Darwinian Christmas

17th-19th century Irish scribal abbreviations that look like text-speak: numeral 8 edition "beannacht" (x2), "Connacht"

This sounds like Terry Pratchett writing a villain. #SpéirGhorm #SpéirGorm

Umbrellas, probably?

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.

Dustin the Turk-Tea!!

There’s a young southern woman on tt doing an experiment: calling churches & asking if they can help her get baby formula, saying she can’t afford it. Of the 30+ she’s called, nearly every church has said no. The ones who said yes were: Black Baptist Churches A Mosque A small Appalachian church

Notice how "feminazi" is less in use now the right are more open about being pro-nazi

Proposal: henceforth the president should be selected on the basis of whose name is easiest to make into a tea based pun. It would've disqualified Jim Gavin right off the bat. #SpéirGhorm #SpéirGorm

My mum just said to me "You should be hung like a horse". When I challenged her over saying such a thing, it transpires she thought it was a punishment horses got. Turns out she's been incorrectly using the phrase since the 90s in various settings

Out now on the @midnightpals.bsky.social podcast: "The Tale of the Shadow Over Innsmouth", available on Apple Podcasts, Youtube, Pocket Cast, or wherever you find podcasts! Howard tells an eldritch space squid story, and goes head to head with Mary Shelley in a high-stakes bet.

Facebook have their European HQ in Dublin - would it be too much to ask for the Irish Gov to at least raise this with Meta?

In this piece, admitting the BBC has broken its impartiality rules re. trans people, the BBC further breaks its impartiality rules by changing a quote saying "trans identity" to "trans ideology".

It's difficult to know which part of this is stupidest, the fact that he clearly doesn't know what a dogwhistle is, or "stating a fact, in my view"

I can hear Clive Barker(as voiced by David Ault in the magnificent Submitted For The Approval Of The Midnight Pals, available from midnight-pals.simplecast.com/episodes or any good podcast-getting service) so clearly in this thread and his glee makes me so happy!

I haven't gotten around to trying them yet, but I have heard that Resonate and Catalytic might be more ethical alternatives to Spotify and TIDAL doing sketchy genAI shit: resonate.coop stream.catalyticsound.com

It is NOVEMBER. Why am I sitting outside a cafe in a short sleeved dress and no jacket and I'm perfectly comfortable? #SpéirGhorm #SpéirGorm

Was Edward Scissorhands a Manic Pixie Dream Boy?

Holy shit Mamdani has been winning since he was a little kid

Tricia Squire, 54, has reportedly decided to process your life-changing news by listing everything she remembers eating during her pregnancy 30 years ago and querying if “maybe that’s what did it?”.

Dogshit AI slop for an ad from coke yes, but we're all boycotting Coca-Cola anyway because of it's support of Israel and the genocide of Palestinians. Right?

Shit...I've only got three and a half years to get this wise!

The carnage of the genocide has changed people. We wanted to free Palestine but it looks like Palestine will free us all...

Ireland has a long history of copying British policies after they have failed in Britain, and then doing the shocked Pikachu face when they fail here too I'd honestly rather not see how this one works out for us

Next time you're at Subway, ask for something from their Point Blank range

Coming this Thursday night/Friday morning on the @midnightpals.bsky.social podcast, it's HP Lovecraft's turn to tell a story! That means you should prepare for STRANGE GOINGS ON in a SMALL TOWN with a DARK SECRET that is ALMOST CERTAINLY A SQUID

I had a magic money tree; Nothing would it bear, Unless you were already A multimillionaire. To stop the pesky commoners From finding this displeasing, I called it convoluted names Like "quantitative easing"

New awareness campaign

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

Holy fucking shit it costs eighty euro to apply for a civil restraining order? What? WHAT??? #SpéirGhorm #SpéirGorm

Just paid the aul' income tax for the year and consequently have about two beans left to rub together, so if you've been looking for a bit of Irish art now's a very good time to buy. It's this or train the crows to rob billionaires and I'm running out of cheese bribes

Hey ex-smokers, does the day ever come where a stressful adrenaline-y situation occurs and your brain DOESN'T start screaming "IwantacigareetIwantacigaretteIwantagoddamncigarette!!!" #SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm

Harry Potter is like AI. They think we can't boycott it if they shove it into EVERYTHING

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the Irish that people leaving their home countries for better prospects elsewhere are worse than landlords. #speirgorm

Petrol on the stairs so that people wouldn't be able to escape, if there's a hell it's not hot enough for that animal

TWENTY-TWO government TDs own rental properties. The government is held up by a coalition of 95 TDs. More than 20% of these pricks are landlords and they're blaming asylum seekers for the housing crisis. That is how stupid they think you are. #spéirghorm #speirgorm

Don't fucking talk to me about immigration and the housing crisis. Name me one single IPAS applicant who is a landlord in this country. Just fucking one.

I believe in an afterlife of some sort, but not in hell. The idea just never made sense to me. Sometimes I really hope I'm wrong though.

I am way past just scarlet for him. I am not even merely scarlet for his ma for having him. I am - and I am very sparing about using this one - scarlet for his granny for having his ma.

Does anyone know of any Stop Being Pricks About Immigrants And Also Maybe Do Your Fucking Jobs And Build Some Fucking Houses type activism planned? I've sent a few scathing emails to various FFFG heads but would like to do more #SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm

What's Tumblr like these days I wonder?

Bad enough the Gardaí gave free run to the far right for years. Bad enough arson against immigrant centres became standard practice for racists. Bad enough we've already had race riots. The Taoiseach & Táinaiste poured petrol on all the above during the week, & we shouldn't be shy in saying it.

My local Lidl has recently installed card-only self service checkouts and drastically cut down on the number of staff. Today there were nine full trolleys waiting in line for the single actual human scanning groceries. #SpéirGhorm #SpéirGorm

Discworld QOTD, from Pyramids “Younger assassins, who are usually very poor, have very clear ideas about the morality of wealth until they become older assassins, who are usually very rich, when they begin to take the view that injustice has its good points”

happy Halloween

In an unprecedented move, Austria is regulating rents for the entire country. All apartments that already have government regulation have seen a total rent freeze this year. All formerly unregulated units are also getting rent stabilization to limit landlord rent hikes.

Our landlord has just informed us that we are responsible for disposing of a bunch of crap in the shed that doesn't actually belong to any current tenants. Is he talking shite Y/N? #SpéirGhorm #SpéirGorm

The pride is back, baby! Submitted for the Approval of the Midnight Pals: The Podcast is BACK, with a special Halloween treat -- the pals finally get back at those bullies over at Clarion West! midnight-pals.simplecast.com/episodes/the...

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