So I’m just learning today’s chat on here that it’s not the Pogue Cathedral. Only ever heard of it when it was part of directions given to me by a dub with a very thick accent to be fair though

Insane. The IRA bombing campaign began then, and has somehow left the national psyche

I will no doubt read and enjoy all your very good Nuzzi jokes, but I also want to say earnestly, so many of us (myself included) are on the verge of being pushed out of this industry and it's genuinely so dispiriting to see the worst among us, ethics-wise, get such preferential treatment.

Maternity leave without even minimum wage pay makes us only slightly better than American but people love to pat themselves on the back and sneer at America about it for some reason

those who obsess over irregular immigration simply oppose all immigration and won’t say so, and appeasing this position invariably means either applying more pressure on a small and highly pressurized scapegoat group, with no effect on the numbers, or attacks on law-abiding regular immigrants

Reminder: nobody should give a single fk what Nick Fuentes says at any time. Never give his face or voice the time of day. He’s a Nazi 24/7. The man who thinks some women like being raped doesn’t care about the ‘Epstein files’ and on that, just listen to survivors ? Who needs the files?

The sheer amount of plastic decorations and seasonal tat that shops are full of as we move seamlessly from Halloween to Christmas makes me so anxious. Where do people put this stuff after? Surely they dump most of it. It’s getting worse not better

Still thinking about yesterday in the shop. I was struggling leaving with the pram & trolly. A woman whispered to her teenage son “what’s happening there?” (nodding towards me) then “now, what can you do to help her?” He whispered “push the trolly?” she gently said “yes, & if she says no, that’s ok”

Made a hat for my cousin, her mum picked it up - as well as payment, she’s handed me a wee zip lock bag with 12 buns she makes. Shes been making a loaf of wheaten/brown bread, apple or rhubarb tart and buns every week all her adult life. Bout to make myself a cup of coffee have the time of my life

That Lilly Allen album is the emperors new clothes to me. It’s musically so so so awful wtf are people crowing about ?!

The genocide continues, in slower pace Genocide: "Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part" "[E]ntire neighbourhoods controlled by the IDF have been levelled in less than a month" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

At least AI written pieces aren’t deliberately pretending that it’s common sense that people on the right aren’t racist and or pretending that they don’t understand what the word ‘woke’ means www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

Interested to know what people would who understand it more than me, think the bursting of the AI bubble will look like. Because I know don’t know anyone who in real life that is opposed to it. Which is just so 😳

Out for a walk on Saturday and remembered a time when my friends from Tipperary that I lived with in Cardiff, came to visit. I was driving past this view on the way to lunch and they roared “STOPPP! How the hell did you not tell us that THIS is where you live?!!!”

Joyce Carol Oats critique of Musk sounds like what would truthfully unravel my soul: receiving very bad feedback from a good English teacher. I’d die

Hi. I’ve been editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue for the last 4.5 years — a dream job, one I never thought a Brown girl from small town Louisiana might hold. I am so incredibly proud of the work we’ve done and what we accomplished. Our journalism has won major awards. (cont’d)

Clothes in the shops for the last 2 years have been beige, grey, brown black or cream. I craaaave colour (and set in sleeves for jumpers/coats)

Protesters lay outside the #COP30 climate summit in Brazil covered in white sheets, to call attention to the deaths of activists and journalists killed while "defending land, territories and natural resources."

Not one to judge people on what they wear, but that purple outfit was so gorgeous on President Connolly today. 10/10

reminder that those who complain about people calling #Irish 'Gaelic', rarely do anything else for actual language rights (apart from bringing this up). it also shows their ignorance. they don't really care about the language... good in-depth piece: irishlanguage.ie/gaelic-gaeil... #gaeilge

A father and his one-year-old daughter were pepper sprayed by US ICE agents in Chicago while on their way to go grocery shopping.

The Panorama edit was poor journalism, not sure how it happened (more than 15 yo when I worked there we all had to go on a course because someone made the Queen look grumpy about something in the wrong order). But of all of it, this is the only piece I’ve read that properly nails the issue…

Really encourage everyone to read this. All of it

Breaking News: The Supreme Court denied a request to consider overturning its landmark decision to legalize same-sex marriage a decade ago. nyti.ms/3Ju2Ayd

Have been sent the clip of Bernese Mountain Dog owners sending off Michael D twice by heart-melted people outside of Ireland. What a country.

A question for certain people on the left: how exactly did you think rehabilitating that bald shitstain just because he was on the flotilla would end? Like, what was the expected outcome here?

Social media is a bin fire but the “Christmas Chip, cranberry if you wish but the majority don’t” brings me such joy

This as not simply populism, it's an extreme assault on public institutions and structures. The last week has been about the BBC, but comes alongside mounting attacks on judicial independence/the European Court of Human Rights. Treating each issue in isolation will see them killed off one by one.

Yes and yet several European countries are embracing a far-right worldview that would burn these policies to the ground, so let’s be not be smug or complacent here - particularly as Mamdani‘s pro-immigration stance is radical by European standards.

I find it all very ominous

You don’t have to like Tim Divies to think or acknowledge that this is insane and cowardly bowing down to a man who has cut aid that has killed thousands already, bombed ships in international waters and is disappearing people off the streets of the US. It’s just mind bending

The Trump administration is disappearing people left right and center. ICE Holding facilities withholding food and due process, he’s bombing ships in international waters - yet putting together things that he actually said on the 6th of January is a resigning matter. Through the looking glass stuff

Anyone promoting, associating or sharing spaces with this man - what you permit you promote

A genuine embarrassment and national shame that this man is still platformed by our media and in the pro-Palestine movement

That decision re the Trump documentary is actually quite terrifying

“We're seeing a level of proliferation of bodies & body piles from space that's unlike anything I've ever seen…” Human rights investigator Nathaniel Raymond explains how more people could be killed within a week in Sudan, compared to the past two years in Gaza. 🔗 zeteo.com/p/sudans-dea...

Started re reading some of my old Jilly Cooper books to get me back to sleep after night feeds. One of the characters is 11st stone and she describes her as “so big she’d need a trailer to move her”. I read these books as a teenager - vile to put that into peoples heads, really vile

If The Wedding Singer film was released today, it would be set in 2012

The 30 Rock episode with “how do you do, fellow kids?” is closer to the release of Windows 98 than it is to today.

I ache for politics that focuses on making lives better in a relatable insightful way. Vaguely promising “a new Ireland” does fk all for me in that respect btw, I’d still vote for it but sandwiching it with “we need to be suspicious of foreigners and Ukrainians are living it large” kills me inside

I don't earn nearly this much and you know what? I still don't care if folks on benefits live a "better lifestyle". Everyone deserves to live a happy life.

On year long maternity leave pay from a good job - my income is now below minimum wage - we can get by fine but everything is much more planned, prepped and your world much smaller, these people have no idea how much the conveniences, cars & holidays in their lives cost & how much *time* money buys

America needs to be boycotted at this stage. Something needs done - this is not normal

My sisters are twins - one v pale, freckled glorious curly hair, looks like someone you’d put on tourism posters to get Americans to visit. The other is so sallow with inky black straight hair and dark brown eyes - when I *think* about the way people used to talk a lot her skin tone it makes me 😵‍💫

am reminded of the old joke: what did James Watson discover? Rosalind Franklin’s notes.

My fave genre of Facebook brain rot is v niche, it’s people from the North sharing English nostalgia ‘back in the good old days of the 70s/80s/90s’ posts - which is just so MENTAL when this place was a smoking basket case of paramilitaries, army, murder, bombs & mayhem in those ‘good old days’

Baby cut his 1st tooth, I’ve been getting 1.5hrs sleep at a time max for a few days now, ready to dissolve into the floor with tiredness, then I leaned into the cot and smelled his head - the science of that smell needs studied so it can be replicated - it was reviving in a way I can’t describe

Yea I know everyone here already knows it, but this is good journalism, worth a read imo

The Eastern Europeans that I worked in hospitality the from 2002 - 2010 (even during the crash they were the only ones that would stick working nightclub hours) and kept the shrunken social scene viable, now own a lot of restaurants, cafes and catering services. Bloody immigrants, keeping joy alive