McGregor urges public to ask councillors to back Áras bid Conor McGregor has posted a video on social media outside Government Buildings calling for people to contact their councillors to ask them to support his presidential bid.

The absolute neck of this guy; found guilty and upheld by appeal in civil case of rape #spéirghorm www.rte.ie/news/2025/09...
"In November last year, a jury in a civil trial found Conor McGregor raped Nikita Hand in a hotel room in Dublin in December 2018 and awarded her almost €250,000 in damages.

Israel double tap strike. It murders journalists then sends a drone in to kill the paramedics trying to retrieve their bodies.

A war crime, broadcast live and sponsored by the US and Europe.

🚨Boycott EVERY news channel that doesn’t show this footage today🚨

Famine has not “struck” Gaza.

It is not the result of some natural disaster. It has been engineered.

Famine has been inflicted upon the people of Gaza by Israel, who have been facilitated by their enabler allies.

Journalists - call things by their proper names.
Famine has not "struck" Gaza.
Israel has prevented food from entering an area that is under its effective control, resulting in civilian famine - a war crime, a crime against humanity, and an act of genocide.
Either say what you see, or let it be.

‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in Europe

Israel is storing recordings of Palestinians daily phone calls - millions of them - that they analyse to plan airstrikes / kill people - in Irish data centres

Sweet Jesus

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Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on.

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#freedomflotilla #madleen #gaza #palestine #greta

Photo of the Madleen flotilla with text that says “ALL EYES ON DECK”

Live tracker of the Madleen freedom flotilla: freedomflotilla.org/ffc-tracker/

Sign the Petition Clear Jade's name and Deliver Justice

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If you watched Newsnight about the grooming gangs, this is the petition to overturn the miscarriage of justice Jade has suffered...

Gas stoves increase cancer risk, especially for kids, new study finds The appliances emit benzene, a potent carcinogen. Exposure varies depending on ventilation and other factors, but there’s no safe level.

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Driving Toward Disaster: The Hidden Costs of SUVs Dr Ola Løkken Nordrum

Pedestrians are 44% more likely to be killed when hit by an SUV. Children? 82%.

SUVs aren’t just a climate issue, they’re a public health crisis.

It’s time to reclaim our streets.

A thought provoking piece by our very own @olaln.bsky.social!

War crimes in plain sight.

Those poor men. Murdered while trying to save lives.

#IsraeliWarCrimes
#PalestineGenocide

YouTube video by TED This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like | Carole Cadwalladr | TED

This is what bravery looks like ❤️💪
Please share this
#technology #broligarchy
#SpeirGorm
Thank you @carolecadwalla.bsky.social

West Papuan Indigenous people call for KitKat boycott over alleged ecocide Thousands of acres of rainforest is being cleared to produce palm oil, used in popular Nestlé and Mondelēz brands

West Papua’s Indigenous people have called for a boycott of KitKat, Smarties and Aero chocolate, Oreo biscuits and Ritz crackers, Pantene and Herbal Essences, over alleged ecocide in their territory

A still from a @paulmurphy.pbp.ie video taken inside the Dáil today.

This is to whom the Government wants to give extra speaking time.

This is who was found guilty of fraud against the state, while a Minister of that State.

Will this government will last?
#irishpolitics
#speirgorm

own kind-that things are not looking so rosy for Facebook. Joel emerges from a meeting with a senior editor of the Wall Street Journal looking like someone has handed him a grenade ready to explode. The guy told him, "Everyone's currently going after Google but you're next." He warned Joel that media, regulators, and high-level politicians around the world are all lining up to start to "rein in Facebook." One of Sheryl's former Treasury colleagues tells her, "You all are two years away from being as hated as the investment banks." * * * The Italian prime minister tells us that he and his counterparts in Europe are struggling with unemployment and slowing economic growth, and the tech companies are seen as leeches, sucking money out of their countries and not creating jobs, making

investments, or paying tax. At dinner, the UK chancellor of the exchequer George Osborne hits the same note, saying that Facebook isn't "paying its fair share." I agree with this. Facebook deploys something called a "double Irish" to avoid paying taxes. It's something Google and Apple do as well. The way the double Irish works is that when one of these companies makes a dollar selling ads (or iPhones in Apple's case) in Italy or Germany or elsewhere in the European Union, that revenue can be shifted to Ireland for tax purposes, and then on to a tax-haven country like Bermuda that charges no taxes at all. To do this, the companies have to set up subsidiaries in Ireland and transfer their foreign IP rights to those subsidiaries. What Ireland gets out of the deal is big Google and Apple and Facebook operations located on their soil, with thousands of local employees earning good wages. Those employees pay taxes to

This makes our next meeting with Irish prime minister Enda Kenny particularly important. Before Ireland, even if the tech companies don't. After years of controversy and opposition, the EU had just forced Ireland to shut down the boondoggle a few months before Davos. Facebook, I'd never been in the rooms where the sausage gets made with world leaders. I'd assumed WEF would be like my experience at the United Nations, where for all its flaws, things still had a feeling of idealism to them. A sense that is absent in these Davos meetings. There's no pretense that Facebook is out for anything but ourselves. It's brazen. By this point I know I shouldn't be surprised but it still makes me recoil. We get together in the WEF Strategic Partners Lounge, a bland room in the Davos Congress Centre packed with temporary furniture. Unlike the setting, Kenny is

charming, a charismatic man who occasionally recites poetry from memory or sings in the raucous dinners he hosts each year at Davos. "Ahh, the beautiful ladies of Facebook," he says as he greets Sheryl and me. Coming from another man, this would be creepy. Somehow, from him, it's almost charming. He hugs Sheryl, embraces me. Kenny has a sense of mischief. One year at Davos, tipsy after dinner, he breaks me and Sheryl's assistant Sadie into a beyond-exclusive wine party thrown by an obscenely wealthy private equity guy, telling us, "Come, you'll never have better wine in your life." He barrels past security into a dark room where a bunch of somber-looking men are sipping from glasses and literally taking notes, declaring brightly, "Someone get these gorgeous ladies some wine." And we're begrudgingly handed the most expensive wine I've ever tasted in my life.

Facebook pushes Enda Kenny around in Davos, 2015ish, in return for keeping 500 jobs in Ireland for a few more years.

Castle Rackrent stuff.

#speirgorm
#CarelessPeople book

Plastic pollution leaves seabirds with brain damage similar to Alzheimer’s, study shows Blood tests on migratory chicks fed plastics by their parents show neurodegeneration, as well as cell rupture and stomach lining decay Ingesting plastic is leaving seabird chicks with brain damage “akin to Alzheimer’s disease”, according to a new study –…

Plastic pollution leaves seabirds with brain damage similar to Alzheimer’s, study shows

Microplastics hinder plant photosynthesis, study finds, threatening millions with starvation Researchers say problem could increase number of people at risk of starvation by 400m in next two decades

This first estimate of the impact of microplastics on photosynthesis and crop production is gobsmacking ...

> Many millions of tonnes of crops are being lost as the world struggles to feed its growing population, the study suggests

#plastic
Story by me
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Becky Burke of Book Island (a picture book publisher in the UK founded by my fellow Tokarczuk translator Greet Pauwelijn) was "detained" by ICE at the Canadian border on 2/28. Her father asked that her story be shared in case someone can help her. He writes:

Sign the Petition Demand Spotify Remove Andrew Tate’s Harmful Courses on How to Traffic Women

Vile. #Spotify should not give airspace to criminal misogyny.

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It feels like if you shut down four airports by blowing up your science project, you should go to jail?

Literally nothing.

A painting of King Louis XIV of France. He's wearing an opulent outfit made of furs, lace, and gold. He's also wearing white buckled shoes with a high red heel.

A close-up of the white buckled shoes with a high-red heel. There appears to be a red lace at the top of the shoes.

Fashion influencer Luka Sabbat wearing a black leather suit and black boots with a very high heel.

James Baldwin wearing a white, short-sleeved button-down shirt, white cotton pants, and brown Cuban heeled side-zip boots. He also has chunky gold and turquoise jewelry (bracelet and ring).

We should first recognize that gender codes are socially constructed. Clothing is not inherently masculine or feminine—codes are contextual and can change over time. Aristocratic men once wore bright red heels. Then they became womenswear until that notion was challenged again.

Donations needed urgently ( before 6pm tmrw wed) to save these young boys

I've made some notable additions to the 'Ireland - Nature & Climate Starter Pack' over the last days, as the mass 'eXodus' continues. Such as:

@irishwildlifetrust.bsky.social
@midshannon.bsky.social
@taraconnolly.bsky.social
@aoibhinnos.bsky.social

Check it out!!

I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️

Concern for well-being of missing Limerick girls Gardaí are appealing to the public for assistance in tracing the whereabouts of two 14-year-old girls, Caoimhe Barry and Khloe Murphy, who are missing from their homes in Castleconnell and Annacotty, ...

Gardaí are appealing to the public for assistance in tracing the whereabouts of two 14-year-old girls, Caoimhe Barry and Khloe Murphy, who are missing from their homes in Castleconnell and Annacotty, Limerick since yesterday

How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world | Carole Cadwalladr In the wake of Trump’s unnerving appointees, the investigative journalist and veteran of the libel court offers pointers on coping in an age of surveillance

NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next.

I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social
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