This by @naomialderman.bsky.social is so lovely - and I write this from under a heated blanket, with a cherry crush Dr Pepper, and a bowl of the same chocolate hazelnut ice cream I have been comfort eating for the past two months, with work and museums naomialderman.substack.com/p/how-to-be-...

Conference has passed Ammended Motion 15 supporting for Irish neutrality, international law and opposition to the militarisation of research funding. #IFUTADC2026 #Peace #HigherEducation

An interesting manifesto @electionlit.bsky.social

just remembered some of my favourite recent poetry: journals of medical students dosed with ketamine and accompanying explanatory notes

I just saw a reel celebrating Simon’s Place as a “forgotten space” in Dublin. Like, it closed 18 months ago? Is there a single day I don’t feel sad about that? Does Dublin feel immeasurably more shit for its absence? Fs

i know we have sleepwalked into a technofascist nightmare, but this is class.

Brothers back home from Lebanon, he’s been to Chad and East Timor before and reckons he’s never seen anything as bad. Just complete obliteration.

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That's the guy, folks. That's the one. www.404media.co/stripe-forbi...

A really excellent postmortem by James Butler: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Yesterday a judge voided cuts to NEH, noting DOGE's classification of 'DEI' was incoherent One example: DOGE flagged a grant to a whaling museum, which wanted $$ to house a full whale skeleton DOGE called this DEI bc it'd “create an inclusive and impactful experience, which is aligned with DEI”

I feel a lot of David Attenborough's hard work with nature preservation is to cover for how much of a mess his brother made of that dinosaur theme park.

This is great museumofchildhood.ie/that-wilder-...

been clearing out the office this week and have an absolute tonne of stuff that I’d rather see on someone’s wall than sitting in a drawer, so going to have a story sale over on Instagram (www.instagram.com/prayforpatrickirl) at 7pm tonight. everything will be super reasonable and a lot of gems.

It’s my own fault entirely but The Irish Times not putting bylines with their headlines still tricks me into clicking on Finn Redmond articles I will never read

People take SSRIs for many reasons and pushing them off is bad. A gentle way to help many would be if the US Administration stop acting like absolute CU on Fridays* at every given opportunity

It didn’t occur to me someone could go on Morning Ireland and do an entire piece about the Met Gala without mentioning Bezos buying it for his wife and the controversy around that but they did! Piss bottles all round!!

Cork, what a county. Its September 1934 and the Derry Journal reports that at a cinema dance in Buttevant, Co. Cork, all the women there refused to dance with the fascist Blueshirts. A Blueshirt announced that they had paid their way in and if no girls would dance with them.. [1/2]

Caught these during the week, though they didn't play this, I used to absolutely rinse this back in the day, massive hit on the rave scene and my fave track by them #raveyardshift www.youtube.com/watch?v=zShq...

John Collison is a gaping arsehole and should be shot into space

I hope I don’t end up in the WRC for this but can someone send me the John Virgo tweet by @jaseomcn.bsky.social please?

The only thing I want to know from any correspondent who went to the correspondents dinner is what the fuck they were doing there in the first place. And even then I don’t care

Would love someone to make a few short videos in Italian with key phrases like: “Excuse me, can you move your bag please? I’d like to sit down” and “Please use your headphones on the bus. If you don’t silence your phone I’ll batter you”

Normally my reaction to “calls for tougher laws” is no, just enforce the laws we have, but in this case I say we just ban the fucking things www.irishexaminer.com/business/tec...

I saw a seagull in town last week. He was surrounded by tangerines and trying to peck through a bin bag. I appreciate the effort hd was putting into took trying to eat rubbish over fruit

A crow landed on the gutter outside my office window today with two full Tuc crackers in its beak. What a day for that crow, and for me, the man who got witness it

I think this is my favourite so far. Alice Knox in Blackrock, Co. Dublin who is very glad to be single. #1926census nationalarchives.ie/collections/...

Facebook is disgusting and hedging its bets

and they only passed this law because video stores were going to out the porn-rental habits of Supreme Court justices!

This is terrific and(as my autocomplete kept trying to say) terrifying. I had a Ladybird book on drawing that said “learning to draw is learning to see” and writing is the same for thinking… Patrick Freyne: Here’s why AI is making us dumber and more lonely www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

The undrinkable in pursuit of the unthinkable.

Lelia resigned from RTE way back in 1968, along with Bob Quinn and my late grandfather Jack Dowling. Here they are on the Late Late Show: www.rte.ie/archives/exh...

New rule for the Grand National

No voice more haunting, no voice more vulnerable, no voice more inimitable. youtu.be/26HFvPmuzRw?...

It's worth noting here that these aren't bombings. This is demolition The IDF are able to freely walk around here and rig these obviously residential properties with demolition explosives, so it's not like there's any threat at all to them This is, VERY clearly, the war crime of wanton destruction

As Hungary votes, would recommend this piece about how Viktor Orban has used public money to bankroll an international ultraconservative network - including Roger Scruton cafes and €10k a month for failed Reform candidate Matt Goodwin democracyforsale.substack.com/p/orbans-brits

Those scenes in Budapest are beautiful. Such a great day for them and far, far beyond. We celebrate all the wins and this is a big one

for sure, congratulations to magyar. but the real heroes imo are those in civil society & journalism & rank-and-file opposition & academia who have fought against the disintegration of rule of law, the weaponization of the courts/media, & so much more for so long. 🇭🇺

I was going to watch Countryfile but it’s still too triggering to see tractors

Dublin Bus have done a good job keeping buses going but a shite job communicating where they’re running. It’s been a shit few days for people who use public transport tbh

“The reality is that we don’t have any food security in Ireland because the vast majority of what we consume is imported and the vast majority of what we produce is exported” – Emma Howard, economist, Technological University Dublin. Another excellent article by @codohertynews.bsky.social

You’ll have heard on the news there are about vehicles. This is because they were let up since Thursday evening. Including maybe eight slurry spreaders

I normally like Carl's take, but in this one, he calls the blockadees "farmers." No farmer has four days to spend in O'Connell Street in April! The guys with tractors are agricultural contractors &/or their employees, not farmers!

Yes, the €500 coffee maker has paid for itself but you could also buy a Bialetti pot for 30 quid

the Norwegian campaign against enshittification is pretty great tbf vimeo.com/1168468796

Here's a link to the website for the Norwegian campaign against enshittificatiom, and below is the table of contents of the associated report: www.forbrukerradet.no/breakingfree/