has maria steen been sent to the shadow realm yet

"‘Generation rent’ has largely been priced out of the housing market and is caught in a catch-22 situation. They can’t purchase their own home because house deposits and monthly mortgage repayments are unaffordable" wrong... rent is almost always more expensive than a mortgage repayment

Independent Ireland TDs accepted Maria Steen’s assurances that she’d work with LGBTI groups because she was respectful throughout the II engagement. Steen, who opposed all LGBTI equality activism & legislation on inclusion & equality,is ok ‘cause she’s got good manners!! II are a bad joke #speirgorm

Eh, I can personally attest to the fact that you can’t actually say “whatever the fuck your want” on RTE 🤷🏼‍♀️

This is exactly it. She will 100% run as the candidate who “knows what a woman is” (and will undoubtedly pick up endorsements from pseudo-feminists because of it)

the reason you don't engage in a data-driven argument with fascists is that it legitimises the idea that if the data went the other way their core argument would be acceptable it is not and should be rejected wholesale from first principles

It's disgusting that a man can he prevented from running for President just because nobody has heard of him and he's never done anything or filed the required paperwork

5,000 children are homeless as a result of government policy. Now the tenant-in situ scheme has been gutted across multiple councils around the country. We need the tenant-in-situ scheme to receive urgent emergency funding to prevent further homelessness!

I look forward to Gareth Sheridan remaining in Ireland, getting involved in housing organisations - CATU maybe? - networking with local communities, marching in the streets and then running for county Cllr in the next elections - seeing as he's so concerned about housing 'n' all.

The Irish Aviation Authority didn’t follow proper procedures when it hired Fianna Fáil presidential candidate Jim Gavin as chief operating officer, according to a confidential letter from a whistleblower to then taoiseach Leo Varadkar. www.ontheditch.com/whistleblowe...

Hello, i'm running for president & my position on all of the key topics is that i'm always, very publicly, been on the wrong side of history and campaigned for the losing side of referendums. it would therefore make sense for me to represent a population that routinely voted against all my views

“The most pro-west, meritocratic, winning obsessed, and based brand on the face of the earth.” could you actually pick 4 more annoying adjectives than these

"Mr Troy had to resign as a junior minister in 2022 over errors he made in declaring 11 properties he either owned or part owned."

ok and how about he ensures workers are prioritised in the private housing market over institutional landlords

No. It's the election for the Head of State. The person should be known and have experience already. Getting 20 Oireachtas members or 4 local authorities isn't a stretch for anyone who should have the experience and knowledge to take on the role of Uachtarán na hÉireann. #Spéirghorm

everyone has already got the explicit discourse on this covered so i will simply add its insanely funny to say this as the developer of games where you kill like. ten thousand guys

Meta allegedly torrented pornographic videos with names like "ExploitedTeens" and "EuroTeenErotica" in service of training one of its AI models. Is this uhhhh superintelligence? www.wired.com/story/meta-l...

"if you dont use smart glasses with an always-on AI assistant youre going to fall behind intellectually" i cannot express how little i am concerned about being shown up by people who have paid money to have a simpering computer lie into their ear at all times

i dont know if i'll ever trust dublin airport to not say "sike" when you arrive following the instructions you've been given by them and/or your airline

we have found a way for people to be perverts in public, while also cosplaying as woody allen

i've seen social media posts and posters irl asking people to invest in the re-opening of Quinn's in drumcondra and all of the comments on linkedin are calling it a scam (pointing to jay bourke's bankruptcy and other controversies) what's weirdest is the pub's "making Dublin great again" comment

chatgpt is really about to amp up the lessons it has learned from B2B sales in all of its responses

I see a lot of “they’re acting like there’s never going to be another Dem president” discourse and while this probably is actually their goal, they also know that if there ever is, odds are good they’ll immediately pivot to “healing the wounds of division” and not holding anyone accountable

Sally Rooney unable to collect award over Palestine Action arrest threat

Trump said in July that he wanted Kimmel fired next. July. Kirk was still alive in July. This has nothing to do with Kirk. Nothing.

The US TikTok ban has been delayed once again. @earley.bsky.social and @elaineburke.bsky.social discuss how the way is being paved for TrumpTok, as well as the sheer volume of bots in online communities, in our latest episode. ▶️ pod.fo/e/32cc57

simpsons predicted meta glasses

It is over for the genocide deniers. Even the BBC is now splashing on the UN commission of inquiry concluding that Israel has committed genocide. Those who supported Israel's onslaught: You backed a genocide. You will never scrub the shame away.

Asking again. What do you hope to achieve with this and who do you work for? Fine Gael or Labour?

Bombshell ‘Wall Street Journal’ Investigation Finds Tyler Robinson Once Had Trans Uber Driver

Me not even looking at someone's timeline: "this person can't criticise the centre left legitimately if they don't also criticize the far right, which I assume they never do, and I'd better tell them!"

just because we have fascists doesn’t mean that we should have no standards or expectations for other elected officials. between this and the palantir situation, this man has not displayed characteristics that inspire trust from the public. but you like him so we can leave him off sure

Rake Sisyphus steps on another fuckin rake

eoin hayes has done it again lads

giving this a lil reshare solely bc substack was down for a good chunk of this afternoon

Guy who sells doo doo (squinting wisely and doing visionary voice): We believe within 10 years the world economy will be almost completely powered by doo doo

we need the capacity so 24 million more irish people can emigrate to australia

Currently living at the epicentre of Flagville UK, we have a very limited window of time to change the course of events in Ireland. And as @earley.bsky.social points out much more eloquently here, our politicians not being quite as incredibly shit as Keir & Co won’t cut it.

"Our situation with the tricolour is deeply worrying, but it’s a mere symptom of a much larger sickness caused by greed and policy decisions." @earley.bsky.social 🎯💯 as usual

🇮🇪 new substack looking at flagmania in ireland and why it's complete hypocrisy for the government to condemn this, while simultaneously choosing to spend €5 million on a deportation contract that exists solely for optics

can someone with a gopro please cycle the whole royal canal greenway route and film it then put the pokémon red/blue bicycle theme over it

From an Atlantic editor. I cannot get over how the entire centrist hivemind is attempting to wish into existence a person, and a movement, that does not exist. You are journalists, you are supposed to describe things as they are, not how you want them to be!

in america, simply living with someone who might possibly be trans is terrorism now. everyone sees what their going to try to do now right

The fact that both the WSJ and the Guardian have retracted their trans and leftist stories related to the shooter and now a day later a new one is being formed about a possible "trans roommate or lover" shows how desperate they are to pin this on someone who is LGBTQ+

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

last night i had a dream they start selling luke kelly heads in the middle aisle of lidl so people could buy them for their garden like buddha statues

girl my dad has called him charlie clark three times today

not looking forward to whatever a24 film is inspired by this assassination

must sometimes be incredibly weird to live in the world you spent your life advocating for