LOST CAT! Milo has gone missing from Seapark apts on Mount Prospect Ave in #Clontarf. He’s an indoor cat and still quite young so he’s probably pretty scared. Please let me know if you spot him hiding somewhere in the area. Thanks so much! This is in Dublin, Ireland btw.

A #painting for a brief distraction. "Dublin, Purple and Orange" I painted because Dublin is home, and what can one say about one's home? I can actually talk a lot, so could wax purple about it all day, but in this instance I decided to simply give you my Dublin - painted in purple. #art #SpeirGhorm

This is pure joy. (now fund the libraries, @mayor.nyc.gov)

“Evil starts when you treat other people as things. There are perhaps worse crimes, but they begin when you treat other people as things.” - Terry Pratchett

Put! It! Back!

Also, if you borrow an author's book from a library in the UK, that author gets more than 12 pence per loan in Public Lending Rights. Any author can earn up to £6,600 per year this way.

“Dear ICE agents - I hope you’re respectful to everyone and show kindness… we should treat all people the same, even if we don’t know them.” If this doesn’t shatter your heart you don’t have one. 💔 Our kids are watching. 🇺🇸 www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/o...

Bondi directed federal agents to arrest four journalists. Georgia Fort, Don Lemon, Jamael Lundy, and Trahern Crews. All Black. All doing their jobs.

Congratulations, Google Task, for making Keep's timed reminders basically useless now. Once again, you see any element of usefulness in one of your products and somehow decide BUT WOT IF NOT DO THAT BUT ALSO MORE APPS??? is a helpful strategy.

A Chinese factory mistakenly stitched a frown on a Year of the Horse plush toy and it became a surprise hit. Meet the ‘Cry-Cry Horse’, the perfect mascot for 2026. [news.cgtn.com]

No way we let Sweden get over the line on this ahead of Ireland. Tell your friends. This isn’t just any old petition, this mechanism has EU clout.

This statement is worth 5000 prayers and sermons combined. Thank you, Chaplain Moberg. ❤️‍🔥

part of this is like, conservatives projecting; part of this is conservatives unable to imagine politics without money; and part of this is dudes who are so out of touch with feminized labor that they think children's birthday parties exist as a spontaneous act of parthogenesis

This was written by Alex Pretti's friend and sometime girlfriend, and I am in pieces www.reddit.com/r/TwinCities...

The images from Minneapolis are heavily redolent of those from Derry before Bloody Sunday. The logic of challenged militarism, faced with civilian resistance, is to increase the violence levels. That’s their one trick. Violence, or additional violence.

I am trying not to post on these events in this state of mind but: I hope people understand what the observers are doing is brave and dangerous.

“How dare they protest in that ICE field office director’s church!” Meanwhile they had nothing to say when ICE raided churches and shot pastors in the face with pepper balls and chemicals👇🏽 🤔

It’s not just Minneapolis. This is happening across the US. Neighbors are guarding schools, observing ICE, delivering food to people afraid to leave their homes, escorting people when they have to check in…

I think about this quote from the Luddite movement all the time

just a reminder that we aren’t even seeing the worst of what is happening in Minneapolis from someone detailed at the Whipple Federal Building yesterday

“I have asked the clergy of the diocese to make sure their affairs are in order and they have written their wills.,not the time for statements. It is time to put our bodies between the powers of this world and the most vulnerable”. Rob Hirschfeld, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire

The retention of vivid hues allows a window into the wearing of a garment that has survived more than 250 years. The #1750s caraco brocade bodice demonstrates the beauty of a supplementary weft allowing the flowers to float above the blue. Sold via #AugustaAuctions #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Terrifying to see AI being used like this, it was always gonna be the way. Big part of why I refuse to engage with it Look at the companies making it. Look at the people pushing it. Did you expect it to be regulated to any meaningful degree? Gotta think beyond "best get used to it!" with this stuff

So much of it is just people undressing normal photos of real women without their consent, including young girls. Can we please just stop posting on that extremely creepy platform.

This is harrowing. But please do read it. We owe more to people like Seána than can be expressed. And there were so many of them.

The Dogs of 2025 youtu.be/K_1tNbud-8g?...

Everyone involved in the publication and promotion of this book should be embarrassed. It's not a "harsh truth" that COVID mitigation was a mistake, it's ghoulish and false.

This is the perfectly observed piece of comedy. Auld Fella’s from the North love telling stories that are just surprisingly emotionally devastating.

Ah here. What an incredible way to start Christmas week, míle, míle buíochas Richard💗 We've had the most amazing December of community spirit and this is the cherry on the cake. Thanks also to @conorpope.bsky.social, and @halfwayupbooks.bsky.social for sharing💕

Berry Bars

If you are pissed off about the defeated foxhunting bill, spend 5 mins telling the government just how pissed off you are, about this and other cruel 'sports' Deadline: 2nd Jan 26, by email or post! @banfoxhunting.bsky.social @ruthcoppingersp.bsky.social @banbloodsports.bsky.social #SpeirGhorm

Guys Ernie is still missing, he's the sweetest little boy who enjoys the company of humans. If you see him around Richmond Road/Clonliffe Road, please call his mam on 0892533727🙏🏽

Disgusting. Fianna Fail, Sinn Fail and Fail Gael, all voted for foxhunting, despite 70% of people polled saying they were against it. This is what they think of our wildlife. Beyond cruel. @banfoxhunting.bsky.social @ruthcoppingersp.bsky.social #BanFoxhunting

O'Callaghan and Fianna Fáil are aligning themselves with the absolute worst people and politics in Europe, and journalists need to start asking them about it. To date, I have seen little evidence that Irish media is prepared to meet this moment, and I fear the worst.

We will have about 13,000 in 2025. About half will be allowed stay. I don't think 6,500 extra people in a population of 5 million is a threat to "social cohesion". Not being able to afford a home or to see a doctor or not having to wait 3 years for my kid's needs to be assessed is.

🚨 The sold-out Christmas cards are now back for a FINAL limited time restock, grab 'em before they're gone! #SpéirGorm bsky.app/profile/ciar...

"Bluesky is an echo chamber." "Bluesky doesn't have enough reach" "Liberals must return to X to challenge the far right" I'm not a tech bro or a journalist. Your priorities are not my priorities. Stop telling me I need to do anything other than chat about comics & telly with people who seem nice.

The cruelty of this is sadly unsurprising.

Ah, how I miss @hallmarksnark.bsky.social! It might be time for a rerun of some of my favourite episodes.

Save The Complex!!! If you could boost, @pantibliss.bsky.social ? Stop the eviction! Please sign & share my.uplift.ie/petitions/sa...

This is Magnus. He just beat cancer. His family wrote the big news on their car and bought him balloons to celebrate. Magnus got so much love from strangers the whole way home. His human said, "I hope everyone has a Magnus in their lives, who shows them what determination and strength are." 14/10

We miss you, Jane M. This one's for you. youtu.be/pRhjWdr-LAA?...

A #painting I finished and sold last year. "Connemara Boats", a view from a small but storied bridge in south Connemara, east to the Rosmuc peninsula - a stunning part of the world. I painted it because I like the organic mish-mash punctuated by human made moments. #art #stunday #ArtYear #SpeirGhorm

I have just heard an advert for Amazon Black Friday WEEK. How in God's name are small businesses meant to compete with this crap? Will you all do me a favour and support a small business today. Share the love. #SLATED #Boycottamazon Slated.ie

RTE Radio 1- Brenda Power off on her usual anti-trans tear. Well done Brendan O'Connor and Catherine Prasifka for meaningfully challenging this brand of specious, bad-faith nonsense.

I love these responses. As for mine.. I am sort of, somewhat at least, in the process of doing it?? Watch this space..

A reminder that there are still a lot of people on this planet who could probably better use the large amount of time they have on their hands.

Australia has so much solar that it’s offering everyone free electricity. “The program would require electricity retailers to provide free electricity to everyone for at least three hours a day…” [electrek.co]

Devastating— “I’m afraid for my parents to leave the house. They treat us like dogs because of the color of our skin. I shouldn’t be scared, I should be focusing on school.” A 16yo American living in fear of the Trump regime’s ICE goons terrorizing brown people pleads for help.

if you liked this great story about how zohran's campaign and youth outreach, you should 1) donate to the gofundme started by TV's laid-off workers: www.gofundme.com/f/help-laido... and 2) hire lex, who i genuinely believe is a generational talent as a politics writer