I have had the great privilege of authoring this report on barriers for ISL interpreters and I’ll be presenting at its launch next week in Dublin. Attendance is free and the event has ISL and English interpretation You can register attendance at the link www.eventbrite.ie/e/report-lau...

I have dropped out of the Boston Marathon guys. Because apparently you can drop out of a race you were never in.

Ar ais le ceist eile mar gheall ar leabhair Gaeilge dá bpáistí. A bhfuil aon leabhair dineasár le fáil? Leabhair fíricí a bhaineann le dineasáir, seachas scéal le dineasáir ann.

Ar ais le ceist eile mar gheall ar leabhair Gaeilge dá bpáistí. A bhfuil aon leabhair dineasár le fáil? Leabhair fíricí a bhaineann le dineasáir, seachas scéal le dineasáir ann.

Check in on your Swiftie friends (me), they (me) are descending into madness.

I’m here to defend the Croke Park pitch markings, I won’t let ye slander the hard work of the grounds people!

The boomer version of quitting it all to open a small bakery/book store is buying a fancy camper van.

Where do they grow Reviewers Two?

This is good because it’s really important to see how lame and embarrassing the fash are.

No one needs to be told this, but in policing research there’s this thing called “cop culture” [see Robert Reiner] and part of it is a “thirst for action”. Police inherently want there to be riots and a chase because police work, for the most part, is extremely boring.

Cavan is a podcast that absolutely nobody should listen to.

It’s not real PhD level intelligence if it doesn’t cry at its desk from self doubt once a week, it’s just sparkling academia

“Appears to have been shot” as we all look at a video of a journalist being shot is a ✨fascinating✨ use of language, isn’t it?

“Bromance” or as it is rarely called “two men who are friends”

“We now go live to our Ketamine Correspondent. What’s the latest, Jim?”

This is what it would have been like if they had social media during the Cuban Missile Crisis

My home of Missoula just voted to establish the pride flag as an official government flag of the city, thereby circumventing the state's asinine pride flag ban. 🏳️‍🌈 Missoula is once again showing how to fight back against policies that seek to erase the LGBTQ community.

I just finished Lord of the Rings for the first time and they are phenomenal books (who knew? Not me). I actually listened to the audiobooks with Andy Serkis and it was a wonderful and immersive experience, 10/10 recommend but I have been crying for 20 minutes and now I have a headache

Again, I cannot express how little I expected someone would usurp my position as "guy who takes ketamine in the company of a president".

“Monolingualism is the carbon monoxide of culture; multilingualism is its oxygen." Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I feel like a lot of strife could be spared if the folk of middle earth learned how to check for vital signs? (Again, no spoilers pls, I’m only like a third of the way through ROTK)

Forcing people to knock on doors to beg for rights from their neighbours is inhumane, I’ll never forgive anyone who had a hand in making that a reality.

Reviewer 1: great job, I loved this, can you just change that one thing? Reviewer 2: this is an affront to humanity.

The EU petition to ban LGBT+ conversion torture is now OVER ONE MILLION! (the threshold where the EU Commission is obliged to respond) But these signatures will need to be verified, and some duds or doubles will get lost It needs about 10% more to be safe Sign and share, it's the last day!

Hey world, remember when you thought this was awesome? (Which, by the way, it was). Yeah well she's been suspended for a week now because of it; it's coloniser rules and forms of expression allowed only, indigenous people must only be angry in white ways. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

My Roman Empire is that Koko the gorilla never learned to sign and a conversation with one singular Deaf person would have saved a lot of time and a lot a shoddy research

This box contains the French press and artisan coffee I travel with and the voice of me asking my mam if she can buy oat milk before I come home for a visit because the six year old instant coffee in the back of the press won’t do.

Putting on record: in a popular tweet yesterday the leader of the True Finns party, deputy prime minister Riikka Purra complained about the number of births given by foreigners in Finland and in particular in her own electoral district. Her government in 2023 declared ’zero tolerance’ of racism

How I imagine the editorial staff at the Irish Times are functioning these days: Irish Times: GET ME EVERY OPINION YOU CAN MUSTER ON KNEECAP, STAT!

Me, a fool, booking Rage Against The Machine: “I really hope they do some tunes about trying to connect to a printer”

Long shot and very much a question for Back In The Day Twitter, but does anyone have any idea of where I might find The Very Hungry Caterpillar as Gaeilge? Apparently it’s called Dónall An Chluimh Agus An-Ocras Air and appears to be out of print.

As the gushing tributes pour in, rememver that the Catholic Church still owes its Irish victims millions for the sexual, physical and psychological abuse and torture they suffered at the hands of its clergy, and neither Francis nor any other pope has ever done anything to help them.

Sticking around long enough just to tell a cretinous little fascist that he’s a bitch before dying? Francis, a petty queen 💅🏻

Would ye like to see a very wholesome, only-slightly-notiony cookbook recipes from the Irish peacekeeper families in Cyprus in the 80s?

Look at these queer Lego icons from the 80s. Go off girls.

The idea that disabled lives are less valuable lives, lives which are worth living, lesser lives, is disgusting. It’s not just that awful man who thinks it. We praise media with tragic stories of people who would rather die than be disabled (Million Dollar Baby, the Last of Us)

Love, support and solidarity to trans people today.

Astrology. Astrology. Astrology.

Can someone talk to me about this please

I realise I am like a good 20 years late but I will not forgive Peter Jackson for what he did to Faramir. Or Hama for that matter. (I have not read return of the king yet, no spoilies pls)

Catching up on the latest developments in Marine le Pen's career

Maybe the “we have too many books” person was right actually

Féach ar cad tá ar siúl ach i nDaycare mo mhaicín ionas go mbeidh siad in ann Gaeilge a léamh agus a chultúr a cheiliúradh le gach duine sa rang 🥹

For the 8th year in a row, Finns are stressed about being expected to smile

Irish businesses will struggle to compete with Amazon ie, both online and in the high street. Shop direct with your Irish retailers, who already exist. Support local, not the billionaires.

“We’re the only reason you’re not speaking German right now” is a sentence that people in the colonial English speaking world sure love to say, isn’t it?

Gonna start making content where I just film myself nodding and pointing at the content someone else has created x

TIL that some Lutherans/Finns/non-Catholics who don’t encounter them often believe that Catholics get to go around sinning freely because you just get to do confessions and get absolved. Like you can do whatever and you get a blank slate. Catholics!? Known for being forgiving!?

#journorequest - looking to talk to people in Ireland who have given up drinking and are happy with the results. DM if any thoughts. Shares appreciated.

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