Gráinne 🍉

Gráinne 🍉

@thrillpool.bsky.social

I mostly express myself through memes and sarcasm. 🏳️‍🌈🌱🍉 Dublin ➡️ Leipzig they/she | siad/sí | sie

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To be clear, I absolutely no longer use the other place. But would still like to find more of these people.

Gráinne 🍉@thrillpool.bsky.social

I still use the other website for gymnastics and Irish twitter so if I could just find all of those here that'd be swell

Anyone involved in child safety and education will tell you that teaching about consent doesn't start with teaching about sex. It starts with little things. Playing, tickling, and yes, hugging. They learn "Ask someone before you give them a hug. If they don't want a hug, respect that."

They don't learn that hugs are bad. They learn that some people don't want a hug, and that's okay and you have to respect that. That only works if it goes both ways. If you don't want to hug someone, they have to respect that. That sets the groundwork for body safety and consent education.

If someone doesn't want a hug, you don't hug. If someone tells you to stop tickling them, you stop. If someone doesn't want to kiss you, you don't kiss them. That's consent education. If someone in government doesn't understand this, they have no right to comment on what the DRCC does.

Gráinne 🍉 reposted

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?!

Of all the bizarre things happening here, I am just bewildered to learn that the government apparently has an official position on whether or not a child should be forced to hug someone? What else are they hiding?

Auntie O'Grimacey@bubblenoma.bsky.social

What kind of statement is it to make that actually the views of the government are that kids CAN be touched without their consent?

Anyway, it should go without saying that campaigns for child safety should not have to conform to government views. They had no right to get that video taken down.

"Let people enjoy things" refers to bad art and niche child-like hobbies. Not buying every single trendy crappy plastic thing you see and making a personality out of it.

Also, "joy is resistance" applies to things like kids playing sports in war zones or people enjoying something when living under oppression that wants to rob them of their humanity. Not filming your 1000 bath products for likes.

Gráinne 🍉 reposted

I don't feel as bad about the planet becoming imminently unlivable for future generations after reading this.

Cethan Leahy@cethanleahy.com

I regret to inform you that I do creative writing classes with kids and they are not only keeping the Simpsons alive, they also think the seasons we think are good are bad.

Gráinne 🍉 reposted

Replying to @richycraven.bsky.social

"We can't just throw public money at nurses and teachers willy nilly," The Minister for Public Expenditure has said in a statement. "They're not data centres, race tracks, angry people with tractors, Mark Zuckerberg, the NFL..."

Nobody has "unfettered access to welfare". What you mean is that migrants get to jump through the same hoops as those born in Britain, plus all the extra hoops that come with being a migrant (plus a language barrier).

Jonathan Portes@jdportes.bsky.social

The Times, once again, calling for mass deportations of care workers and other legal migrant workers.

Gráinne 🍉 reposted

Replying to @ronronzo.bsky.social

I’m on the afternoon picket shift tomorrow. The takes moaning about it being performative or not necessary are insulting. If we were fuel protesters this would have been sorted months ago it seems. Alas we need to go on strike to make a point. Please support us tomorrow!

"To a degree" is going to live in my head next door to "Larry, I'm on Ducktales".

Joe Flynn@chinajoeflynn.bsky.social

Apparently William Shatner went on Brent Spiner and Jonathan Frakes' podcast and talked about the 2025 gay romantic film PILLION. @imnotahrhitter.bsky.social @brendelbored.bsky.social

Many things confuse me about German leftists, but today's one in particular is how the ones that chant "No borders. No nations." are the same ones that insist that Israel's right to exist is beyond question, and that right outweighs over 70,000 people's right to... exist.

So much to hate here but I'm particularly stuck on how the second comedian told a joke and the avatar in the AI video just stated a fact angrily. AI does not know what humour is. Stop acting like it does.

KetAnthropic JoshAI@ketanjoshi.co

This is a good illustration of how so much of AI theft isn't indirect (ie, data sucked into a model to train the chatbot) - it's actually **direct** copying, but *enabled* by GenAI. Of course it is: chatbots absolutely suck at creating good, new stuff.

It's been three and a half years and I'm still so upset that, despite all their baking culture, Germans still don't know the difference between cake and pie.

You ever stop to think about the internet and social media? So much technological advancement just so someone can publicly tell the Pope "shut the fuck up" because he's "not an AI influencer".

Kim McCauley@kimischilling.bsky.social

imagine being a heretic AND getting zero bitches? like pick a struggle

When I say I "miss" a certain food as a vegan I feel a strong urge to clarify that I DO NOT miss the specific animal-based component. I mean that this would likely be possible (and maybe even good) without the animal part but I'm sad that they put animal parts in it!!

So Frank Turner is going to stop touring after Lost Evenings 10 so I have roughly 13 months to process the fact that Frank Turner is going to stop touring.

Child safety experts: It is crucial we use the correct terms for things, even if they make us uncomfortable, so children can understand unsafe behaviour. Content in the year 2026: So this pdf file had child 🌽 and turned out to be a 🍇ist who SA'd a bunch of people before he unalived them.

Is this content intended to educate children? No. Do too many children and teenagers only learn about these topics via social media? Absolutely. Will this censored language have any negative effect on kids? Hell if I know. But it bugs me that we talk about serious things with goddamn fruit emojis.

Gráinne 🍉 reposted

hope the irish men's football team will take a good look at themselves they're honestly not likely to ever touch real glory from the sport, but they have a chance to become moral heroes by refusing to play israel history will remember those who stood against genocide more than some footballers

God knows I don't have the slightest interest in football so my contribution to this conversation is brief and shallow. But ask yourself, how do you want to be remembered? What do you want your legacy to be? Another member of a (frankly shite) football squad who went against the fans they represent?

Gráinne 🍉 reposted

3 years in and the bbc is still pulling this nonsense for them, hamas attacks israel and kills a definite number of people but israel doesn't attack palestine, it launches an offensive in it it doesn't kill people, but people may be killed during it how many? a subject for debate