Remember kids: "Passive income" is a term used to describe wealth handed out to people by society, through our economic system, without doing any work. Many people receiving a "passive income" are intergenerationally wealthy, as opposed to the working class and long-term unemployed people who […]

1. In a devastating decision for trans kids in Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and Tennessee, the 6th Circuit has ruled students can bully trans kids by repeatedly misgendering them. Trans kids also are not allowed to return the favor to their bullies. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Has anyone succeeded in getting the #android app for #gmail to send images? I have googled my way to many sets of instructions, but they all leave me left with any image-attached emails permanently queued in the outbox duebto lack of permissions. My workaround is to save the email as a draft […]

It's #PoppyPolice season again the #UK. 🙄 But for 2025, it seems that poppy fetishism has been merged with #flagshagging. 🙄 I assume that unadorned #lampposts will be either arrested or burnt down by feral #miniroundaboutpainters. 😂 pic from […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

After all the pompous carp of a "formal process" to strip the titles of ex-#PrinceAndrew (see my toot at https://mastodon.ie/@2legged/115474788529775596), #KingCharlesIII only needed to sign four one-paragraph letters and publish them in his three blogs. #Sorted […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

After all the pompous carp of a "formal process" to strip the titles of ex-#PrinceAndrew (see my toot at https://mastodon.ie/@2legged/115474788529775596), #KingCharlesIII only needed to sign four one-paragraph letters and publish them in his three blogs. #Sorted […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

I abhor the English autumnal habit of burning effigies of humans. The 16th/17th century English fetish for religious burning of live humans should be be mourned and repented, not celebrated. But some effigies are interesting. In #Kent, the #Edenbridge Bonfire […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

Excellent interview in the #FT #FinancialTimes with French economist #ThomasPiketty, on inequality and the choices facing democratic politicians. h/t Prof @ChrisMayLA6 "the pro-business centre has to choose between the nationalist side and the socialist side […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

Are pedantry doomed? "Apostrophes are dead, texting has changed everything. Panic not, new possibilities are emerging", writes #RobertShrimsley provocatively in the #FT #FinancialTimes. Paywalled original […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

Disruptive fundie #transpbobe #enochburke & family in High Court yet again for yet another procedural hearing. Usual Burke family wild disruption, so Enoch + brother + sister + mother were all thrown out of court. #sigh Mr Justice Brian Cregan said the High Court should consider "afresh" […]

I try to make it a rule in my life to never celebrate death. But norvdo I mourn unrepented #evil. Former US #VPOTUS Dick Cheney was deeply evil, a depraved #warCriminal and #torturer who should remain #despised. The #IraqWar based on Cheney’s #BigLie turned […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

It's brilliant and exciting to see Zohran Mamdani elected. More leaders like him please, and fewer like Cuomo, Schumer and the rest of the oligarch-pleasing, hope-destroying, election-losing, right-centrist political class.

I try to make it a rule in my life to never celebrate death. But norvdo I mourn unrepented #evil. Former US #VPOTUS Dick Cheney was deeply evil, a depraved #warCriminal and #torturer who should remain #despised. The #IraqWar based on Cheney’s #BigLie turned […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

Criminals posing as US immigration officers have carried out robberies, kidnappings, and sexual assaults in several states, warns a law enforcement bulletin issued last month by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The bureau urges agencies to ensure officers clearly identify themselves and to […]

Excellent letter in #TheGuardian from Labour #MP Rachel Taylor about the destructive role of the #UK #EHRC's chair, the hardline #transphobe #KrisherFalkner, whose "ideological interpretation" of the #UKSC judgment in #FWS "risks marginalising transgender people" […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

The rapist's repugnant support for the sexual harasser should be enough to get #zohranmamdani over the line tonight in #nyc2025

remarkable...

A corker of a line from Val McDermid in her latest Karen Pirie novel 🥰🥰🥰

@2legged Mind you, if parliament had an ounce of gumption, it could overrule the Supreme Court by passing a bill saying 'When we said in the Gender Recognition Act that 'Where a full gender recognition certificate is issued to a person, the person’s gender becomes FOR ALL PURPOSES the acquired […]

THREAD: @davidallengreen is interesting on the bizarrely fluid legal theologies at play in the #defenestration of the ex-#PrinceAndrew. "Never underestimate the residual force of royal power in the United Kingdom", he warns at […]

After six decades of sycophancy, the #bbc seems to have removed Andrew from its grovel-to list. Instead, it is diligently fulfilling its new duty of pouring buckets of manure on the #exprince, while the grovelling continues to other royals. Of course, reports that this pair have been snorting […]

After six decades of sycophancy, the #bbc seems to have removed Andrew from its grovel-to list. Instead, it is diligently fulfilling its new duty of pouring buckets of manure on the #exprince, while the grovelling continues to other royals. Of course, reports that this pair have been snorting […]

The #DailyTelegraph Saturday lifestyle article has been perfected. wails Flora's headline, as readers wipe away tears. (Yes, the writer really is called Flora. #NiceDetail) "The Aga I always thought of as a necessity for my dream country house has become an […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

"Wherever we looked for the prominent flaggers and leaders of this movement, we found people smugglers and sex doll salesmen, people with dubious criminal pasts and people willing to put in a good word for Adolf Hitler. Farage told us the flag-raisers were just ordinary folk sticking it to the […]

#IvanYates media coached FF presidential candidate #JimGavin for #Aras25 while pretending to be a pundit. 😮 Yates didn't declare his interest, so has been fired from his podcast with #MattCooper. Yates now adds "failed media coach" and "sacked podcaster" to his […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

Excellent, timely work by #mikesmall on the spiralling crisis of feudal relic that increasingly fails to bind the so-called "United Kingdom". I enjoyed Mike's implicit nod to Betjeman's magnificent 1973 snark at "a tradition that stretches back to 1952". https://substack.com/inbox/post/177717624

THREAD: "A formal process" 😅 The #britishmonarchy is again getting away with makeyuppy crap. #kingcharles is not convening his lawyers to apply Section 57.4 of some Consolidated Monarchy Handbook. There is no handbook, just a history of previous actions which they choose to echo or ignore. >>

First case of a rat jumping onto a sunken ship. 😅🤣 The latest Westminster oponion poll put the #ConservativeParty in fourth place on 16%, with a seat projection of only 14 seats. Yes, only fourteen Tory MPs. But this #ReformUK clown is undeterred: "Reform UK […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

Excellent, timely work by #mikesmall on the spiralling crisis of feudal relic that increasingly fails to bind the so-called "United Kingdom". I enjoyed Mike's implicit nod to Betjeman's magnificent 1973 snark at "a tradition that stretches back to 1952". https://substack.com/inbox/post/177717624

THREAD: "A formal process" 😅 The #britishmonarchy is again getting away with makeyuppy crap. #kingcharles is not convening his lawyers to apply Section 57.4 of some Consolidated Monarchy Handbook. There is no handbook, just a history of previous actions which they choose to echo or ignore. >>

It's #yourparty's time for this meme

The head of the Council of Europe's parliamentary assembly, Theodoros Rousopoulos, said Latvia had made a hasty decision fuelled by disinformation. It was, he said, an "unprecedented and deeply worrying step backwards for women's rights and human rights in Europe".

Separate from the analysis of 172 instances of political mis- and disinformation, researchers identified 43 election-related posts that featured media created with genAI tools. Only 14% of these posts included labels indicating they were created using genAI. #Áras25

ISD: Election mis- and disinformation content analysed on X, TikTok and YouTube accrued 5.6 million views. On Facebook, content received more than 32,500 likes, comments and shares. #Áras25 www.isdglobal.org/digital_disp...

Latvia's Saeima (parliament) has voted to withdraw from the 2011 #IstanbulConvention, which protects woman from domestic violence. The Latvian#misogynists rage at "gender ideology". This slogan is also used by #transphobes in #ireland & #uk. It comes from the #usa's "christian" right, who want […]

Gloves off. Even #BBCnews is publishing snark at the #exPrince formerly known as #PrinceAndrew. Rather good snark. The #Briishestablishment is well-rattled by angry MPs, and by this week's #YouGov poll giving the #nonce a 91% unpopularity rating. These […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

"Ireland is a beautiful country, that people are the best in the world. "There is kindness, integrity in them and they were looking for values and hope." - President-elect Catherine Connolly www.rte.ie/news/politic... #Áras25

Two future Presidents of Ireland. Photo by Joe O’Shaughnessy, in 2003.

UK media last week: #princeandrew could be stripped of his titles only by an #actofparliament Uk media now: #kingcharles has stripped #andrewmountbattenwindsor of his titles. All as if last week's reports had never happened. #ukpol #themadcouhtry #royalfamily #exprince

"My own theory of who emerges victorious in Irish presidential elections is that they are thematic to the vanguard of prevailing social values: Robinson the feminist, McAleese the bridge builder between north and south, Higgins the socialist poet, and now Connolly, the anti-war president." #Aras25

#KemiBadenoch says hacking into #harrietharman's website 17 years ago 'not the same' as Reeves breaking law. Bless #badenoch. She's doing a stunningly good job of destroying the UK's #conservativeparty 😂 😈 […]

The grotesquely belated UK royal defenestration of #exprince Andrew is too little too late. Even the soggy Starmerite #newstatesman is now calling for an end to the monarchy. But not yet. The NS is passive, and wants #PrinceWilliam to voluntarily quit when his father dies. #goodluckwiththat 🙄 […]

This is a wonderful illustration of the Irish state's capacity for infrastructure investment: a big fanfare to announce there will be *4 new tram stops* in Dublin in six years' time from now […]

IT: There is not enough room in the existing hangars for all three of the Air Corps’ newly acquired Airbus C295s, designed for long range military transport and maritime patrol. Extra space will also be required for a new fleet of “super-medium” helicopters. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

You know the old slogan from the 1960s, If voting changed anything they'd abolish it? Well people have taken a couple of strides in that direction this past few weeks in Ireland, in certain quarters. Calling it out is a public service.

Ambushes by #EnochBurke's family and other wingnuts is now a hazard of Irish life. Anyone with a public profile can be filmed and harangued, and the video boosted to a wide audience. Here's some good advice on how to respond, and how to train for it. In a […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

The super-rich have strangled the public discussion and co-ordination which would be needed to overthrow their power. ☹️

#andrewmarr has abandoned #keirstarmer, but not his misreading. "Starmer, I insist, is a decent man with strong public values." https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-politics/2025/10/i-thought-labour-would-fix-everything-i-was-wrong #starmer is just a frontman for #morganmcsweeney, whose […]

Loyal servant of #Starmer to be replaced by A/ loyal Starmer cabinet face OR B/ loyal-but-sacked cabinet face. At the weekend, the UK's so-called "#LabourParty" elected one of this pair as its new deputy leader. I am unsure which is which, but we can be sure the […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

Simon McGarr @Tupp_ed''s blog post about #catherineconnolly's election win #aras25 is short of new insight, but full of delightful #snark at the #ffffg fustercluck. https://www.thegist.ie/the-gist-no-contest/ Also, he found the 1930s iteration of #finegael's red scare tactics.