When I was in the psychiatric hospital ( where I got my autism diagnosis) I was in a dissociative episode & they put peppermint oil on a cotton ball the aroma helped ‘ground me’ I’m just sharing in case anyone with dissociative disorder needs some extra tools!

Straight lads embarrassing themselves looking up the price of a Birkin instead of a Kelly Lads. That’s like thinking (*Googles famous footballers*) Marcus Rashford is the same as Mo Salah

I find it weird that people are painting Mamdani as an extreme outsider. The US govt. has taken ownership positions in major US companies like Intel (and soon TikTok). Mamdani wants to open a city-run grocery store to sell cheap groceries. And you're telling me the second is a radical socialist.

a few thoughts (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

Non-Irish people should be told that Ireland is creased with national hilarity because the Catholic conservative candidate who failed to get enough support did a presser to talk about how Ireland had been cheated out of having a real 'people's candidate' while holding a €20K+ Hermes handbag.

Me: Which is why I did a Chotiner interview meme post Chotiner: but you did want engagement Me: Oh, of course! But it wasn’t just that. C: You felt you could add to the conversation Me: My own perspective. C: By posting the same joke as everyone else Me: it’s a funny variation

They've lost the 9yos

as you can see here our officers recovered a bullet featuring a tiny bawdy portrait of my wife addressed to the shooter and signed with lipstick kisses. we are investigating whether this was done via some form of silk screening or if my wife can instead become very small. we have no further comment

This has been such a wild year, most of us barely remember half of what's happened. Like it was just a few months ago the script for an unmade fourth Nolan Batman movie leaked called The Dark Knight Fucks. And nobody even talks about it now.

Now the third and final musician who created this wonderful music has left us - Danny Thompson

Published by @burrenbeotrust.bsky.social, this is optimism in a book

People have been able to get nominated in previous elections, those tended to have a record of doing something in the community or are known. So the process works. It just doesn't work if you're an extremist or have no record of doing anything positive for the community. #aras25

Feel bad for Maria Steen, every time her or her friends try to become involved in elections or referendums, their groundswell of support, which is actually the majority of people and is totally real and not made up, seems to evaporate when it comes time to step up 🤔

Seeing the Bill Watterson originals full of pencil lines of stuff that didn’t work, scuffs the eraser didn’t pick up, white out galore and more was something I needed to see to remind myself that nothing is perfect the first go and tweaks need to be made and you’re allowed to try again.

Peadar Tóibín about to turn this into his biggest cause célèbre since taking on Met Éireann for warning us it was cold when it was cold.

Unless that’s a knock-off, she’s clutching a Hermès bag that costs about €20,000.

This pair look like the villains in a movie where the hero is a dog.

ANALYSIS: The real The Traitors Ireland are the democracy hating members of Leinster House

In fairness to Maria Steen it's a tough tightrope to walk to find nominees who hate women enough to support the Iona Institute but not so much that they wouldn't nominate one.

IRISH RIGHT: the groundsell of support we're seeing for Maria Steen is unprecedented! she will be carried to the Áras on a wave of pure democracy ALSO THE IRISH RIGHT: pleas @archbishopjohncharlesmcquaid please help her please save us

Yes everyone stop what you're doing and just watch it trust me www.youtube.com/watch?v=8al5...

Miriam Lord: Maria Steen, opponent of marriage equality and abortion, championed as a symbol of choice. Independent Ireland took irony to new levels in statement of support for presidential hopeful. www.irishtimes.com/politics/oir...

the number of Oireachtas members who repeated verbatim 'well we didn't agree on everything' and nominating her anyway is funny. getting swayed by Maria Steen is like losing chess to a dog

Iona Institute leaflet

Best thing I've seen on the hellscape that is the internet in a long time.

1. Fuck these guys. 2. "people of Ireland who feel ignored" - you're not talking about sexual assault victims, children on waiting lists for disability services, emigrants and renters. You're talking about Fergal! Fergal is cross because he saw an ad for broadband on TV with a mixed race couple.

People are doing rapture jokes like there’s no tomorrow.

Unfortunately I think Fundamentalist Barbie would appeal to a lot of voters because I think a lot of voters who are only semi engaged are fairly easily fooled by well-tailored sheep’s clothing on a polished well-spoken wolf

Why is RTÉ referring to Maria Steen as a "family rights campaigner"? Maria Steen, as a member of the self-styled Iona "Institute", has campaigned against every hard-won right we have today.

I like Jimmy Kimmel. I really do. I have no issues with him. I'm talking about something very different. Kimmel was only suspended. But he's back now. Karen Attiah and all the other Black journalists are still fired. Y'all do know how to fight, when you want to. But you don't really want to. 🤷🏿‍♂️

Happy rapture day! Please aim yourself at the sky in an orderly fashion so the rest of us can inherit your house

The reason I'm concerned about Maria Steen being on the ballot isn't that she will win (she won't). My worry is that if she is nominated, it will mean a month of national airtime for a hate campaign against vulnerable groups, carried by a media too scared of being sued to call it what it is

Maria Steen has spent her entire public life as a spokesperson for a political group that doesn't disclose its sources of funding, so of course she's the candidate of choice for people who pretend to care about transparency

The control-de-wimmen caucus in Leinster House want Steen on the ballot so people have a “right to choose”. How ironic. www.thejournal.ie/maria-steen-...

RTE News colluding with the extreme right when they describe Maria Steen as a “family rights campaigner” I mean, which families would those be huh? #Áras25

Look if Maria Steen doesn't run for the presidency then how are we going to have a frank discussion about all the people Jesus told us didn't deserve human rights

If Maria Steen gets on the ballot for the presidential election RTE have the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever as host for the debate.

Not worried about Steen potentially winning, am worried about the amount of airtime and publicity that will be given to allow them to spout their views (largely unchecked, going by previous coverage of similar people) for the next month if they end up on the ballot

If Steen is nominated, the political questioning is going to go like: "Mr. Gavin, how do you explain your desire to end Ireland's neutrality?" "Mrs. Humphreys, the animal cruelty case..." "Mrs. Connelly, how do you respond to accusations of Hamas support." "Mrs. Steen...what's your fav colour?"

@washingtonpost.com Awesome. Now what about @karenattiah.bsky.social ? www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Medical ethicist Arthur Kaplan, quoted in the NYT: “The announcement on autism was the saddest display of a lack of evidence, rumors, recyling old myths, lousy advice, outright lies & dangerous advice I have ever witnessed by anyone in authority in the world claiming to know anything about science”

Steve Silberman is so pissed about this Tylenol bullshit that he's screaming from the afterlife he didn't even believe in. Increased rates of autism are due to testing, a broadened definition, and greater awareness. It's not vaccines. It's not Tylenol. It's like his work never happened.

Steve Silberman is not here to shout it — so it’s up to all of us. Vaccines don’t cause autism. Neither does Tylenol. (I mean seriously WTF?!?!) The “epidemic” of autism is the result of increased testing, broader definitions, and raised awareness. LOUDER.

regardless of the details I think it’s important to spin the Kimmel thing as a win Trump is weak, he’s unpopular, he massively overreached and inspired enough of a revolt that Disney had to backtrack immediately he wants to paint himself as an all-powerful dictator, paint him as a loser who sucks

New episode out today! It's our live commemoration of the third anniversary of the death of Queen Elizabeth II. Feat: @sueharrison123.bsky.social @mikeshephard.bsky.social Sammy Dobson @atomcrowley.bsky.social @linneasage.bsky.social Mike Wozniak Thanks to @greigarjohnson.bsky.social for vids!

“I can’t scroll on, I’ll scroll on.”

“The best type of e-bike for replacing car trips is the cargo bike. Cargo bikes are rewiring cities to adapt their infrastructure for more human-centric transportation. And they’re also really fun to ride. Plus: bike bus!” Via @theverge.com

“In this animation, we wanted to recognise the difficulties of being Autistic, but to focus on giving people reasons to be hopeful about connecting with others, understanding themselves better, and feeling like they belong.” youtu.be/-eDv2omDMko?...