There are a number of vacancies at @irishenvnet.bsky.social & Member Organisations. · The IEN is seeking a Project Officer to support the delivery of the CORE programme. · Good Energies Alliance Ireland is hiring a Project Co-Ordinator More info: www.ien.ie/about/vacanc...

You'll be able to immediately identify the ones freaked out by a young brown woman because they will be the ones saying "I have nothing against young brown women but ..."

She's young, brown, female, smart as a whip, articulate, and unapologetic about her progressive values. Each of those, individually, is enough to prompt an establishment freakout. All together, in one package? I mean my god, we're going to need an on-call team of Freudian psychoanalysts...

As we saw during the brief woke era, the country is run by middle-aged white men who are absolutely freaked out by the rise of a young, diverse, liberal workforce with high expectations. AOC is going to trigger *all* of that.

Calling it now: the US political media's treatment of AOC is going to make their treatment of Hillary Clinton or Al Gore look like a model of balance and discretion.

“The campaign against Albanese is clearly an attempt to distract from Israel's actions in Gaza. Genocide, apartheid, and illegal occupation still prevail there. Instead of remaining inactive, governments should investigate these allegations! 2/2”

The BBC is under fire after allowing a pro-Trump figure to express climate science denial on one of its flagship programmes. via @desmog.com www.desmog.com/2026/02/13/b...

Maria Steen, she of the Holy Handbag, argues in the Times that we should introduce a form of marriage with "no possibility of divorce." Maybe she is too young to remember that we already tried this. It ended very badly for some - that's why we introduced divorce. #FeckOffIona

What a dose. I have to believe there's only a miniscule amount of people who want this

Never mind a social media ban for u16s, it's middle-aged weirdos on unmoderated SM forums who need to have their phones taken away. Our younger generations on the other hand are growing up with friends from all kinds of backgrounds: they're not scared of or intimidated by a multicultural Ireland

The clip of this moment made me go back and watch the full episode. The questioning & examination of govt policy by @newschambers.bsky.social and @aislingmaloney.bsky.social is quite good, worth the watch.

🗣️ “Surely nobody should be in a condition described like that?” — guest presenter @newschambers.bsky.social 🗣️ “They shouldn’t,” — Fianna Fáil TD Paul McAuliffe 🗣️ “Sorry, that’s actually a description of the Knockalisheen Centre,” — @newschambers.bsky.social #TonightVMTV #SeamusCulleton #ICE

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Gonna post it again... Please give it some exposure. It might not result in anything even if it got 100K signatures, but if it doesn't get any it definitely won't and we're seeing more and more evidence rather than conjecture around these murky, opaque orgs. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...

Blimey. Looks like Matt Goodwin, who seems to think the Handmaid's Tale is an instruction manual, is in the pay of an Orban think tank, funded by Russian oil money.

Imagine if every billionaire, instead of marinating in cyberpunk, decided that they needed to become more beloved than Dolly Parton...

Instead of taking on the problem at the source, the government is trying to say "not our problem" by banning under 16s on social media. We must fight the problem at it's source - we need turn off these toxic algorithms. We need to pass the "Online Safety (Recommender Algorithms) Bill 2025".

Didn't you know? Women and children are public property but men are people.

So when thousands of women (and children) were being duplicated--including in non-consensual AI porn--it was no big deal. But it took "only a 15-sec clip" of these two famous white men to draw outrage and fear. Gotcha. Cool cool.

Thats it we're self-colonising

@lynnok.bsky.social yep Also like the laws to tackle Short term lets But don't pay your TV licence or Local Property Tax and it will be taken out of our wages

The Tánaiste revealed on RTÉ yesterday that he is drawing up a strategy to help savers get more of a return for their money. But Simon Harris only needs to look to an existing proposal from the Social Democrats for a scheme that would benefit savers while helping to finance State-led homebuilding.

To those concerned about Ireland's exposure to #ISDS style & #ICS clauses in #trade deals like #CETA: The Dáil Select Committee stage for the #ArbitrationAmendmentBill2025 is: tomorrow Tue 17 Feb at 3pm The Government plan to use the bill to facilitate ratification of such deals #Constitution

Lovely white Irish men........ sexually harassing an immigrant. The same lot no doubt who would claim that male immigrants would make Irish women less safe. The mind boggles.

Only 1.5% to 3.7% of the Vacant Homes are actually taxed This is because the Vacant Home Tax introduced in 2023 was designed to fail This is #VacantIreland the gateway to #DerelictIreland

When it comes to housing supply there is a big f*cking elephant in the room Last year CSO found 65,000 homes empty for 2 yrs, using ESB data, yet for same period less than 3,000 paid the vacant homes tax So thats around 62,000 houses waiting for someone to call them home Me at Oireachtas #speirgorm

That's how the robots take over. Not with laser eyed death squads, but by being spectacularly incompetent at the things we used to do for ourselves but have forgotten how to...

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy describes the Marketing Department of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as: "A bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes."

douglas adams was our most accurate futurist

Arrested retirees ‘vindicated’ by ruling against Palestine Action proscription

There were 25% fewer patients waiting on trolleys at after St Brigid’s Bank Holiday weekend when compared to same period in 2025. Jennifer Carroll MacNeill said this points to “significant progress in national health service performance during the early weeks of the year”. jrnl.ie/6958224

Detaining children who have done nothing wrong is simply wrong. The UN says it is never in a child’s best interests. We must not put vulnerable young people behind locked doors.

Was this the 'cost' of the nitrates derogation extension?

I STAND WITH #FRANCESCAALBANESE 🌐🇺🇳

It’s almost verbatim Nazi propaganda at this point.

The occupying nation is required to provide basics to the occupied civilians Israel is in violation of this and commits war crime

Exactly, trying to out perform Reform will never win

All this talk of ‘Greens splitting the left vote’ is drivel. If you support and vote Labour in its current form, you aren’t ‘left’, no matter how much you try and convince yourself you are.

Irish Aviation Authority are planning to restrict air space in the city to facilitate a single takeaway-food company. Everyone else will lose access to the skies they have now, including photographers, tradespeople, volunteers. Think this is unfair? Have your say today: www.iaa.ie/media/2026/0...

“Against the background of extending the Conservative Government’s anti-protest legislation, Keir Starmer’s Government now represents the greatest challenge to the freedom of assembly yet.” Report by Nathan Whetton eastangliabylines.co.uk/politics/jus...

A national slowdown on tackling dereliction continued in January

We don’t have ‘open borders’ 🙄

PS they closed out the show with a mash-up of the White Stripes' "Seven Nation Army" and the Eurhythmics' "Sweet Dreams" that they apparently came up with themselves?!? Feeling very proud on multiple levels right now

EU’s deportations plan risks ICE-style enforcement, rights groups warn

Today is a good day to follow news outlets that explicitly disallow Generative AI slop: go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT

Girls reading, 1939 by US photographer Dorothea Lange #WomensArt

Europe’s growing fight over Israeli goods: Boycott movements mushroom https://aje.news/azayka

Ukrainian civilian casualties surged by 26% in 2025, say researchers

We must speak plainly about the agenda Elon Musk & other MAGA leaders are pushing. It’s white nationalism. There’s no room for Black, Hispanic/Latino, Asian, Native, Jewish or all other Americans in Musk’s monocultural vision. Multiculturalism is superior. We can’t allow Musk & others to end it.