Older,greyer,sorer,hopefully wiser,wise enough to know hope is futile. Coppin the difference between knowing and understanding. "We are beaten, we will make no bones about it; but we are not too badly beaten still to fight.” He/Him/Sé. 🇮🇪🇵🇸🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
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Kevin Maguire: "If you're put up in a hotel & you get meals you get £10/wk.. all these terrible myths.. free iPads.. myths & lies have gone mainstream & we've got to challenge them.. we've gone back to the worst aspects of the 1970s where racism is becoming mainstream" Well said
People will literally run for the presidency of Ireland instead of going to therapy
He definitely saw people saying he was dead, he saw how happy people were at the thoughts of his demise, he's a minor stroke away from joining Maggie Thatcher in the corpse urine chugging championship, one tough question might do it. Up to you journalists.
@mehdirhasan.bsky.social
The reason the Democrats aren't pushing on this is the same reason the Irish govt stalled on the hugely publicly popular Occupied Territories Bill(the original not the watered down version) AIPAC, lobbying, financial scare tactics, accusations of antisemitism.
The places where you actually NEED grace are filthy and bloody and despairing. Grace is the last cigarette shared in the gutter, the hand of the dying being held by the stranger, the kindness done by the broken.
Yay. Met police doin' something right, what's rare is wonderful. What's the bet Linehan will make a comparison between himself and the octogenarian pro Palestinian action group.
At a time when pensioners are being arrested every single week for protesting a genocide, it's good to see Starmer stand up to his own police force when they come for a guy who's merely told his 500k followers to physically attack any trans woman they see in a female bathroom.
![Headline in the Telegraph: Starmer attacks Met after Father Ted creator arrested over trans posts Standfirst: PM tells Met to concentrate on serious crime after comedy writer detained over trans tweets. [Unphotoshopped photo of Graham Linehan looking like a bigoted Corinthian football figure]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lss244cnzeoicm3p3nrg5ovh/bafkreieerkmxvsjn7zp554hh77svhh4xlx2cyfsv7pmtc7bjuxwl4krf64@jpeg "Click to view full size")
#OtD 2 Sep 1933 the USSR signed a five-year friendship pact with fascist Italy, a precursor to the Hitler-Stalin pact. The USSR supplied oil to fascist Italy during its invasion of Ethiopia while fascists persecuted communists domestically stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9241...
Perfect encapsulation of the Trump administration: The guy suing Harvard for alleged antisemitism is a straight-up Hitler-admiring Nazi. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/m...
Using one photo already in your phone, what is the announcement today at 2?
Passing out is ok, as long as you're safe, somewhere safe.
Soooo there’s literal military in the streets of US cities and we got centrists still lecturing about ‘you shouldn’t have tried to defund the police.’ Mmkay.
You don't need to read the independent article. You were commenting on my opinion not the related article. I've given my opinion plus related facts. There's plenty more info out there.
An Irish man, who's main schtick is how backwards he thinks Ireland is, saying the 1916 martyrs died for nothing, taking a knighthood from our former colonisers and goin off telling scots they shouldn't dream of independence. Yes that is the encapsulation of an Irish president right there.
Using one photo already on your phone what is the announcement today at 2?
The Palestinian-led BDS movement has updated our priority targets, pressure targets and organic campaign targets.
Yay. Met police doin' something right, what's rare is wonderful. What's the bet Linehan will make a comparison between himself and the octogenarian pro Palestinian action group.
Our media, utterly unable to discuss how their anti-migrant hate mongering *directly* whips up hate against British minorities. Not even when they're throwing their colleagues under the bus and it's caught live on camera. I genuinely don't know how they live with themselves, disgusting ghouls.
Ban them from EVERYWHERE, every financial/sports/culture event EVERYWHERE IMMEDIATELY!!! secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...
Given that Graham Linehan blogged about it, when he arrived back in Heathrow last night he was arrested over this tweet and two others. He has to show up for another interview in October. He also ended up in hospital with high blood pressure and is banned from tweeting.
Instead of doing the work I was supposed to be doing I spent yesterday finishing this stencil piece and generally having a lovely time. #books #booksky #streetsign #streetart
Part one goes out tomorrow night at 9.35 on RTÉ 1, so better put a voice on part two for the following week. #DevDoc
What does that even mean?
#OtD 2 Sep 2005 after hurricane Katrina, New Orleans police shot in the back and killed Henry Glover, an unarmed African-American. Police physically attacked people trying to help Glover. Another officer drove Glover away, then set the car on fire stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9239...
#OtD 2 Sep 1962 Oswald Mosley and his fascist blackshirts tried to hold a meeting in east London while the British National Party attempted to assemble nearby. Both were attacked by anti-fascist locals. Mosley's meeting collapsed and he fled www.patreon.com/posts/e37b-6...
Three hand-drawn pieces for the @dublinmaker.bsky.social event this weekend, celebrating traditional crafts and Irish makers, and the process of creating. They're also available as prints here: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
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Labour’s version of ICE has kicked in. Anyone Black or Brown on a bike is stereotyped.
Good news about the cutting-edge AI tools from the $3-trillion-dollar company.
NEW: Belgium has decided to recognize Palestine as well take multiple measures against Israel, including -The ban of all settler goods from being imported -Sanctions on Smotrich and Ben Gvir -Restrictions on imports from Israeli businesses -No consular services to Israelis in the oPt
RIP Graham Greene. Every time he popped up on screen when I was a kid, my mom would excitedly point him out for being an actual Native on the screen. Able to be deadly serious and infinitely hilarious (even in smaller roles like Last of Us), he ate up the screen. Nʌki’wah brother.
Discworld QOTD, from Men at Arms
The difference between the text of the post and the headline of the article below it is staggering
Tis now quarter to seven(6:45). I don't start work until 8 but takes a wee bit of time getting there and I like to have a wee smoke and a chill before I actually start work. What time is it in...Portland?
#OtD 2 Sep 1932 the Syndikalist newspaper of the Dresden local of the anarcho-syndicalist Free Workers Union of Germany (FAUD), was banned by the Nazi-led German government, but a renamed paper, the Arbeiterecho (Workers' Echo), was lauched in January stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9233...
Hello from the bus to work.
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A chance of seeing some Northern lights tonight. Look North away from light and use night mode on your camera.
"Blueskyism" helped make The Onion one of the largest newspapers in the world in less than a year. If we had spent all of our time on Twitter, we'd be poorer, dumber and terminally ill with internet poisoning. He's just angry he's wasting away over there in a nazi agnostic lane that doesn't exist.
Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, leading genocide scholars say jrnl.ie/6805021
Bosco? Zig and Zag? Pajo? Anybody but Geldof.
Is there anything to be said for Dustin the turkey... he'd never take a knighthood.
Jaysis the Easter commemorative speech in 2026 would be awks.
We'd end up back in the feicin Union. Of course we find out this news on a Monday.
ICYMI: ICE detained a mother of 4 last month after she traveled back to the US w/ her passport + valid green card. Her attorney claims she wasn't given any justification for her detainment except a pardoned misdemeanor marijuana conviction from 22 yrs ago www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-de...
happy monday open your wallet
everyone who is treating unblur like science really needs to look at "white unblurred obama" again
waka wake
SIPTU members in Dublin Fire Brigade have served notice of industrial action due to safety concerns over the introduction of a new call-out and dispatch system. www.rte.ie/news/dublin/... Hup the workers! ✊
Me when my wife sees the browser history
Oh man, Warwick. A third Leprechaun in the Hood movie would be more dignified than this.
That's just some of Putin's guys making sure they've the right height for the "accident", those are test Trump's.
it sounds stupid and Newsom *is* extremely stupid, but it's no accident the way liberals call right-wingers "socialists" and right-wingers call their liberal near-neighbors "communists" when neither are remotely either. Liberals and fascists share common ground in hating anything "left"
The Freedom Flotilla to break Gaza’s seige has departed again from Barcelona, after overcoming weather obstacles.
An important update from Francesca Albanese, special UN Rapporteur on Palestine. The flotilla fully complies with International Law. Any attempt to violate the flotilla’s mission is a violation of International Law which @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu has said she will uphold. Empty words, Ursula?
But there's a ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon, and Syria is a sovereign nation. What could Israeli troops possibly be doing there? 🤔
What are the odds absolutely nothing will happen?
I feel like it's hard to get across to my English pals that if the Taoiseach **made a point of insisting to the press** that they put Irish flags all over their house, and made sure to 'always' sit by one in their office, then they would immediately, and forever, be tainted as a massive weird freak.
We will still be at the Central Bank tomorrow, to mark this big moment for our campaign and to reiterate the demand for an end to all Irish state complicity in Israel’s apartheid and genocide against Palestinians. No genocide bonds here or anywhere. #StopFundingGenocide
This is an amazing thread.
Just touched down in Tunis to join #GlobalSumudFlotilla. We are sailing to Gaza to break the siege, open a humanitarian corridor and end the Israeli-created famine. The genocide is armed, funded and enabled by powerful Western governments. End the complicity. 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
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And if ye do match you can use ChatGPT to write your conversations for you...and then eventually you can get your sex droid to have sex with their sex droid...and the droids can use ChatGPT to tell you how it was and then you can use the AI to upload a review on bumble. Such intimate.
are we ready to get hoovermaxxing?
JFK feeling the same way about RFK Jr as the rest of us.
When sad walk dog
Looking good, champ.
I love the smell of consequences in the morning. Thank you, @dragoncon.org
Dunno if it’s a good idea for Breast Cancer Ireland to have a brand ambassador who RTs Andrew Tate and follows him, Tommy Robinson and Conor McGregor.
Germany sends a strongly worded message.
People are melting down at a Tribune article about CHSD 230 considering adding Arabic to its language learning electives. I wasted time in the comments, which I normally avoid doing since it's useless and awful, but it led to possibly the funniest thing anybody's ever said to me about France.
The Ministry of Health in Gaza: reported 9 deaths due to famine and malnutrition, including 3 children, in the space of 24 hours. The death toll from famine and malnutrition rose to 348.
CEOs are trying to convince you that quiet quitting is worse than wage theft, while they plan on replacing you with a robot. Unions know better. Happy Labor Day Weekend.
Rome, Italy. Some pictures just sent to us 💚🤍❤️🧡
when I said I was going to scale back my usage of this site what I meant was I will never, under any circumstances, log off
How frustrating is this after studying so hard to get university places But it was same last year, & year before Yet vacant/derelict homes are dotted everywhere #DerelictIreland Desperately seeking accommodation: Galway students appeal for public’s help www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...
Happy Labor Day 🙂
Keir Starmer just appointed Tim Allan, a board member of the anti trans hate group, Sex Matters, to be his new communications director.
West Cork Walk4Gaza final report and latest news gofund.me/446d0877
Irish state authorities last month assisted three FedEx flights through Irish territory as they illegally carried F-35 combat jet parts to the Israel Defense Forces. State air navigation service AirNav Ireland helped the three flights omn their journeys. www.ontheditch.com/three-illega...
What's the most amount of red flags you can fit in a paragraph?
Attn Ballymun: the one and only Robert Murphy is on a boat and headed for Gaza as part of the #GlobalSumudFlotilla If a working class hero is something to be, then Robbie is some hero. Yup the Flats.
Here, this made me smile today. Let it do the same for you.
Keir Starmer has appointed as his new Comms Director Tim Allan who was a board member of the hate group Sex Matters. It's no longer even pretending to adhere to its Manifesto promise to "remove indignities for trans people who deserve recognition and acceptance."
At what point can we acknowledge that the sex work laws in Ireland are not reducing the number of trafficked individuals, and conclude that these laws are failing to achieve their intended purpose? www.sundayworld.com/news/irish-n...
The Iona "Institute" was named in a 2022 report from the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism as a "far-right hate and extremist group." Legal action was considered but doesn't seem to have materialised. Maybe someone could ask Maria Steen to clarify. #Aras25 #FeckOffIona
Happy Labor Day, comrades 🫡
Happy Labor Day! I see & respect the past accomplishments of the labor movement and raise u full communism
Fair play to all the paddystinians
yup, 100% true! It's all in here.
Ok, just realised the Israeli govt moved their blood bonds themselves, our govt did nothing...but I'm still proud because without all our voices the Israeli govt would have kept on using us and making us complicit in the genocide.
Well done to everyone who pressured our govt, to everyone who protested outside Paschal Donohues office, to everyone who wrote a letter,sent an email, or signed a petition. Those fuckers weren't gonna move without pressure. #bród #speirgorm #ireland Now tis up to the good people of Luxembourg.
Did you know that in the 70s, the British Army created Satanic Panic stories in Northern Ireland. They used blood from the mess hall, set up altars etc and then contacted the media
If there's no event, if there's no accompanying flag,or if the flags accompanying it are American or British, you can safely assume that the flag has been hoisted by right wing yank/tan emulaters.
I'm always wary of flegs.