Next time you hear someone saying, “Autistic people lack empathy,” you might want to gently challenge them to read @annmemmott.bsky.social's article, and be prepared for some surprising discoveries. At TPGA: thinkingautismguide.com/2026/06/empa... #autism #DoubleEmpathyProblem #neurodiversity

An all-new game show launching next month allows young girls who are clearly autistic to win a diagnosis they haven’t done anything to warrant, according to reports.

"Browne’s approach is a tacit admission that we are not trying to solve the housing crisis; we are merely trying to keep pace with it, and we are doing so with all the athleticism one might expect of a Sunday shopper who’s ended up walking out into the middle of the Dublin marathon by accident."

I can’t tell you what a relief it is for someone else to have written this. “Everyone wants to protect children from pornography but making adults prove their identity to access sites is not the way to do it” www.irishtimes.com/technology/2...

Ffs "private consortium" "- will require government funding" "North American entertainment experience" No! No! No! And one more for good measure No!!

Tonight a Garda AI bill is set to pass in Seanad, allowing gardai - categorise ppl by skin tone, age, gender - identify an unknown suspect based on biometrics, - “localise” an identified person by tracking their movements Dr Róisín Costello and I outline issues👇#AIAct www.iccl.ie/news/garda-a...

The only interesting thing about this think-piece is that it shows how unserious the political correspondent who wrote it and the editor who published it think the Soc Dems are about their economic policies.

some studies suggest that 25% of Autistic adults attempt suicide 1 in 4 Diagnosis of autism in adults is not attention-seeking or trend It’s the context we need to do more than just survive When you know a risk, you can lower it, and just by knowing more about ideation It’s suicide prevention

100% this.

Thread 🧵 “The #LemkinInstitute for #GenocidePrevention and #HumanSecurity is releasing this third #RedFlag #Alert 🚩🚨‼️for the USA related to the #Trump Administration’s anti-trans initiatives, which have continued to expand nationwide since our last Red Flag Alert (RFA) on this subject. …. 1/

Former Irish President, Michael D Higgins, makes factual statement that the EU is not credible on human rights. The systemically anti-LGBTQ state broadcaster ignored the EU’s disregard for equal human rights of its 40.5m LGBTQ citizens EU has 'no credibility' on human rights or international law

Believe all victims!! Well...unless you know the perpetrator then, sure, you could write them a glowing reference. Almost always a man but never ever a man you know!

somehow achieving a trillion dollar net worth hasn't left our boy feeling any more secure or beloved

More 10-year-olds say they want puppies than parents do. What's behind the divide?

Survivors of sexual violence should be able to access counselling in confidence. The Minister for Justice promised to introduce a presumption of non-disclosure in respect of counselling notes. The Minister has broken his commitment Therapy notes should never be weaponised against victims in court.

Thomas House of Dublin exhibiting the pro-human solidarity that all of us should demonstrate.

Solution that's mainly about 'think of the tourist', while telling homeless people they have to pay the deposit on the bottle but are not getting it back. Literally an extra tax for having the audacity of being the poorest in society. I've lost hope they'll ever do anything for those who live here.

Gemini has a good grasp of history so

Breaking News: Shoplifters are the worst people on the planet. In other news: Man who committed largest instance of daylight robbery just crowned 1st trillionaire.

liberal democracies will never be safe with musk this powerful—they must unite to break him my latest with @newrepublic.com c/a @gregsargent.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2119...

Tomatoes! Tomatoes ketchup=fine. Pasta sauce=fine. Raw tomotoes=evil incarnate and should be sent back from whence they came (hell I'm pretty sure).

The AI rollout is an incredible test case for the power of capital to overrule everything in its way. An overwhelmingly stupid, obscenely polluting, and wildly dangerous set of technologies are being brute-forced into every part of our lives because money says so.

It is misleading for the Prime Minister, or anyone else, to suggest the privacy concerns here are no more serious than being ID’d for a pint https://alecmuffett.com/article/160856 #OnlineSafety #SocialMediaBan

This morning scrolling Bluesky, there is nothing at all in my feed about Putin’s barbaric attack on the Ukraine’s holiest site, the UNESCO protected Lavra so I’m posting this here.

The dumbest opinion I will read today. The public system doesn't have enough time for pregnant people, so you should be able to buy more time just for yourself. Public system is great, but not for private patients. Wom..Well-off women should have the right to choose. Its not about money but €€

This

For my #Calling353 piece in @thejournal.ie this week I had a look at the phrase "legitimate concerns" over time. www.thejournal.ie/calling-353-...

It’s interesting seeing some of the very obvious misinformation being peddled online and through social media re Belfast atm primarily by US / UK bad faith actors: (1) Race riots and pogroms in NI are about keeping ‘Ireland for the Irish’. The rioters are from (British) Loyalist backgrounds.

These are the real people of Belfast. Thousands of anti-fascists rally against the far-right at Belfast City Hall today. They sent a clear message that racism is not wanted in their city. Things you love to see ✊❤

Absolutely huge crowds in Belfast to reject the far-right, paramilitarism, racism and border violence. A loud message to the politicians who pandered to violent paramilitary groups this week

Surprise! Our Government wants to advance the policy preferences of Meta and Google.

🎯 As a respected neutral country, Ireland is big. As a military power, Ireland can only be less than tiny. This isn't hard.

Graeme Hart, 57, believes autism is a horrific scourge on humanity – but that there’s no reason for you, an autistic person, to be so uncivil about it.

“The mobs burning out Sudanese families in east Belfast are the inheritors of a tradition that the British state has never fully confronted, because doing so would require confronting its own role in creating and sustaining it.”

Actually ACTUALLY technically the Firbolgs were also immigrants. Human life did not evolve on this island. Even when it wasn't an island. Just saying like... But unlike the Red Hand fellas the Firbolgs weren't literally installed as a 'Great Replacment' project.

We will not allow them to drag us back. UK and Irish Governments aided by our Justice Minister have spent a week undermining everything the North has achieved since the 1994 ceasefires and 1998 Good Friday Agreement. [1/2]

"You see, he said, all of those EU limits were on the use of "biometric identification". But he had invented a unique new Irish activity called "biometric analysis" that didn't have any of those pesky protections."

Correct

Weary observers may recall a version of this stunt being pulled by the Department of Social Protection, which spent several years pretending it didn't know what the word biometric meant after its minister stood up in the Dáil and stated that her department wasn't processing biometric data.

Calling on the Irish government and state agencies to immediately close their X accounts. Continued use of a fascist agitator's social media site is both incompatible with democratic values and immoral.

Sick to my back teeth of it. If fascism isn't here yet, how do you explain that to the people who were burnt out of their homes? Do we explain to them not to worry, that liberal democracies need to blow off steam sometimes, and they weren't fascists baying for their blood?

grabbing every small business owner I can find by the shoulders and yelling directly into their faces that IF I DON'T HAVE AN INSTAGRAM ACCOUNT I CAN'T SEE ANY OF YOUR SHIT GET A FUCKING WEBSITE

data centre news this week: – the UN calls Ireland a ‘cautionary tale’ because of the difficulties DCs are causing us – several US cities and states have put the brakes on them – the Irish govt paid a big four consulting firm to write a report about how important they are to our economy bruh

All in all Ireland has far more empty houses than homeless people. Whole estates were built, but not completed and then abandoned to dereliction. Decades of FF/FG rule has put us here.

Platforming AI slop means a hard "no" from me. Incandescent over the festival pissing on both the legacy of Joyce and the artists and writers he inspired with their fucking "muzi" AI bollocks. Boycott the whole thing.

Seen on a wall in Spain

Sometimes you need a good spell to make Dublin Bus turn up on time. We do also have the ghost buses Willow never sorted out

My cartoon in today's @irishexaminer.bsky.social

Is this the government position or is it not? The Irish government is preparing to fully scrap our neutrality. We must not let them. We have to protect the triple lock from Fianna Fáil & Fine Gael, who want to line us up behind the US & NATO warmongers. Don't be fooled by their spin. #NoToNATO