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Which way now? 2021

happy nine year anniversary to the #DarkUniverse

In case you ever wondered what made me pay attention to the PSC card. mastodon.ie/@Tupp_ed/11467217...

"Meetings are held, emails are sent, phone calls are made, and something like 520,000 children die of malnutrition, diarrhea, tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV." prospect.org/2026/05/22/w...

Bring back “if you look in a mirror after midnight you’ll see the devil looking back at you” The older I get the more I realise what superstition is for.

The legend @cmatbaby.bsky.social said a lot more in her acceptance speech than what RTÉ are reporting. (Video posted by Lisa McLoughlin on Instagram - www.instagram.com/reel/DYnTKR3...) #Speirgorm

Can't believe the EU didn't go for Thing It Already Has, But On London Rules.

me too, percussionist

The Round Hall 2021

Information is only very partial at this stage so much caution needed but Moycullen has been consistently leading turnout in Galway West today. That's Seán Kyne's hometown.

A consequence? In my United States? It’s more possible than you think!

There is so much poetry in Stephen Colbert celebrating his finale on the exact stage where the Beatles changed culture in 1964. Singing "Hello Goodbye" surrounded by his family, his band, and his crew before Paul McCartney flipped the final power switch. This was the perfect full-circle goodbye!

If you haven't voted yet and you live in Galway City or Connemara (Galway West constituency), you still have a little over an hour to get your vote in! Talk to your friends and family and make sure you all get your vote in. Every vote matters. Vote Left Transfer Left.

The view from the Sugarloaf 2022

It appears there will have been more posters than voters in these elections.

Imagine doing all that scheming, all those media interviews and yet you are still only as popular as "someone else"

Are you referring to the Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) (Amendment) Act 2026?

Listen, I’m so very very weary this evening, but I just wanted you to know that the Irish Government has introduced a Bill to justify biometric police surveillance that doesn’t follow EU Law and their idea is based it on having a definition of biometric processing different from in the AI Act.

The Golden Path 2021

For business owners, the important part of the new ECHR advice is this: 13.179: There is no type of official record or document in the UK which provides reliable evidence of sex. [...] Therefore, it is unlikely to be proportionate or practical to ask for further evidence of a person’s sex.

Can't wait for this scene in the new movie

Sadie is missing from Mount Temple Road Stoneybatter. Keep an eye out D7 folks

Absolute brainworms.

The UK Government’s new Code of Practice offers cruelty, not clarity. Despite promises and spin to the contrary, this is a bathroom ban and a huge rollback for human rights in the UK. Read now: transactual.org.uk/blog/2026/05...

On the tube

"The IRB claims to hold the “Sovereign License (sic )” to rule Ireland, acknowledges a time zone 25 minutes behind GMT, and is backing a currency based on “the individual’s life force” which may be transacted through mobile phones." Sorry, what? #IrishPol

I see

I believe England can do this.

Fingal County Council has refused drone delivery company Manna permission to continue flying drones from its base in Coolmine. “In the absence of sufficient evidence, the aerial delivery hub by virtue of its operation results in serious noise pollution,” the council found.

They even explained why he was wrong and he basically said "no u". What an arrogant, ignorant man

This. God, this. It is such a manufactured panic and it started the moment they lost the fight over gay marriage. Support trans rights because it’s the right thing to do and also because this is all just a fascist push

NEW: As Trump continues to threaten Europe and Nato allies, no country has arguably done more to get off of US technology than France. The gov is building a full Office/Docs alternative. Lyon has moved 70% of staff away from Office. And open source is key. Story by me and @telliotter.bsky.social

This is written for laypeople and goes through the main points from the Code. It's written like a Q&A between me and the trans woman I invented to have the conversation with, who is as fed up of this shit as most of my trans woman friends.

Exploring new depths to the word Misnomer, the UK’s Equality and Human Rights Commission has issued a loathsome set of rules targeting trans people. In response, a reminder that in doing so the U.K. breaches EU data protection law & its own adequacy decision. www.thegist.ie/the-gist-tra...

The explanation given for removing data protection content is a new one.

This company that has built an apparently unworkable system for Irish Rail, reportedly headed to the bin at the cost of €50 million, is the same company the NTA has hired to bring contactless payments to Dublin's bus system. www.dublininquirer.com/the-nta-has-...

Healthcheck - our GDP is inflated. Big firms house their IP here, so manufacturing anywhere pays money into those cos in Ireland. www.cso.ie/en/interacti... We still should be paying more tax tho.

Tax to GNI* ratio for Ireland is in the region between Iceland and Netherlands (36—38%). Ireland has a notably progressive income tax/social transfers regime, required to adjust one of the widest pre-tax income inequality rates in the OECD to an EU norm.

This has slightly different figures www.socialjustice.ie/article/irel... Looks like, if you use percentage of GNP for ireland, we tax more than US, but less than all but two EU countries.

Happy to be in a place that taxes the shit out of me to deliver bona fide public services 💪

Starmer has clear downsides but it doesn’t seem to strike UK residents what effect endless months of reporting that he is terrible and in crisis has had. The UK media and electorate is hooked on political psychodrama since Brexit.

The FT has a sensible article pointing out that none of the AI industry’s sums add up. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... The impossible maths of the AI boom

villainizing the ultra-wealthy is like pickling a pickle; you don't need to do that, it's already been done for you

Interesting chart. Check out where Ireland appears. To save time looking for us, just start at the bottom and go up.

remember when Google offered unlimited digital storage to colleges and universities and then when adoption reached the right levels rescinded that promise, capped everything, and started pricing those services without the subsidies? idk man just something I think about a lot

In 2010, a blog like Stuff White People Like or a twitter account like shitmydadsays could land their creator a book deal or a TV show. In 2026, social media creators are writing and directing short films and playing every role - to this standard - and there's another one right after in the feed.

Do not leave one brick atop another.

Detail My mother - 2026