Season's Greetings!

Have my fingers and toes and legs crossed for the fox hunting ban vote today. My little vegan heart will be dented if they just continue on as usual for literally no reason.

Received the package for a gift for one of my cousins yesterday, delighted to see some class additional bits like this (that I am keeping for myself). @ciaraioch.bsky.social

Building social cohesion by identifying certain groups in society, blaming them for all ills and demanding they be cast out I am very smart. Make me Taoiseach.

cool how our politicians will just float little plausible deniability trial balloons out there about what positions they should take. it’s like when my dog wants to go outside, but he doesn’t want to ask to go outside, so he just pretends to be really interested in all the coats by the front door

A pack of lies from SF to protect the landed gentry... Gross

I am feeling very shit and then I watched this and felt a little bit better

Four People Respond To Being Told That They Are Secretly The Devil

Contact your TDs Kerry I feel is a lost cause but I did anyway. You can see their opinions with the Kerryman. I don't think my blood pressure can't take reading MHR's stance again m.independent.ie/regionals/ke...

30 Euro!?

"Social cohesion" is a horrible combination of words to be rolling out against a minority group. Makes my skin crawl

What a racist piece of shit

And take your pick! Internet regulation. Trans healthcare. Tariffs. Human Rights legislation. A fucking I. The economy. Public transport. And on and on and on! These are too important to be left to fucking eejits with absolutely no idea what they're doing who were promoted way beyond their ability

When I've posted more than twice about something you know it's either about Maggie Smith in The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie, or because I've really had it with some nonsense! And Gurl. I've *had it* with incompetents having the power to meddle with shit that's actually important and needs expertise

Wow what an interesting choice of support act for Paul Simon

New data centres in Ireland could need additional energy supply that is almost equal to the peak electricity demand for the entire country. 5.8GW = almost record peak winter electricity demand for the entire country www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Flies rubbing their hands together like crazy are really onto something. It feels so good.

Some Now TV codes, might save someone a couple of pound this time of year: Sky Sports €15pm for 6mths (min. term): NOWSMPDARTSWB25 Entertainment €3pm for 6mths (min. term): NOWENTXMASWB 1mth free Cinema: NOWXMASCIN1MFWB 1mth free Boost: NOWFESDART1MF 1mth free Boost: NOWXMASWBBOO1 #speirgorm

if mike judge married judge reinhold his name would be mike reinhold

You know what? I'm counting Catch Me If You Can as a Christmas movie.

last weekend for Christmas orders online over at prayforpatrick.etsy.com I’ll also be doing both days at the Portview Christmas Market (where the EastBlock Bazaar market usually is) in Belfast on the 19th (6–10pm) and the 20th (12-4pm) so pop down to it and say hello if f you’re around Belfast.

Exclusively doing my pasta shopping at TK Maxx

Today! Come on down to @ConnollyBooks to pick up some beautiful solidarity items at our Palestine Solidarity Market 12 - 4pm. Handmade ceramics, tatreez embroidery, keffiyehs, t-shirts, badges, stickers and lots of other goodies. Delicious homemade Palestinian food. Don't miss out! #FreePalestine 🇵🇸

📣 We are delighted to announce that 1994 Eurovision winner for Ireland Charlie McGettigan has decided to hand back his trophy to the EBU in protest at apartheid Israel's continued participation in the contest! #BoycottEurovision

A lucky escape for all concerned.

Wish we lived in a world where all the Grinch merch around the place was just of Scrooge. Scrooge soft toys, Scrooge Christmas tree ornaments, Scrooge Advent Calendars, Scrooge Christmas Jumpers.

Fianna Fáil & Fine Gael are selling out our sovereignty to private corporations. They're creating a parallel justice system ONLY for corporations. Corporations can and will sue the state for interfering with their "legitimate expectation" of making profits. Why is there so little coverage of this?

"Any inclusion of services in the bill could have entangled companies in technology and other industries in Ireland doing business in Israel." There ya have it

The financial hit to Israel each year would be less than the cost of the infamous Leinster House bike shed. #Spéirgorm We can't let this slide.

A small reminder that a fleet of experts, regulators, profession bodies, lawyers, civil society groups and academics all warned that the the earlier, more restricted, proposals were illegal. www.thegist.ie/the-gist-fac...

The Govt have announced they plan to pass the Facial Recognition Technology Bill through the Dáil on the last sitting day before Christmas. They’ve also removed most of the safeguards the legislation had at earlier stages and widened the scope of use. Basically stuffing coal down all our chimneys

"Hi, is that the Irish Times? Yeah I've written an espionage novel about the Russians invading Shannon, all fiction of course, I was wondering if you'd like to print it in instalments? That's great news, thank you! What's that? You want to run it as a series of non-fiction opinion pieces? Ok then."

Me seeing this: I've gotta share this with two friends right now

Fucking pumped man let’s fucking go

Ye Vagabonds have literally never done a bad song youtu.be/Z2nT790QSW0?...

Quite a good set of questions.

Patrick O’Donovan went out on the national airwaves with a half-baked, bad set of ideas about linking access to online spaces to our PPS numbers. If he had these ideas himself, it would be a Christmas miracle. But in fact, they are the Zuckerberg lobbying aim across the world.

Fully thought it was Friday this morning, brain has lost it's mind

Our "centre-right" government is asking for a loosening of prohibitions on torture! I feel like I'm going insane!

New Gist: Waving the Ban Hammer Patrick O'Donovan has proposed a National ID system, a Meta-endorsed regulation model and a mass surveillance machine, all in one. It's government by Dunning-Kruger. www.thegist.ie/the-gist-wav...

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Why is it always bin day when there's a weather warning!?

We need a movement of all those abandoned by these mouthpieces for global capital and the landlords to resist every eviction, resist rent increases and fight back against the destruction of our communities by the precarity of insecure tenancies and landlord neglect. We have to say enough is enough,

Just want to remind people to not forget about Kerry County Council

Standing at the Antiques Roadshow table trying to maintain a neutral expression masking that I’m fully expecting to be told that, given the right auction, I should consider myself a very very wealthy man

"Gareth Sheridan went to Tucker Carlson's Christmas party" is already crazy, but "Gareth Sheridan took a photo with the world's most famous antisemitic conspiracy theorist, then voluntarily posted it on the Internet" is blowing my fucking mind

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot