I'm at a conference for doctors for a few hours and everyone is in their business attire while i'm wearing a t shirt with leto atreides on it captioned "would you still love me if i turned into a worm"

Wes Streeting should be held accountable for the deaths of children he caused by removing their medical treatment on ideological grounds, despite warnings from experts. His resignation is not enough, he should be prosecuted for the deaths he's responsible for.

Govt allowing free vote on Soc Dem abortion bill amending the 3 day wait, criminalisation, FFA. But Sinn Fein are voting AGAINST, so won’t pass. Outrageous that SF so conservative on women’s rights. They’ll remove 3 day wait but continue to force women to travel. Contact SF TDs - this is not REPEAL.

With activists – including an Irish citizen – facing a “show trial” in Germany, The Ditch can reveal the weapons factory they’re accused of vandalising is today sending a laser system for marking human targets to Tel Aviv. www.ontheditch.com/elbit-german...

Fine Gael's Dublin Central byelection candidate Ray McAdam travelled to an election event last week in the official car provided to him as lord mayor. It’s unclear whether McAdam or the required official driver drove the car. www.ontheditch.com/ray-mcadam-u...

if you can't handle me at my live laugh love, you don't deserve me at my

the ai industry unleashing genai into the public & expecting society (academics, policy makers & cso) to find solutions is like big oil polluting oceans & expecting individuals to clean it up 👇🏾 approaches are important but we need sustainable solution that tackles prob from th root: regulate big AI

just unbelievably sympathetic and also sound of my left foot to fuck itself up months after rahabbing and healing the right one.

they say nothing can escape the event horizon but i'd love to get sucked into a black hole. I'm built different so I'd be fine.

This is what stars being born in a neighbouring galaxy look like.

been stuck in this m&s for ages because richard dawkins won't stop hitting on the self checkout machine

The reason we suffer the highest electricity prices in the EU is because FF/FG have shaped our energy transition around the needs of US FDI (data centres) not social need and decarbonisation. www.thejournal.ie/ireland-high...

logging on

In a major blow to abortion access, a federal appeals court decision siding with the state of Louisiana has placed restrictions on the abortion pill mifepristone. The medication, used in roughly two-thirds of all U.S. abortions, can no longer be sent by mail or prescribed through telemedicine.

it's continually amazing to me how much about the natural world and the universe that contains us we do not understand. and yet states influenced by imperialism under capitalism prioritise money, research & innovation toward making weapons of mass destruction, instead of having a wee look

what did Terry Pratchett mean by this

Did you know that if every bird on earth flapped their wings at once it would be cool

what on earth does being an evolutionary biologist have to do with perceiving consciousness? man is a cliché of western scientific chauvinism

tomorrow! on air at 11 with @gritsmctits.bsky.social

New Vsevolod Plotkin. Guitar destruction split with Gynophobia (aka the factory roof). The gynophobia side is a montage of 2 shows last summer including the funniest moment I have ever witnessed in Anseo (about 15:22) vsevolod-plotkin.bandcamp.com/album/gynoph...

trying to play peekaboo with my child but he's a European diplomat: me: where'd daddy go? baby: we must articulate a post-daddy vision of strategic autonomy me: peekaboo! baby: my historic relationship with my father is stable despite recent troubles

great to see the paranoid crank vote will be split by mannix flynn and steenson appearing on the same ballot

the cosmic urge to make an ambient album sampling the sounds from space

My friend Daniel has been held without bail, with restricted access to communications and in largely solitary conditions for months over non violent property damage because the German state wants to use five protesters as a public example of their committed support of Palestinian genocide.

sure is interesting how i've seen an influx of people accusing cis women of being trans (both trans fem and trans masc) and never cis men. i sure hope this doesn't mean that transphobia is fundamentally misogynistic in nature and serves as way to sequester and control women

Daniel's trial started today and the court/judge's bias is already pretty gross to see Daniel's family have to travel internationally for each of the court dates spread out between today and the end of July. If you can contribute something or even just share 🙏 www.gofundme.com/f/help-danie... #ulm5

*me in 2025*: is this AI? *me in 2026*: is this a recession indicator?

it was the silliest of times, it was the billiest of times

they're having a block party at the shooter's house rn

being scolded like a bold child by my bin company for not recycling enough when recycling was an op by the petroleum plastics industry that states bought into as it's more convenient for business as usual than actually divesting from petrochemicals is going to send me joker istg

1 in 5 outdoor sex workers (street workers) have been sexually assaulted by Gardaí. You don't have to believe me, you can read the Dept of Justice commissioned research, release 4 years ago.

The exploiters are organised. They have lobby groups who are basically writing government policy. The fuel protestors were organised, too, and successfully used their leverage for their own ends. What does it all mean? Until tenants get organised, we are doomed to be extorted for squalor.

guy who puts milky way at the end of all addresses on post

It's important to remember that, yes, sometimes good things still happen. www.dailymail.com/news/article...

in fairness to the fianna fail dublin central candidate, John Stephens, he does have a big "i'm a crooked man amd i'm up to dodgy shit" face

Fianna Fáil Dublin Central byelection candidate John Stephens failed to declare farming income in his council ethics returns. The Ditch reported last week that the councillor lied on a planning application for a second house. www.ontheditch.com/fianna-fail-...

county death for meath is a burn i wish i'd thought of myself

Our exhibition opens on Thursday. Join us from 7pm in our garden for the opening of UNDERGROUND!! Before and after viewing the exhibition you can enjoy our drinks reception and some music in our garden. visualartists.ie/events/under...

Remember when Catherine Connolly warned of Germany's military-industrial complex. 'As its export model breaks down, Germany is pivoting from cars to cannons—and trying to turn industrial decline into a defense boom.' www.wsj.com/world/europe...

The increase in US military flights, particularly the 56% increase last month, is clearly linked to active military operations. But Helen McEntee said there is “no reason to believe” US aircraft involved in the Iran war are overflying Ireland. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

Incredible sequel. Edge of my seat!

This is outrageous. Just after Trump announced his sham ceasefire, Israel bombed an ambulance workers funeral in South Lebanon. Channel 4 News was there and captured everything. Israel does NOT want peace. It wants to keep committing genocide and stealing other people’s land.

it's actually unreal when i remember the world is a source of unending beauty and then i make an effort to see that beauty. does wonders for the mood, especial on fridays.

This is a really odd argument because I think at the heart of it, there is a deep misunderstanding about what writing is for. I write to communicate my thoughts and ideas, and to bring people along with me, which AI cannot do for me because it isn't me.

Green Party byelection candidate Niall Murphy owns shares in a US company that operates in illegal Israeli settlements and has provided tech to the IDF. “What I have is a microcosm of the national indebtedness, if you like, to foreign direct investment." www.ontheditch.com/green-party-...