IF "HUMAN ON BIKE" WAS INVENTED TODAY "How's it work?" "You put a peanut butter and banana sandwich in this hole..." "Uh-huh." "...wash it down with a liter of milk or water..." "Alternate fuels? Interesting." "...and a day later it's fifty kilometers away." "FIFTY Km?" "Or more." "Ho-o-oly shi-"

Sorry but we literally debunked this like last month when he did this dog whistle. Fintan O'Toole literally did the maths, in the Times no less, that showed that this isn't true. Why are we bothering to publish such an obvious lie when we know it's a lie?

Patrick Freyne: From the removal of joy to global destruction, 16 reasons I hate AI www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

We know.

Remember: There's always strength in a union. Solidarity.

UN’s Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese: “I truly hope that people will stay calm, will not panic, and will remember that the international community is made of 193 states, and this is the time to give the US what it has been looking for – isolation!”

Happy Christmas and Fuck Netanyahu to you

There is no ceasefire. There never was a ceasefire.

A wonderful example of nature conservation at a community level

Could we ask all annual mass goers not to block footpaths for more vulnerable (and often more regular) churchgoers this evening and tomorrow. You will still go to heaven. #galway #speirghorm

Your annual reminder that if you want someone to chat or have a laugh with over the Christmas period there will be lots of folk on the #JoinIn and #DuvetKnowItsChristmas threads. 🎄

It feels like from now on, every single time a celebrity makes a sudden lurch into right-wing politics, the question on everyone's minds should be "which crime was it?"

"There's certainly in excess of 175,000 fixed-charge notices that have been issued for speeding so far this year. And again, that's not something that people talk about too much."

A protest is taking place in Manchester in support of hunger strikers, who were arrested over their support for Palestine, with demonstrators calling for urgent action and drawing attention to their deteriorating conditions.

Epstein record EFTA00020517 features an FBI intake report dated 10/27/2020. An unidentified individual had reported that Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein had raped an unidentified woman when she was a child. #OpDeathEaters

Greta Thunberg arrested for holding a sign opposing genocide. When peaceful protest is a crime, democracy is in deep trouble. Happening under a Labour Government.

Radical bearded cleric issues new fatwa -->

Dark PR in action: how devious framing is used to defend car dependency by shaping debates and muddying evidence. 📎 Gilbert et al. Unlearned lessons and misplaced hopes: discursive spaces of transport in twenty-first century Australia. Australian Geographer. 2025 Dec 6:1-6.

Despite losing his son and brother, Palestinian gravedigger Youssef Abu Hatab, 65, continues burying victims of Israel’s genocide in Gaza. As the burial system collapses, he says he has buried more than 18,000 Palestinians killed during the genocide.

Gaza.

Please repost, this is insane

A fine piece here from Allison Morris.

Dublin is now the 11th most congested city in the world & 3rd in Europe Governments answer: End 2:1 spending ratio to roads Delay public transport projects Seemingly cancel parts of the Rail Review Cancel RSA repurposing so it’s actually effective www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dubl...

And yet #Dublin City Council is prioritising road expansion rather than improving public transport with additional tram lines and buses. In #Ireland, the car is king, it would seem!

Is there anything to be said for another road? Dublin now 11th-most congested city in the world, says report #speirghorm www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dubl...

Teuta Hoxha, 29, has been in prison without trial for 13 months. news.sky.com/story/fears-... #BritishJustice #NeverNotAtIt

The people on hunger strike in England in protest at the British state's complicity in apartheid Israel's genocide of Palestinians and at their own grossly unfair treatment in prison are in danger. None of them has been convicted of a crime, they should be released. #FreeThemAll

Is it too late to submit a Time person of the year?

A classic👏👏👏👏

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

A FEW RANDOM THOUGHTS ABOUT ANTI-SEMITISM New blog post: open.substack.com/pub/dreamwea...

#keepleft essentially means don’t transfer right to Sinn Féin if you vote left. And if you vote Sinn Féin, transfer lefter. There you go, voting pact sorted. #speirghorm

I suppose it’s his struggle. He makes the rookie error of presuming conspiracy instead of incompetency.

WOW! 👏 One of the best political podcast interviews I've ever listened to. Author Eoin Lenihan is interviewed by Hugh Linehan of the #InsidePolitics podcast of @irishtimes.com. If you're a politics nerd, make a cup of tea, and enjoy the best 1hr 4mins of 2025! open.spotify.com/episode/1FUH...

a quick explainer of the Eoin Lenihan Quillette controversy for those who missed it, as long as he insists on relitigating it. you can argue whether he was responsible for the threats to and harassment of journalists that followed his article. you can't argue it wasn't bullshit

By insisting that gravity exists, physicists are excluding those who think it doesn't exist — and reducing the number of ideas by half. I am a professional political commentator.

When I first posted this one a few years ago some cis people got mad and said I was being too mean. In hindsight I increasingly feel like I wasn't mean enough

This is obscene. Why can't other politicians say that? The 25 richest families are collectively $358.7 billion richer than a year ago, with a combined fortune totaling $2.9 trillion.