we are rewatching Irelands Coast it’s a beautiful series Ep 2 from salt, to shipwrecks, botanical art, invaders, Wexford to islands to the great Atlantic way highly recommend the whole series www.rte.ie/entertainmen...

Officialdom is getting ready to walk off X.

Friendly reminder that we call eggplant eggplant because the "normal" eggplant used to look like this

I’m trying to rewrite a scoping document ~ I should just poke my eyes out also my tech set up has crashed and may never recover

I've signed this petition calling for the government to act against X for producing sexual abuse images. Will you do the same? my.uplift.ie/petitions/sh... @uplift.ie

I did not tag the person I had a lose connection to who works for X In my linkedin post I sent it to her privately along with the Guardian article and asked her to share her thoughts and comment on it. Jaysus I see we are no longer connected, I’d have imagined she could have handle it

What is Ireland doing??? The country X operates from...

"This unprecedented mainstreaming of nudification technology triggered instant outrage from the women affected, but it was days before regulators and politicians woke up to the enormity of the proliferating scandal." We're still waiting on our regulators & politicians to act in Ireland...

New Gist: What you can do about the Abuse Factory As a follow-up to yesterday’s Gist, I’ve done a list of four things you can do about X without even having to put down your iPhone. www.thegist.ie/the-gist-wha...

If your values are unaligned with those of our current government when it comes to an Irish company illegally creating thousands of CSAM, here are 4 simple things you can do to try and stop it/ensure Musk experiences some consequences/protect some children from harm: www.thegist.ie/the-gist-wha...

sign Uplift petition my.uplift.ie/petitions/sh...

use any public, national service & they use X please email and ask them to stop at once all libaries all county councils all schools all public services all business just write to them all don’t hire a business or service active on X and tell them that let’s demand ethical social media & AI

OK, so LinkedIn has found this post. I have no idea what happens next. We are in uncharted territory. Here be dragons.

100%. We'll have a tough few years at first, but it will be better than being a vassal state for U.S imperialism.

"This is a national tragedy. A completely avoidable death if only ICE officers could exercise any level of restraint. If only the DHS wasn’t actively invading Minneapolis and indiscriminately targeting its residents — citizens and immigrants alike."

Cladonia #lichen. #Newfoundland, Canada. #fungi #fungifriends

Things I recommend a very great deal: 1. These eel-flavoured potato chips. 2. Getting off the internet. I've done without it for 3 days and it has been glorious. I'm starting to think the internet was a BIG mistake.

wondering and noticing • the unraveling of a stable western world view & politics • mass shock at televised genocide, government backed murders • distractions - is it worse then we thought • our ability to cope, mental fatigue* makes me really wonder • what’s going on in Gaza and Palestine

last couple of days to subscribe :) From Spain to your doorstep 👇 printclub.cristianpintos.com #art #illustration #drawing

I thought this was very niche and then realised even I’d opinions on it, so you may enjoy it too the comments are fun

All art is sequential art unless you look at it all one time and then never again.

underrated literal art

Dahlias another fav because of their many shapes and colours - mathematical rhythmic rosettes + my Da was an expert grower 1990- 2020s pom-poms of which there is one named after him, semi cactus, cactus, ball, single, novelty and those giant ones bigger then a dinner plate

unknown fact: one of my favourite flowers dramatic, exotic, visually stunning colour of plant and tones are as amazing as are the flowers the sheer epic graphic representation in positive and negative space is almost unrivalled for me in the plant world I know of love architectural plants

@feicphoto.bsky.social 👇

The entire anti-woke intellectual movement works like this. 100 people share a post that claims everyone is gay for elephants and next thing a piece in a major outlet by a respected author says: “And now we are expected to accept that we are all gay for elephants. Well I say: No. No more madness.”

“A study this week found that approx. 6,000 child sex abuse & sexual harassment images are…being generated (& published online) every hour by…X.…per Ireland's Special Rapporteur on Child Protection, Caoilfhionn Gallagher, 99% of those images are of women & girls.” #spéirghorm #IrishPol #Grok

this is novel and I applauded it also because f we had an arts/cultural segment the same way we have a sports segment

The Tánaiste says approval of the Mercosur trade deal cannot be "taken for granted”, as farmers continue protesting across Europe and Irish farmers prepare for a major demonstration in Athlone tomorrow. #VMNews

it’s been a good first week of work nice one 2026, you are looking good

Niamh Smith I wasn't familiar with your game

doing a little happy dance the first of many Yay

First time spotting a dunnock in my garden! 🪶

February kids books of note: >Little Passenger by Deirdre Sullivan & Jessica Love >AdventureMice: Of Mice & Mummies by @sarahmcintyre.bsky.social & philipreeve.bsky.social >The Lions' Run by sarapennypacker.bsky.social with at least cover illustration by Jon Klassen >Shorlines by rurooie.bsky.social

[email protected] - "Daughter just came home to tell me the teachers at school tried to confiscate her vape but they couldn't because it's actually a kazoo. "

I've signed this petition calling for the government to shut down X for producing sexual abuse images. Will you do the same? my.uplift.ie/petitions/sh... @uplift.ie

This Patrick O'Donovan clip where the minister lets X and Elon off the hook for publishing images of child sexual abuse, was taken at the young scientists exhibition, surrounded by the youth of Ireland. I didn't think it could get worse but my God... @simonharrisireland.bsky.social do something!!

“There will be plenty of times in the coming years when the law needs to adjust to the reality of #generativeAI tools. However, this is not one of them. Existing laws in #Ireland are sufficiently clear… to prohibit companies from making AI tools available that can be used for [the] creation of CSAM”

Kinda weird. The one time Patrick O’Donovan could justifiably swing the Ban Hammer, he’s bottled it. He previously said he put protecting children ahead of human rights It’s as if protecting children is only used as an excuse for surveillance Or maybe he’s put “Companies Making Money” above both?

How the fuck do we have a Minister of Communication, who is utterly unaware of one of the most important areas of criminal law, for protecting children, which is part of his portfolio. And why the hell hasn't someone briefed him? Why do I know more than him & his staff? #spéirgorm

Apple and Google are complicit in the production of child pornography.

This a reminder that if you need some relief in your time line from *gesticulates wildly* then the #TinyJoys feed is a wonderful place to see where others are finding joy. Joy doesn’t stop the horror, but reminders of the good things and good people in the world help us keep going.

Pouring vessel or ewer in the form of a mandarin fish. Vietnam, c. 1450 - c. 1550 (British Museum)

President Connolly says lives lost in Venezuela during US intervention ‘appalling’ and ‘overlooked’ jrnl.ie/6920418

Forget the fact that they are politicians for a moment. How can they as people, as mothers and fathers and sons and daughters, use a platform for communication that is hellbent on monetising CSAM? On what planet is that morally OK? This goes for everyone btw.

Performative politcs at its worst where is the regulation and call the police in www.rte.ie/news/2026/01...

Putting pressure on @virginmedianews.bsky.social to stop posting on it? Other media outlets, such as @lemonde.fr, ceased their twitter activity last year, and the reasons to do so have only multiplied:

Every hour between Monday and Tuesday, Twitter generated 6,700 sexual deepfake images. Experts say it has become the biggest online factory of such material in the world. This was a trend once on the darkest corners of the web - now pushed by a billionaire into the mainstream.

I need to start a list of Irish politicians who are supporting the production of these images (including CSAM) via their continued posting on that vile platform. There's no valid excuse for it.

Lady's Island lake is the end result of decades of agricultural nitrogen water pollution. The only way we can turn the agricultural nitrogen pollution problem around is if those in power admit that their measures aren't working. It's time to actually listen to the evidence, not the spin.