Joking apart, has anyone got any Jim Gavin leaflets as I don't have any yet? #speirgorm

Somewhere, CMAT is laughing.

Well that aged well #Aras25 #SpéirGhorm

Billy Kelleher on hearing the Jim Gavin news 😂

Gavin is out of the presidential race! We don't need you anymore.

I'm Jewish. I'm also Mancunian. Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference. Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say? Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk

I own more than one, because you always need a backup.

Greta Thunberg: “My name is Greta Thunberg . I'm a citizen of Sweden. If you are watching this video, I have been abducted and taken against my will by Israeli forces.. Please tell my government to demand my and the others' immediate release.” #GlobalSumudFlotilla #3E

Ever wondered where all the Cheers title photos are from? I did. And I've gathered everything I can find into this post. That was fun. joelmorris.substack.com/p/where-nobo...

You're going to be glad you opened that mastodon account. And the more complicated you think it is, the gladder you will be.

So who here is going to #Octocon?

So you don't have to leave today or tomorrow, but you should have a parachute ready just in case... faduda.ie/200-words/ma...

No, you're not going crazy. You did read this and also read about the PSNI arresting people in London for being members of a proscribed organization.

Yeah, this is a troll. Block and move on.

Those corporate tax breaks aren't going to pay for themselves.

When #áras25 is over and certain parties are doing postmortems, the fact that Catherine Connolly did so many one-on-one podcast interviews and the other candidates didn't must be part of the conversation. People don't get to know candidates in debates.

More shovels please.

I wonder what questions you'd hear asked if it wasn't professional journalists setting the boundaries of what gets covered in a debate.

The fact they jumped straight to AI actors modeled after women when, if I’m not mistaken, male actors are a higher labor cost kind of says it all doesn’t it,

Re-sharing this because ex-Garda @nialljournal.bsky.social seems to have gone very quiet on the topic. So many of us have shared confidential personal info with the Garda Vetting Bureau in order to volunteer in our communities. That data does not appear to be safe.

I’m still thinking about Gavins response to the question on the #womenofhonour -he saw nothing, he knew nothing-and he wants to be President? Can you imagine him responding as our previous presidents have done to issues as national trauma! He’s the see nothing,do nothing candidate #speirgorm #aras25

While the PSNI were in London arresting disabled people for holding signs, the PSNI in NI will do absolutely nothing about this

Fellow scribes and journalists, Please, in the name of Crom, just once learn from the last mistake. Substack is not your friend.

Men in balaclavas set fire to a mosque in East Sussex last night. It's only appearing on the BBC's local coverage, rather than its main national headlines, despite coming just a week after the (also under-reported) firebombing of an asylum hotel in London last week www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is the moment where someone needs to play the clip.

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As minister for justice, Jim O'Callagahan has the makings of a great Fine Gael taoiseach.

Here we go... www.rte.ie/news/2025/10...

I think if I had to pick a single favourite off-the-cuff Smiley moment, it would be when he sees the "punk is destructive, society does not need it" graffiti in Smiley's People: 'Oh, but society does,' he wanted to reply; 'society is an association of minorities.'

Linked to this yesterday, but I am re-upping today because this is the best piece of practical research I have seen lately. It deals with what's gone wrong in political coverage.

This is the more interesting poll result for me because the discussion around the debate doesn't seem to match how the public saw it. And if the IT Political Podcast is wrong, then what is the world coming to.

AI at its peak

“Wa wa wah, I didn’t get what I wanted straight away so what’s the point?” The point is you keep making the required argument and actions until you die or they have an effect, whichever happens first. Nothing is lost while people continue to work for it.

So you don't have to leave today or tomorrow, but you should have a parachute ready just in case... faduda.ie/200-words/ma...

So who here is going to #Octocon?

Protesters in Tel Aviv have called for an end to the war in Gaza and the return of Israeli hostages

One Cop to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them.

Yay! More cheap meals for everyone.

Great, the Japanese Maggie Thatcher. That's just what was needed at this time in history

So far only Instagram and Threads have reported this. The latest (10/04) from The Guardian has her detained in a prison in the Negev Desert.

www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2... final report not yet released, probable source of that info is 2 steps removed but sounds plausible and i too have been waiting for a conclusion; didn't believe they had concluded so soon that it was suicide, within hours if memory serves

When you drag a woman by the hair, beat her and force her to kiss your flag, that’s how you tell the world you are the Good Guys

Cycle traffic jams! We must build much more bike lanes! After all, when there's car traffic the first suggestion is always "widen the road", so why should the response be different for any other form of vehicle? *wide-eyed innocent look*

Notable how far France is ahead of the UK on this stuff

How much attention do you think is being paid to AI bubble alchemy in Leinster House? Because I get the feeling Budget 26 framers are making some big assumptions about corporation taxes and FDI in the coming quarters.

HAL, show me Inception.