If you decided "family voting" was suddenly a problem in Ireland, you don't know our country's voting history

As Democracy Volunteers are the source of the claim of "Family Voting" in the Gorton & Denton by election, I got curious about their claims and thanks to @joenoonan.bsky.social I came across this claim about "Family Voting" during the 2020 Irish General Election. A brief 🧵

“Guess who!”

you think you've seen the whole movie, and then the alt text reveals you haven't even finished act two

Chewbacca IN A HEAP on Day 3 of Darth’s stag

Coincidentally the same year Brighton made a £335m profit. 😀

Cork Lad Thinks About Cork Every Three Seconds

This is Hillary Knight, captain of the women’s ice hockey team. I love her thoughts on this.

#Farage #Reform #Shitler #AllisterHeath Crikey, he's seen what we all see

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Happy 5th birthday to Naomi’s Time Travel Nanopatticles

“Ah, yes, Mr. Frischberg, I thought you’d come … but which of us is the real duck, Mr. Frischberg, and not just an illusion?”

Iceland will hold a referendum "in the coming months" on restarting European Union accession talks, Prime Minister Kristrun Frostadottir said on Wednesday. Iceand abandoned membership talks in 2013 after four years of negotiations, but geopolitical tensions have revived interest.

Right now, you can get crazy discounts on barely-used EVs.

"The Justice Department has withheld some Epstein files related to allegations that President Trump sexually abused a minor, an NPR investigation finds" www.npr.org/2026/02/24/n...

Pomegranate. Too feckin' seedy. Dragonfruit. Tastes bad.

Moms For Liberty named RJ May the South Carolina Legislator of the Year for 2023 for his efforts to protect children from the evils of the LGBTQ community. He was just sentenced to 17.5 years in federal prison followed by 30 years of supervised probation for distributing child pornography.

Ok thats pretty funny

Someone told me that B*Witched start the song "C'est La Vie" with the lines "Some people say I look like me da....I fight like him as well" because that member was legendary Irish boxer Barry McGuigan's daughter. She isn't. I repeated this fact for decades.

Is riding an e bike cheating? No, it's just like doing 20 reps at a low weight instead of 10 at a heavy weight in the gym. You get the exercise anyway. AND you might be more likely to get on the bike in the first place. www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2586115...

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A tariff “refund” mostly goes to whoever wrote the tariff check: the importer of record. That’s not the same person who paid more at the register. So refunds -- if they're offered -- might sound like consumer relief, but in reality, they're corporate windfalls.

Interviewer: "When you look at today's numbers, what do they tell us about the effectiveness of Donald Trump's tariffs." Me, very serious economist: "Hahahahahahahahahahaha.... hahahahahahahaha.... hahahahahahahahahaha... oh, wow." Sometimes all you can do is laugh at the absurdity of it all.

Occasionally I remind myself that I landed on - and took off from this - the super'carrier John F Kennedy CV67

Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull Bad. Even my kids hated it.

A mills boon if you will.

Normalize laughing derisively in men's faces when they deserve it.

US: "We are all one Western Civilization sharing a common thread from Athens to Rome to America." EU: "We've actually been building institutions to bring Europe closer together, pooling our sovereignty around shared values and..." US: "No. Not like that."

Cúchullain didn't die defending Ireland from Margaret Thatcher at the Battle Of Clontarf for you to put something other than plain, Catholic sugar on your pancakes

Maybe they could start by not posting on a racist website. If you look at their account stats on X: their posts normally get around 20K view. Their post about Edwin Edogbo got _7 milllion_ views. Organizations still there are opening their employees to racist abuse for publicity.

Well it's not everyday you're on the cover of @irishtimes.com ! My sports club the Helsinki Harps hosted the worlds first ever unofficial Poc Fada on Ice! We had a super turn out, and yes I did end up winning lol #gaaeurope

Listen to the reaction there. Real Irish people, cheering on the debut of another real Irish man. Don't pay too much attention to what anonymous blue tick accounts based in Tel Aviv, Bangladesh, or the US think.

This man is the intellectual heart of the "Groypers", one of the two factions currently vying for the post-Trump reins of the GOP. Cool. Cool cool cool. www.mediamatters.org/nick-fuentes...

It really should be a much bigger issue that this is only happening it now

"Two Starters, Mains, Desserts & A Bottle Of Wine, Guess How Much?" Says Dad After Returning From Holidays https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2026/02/13/two-starters-mains-desserts-a-bottle-of-wine-guess-how-much-says-dad-after-returning-from-holidays/

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

the irish government has announced "cigarette week," a new scheme encouraging parents to blow secondhand smoke directly into the faces of young children

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The highest and best use of soccer analytics is throwing computer vision and professional graders at identifying the dribbliest bois www.gradientsports.com/blog/discove...

Why do English people pronounce croissant like kwaahsahn? Seems to be an accepted way to say it.

This message needs to be said repeatedly and everywhere. Your granny heats her home: € in tax You drive your diesel/petrol car: €€ Michael O'Leary makes millions burning the same oil: 0, zero, zilch. I'd love some group to take out billboards, personalise it, get nasty #speirgorm

“Hold it right there, Charles! ... Not on our first date, you don’t!”

My cow-man is nearly finished. I really enjoyed this model and will attempt to do the whole unit! Maybe 😅 #daemonrich #artisopusltd #PaintingWarhammer #WarhammerCommunity #maggotkinofnurgle

1/ I know I'm biased because "waves book" but I think you should be able to make the case that the US is a critically important market for Canada without lying. The US takes 75-77% of Canadian exports, but experts only account for about a third of Canadian GDP. 75% of 35% is not 75%.