I love this so much. And on Sunday, when the archaism of Press having a weekly paper is laid bare. I think a lot of votes for Connolly came from the hatchet jobs a week beforehand in the Irish Press trying to “some critics say” some deluded bullshit the weekend before. lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

Quite a headline.

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Hm. Just read a disability activist say they (singular) doesn’t like the term “disabled people” because it dehumanises them, preferring “people with disabilities”. All well and good, but when you’re attacking other (members of the group) you’re denying them their agency to decide for themselves...

Thank Christ. He shafted SF-FF voting Republicans with the talking down of Unity vote preparation only after the election was won.

Jaysus seeing some hot takes about Connolly on #speirgorm. Cool the boots lads. She got in for the lack of a better candidate. She got all those firsts because there was only two candidates. (I’ve been away & I’ve no idea what the coverage is doing).

#StormBenjamin has been named by the French Met Service for low system passing to South of Ireland tonight and will bring wet and windy conditions to parts of France and Southern England tonight and Thursday. Some big seas too so ferries may be impacted.

You know what? If the Coolock-is-full, McGregor fan crowd take this up, this might be a win-win for us….

I spend a year plotting a mystery novel and then this happens.

I’m resigned to Connolly becoming President next week but I worry about what that’ll mean for the already abysmal understanding of Defence in this country. I mean, how would either candidate comment on something like this? (In general that is, I’m not on about this story, it doesn’t concern us)

Hey @jeffjarvis.bsky.social, what say you on this? Is this how you’d call it or is there more to the tale or to refute it?

Allow comments you COWARD*! (*not really, yer grand)

I’ve respect for Catherine Connolly, but every time she mentions the ”military industrial complex” it’s like nails on a chalkboard. Because only only one other bunch talks about arms supply like that:

Just had a thought. using #AirBnB in a housing crisis is like using scab labour. I wonder if there’s an equivalent term. Now I realise I owe @unaminh.bsky.social a “you were right”. I remember we had a row in the Old Place, fado fado. You were right. Scab is not a slur, but they r crappy people.

Budget day in Ireland, and I’m in a workplace with the TV festooned with a Tory ”the judges are anti border!” row on followed by an “I’m so sorry” sympathy piece from Stephen Lawrence’s killers. Fuck Sky News. Fox News in nappies.

here's something else that's been living rent free in my head how often have I fallen for it

Sky News and the BBC repeatedly mention the "migrant crisis" in doing so they are normalising and legitimising far right talking points. There is no "migrant crisis", there is only migrant hysteria, which the British media is feeding into instead of countering.

Hey #cia people, just spitballingn something here. I’m seeing parallels between sourcing info from “agents” and journalists using confidential sources. I wanna ask- could the organisation be reasonably described as “a newsroom with a paramilitary force protecting it”?

All political tribes can be hypocritical but the right's current level of hypocrisy on free speech is deliberate. It's an assertion of power not a blindspot.

The Kimmel video: "The MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them, and doing everything they can to score political points from it."

The c*nt flew right overhead. BOOOOOOOO!!!! F*ck you! BOOOOOOOO!!!!

The reason Charlie Kirk is being lionized by so many journalists is simple: he was very good at cultivating journalists and it seems a lot of journalists don't seem to understand the concept of being cultivated as a pet reporter in exchange for scoops or leads. They think he was their friend.

Well this aged like milk…

Update: the cunt is dead. Dude poked at bears for years and one finally swiped back at him. Yes that bear should now be put down, but the cunt remains a cunt whose absence will help matters.

Is the cunt dead?

Wee bit late with that advice.

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I honestly don’t get why there are people delighted at Alligator Alcatraz and people who thought they’d fight people who put up Alligator Alcatraz…. …and they’re still part of the same country. Shut it down. Two Americas. Give the Red hats their Americanistan and save what’s left.

@gandersocial.bsky.social this a Canucks only show or can us Paddys come over & join?

Huh, Canuck social media. As my wannabe second nationality, I’m in. Sign me up bud.

no accidents

As a side note, this is why many of us have criticized the Gaza campaign. In one night, Israel hit Iran’s air defenses, leadership, top scientists, *and* damaged nuclear sites. They’re elite—and precise—when they want to be.

The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.

Alright, that’s enough high culture for me. (Not even a*year* into my 40s…*cries*…)

This is the best day ever to be in a group chat with people who aren’t online. They react to every piece of breaking news about the beef like you’re Paul Revere.

I feel that an ALT text filter would do much the same job.

Remember: Celebrities, influencers, even micro influencers are not your friends. They are allowed their personal boundaries and they don't know you!

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Social media users and alternative news outlets claim that decades-old NATO documents reveal that the military alliance was the mastermind behind Eurovision. #EuroVerify

The plane flew via Shannon. We can’t allow that again.

Genuinely is so easy to boycott Eurovision

Good to know we’re pissing off the right people.

Filing this under #osint, a new “political action” group made front pages of a regional paper in Ireland. #Galway ‘s always been weird. For decades, cranks got a lot more traction in politics than they have anywhere else, especially in property… connachttribune.ie/irb-on-ought...

“The pope will be from Chicago” sounds like an 1880s Republican’s dire prediction for if we don’t stop Irish immigration

Communion hosts gonna be all thick and doughy now