This doesnt happen with products people want! CEOs don't have to scaremonger about low engagement with shoes, or chocolate, or chairs.

“business could falter without customers”

If there's one trait the Irish are universally known for, it's being welcoming. By eroding that, our racist leadership are undermining our national identity. We're less Irish for having left these cruel men lead us. We're indistinguishable from the colonisers.

People often think that $5 is too small to matter. But when a child is sick, $5 can mean survival. It can be the difference between sleeping hungry or having a warm meal, between pain and relief. What feels insignificant in your daily life can become a lifeline for My family gofund.me/c66dc3659

Ditto with the girls section which is full of uncomfortable clothing in scratchy fabrics and Princess slogans. Growing up in the 80's we just had kids clothes. They weren't gendered, they were colourful, fun and practical.

🚨🇮🇪 A single Dublin data centre found to consume as much power as 200000 homes. Uncovered by @lnbdublin.bsky.social Reported by Jack Horgan Jones @irishtimes.com

And the government itself was frothing at the idea of bring in I.D./age verification control of the Internet, purported to protect young people and children. What are we doing here.

Who are we as a country, what are our values if we're fighting to do nothing over CSAM? 😑

Oh are we doing that whole bit again where we pretend Brianna Ghey died because of social media rather than because of the people who stabbed her 28 times.

Can someone inform our government, please? #SpéirGhorm

Tomorrow: The first of two reports from women speaking out for the first time about having their images manipulated explicitly without their consent. They've suffered years of trauma, panic attacks and unsolicited messages from men. This is why the Grok issue matters. @virginmedianews.bsky.social

Important to point out that people do not become homeless. They are MADE homeless. And with homelessness rising from a few hundred people to over 17k in the last decade it’s clear that the government are in the homelessness business.

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I can't even begin to imagine how souless you have to be to do that to a child and to risk doing it a second time. Is it any wonder our roads are so lethal when this is the example our leaders set? #spéirgorm

Arrest all these people. They're breaking the law. I don't understand how X is still accessible in Ireland and why our Government is still using it to communicate.

The housing crisis is FFG policy. It doesn't have to be this way, they choose for it to be this way.

Is it not super weird that our head of State legs it on our National Day every year to make nice with America? Like maybe we could invite world leaders to visit us on our National Day, in our actual country? It's so subservient and forelock-tugging 😕

The mother of murdered teenager Keane Mulready-Woods, whose dismembered remains were found in Dublin and Drogheda, has told the Special Criminal Court that her son deserved to be treated as a human being, not something to be discarded

His son was found with 9 separate identification items in his pockets and was yet was placed in the morgue as an unidentified person. This is a really awful story. The lack of care for a dead man & his grieving family astounds me. Gardai left that family wondering about their son for almost a year

The humanitarian crisis in Yemen is set to get much worse in 2026 as food insecurity increases and international aid evaporates, the United Nations has warned

Not for the first time, it looks like Channel 4 just handed the keys to their socials to an evil genius:

"Give me the famed Nobel peace prize that your government does not have the power to give, or I may start a war to get the peace prize"

Here is the letter by Barry Ward TD, laying out very clearly why X/Grok could and should be prosecuted immediately under existing Irish law. (I'll add my own opinion that the X premises should be raided as soon as possible before evidence can be destroyed.) pastebin.com/cdEVuLqA

I’ll never get tired of this ad at our local indie theater 😂

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One more, I am begging English commentators and journalists to remember what the UK did in Northern Ireland. Of course what's occurring in the US could happen in the UK! It already fecking did.

It's hilarious. The right thing isn't always deep. It's called leading by example. There's plenty to criticise the government for but this is a very obvious one.

missed this comedy on Friday, apparently Musk is having a spat with Ryanair CEO Michael O'Leary:

Medevacs from space are now a reality. NASA just evacuated sick astronauts from orbit back to Earth. If we can organize a medical evacuation from outer space, #Israel can certainly organize safe, timely evacuations for critically ill @msf.ca patients in #Gaza.

There is no reason why people should be dying on our streets. Homelessness is a choice our Government made for us. A grotesque choice.

Chilean President Gabriel Boric announced a state of catastrophe in two regions in the south of the country as wildfires forced at least 20,000 people to evacuate and left at least 16 people dead

Remember when they campaigned on passing this Bill which helped FFG win the last election? Lies, it was all lies to get elected.

We don't need our laws strengthened, we just need the laws we have to be enforced.

He's so childish and petty. Whatever happened to intelligent, considered statesmanship?

It appears that the leader of the Green Party is rising to the challenge of Donald Trump in a way that Labour and the Tories just aren't doing.

Good morning. PANENKA seems to be in the news today. Brahim, there is hope and I'll send you a copy. @realmadridfc1.bsky.social @theguardian.com

While I do know that Blue Monday was invented by marketing people in the travel business in order to sell summer holidays, I’m prepared to go along with it for the purposes of #RecipeOfTheDay – which is, cheeringly, Sunshine Soup! www.nigella.com/recipes/suns...

These are concentration camps. And these are the numbers they're comfortable sharing.

Anyone arrested at X for breaking the law yet? #spéirghorm

How many people died because of Blair and Bush's made up war?

Weaving and crafts community: we have a loom that needs saving. It's beautiful and looks to be in great shape. Please share to all Irish crafts people. #Speirgorm #crafts #weaving #loom #Ireland

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Forced face scanning of a U.S. citizen with zero cause, just bald racial profiling. This is tech fascism.

Shout out to everyone currently experiencing everything

The Swiss government rejected Palantir because of its close ties to the US Government, security serviced and military. It's an invitation to be spied upon, manipulated and blackmailed.

Hard to see how more wrong the geopolitical case for Brexit could have turned out

When someone does something illegal - say, generate CSAM for money - you con't call them before a parliamentary committee. You call the police.

What European leaders have been most nervous about is the US pulling back on NATO or Ukraine… but how can Europe trust the US will come to its defense if its trying to seize territory from a NATO country. They can’t. So why cave to keep a security commitment that is not real. 6/