it’s 2am and i’m plagued by memories of The Jean Scene i’ve been trying to remember the name of it for years until now i referred to it as the shop that sold the t shirts that said “i have the body of a god unfortunately it’s buddha” or “cover me in chocolate and throw me to the lesbians”

Spotify is crashing HARD because of the boycott. Their stock dropped 11% in value over the last month. Let’s keep this going! Tell everyone you know to boycott Spotify. There are plenty of alternatives that don’t run ICE advertisements and screw over artists. We made it easy at boycottspotify.com.

A reminder, if needed, that the ‘Regional Public Policy & Government Relations Lead’ of Airbnb is a former Labour (!) TD who represented Gaeltacht communities in Galway West.

Literally the same talking points that have been coming from government this past 2 weeks

An 88 percent increase in the number of whole homes to rent in Gaeltacht areas on Airbnb – in just six years 'The history of the Gaeltachts as places of radical and forward thinking gets forgotten now when they've become a holiday destination,' say @CnaG www.ontheditch.com/airbnb-expan...

Facebook have their European HQ in Dublin - would it be too much to ask for the Irish Gov to at least raise this with Meta?

Hearing reports that President Trump of the United States has put up a neon This Must Be The Place sign in the Oval Office

I’ve been saying for YEARS that Ivan Yates is the keystone of everything wrong with Irish society. I was just basing it on vibes up till now, delighted to finally have some evidence

This is a terrible move. Standards in RTÉ are in audible decline. This is an essential public service not a for profit enterprise, something made all the more vital in an age of rampant disinformation. Short sighted, shallow thinking.

calling all queer and trans people who were involved in the catherine connolly campaign: would you like to speak to me for an article i am writing? (i would love to get as many different perspectives as possible)

NYT writing about the new mayor this morning

They doused petrol on a building housing of refugee families and set it alight. They were trying to burn these people out, if not actually burn them alive. It was a pogrom. It's important we identify it properly And the government is encouraging the politics behind this. It'll happen again

i’d love to know if anyone ever misread the vibe and showed up to jury duty in a halloween costume

there is no male loneliness epidemic when it comes time for a new dublin bus driver to take over the route while you’re already running late

this week we have a halloween special on the afterlife of your online data… very scary

In which @earley.bsky.social haunts me with the notion of an "emotional bog body". Listen here: pod.fo/e/3472a6

a few weeks ago i went to my friends house for dinner and my ma picked me up afterwards and as soon as i got in the car she said “smell of dinner off you”

in a media environment where outlets are chomping at the bit so voraciously to discredit well-liked leftist figures in politics, we are really seeing a lot of media orgs ultimately just discredit themselves

I saw one earlier that said “Mocking is catching”!!

haven’t seen one joke about dj carey being in hospital on this app… something’s wrong

cmat knew she ate with eurocountry but did she realise that she made the perfect reeling in the years election montage soundtrack

a few times this year i’ve been stuck with english people i don’t know and have reached my limit of small talk topics, but i learned that the best thing to say when you get to that point is “what do you think of dishoom” cause they genuinely won’t shut up then

i actually just shuddered with visceral embarrassment at the crowd cheering for david draiman’s loserly little speech last night

i like how they can do “homemaker” for maria steen, but “unemployed” for any mother with an uneven number in their postcode

Also the Fash are going to claim that every spoiled or invalid/inconclusive ballot is one for Maria Steen and their regressive Catholic Theocracy nonsense, so having a clear mandate against that will be good.

If Jim Gavin gets 12.5% or more, Fianna Fáil gets €250,000 in expenses refunded. Bear that in mind if you're voting for Jim Gavin as a joke.

As Barney's body lay out in the street in a pool of blood, the Derry Civil Rights Association banner held by marchers that day was used to cover him. Damien O'Kane's father (@mckanedj on Twitter) kept it and donated to the Museum of Free Derry, where it is now on permanent display.

roomba accidentally saw outside

it was also possibly my fav podcast we've done to date... RIP

Not one word about who the mob were, their motives or politics, or their targets. I'll say it again - Irish politicians, law enforcement and media have absolutely no idea what they are doing when it comes to the far right, and they will reap a bitter harvest from their ignorance.

Forensic tests confirm torture on bodies of 54 Palestinians returned by Israel, says Gaza officials - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/forensic-tests-confirm-torture-bodies-54-palestinians-bodies-returned

I'm so sick of discourse from supposed allies about where trans people went wrong. Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.

"No, I did not say that. I did not say that ... no, please, I did not say that” is so much funnier for some reason

i really can't believe it has taken this long, many media outlets abandoned the original language a decade ago

the use of the term 'to drop' meaning 'to release' is leaking from the original use, in the music industry, into use in policy reporting, to much confusion impossible to know from a headline that someone 'dropping' a plan means it's happening or it's not happening amazing work, just wonderful

This "Connolly will upset the EU" stuff is also ridiculous btw. The EU can deal with Meloni, Orban, Fico etc etc on a day to day basis. The idea that a figurehead's words might somehow meaningfully damage Ireland's standing is genuinely deluded.

this shows heather as being neutral on many topics that i don't think she's actually neutral on 🤔 (you can see stance after completing)

there is no moral difference between fox "hunting" and dog fighting a canine trained to kill another canine, for nothing more than the amusement of braying idiots dog fighting is rightly outlawed, and those supporting it would be social pariahs. fox hunters get dressed up for a nice day out

She said she tends to be a “worrier” and sitting in packed courthouses, watching people being evicted from their homes as a “direct consequence of govt policy”. “People had to emigrate,” she said - some took their own lives - “directly consequent on government policy.”

the AWS outage is affecting Ring doorbells. Sky News says “some users can’t see outside their house, definitely scary” just look outside your window 😅

seeing an interesting push on positive FF stories while FG are busy scorching their own earth

This needs to be corrected by @news.rte.ie repeatedly throughout the day. There is no equivocation here.

Heather Humphreys is simply, flatly wrong about this. And I'm gonna forever side-eye all the FG associates I know at the Bar (which is A LOT of people) if they don't come out strongly against this really pernicious undermining of the profession.

when heather humphreys can no longer resume a political career after this election, do we think she will go back to credit union?

100% Humphries is gonna be out on the other side of this election complaining about how nasty her opponents were to her when the negative campaigning is coming entirely from her side

Marie McGowan, 89, has died 3 years after a brutal assault during which she was put headfirst into a rubbish bin. Her attacker, Alex Bailey, believed she was "a man dressed as a woman." This is the world the transphobes are creating "to protect women." RIP Marie. share.google/PFaI5YTh9tBw...

"Catherine Connolly will land Ireland in hot water with her views" *Heather Humphreys secures a defamation case during election campaign by blabbering on air about Paul Murphy for no apparent reason during a debate with Catherine Connolly*

We’ve met with Greta Thunberg and others in the flotilla. They describe hours-long scenes of torture and sexual harassment in Israeli captivity. Experts conclude that they have been subjected to serious crimes – Sweden’s foreign minister believes they have themselves to blame. tinyurl.se/crR