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Lucy Powell has warned that Labour should not wave through a devastating trans bathroom ban 👇 Ripping up trans rights would be a disaster for Labour, for business, for women, and for the wider LGBT+ community. It's wrong. Labour needs to stop aping Trump and Farage, and protect our human rights.

The increase in autism diagnoses reflects improved awareness, inclusive definitions, and a shift towards rights-based support - not an epidemic of over-medicalisation, says Dr Neil Kenny of @dcuioe.bsky.social. Read more in @irishexaminer.bsky.social: launch.dcu.ie/48HaAWw

Halloween name for you: Hannah Sheehy-Skellington

i‘m not saying its equivalent, but sort of funny to see people talk about boycotts or comedians taking the evil dollar etc, while still posting on X. Like, the lowest possible hanging fruit. You’re posting on a website run by an actual white supremacist. Have the teeniest bit of discipline !

First Hungary. Then Poland. Now Slovakia is daily increasing attacks on marginalised communities and taking a wrecking ball to EU equality norms. This is what happens when the EU is unprepared to defend its own values. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

A Desi group asked BuyMeACoffee not to let influencers make money from anti-Indian hate – and got ignored. Researchers say the role of crowdfunding platforms in the spread of harmful ideologies is largely overlooked.

Eoin Reardon just did a lovely video comparing the struggles of Ireland under imperial rule and Palestine, which will hopefully resonate with a lot of his American viewers. I didn't expect it from him tbh, but it's great to see. A class act all around.

Doesn't Conservapedia exist?

Dave's last turnout 🚒🚑 Today we said goodbye to our colleague and friend David Stafford David was an exceptionally well liked young man within Dublin Fire Brigade and no words or condolences can alleviate the loss felt by his family, friends and colleagues. Ar dheis Dé go raobh a anam

A friend of mine lost a mate of his doing the week who was a Dublin Fire Fighter/Paramedic based out of the North Strand Station. I just watched footage of I'd say 150 Fire fighters led by a piper and a fire truck escort the cortege from his house to the church . They are the best of this city .💙

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Glenn-Copeland will play the Button Factory in Dublin on Tuesday, October 7! #GCNnews

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Commentary from outlets saying it’s necessary for a president to have Irish yet never reporting on the Gaeltacht housing crisis or underinvestment into the language is giving tokenism. You want a president who can perform Irishness, not a president who platforms language rights

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For these people, "freedom of speech" just means freedom from consequences.

They haven't "gone bonkers", they're moving fast and breaking things

I've probably mentioned this before, but I once heard a nice middle-class English mother explain to her child that, after the holocaust 'we gave Palestine to the Jews' as if the gift of a country other than your own was the most normal thing ever.

We have ourselves a Hall of Famer. It's my sad duty, etc. etc...

Ex-leader of a historic imperial entity stands ready to "govern" colonised, famine-stricken land. Well, holy god.

In 1951, Roberta Cowell became the first known trans woman in the UK to receive gender-affirming surgery. Read 👉 buff.ly/cwPxVYm #GCNnews

I guess it might have been funny if Roald Dahl spent his later years trading public insults with the children from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

On October 2, TENI invites the community to gather, commemorate, and look ahead at the ongoing fight for trans equality 🏳️‍⚧️❤️ #GCNnews

Staff and students advised not to travel until noon. csalert.ie/4nlSMou

Everyone who loudly worried that middle-aged white men with power were being oppressed? Put them on a mental list of Trumpist fellow-travellers. The Saudis’ court jesters? Remember they’re for sale, forever more And anyone who gives space to this bad faith argument? Take your attention elsewhere.

The Saudi Comedy Show doesn’t clash with the beliefs of the many of its participants’ who made complaining about Cancel Culture their thing. Because their stated arguments were never their beliefs. That was obvious at the time, just as it is obvious now. They were arguing in bad faith.

*chuckles loudly*

The world's most moral army, y'know.

Shit, I forgot it was Michaelmas today. Ye all still owe me a present.

More people cancelled Disney Plus last week than ever subscribed to the WWE Network. Nice.

A party called "Independent Ireland" threatens legal action against an Irish venue over comments made by a band about incidents in America... after the prompting of UK right-wing media. These people are giant, floating post-colonial brains, with little stems dangling off. #spéirghorm #ireland

I have just learned that Eddie Hobbs - the apartments in Bulgaria man - has an Alex Jones-style YouTube where he's trying to shoehorn US right-wing stuff into broader discourse. Of all Ireland's Z-listers to try passing themselves off as hard-chaw truth-tellers! #spéirghorm #ireland

"Pay artists for their music instead of investing billions in the military-industrial complex!" "Did somebody say... Spotify, but with DMs?" Fuckin' cowpeople.

EA isn't taking a big enough loan out. They need to double or triple it. Whatever kills them quickest, and in the most hilarious fashion. Like, leading with a grimdark FIFA reboot, or "woke" Populous. Whatever gets the job done.

Handbags & False Idols The threat to democracy is real, but it is not Maria Steen failing to secure a nomination thechangingtimes.darylfeehely.com/post-250929-... #Áras25 #IrishPol

Electronic Arts has done more than any other company or entity to reduce videogames to a churning, short-order medium full of cash-cow annual franchises and braindead blockbuster bollocks. Rot in piss.

This is not the first time the far right has declared war on autism. I will be joining, on the side of autism, and you should too. open.substack.com/pub/lauriepe...

I drew this cartoon in 2005. Two thousand freaking five. Twenty years ago.

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Please don’t be afraid to ask your therapist about their views regarding trans rights, white supremacy, feminism etc. We’re in a moment where ‘blank screening’ these issues is not an option imo. It’s a matter of safety.

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Shane Lowry enjoys a Magners after clinching the putt to retain the Ryder Cup

Nothing confirms Dead Internet Theory for me harder than looking up a music video on YouTube and seeing endless reams of "[current year], anyone?" - as though the act of remembering music that was big at any stage is a ticket to authenticity in and of itself.

Marc Maron (one of my new heroes): “I mean, the same guy that’s gonna pay them is the same guy that paid that guy to bone-saw Jamal Khashoggi and put him in a fucking suitcase. But don’t let that stop the yucks, it’s gonna be a good time!”

These scumbags like to whine that they’re not allowed to say anything these days but remarkably are still able to do so whereas Jamal Khashoggi was murdered & dismembered by agents of the Saudi government at the behest of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for criticising his regime. Fuck them.