Emma Rua

Most of Ireland's uplands are commonage, ie co-owned by local farmers.

The ONLY real income from commonage is via subsidies, almost always for ecosystem-killing sheep. This is why Irish mountains are all empty wastelands, kept that way by your taxes.

Why are we STILL not paying farmers to rewild??

Sorry, I was already writing the reply tweet. I miss the edit function

Well I'm drunk at 4 am so i guess it's time to scream sing Sinaed's version of The Foggy Dew until my roommate screams at me

OH THE BRAVEST FELL AND THE REQUIEM BELL RANG MOURNFULLY AND CLEAR

engineer: does engineering

hedgeineer: does hedges

hengineer: builds stone monuments

Belgian AI scientists resist the use of AI in academia Several AI scientists have published an open letter calling for a ban on AI use by students.

AI experts in higher ed aghast at higher ed’s embrace of AI apache.be/2025/10/24/b...

"...It would almost inevitably be followed by tit-for-tat reciprocal announcements by other nuclear-armed states, particularly Russia and China, and cement an accelerating arms race that puts us all in great jeopardy.

It would also create profound risks of radioactive fallout globally..."

At the last election I let govt parties onto my ballot paper for the first time ever, the bottom of it, just to keep the fash out. If the govt now wants to reconsider immigration policies, I'll consider them as the fash. #SpeirGhorm

Gaza faces harsh winter as Israel blocks aid, UNRWA warns Gaza faces a worsening crisis as winter approaches, with vital shelter and supplies blocked by Israel from entering the enclave, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees warned on Saturday, Anadolu r…

'On Thursday, Israel’s public broadcaster Kan quoted a senior government official as saying that “Israel does not intend to allow UNRWA to return to work in Gaza despite the International Court’s decision” requiring it to do so.'

www.middleeastmonitor.com/20251025-gaz...

We are one year on from the promise made by Simon Harris and Micheál Martin that if elected again they would pass the Occupied Territories Bill.
Ireland has a President elected on that platform.
And An Tánaiste does this.

"Free speech of ministers"
It's not 'Dáil Privilege' if you're not standing in the Dáil during a session

at a time when we need calm heads, we need leadership, we need fact-based argument, and he’s effectively just speaking as if he’s a commentator rather than someone who’s supposed to legislate.”

Mr Gannon said Mr Harris was speaking as if he were not in power.

“I think if the average punter on the street said that, you would have to say, fair enough, there does seem to be a huge amount of challenges in the system, but this is the second authority of the State, the Tánaiste,

“They don’t talk about the fact that there are people here who have contributed hugely to our country. They don’t talk about how we’re going to address the silos in the system.”

“There is absolutely lags within the system. People are being caught up within that for years, but that’s a failure of management. We have a management crisis in this country and Simon Harris is fairly much to the fore of responsibility for that.”

Gary Gannon TD: “What he could have also said was their numbers this year have also decreased by 40 per cent on last year. He could have talked about the absolute failures in the system that he’s presided over for 10 years and how he was going to address them.
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@garygannontd.bsky.social

In news that comes as no surprise to anyone...

Sanctuary Runners wins major International Award in Copenhagen | Sanctuary Runners

Last night in Copenhagen, Sanctuary Runners won a major international award for our work in community integration. We are still pinching ourselves. Delighted, especially, for all our participants, our organisers, our groups, our supporters, our people #Solidarity

sanctuaryrunners.ie/2025/10/30/s...

ChatGPT cited a paper of mine which I did not know existed, so I asked it for the link to it.
Unfortunately that link to the Nature website just gave a "Page not found".
So sad.

I don't want to diminish her achievement, in fact it's all the more remarkable because she was pregnant at 16, pregnant again, transported across multiple borders and produced such a Great Masterpiece, despite having to deal with the moodswings of a moany narc addict, all before the age of 19

Written by a groomed & trafficked teenager

Frankenstein was WRITTEN BY A GIRL. Everybody say "fuck you, Eric".

Or it will steal her uncostumed children & replace them with changelings (at least that'll be her excuse when they hate her for being such a carbuncle)

She's want to be careful and mind how she goes, or that Performative chore will come crashing through the window at midnight demanding Blo000d

EHRC withdraws transphobic interim opinion on Supreme Court ruling The equalities watchdog's move came in an eventful week for British trans rights

Under pressure from Europe, court cases and MPs, EHRC withdraws transphobic 'interim update' calling for segregation of Trans+ people

https://www.wearequeeraf.com/ehrc-withdraws-transphobic-interim-opinion-on-supreme-court-ruling-and-demands-ministers-act-at-speed-to-publish-new-statutory-guidance/

Govt should reconsider immigration policies, says Harris Tánaiste and Fine Gael leader Simon Harris has said Ireland's asylum seeker system is not working and that the Government should reconsider existing policies "in a very serious way".

This pile of riot-appeasing baloney can roll right down the beach and cheerfully sink beneath the waves.

www.rte.ie/news/2025/10...

INNOVATION: New Scottish Seating System for WINTER season?

Just tell them it was ChatGPT and they'll be less alarmed

🎯 Meanwhile they literally just dropped 450K on ads in Canada, US, and Australia urging Irish construction workers to return and "build back home". They have no problem with immigration as long as it's for certain people. Sounds about white.