When even someone as confident and talented as CMAT is affected by the level of body-shaming vitriol aimed at her, what hope do the rest of us have. Body positivity is worthwhile, but it can only go so far when society still treats commenting on people's bodies as acceptable. We've so, so far to go.

if it's not a conflict of interest for an elected representative to be a working lobbyist, I don't know what is www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

Two days of hot weather and Kildare residents are already being put on notice to use less water. And yet, Kildare CoCo has approved a €3 billion data centre for Naas, which at full build out will use between 4-9 million litres of water a day. www.kfmradio.com/news/localne...

Never forget that YOU are a data center. Drink some water ffs.

There are days when I miss being an editor. I loved writing headlines. Whoever did this, I hope they took the rest of the day off.

Good morning. We have now added a protest from Nottingham, organised by @againsttransphobia.bsky.social to our website. Read here: whatthetrans.com/compilation-...

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Turnout in the by-elections is estimated at 45% in Galway West and about 40% in Dublin Central. Galway therefore looking at 50,000 ballot papers with 17 candidates and no meaningful hope of anyone reaching the quota. A long day - and very possibly two days - of counting beckons in Salthill.

The Irish Blood Transfusion Service has issued a fresh appeal for blood donations, as supplies dwindled due to the long weekend. There is currently only two days' supply of O positive blood saved. jrnl.ie/7005481

A day I get to combine my love of Pokémon and my love of drag is always a great day, even if it meant posing with someones crotch

Protesting about Palestine at a rally against fascism is actually incredibly on topic and if you don't think so, it's only because you only care about fascism when it affects you.

CMAT reading this like

If it was legal to bake cakes and legal to sell cakes but it was illegal to advertise cakes and illegal to buy cakes, do you think cake bakers will have a better or safer work-life? Do you think the people willing to commit a crime to buy a cake will be a safe customer?

Massive result for Connolly. If this holds until polling day, she's home. As we have seen in recent past elections, things can change at the end, but on these numbers, Humphreys path is incredibly narrow Graphic via @irelandvotes.bsky.social

The Irish Blood Transfusion Service is urgently seeking an additional 12,000 blood donations over the next four weeks as most blood groups have fallen to under three days of stock.

Short answer: if he gets enough votes the taxpayer ends up paying for the whole sorry debacle

A report by the International Energy Agency has found that residential electricity prices in Ireland are three times higher than the wholesale cost. The IEA said 'some countries promptly passed wholesale price increases on to consumers' and this disparity was the largest in Ireland. jrnl.ie/6844698

The thing that gets me about actors responding like this whenever they’re asking about JKR is that they always say “we need to learn to agree to disagree ^_^” as if trans people are the ones leading the campaign, when we’re just trying to live our lives while JKR posts about trans hate 24/7

Nothing prepared me for the absolute nonsense of trying to preorder a physical game directly from Nintendo. I pre-ordered a Pokemon ZA bundle last week, payment still hasn't been collected, but also it won't let me cancel the order?

If anyone is wondering - Burke was first suspended in June 2022. THREE ENTIRE YEARS AGO Is anyone in authority going to do anything to protect the students of Wilsons Hospital School from this person?

In line to pay in the petrol station yesterday a woman was talking to her friend and said “I swear to god I need a Valium and a box of chocolate ” and now this morning my 3 year old who overheard this convo, is asking for “a wee Valium and chocolate please.” It’s like living with a devious parrot

People don't realise how malicious the 'reforms' proposed by Heather Humphreys to disability supports were. Very few people appreciate the work put in by disabled activists to resist those reforms or the lasting damage caused. No apology or even acknowledgement, HH is not a President for all #Áras25

The whitewashing begins, I actually think a big driver for this ‘peace’ deal was to protect Israel from total ostracisation on the global stage, they should still be punished and made to account for their genocide

Elon Musk is a white nationalist. Anyone who needs more data points to reach this conclusion is beyond help or persuasion. If you buy, rent, service, or supercharge a Tesla you are supporting the most powerful white nationalist on earth. Period.

Breaking: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, the legendary transgender activist and veteran of the Stonewall uprising who dedicated her life to the liberation of trans people, especially Black trans women, has died at 78.

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking? Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

There's at least one other person with my full government name here in Ireland. She's a real estate agent and (AFAIK) a possible FG member/supporter. I hope her SEO is haunted by me!

Catherine Connolly never thanked the driver when she got off bus 10 years ago.

Feed my Pokémon Go obsession 🤟 685768242878

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If a ceasefire holds, you boycott Israel HARDER, you divest, you push for sanctions. You don't perform for apartheid. You don't whitewash genocide. You don't pretend like Israel isn't still a violent occupier stealing land and collectively punishing Palestinians daily

New from 404 Media: the Discord hack is every users' worst nightmare. Yesterday the hackers started posting Discord users' selfies, identity documents, email addresses, phone numbers, more. I watched in real time. This is risk of tech storing ID for age verification www.404media.co/the-discord-...

Friend: I found your doppelganger *shows you picture of the worst looking person you've ever seen in your life*

after the 10th radioactive shrimp recall in 7 weeks, i decided to do some digging little did i know it would lead me to an underreported industrial accident that may have released an airborne plume of radioactive debris over swaths of indonesia www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...

I've a friend who shifted Ryan Tubridy in the 90s and I texted her "your boyfriend is on the telly again" everytime I saw the Late Late for years. Years!

Someone needs to be asking FG about their govt and how this is happening with the vulture landlords… sorry investment funds… and how this weeks budget will only mean more of it.

this post lowkey ruined my life. i have to read it in its entirety every time i scroll past it.

jkr openly condemning palestine so once again if it isnt clear all transmisogynistic politics claiming to "defend real females" is ideologically the same kind of reactionary nationalism, heterosexualism, and turning "weaklings into soldiers" that zionism, hindutva, etc are

Well, well, well...if it isn't the endlessly dismissed Left being proven 100% correct about someone for the one billionth time.

Re-downloaded Pokémon Go last month to help my recovery from pneumonia by gamifying going for walks. I'm once again obsessed, and my walking & chest capacity has improved greatly 🎉

I'm shocked Fine Gael picked John Clendennen to go out and defend the VAT cut he owns a pub and glamping business and was the president of the Vintners' Federation when he was elected. his sister replaced him on board after his term ended it's a VAT cut for him personally

Imagine what we could achieve if we had this competence and leadership in government instead of opposition. Gibney cutting through Fine Gael mediocrity with precision.

People are making fun of this but it's actually extremely consistent for these people to not respect law or the constitution

everyone – including Kieran Cuddihy – jumping down Paul Murphy's throat for correctly raising the very serious issue of confidential garda vetting information being leaked to the media disgraceful #TonightVMTV

Greta Thunberg speaks to the press after being released from illegal detainment in Israel: "I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me, but that is not the story.”

Back to the actual and current Presidential candidates -with all the Jim Gavin shenanigans of the last 24 hours it may have not grabbed people’s attention that Heather Humphreys just threw trans people under the bus in response to a Grift dot ie reporters question!So there’s that! #aras25 #speirgorm

I was one of the leaders of Scrap The Green Paper because I & my friends were suicidal after learning proposals for ~84% of disabled to be pushed into work I've not recovered from pushing myself to fight it, nor my friends I'm so broken & Humphreys wants a house in the park on our backs #áras25