shaky spinster

Natalie lays out all the ways the Govt ignored the #CitizensAssembly and their recommendations. #Spéirghorm

Will be interesting to see if the Irish Gov will get away with the traditional 'Ah Lads, isn't it awful?' approach to the hilariously blantant Price Gouging around petrol, diesel etc #Iran

I always wonder if there's an actual breaking point for Irish consumers...

Just shows that consumer protection law in Ireland is absolute 🐴💩. The CCPC is toothless. The Central Bank is charged with protecting Consumers but in reality protects businesses. The rest are all regulating themselves. SIMI is another supposed industry regulator & is an utter 🐴💩 organisation.

Cruelty of our deportation system raises many questions Deportation is legal but holding migrants with violent prisoners and withholding medication is not the correct way to do things

Fair play to Susan Doyle for this really important article.

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Imagine being told you, your friends, loved ones and neighbours had to leave your home forever because of the increasing risk of extreme flooding.

That's what's happened in Western Rwanda where deadly floods have hit hard and are likely to return.

Our latest on the country's climate crisis.

This is another Europe-wide policy that no-one ever talks about.
It's not enough to deport people - they have to be traumatised, devalued and humiliated in the process, and everyone who plays any part in that process is a piece of shit that should be ostracised by decent people everywhere.

At public meeting on offshore wind farms in Dublin last night, speaker’s Gotcha slide featured monstrously huge turbines looming over Dublin Bay (below, left).

When I asked him to confirm this image is technically accurate, ie verifed by an engineer, turns out nah, Photoshop quickie.

... It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead ...

On @virginmedianews.bsky.social today we look at the impact of climate change on communities.

Following a deadly flood - that saw more than 130 people killed - 1,000+ people were marked to leave the village their families lived in for generations.

The fabric of communities in Rwanda is being torn.

Big Tech wins out over children's safety.

The neck of the government is unreal.
This was literally amended out of the government's 'excuse' because of Big Tech lobbying!

They're engaged in doublespeak in front of our eyes, trying to tell us they're 'dealing' with this.
They're not!

#SpéirGhorm

The new IRB: a band of conspiracy theorists who have set up a parallel Irish ‘government’ This fringe group, drawn from the ranks of anti-lockdown protesters and business people laid low by the crash, have a cabinet, local co-ops and even a network of ‘courts’

there is a primary school teacher in Wicklow who claims to be the minister for education in the "real" government established by his conspiracist cult who are actively trying to subvert the state, and I think about whenever the Burkes are in the news these days

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Denise Whitmore had to travel to the UK for a termination after learning her baby’s condition was fatal.

No family should have to face trauma like this.

For three years now the government has ignored expert recommendations.

This cowardly government plans to vote against our bill that would stop these social media companies push pro-eating disorder content at young women.

All because of lobbying by Big Tech to keep their toxic algorithms.

How much more craven can you get.

#TurnOffTheToxicAlgorithms #SpéirGhorm

Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley, says author and historian Rutger Bregman

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The most popular defence of Churchill is "not perfect but he dealt with Hitler, who was worse".

To which I'd reply that "not as bad as Hitler" is about as low as it is possible to set a bar.

The bar is underground. The bar is covered in magma.

My 28 year mortgage will bring me to age 68, and was kept to the bare minimum for my tiny house (with family support as well)

People can debate AI all they like, but surely we can all agree that anyone who owns or uses a pair of the pervert glasses that secretly record people should be ostracised immediately and totally from our society? I'm sorry but your pervert glasses prove you're a pervert! Get out of town!

Many people voted for Repeal because of stories about women having to travel to the UK in secret for treatment for fatal foetal abnormalities.

Shockingly, eight years on, this is still going on.

We need to see the O’Shea Report enacted without delay to ensure abortion services meet people's needs.

Nothing to see here just the Chancellor of the University of Limerick retweeting a post suggesting that those of us who campaigned for Catherine Connolly would have preferred Ayatollah Khomeini (though I think Shatter actually means Khameini) as a candidate... Outrageous stuff.

I would be interested to hear @unioflimerick.bsky.social explain how this RT from Chancellor Brigid Laffan promotes the 5 core values of social justice, inclusivity, respect, empowerment, & agency?

Photo of ucd protest

Probably the largest protest I’ve seen in UCD - in solidarity with the UCD medical student who suffered horrific #GBV I’m proud to see so many of my students here.

People sometimes ask why I left Twitter for Bluesky but earlier I posted here about being HIV+ for thirty years and none of the replies have told me I deserved it, I should have died, and angrily denounced how much it cost to develop the medication that kept me alive

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Yup! The Trouble with women (book)

Shannon Complicity in the Illegal Attack on Iran At least 153 people, most of whom were children, were killed in an airstrike on a school in Iran yesterday. The children who were brutally murdered were in the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ elementary scho...

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🚨Don't forget that our National Women's Basketball team is to play Israel on *St. Patrick’s Day*. Take action to ask Basketball Ireland not to play the apartheid state and to respect the Palestinian boycott call.
#BDS #BanIsrael
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Back to boom time for the bankers, after they were bailed out by Ireland’s taxpayers …

It's weird how quickly I got used to completely disregarding the first two paragraphs of any Google search results page. Used to be because it was ads, now because it's AI. My eye just immediately skips down to the start of the real results.

Not gonna lie: much less exciting story than the headline made it sound

"GDPR is ruining everything"

If you come "illegally" in a small boat, they'll try send you back to France because that's not the "right" way to do it.

If you come on a visa, they ban citizens of your country from coming to the UK entirely, because that's not the "right way" to do it.

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