One day there will be a reckoning for how Arsenal Football Club dealt with this case. And I’m afraid that includes the manager

BREAKING Irish Govt to move Grok to another parish.

All that and then he killed the Pope? What an asshole

I presume JK Rowling is going to "who are _they_?" the Pope.

Séamas O'Reilly: Trans people have spent a decade being attacked in a moral panic The poor provision of unisex children’s facilities— which reinforces gender stereotypes and inconveniences women and men both — was, incidentally, an issue I remember being quite talked-about a decade...

The UK's political and media class has spent years heaping sadism on trans people, and they want to do the same in Ireland next. Calls for civility and calm won't cut it. We need to fight them tooth and nail.

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Here we are

A Twitter thread. Amazon Help replies to a (not visible) tweet saying "Autumn Nations Cup coverage is available to Prime Video customers based in UK only. Prime Video doesn't support streaming content through Virtual Private Network (VPN) or proxy connections. Are you using either of these?" Chris Jones says "No." Amazon Help says "Thank you for that information. We apologize but upon reviewing your location you're in Northern Ireland. Rugby Autumn Nations Cup coverage is exclusively available to Prime members based in the UK. We don't have the rights to other territories."

The thread continues. Chris Jones says "Northern Ireland is part of the UK." Amazon Help says "Many apologies, but we don't have the broadcast rights for Ireland or other territories." Another twitter user says "Northern Ireland *IS* the UK, "UK" is short for The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. (This tweet does not reflect my opinions on the matter of a united island of Ireland)" Amazon Help replies "Thank you for reaching out to us. We'll be sure to pass your feedback along to the appropriate team."

Amazon Help replies to a different tweet, and leads with "Hi there! We apologize for the troubles."

in slightly-early honour of St Patricks Day, I will once again remind the world of the time Amazon united Ireland (and apologized for the Troubles), still one of my favourite moments on twitter

Concern among victims as congregation of nuns seeks to withdraw money from abuse fund Victims of paedophile surgeon Michael Shine fear being forced into a battle for compensation.

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An elephant seal, tongue out, blue plastic bucket clutched in one flippered hand, with caption "I has a bucket"

Suddenly reminded of a bunch of early 2000s memes about Seal Lions and how much they love buckets.

Arne Slot. On top of being an incredible manager, he also incredibly funny. This explanation of why Mo said it would be his last game against City is savage 💀

The final seat numbers, when counting concludes in 🇮🇪 #ge24, are set to be:

Fianna Fáil 48
Sinn Féin 39
Fine Gael 38
Social Democrats 11
Labour 11
Ind Ireland 4
PBP-Solidarity 3
Aontú 2
Greens 1
100% Redress 1
Independents 16

For the first time in a while overdose deaths are declining - seven straight months of declines. The cause is complicated but appears to be the culmination of a number of different Biden admin policy initiatives coming to fruition. And yet it meant absolutely nothing politically.

SF leaving it till the 11th hour to say they want to work with the rest of the left! But this could really shake up the race in Dublin. Here are some races where SF transfers could really shake things up (thread) #GE24

So weird isn’t it !

The truth about mass migration YouTube video by The Market Exit

This is a fascinating video looking into the economic impacts of mass refugee migration to Sweden 2015.

Really worth watching!

"What toothpaste do you use?"

Michael Martin -" The IRA were very mean to the British"

Election 2024: Adult autism — Take steps to make us feel included in society My message to the next Dáil: Mike McGrath-Bryan calls on the next government to provide specialised public care and assistance for neurodivergent adults in a world not built for them

Article and podcast: Speaking in the @irishexaminer.bsky.social about the challenges and needs of Ireland's adult neurodivergent population, heading into the General Election and the next Dáil.

#ge24 #actuallyautistic #actuallyadhd #neurodivergence #spéirgorm

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The unmistakable reddish bark of a yew. Such a special tree.

With a potential lifespan of thousands of years, longer than any other native species, yew conjures the mind-boggling immensity of ecological time.

Our own lives are mere blips by comparison. 🌎

Mam’s arrived and mine hasn’t, even tho I changed my address first lol.

Can we just note how much the court sketch artist really really hates him.

“The government will give you €1000 the day you become legally allowed to drink” seems like a big win for the vintners lobby

The Guardian 9 Jan at 06:45 • 6 "A lot of people said it wasn't going to work They said they'd rip the glasses off. They said there'd be ink in the tank." The Guardian THEGUARDIAN.COM Scientists play 'shrimp films' to cuttlefish

Remember when scientists put 3D glasses on cuttlefish and showed them enticing shrimp films?

www.theguardian.com/science/2020...

is this welsh

is this welsh

apparently if u reflexively kick one of santa’s elves like a spooked horse they will ban u from the mall

A doctor at the Al-Shifa hospital

Ooooh, I was always afraid to ask

ok credit it where it's due, this does absolutely bang

Book text: My husband plays the trumpet, which is a sort of loud pretzel originally invented to blow down the walls of fucking Jericho and, later, to let Civil War soldiers know it was time to kill each other in a river while you chilled eating pigeon in your officer's tent twenty miles away, yet some-how, in modern times, it has become socially acceptable to toot the bad cone inside your house before 10:00 a.m. because it's "your job" and your wife should "get up." What a world! If one was feeling uncharitable, one might describe the trumpet as a machine where you put in compressed air and divorce comes out, but despite this-despite operating a piece of biblical demolition equipment inside the home every bright, cold morning of his wife's one and only life—the trumpet is not the most annoying thing about my husband.

This paragraph was a hell of a ride

Giant fuck of zucchini next to a double rye and soda for scale. This thing is too big. I haven’t even seen novelty dildos this big. What the fuck are we supposed to do with this thing? I don’t like zucchini as much as all that. Man

We grew a fucking 6 pound zucchini and I have no idea what to do about it