I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.

“…disabled people are actually less likely to drive than nondisabled people and more likely to get around by walking and rolling and taking transit. Car-heavy cities are also disproportionately dangerous for disabled folks…”— @nondriver.bsky.social Don’t use accessibility “as a political football.”

In a world bristling with evil regimes, none is more thoroughly diabolical than the colonial ’state’ of Israel. www.bbc.com/news/article...

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

Targeting a civilian object is a war crime. Knowingly causing excessive incidental death in attack is a war crime. Targeting in-use schools and knowingly causing excessive incidental death of children are particularly serious crimes.

don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free

Jeffrey Sachs spoke to an audience in Dublin today. As the Govnt fails repeatedly to call out the brutal, illegal wars of the US+Israel, he reminded us of JFK's speech to the Dáil in 1963. 'From Cork to Congo, Galway to the Gaza strip', Ireland must be the voice of the weak.

The beautiful ceiling at John's Lane Church. When I went in today to admire the Harry Clarke windows there was a fiddle player practising on the steps of the pulpit. He said the acoustics are good in there. It was all bit magic and a lot Ireland 💚

Varadkar finding his compassion once out of office is welcome but what a shame he didn't have this epiphany when he was the most powerful person in the country.

President Catherine Connolly has said that the contribution of family carers, including young carers "too often goes simply ignored or certainly is insufficiently recognised"

What is going on in our universities? How are the cultures so toxic??

New footage shows that tenants of 36 Wexford properties were told that their landlord was delivering eviction notices due the government’s new rental rules. In the Dáil, TD George Lawlor quoted the clip as he said that it shows the evictions are “absolutely linked” to the laws. jrnl.ie/6975682

Just when we all thought Spring had sprung it's started snowing in parts of the country. Snow has been spotted in some eastern counties this afternoon. jrnl.ie/6976175

Tudors and later: English power was asserted through martial law, low-level coercion, and the constant threat of punishment. Dr David Edwards - @ucc.ie - tells Prof Suzannah Lipscomb. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... #SpéirGhorm

It's First Blog Post of the Month Thursday, and for the month that's in it, it's (our) best Dublin pubs for stout. Also trying to make the ads less irksome, so we'll see how we get on... #SpeirGorm www.weirdodublinpubs.com/weirdo-guide...

A Grey heron is as fed up with the weather as I am Marina, Cork, 🇮🇪 #photography #nature #landscape #springtime #birdoftheday #heron #weather #PhotoHour #spéirghorm #EastCoastKin 🐕 🚶📱 📸 📷 🐦 🪶 🌧️

Autistic people are four times more likely to feel loneliness than non autistic people. 18-year-old Kate Darcy explained how isolating it can feel to be othered. More on #VMNews

Oh for a government that gave a damn about our children

I'm generally anti-carceral but I the Burke family's case I find myself thinking perhaps jails do have a place in a progressive society...

Just the executive chairman of defense tech company Anduril trying to buy Wired, cool cool cool.

This sounds like an ad, but it's about murder.

Ah this is brilliant news! Delighted for them both ❤️❤️

Good morning! Yes, this is he

This cowardly government plans to vote against our bill that would stop these social media companies push pro-eating disorder content at young women. All because of lobbying by Big Tech to keep their toxic algorithms. How much more craven can you get. #TurnOffTheToxicAlgorithms #SpéirGhorm

Fair play to Susan Doyle for this really important article. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Prepare to watch absolutely fuck all happening.

That's nice. Now show me the CCPC anti-cartel raids on their head offices.

Real privilege to speak at the launch of Trans Actual recent report. Absolute solidarity with the trans community and everyone working so hard for a better future for trans and non binary people. 🌈🏳️‍⚧️ t.co/FkDFb5CSpR

Amazing how constantly having to call meetings like this, begging them not to jack up the prices of fuel, food, homes, etc etc, never seems to make them question whether the laws are robust enough in the first place

Startpage.com is good too. EU based and like google used to be in the good days

Households just left to suck it up, just like we're subsidising the multinationals who are draining the grid with their data centres.

Christ, now AI is killing us

Crowds protested at UCD today to call on the university to do more to support survivors of sexual abuse. The rally, attended by thousands of students, comes after an image of a medical student was circulated online and via Whatsapp jrnl.ie/6974278

Ecosia is also worth considering - it's a European non-profit that uses its search ad revenue to plant trees.

The story has been picked up by mainstream press. Great work by @transactualuk.bsky.social www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Can't believe they wouldn't heed Micheál Martin's warning about price gouging!

People can debate AI all they like, but surely we can all agree that anyone who owns or uses a pair of the pervert glasses that secretly record people should be ostracised immediately and totally from our society? I'm sorry but your pervert glasses prove you're a pervert! Get out of town!

Same though I've mostly moved to duck duck go as my browser these days since Google went evil

Omg that's so cute.

"In 2024, the HIQA began inspecting permanent IPAS centres, however, its remit does not extend to emergency accommodation." Since 2024 NO ONE is inspecting emergency accommodation! That's so shocking & negligent of this uncaring & irresponsible government.

Just a reminder that recruitment issues are tied to the housing crisis our government manufactured about 15 years ago. I remember when loads of social housing was being built each year & there was no housing crisis.

"THE STATE HAS paid a serving detective €270,000 in a settlement arising out of his three year suspension for giving a loan of a bicycle to an elderly farmer near his home." This is only right, the detective was treated appallingly. #Ireland #SpéirGhorm

Failing upwards www.thejournal.ie/phil-hogan-u... #Spéirgorm

They've been saying this for well over a DECADE. While people struggle more and more to make ends meet and keep a roof over their heads. And at the same time, REITs and landlords get richer and richer. 🙄🙄 #HousingCrisis #SpeirGorm

1908: the Lancet, one of the most respected scientific journals, calls for 18 age limit on reading in bed amidst a moral panic surrounding children becoming "addicted" to novels, which were "designed to keep kids hooked" and destroy their attention/mental health

Planning permission has been granted for 140 apartments to be built on the site of Bessborough Mother & Baby Home. Reports have shown that 923 children died in the home. To build over the site – instead of examining the grounds for remains – would be a desecration.

Our abortion laws and policies, are still forcing people dealing with Fetal Fatal Abnormalities to travel to the UK for healthcare which should be provided for here with compassion. #TMFRIE #FreeSafeLegal #Repealedthe8th #Spéirgorm

🇪🇸 Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez: “It is possible to be against a hateful regime, as Spanish society as a whole is against the Iranian regime, and at the same time be against an unjustified, dangerous military intervention.”