NEW Have archaeologists identified the largest nucleated settlement in prehistoric Ireland and Britain? Survey at Brusselstown Ring, one of the largest hillforts in Ireland, found evidence for potentially hundreds of occupied roundhouses! Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

The undersea cables being discussed here are the private property of tech multinationals. Maybe they should be paying for the defence of their property instead of expecting Irish taxpayers to pony up.

#enochburke's campaign is based on four #lies: LIE 1: Burke was ordered to address a trans pupil as they. REALITY: Burke didn't teach that pupil. He was not involved. LIE2: the request breached his religious rights. REALITY: the request to staff was for courtesy, not to take a view on the […]

#EnochBurke is in prison again. He still lies that he is jailed for his anti-#trans beliefs. The truth is that Burke is a disruptive bully. He is jailed only for defying court orders to stay away from the school. The #HighCourt judgment by #JusticeBrianCregan at […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

#JusticeCregan's #HighCourt judgment is an exceptionally clear summary of the history of the 3½-year #EnochBurke drama. It is written is plain English rather than legal jargon, and it is very accessible. #Cregan opens by noting the #BurkeFamily's extreme […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

“Holidays are coming, Holidays are coming, Holiday’s are coming…”

there's that now-famous internet line about how climate change means watching clips of climate disasters on people's phones until you're the one filming it, and it feels like there's some parallel about watching fascist deportation goon squad videos until it's filmed on the streets you recognize

Noodling around with this Storm illustration for fun. I haven’t worked in this style in a while.

Lemass wasn’t the absolute worst (as FF Taoisigh go) but he did introduce the 1935 Conditions of Employment Act which restricted women’s access to the workplace. His biographer says he was sexist & regarded women’s employment as ‘contrary to the Irish way of life’, so that’s a no from me. #speirgorm

The snorting noises I made at this.

Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.

Enoch Burke's arrest today - things you love to see ❤️ I pity the two gardaí having to listen to him repeating his shite over and over on the way to Mountjoy jail.

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in

As the year comes to an end, I'm reposting some of the comics I made this year, including this ridiculous thing.

Thousands of giant data centres later, in an environmental wasteland sucked dry of resources, the tech bros finally create an artificial super-intelligence. It boots up, takes a good look around, and its first words are: ‘You fucking idiots.’

The fact that he was found guilty of criminal damage doesn't make the headline, and the person whose property he damaged is described as a "transgender activist" but Linehan has "well-publicised strong views on gender issues". 🙄 This is not journalism failing trans people - it's failing EVERYONE.

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

What a wonderful President we have. #translivesmatter #transrightsarehumanrights

In one of her first public actions as the newly elected Uachtarán na hÉireann (president of Ireland) Catherine Connolly has written a public letter of solidarity on Trans Remembrance Day. It is a very promising start.

what was it that you did here exactly?

i’m not crying you’re crying xkcd: Fifteen Years

In a functioning democracy, companies that repeatedly flout regulations and pollute our rivers would be shut down permanently, and their senior executives prosecuted. We live instead in a light-touch regulatory paradise for polluters. (Reporting by Niall Sargent) thecurrency.news/articles/208...

In case you missed it ... Brexiters swore we'd stay in the Single Market and that the EU would let us cherry pick whatever we wanted. If people had known they were lying before the ref, Brexit would have been rejected. #RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺

“Ladies, we know you aspired to full citizenship and equality in the public sphere and the home alike, but unfortunately men are feeling a little blue so it’s time for you to get back in the kitchen again.” -an article, white paper, or book that gets published like three times a week now.

“Men are in trouble. Unchallenged private sphere domination over women and children is a solution.”

If there's one thing the mainstream news media love to overlook, it's the impact of the mainstream news media. The petite Tea Party in all its elite-backed astroturfiness was hailed like a sacred comet; the historically huge No Kings was played down by the NY Times, among other publications.

😔 I loved the songs and the film. Thank you, Jimmy.

britain i swear to fuck just ask the EU to take you back, sure we'll be insufferably smug about it and probably force you to get off the pound because we're feeling like being bastards but at least youll have, like, jobs and any kind of perspective

Jimmy Cliff, reggae music pioneer, dies aged 81

Can't seem to get backing for my film project "Noah: The Early Years". They all say the narrative lacks an ark.

Holiday reminders: - If someone has a new relationship, they’ll tell you. You don’t need to ask. - If someone is pregnant and they want to share that, they’ll tell you. You don’t need to ask. - If someone’s body has changed, they’re aware. You don’t need to point it out.

I did this in both of my classes this semester. It was super successful. The students had to ask an LLM about a subject they already knew well, like their favorite musician, movie, sports team, or something else they had previously researched.

Another COP. Another disappointment.

Warning: you can't unsee the linked photo of a naked Harpo Marx. Maybe you don't even want to unsee it. Up to you.

Truth to power

Great excitement in Blackrock village this afternoon 🎅🏻🎄✨

Also, it goes to my longstanding point I have learned covering her: AOC is far more pragmatic than her detractors and her fans think because she is interested in advancing policy outcomes. wapo.st/49BkLwA

Came across this again by Ruth Lepson … must look for more of her work.

"Great, how do I disable literally all of it?"

Another 'Landlords leaving the market' story. First, has this not consistently been proven to be completely false? Second, if true, why would this be bad? Third, if Landlords are 'leaving the market' in droves because new rules mean their tenants have a more secure lease, well, ok then. Off you pop.

mood

As I always say when some right-winger starts going on about "red tape that slows innovation", every regulation on the books represents a lesson we as a society learned the hard way, and then encoded so we wouldn't forget. It's someone's blood & pain.

What we are witnessing is the rise of the ABC - the Average British Cunt. They’ve always been around, the ABCs. A dull, resentful, grumbling presence in the background of national life. But now they’ve been radicalised, organised, mobilised. The ABCs dictate the agenda about literally everything.

You don’t have to like Nuzzi or approve of her conduct to understand that Lizza’s choice to publish the material that he is publishing is meant to sexually humiliate her in public in retaliation for disappointing him romantically. The term for that is revenge porn.

While you're waiting for your Donnybrook. Could I interest you in a Brouhaha?

Megyn Kelly Anxiously Waits For Everyone Else To Start Condoning Pedophilia Too

AOC on MTG retiring: "She's carefully timing her departure just 1-2 days after her pension kicks in and after making millions of dollars insider trading stocks for weapons manufacturers and others while in office."

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