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Sadly this is a "tell everyone you live in the UK without telling everyone you live in the UK" post

Professor Marie Keenan draws on research commissioned by the Department of Justice to argue that criminal legal aid reform must address inadequate fees and the growing burden of disclosure work, as well as concerns about abuse of the system. www.irishlegal.com/articles/mar...

Can someone tell me what our government is actually *for*? They won't pay public servants, teachers, universities, criminal and family lawyers, won't fund railways, bus corridors and electric rollout, won't build homes, but also won't allow others to build them, won't pay doctors or mental health.

Worth pointing out: Irish Water don't know how much water our Data Centres are using. FFG don't want anyone to know how much water the Data Centres are using. Just as they don't want us to know how much electricity they use, nor how cheaply they get it. #speirgorm

Rang my local FF TD's office this morning. Didn't manage to speak to the man himself I did express my horror, both at the attack on the DRCC by the Government, and the erosion of the importance of teaching children about consent in all cases. Woman on phone agreed with me, which is something.

Sorry, I've just seen the DRCC consent ad and am I to understand that people are fully losing their minds in our actual Dáil because they suggested you should ask about a hug? We had driving PSAs that traumatised us but we're too sensitive, and all of y'all are losing your mind over a HUG?!

Sally Rooney: "political classes in Europe today are co-operating and learning from US & Israeli regimes. Not only are far-right fascist parties rising to power as a result but mainstream parties are adopting fascist techniques to stop protests". #speirgorm

It makes me deeply uncomfortable that the Minister for Justice has used his Twitter account to create an online pile on of the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre. It also appears to me a dangerous precedent that this minister, and his dept. have instructed the DRCC to remove content that he disapproved of.

Let's all be clear on this. Jim OC was catapulted into a senior cabinet position with almost no political record or utterance behind him outside of internal FF fluff. He has proceeded to reveal.himself to be incapable as well as malicious in office, and it is about time Fianna Fáil pulled him out.

1. A minister should not be able to censor the work of an NGO or advocacy group. The point of NGOs is to challenge, influence policy or act in the interests of their issue. 2. No one should touch a child without consent. 3. Jim O'Callaghan wants to be in the media every day this is a tactic.

In one afternoon FF/FG ministers came down like a tonne of bricks on a rape crisis centre when they spent weeks hiding while Musk's Nazi website they use was producing CSAM. Like many of you, I really really hate these bastards.

Kagi is expressly an AI first company, with a long dev history of abuse of minority and gender queer voices. Not saying they're the worst thing ever, hate them, but don't claim they're better or more ethical than the alternatives.

It's galling to hear government trot out the same Triple Lock spin that's been disproven time and again. "There's a veto" - There isn't "It's a reform" - They're scrapping it "We've a mandate" - They don't "It's for peacekeeping" - Why does it say 'peace enforcement' then?

International Criminal Court wins EU's 2026 Sakharov prize reut.rs/4Bmgb0v

“Introducing an additional legal category of a third gender needs to be carefully examined, according to the Minister for Social Protection, Dara Calleary“ It doesn’t really though. What potential crisis could it cause. Just do it and stop inventing excuses to delay it for some future government

It is genuinely difficult to fathom the inability and incompetence of the FFG Government Ministers. O'Callaghan, Carroll-McNeill, O'Donovan, Burke, O'Brien, McEntee, Naughten, and very especially this buffoon. This is who's running the country? #spéirghorm www.independent.ie/irish-news/h...

We won 3 Signal Awards, FYI! @coolzonemedia.bsky.social

The Minister for Justice must meet his responsibilities for all victims of crime and accused persons. We need a lasting resolution to months of disruption in the courts which have significantly impacted the rights of victims of crime and accused persons. www.iccl.ie/news/justice...

I don't think I ever purchased a single in my entire life. First record I ever purchased was a Delta recording of East German musicians playing (I think) Brückner. In possibly 1982?

Poll: Which Sally Rooney Book Made You Join Hamas? https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2026/10/15/poll-which-sally-rooney-book-made-you-join-hamas/

#UKSFFBookBargains today only the rather wonderful Some Desperate Glory by @emilytesh.net Kyr thinks she is a super heroic soldier devour to avenge the destroyed Earth, but it's more complicated than that. Deserved Hugo winner. www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/... www.amazon.co.uk/Some-Despera...

Minister for further education James Lawless promotes government’s AI summit… … with picture of a six-fingered hand typing on a laptop

There is no Ethical Use of AI. It cannot be done. You are using stolen content, abusing the environment and putting people out of work. It cannot protect and support human creators, by its nature it is inimical to them.

OK, there is something very, very weird going on in the press right now. It certainly appears, from the outside, as if certain people are being very much protected in a way that was not afforded to certain other people! Let's start with the facts around Lola Salem... 🧵1/

Remember that if you are at #FantasyCon 2026 to stop by the @wtpress.bsky.social table in the Dealers’ Room and pick up ribbons from the next two Worldcons and the @edmontonin2030.bsky.social bid for 2030.

Seriously. This is a big part of the problem. The BBC "both sides"ing absolutely everything. Even stuff like this which is about what our security services know about election interference. It *does not* require any Tufton Street response. At all.

That's not a legal statement, it's a load of legalish words all mashed together like madlibs. Quick search shows Analog is owned by "Private Investors" who've been fighting the SFWA since acquisition. They probably felt illustrators were an easier target writerbeware.blog/2025/07/25/c...

In what could amount to breaking shogi's glass ceiling, female professional Tomoka Nishiyama has obtained the right to become a kishi and compete in the open category of professional shogi.

Simon Harris has 10 Special Advisers, each being paid a minimum of €100k, and up to a maximum of €182k. His Govt has just announced that they are scrapping the living wage their own low pay commission recommended. You’re not angry enough.

Navi Pilay, ex ICC, Chair of the UN Commission of Inquiry ⁠on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Lead author of the report accurately describing Israel as a Genocidal State... Has won the Nobel Peace Prize

To the surprise of absolutely fucking no-one, the MEPs in question are: Regina Doherty, Nina Carberry, Seán Kelly (FG) Barry Andrews, Barry Cowen, Billy Kelleher (FF) Ciaran Mullooly (II) I've said it before - no need for a far-right party in Ireland, as the establishment parties are already there.

Stephen King was just an ordinary student, running down the street late for school, a slice of toast in his mouth, when he was hit by a truck and woke up in: The Dark Tower

Thomas Edison: Behold! it is I! The Bringer of Light! The Inventor of Modernity! A veritable god on earth! Poe: King: Koontz: Barker: Lovecraft: Edison: allow me to introduce myself Edison: i am thomas E. Edison Edison: geeeeeeenius

Over the past two weeks, I’ve been following the attempts to smear the Jane Doe in the Cornell University gang rape case and redirect blame from the seven fraternity men onto her. As usual, this campaign is built on a mountain of lies and misogyny. spitfirenews.com/p/cornell-ja...

I get up every morning and go to work. My wife does the same, and she works hard. We get an extra 7 euros a week from the 'giveaway' budget. Seven. Euros. Who was this budget _for_? #FuckFFG #ireland

It’s D&D Night… MONK: *hits yeti* MONK: *rolls low on damage* MONK: Enjoy a fraction of my wrath!

Fair dues to @liamquaidetd.bsky.social for his tireless work for the Ukrainian refugee community in Trabolgan I know the local FF, FG and SF TDs did the square root of feck all in this fight, it's wonderful to see this outcome @social-democrats.bsky.social www.echolive.ie/corknews/ari...

Isn't execution by military firing squad (outside of combat operations) normally a grantt of honour? DeGaulle intervened to grant Pierre Laval & Bastien-Thiry such an end, the Soviets insisted that leading Nazis be hanged, Goebbels chose suicide over such dishonour. Seems an odd move by Kegsbreath

Sesame Street's "Sam the Robot" absolutely terrified me when it came on the screen. My parents recount that I would run screaming from the tv room, but all I can remember is the blank, lifeless eyes and the head without a head. youtu.be/zB1w_SN5VPw

we fucking loved it, even when there was basically nothing on it, and let me tell you something else: we loved it because of human connection, human diversity, human creativity. WE DON'T NEED A SINGLE THING ANY OF THESE COMEMIERDAS HAVE MADE AND TRIED TO SELL US IN ORDER TO HAVE A GREAT INTERNET.