@cianginty.bsky.social seems like the biggest road safety measure we can make is taking the Gardaí off the roads!

There's lesson there for Irish politics. Just because a right turn feels like "Common Sense" doesn't mean it's the clever move.

For anyone who thinks Sinn Féin are a solution to any of our problems, take a long hard look.

We don't view motor violence like all the other violence, Exhibit 746 www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

i post this every year because men soaking in toxic masculinity are all “why can’t we get women” and Tom Holland dances in drag and lands one of the hottest women on the planet, maybe there’s a lesson here guys

The MAGA movement will not be shamed by pointing out the basic features of a liberal pluralist democracy. They don't believe in any of it. They see it as a weakness, something that merely holds them back or slows their efforts to reshape their world.

🤷🏾‍♀️ what they say vs the reality

This is terrible, but it's also kind of hilarious that the book banning, know-nothing conservative transphobes have gone so far they've banned several books of *the Bible* after decades of pitting Genesis vs. Evolution and screeching about persecution in schools. Cherry-picking intellectual cowards.

I’m not usually one to praise the IT, but the photo editor did great work here

The failed Ferris Bueller sequel

It's amazing that nobody will understand this: They don't think. They don't remember. They have no cognition. They're pattern matching systems that produce answer-shaped responses. This is no different that giving a script admin privileges, except this script is rewritten on the fly.

These numbers should be amplified everywhere there is a flat surface. The 3,000 person sample size was statistically significant. The direction of travel is positive but runs directly contrary to the perception born in the echo-chamber of Twitter-brained media and politics. (H&CC is a client)

There’s a lesson here, if only governments would take it.

I guess is someone tells you that fascists make them feel safer, they're revealing *a lot* more than they realise...

Mary Lou McDonald: "women [...] said they never felt more safe on O'Connell Street then when the lads were there..." Apparently the leader of Sinn Féin doesn't think Muslim women count.

"Needless to say, I had the last laugh."

Yes, Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term “dark matter” which is impressive, but he also coined the term “spherical bastard” to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and I think that should be celebrated more.

I really feel not enough people know about how much housing was built in a much much poorer country than Ireland now.

Zhang Shan won the gold medal for the mixed skeet shooting event in the 1992 Olympics. The International Shooting Union *immediately* banned women from competing against men.

Are the women back there somewhere? Yes, I think I see them.

'You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into.'

Truly astonishing. Get this guy out of here

remember during the gorton and denton byelection where @lucympowell.bsky.social tried to smear the greens as pro date rape? labour are pro-rape. they are pro the raping of trans women remember that whenever you go to the ballot this is called 'v-coding' and happens when we're put in male prisons

The fact that Mamdani just seems like a cheerful normal guy who's policies are things like "we're going to tax second homes to fund pothole repairs" or whatever and yet this generates panicked responses like "This is basically Stalin's great purge turned up to eleven" is... telling. It tells things.

No ❤️

Every single person who says "Ireland for the Irish" adds a silent invisible asterisk that leads to a footnote that says "Except Irish travellers"

In the UK we call them lifts but in the US they call them elevators, because we’re raised differently.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time

I guess the false assumption is that everyone is in a boat.

I don’t even have words for this.

This Reform leaflet from three Gateshead candidates looks like a timelapse of the same person

On the Muslim Sisters of Éire Facebook page. Totally normal protester behaviour. Definitely great to support people like this

They attacked the Muslim Sisters of Éire, one of the kindest and mostly welcoming groups out on the streets of Dublin providing meals to the unhoused. Fuck every single one of these rat fucks.

This thread says it some much better than I could. Having a common cause with someone doesn't automatically make them an ally.

Anyone know why the Gardaí temporarily closed Connolly Station earlier?

The woman being murdered in the video Trump posted was an immigrant. Her name was Nilufar Yasmin. She was from Bangladesh. Trump is weaponizing her death against communities like hers. Outstanding reporting from @pabloreports.bsky.social for Migrant Insider. migrantinsider.com/p/her-name-w...

During the Great Famine, John Milton Niles of Connecticut declared in the U.S. Senate that “Charity begins at home" as he argued against the U.S. Government sending direct aid to Ireland during the Great Famine. The ignorance and selfishness of this ‘protest’ is beyond belief.

The irony of Jim O’Callaghan having to announce he’s calling the army in to break up a protest filled with the people whose racism he has been assiduously courting and pandering to since taking office.

It must really boil these fuckers' piss that the only people they aren't inconveniencing are cyclists and pedestrians.

End stage capitalism says what?

I hate having to do the "look, they're normal just like us" post, but sometimes you have to do that when American propaganda tries to convince everyone Iranians are "animals".

"History will judge-" let me stop you right fucking there, history doesn't do fucking shit, I'm a historian, let's be clear here: elected officials need to do their fucking jobs, right now, before it happens, or future historians will judge THEM. Everyone knows and knew who Trump was.

"go jump in a lake", "take a long walk off a short pier", "put an egg in your shoe and beat it", "go peddle your papers" these are just some of the violent, actionable threats journalists and academics face every two to three months on bluesky, or as some call it The Murder Website.

She's not referring to Palestine, just for info...

hmm

Enshittification moves firmly into football

Men who long for a time when women were viewed as inferior view women as inferior, study relates

The Jetsons lied to us