Steve Bannon: “The real opposition is the media. And the way to deal with them is to flood the zone with shit.” Media: "We cannot with certainty identify this mysterious brown substance."

I was standing with a historian, on the land where this village existed. He told me about families removed by the English aristocracy and then disappeared. No-one knew where they went after being loaded onto a boat. It's why we fight for others. It's in our genes. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-nort...

Well it’s not called RedSky is it?

everyone: we don’t want kings rightwing media: this is a confusing protest line, no one is claiming trump is a king the entire trump administration:

This has to be called out. There is clearly a coordinated campaign by some individuals / organisation opposing multiple greenways around Ireland for their own suspect reasons. The are multiple Facebook pages using the same style of posting, the same dodgy AI imagery, the same signage etc

Wild is frankly the understatement of the year.

They look like strippers heading to a hen night in Carrick on Shannon.

Continuing their genocide.

The ladder is a nice touch. Pleasingly low-tech retro stuff, none of this Tom Cruise shit with lasers

“To be at a point where the ability to speak Irish might be a key driver in young people voting for a potential president – that’s huge, that’s something really extraordinary.” - Osgur Ó Ciardha Kitty Holland reporting on the Gaeilge factor in youth support for Catherine Connolly. #Aras25

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Good

“The UK has a system in which a TV channel can pay a political leader almost half a million pounds a year and give him an hour an evening to react to his rivals without breaking a single rule.”

My 14-year-old self would never have guessed that, in 50 years' time, all the world's music would be available at the click of a button, you'd navigate the globe by carrying a tiny computer around in your pocket, and the US President would post a video of himself shitting over American citizens.

The 'Europe hasn't lost its moral compass' argument is a really strange road to go down considering we've watched a 2 years long genocide that it has actively supported and played a role in

This is also true

I am disappointed about how quite a few ppl have bought into the smears that Fine Gael, & its client media, have made about Catherine Connolly. They’d rather believe them than investigate for themselves. Connolly was 1 of just 2 TDS who fought for Ppl with Disabilities in the Care Ref

Bowie and Iggy upon discovering how much a Berlin döner costs in 2025 Image by Ivan Kral / Wikipedia

Ceannáras FFG:

Argentina edition of Libertarian bible

Josep Borrell – high representative of the EU for foreign affairs and security policy from 2019 to 2024 – on how Europe has lost its moral compass. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I met a group of young people this afternoon who highlighted this comment by @michealmartin.bsky.social . as proof that the government are backpedaling and dragging their heels on #ClimateAction and biodiversity. They were fuming! @stopclimatechaos.bsky.social

For the first time since 2006 the state has admitted it allowed munitions – onboard a US war plane authorised by Simon Harris to land at Shannon Airport – to travel through Irish territory on their way to Israel Darragh O’Brien granted the exemption. www.ontheditch.com/state-admits/

A reminder that it took UEFA less than a week to ban Russian clubs from European competitions back in February 2022.

Just went to the pediatrician with our oldest, who learned he weighs 99 pounds and then he begged for me to take him to get a one pound burrito so he could eat it and be 1% burrito.

FFS. The Redstone missile was hypersonic, and it was in service before I was born, and I'm 56 years old.

clicked this to check it was not, in fact, The Onion. It's not.

I drew an ICE guy. #ICE #FuckICE #Fascist #Art #Resist #NoKings

tuairisc.ie/dul-amu-ar-a... I ngach píosa taighde atá déanta le tríocha nó daichead bliain anuas, léirítear go roghnódh idir 25 agus 50 faoin gcéad de thuismitheoirí, i bpíosa taighde áirithe, an ghaelscolaíocht dá mbeadh Gaelscoil neamhspleách cóngarach dóibh

In a rightside-up world, it would be drivers—not pedestrians—who would have to press a beg button just to use the street. [drawing by Dhiru Thadani]

That’s crazy. I wonder what happened in January

"Forget EVS. Cycling is revolutionising transport." Amen! Check it out @taras-grescoe.com www.economist.com/internationa...

All on my own.... #ForthBridge #Edinburgh #Queensferry #Scotland #Photography #Nikon

The history of Nazis holding rallies in left-wing areas of Weimar Germany, instigating street fights, and then telling the press that only they could save Germany from the "violent communists" seems like an important thing for people to be studying right now.

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

Not Done Yet Via piaille.fr/@PartiIndige...

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

So just to clear up this week we've learned the following things are threats to democracy: - Pleading not guilty in court - The Bar's professional ethical standards - Criticising the media - Voting No on a referendum - Paul Murphy Political discourse in this country is a complete mess right now

Never say my blog isn’t current: today I’m reviewing a TV show that aired closer to the Second World War than today. Yet, terrifyingly, it’s still remarkably current. The hairstyles, bow ties and restaurant decor are retro but the issues are unchanged. www.freewheeling.info/blog/tv-revi...

I do wonder how much of this thing that people talk about - the mythical elitist Irish speakers who don't give learners an inch and are always correcting them - is due to people like this for whom a little bit of knowledge of the language has them feeling they're the fucking Ombudsman for Vocabulary

Saw someone in the comments of a man on Tiktok from Áran try to "correct" his Irish, but yerman from Áran was not wrong, he is simply speaking a canúint that the commenter was not familiar with right. Very ignorant very overconfident, made himself look very silly. Now with this in mind...

In other news we are wrecking the joint and those who are making money out of it are happy to carry on as if everything was normal. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Pallid Harrier showed superbly this evening over Llanrhidian Marsh in the soft light. Best views yet. At dusk a male Hen Harrier and (I think) a ringtail joined the party, the former briefly tussling with the Pallid. Glossy Ibis in again behind sewage works. #birdingWales #rareBirdsUK #UKWildlife