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First they erased a ‘Protect the Dolls’ t-shirt from Strictly Come Dancing. Now they’ve erased Pride badges from University Challenge. The BBC are saying that our visibility as LGBTQ people is a political issue. Meanwhile they’ve commissioned a 2-part series on JK Rowling. Impartial? My arse!

This year’s Irish Hallowe’en turnip, and a handful of those of from years past (they don’t always make it, if they rot before dessicating) #Hallowe’en #Samhain

New Gist: The Petty Bourgeoisie Oscar Wilde said "The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about." We can presume, after this week, that Jim O'Callaghan is similarly a believer in the quantitive over qualitative measurement of publicly. www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the...

As predicted no UK mainstream media has mentioned the overturning of the New Zealand puberty-blocker ban, despite it being covered by Reuters.

The only question to ask about the Garda accounts being hacked is why on earth any self-respecting organisation is still using that platform and what it will take for them to stop #Spéirgorm

Hup the teachers Hup the nurses Hon the workers

How to make Ed look even worse with minimal effort

Sorry now, who let Miriam Lord retire? Can we not.. sue somebody to stop this

An important thing we’ve been practicing for YEARS already with our 3 year old twin boys. “Can I give you a kiss?” And if they say “no” we don’t give them a damn kiss. They now ask us, too, and we practice that it’s okay to be disappointed and also FINE if we ever say no. This is about Cornell.

This is… several strong expletives.

Big read here on an abject, rancorous, extraordinary day. The potential scale of fallout to come is the stuff of Saipan 2.0 Ireland v Israel: Day of infamy exposes serious lack of leadership in FAI www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer...

we really don't talk enough about the utter contempt certain quarters of the southern political and media establishment have for northern nationalists. not in a subtle way, not in an "if you think about it" way, just open disgust and disdain for people they would rather didn't exist

It’s not a conflict, it’s a genocide. Stick that on your armbands.

Massive credit to Bazunu and the exact proportionate absolute shade that the FAI deserve for this shambles. What a way to treat your own players.

Somehow the news I needed today

Fully gave Ed Sheeran credit for knowing exactly who Macklemore is and what he was going to say and do. So that’ll be me eating my words and shaking my damn head at the state of him.

If you're neutral on genocide, you're pro-genocide.

Rupert Grint eh… uh

If you’re celebrating the death of a child in any context you are the problem. I know comment sections exist only to expose the evils of the world but the way some people are openly spewing hate about children these week - no matter the context - would really make you wonder.

I know advice columns are nonsense but it’s actively harmful to have the paper of record publish advice that a misogynist with rage issues should be approach with acceptance and understanding. Sorry now. Straight into the sea with him.

So often what are called “culture wars” are one set of people saying “please can we live without perpetual persecution” and another saying “no, f*** you” but the press considering the latter group have “legitimate concerns” and must be perpetually platformed

Kate O’Connor. Just unreal.

This is a complete distraction. Ireland cannot build a nuclear power plant fast enough to matter. Making a decision to do so would excuse punting on all the wind and solar things it can and must do. This is a lobby project of the tech industry to have something to say when building data centres.

Mediocre white men with gaps in their CVs, investigations and findings proven of DV, SA, harassment and bullying survive in their academic ivory towers.

Today an English woman who just moved to Ireland told me she couldn’t get a GP because the government is “letting too many people in”.

Not to be some wild-eyed innocent, but I think it should be slightly bigger news that The Lancet have crunched the numbers and found that Musk's USAID cuts will kill 14 million people. And that's just by 2030. That's 9,600 people a day, every day, until the next world cup rolls around.

The combination vaccines all started out as individual vaccines and were combined over time as the *science* showed that it was safe and effective to do so, that the immune load was fine, that it resulted in children being protected earlier and more consistently, etc.

I cannot believe we as a species are still letting single use cups be a thing. We copped on re plastic bags decades ago and then designed new ways to trash the place.

A timeline cleansing thread if ever there was one

The word ‘now’ is doing a lot of heavy lifting here

We too easily skipped over the part of the Ceuta story where thousands of young people were manipulated into risking or losing their lives for a lie; to orchestrate images that then led the news agenda for the weekend, and kneejerk reactions from EU Govs And the Irish failures that let this happen

Monstrous nonsense

It's not enough to be against AI, you need to be pro art. You need to be a champion of the art you love, you need to share that passion and joy, and do what you can to support the artists who make it, because it's not enough to hate AI, to hate what it's doing to art and media; you gotta love.

What did I just read. Heartbroken for this girl. Would love some/any evidence that official Ireland genuinely abhors sexual violence. More than “basic” sex ed and proper information around consent being mandatory from senior primary school classes would be a good start.

Just 6 or 7 years ago, this was a clear-felled Sitka plantation. NONE of these native trees were planted, they all self-seeded. And, in contrast to Sitka, this is a natural ecosystem that WON'T burn, and WILL be fantastic habitat for 1,000s of native species. Nature knows what to do, if we let it.

Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.

what the fuck do you mean "everyone is using AI and nobody admits it." what the fuck do you mean. who are you talking to. you have allowed a demon to devour your soul. begone