Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.
Red tulips and pale pink, with yellow in the centre crocuses reaching up to the sunny blue sky.
What a beautiful morning here! #waterford #speirgorm
If you are a cis woman who is opposed to being used as a pretext for establishment transphobia and trans exclusion please sign this petition by @nionwomen.bsky.social. Now fewer than 300 signatures needed to get it past 100,000!
notinourname.org.uk
A 91-year-old peace activist has crossed Ireland on foot and arrived in Dublin to petition the government to bar US military flights via Shannon Airport. Lelia Doolan completed a two-week, 220km (138 mile) trek on Wednesday accompanied by throngs of supporters.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
Thanks to everyone who joined our pedal-powered counter-protest against Dublin’s fuel blockades. These actions disrupt the very solutions needed to cut fossil fuel dependence and lower costs. For all!
More fossil fuel subsidies won’t fix this. We need real change, starting now.
On Saturday, half a million people came together not just to march against the far-right.
But for a different type of society based on unity, respect and where we do what we did on the weekend: turn up to support each other.
Thank you Imran Yusuf for telling us what Saturday's march meant to him.
The finest take down of the institution of monarchy and "class" and the grasping, greedy, venal, entitled, and very stupid people it enables that you will read today or any day.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Knockmealdown view from the lowlands of the Comeragh mtns this morning with a blue sky and some snow on the mtn
#Bluesky #spèirghorm 😂 Knockmealdown view from the lowlands of the Comeragh mtns this morning
Sound up! There was some beautiful, crisp, clear birdsong to go with the picturesque view this morning.
Please take 2mins to watch this deeply moving spoken work piece about shamrocks being brought to the white house on St Patricks Day, and invoking the powers afforded to the plant by our pagan ancestors by Valerie Bryce. She speaks the truth.
View of countryside with bright morning sunshine sky over a snow capped mountain.
What a beautiful morning - it looks like it might be a good day #spèirghorm The phone can't capture all the colour on the mountain.
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Beautiful!
A cat asleep curled up in a round shape basket with a jack russell dog asleep infront of the basket with the sun shining on them from outside.
A few hours of sunshine ! #spèirghorm
Govt show shameful disregard of our young people ! The students commuting daily & those that get accomm far from college haven't access to any reliable public transport, can't get parking on campus, driving around waiting for spaces to free up. No canteen space either.
Wire haired jack russell, lying on a cushion , head on the windowsill looking out at the sun.
Solar Power! Soaking it all in, when you can get it, after all the rain! #spèirghorm
She never lived to see this moment, but it’s worth remembering that none of this would have happened without Virginia Giuffre.
She had the courage to speak out against power and privilege when it was just her word against Andrew’s.
Thanks to her, justice & accountability may finally have its day.
These two women are suing Andrew Tate, alleging he raped them. Here they visit the social media companies that created Tate. Please share.
*one voice altered to disguise identity
Dramatic show of colours in the sky, of pink and orange diffusing through clouds as it ascends from behind a hill early in the morning.
Beautiful sky right now, the colour just exploded over the hill, the camera doesn't pick up all the colour. It's more stunning irl.
@news.rte.ie Publishing this byline-free opinion-as-news is deeply irresponsible. Britain’s anti-trans panic is cruel, unscientific, and has been used as the wedge to take away people’s rights there and in the US.
The NHS closed Tavistock over trans care concerns – there were just eight complaints all from cisgender people.
1. JK Rowling
2. Maya Forstater
3. Helen Joyce
4. Graham Linehan
5. Kathleen Stock
6. Posie Parker
7. Wes Streeting
8. Rosie Duffield
www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...
While banning social media seems like the easy solution, in fact it's letting Big Tech off the hook and placing the burden to protect themselves on children and families.
That's how we see it. What do you think?
I'm paraphrasing but my new hero is the young person at this conference who asked:"Why is there such a focus on restricting young people's access to social media while nobody calls for restrictions based on the radicalising influence it has on older people".
*Applause all round*
The kids are alright
Things I think of when I see a Tesla:
- fascism and nazism
- global scale attacks on democracy
- hundreds of thousands of global preventable deaths
- pathological lying, corruption, and unhinged greed
- and yes, child rape too
Every American needs to watch this:
This was an invented moral panic. The NYT and Fox News ran more stories about trans people than the Advocate, an explicitly LGBTQ publication. It was the exact same story in the UK. The media fanned the flames of a moral panic.
Board of Peace - Season 1
1. This short thread is about the issue that dominates almost every aspect of politics, and causes or exacerbates most of our problems: the extreme wealth of a small number of people. Here’s the amazing thing: almost the entire political class aligns with the ultra-rich against the rest. 🧵1/10
