This has been the reality for 20 years. A self-imposed racist ad hoc border by the Irish Government who send Gardaí & prison vans to intercept Northerners crossing the border on public transport, removing & detaining POC passengers until they can prove with papers they are UK or Irish citizens.
More on the recent history of 'hidden borders'. Things are getting worse under the current Labour Government who is using NI as a 6 county border enforcement 'buffer zone' between ther EU and Britain, using stats here in NI to show they are tough on borders elsewhere - decimating social cohesion.
Avoid using anti-wetland language. Suggestions include alternative positive phrases for terms like “bogged down” and “swamped”, such as “frolicking in nutrient-dense mud”.
I’m helping out in monorail mailorder today, sending good vibes from the zebra 🦓 (and SP and @laurenthomsn.bsky.social)
Fulfilment nightmare, RIP little guy
Apparently the police presence at the (tiny) parade on the weekend was wild
EVERY MORNING I WAKE UP AND OPEN PALM SLAM A VHS INTO THE SLOT. ITS GREY GARDENS AND RIGHT THEN AND THERE I START DOING THE MOVES ALONGSIDE WITH THE MAIN CHARACTER, EDITH “LITTLE EDIE” BOUVIER. I DO EVERY MOVE AND I DO EVERY MOVE HARD. SHOUTING LOUD WHEN I BICKER WITH MY MOTHER OR
This exactly what I was thinking, might go tomorrow!
I used this guide to fill out the consultation which was useful bc it's purposefully not very clear and also biased! do it before midnight tonight please www.gov.uk/government/c...
The idea that he had to auction memorabilia to pay for his treatment is absolutely disgusting
Newspaper headline DEL: FOZZY CALLED TO APOLOGIZE
Del Trotter on a 1930s phone
Fozzy Bear on a 1920s phone
What I see reading this
we hebben een serieus probleem @celticfc.bsky.social
So grateful for the women that the world came to know as The Cookies.
RIP Margaret Ross Williams
1942 - 2026
thebluemoment.com/2026/01/26/r...
Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject... • 8h → Replied to Jolyon Maugham KC Appalled to your core by what Trump's fascist henchmen are doing in the United States? Well, read for yourself: Nigel Farage wants to repeat it in the United Kingdom. Farage, who had previously said mass deportations were a "political impossibility", said his party had now come up with "a credible plan, so that we can deport hundreds of thousands of people over the five years of a Reform government. During the news conference, Farage asked Reform UK chair Zia Yusuf whether it was realistic to deport 500,000-600,000 people within the lifetime of the first Parliament under a Reform UK government, to which he replied "totally, yeah". Reform, which currently has just four MPs although it is leading in many opinion polls, has not specified what proportion of this number would come from future arrivals, or people already in the country. ALT
I think this “warning” rhetoric is unhelpful, as it disguises the border violence that current and past governments have escalated over the past couple of decades, including an actually-existing British version of ICE: Immigration Compliance and Enforcement.
I know a few of these
FINALLY and perfect guests
On the same train I get to Celtic Park on matchdays only tonight it’s full of Emmylou Harris fans
just fantastic news. several staff members booking annual leave as we speak.
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Jesus Christ, it has to be deliberate at this point, right?
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me: you boy what day is it today?
boy: nonces shout out of the window day.
me: oof you’ve absolutely done me there.
The same people who "love Christmas" so much that they put up a tree in November also take it down on Boxing Day *the actual literal second day of Christmas*. They also then complain about how much the hate January. Well folks, you did it to yourselves! We invented Christmas observence for this!
"I wrote: "Your call for a Palestinian state pours fuel on the antisemitic fire. It rewards Hamas terrorists. It emboldens those who menace Australian Jews and encourages the Jew hatred now stalking your streets.""
"The attack at a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney today was a vile act of antisemitic terror. I mourn those who were murdered and will be keeping their families, the Jewish community, and the Chabad movement in my prayers. May the memories of all those killed be a blessing. While we are still waiting for all the facts to emerge, what we already know is devastating. At least 11 dead, including Rabbi Eli Schlanger, who held deep ties to Crown Heights. At least 29 injured. Another Jewish community plunged into mourning and loss, a holiday of light so painfully reduced to a day of darkness. This attack is merely the latest, most horrifying iteration in a growing pattern of violence targeted at Jewish people across the world. Too many no longer feel safe to be themselves, to express their faith publicly, to worship in their synagogues without armed security stationed outside. What happened at Bondi is what many Jewish people fear will happen in their communities too. On Bondi Beach today, as men with long guns targeted innocents, another man ran towards the gunfire and disarmed a shooter. Tonight, as Jewish New Yorkers light menorahs and usher in a first night of Hanukkah clouded by grief, let us look to his example and confront hatred with the urgency and action it demands. When I am Mayor, I will work every day to keep Jewish New Yorkers safe—on our streets, our subways, at shul, in every moment of every day. Let this be a purpose shared by every New Yorker, and let us banish this horrific violence to the past."
Compare the statement about the antisemitic terror attack in Australia by the Israeli Prime Minister with the one by Zohran Mamdani, and ask yourself who more truly cares about condemning antisemitism, as opposed to using it to promote unrelated politics.
HBOMax has started showing a 'remastered' 4K Mad Men and they’ve messed things up so during Roger’s oyster vomit scene you can now see the crew men with the vomit hose on the right
maybe an attack like Drogheda wouldn't have happened if they'd decided to take the murderous intent of the far right seriously after racists in Athlone welded the emergency exit of an IPAS centre shut, or, I dunno, any of the other hundred such incidents
www.thejournal.ie/athlone-ipas...
"ELEVATED HORROR" DIRECTOR SEEING ANY WOMAN OVER THE AGE OF 45: ahh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AIEEEE!!!! AAAuuUGHHHH!H! OUGHGHGHGGHHGHGHGGHHG
Q: And are you married? A: I was married, but I’m not married anymore. Women don't like the vehicle.
"women don't like the vehicle" is going to be lodged in my brain's neocortex for the rest of my natural life www.wired.com/story/owning...
Ooh I loved Ordinary Saints!