This is one of the best ideas I've heard in ages.

she's so incredibly cool

“I truly hope that people understand what’s happening.” “I’m a UN pro bono official — I’m not even paid. Yet suddenly I’m a threat to the global economy. Why? Because I asked big tech to comply with international law and stop profiteering from genocide.” — Francesca Albanese

It's a real life squid games and we're all just letting it happen

My piece in The Examiner about the Rent Pressure Zone legislation and why it worries me. What it's like to be trying to rent and buy in a housing crisis borne of this government's incompetence. #Spéirgorm. I'd planned to keep my head down but then I read the companion piece to mine. See next post

It's #WorldAlbatrossDay! Here's the gorgeous same-sex couple in Frozen Planet II (2022). Attenborough's commentary leaves much to be desired ('apparently,' David?!?) but the filming is wonderful. 📺🌈 www.youtube.com/watch?v=X654... #queer #birds #nature #pride #pridemonth #PrideInSTEM #tv

City of Melbourne

Referring to events in Ballymena as "disturbances" is a euphemism too far. We are witnesses to a pogrom. And it behoves us to say so, loud and clear. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

"Some of you will die, but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make."

Successfully managed to heat soup, assemble a tray & carry it outside for the first time in about 2 months. Little win! 🏅#cancer #mightbeoknotsureyet

“Irish governments have spent six years blocking the Occupied Territories Bill which would ban the export of goods to illegal Israeli settlements.”

It’s all fraud. Boundless committed fraud the first time they touched the royalties accounts to do anything but pay royalties. That money is not theirs, it never was. That they’re allowed to go bankrupt and not to prison is itself a crime.

Death toll rises to 35 as israelis AND American mercenaries use Gaza Humanitarian Foundation as a cover to hide firing squads (QudsNen)

They need their readers to be made constantly angry at marginalised communities so that they never realise that billionaires are the actual cause of their problems.

I don't know what a bohs top is and my mother tried to exorcise me again this morning. How's your day going?

Telegraph printed 42 articles attacking trans people between 24 April and 4 May 2025 (11 days)

This is incredible. The biggest, worst theft I’ve seen so far. Making any money as a writer is almost impossible these days, but if someone’s dipping into your earnings like this - and almost no writers earn at this level - that’s basically a heist.

Israel is monstrous

The photojournalist Sebastião Salgado, who passed away last week, at the age of 81, documented some of the greatest human horrors of the past century, but he said, “I never. . . photograph the misery.”

While we’re on founding fathers, I think people actually *underrate* the Gothic horror of Jefferson and Sally Hemings. She was his slave, she was also his dead wife’s much younger half sister as a result of Jefferson’s father in law raping *his* slave.

There is plenty of evidence to support the idea that large mammals are starving off the coast of Ireland, including an "emaciated" fin whale washed up in Mayo last year and a study showing "a recent decline in the nutritional health of common dolphins"... www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

headline construction masterclass

My cartoon in today's @irishexaminer.bsky.social.

Serious bird folklore. Up until the 1950s, destroying the nests of swallows & house martins was considered a grave error that led to very bad luck. I have numerous accounts. Encouraging their nesting would bring good luck to household. Let's bring this idea back.

So cute ! 🥺🥰

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05... Remember, it took just 72 years from the beginning of the colonisation of Tasmania to the death of Truganini.

Israel won't stop until it achieves total genocide.

“We talk about success as if it’s always the result of individual effort, and failure as if it’s entirely the fault of the person who fails. We ignore the scaffolding that holds some people up, and the cracks that others fall through”

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‘It was so scary to get out! Just like the swarm of bees’ , Evheniya talks emotionally about recent Russian drone attack. She’s from Starokostiantyniv - town in Khmelnytskyi region of Ukraine, Russia attack it with drones regularly. ‘16 houses were damaged..

Breaking News: A judge said the government should release Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist employed by Harvard University, saying U.S. customs had “no factual or legal basis” for revoking her visa.

can't put into words how devastating it is to give legal advice to trans kids who've been denied gender-affirming healthcare when I know the advice is going to be "what's happening to you is illegal, and also there is very little you or anyone else can do about it at the moment"

Today is National Biscuit Day, and it’s about time that I populated this account with biscuit (cookie) sets from the past few years. Here are some of my favourites. 🧵 First up, a set inspired by the delicious designs of William Morris and John Henry Dearle.

This should be resigning matter. If you can’t be bothered write a simple letter without the help of a constantly wrong machine YOU CANNOT DO YOUR JOB AND SHOULD GO

Harvard University will relinquish its ownership of two haunting images of an enslaved father and his daughter after settling a six-year legal battle with a woman who says she is their descendant.

girl... they've got 130,000 people living as slaves

Please consider supporting an Irish doodler who is small in both business size and personal stature

This is the best team crossover video I've ever seen.

Systemic protections and guardrails are essential to a functioning society. Nature understands this even if oligarchs don't.

It's going to cost the State so much more in legal fees to NOT provide an adequate legal aid service, but that seems to be a lesson they will never learn

Harriet Powers (1839-1910), African-American former enslaved woman, folk artist & quilt maker from rural Georgia. Only 2 of her story quilts survive, both present applique & piecework, reflecting African textile traditions, & mythical or religious narratives #Womensart

Faith47, South African artist known mostly for her huge street murals #WomensArt

Madge Gill (English, 1882-1961), Outsider and Visionary artist who was placed In an orphanage at 9 years old and spent her formative years in isolation before being sent to a farm in Canada #WomensArt