Why are they playing Landslide in the background of this? Are they taking him outside to be shot after?? I'm nearly bawling watching with the sound off, my heartstrings don't need to be tugged on further!

President Michael D Higgins leaves Áras an Uachtaráin (Residence of the President) today after 14 years as President of Ireland (1/2)! 💚

GOOD NIGHT, DAGMAR

How we can get electricity in gaza My first video for me if find support I will continue ❤️

there are about 10 vacant homes for every homeless person in Ireland - and I know that's oversimplified and imperfect maths, but I'm still mad

The only thing that removing phone access (And blocking children from social media) would have changed would have been making Brianna (And other trans children) feel more isolated by taking away a method of connection they valued (And, indeed, that Brianna used to help other trans kids).

President Michael D Higgins and his wife Sabina were greeted by cheers and gifted roses as they left Áras an Uachtaráin for the last time. A guard of honour was formed by members of the Sanctuary Runners who wanted to show their appreciation for his support. jrnl.ie/6870482

Pretty much all affordability discourse could benefit from just posting this chart. If you're in the better off America, all the luxury goods you want in excess are for the most part much cheaper. If you're in the poorer America, most of the shit you need to live/grow is more expensive.

this, and the fact that airlines don't pay any tax on the fuel they use, are things more people should know

Michael D Higgins, with his wife Sabina, has left Áras an Úachtaráin for the final time as president. He was given a guard of honour by members of the Sanctuary Runners, a charity of which he is patron. The President’s term of office ends at midnight. ⁦‪@VirginMediaNews.bsky.social

Wait do I have it correct that Joyce Carol Oates said Musk was a shell of a man with no joy in his life and he totally saw it and said "No I'm not" and now he's searching the titles of different movies he likes and replying "great movie"

On this, the last day of Michael D. Higgins' presidency, I think it's important to acknowledge that a 5'3 man deciding to be followed everywhere by two enormous Bernese Mountain dogs was a great bit.

Here he is! Get him!

The booing is great but "I *state your name* do solemnly swear" is fucking hilarious

I spotted this on Mastodon and I find it horrible, not least for the speed with which this has happened.

Bad news! I treated myself to a €2.50 bag of crisps (sweet & sour pickled plum flavour) as part of my Asia Market order and thought they would be interesting but probably not for me, unfortunately they are incredibly delicious and now I will go broke eating them. They're like sugar&vinegar? No salt

football’s all like gimme that coconut i want it it’s beautiful but tennis is all like fuck this stupid lemon i hate it

Darwinian Christmas

I should be allowed to take Elon Musk's money because he's a horrid little man. As should you. He's horrible.

I'm watching the semi-final of bake off and they're making cream horns and now I miss my granny who died when I was 17. Grief is weird. I've never even had a cream horn! But they're something she used to bake decades before I was born and she would talk about them, and now I might cry?

It is, & it’s too moderate. For example: only 24 top Nazis were tried at Nuremberg. Everyone involved in horrendous abuses such as those reported in the thread below should be tried, down to the lowliest prison guard. The “Nuremberg defence” – “I was only obeying orders” – must be disallowed.

I am so sick of hearing about Dubai. I don't ever want to go. I went to the airport once on a stopover and the airport was a gigantic shopping mall and I was told "the rest of the place is just like that n all". Stop trying to make me go there, all ads. I don't wanna go on holiday to a slavery land!

Wikipedia HERO A guy discovered a faked photo of a rare blue gas on Wikipedia. So he SYNTHESIZED THE GAS HIMSELF so that he could photograph it. Yesterday he updated the article with this real photo of trifluoronitrosomethane:

The JCO post about Elon not liking anything is something I've said before about a lot of politics poisoned posting addicts. People who never once post about a band they like or anything at all. There are so many like that.

17th-19th century Irish scribal abbreviations that look like text-speak: numeral 8 edition "beannacht" (x2), "Connacht"

lol she got his ass and he knows it

See Red Women's Workshop poster, 1975

Death to America of course.

french wikipedia is the only language that has a "list of bastards" article

"The Plan: Convince a sexual predator who kills old people to run against you."

What are we all buying our dads for Christmas? I am once again desperate for ideas. He loved the six pack of Folláin jams I got him last year but you can't do that two years in a row. (I do recommend them though! Delicious and 50% of their profits between now and January go to the Simon Community)

Obviously it's never an unpopular move to take money away from lawyers. I get that. But if you make it uneconomical to work as a solicitor or barrister suing the Government, then that same Government can essentially do whatever it wants without fear of being stopped in the courts.

This is brilliant! Agnes might not use it, but always better to have the info

The far right went after Gender Critical as a 'worthy' belief becuase it was an easy target to push their agenda. Just as predicted, they've now got 'Islam Critical' & next will be 'Race Critical' - then people will be able to post whatever bigoted nonsense they want without fear of reprecussion.

This is actually the original definition of emotional labor, as defined by Arlie Hochschild, the sociologist who coined the term. It refers to the labor of performing emotions in order to do your job. It is not enough to just do your job, you have to put on a performance

I have known Heba for quite a while & I tell you I do not know how any person can endue all she has, why any one should is beyond me. If every share was a donation she would have help, sadly she need more than just occasional shares, so if you are sharing save a post with her link & reshare daily

“He claimed that he learned from a comment by Taoiseach Micheál Martin and from RTÉ News that 80pc of asylum seekers were economic migrants” Lies told by politicians have real consequences www.independent.ie/irish-news/c...

I'm sorry what? I was born with these bay leaves and so help me god I'll die with these bay leaves

this thing hides posts it judges as ‘rude’, by some US standard. Thereby silencing most of the conversations in Ireland and Scotland, at least.

A *million* people. Lawn darts were banned forever in Canada after like 50 people got injured. Any company not run by absolute ghouls would shut this thing down. Governments should be banning the fuck out of it.

Went to the protest in Drogheda today. There were tears and defiance and chants of céad míle fáilte. Drogheda is the most culturally diverse town in Ireland. The fash can't organise here like they do in other parts of the country so they resorted to attempted mass murder. Fuck them. Fascists out!

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To the tune of Let’s Dance /BOAT STUCK/

The quest to find out what all the loses did wrong continues while the answer to what the victor did right is writ large in 5 miles high flashing neon letters.

For outsiders, you might be thinking “well obviously, that’s what they always do …” But in the last election, 6% of those polled said immigration was a concern, and polls famously skew conservative! Theyre trying to manufacture consent from nothing, in real time. It’s not craven, it’s baffling!