Found my four sets of great grandparents in the census.

Incredible stuff and lovely to see.

Eh hem

I think I psyched myself up for it well. Knew it couldn't hurt me. That it would be temporary, but loud. Focused on rhythm of it.

Due another soon, but this is for my back.

Had one on my head. Head strapped to the table. I can be mildly claustrophobic but somehow I coped with that.

Good pictures of my head too.

Maybe that rural Ireland is pretty. That might be where we diverge from him.

Well, someone who actively votes to harm vulnerable people, while being polite about it, is shitty respectability politics and not actual decency.

I'd prefer decent principles with a few curse words, than his schtick

Healy-Rae speaks so well here.

Pity it's fraught with hypocrisy, as many things he has said and done has actively offended and harmed countless people.

Call for kindness, absolutely, but start offering it to people you haven't even taken the time to speak to yet.

Of course they do. Whatever right wing shite slowly flows from the US

Trump, dressed as an air traffic controller during the TSA strike. He's directing the plane to go up

This is something that has gone under the radar a little.

Orban didn't lose to a progressive, he lost to someone just a touch less authoritarian than him.

Lovely!

a woman in a blue shirt is sitting on a red couch with her hands in the air ALT: a woman in a blue shirt is sitting on a red couch with her hands in the air

Oh.

Oh!

Lol. The schadenfreude brewing up inside me is

Stoopid paywall!

They're literally predator technology

HOW DO I GET PAST THE PAY WALL?! I NEED ALL THE GOSS

This man has posted on SM in the past saying he wouldn't mind seeing Greta Thunberg raped. That it's the only "action" she'll get.

He's claimed Muslims are trying to take over the world.

In case you're wondering who is running the fuel protests.

€505m came out the gov’t surplus. Tánaiste confirmed it’ll affect Budget ‘27. Every cent spent on haulier diesel this weekend is a cent that won’t be spent on disability allowance, homelessness, or carers in Oct. That is not a metaphor. That is the arithmetic Simon Harris just signed off on. (3/4)

The €505m package has been rejected by a leading organiser as “an insult.” Motorways are still blocked this morning. Whatever the blockades were about, they were never really about fuel. “The Blockade Is the Message” already said so. This morning just confirmed it. (1/4) #FuelFascists

If it's Duffy, he's a major red flag

Ah, is it the guy that would have been happy to see Greta Thunberg raped?

They're all a bunch of twats with anti-social personality disorder.

Why would anyone be shocked that they're still blockading. Government just capitulated to two of the heaviest subsidised industries to the tune of .5 billion. They paid the hostages ransom and didn't even get the hostage.

No doubt the other fella has some skeletons too....

Was that the organiser that owes over half a million to the revenue because he refuses to contribute to society as expected?

They only threaten the left, they capitulate to the right

People have missed chemo/radiotherapy/dialysis appointments. Carers can't get to who they need. Ambulances and fire services have been hindered.

And counter-intuitively they've worsened the fuel crisis.

But if you don't support all that, you've turned your back on people? Makes no sense.

Yikes.

I've seen so many absolutist takes personally.

Either you stand with these protesters or you're an enemy of the people/turning your back on your country etc.

Like, I get the cause, it matters, more can be done and it's crippling some people, but also, the protest are harmful too.

They get so much traction with the "fighting for the working class" stuff, when in reality the right prey on the working class hoping for blind support as they drain them of their wealth.

I saw a woman I know very well doing to whole "fighting for all of us" chat about the fuel protests.

I shouldn't laugh

Oh good, Trump is having a tantrum and threatening to annihilate Iran again.

What a deranged world we live in.