Happy Lá Bealtaine - the swallows have arrived and summer's on the way 🔥 Prints: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...

They really think no one can build a guillotine anymore.

Far from Wagyu thon boy was reared 🙄

An oldie but a goodie. #Speirghorm

More counter-protestors than racist protesters. They've been promoting this for nearly 6 months, wonder what the excuse will be.

CW: sexualisierte Gewalt 🧵

If male doctors had periods we'd be able to get Morphine in vending machines.

Got tagged in some discourse on the hellsite and let me tell you: 2010s Jezebel, when Lindy worked there, was the preeminent place for beating the shit out of Republicans passing abortion restrictions and for warning that Roe was at risk. They did it alongside everything else

Walked through M&S this morning and felt very seen

After all I said in this morning's NS column, I do still revert to my simplest reading on this entire farce. Which is Trump would not withstand five minutes against a single Derry ma just saying "did ye, aye right enough?" over and over.

Die AfD hat in nicht wenigen Wahlbezirken die meisten Stimmen geholt, mit zum Teil über 30%. Dies wäre nun der Zeitpunkt, endlich zu verstehen, dass Rechtsextremismus kein rein ostdeutsches Phänomen ist, sondern die Entwicklung mit Zeitverzögerung und nuanciert (fast) überall ähnlich eintritt #ltwbw

They're stealing the voice of Sinead O'Connor, who risked her own career in 1992 by speaking up about child sexual abuse in the Catholic church, so let's make this theft an occasion to keep talking about Trump in the Epstein files.

Die Ukraine hat den härtesten Winter seit Kriegsbeginn überlebt. Der Frühling kommt.

"Everything is politics...You don't get to make art in a fascist state" CMAT delivering, mar is gnách. 👏 (Same goes for sport btw) #Speirgorm

An English Prince arrested, a sickly king, the throne is in trouble. We know what happens next, Ireland, get the pikes down from the thatch, we rally to the Catholic Stuarts' Standard!

Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/

Brigid is associated with blacksmiths, spring, and cattle, among other things, and stories like blinding herself to repel men's unwanted attention. The three-armed cross here represents both the triple goddess and the trinity. Lá Fhéile Bríde shona daoibh 🌸 Prints: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...

The Blessing of the Rags and Happy Stigmata at an alternative #Mass at #DoolinWritersWeekend "We'll heal what ails you"...

I wrote about the rise and fall of Twitter (with great insights from @marklittle.bsky.social and @kateconger.com and @jonronson.bsky.social) www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

Folks, @womensaidireland.bsky.social have closed their X account on principle. Follow them here, give them some real engagement to acknowledge both the rightness of that decision, but also of letting go of high follower numbers (even if the algorithm meant that no longer signified actual reach).

I assume people will tire eventually of modifying photos in AI, but at the point the damage will be done that photographs will never again be seen as mementos of lived lives.

Each semester I go in my classroom and I try to figure out what we would use to block the doors, if it would be safe to crawl out the windows, where we could hide if there was a mass shooter in campus. It’s such an indictment of this country how we have normalized these preventable tragedies.

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"I can do big spinney things." Me too, Laura. Me too. #ToyShow

This thread, damn. “this is not dunking on kids. We are seeing this at all levels--even grad students. AI + social media has had a profound impact on how we think and process our world, and we can't stop to reflect on it, because billionaires keep hurling addictive tech at us.”

Bluesky, wir schreiben nächste Woche Geschichte und könnten dafür noch ein paar Follower:innen gebrauchen. Schaffen wir 2000? Danke für eure Follows, Reposts und all den Support 🩷

In hospital with a hope overdose here

Yup it is.

Outside of Motorsport, this is easily one of my favourite ever sporting moments. A petulant child getting his comeuppance, on the pitch at least. Even sweeter when it's against my country 😹 🎥 RTÉ Sport

No British Justice.

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.

Baile Átha Cliath.

Gestern habe ich in Hamburg diese Bank gesehen. Ich habe ja schon häufiger auf obdachlosenfeindliche Architektur hingewiesen, aber so etwas zynisches habe ich, glaube ich, noch nicht gesehen.

never forget #merz #macron

they’ll just move him to a different parish and he’ll do it again

Remembering Sinéad O'Connor who died two years ago July 26 2023. Photo by Andreas Larsson #sineadoconnor

We spent a few days in Tuam. Read and watch here: www.cnn.com/2025/07/13/e...

For those in Britain who's media don't report this "KAT" means "Kill All Taigs" - that means my family. This is what the British Govt permit to happen to the Irish community in N. Ireland every year. Because the people doing it are waving UJs. And we're lectured about the word #Kneecap for a band

Want to jazz up your nuclear bunker and have something nice to stare at, dead-eyed, alone and silent in the suffocating darkness because of humanity's latest attempt at self-annihilation? Prints available at www.ciaraioch.com/artprints

This is everywhere. Every academic institution I know is held together by some exhausted woman in her early 40's who waits until the old white male professors have finished their vague rants and says, "alright, so concretely can I propose the following next steps..." She makes half their salary.

"They did not show up for any of the other outrages against women and girls ... the only kinds of riots that are ever treated with such solicitousness, such strenuous attempts to 'understand', such charitable interpretation — are race riots." @leninology.bsky.social www.patreon.com/posts/131211...

Mützenich und Stegner, die Ewiggestrigen der deutschen Sicherheits- und Außenpolitiker. Ihr „Manifest“ ist ein realitätsverweigerndes Pamphlet voller fataler Fehleinschätzungen. Wie sehr kann man eigentlich übersehen, was nicht erst seit über einem Jahrzehnt bereits in Europa passiert?

Growing up in Ireland in the 70s and 80s, there were constant reports of injuries caused by 'rubber bullets', baton rounds used by the British. Seeing them being used in the US is chilling. The belief that they are non-lethal means soldiers are more likely to use them. news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news...

In 2025 we hope to give up 4% of all you spend with us (see bio). I think we're the only business in Ireland run this way. It's viable & hopefully everyone does well from it. We're really good at roasting coffee so if in need - imbibe.ie/shop/ . If not it'd be great if you can tell a friend about us

This 👇🏻

Stop the count und gebt den Pokal an dieses Espresso Macchiato Esten mit der Trumpkrawatte.