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What a phenomenal embarrassment.

You'd think "I'm sticking with the nazi-filled CSAM factory" would disqualify you from a political career forever but no, FFG just walking around merrily refusing to quit it.

Non-violence will occupy space and bring business to a halt. You will not be able to do your shopping or get to your lunch date or make it to your appointment. You will be inconvenienced! THAT IS PART OF THE POINT.

A nonviolent action might DDOS a website, buy a domain name and push resistance messaging. Nonviolence will scream, yell, swear, chant, and make obscene gestures.

Non-violent protest is disruptive. It is uncomfortable. It will affect the workings of daily life for non-participants. Non-violence can flood a highway, bringing traffic to a stop. Non-violence will barricade a government center, preventing access.

I contacted a bookshop in Dublin, a periodical to request a review and ordered more paperbacks - three things to help get The Planter's Daughter out there. Promotion is hard so please clap :)

This is some of the best meta on the nature of online discourse out there. Mind you if someone comes for Pluto, I'm joining in.

Today I was Kidnapped By ICE - Dawokefarmer

Two young Sudanese men are walking the length of Britain to raise funds for primary schools for displaced children in Sudan | Mohamed Nasreldin

I wrote about the rise and fall of Twitter (with great insights from @marklittle.bsky.social and @kateconger.com and @jonronson.bsky.social) www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

As nothing has changed since I wrote The Abuse Factory Gist re X, the only thing an extra Gist has is a round up of the moral & intellectual collapse of policy and commentary Too painful for me to go back on, to little benefit. Niamh Smyth and Richard Chambers aside, it’s been a shocking failure

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

Brilliant turnout, including a samba band, at our #TeslaTakedown in Winchester, England today. Definitely our loudest protest yet! We're in this for the long haul. More photos and videos to follow.

Climate change is real. 15 short stories from some of the best crime fiction writers today. Guest-edited by Anthony winning author @curtisippolito.bsky.social Listen to what @jordanharper.bsky.social says and order your copy today: bit.ly/4nOVXoK

Looks like day has got right back on track 🙂

Labour MEP Aodhán Ó Ríordáin has said that Europe must be prepared to ban Twitter, saying "the European Union cannot be afraid of potential blowback from Donald Trump or Elon Musk" #Speirgorm dublinpeople.com/news/dublin/...

I pressed a magic button and it appears the bike is fixed… we may be back on tho I will have to revise the route a bit 🙂

Today was planned as a long cycle to a place I’d booked for my cancerversary. In honour of said cancer, it has all gone tits up. Lower GI rumbles this a.m., bike prob out of commission and wrapping up work stuff means the entire plan has unravelled. I guess I will see what the day has to bring me.

One of the difficulties I had illustrating the Gist with an image is that I was not going to upload any human’s photo to the nudity app to make a demonstration image. I have been thinking, for illustration, it could be acceptable to upload images of 18th Century oil paintings of landowners

Banning X would not 'betray free speech', just as breaking up or closing down corporate giants that seriously violate competition or criminal law would not 'betray commerce' (for anyone reading an Irish Times opinion piece today who might be unsure)

ICE + Trump will continue until there are so many of us that force them to stop. It will require a diversity of tactics-- not just protests (but go if you're able!) but strikes, slowdowns, many more creative kinds of actions. From a cross section of the population. Because that's how we will win.

Considering recent events, we're incredulous as to why the only place you can access real time updates on delays/issues/cancellations for Irish Rail is on X. We'll be writing to them next week calling for them to move this service off X & on to their website where it's more accessible for all users.

📝 Want to help shape safer streets in Cork? We’re looking for volunteers to help prepare consultation submissions on Active Travel schemes across Cork City & County. See past submissions: shorturl.at/QObN1 Help push for safe, all-ages cycling & walking. 🚲 #ActiveTravel

Just say you’re scared of Elon and Trump. Just say it. Just tell the truth.

This is great news 🚲 cheered up my low spirits

In the name of God shut it down. Why are there never any consequences for these people? It breaks the spirit to see these vile people thrive and embolden no matter what they do.

The Planter’s Daughter is for sale in the following bookshops: Carmel’s Cove (Cobh) Midleton Books Bantry Bookshop Leaf and Bower (Ballincollig) Carrigaline Books Or available online in paperback and ebook at the link below.

You have until 5.30 today to write in to the government consultation on these fees. They're trying to price people out of protecting our land and water. While on the other hand they're trying to give corporations an entirely new secret court to sue Ireland through CETA

The UK has declined a new Elbit Systems contract, leading Palestine Action prisoners to end the hunger strike that had three of them on the brink of death. The Tesco worker suspended for refusing to handle Israeli goods has been reinstated and will no longer have to handle them. We can and will win

Good point, though I still obstinately and contrarily hold on to hope.

Further. If this bullshit actually passes I want every party of the left to include a commitment to undo it in their next manifesto. "We can build infrastructure while following the law" is a pretty low bar and an easy sell. #Spéirgorm

⚖️ DEADLINE TOMORROW ⚖️ Submissions on this are due tomorrow. Please do take a few minutes to make a submission, it sounds like a dry topic, but the negative consequences for the Irish environment could be profound. We need as many people as possible to push back on this.

Not crass! Necessary! As a lifelong environmental activist and advocate who has worked both within and outside of policy spheres, I’m now seeing artistic and cultural expression as the best way to reach people. Thank you for writing this.

Among headlines describing how weather in Ireland will only get worse due to human-driven apathy, selfishness and greed, it might seem crass to promote a novel that explains how we in particular got this way. And yet this is the age of crassness, so promote I shall. ⬇️

“Acting to ensure?” This is CSAM we are talking about, not a fucking parking ticket! Shut it down and arrest the lot of them. So tired of this cowardice.

Do buy , it's a brilliant read.

This is like cancer surgeons trying to fix skin issues caused by a massive malignant tumour while all leaving the tumour alone. Elon and X are a cancer that need to be stopped first and foremost.

The Planter’s Daughter is for sale in the following bookshops: Carmel’s Cove (Cobh) Midleton Books Bantry Bookshop Leaf and Bower (Ballincollig) Carrigaline Books Or available online in paperback and ebook at the link below.

"The idea for this cover was an ode to the post workers, couriers and delivery drivers who just (literally) carried the Christmas season on their backs," writes @selkies.bsky.social, about the image she made for the cover of our most recent print edition. www.dublininquirer.com/cover-image-...

Thank you for reading and encouraging 🙏

I wrote The Planter’s Daughter because I was tired of Irish novelists using climate breakdown as a plot device without confronting our collective role in perpetuating it along with biodiversity loss. I wanted to look head-on at how history has pushed us to this but create an entertaining storyline

Among headlines describing how weather in Ireland will only get worse due to human-driven apathy, selfishness and greed, it might seem crass to promote a novel that explains how we in particular got this way. And yet this is the age of crassness, so promote I shall. ⬇️

GoFundMe for Kaden Rummler, the young trans man blinded by ICE agents this week. www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with...

Shut down X Shut down X Shut down X

NO YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND WHAT IS HAPPENING YOU DENSE JACKASS ICE doesn’t have bad training! ICE has been sent here to incite violence against my community, and they’re obeying because the culture is irreparably twisted!! The agency must be reduced to rubble!

Shit daleks

Night scenes

Is there any reason for this pusillanimity other than fearing the displeasure of that hateful coke-addled murderous void of an individual Elon Musk, and his bully boy nappy filler Trump? Are we meant to bow down to these filthy creatures for the rest of their lives? Tired of it. Shut down X.