Sadie

I like this idea of dinosaurs as chunky boys.
Jurassic park would have been a lot more fun if these darlings were wobbling towards people and nobody ran but just turned and hugged the dorky cuddle beasts.

Ah, I see you have recently awoken. Please be more respectful towards people who never went to sleep. Thanks pet. Best wishes 🙏

More Irish activists have now been taken by the IDF from international waters including author Naoise Dolan, TD Barry Heneghan and psychiatrist Veronica O’Keane.

They are part of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition.

The Liberal Abandonment Of Greta Thunberg The Swedish activist Greta Thunberg has been detained by Israel and reportedly maltreated by her Israeli captors after she was kidnapped, along with hundreds of other activists, from Gaza’s territoria...

Going from liberal hero to liberal pariah! Greta Thunberg has transgressed against the only values the liberal class understands: imperial values. For this they abandoned her www.donotpanic.news/p/the-libera...

If I start a blocklist called "Yankbots" and start adding the people in these replies so we can save people the pain of dealing with this nonsense how quickly do you think the wetwipes that moderate Bluesky will suspend me for it

Ha, this place will probably go the same way as Twitter and Boards before it! I always seem to join just before the shit show 😒

Nor me. Yep, it got too much when last libertarian crypto bro wannabe Musk types started pontificating (politely)vat length with not a word said to them. I got so many infractions that I had enough and left. Probably around the time you became a Mod cos I remember that vaguely.

Sorry, I can't work out how to DM here. Newby 😬😒

@mousketeer.bsky.social Denise Murray.... Were you Banasidhe (or similar spelling) way back when on boards dot ie?! I can't even remember my name there.... might have been obliquidie or obliq or something. We had great chats and got dug into researching the Tuam mother and babies home/commission.

Don't even want to think about that fight let alone speak about it, but she should have to resign based on what I learned about that Green Paper from civil servants behind the scenes

They knew the paper was a mess and they pushed it anyway

They did damage to disabled people

#aras25 #áras25

I just joined bluesky the other day and am stunned by how many American democrats appeared out of nowhere and followed me. I hadn't said two words up here to encourage them. They seem like one track accounts, obsessively and desperately trying to educate us as to how terrible they have it 😒

Some American bluesky users need to take some deep breaths. I understand (more than a lot) that being governed by a malevolent force and having armed troops/thugs deployed to your streets is shite, but come on. READ

Yes, that was an eye opener alright.

I was also delighted to see the shithead candidates dropping off until I realised that the less candidates there are, the more it'll consolidate the shithead voters' support for the remaining shittest candidate.

I honestly don't remember that at all, which considering the level of rage I carry is probably a good thing 😅

Anyway, all hands on deck to keep H.H. out of the Áras. To my mind C.C. will have a job to win this now there's a huge cohort of floating F.F. voters 😒

Fuck me, that's.... well, she wouldn't have been out of place in the 3rd Reich 😕

It is exceptionally disturbing. There's literally no excuse for the ignorance she and so many in positions of power showed us they possess towards vulnerable people's basic autonomy and quality of life. I'm not over it 😞

Arm Greta

Just reminded my father about this, who hadn't realised she was responsible. As the mother of an autistic man, I will never forget or forgive her either for wanting to grade my son like cattle at a mart, or for the plunging mental health tailspin that sent me into.

This looks very interesting...G'Wan @izzykamikaze.bsky.social !
(Today's Leitrim Observer)

Marvelous. Cheered my morning right up 🤣 You got yourself a new subscriber!

FF’s Zombie Campaign Jim’s premature withdrawal might have met with the approval of the country’s small faction of Steen supporters but it leaves Micheál Martin in almost the worst of all worlds. Because, you see, Jim managed to not pull out early enough and FF now find themselves required to carry his presence on the ballot to full term.

I am also a big fan of Simon's phrasing in the second para here, and I urge you to subscribe to The Gist for more of the same.

The Long Game Imagine you are a tenant, in the worst financial crash in living memory, and you discover that over three thousand of your very precious and irreplaceable euros have been sent by your idiot bank to your previous landlord. And then he won't give them back. Not then, but also, not later either. He just keeps the money, because that is how Irish private landlords behave. You pay a deposit to a landlord and then they try anything on to refuse to give it back. Now imagine you spend the next 16 years seething every time that landlord appears on the TV, being fêted for his sporting triumphs, receiving state appointments and still never giving you your money. And now, and I invite you to imagine this in full 8k Hi-Def Surround Sound, imagine seeing that guy announce he was running to be President and realising you were going to tell your story and End It.

I learned about Sports Thumb Jim Gavin dropping out of the Irish Presidential election from @tupped.bsky.social's The Gist this morning and I owe it to you to share this relevant passage, which got my week off to a great start:

Each of us dreams of the ways we could fuck up our ex-landlord’s shit but “publicly ending their nascent political career in ignominy over money they owe you” is an S-tier outcome

If we're not careful, this will put landlords off seeking office in the future

#Áras25

Such an FF thing to do to put forward a dodgy, gouging landlord. It'd be funny if it wasn't a pure indictment of exactly what's wrong with our two party State 🙄😒

Short tailed cats 🙏😅 Sheep? Feck.

They're fab Ciara! I adore the cats (? I hope 😅) in the foxgloves and the little trawlers 🥰

#StormAmy at around 3.30pm, East Clare! @carlowweather.bsky.social

Power gone, two trees down, and the neighbour's window fell out so far #StormAmy

Can't upload the video unfortunately 😕

Prior to the #Clare Orange weather warning, #StormAmy already picking up!