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Lest we forget tho

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Time for my Ireland v England in rugby approach.

I've been rewatching old DVDs of Drop the Dead Donkey lately, the 90s sitcom set in a news room with topical jokes that were written just before recording (which happened the same week that Channel 4 aired it) and they started making Mandelson jokes about this stuff in *1998*.

A nation of Jordan Petersons

Same. Like, his general shadiness was a running joke on topical shows in the mid nineties

"JKR has shown nothing less than disregard for the lives of trans people to the point of personally offering financial support to legislate against their very existance...but all this aggression from trans people against her is truly astonishing!"

Screencap of first reaction to Sinners, which I watched on opening day, April 18, 2025. “Sinners. Infuckingcredible. I am speechless. Ryan Thee Coogler. Talk to him nice!!!”

🎥🎞️ one year of Sinners! One of the few nice days in a year that was…well anyway, one of the few nice days.

Every single person who says "Ireland for the Irish" adds a silent invisible asterisk that leads to a footnote that says "Except Irish travellers"

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The postmortem of the *last* big outage shows that it was because they DOS'd themselves through vibecoded slop.

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Darn tootin!

There's an instinct to blame the left that these agri protests are often right wing or led by people who are right wing cause "the left" didn't engage but that ignores that many of these people have their own conservative to right wing ideologies.

Jesus fuck. Sorry man.

On the streets of Dublin I met fuel protesters and the people who support them – yet our leaders still don’t get it | Caelainn Hogan The Iran energy shock has exposed the country’s reliance on fossil fuels – and its wilful neglect of people’s basic needs, says journalist Caelainn Hogan

Those bullet holes in the GPO are still doing a lot of work ... and the Easter Rising as a 'direct action that was initially unpopular' ... I guess we see what we want to see

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Two things can be true at the same time: grievances can be real and people struggling, but their protests and the allies they choose completely wrong. And the double standards the state and media applies to them also obvious. The next time there's a strike, see how far you get blocking O'Connell St

For sure.

There is living in a social media bubble and there is "pretending that a small business would ever chance refusing a guard."

Exactly. It's not even as though we can point to state of the art health, education and public transport systems disproportionately funded by the income from agri. A country that devotes such a large proportion of its land area to an export industry to the detriment of its own needs is a plantation.

Some of y’all never got a approving nod from the record store clerk and it shows.

Very sad news- a fantastic musician and when I interviewed her a few years ago when Shane MacGowan died she was lovely. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam dilís

The current Strait of Hormuz situation does have the energy of a satirical British movie from the 60s where Peter Sellers's performance is praised as "brilliant, but you have to remember that cultural attitudes were a bit different back then."

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1/ A leader of the #fuelprotest told me last night he doesn't believe in climate change, said the climate has always changed and it was hotter 5 million years ago than it is now. I asked how long farmers have been around. Millions of years, he said...

Oh man!

You can probably support the working class and demand support for people who are struggling because of capitalist inequality and also not pretend massively bigoted rhetoric and action isn't happening or being Trojan-horsed in under the guise of taking down those in power, by the way. Just a thought.

Once more, these protests have been effective because these are people who matter, not because of some strategic masterstroke.

Sinn Fein TD Thomas Gould tried to address the crowd on the Grand Parade in Cork city - was shouted down.

I feel it’s going to be another great week here in Ireland for this quote.
“reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired” (Jonathan Swift)