Bigotry against Travellers is where many Irish racists cut their teeth.

I once sat with a group of well known journalists who complained that we don't have a proper left wing party in Ireland, and also that taxes are too high and unions are too powerful. We're not idiots. Reporters are.

May be a good time to resurface this www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

FFS only last month my 80 year old uncle fell and broke his hip at home and he had to wait 4 and half hours for an ambulance. At one stage he was told it could be 6 to 8 hours, as more 'urgent' cases were being put ahead of him. FF/FG have refused to invest in the services we need. #Spéirgorm

Disabled ppl have been protesting the Irish govt for €400 to help with the cost of living crisis after cuts last budget that went to hospitality sector tax cuts A few right wing business owners block traffic because they own heavy machinery, suddenly the govt has hundreds of millions of euro spare

Here are some publicly available posts from one of the key organisers, James Geoghegan.

Month 4, 91 and 92/365 of an edit a day on @wikipedia.org April did not start kindly here, so catching up with two smaller edits today, continuing to destub and otherwise tidy up some articles on 19th century Irish architects. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_...

Zuleykha Seyidmammadova 1 of 1st Azerbaijani women pilots, earned licence 1935. 1938 qualified as petrochemical engineer, preferred to fly. 1st Azerbaijani woman to fly in combat: 500+ missions in 40+ #WWII aerial battles incl Battle of Stalingrad b. #OTD 22 Mar 1919 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zuleykh...

Wild what you can get away with in articles about cycling. This is objectively false! A city with less driving and more biking is far safer for pedestrians. Hate cyclists all you want but that’s an empirical fact

Lovely to hear the bit of Gaeilge and Irish music on TV and radio during the Seachtain na Gaeilge/St. Patrick's Day run every year, and would also suggest to broadcasters that they can incorporate those things into their shows on all the other days of the year too, at any time, it's not even illegal

In January 2026 Paris' mayor Anne Hidalgo announced names of 72 women scientists proposed to be added to 72 male scientists already engraved on the Eiffel Tower. The Association Femmes & Sciences was tasked with preparing a list of 72 women scientists since 1789. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

Very happy to welcome some familiar friends back to the urban jungle.

He took his Vierpyl blade in hand

Month 3, 60/365 of an edit a day on @wikipedia.org The section on the park (amenities) was just 2 sentences - but not any more! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountjo...

The FCC just opened public comments on SpaceX's plan to launch a million satellites to do AI compute in space. Under the current proposal, an environmental review won't be required. Please consider submitting a public comment to oppose this damaging plan. darksky.org/news/two-sat...

Post a picture you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.

I'm so glad AI has been added to google results. Big improvement and totally worth the massive carbon footprint. It also offers a certain a certain a certain a certain...

The sharks are innocent. Or at least, they’re not eating the internet. The myth is almost as old as the global internet itself. It begins with the development of TAT-8, the first subsea fiber optic cable to cross an ocean.

Someone a decade+ younger than I asked me if I saw the Matrix in theaters and how cool that must have been

So I'm obsessed with how the history of billy-roll is also a history of the evolution of the Irish food sector. melmagazine.com/en-us/story/...

more generations need to discover M*A*S*H

The fact that the prompt even begins with ‘Everybody play along 🤣😬!!’ like how is that alone not the most offputting thing in the world

Month 2, 32/365 of an edit a day on @wikipedia.org Very lazy day, stretching out the break for my birthday and the long weekend for St Brigid's Day tomorrow. I was able to add a photo from a friend uploaded to an article - simple! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_John...

Crystallographer Kathleen Lonsdale 1 of 1st women elected Fellow of RoyalSociety 1945. 1st woman tenured professor @ucl.ac.uk 1st woman president IUCr & BritSciAssoc. Elected Womens Eng Soc member 1946 in recognition of “brilliant & important work" b #OTD 28 Jan 1903 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathlee...

i never want to hear people say o'connell street is dangerous again when a lamborghini has been sitting there untouched for a week

In our conservative estimate, 41 percent of Grok’s images — or 1.8 million — were sexualized depictions of women. Separately, CCDH analyzed how many were sexualized images across genders and ages. Their findings: an estimated 3 million images, including more than 23,000 of children.

Giving He-Man pronouns

His name is Liam and he has been kidnapped.

Years ago when the Motherfoclóir podcast was in full swing we did an episode about wine and which wines would go with a coddle or a crisp sandwich...

@mnemonic.bsky.social I'm guessing you're not enjoying your principle being this relevant.

Anne Burns aeronautical #engineer & glider pilot worked @ RAE Farnborough, world expert in Clear Air Turbulence & its effects on aircraft safety. 2nd woman to read #Engineering Sciences @ Uni of Oxford. Age 62 became oldest Caterpillar Club member d. #OTD 22 Jan 2001 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Bu...

What's your #Wikipedia goal for 2026? An edit a day seems like a manageable challenge! Best of luck @rebeccanineill.bsky.social

Elon in 2016: In 2026 we will be on Mars! Elon in 2026: Here have this nazi-pedo-porn-generator.

When editing Wikipedia, sometimes it's funnier to add the tag than to fix the sentence. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police

You know how bananas are radioactive but only a tiny bit so it's fine to have a bunch of them lying around. But keeping, like, one billion bananas could fatally irradiate you. I propose we do this to money.

On and off, I've been an active Wikipedian since about 2013. In 2015, I did #100wikidays, and again in 2018, which is a challenge to write a new article every day for 100 days. In 2020, I wrote a new article every day for 366 days.

#speirgorm Long shot ⏬️

Only a few days left to enter #WikiScience 2025! ⭐️💫🌟 “I used a Canon 600D on Kilfarrasy beach in Waterford on a freezing night. My friend jumped on the rock so I could get him the background stars of Orion and nebula using a star tracker.” Anthony’s astro, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Sometimes we talk about how a certain 2020s talking point would baffle a normal person in the 1980s, like "all my apes gone" or "AOC Donkey Kong Livestream for Trans Rights". But I think THIS book would baffle a normal under 40 person today.

Ireland has a different rail gauge from the rest of Europe a strategy which has successfully prevented the invasion of Ireland via Rail for almost 200 years.

More on Maureen Sweeney (1923-2023) here: share.google/5qqloCS782C5...

@rebeccanineill.bsky.social you agree, surely?

Delighted to announce that we have been awarded the Colmcille Small Grant for the WikiMuir project, which will focus on preserving maritime heritage through Irish and Scottish Gaelic🐙 wikimedia.ie/2025/03/07/w...

🌷March was filled with folklore and feminism for Wikimedia Community Ireland. Find out about how we celebrated International Women’s Day at the Trinity Library and three new collaborations, including one with Rising Voices! 💜+ Last call for #WikiLovesFolklore 🌷Read: wikimedia.ie/2025/03/28/n...

WikiMuir, MeithealWiki, + tionscadal nua i gcomhar @globalvoices.org darbh ainm 'Rising Voices'. Go leor déanta & idir lámha againn ag @wikimediaireland.bsky.social faoi láthair, mar is gnáth! Léigh ár nuachtlitir nua anois le haghaidh tuilleadh eolais: wikimedia.ie/2025/03/28/n...

That fake Met Éireann account has now been suspended

Official confirmation that this is an impersonated account: twitter.com/MetEireann/s...

I have confirmation from a friend who works in Met Éireann that they have no official Bluesky account yet.

Met Éireann are away of this and have contacted Bluesky.