NOTING THIS. 🫤

Easier to pass when all the kiddies want to vape, anyway.

Prediction: tobacco lobby finds a way to make cigars "cool" next.

#spéirghorm #ireland

John Grant's 'Queen of Denmark' revisited, plus a fine blend of Roots, Rock, Reggae, Folk, Funk, Punk and all the rest - 8-10pm tonight on RTE Radio 1.

Socialism

If Ireland's centre-left crowd ever wanted an American-style "issues" campaign to ape, surely this here's the one.

#spéirghorm #ireland

A whistleblower is about to tell all regarding insider trading within the Trump admin.

If this happens and she has the proof, Trump, Barron, Eric and Don Jr will go down.

How about, uh, nationalising the essentials, and getting everyone to invest in building the country and its domestic economy with the taxes that are supposed to be doing so?

#spéirghorm #ireland

Debunked: Fringe commentator from US spreads false rumour of stabbing at Connolly Station An accident which left a thick trail of blood appears to have prompted the story.

False claims of a stabbing at Connolly Station on Saturday night were shared to millions of people by a US commentator who had travelled to Ireland to cover the fuel price protests.

jrnl.ie/7019035

He was the Goldberg or Ultimate Warrior of his time - a muscleman whose strengths were best accentuated in short, simple matches, ending with his then-scandalous finisher, the Irish Whip, now a mere transitional trope in the dramaturgy of professional wrestling.

#spéirghorm #ireland #wrestlesky

A theory out there was that it was either an Eastern European individual, or one of them redpilled youngfellas - either of which could equally have taken umbrage at mentions of Karl Marx without the context.

#cork #spéirghorm #ireland

What would that look like, though? Emulation given legitimacy, or hardware clones?

Man, I wish Sega would have just open-sourced their machines/firmware after leaving the hardware space.

Saturn and Dreamcast had massively untapped potential that we're only seeing from homebrew scenes; MegaDrive and Master System still had vast install bases, if not active users.

What I wouldn't have given for these laws to have been in place in 2000, 2001; and what the Byzantian periods of the PS1, N64 and Dreamcast could have been like.

#spéirghorm #ireland

Man, that's great. It's really going to complement the whole experience of going to the Events Centre that also definitely is a real thing.

That's terrifying.

Dear advertising agencies: fuck off with the ASMR-lite voiceovers, or I'm coming to your offices and whispering aggressively into your ears for real.

President Connolly’s first trip abroad has planted Ireland among the global left’s loudest voices Her first trip abroad offered an early glimpse of a presidency willing to speak more bluntly on global issues, just like her predecessor.

Saying no to war- President Connolly’s first trip abroad has planted Ireland among the global left’s loudest voices jrnl.ie/7017225

An seated woman, harp to one side, with a quill writing the opening words in a book. The bookstand has the symbols of the 4 provinces.

An Post have re-issued the 1937 commemorative Constitution stamp. That's an allegory of Ireland writing the opening words of the preamble in Irish.

"After only seven weeks, food shortages and even famine are now looking more likely for millions of people across vulnerable countries in Africa and Asia."

Mike, DJing at PLUGD, 1pm

Happy 50th birthday to "The Boys Are Back In Town" by Thin Lizzy!

"That chick who got up and she slapped Johnny's face" is probably in her seventies now.

A Republic Is Born Radio Éireann broadcast from Minister for External Affairs Seán MacBride on the day Ireland left the Commonwealth.

#Onthisday 1949, the Republic of Ireland Act officially came into force, formally declaring Ireland a republic & severing its final constitutional ties with the British Commonwealth www.rte.ie/archives/202...

Stamp art of the new logo, showing Irish language names on a signpost with Reclaim Your Placename.

Stamp doodle logo for the @cnagaeilge.bsky.social AthGhaelú campaign "to encourage people to use Irish placenames instead of English placenames in all aspects of life."
They've also created a Gealltanas Logainmneacha "to encourage individuals and groups to use Irish-only placenames" #SpéirGhorm

Did you know you can pop a nice card in the post to a senator Eileen Flynn

Via Leinster House, Kildare Street, Dublin 2

Or even just send her a supportive email eileen.flynn@oireachtas.ie

Cos messages of support help when dealing with gobshites lashing out.

#speirgorm #Mná

AI has all but shut down the routes to proving yourself via grunt work in so many industries. All the best juniors I trained came in via that way. They didn’t have the social connections or money to position themselves for the success they proved more than capable of, AI is gutting social mobility

Seo é. This is it here lads. @saoirsemc.bsky.social is a voice which we must be hearing 👌🏼🎧

Grand Parade #Cork 1982 with Mandys in the background #FlashbackFriday #LoveCork #PureCork #CorkLike📷E MacArthur

An excellent piece.

Starmer has terrible judgement, zero interest in politics, and does not care to understand how government works.

His only “success” has been to make Labour completely toxic to its own traditional voters.

The Press Ombudsman has given Eoin Lenihan a good kicking in her decision on his complaint about the interview where he had a complete meltdown because he was gently asked some probing questions about his background directly related to the book he was promoting

pressombudsman.ie/omb-2496-202...