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...

They aren't. They're years deep into an ongoing graft and can't give it up now.

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

The leading cause of death by far among ICE officers is COVID-19.

The price of not being a Naomi Wolf level of melter is eternal vigilance

There are a worrying number of americans saying shit like "Obama deported 3,000,000 innocents QUIETLY! That was so much BETTER!" and... fuckin' hell people. fuckin' *hell*

This is why I'm minded to peace out of Meta as soon as I can get organised to do, too. Organic reach is a lie on those, or potentially any, platforms.

"There's a factory on Fenian Street that makes child sex abuse material." @tupped.bsky.social offers virtually no quarter to the Irish government for their response to CSAM and IBSV on X. Read the whole thing.

"Within the first week of 2026, the United States had kidnapped a world leader from his home and nakedly stated its intention to requisition that country’s oil. So Iraq, but without the foreplay." One of many FUCK moments, bravo @carlkinsella.bsky.social

dear mr trump, my name is rupert and i am 68 years old. the evil keir starmez is trying to take away our access to mr musk's magical paedophile machine, a fundamental assault on british values. please deploy enola gay over london our country yearns for freedom

The idea that journalists, politicians, groups or - you know, women, people of colour, LGBTQ+ people - should "stay on the pitch" doesn't really hold up. Foreign Minister's account has 60k followers - 40 likes, 13k views? Blue ticks straight to the top of the queue with misogyny, bile.

Blimey. New followers! Welcome. I'll be announcing the loser of last week's meat raffle later.

#worldcup2026 #Olympics #usa #speirgorm #polisky #bluesky ICE already murdered many people just we didn't get to view them all Now they're doing in public view and getting away with it Americans whatever you allow your government to do to others will do to you Anyone could be Next #neveragain

FREE MY MANS

I'd taken a deliberate hiatus away from social mejea's in 2026,but just want to announce this piece. Commissioned by The Source Arts centre in Thurles it became a deep dive into the briars left in me after the folks passed. We launch it next Wednesday.x. www.thesourceartscentre.ie/whats-on/eve...

This is horrific and barely being reported on in the UK media. Shame on the British government. www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...

Have a #painting. "The Long Walk II" My Galway city painting that I'll never tired of telling people it prompted a friend's young son to ask why there were giraffes walking down the street, and ever since that's all any of us can see. It hangs in his home. He's a man now. #art #JanuArty #SpeirGhorm

The richest men in the ftse 100 made more already than you’ll make all year, with some earning a staggering €1,500 an hour. They benefit from a system rigged entirely in their favour, while ordinary people are forced to scrape and cut just to survive. All of us, the 99%, are being robbed by the 1%.

Oh, oh The concept of "selling out" And shame in political office

- Aertel, Network 2, pages 440 and 450 - Rewind that tape before you return it - Work hard, get an education and treat people with respect, and life will be better - Blow on the cartridge if the game doesn't boot #spéirghorm #ireland

Y'know what? It'd be about time Dino's Bar and Grill had something I could eat

The Body is correct.

Thinking fondly of one of the highlights of my life (when hundreds of people at a repeal day party in Liberty Hall booed John McGuirk on the six one news)

"The anonymous abuse I received for defending the CSAM platform shows exactly why my plan for digital IDs is necessary"

Irish anti-immigrant guys defending an ICE officer shooting a woman in the face are the ones who are always crying about the gentlest garda action to control actual race riots. Again, I wish stating hypocrisy did anything at all.

Remember this. Remember this, alongside so many other things. The generations sold out; the deals with churches and MNCs; austerity after austerity; partition and alienation; blind eyes behind twitching curtains. The betrayed Ireland that this class of people has created. #spéirghorm #ireland

8 Jan 855: The Synod of Langres condemns the #Irish theologian Scotus Eriugena's De Divina Praedstinatione #otd Scotus, as you can see here, had one 20th century afterlife on the #Irish £5 note.

This was the endgame of all this soft power, all those dead-end jobs, all that evaded tax, all the kowtowing to FDI and MNCs rather than building a nation. It should be also be a shining beacon for why these parties need to be dumped on their necks in every subsequent vote. Literal CSA material.

Given all that’s happening over there (we’ve left) the new @sleafordmods.bsky.social LP due out next week on @roughtraderecords.bsky.social may have a prescient title !! #Speirgorm #SpeirGhorm

Colonialism by another name. Horrific

Patrick O’Donovan is a stupid stupid man. Hate to do a Dunphy on it, but I’ll tell you who he is: He’s the lad that said in an interview in 2017 that the Dublin-Monaghan bombings were carried out by Republicans and when pulled on it, said he “didn’t differentiate between atrocities”

If there was a child porn factory down the road, it’d be closed immediately. The Govt’s response wouldn’t be “hang on, they let us print flyers there too”.

I think it's really funny that a good chunk of political commentators are in love with Jim because he is attacking migrantd, and his way of saying thank you, because he's a lunatic extremist, is authorising himself to seize their phones

Fuckin', uhhhhhhhhhh www.thejournal.ie/patrick-odon...

And sadly, it looks like far too many people that are/have been in his orbit are either backing him up on the low, or openly whatabouting on his behalf. But yes, that TV show from 30 years back that we've all seen a kabillion times before. #spéirghorm #ireland

Ever is it thus nowadays. Any and every wedge will either be found, reheated or simply made up, because these people are neither enthusiasts, casuals or professional critics. They're pulling frantically at what's left of their respective marks' frontal lobes for that sweet engagement.

Date Everything: prescient commentary on the current state of animism as a school of thought, or simply a videogame that lets you fuck a deeply autism-coded magnifying glass? Here to discuss are David Quinn, Ivana Bacik and Gerard Howlin. Phonelines are open

It's all already getting to feel like a bit much, 2026. For what 'tis worth, and if it helps, here's a pitstop for kitten pics. 🥰 #spéirghorm #ireland #catsofbluesky

There are real people, real women, real girls whose images have been edited by grok at the request of users. This is not some fictionalised, nebulous harm. That the 'adults in the room' and 'rules-based order' governments are humming and hawwing over taking a firm line on this is extraordinary

THE MACHINE - BY DESIGN - IS ALLOWING PEOPLE TO REMOVE WOMEN'S CLOTHING WITHOUT THEIR CONSENT AND TO MAKE CSAM. How are we at 'good sides to it too, you know?'?

Something I feel strongly about is that Tusla should be funded, resourced and staffed to higher standards than any other body in the State. If the Principal Care Workers want another two weeks to prepare children for changes then fucking give it to them. www.thejournal.ie/letter-senio...

Breaking: Women's Aid Ireland will no longer maintain a presence on X from tomorrow. @womensaidireland.bsky.social

Goodnight, and god guard you forever... #spéirghorm #ireland

Graham Linehan claims he detonated his career, his family, his entire life, to protect women. He often asks people to "apologise to their daughters" if they disagree with him on trans rights. And yet, when someone's daughter is executed by ICE, he shares Right-Wing propaganda that she deserved it.

Yyyyyyeoooooo

Nintendo Switch eShop should let you block games/publishers. No, I do not want to see AI slop, AAA slop, or Mould Castle Witch slop.

You feed the rats to the cats, and the cats to the rats, and get the cat skins for nothing.

"Donald Trump is as indecent as a child pornographer, and the way to deal with a child pornographer is to shun not only him, but anyone who doesn’t treat him as beyond the pale. That category includes not only Trump and his henchmen, but ALL Republican politicians, and ALL Republican voters." RTWT.

Great thread on the parallels of the failure of the Labour party in Ireland to the direction of Labour in the UK. One image of Labour sticks with me at voting time. Ruairí Quinn pledging to do away with student fees. Only to roll back on that promise and then increase fees when in government.