The "hard-men" of Gondor were getting their shit kicked in until they were rescued by foreigners and a girl. The Shire was doing fine until they let a fascist demagogue ("Sharkey" aka Saruman) take over, close the gates, impose a bunch of thug-enforced rules, and despoil nature for profit.

The boat:

You know when Terry Pratchett said 'It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works'? Yeah, he meant this.

If you're a leftist and you like Nazi skulls, you find a Nazi and you take his skull. This isn't difficult, people.

Well, Simon, the results are in! www.irishtimes.com/politics/202... #speirgorm #aras25

4.1m adults in Ireland and a 40% turnout. Of those, 13% spoiled, or around 213,000 ballots. Most from people radicalised by far-right hate campaigns online, and even so, they make up only 5% of the electorate. A loud 5% can dominate headlines but they don’t define who we are. #speirgorm #aras25

Catherine Connolly rugby drop kick videos when??

What it looks like on an election leaflet Vs what it looks like in practice

Maybe, just maybe, leaning into the far-right's hate and the "reasonable concerns" which aren't, doesn't actually work?

Catherine will be a great President. But FF and FG are going to pull hard to the right now as a result of the number of spoiled ballots we're seeing. The far-right didn’t even have a candidate on the ballot, yet they’ll still, correctly in my opinion, see this as a win. #speirgorm #aras25

The papers on Monday:

They're not moderate just cross-pressured and frequently incoherent!

If Catherine Connolly wins tomorrow, it is the stated position of Fine Gael that Ireland is a far-left country, and they should never be let forget that.

"Dick Hallorann saved Leroy Hanlon from a fire in an army bar called The Black Spot, [and] we get to see the duo slowly get to know each other through A SECRET MILITARY MISSION TO WEAPONIZE PENNYWISE TO WIN THE COLD WAR."

It's voting day! Remember: if someone would vote to make the country worse, reminding them to vote isn’t helping. Focus on helping people who *aren’t* clinging to an imagined past get to the polls. Put your energy toward making the world better, not amplifying the harm! #aras2025 #speirgorm

a couple of years ago, whenever i'd say that joe biden should be doing this or that, i would get responses from his supporters explaining that the president can't just do whatever he wants. he has to follow all these rules and norms and laws and such, apparently

CERN welcomes Ireland as an Associate Member State Read more: home.cern/news/news/ce...

The Nazis didn't start with the Final Solution. They attacked and tested their behavior on the disabled, the gays, and the leftists first and discovered the Germans would not stand up to defend them. Trump is finding out he opposite, and that is why he is destroying the White House.

I would laugh if this wasn't so true 😭

[Exit King.]

Study after study shows that it's remarkably cheap and easy to solve the problems of homelessness and poverty with low-barrier supportive housing and universal basic income, but our own fear that someone, somewhere will get something they didn't "earn" keeps us looking for other (punitive) options.

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

#NoKings #Paris #France

#NoKings #Paris #France

#NoKings #Paris #Bastille

Lots of replies here naming Englanders who are *already* Irish. I'm reminded of C.S. Lewis, who was born in Ireland and always referred to himself as Irish, yet who gets left out of our canon because he was born in what later became Northern Ireland. He even lamented people thinking he was English!

Great critique of Strange New Worlds season three here. I enjoyed the season but did feel it was missing something that I couldn't quite pin down. @jessiegender.bsky.social nails it on the head.

A little known fact is that, when confronted with an ICE agent, the North American Protest Frog can inflate to up to 100x its normal size to frighten off predators.

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand: Minister wants briefing ASAP

Catherine Connolly was asked about the Irish media constantly both-sidesing every issue, and said there are strong arguments for and against it and respectful people can disagree. #SpéirGorm #SmearTheBejaysus #Áras25

Catherine Connolly has very strong opinions about the state of American politics but can't name a single Irish government minister. #SpéirGorm #SmearTheBejaysus #Áras25

❌️ [[[THIS IS AI GENERATED.]]] ❌️ There are tells in this video, but there won't always be. We have reached the point where unless you are one hundred percent sure of the source of a video, you *must* assume it is fake, especially if it triggers *any* form of emotional response in you.

Catherine Connolly saw me reading the Leo Varadkar "infetterence" copypasta and whispered, "You know it's all made up, right?"

The key paragraph from @naomiaklein.bsky.social & @astra.bsky.social's powerful piece describing the urgency of our present moment. They are right, and we better move quickly.

"A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip."

it’s jimver

I spent the past month going through American political tweets and treating any mention of "Gavin" as being about the scummy Fianna Fail landlord, and now it's come back to bite the entire country in the arse.

FF and FG frantically researching if it's too late to put Rotating President as an option on the ballot

CNSA has released an image of Tianwen-2 in deep space using a robotic arm, giving us a proper look at the spacecraft and return capsule for delivering samples from near Earth asteroid 469219 Kamoʻoalewa. Tianwen-2 has been in space for 125 days, is 45 million km from Kamoʻoalewa.

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Celebrating National Potato Day and struck by the very strange slogan on the official Irish potatoes website!! "Europe's favourite since 1536" www.potato.ie

First time back in the country since the election campaign kicked off, and my god, Gavin and Humphries’ posters really do look like you asked an AI to generate two generic Irish politicians and gave it no other details. For Humphries, it didn't even think to include a surname!

AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations”

I'm not going to spoil the latest episode of Peacemaker for anyone, but...

Update from the Flotilla to Gaza, by Fórsa member Donna Schwarz who is onboard. We demand the safety of everyone on the flotilla which has come under attack. And as we always have stood for - we demand humanitarian aid into Gaza and an end to the genocide.

It wasn't wrong for German civilians to shoot at the Gestapo in the 1930s.

If you nominate a regressive bigot for the ballot, but decline to nominate anyone else who asked, then regardless of how you plan to vote, you’ve endorsed their hatred and intolerance. Nomination isn’t neutral and it can’t be brushed aside with mealy-mouthed appeals to democratic participation.

new rapture doctrine just dropped good atheists get taken into heaven bad christians don’t

what movie do you consider “perfect”?