Let's just say there's a reason he's no longer their US Correspondent

When I was in secondary, teacher-on-student violence may not have been legal but it remained very popular.

We stand with Senator Eileen Flynn ✊️

Women face massive barriers to entering & staying in politics, including online & offline abuse. The abuse is compounded for Traveller women & women from other minority groups

❤️ Sending you our love and solidarity, Eileen
#MoreMná

@eileenflynn.bsky.social

The thing is they keep on droning on about it year after year after year but not doing it. They can't even implement their stupid ideas.

‘We were wearing green Irish jerseys’: How Irish student footballers made history in China in 1976 For a group of former UCD students, a return trip to China marks half a century since an improbable tour that unfolded at a pivotal moment in the country’s history

Back in 1976 any Maoists in Belfield were a small faction within student politics, now they're the governing body of the University. Funny ol rock-'n'-roll world.

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First -- everything is going v well so far!

Gil Duran tweet: TLDR: Fascism in response to Palantir's long fascists screed on X.

"Your Account is Suspended" Message on X

The CEO of Palantir posted a fascist manifesto on X.

I pointed out that it was fascist—which resulted in a permanent suspension from X (my second time!).

So, when you hear the tweeters complaining that BlueSky is intolerant, remember why many of us came here in the first place.

A post-operative knee featuring livid bruising, hospital compression stockings, and a massive dressing

Can confirm

NYT & Atlantic tell US that the greatest threat to free speech is elite university students not wanting to be forced to listen to right-wing extremists, meanwhile Republicans are banning Plato & Shakespeare & any mention of history of racism in across public university systems for being too woke.

Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.

This is what leads political parties to track focus groups and polling instead of having principles and policies, which can be inconvenient.

In my day 👴🏼 Dublin had a lot of dodgy, unsanitary, not entirely safe venues putting on loads of cheap gigs of, eh, diverse quality and it was brilliant.

Israel is "PROHIBITED" by the US from bombing Lebanon, says Donald Trump.

It underlines a basic fact:

Israel's genocide and war crimes could be stopped at any moment by any US president.

A small red dog lying on a beardy man's chest

The district nurse is suspiciously furry but she seems to know what she's doing

Update on the most moral army in the world. Al Jazeera Breaking News @AJENews A photo of an Israeli soldier smashing a statue of Jesus Christ with a sledgehammer in southern Lebanon has sparked widespread condemnation. Israeli officials confirmed the image is genuine and 'promised to investigate!

This one seems to have caused panic, and it’s pretty bleak that a picture of a guy smashing a statue of a dude who died two thousand years ago is more internationally disastrous than hundreds of hours of video of civilians being bombed, burned, machine gunned, sniped, evicted and starved.

Just finished this, it's heartbreaking. Poor young idiot.

Trump’s “complicated relationship with the Bible” is a lot like my complicated relationship with Charlize Theron

‘I wished for death’: Sexual violence in Israel’s prisons is an ‘organised state policy’ Palestinian testimonies reveal how sexual violence, including rape using objects and dogs, is approved by 'highest levels' of Israeli leadership

The testimony here about sexual violence by Israel against Palestinian prisoners is so beyond the pale everyone must see it.

It is so bad I can’t in good conscience share a quote other than the headline, which somehow manages to understate the horror within.

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They wouldn't use it

Very much open to correction but think I might've found Peig.
#1926Cencus #TheStoryOfUs
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Yes, the fact that I'm attending the White House Correspondents Dinner might SEEM like a supine gesture of complete deference to the insane dullard who demands total obedience from the press, BUT that's until you see the secret message I have on my pocket square

The thing is as well often you're travelling with other people, each of whom needs a boarding pass but only one of whom has the login.

Eileen Culloty @fujomedia.bsky.social digs herself into a trap where Patrick O'Donovan said something stupid and *no*, he didn't have a point, still less the point that she wants to make, which would be a good one if made without any reference to one of the thickest gobbogues in Irish politics.

Looking forward to tomorrow's papers, when exactly none of Ireland's columnists, who are usually so keen to tone-police every single aspect of civil discourse, will stand up for Eileen.
When people tell you who they are. believe them.

Independent Ireland was always going to end up like this, a party of FFG leftovers curdling and pooling into a thin film of scum

I finally got Manannán transcribed. It is the 1939 Irish language sci-fi book with the first Spaceship using a gravity assist in literature.

Next up is conversion to modern spelling. If you know a list of known changes (annso->anseo) or can even just help by reading please let me know.

From the right - Elaine Mullally, two fuel protest PROs and Kevin Posobiec whose brother Jack is a proper made MAGA man. Photo was yesterday. What larks!

Two of the spokesmen Geoghegan and Dallas meeting with the Irish (Mullally) and American (Posobiec) far right - they are openly showing us what they are.

Me, after another disaster at work: ‘Look, I never said I was perfect.’

* Flashback to job interview *

Me, putting feet up on desk: ‘I would say my biggest strength is that I’m literally perfect.’

Today's post-surgery physiotherapy milestone: cleaning up cat puke with a grabber stick. 🐈‍⬛