A professor in Indiana has been reprimanded for showing this graphic in her class. What snowflakes the conservative right are! I think it's an excellent visual aid, and I will certainly now be showing it in *my* classes too. More info: www.wfyi.org/news/article... HT @pzmyers.bsky.social

“The Far Right doesn’t stay within borders. It’s at work everywhere and it works in sync. The strength in one area magnifies the strength in another. It’s a global threat.”

How birds got human names open.substack.com/pub/weirdmed...

agreed. it's "the guy who makes you uncomfortable for reasons you won't articulate isn't the future. this guy who looks and talks like you is."

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I wonder if the United States can learn anything from the last time a major industrialized country decided to isolate itself from the rest of the world? Almost a decade after the Brexit vote, GDP in the UK is around 6-8% lower relative to peer countries. (Source: www.nber.org/papers/w34459)

a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,

These threats are grim, disgusting and unacceptable. They’re really common among anti-trans obsessives. Which is why they were banned so often from social networks. It wasn’t censorship, it was standards. Removing those rules has only emboldened hate: metro.co.uk/2025/11/08/d...

The last time I heard a President getting booed like this was Ceausescu in 1989

UK TERFS angry that BBC Arabic allowed Palestinians to express an opinion (as if they're human), arguing that the enslavement of black people for profit is "contentious" and complaining that the "Irish Famine" is being talked of as if it were a bad thing.

Embarrassingly, evolutionary biology is dragged into the debate to justify beliefs about women about their incompetencies. “Scientific sexism” seems to be having a moment alongside scientific racism

As for "made-up pronouns," ALL WORDS ARE MADE UP, YOU COMPLETE FREAKAZOIDS! Did you think they grew on trees???

Pronouns are words. There is nothing "biological" about them. Some languages have gendered personal pronouns, some don't. Some languages have gendered nouns for every inanimate object. Some languages have no gendered pronouns. Some have no personal pronouns *at all!*

This is a very deft thread. A concise precis of our conversation on conservatism, capitalism, and disability Thank you @mecfsskeptic.bsky.social #MECFS #LongCovid @davetuller1.bsky.social

*Shivers down spine*

"A teacher tells me that, with calculators, all the maths 99% of school leavers need can be taught to them in a day" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

hahaha this is fucking insane

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

Many thanks to @davetuller1.bsky.social for the chance to chat about my book and its resonance with #MECFS, #LongCovid, and the war on disabled people (For those interested in reading more, pls check here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...)

If there were people around the country committing violence against Catholic priests and attempting to burn them to death in their beds, would Simon Harris and the rest of our politicians, the very next day, take to the media to demand a debate on whether there were too many priests in Ireland? 2/4

Well, now, look what arrived in the post... Delighted to share that my new book on psychology and the culture wars has now been published. Writing it was a long, at times depressing, but ultimately satisfying journey for me. I hope you like it Deets here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

European leaders will say both “I’ve never heard of Zoran Mamdani” and “RIP Charlie Kirk”

good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx

@bmhughes.bsky.social makes a good point in his new book. Many leftist movements exclude and marginalise disabled people within rhetoric and theory, focusing nearly only on “working people”, “working class” They may critique commodity fetishism, but can end up with a sort of labour fetishism…

😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎

😂👏 Christmas sponsored by Reform UK

Well, now, look what arrived in the post... Delighted to share that my new book on psychology and the culture wars has now been published. Writing it was a long, at times depressing, but ultimately satisfying journey for me. I hope you like it Deets here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

running out of ways to say they keep making him sound cool

Ketamine is a hell of a drug.

If the right really wants free speech in universities, why is it so obsessed with discrediting students? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.

By 2020 Finland had achieved a drop of 38% in homelessness in a decade. Ireland had among the highest increases over the same period. Since the numbers below were reported in 2020 the situation here has become much, much worse, and Finland has continued to improve. Both driven by government policy

Remember - the Irish government was told years ago when the total was still well under 10,000 how to eradicate homelessness by the man who did so in Finland, and it just ... didn't bother. And since then, the majority of you kept voting for them. Well done, everyone. Well done. 👍

I swear to Crom, some variant of this article has appeared every year since at least when I was a baby Gen Xer starting my first mcjob

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Making the general population unhappy by driving them into poverty, hunger, sickness and homelessness… is not a recipe for a peaceful society. It worries me greatly.

Amazing how a few spoiled votes gives them the confidence to say the quiet part out loud & hoping to shift the Overton Window with a few far right dog whistles. Especially in a country that has just voted overwhelmingly for a socialist, inclusive, anti war head of state. #speirgorm #Áras2025

Saying that it's "too hard" to get on the Irish president ballot when an independent woman got the entire Irish left to back her, got the biggest vote ever and beat two historically dominant parties is not just wrong - it is breathtakingly offensive and outrageously dishonest. #Aras25 #Speirgorm

It suits many factions to claim they are being excluded when in fact they can’t organise a piss up in a brewery but get loads of opportunity to misinform and plant notions which go unchallenged - meanwhile Taoiseach/Tanaiste say ‘look over there’ at a fictitious problem rather than their leadership

I would call these systemic or structural challenges but hey ho ‘cultural’ seems to be the buzzword nowadays, right?

Let's be practical here, you'd need a referendum to change the nominations process, and nobody has proposed an alternative. So there's zero chance of it happening. Any talk of "looking into it" is post-election blather. It'll all be forgotten by the new year

When they call me woke it’s a compliment. like thank you🙏🏽

When the left win something it doesn't mean what it looks like, but when the right win something, we all must pay attention. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Those who do learn from history are doomed to have people tell them they’re overreacting

"Shall we all move to Ireland? Their plan to support artists sounds incredible" www.creativebloq.com/art/shall-we...

The last presidential election the press lost their minds over Peter Casey’s vote and tried to ignore the size of MDH’s victory. The same will happen today. But the truth is - CC’s victory is even larger than MDH’s.

Irish media not being able to help themselves today!!! #Aras25 #speirgorm

The electorate has been offered ultra conservative choices in recent elections, and indeed far right ones They just haven’t voted for them in any number There wasn’t such a choice for #Aras25 but it is daft to suggest, that had there been one, it would have altered the outcome.