Aoife Grace Moore sums it up doesn't she. "We need to be careful when politicians start punching down, it means they have no policies that can help you."

And Micheál Martin is currently considering watering down the already watered down OTB replacement bill. No defending the citizens he's supposed to serve, pure complicity with murderers.

I imagine most journalists get into the job with ambitions to make a difference with their writing. It must be depressing for those who see their dreams die and they find themselves picking words out of the engagement hat in hopes that if they annoy enough people it will simulate relevance.

This woman is on fire in the EU parliament.

It's impressive that they managed to come up with something that so clearly displays the rapacity of colonialism without using the word "plantation" once.

Not sure who won. It's a toss up between Catherine Connolly and Kieran Cuddihy's uncontained contempt for Jim Gavin's waffling.

"We have all this private wealth and public squalor." Welcome to the revolution comrade Cuddihy. ✊🏻

Half and hour into the presidential debate and I'm giving Humphreys a second preference just to spite Jim Gavin.

This has got to be an attempt to get Hamas to refuse a peace deal. Tony Blair as a viceroy, ffs. He's one of the few people alive who may have murdered more Arabs than Netanyahu.

Something I wish leaders in Europe would cop on to. He's a bully. Bullies pick on the weak. Don't show weakness and don't be afraid to hit back or they'll take everything.

Tax cuts and pleading poverty, another Paschal Donohoe budget it is so.

I'm on the spectrum. I'm 76. RFK Jr can fuck off into the heart of the sun.

I often find aggressive cynicism is an excuse for personal inaction and/or indifference. They're reacting to someone still willing to fight as it shames their own acquiescence.

Pretty awful stuff from the economist here. The change in gender identity was between trans binary and non-binary (and vice-versa) with only a single child (less than 0.5%) changing to cis.

Not to give oxygen to the idiot, but this is a prime example of how neurodivergence is viewed by a lot of people as a sickness and not natural diversity. It's more worrying to me that a lot people share similar opinions.

Sitting here waiting for the free speech warriors who whinged about cancel culture to say something about the increasing state repression of free speech across the western world.

The whitewashing of Charlie Kirk by media across the English speaking world is disturbing. He celebrated the murder of Democrat state representatives, preached hate, and mocked compassion. I'm not justifying his murder, but we need to be honest with who he was. He was not a good man.

I only stopped to read this to find out why a picture of Prince Charles made it on my timeline.

I would highly recommend the new Spinal Tapp movie to fans of the first. I spent the eighty-something minutes vacillating between raucous laughter and outright cackling. 11/10

Congratulations to the people of Brazil. One of few nations holding their politicians to account for their actions. 27 years for Jair Bolsonaro for his attempted coup. Even as the US exerted financial pressure. Their bravery and integrity is to be applauded.

When I left India, Ireland welcomed me in. I won’t let bigotry destroy the country we love | Cauvery Madhavan

📢Strike Withdrawn - well done to secretaries & caretakers!! After agreement at the WRC with: - Commitment to negotiate comparable pension entitlements - Discussions on caretakers' pay framework - Access to bereavement, sick & acute illness protocols www.rte.ie/news/educati...

Congratulations to the school secretaries and caretakers on their success in bringing the government to the table. It was an honour to support you over the past two weeks. Here's a pint to you and your success!

Here I can act like I'm running for president and say daft reactionary shite. VMTV will you let me on the telly?

I don't know if I can join the joy at the possibility Trump may be dead. Not for any moral reason, just because I know the Republicans are going to mother Bates him.

My best friend in primary school had two mums. Being the 90s he would insist he had a mum and a guardian. This was so much more confusing than the truth we could all see "Evan has two mums and they're like everyone else's parents just more mum, less dad." It was the homophobia that confused things.

I've seen this one before...

Mise Éire, more like mis-Éireable Festival.

Looks like my flight home from Spain is delayed due to the baggage handlers' strike. Solidarity to the handlers, and a stern finger wagging at the Ryanair group for not doing everything they could to ensure the handlers are fairly paid.

Homophobia aside (and it is homophobia), the idea of Trump and Putin being a gay couple is infinitely less funny than the reality that is Trump being a bully getting bullied by a bigger bully.

I literally did this waiting to get off a plane, there's no excuse not to do it!

Simon Harris should be held to account for his lies and callousness, but it is important we fight against the consistent underfunding and understaffing of our health service. It's a choice made time and again to give tax breaks to the middle class and plead poverty when it comes to funding services.

What strange times, when the commander of RAF Greenham Common is coming out as a liberal supporter of the right to protest

Another blow for Starmer's Labour.

This has been a ticking time bomb for generative AI from day one. Frankly, if the users of Deviantart and Artstation were able to band together there wouldn’t be a single AI image generator left.

If you have to write about awful people gathering and doing awful racist things, then this is absolutely the way to do it. www.advertiser.ie/galway/artic...

Some of which is held in data centres in Ireland. Not only is it another way we are made complicit, considering the questionable legality of holding these calls in the EU, it underlines the problem of so much of the world's data being held here when our regulator is completely under-resourced.

It grinds my gears enormously that no Irish newspaper, never mind RTE, is willing to ask how Fianna Fáil/Fine Gael plan to change Irish defence policy once the Triple Lock is removed. Which miliitary operations do they envisage us joining? Who would be the "enemy"? What would be the goal?

Big news for my brothers, sisters, and siblings still workering in supermarkets. www.rte.ie/news/busines...

Congratulations to the Dublin Bus maintenance operators on settling their pay deal. As a regular bus user, that 4 day work-to-rule taught me a firm lesson to never take their work for granted ever again!

Comment: Savagery like the attack on the innocent man in Tallaght can be expected as long as government punishes migrants for problems it creates, then feigns shock when members of the public mirror acts of sadism perpetrated by the state itself. www.ontheditch.com/o-callaghan-...

Ironically, the only one of my friends who is genuinely worried about AI taking their job is a programmer.

I'm going to say deadnaming and misgendering is incredibly unprofessional. Though a website that conflates sounding like you're giving a Ted Talk on being a tedious bore with professionalism has always had a tenuous grasp on the concept of professionalism.

1. FALSE. It’s being added to the accelerated processing list because of high numbers of applications not because it’s deemed safe. 2. I am begging journos to stop uncritically reporting government claims that their approach is “working” because numbers are down. See next tweet:

This is a naked attempt to co-opt protest and take off the pressure to do something more than look grumpy on the Late Late Show. Protests are to pressure those in power to do something. People like the Tánaiste, Simon Harris. He wants to put his face on the protests and make them look like support.

NGL, South Park telling kids for nearly 30 years that apathy is cool and caring is embarrassing is part of how we got here. Not gonna fawn over a stopped clock inevitably being slightly right about something. Yes, coalitions, but not giving harmful shit passes just because someone made you laugh.

A perfect storm of ignorance and bluster. Possibly the worst Justice Minister since Alan Shatter.

Not sure the 'alleged' is necessary, he boasted about extrajudicial killings A LOT. Might have missed it between the 'pity I didn't get to fuck that nun before she was murdered' type statements to be fair.