Curlew conservation scheme makes breakthrough A conservation measure aimed at reversing the decline in the curlew population has yielded a breakthrough as the first recorded instance of a 'headstarted' curlew that has established a breeding terri...

www.rte.ie/news/ireland... #Birds

1987 McDonald's Garfield mugs... packed with lead, cadmium and a whole lot of fun!

That would be communism and Amazon might leave.

Driving her out of the country wasn't enough for them. Just an insatiable lust for destroying trans women and willing to harm anyone else to achieve that aim.

A giant 8kg Ferrero Rocher

This is the real ambassadorial scandal they are trying to hide!!

Naming all of my summer assignments with Austen quotes. The commonplace book is called “Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.”

Israeli soldiers using sexual assault to force Palestinians out of West Bank, report says Experts say attacks, also carried out by settlers, are leading girls to quit school and enter early marriages

"Palestinian women, men and children have reported attacks, forced nudity, invasive and painful body cavity searches, Israelis exposing their genitals, including to minors, and threats of sexual violence."

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Thought I would opt for coddle but carrageen jelly won out. That stuff is vile.

Carrageen jelly. That stuff is vile.

hawking a line of branded Mountain Goats smart glasses. no matter where you look things look a little bleaker and also the wearer cannot remove the glasses once worn. I’m disrupting this sector

Major dairy processor fined for illegal effluent discharge into Blackwater river tributary North Cork Co-operative Creamery pleaded guilty to one count of causing or permitting polluting materials to enter waterway

Custodians of the land.

“had a number of previous convictions”

“annual revenues of €211.8m”

Fined €8,000. FFS.

#spéirghorm #speirgorm

www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

"it is not the role of the Church to evaluate whether a particular war is just or unjust"

What the fuck are you talking about Bob

"I had great fun living in someone's garden in the Hamptons for three months when I was doing a J1. Now I'm building a shed to give someone else a chance."

I just don't think you needed to say "rightly or wrongly the national interests trumped the victims of Epstein".

Because it was obviously wrongly and the suggestion it could have ever been anything else is exactly why we are where we are as societies and nations.

Medieval Jewish London History Day | Barbican This one-day history festival brings London’s medieval Jewish community back to life, just steps away from the City’s original Jewish quarter.

On 10 May I'll be one of the speakers at this event at the Barbican, talking about the persecution of London's medieval Jews and their defence of the Tower of London from siege in 1267: www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202... #medievalsky

Thyme Travellers 2 An anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction

Friends, could you help me share this Kickstarter? It’s doing well but I need to extend its reach: www.kickstarter.com/projects/158...

Online abuse of politicians is a profitable business Senator Eileen Flynn's comments on far-right use of the tricolour have made her a lightning rod for online abuse - because viral hatred is highly profitable

In the space of a few weeks in 2025, Simon Harris required armed gardaí at his family home due to multiple bomb threats, while former taoiseach Leo Varadkar was subjected to a homophobic tirade by a self-styled citizen journalist who filmed the confrontation for social media. A man is due before the courts in July in connection with an alleged assault on Mary Lou McDonald and two canvassers the day before the presidential election last year. The incident was filmed and went viral online. So, last week when a video of Senator Eileen Flynn speaking about racism and nationalist propaganda went viral, a predictable and inevitable online pile on began, with posts attacking Flynn's "patriotism" or perceived

Much of the abuse directed at Ms Flynn came from Irish accounts run by people who benefit from algorithmically amplification (so called blue tick accounts), and content monetisation. Monetisation is now a commonplace feature on social media platforms like X/Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and TikTok, that allows the company to "share" revenue. The more attention (likes, shares, comments etc) a post gets, the more revenue a user earns. Influencers also often have accounts on three or four platforms and post dozens of times a day, and can also benefit from tips, and paid subscribers so it is difficult to gauge how much they earn, but a single viral post on X can generate over €300 for an influencer, so this can become a quite lucrative activity for not a lot of work. Power

The abuse directed at Ms Flynn did not only come from Irish accounts; international social media influencers whose attention was already on Ireland since the fuel protests latched onto it too. Defiant Ls, an account run by a Macedonian influencer who promotes Maga content shared the video, as did the account LibsofTikTok, with the caption, 'Irish Senator Eileen Flynn says that she is "terrified" to see her nation's flag and thinks it's "disgraceful" to fly it', received more than 250,000 views and over 1,300 comments, mostly abusive. LibsOfTikTok has nearly five million fans and the account is run by Chaya Raichik, a right wing influencer who has previously targeted schools, hospitals and libraries across the United States. Victims of her attention have gone to be inundated with threats of violence.

I have a piece in the Examiner today on how content monetisation is fuelling a new wave of online harassment

Irish influencers with monetised accounts are mimicking the behaviour of people like Chaya Raichik, the owner of LibsOfTikTok, who has turned online abuse & harassment into a business model.

Write to Stonewall.

• Tell them you supported them in the past.

• Tell them why you won’t be supporting transphobia.

Cut direct debts.

Don’t by the merch.

Tell your direct contacts.

How do people this stupid get elected in the first place? #speirghorm

Tipperary council seeks new law to compel walkers, cyclists, e-scooter users to don hi-vis Tipperary County Council's elected members have unanimously passed a motion to request the Minister for Transport to make it mandatory for these road users to wear hi-vis jackets or vests in the inter...

Who’s going to tell these councillors that the moment they step out of their cars, they’re pedestrians too? By their own logic, they’d need to be in hi-vis at all times.

Rather than tackling dangerous driving or poor road design, the responsibility gets dumped on the most vulnerable people instead.

Trustee Mah's motion to stop cuts to school support staff who work with at-risk students is defeated, by a vote with of 3-5, with the 2 Green Trustees voting opposed along with ABC's Chien and Trustees Jung and Richardson.

They also just aligned to vote to cut the sole District Teacher Librarian - defeating a motion from Trustee Mah to save the position. Quite shocking.

An overpaid HM Revenue & Customs worker is found murdered by a true crime podcast producer. Suspicion falls on Little Crosby’s genetics society, angry that a violent sub-culture might threaten to chop down the millenia-old yew tree.

Rally tomorrow (4/21) at Sheridan and Kenmore 10am-4pm!
Unionized faculty deserve a fair contract at @loyolachicago.bsky.social!

A salty chug in a kitchen with a round face

Feelings of injustice after biking home in a downpour.

Everything is just so insane all the time now.

He'll be talking about the antichrist soon.

She looks like what a beauty of that period would look like I thought. Especially that neck and the placid smiles.

My consumption of terrible food has certainly escalated.

It's like a very unpleasant Christmas period.