Hello it's me the leader of the party full of landlords that has been in power your whole adult life and created the housing crisis we now refuse to resolve. I'm here to tell you it's actually the foreigners' fault.

A final fuck off to James Watson and to every news source who’s naming him as one of two co-discoverers of DNA structure without mentioning Rosalind Franklin. 🖕

For the last century many people have imagined what an American dictator might look like but none that I know of predicted that his approach would be to repeatedly say “Hello I would like to be a dictator.”

Was is Watson’s racism reported passively? In 2007, he had said some anti-Semitism was justified “Just like some anti-Irish feeling is justified. If you can’t be criticized, that’s very dangerous. You lose the concept of a free society.” Nah, mate. You really wouldn’t

'Small-scale fishermen using low-impact methods are...forced out by industrial vessels "that take more in a day than we can in a season...we are not asking for special treatment, only for rules that protect the ocean, reward those who fish responsibly, + give our communities a chance to survive"'.

Cycling south to north on Westland Row at any time, but especially around rush hour, is *so* dangerous that I’ve had to find a completely different route. When Dublin car drivers have to do things like that, I’ll let them talk shit about cyclists, but not before then

Russian agents turned out to be Russian agents. The era of the most obvious discoveries continues. AfD is russian funded neonazi party🤦‍♀️

If this was a high street shop the authorities would shut it down.

I was an FBI agent for 25 years. I never felt the horror of a fully wrapped Subway sandwich caroming off my tactical vest in the darkness of night on the mean city streets; the smell of cheap yellow mustard and raw onions lingering in my olfactory banks only to retraumatize at every family picnic.

The far right want you to believe that immigration causes an explosion of crime. It's simply untrue. Crime has gone down - and crucially, we are a markedly less violent society than we once were.

This story has the top-line results: how many survey respondents said they'd been victims of crime in Dublin city centre in the previous 12 months, what types of crime, and what do those numbers mean? 3/

The "why do you care so much about the NY mayoral election" takes strike me as pretty obtuse. The world's sole superpower is being taken over by fascists, and this was part of the struggle to define what the opposition to that will look like. That obviously has major implications for all of us?

Let us remember who Dick Cheney really was. Me for Zeteo, with 🧾: zeteo.com/p/dick-chene...

“You’ve been repeating several times that Russia should pay for the reconstruction of Ukraine. Do you believe that Israel should pay for the reconstruction of Gaza since they have destroyed almost all its civilian infrastructure?”

So much of the centrist approach to politics has devolved into "How do we trick people into supporting us like the right has done?" where talking sincerely about policies that might help ordinary people's lives is for naïve schmucks who don't understand the glorious theatre of it all

In Memoriam: Cheney Haunted By People He Didn't Manage To Kill In Iraq War

Teen Vogue has become a top-tier political journalism authority and doing this the day before election day is just cruel.

just....enjoy this

For additional context 1) Over €100m of overpayments *was* recovered 2) 75% of the unrecoverable payments were to people who are now dead 3) the vast, vast majority of such payments are down to errors by the Dept, not fraud by the dead.

a century of glaciers melting 🧪🌐

After two years of a genocidal campaign, the first and only officers arrested in Israel were the military prosecutors investigating war crimes. 1/

NOAA aerial imagery is coming in. Hurricane Melissa literally turned western Jamaica from green to brown. Vegetation damage is immense — recovery will take years.

Every time she comes up, I remind you all that Pamela Paul killed a pro trans paragraph in a review I wrote for the New York Times, lied about it in the press, then when I confronted her with receipts, said “Let’s keep this to ourselves.”

This article, which is essentially free advertising by the Irish Times for a tech company, contains their boast that their new legal AI has a "zero error rate" when answering questions about Irish law. Be afraid - be very afraid. www.irishtimes.com/business/inn...

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

"Re-enforcing". bsky.app/profile/bloo...

First Tiny Owl now Knights Of (& presumably more that have gone under my niche radar). So dispiriting for book buyers & devastating for their authors/illustrators.

Don't get them wet. Don't feed them after midnight. Don't say "I'll be right back". Don't be their friend, you know you'll only wake up outside a school in the morning...

Sunday Times book critic declares the “best defence against fascists is laughing at them”, thereby sidestepping historical reality as expressed by Peter Cook, who recalled: “those wonderful Berlin cabarets which did so much to stop the rise of Hitler & prevent the outbreak of the Second World War”.

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

Live footage from the White House Ballroom

The post below is incredibly dishonest. You don't need a graduate degree in statistics or survey analysis to see that the most common response to Mamdani is a lack of familiarity, *not* disfavor. In fact, he is viewed less unfavorably than Newsom, AOC, Harris or Schumer.

Catherine Connolly, the independent socialist, is President-Elect. Yet again, Ireland bucks the trend of liberal democracies falling to far right nihilism. Here is who she is - Connolly supports the LGBTQ community & People with Disabilities, Carers & a United Ireland. #Aras25 #SpeirGhorm

Serious signing queue at Foxford for Kathleen’s fabulous new book. Https://obrien.ie/foxford-cafe-cookbook @theobrienpress.bsky.social

So. The weird thing about the trial of Soldier F is not that he was acquitted. It is that he was not charged for the correct crimes. The Saville Inquiry found that he definitely killed Michael Kelly, Bernard McGuigan and Patrick Doherty, and possibly also William McKinney...

That would be Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, in the Oval Office for a meeting btwn the U.S. president and the NATO Secretary-General in the middle of a brutal war in Europe, staring at plans for a ballroom that will replace the now-demolished East Wing of the White House.

Conor McGregor sexually assaulted a woman in a hotel. At the time, I didn't see gangs of angry people trying to burn down boxing rings or ban MMA fighters from entering the country. Maybe because the riots last night in Dublin weren't about the victim but about racism and right-wing nationalism.

Great news, Ireland is now a CERN member! If you are ever in Geneva, I highly recommend visiting CERN. You can tour both buildings, the fancy spherical one & the one across the road that looks like an office block. I went there during my honeymoon & saw the 1st www server! 😀 #Speirgorm

One reason China has to be optimistic about their century defining strategic competition with the United States is that they're the only side in it not actively trying to lose.

3,000 years and we were alive to see the end. Imagine the odds. 🤡

Unsolicited writing advice: no. 8075: There is no such thing as serious writing. There are only writers who take their work seriously, and those who don’t. Tragedy is no more “serious” than comedy. Children’s writing is no less “serious” than writing for adults. Good writing is wherever you find it.

The main achievement of the tech industry has been increasing the flow of money from people who make or do things to people who already have more money than they could spend in a hundred lifetimes

Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

This averages out at a violation roughly every four hours, around the clock, continuously since 10 October. At what point do we stop calling it a ceasefire when Israel has just literally not ceased firing

I know we see news about the Antarctic all the time, but this is one of those tipping points that could change everything. ‘Many of the seeps were found at sites that had been repeatedly studied before, suggesting they were new. This may indicate a “fundamental shift” in the methane released.’

Criminals protect their own.

#BookReview: WHERE THE SHADOWS HIDE by Amy Clarkin @amyclarkinwrites.bsky.social #UKYA #IrishReads sifaelizabethreads.wordpress.com/2025/10/18/a...

We are awarding our President's Medal to 'In Our Time' as it has done so much to showcase humanities & social sciences. We'd decided this before the news of Melvyn Bragg stepping down, but glad we got our timing right & had a chance to celebrate with him! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/renowne...

Himes: If you've got the capability to blow a boat out of the water, you've got the capability to interdict it, arrest everyone on board, interrogate them, and find out where it was going, where it came from, who the bosses are, and what the distribution networks look like.