There is a mental health crisis happening in front of our faces. It’s a symptom of the world we are creating for young people to live in. This is a moral failure on our part and young people are suffering – and dying – in huge numbers as a result.

“Melania” is truly the worst experience I’ve had in a theater” -Abraham Lincoln

Alison Luchs, who has worked at the National Gallery of Art for 47 years, agreed to learn Gen Z slang and make videos because she wanted to raise interest in the museum’s art. She never expected to slay. https://wapo.st/45BXc3S

Every “innovation” in late-stage capitalism seems to take products that we could once buy and own and turn them into a rental or subscription service. It’s a money-making racket that no one asked for. Except shareholders. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026...

As the Oscar nominations celebrate the best of Hollywood filmmaking, I’m thinking of how the power of that storytelling has been at the core of American soft power for decades but also how the American myth is unraveling.

If the people behind tech companies can produce with impunity non-consensual sexualised imagery of women and children, do you really believe they’re not going to produce democracy-breaking, AI-slop lies and propaganda to steal elections? We must hold them accountable while we have the chance.

Fuck billionaires. Even the ones that bring creativity, talent and joy.

pour one out to an icon www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Absolute force of nature. Old school drag at its stupidly brilliant best. Non stop for ten minutes. And Parky and Babs knew well enough to just get out of her way! (all the UK "gender critical" weirdos who grew up with Lilly in their living rooms now trying to pretend drag queens are a danger 🙄)

I’ve changed my mind; If robots kick their owners in the balls, I’m all in favour of them now.

Anyone else wondering how Eva’s Christmas is going? Her parents seem to have really slowed down the social media posts. #speirgorm

What a lovely story of kindness and love. Merry Christmas!

Got a lovely Christmas card from [REDACTED] and Melania with a very tasteful [REDACTED] of a [REDACTED]. Unfortunately it makes him look guilty.

It’s almost as if handing a corporation the power to throttle the communication channels of social/political activists was a bad idea… As it edits away at content, censoring voices & opinions it doesn’t like, Meta claims it is not a publisher! What a con! www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Look guys, if the gays can boycott the Eurovision, the very very very least you can do is boycott FIFA

CNN are reporting on the horrific treatment of dead Palestinian bodies by the Israeli military and describe actions, like using bulldozers to create mass graves, turning the dead into the missing, that can be interpreted as war crimes. www.cnn.com/2025/12/03/m...

Every year since 1988, the United States has recognized World AIDS Day — until now. Why not? Maybe because the Trump administration doesn’t want to acknowledge that its foreign aid cuts led to nearly 150,000 deaths from AIDS, according to Boston University researchers. Shameful.

Omfg. Stop trying to make fetch happen!

Architect and television presenter Hugh Wallace, best known to RTÉ audiences as a long-serving judge on Home of the Year, has died at the age of 68.

Since 1978, the world has observed the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People every November 29th.

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild Elephant Beaver Killer Whale Crocodile Polar bear

I saw Pillion tonight. The movie where Tarzan* has gay leather sex with Harry Potter’s cousin* and it was surprisingly sweet. *the actor who played, obvs www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTAa...

Every day, 137 women and girls are killed by intimate partners or family members internationally - one death every 10 minutes, according to the UN, who released their annual femicide report today. Today is International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women #speirgorm jrnl.ie/6884469

It is unsettling. What’s her name?

A huge ECJ win for many same-sex couples in Europe

If you receive legal threats from Nigel Farage for your reporting of Reform, please get in touch. We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

In one of her first public actions as the newly elected Uachtarán na hÉireann (president of Ireland) Catherine Connolly has written a public letter of solidarity on Trans Remembrance Day. It is a very promising start.

When the reckoning comes (and let’s hope it’s not after something truly horrific), Ireland is going to have to come to terms with cosying up to the tech companies that helped break *everything*. Our enabling of their bullshit is in conflict with our self image as a force for good in the world.

maybe i am going insane

Someone will flea their post with a flee in their ear.

I saw two German Shepherd puppies this morning on a walk and it made my day.

There’s a reason they shut down so-called “cancel culture” and it’s not because it went too far. Looking at the list of email contacts from Epstein, for example, shows that the culture of abuse of power and position spreads far & wide, including to the newspapers writing disparaging opEds on “woke”

The BBC story is infuriating. Yes, editorial errors were made. Newspapers make them ALL the time and, of course, there should be consequences. But the real job of oversight at the BBC is to protect public service broadcasting from forces that (transparently) do not want it to exist. Tell that story!

New favourite word:

Tax the billionaires til there’s none

I’m in @rteone.rte.ie in a few minutes with today’s Telly Bingo. The phone player is Mary from Castleisland in Co. Kerry and she’s nervous but excited and hoping to win big. www.rte.ie/player/onnow

It’s sad to see what’s happened at Teen Vogue, which gave young people a political voice and, even if YOU think they were at times off the mark or too worthy, that was important. I guess Vogue can go back to bring “aspirational” so long as your aspirations don’t upset your billionaire overlords.

Either way, he fails. 🤪

Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!

Look I’m not blaming anyone I’m just asking if anyone has checked the British Museum for the Louvre’s jewels

The Irish Blood Transfusion Service is urgently seeking an additional 12,000 blood donations over the next four weeks as most blood groups have fallen to under three days of stock.

It would be very “Ireland: the home of Halloween” if we elected a zombie president. Again.

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

Public Libraries: places of learning. 🤣

Hell of a thing to put next to a statue of Joan of Arc. (h/t David Pilling)

A Texas megachurch pastor and GOP leader has been arrested for crimes against children. Not Robert Morris, a different one. Not Josiah Anthony, a different one. Not Luke Cunningham, a different one. Not Tony Evans, a different one. Not Scott Crenshaw, a different one. Not Steve Lawson, a different o

Of all Jim Gavin’s gaffes, it turns out it was his spare one that took him down.

I'm so sad to read this. Manchán was one of a kind. An incredible writer and storyteller. A warm and fascinating person with a great sense of adventure, brilliant mind, and a deep ghrá for our landscape, folklore, and language. He had so much more to give. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam.

It’s your 75th anniversary, Charlie Brown! 💛⁠ ⁠ 🎉 Today marks the official 75th anniversary of Peanuts! On October 2, 1950, the first Peanuts comic strip, shown here, was published in seven newspapers nationwide. Charles M. Schulz was 27 years old.