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

‘We’re not allowed to have our voices heard’ whines government minister, via every single media outlet in the fucking country…

“Sure they’re all mad up there, as bad as each other” Yeah the education minister and other unionists went on a trip paid for by the state that has created the largest group of child amputees in the world currently - and murdered thousands of others, to rage bait opponents and to create division.

Again with the “allowed” who is arresting him or taping his mouth over? Is Garron his special advisor now?

A day for sitting beside the range with a cup of something warming 🌧️ Prints available here: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...

Teething round 1 seems like a pointlessly mean process when teething round 2 is painless and no bother.

The quality of our political set up here is: Paul Givan -an elected MLA, is claiming he would be ‘cancelled’ if a no confidence vote was to go through against him for taking an all expenses trip to Isreal & sharing it from dept of education. Democratic accountability = cancelling apparently

Wow the IT actually printed my letter #speirghorm

Wild thing looking at the NY mayor election is that the Cuomo campaign appears to consist entirely of AI generated deep fake videos of his opponents. Someone is 100% going to copy that here and we need legislation to be ahead of this

▪️ If it's an immigrant... "See!" ▪️ If it's not an immigrant, but they're not white (or don't have a white British name)... "See! Next generation of immigrants!" ▪️ If it's a white guy with a British name... "See! See what these immigrants made good peaceful people do?!"

Show me a single Irish politician reacting with even a millionth of the empathy of the woman from Drogheda interviewed on RTÉ News - who was weeping in horror thinking of the people inside the hotel and how terrorised they must have been. Or the man saying the same right after.

Jim saying it was fireworks this morning before it was definite what started the fire (flammable substance deliberately put on stairs & set alight) is illustrative of so much. Rush to minimise without facts. In the absence of them, wait. It’s as bad as it looked. So much worse than fireworks

I have already ended up in a argument today with someone saying I shouldn't assume it was a far-right fire attack on an IPAS centre (following a number of far-right fire attacks on IPAS centres) because it was probably "kids messing with fireworks" so this is worth hammering home I think

So it wasn't fireworks. It was a calculated and deliberate attempt at the mass murder of men, women and children. www.thetimes.com/article/0887...

It pains me to have to talk about this again but presenting this as an "elephant in the room" is bizarre. The spoiled votes have got as much coverage and media attention as the actual winner, and it's baffling this is still being discussed let alone claimed as underanalysed

Every autumn I see blackberry bushes and once again, kick myself that one evening I chose revision for an exam I was well prepared for, rather than go ahead up to Derry as I had planned, to see Seamus Heaney’s final major public appearance, revisiting The Poet and the Piper with Liam Ó Flynn.

Justice Minister confirms arson attack on IPAS building in Drogheda last night. "Fireworks were thrown into the building, causing a fire and putting lives at risk. This was a terrifying ordeal for the women and children living there, a number of whom were taken to hospital." (1/2)

Baby cut his first tooth on Halloween. Signs he may be goth are going good but obviously I’m not going to hope too hard 🧛‍♂️

Even if the cause was not arson - the unchecked hatred that is being allowed to boil is going to cause something catastrophic. I remember the lead up to marching season in 1998 and how it culminated in the 3 poor Quinn boys being killed for being ‘other’. We have been here before, not long ago

One of the flag posters is called SEAN DOOLAN - anti immigrantion to England with a name like SEAN DOOLAN. Racism is fundamentally irrational, a hatred to gain leverage and power over others in your mind. Elevating yourself without having to do or achieve anything. Hatred based on your own stupidity

Just watched the reporting on the satellite videos of the Sudan killing sprees. Beyond horror

The sound of a breast pump

I’m dressing up as deadly/debilitating women’s health issues. Costume will just be a sign that says “that’s normal actually, step on the scale there”

What terrifying thing are you dressing as this Halloween I'm dressing up as acid reflux

This is disastrous; hospices do such important work, not only to give people a good death, but to provide pain management and other services to people with terminal conditions. The staff in hospices work so, so hard and the fact that these institutions depend on charity to operate is a scandal.

The Twits is very awful, don’t waste yours or your little ones time

"Systematic killing" UN calls for an immediate end to military escalation in Sudan after reports that more than 460 people were shot dead in a maternity hospital by paramilitary forces u.afp.com/Sep2

When I first joined I brought some of my bad Twitter behaviour over here - arguing with people in my mentions, quote posting awful people etc - but it’s amazing how the lack of algorithm that doesn’t promote or ‘reward’ (embarrassing but that’s what it boils down to) here cured me of that

Paul Givan, Northern Ireland's DUP Education Minister, who unilaterally decided to order discrimination against trans kids recently, went on a trip to Israel to visit a school there for some reason. He was joined by others from the DUP, TUV and UUP.