep pointing out that golf courses use as much water as data centres as some sort of defence of data centres drastically underestimate the amount we also hate golf.

BBC burying the lede here until paragraph 3 - JKR bankrolled this and LOST. I repeat - JKR bankrolled this lawfare against the Belfast Film Festival and... LOST. It can be done! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The billionaires have a vision of the future, and in it, many of us are dead. Not because they all want to kill us (some of them want to kill some of us), but because we are simply surplus and expendable in their eyes.

I want a TV miniseries adaptation of the Táin that is incredibly faithful to its structure, e.g. there is an entire episode where Cú Chulainn rests and recovers in the shade of a tree while messengers run to and from a nearby battle to give him updates

When this fight is won, remember who pushed for it and who had to be pushed. Keep Martin and Harris under pressure.

DM: ‘You come to large wooden door.’ Cat: ‘I knock at the door.’ DM: ‘An orc opens it and asks you to come in.’ Cat: ‘I do nothing.’ DM ‘He asks you to come inside again.’ Cat: ‘I do nothing.’ DM: ‘Eventually the orc tires and closes the door.’ Cat: ‘I knock at the door.’

Andy Burnham does not apparently fully know why Kier Starmer failed as a Labour Prime Minister. He will, therefore, consider that doing the same sort of thing, but if he does it, is the recipe for success. Based on this set of starting facts, he will likely accelerate that failure, not arrest it

Casually threatening mass rapes

A lad who went to the grind school I did my leaving in used to brink a bottle of raw milk with him from home every day. He milked the cow himself, boiled the bejaysis out of it and wouldn't let anyone else try it because he said he'd built up immunity from childhood.

Leniency in these cases is effectively permission.

Natasha said: “I most definitely have not been kept informed by the authorities. I’m sure it won’t come as a shock to anyone, that as a victim I’ve been left in the dark yet again. This is the first I’m hearing of it! Imagine that.”

Cathal Crotty is to be freed from prison next week. Crotty brutally beat Natasha O'Brien and has just served 1 year and seven months of a two-year jail sentence. Crotty beat her unconscious. He boasted about it on socials: "Two to put her down, two to put her out" www.corkbeo.ie/news/ex-sold...

We need a term for the rhetorical practice of inventing a theoretical marginalized person who would be harmed by a broadly-beneficial policy that you dislike because it would inconvenience you.

Irish billionaire Patrick Collison has joined in & is spending $10mn opposing a once off 5% Wealth tax proposed by the Health Workers Union -its going to a referendum in California. It replaces cuts in federal Healthcare spending by Trump. Their net worth grew from $700bn 2019 to &2.2Tn 2025!

May she rest in peace #SpéirGhorm #speirgorm

Dang they really got a category for everything

Rebranding kidnapping as adopting.

It seems worth mentioning that Beira’s Place is not actually a rape crisis centre, but a support service, and the rape crisis centre that has actually been attacked in recent years is Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre, following a harassment campaign led by JK Rowling.

Seems like an apt moment to recall the time Mícheál Martin accused me of propaganda against him in a 1:1 constituent meeting about the 8th amendment in 2013. Literally no-one else in the room like.

1. After pushing anti-trans laws to ‘protect women’s sports’, Project 2025’s Heritage Foundation now wants women’s sports gone to ‘assist fertility.’ Turns out it was about women’s sports all along—if getting rid of women's sports counts, that is.

There are one bedroom apartments for sale a 5 minute walk from my 3 bed semi-d house that cost more than this house didwhen we bought it 9 years ago. It is utterly insane that someone can have 5 years of paying 2k in rent behind them and can't get and 1700 a month mortgage