In Ireland, we don't call it Home Alone. We call Mo Chónaí Culkin and I think that's beautiful

The grocer's at my tram stop are selling the most SCALDED tragic looking daisies for €39 if anyone's looking

Funny how there's a pretty consistent editorial campaign aimed at getting Ireland to "pull our weight" in Europe's defence, but there isn't one asking us to pull our weight in addressing our fair share of climate emissions #spéirgorm

"Colonial Actions have Indigenous Consequences" Poster in Sydney memorializing the death of British Navy officer, Captain James Cook at the hands of Hawaiian warriors on 14 February 1779.

[Into dictaphone] An app that tells you how slippy the paths are in your area

My St Valentine story is when I went to collect the wedding rings on Aungier St, my mam goes "sure cross the road and we light a candle at Valentine's shrine" only to ambush bamboozle hoodwink me into getting a blessing off the sassiest priest going, dismayed I wasn't getting married in the church

I like to think I'm a literary girlo but then again I thought Clarice Lispector was yerwan from Silence of the Lambs until last week

if someone is saying shit like "it's lowkey biphobic that you support AOC even though she won't legalize cannibalism" or "you realize that expecting your room to have windows a luxury belief right" what you're seeing are the charged particles being shot off from polycule fission

Hold on are all swords not double edged? just sharpen the other side like

While the rest of the world is (rightly) focusing on #ICE atrocities, it's worth remembering that Sweden is expelling teenagers, and in some cases babies, to the likes of Iran and El Salvador. ICYMI - the govt is only able to stay in power thanks to the votes of the far-right Sweden Democrats.

Scaiptear an scéal my.uplift.ie/petitions/fa... @uplift.ie

Something that comes up in big abuse cases is this idea that "the victim should gave known better" and I would like us all to get on board with the idea that even people who show poor judgment when they should know better don't deserve to be abused

26 + 6 = Fifteens

Man it is a great time to be a toxic fume

Passed a set of little girl twins dressed the same and did a double take and a big grin only to then lock eyes with their ma who was also grinning and giving me a big nod

you missed the best one

Man I'm listening to an audiobook while I'm working today and the author is doing the reading but can only do so in spurts of three or four words at a time so the emphasis of each sentence is all over the place

I'd love to clap eyes on a moose

Just saw someone say "well she was speaking so matter-of-fact about (witnessing someone's death) I don't see how she could have been in shock"

When schools stopped beating children for writing with their left hand were there truthers going around braying "oh so eeeeveryone's left-handed now? Back in my day no one was left-handed"

Going to email Phizzfest and suggest a luchador battle royale wrestling match to settle this Phibsboro/Phibsborough question once and for all

I hate it when I go to the paper shop and the man fights with me and insists that the paper is A2 because it's on the A2 shelf and it is CLEARLY A3 because I have eyeballs and know what A3 looks like

Some EU leaders are meeting the chemical industry in Antwerp today, and then all EU heads of state/government are meeting in a Belgian castle tomorrow to discuss "competitiveness" What do they really mean when they say that? 👇

It literally takes one minute to sign this petition to stop mass harvesting of seaweed from the west coast of Ireland without proper public consultation. I signed and it’s at 12,222 out of 15,000 rn — please sign:

No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor

And let me say this and say no more, why the FUCK would Khal Drogo trust the woman who's town he just razed and who's mates he just massacred to clean his wound

I'm after doing a big pot of this for the week with white miso I'm real smug about it

I love adding to my internal rolodex of national stereotypes (all Brazilians love Dragonball Z)

All chocolate is Dubai chocolate to me cause I do buy it

What a banger but also Oh God

We Didn’t Start the Fire (But it’s all the ways the EU has ruined environmental protection in the last three years) with @greenpeace.eu #ad

Once you notice society's base reluctance to refer to women as "geniuses" with the same frequency they do as men, no matter how talented or influential she may be, it's a thing you never really stop noticing.

Omg wait if we're all assigned a shift in the longboats think of the accommodation that will free up??? Make me the High King I'm onto something

friends, she’s finally here. strange is the light is a story about friendship, secrets, games we play and who is and isn’t welcome at the table. it’s about monsters. and above all, it’s about love. it comes out in september & i hope you guys like it 🖤👁️✨

Every time something bad happens to Wes Streeting I am reminded of Dawn Foster and how sound she was. Dream legacy tbh.

The Ploughman's sandwich is definitely my favourite ancient tradition invented by an advertising agency, much better than diamond engagement rings

There is no non creepy reason to wear these things. You may as well wear a hat that says “I am on a sex offenders register”

Kyle’s internalized misogyny jumps out when it comes to Dorit’s divorce #RHOBH

And addressing the letter to Sutton Browne when she has been Sutton Stacke all this time!! The surname she shares with her children!! Classless

I don't know what story is but I don't like the fact that apple products are prompting me more and more to use facial recognition technology at the same time as people are feeding data and photos of themselves to generative AI

Unfortunately the posh expensive flour does indeed make far nicer bread

I'm no fan of Dorit as a person but how did she ever manage to settle for a wreck like PK #RHOBH

Last year I traveled all the way to rural Vietnam to officiate a friend's wedding. It was a beautiful ceremony that mixed cultures and language, and was a celebration of the best of humanity. He just sent me this post and said "this is how you lost the war."

The way people lie on Vinted is so primary school you know what I mean

(guy who's unable to remember the term "court jester"): uh have you seen the

Bíonn úll crochta go híseal fós milis, an-mhaith 7 leanaigí oraibh

I don't want to hear about that Cork man in Starmer's employ, I choose to believe he is on a sabotage mission to make britain a worse place in whatever way he can

Seahawks? Oh I see hawks alright, at least once a week because it lives on our roof (it is in fact a buzzard)

Pets Tell Tales: Ancient Rome by @jordancollver.bsky.social and me is out Thursday!