Fractures Emerge Between GOP’s Pro-Pedophilia, Extremely Pro-Pedophilia Wings

Huh, as a semi-regular Irish bus user (work from home mostly but don't have a car) I'm surprised at the 40% figure here for Ireland, where are all these new electric uses in Ireland? I'm sure I've only ever been on diesel buses, but it's a welcome figure if accurate. #Spéirgorm

How public funds are used to pay for English-language articles portraying Orbán as a brilliant leader Via a multi-tiered system, Hungarian public funds are regularly funnelled to various organisations promoting the Orbán regime's policies at home and abroad. An important player in this system is the L...

It's a pretty complicated money laundering operation involving lots of property transactions, and Russians selling cheap oil to the Hungarian state oil company (MOL) which had 10% of their shares transferred to the MCC, which funded the foreigners. That list will take time

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Left- Israel has destroyed Christian, Muslim and Jewish holy sites.

Right- Israel is stealing more land from Lebanon just like they are doing in Gaza with their "yellow lines".

Iran going after Bsky is a genuinely funny waste of resources.

reminder that you do not have to resub to gamepass just because the price dropped.

it's still microsoft

Black and white photo of cool long haired man wearing a crown holding a sign that says Good Morning it’s Iggy Pop!

Happy 79th Birthday to this King!

James Newell Osterberg Jr aka Iggy Pop!

There are renewable powered alternatives to much of this. But only if other heavy users like Data Centres aren’t prioritised. Production of bio-fuels from feedstuff will have to be re-examined too. We are burning the equivalent of 15 million loaves of bread a day in Europe.

FG and FF looking after their own nepo babies first obviously!

Ah, yes, the real problem facing all Irish young people today; an over abundance of property in their investment portfolios.

Oh no. We’ve broken containment.

She truly has no clue I’m talking about being stuffed from both ends here.

fascism is basically when you get so obsessed about purity there’s an overflow error and you achieve super rot

The aim of the organised transphobic movement is to mandate trans people out of existence, they won't be happy until their targets are dead, it's a movement motivated by genocidal mania, and the cruel, vindictive, hateful bigotry extends from there.

And if not, any Hungarians among my mutuals who would be interested in crafting some FOI requests?

It's amazing how much of this right wing op ed columnist bit is just....

"No you don't understand, you have to adore and love me and be my best friend, because there's no other way I can actually have friends and be loved....it should be illegal to not like me!"

In contrast, when the gay rights cause first got going, the ideal was toleration. Gays and lesbians should have freedom from aggression and discrimination, but other people didn't have to like it. Over time, though, the big idea became "cultural change", meaning bringing about a widespread morality shift; and suddenly, everybody did have to like it. The concern became influencing what went on inside people's heads and policing what they said out loud; and self-ID provided the perfect vehicle.

I'm late to the Kathleen Stock article but I'm sorry, WHAT?

She wasn't even there. Like, I'm happy for people coming out at any age, but she has literally rocked up and started rewriting queer history and speaking for lesbians who actually were there and happen to think she's a transphobic twat

The original "accidentally became important at work n its ruining my life" tweet from kanoa @heelbitee

My week is just this meme*

*I'm not even become that important I just have to do a few extra things but I could really do with a holiday.

Between the rainbow flag Ulster Bank and Twink's drink (boy do they ever...), pre-decriminalisation of male homosexuality Ireland in the 1980's must have been a bit more gay friendly than I originally knew.

Reality check: Modular home in back garden = bed in a shed

Reality check:
Modular home in back garden = bed in a shed

Twice today I saw conversations on doorsteps carried out entirely in Irish. It was genuinely moving to see. Gaeltachts are special places. We need to be investing more in protecting them and ensuring the language and culture can survive and thrive in the communities that nurture them. #Spéirgorm

Clapsholas i gConamara #spéirgorm

Daniel Ramamoorthy - Crunchbase Person Profile Daniel is an entrepreneur, business strategist, investment consultant, and adviser to both not-for-profits and for-profits. As the son of an...

Link to the crunchbase site of the convicted abuser Daniel Ranamoorthy's resume there so you can see it for yourselves. www.crunchbase.com/person/danie...

At the least it tells me I'm right to be distrustful of anyone who won't shut up about entrepreneurship all the fucking time.

Drew Harris must have cost the state millions with all his incompetence, but FG had to race to appoint the PSNI lad to appear "grown up"

Eurovision – Open Letter Amy Schumer, Mila Kunis, Jerry O’Connell, Erin Foster,  Matthew Weiner, Anthony Edwards, and Matisyahu join Liev Schreiber, Helen Mirren, Gene Simmons, Scooter Braun, Boy George, Mayim Bialik, Sharon ...

Laughing at this bleak nonsense and the fact that every famous signatory is American? What's the E in ESC again? Thank you Selma Blair and Rebecca De Mornay for your input on a European tv contest.

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The only recognisable Europeans are Helen Mirren and Mila Kunis, and I'd like to ask Mila Kunis as a Ukrainian if she feels Russia should be let back into Eurovision after it's illegal war and occupation of Ukraine, because that's the same basis we are asking for the exclusion of Israel?

Because if I was Richard Bruton as a former TD who had prior links with a convicted child sex abuser, I'd probably take every opportunity to say I did not make that reference if I had not. Just to clear the air like.....

"The judge said the reference was in fact to a former TD"

Daniel Ranamoorthy, convicted of abusing a child at a Christian camp, previously worked as an advisor to former Fine Gael TD Richard Bruton, so if I was a journalist, I'd probably ask Mr. Bruton first if it was his reference? #Spéirgorm

Judge refuses to reveal identity of former TD who gave reference on behalf of sex offender The court today dismissed Daniel Ramamoorthy’s appeal against his two year and four month sentence for sexually exploiting a 13-year-old boy.

The Court of Appeal has refused to reveal the identity of a former TD who provided a character reference on behalf of a one-time government advisor convicted of sexually exploiting a 13-year-old boy at a Christian children's camp jrnl.ie/7019032

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.

Anticommunists: THEY'LL HAVE YOU LIVING IN CRAMPED HIGH RISES WHERE YOU'LL BARELY BE ABLE TO MOVE!!!!!

Actual Capitalists: Live in sheds you whiny cunts we have houses to sell and keep empty