“Irish citizens and residents are having their biometric data processed without them having done anything to raise suspicion ... simply for getting on a ferry.” - @olgacronin.bsky.social on live facial recognition scanning of thousands of travellers at Holyhead.
www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...
kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them
07.02.2026 22:25 — 👍 39686 🔁 7196 💬 305 📌 145
A French media network has been sanctioned 26 times & fined €630k over the last 6 years "for its chronic inability to moderate the racist and Islamophobic remarks of its guests."
If we did this in the US, we'd easily wipe out the federal deficit. (And rarely hear from members of the Trump regime.)
In a functional country, this would be a scandal. A service suffering only from chronic underfunding was ripped apart because the media created a myth of 1000s of complaints of malpractice. The truth - as in my family’s experience - was very different.
www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...
It's worth noting that this was also a pretext to open up new services designed and run by people who push an unproven pseudoscientific "Gender Exploratory Therapy" model that has been likened to conversion therapy by international experts.
12.02.2026 13:17 — 👍 309 🔁 114 💬 7 📌 4
pure elite capture - the uk just folded to a hardline anti-trans campaign pushed by a tiny number of people
www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...
Reminder who Alden really is, and how they’ve been violently 86ing our papers:
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
In a full-page ad in Sunday's Tribune, Alden Global Capital said it could pay 30% more than others for employee-owned Paddock Publications and offer employees better terms. Crystal Lake-based Shaw Media could be another bidder.
09.02.2026 22:16 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 3 📌 4
I see all the old men are triggered over Imbolc so here’s a reminder of who are celebrating today #speirghorm
feministire.com/2018/02/01/h...
A company was planning to inject chicken shit deep into a Virginia aquifer. Why? Because that way the carbon emissions stay underground, and the company can sell the carbon credits to Microsoft who can claim it toward their net-zero goals.
Carbon credits are a scam.
Ann Lovett’s story was in many ways the story of a generation of young women. We all knew girls like Ann, who had concealed their pregnancies or been sent away mysteriously. And many brave girls who were single mothers against all the odds.
#NeverForget
Get your tickets to Everybody to Kenmure Street, a documentary about a community resisting the deportation of their neighbours in Glasgow. This will sell out. I got mine. Feb Sat 28 DIFF.
It’s the film we all need to see right now.
www.diff.ie/programme/ev...
Get your tickets to Everybody to Kenmure Street, a documentary about a community resisting the deportation of their neighbours in Glasgow. This will sell out. I got mine. Feb Sat 28 DIFF.
It’s the film we all need to see right now.
www.diff.ie/programme/ev...
But when I asked an organizer what they wanted to see out of press coverage, they told me they wanted people to see the beautiful things they are building here, and not just the worst stories of the worst of ICE's crimes.
What people are doing here is beautiful. It's a tragic beauty, but a real one
I don't want to paint a rosy picture, because it's a city under siege. People are being abducted all the time. One person told me about watching 1-2 abductions a day, just in her own work following ICE.
22.01.2026 03:58 — 👍 6792 🔁 622 💬 7 📌 5Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."
22.01.2026 03:58 — 👍 16857 🔁 3424 💬 68 📌 211It's genuinely a leaderless (or leaderful) movement, decentralized in a way that the state is absolutely unequipped to handle. There are a few basic skills involved, and so people teach each other those skills, and people are collectively refining them.
22.01.2026 03:58 — 👍 8781 🔁 880 💬 14 📌 63I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.
22.01.2026 03:58 — 👍 15222 🔁 3133 💬 25 📌 138
In 1921 there was concern in English newspapers about the calibre of person employed by the Black & Tans in Ireland.
From the Leicester Catholic News.
Mussolini was captured by Anti-Fascists, shot and his body was brought back to be hung from his feet in the public square.
24.01.2026 19:28 — 👍 2580 🔁 586 💬 40 📌 76
Sunday Business Post headline: Overwhelming majority want Elon Musk’s X banned in Ireland
Someone tell our government that banning X is now the populist position #speirghorm
24.01.2026 22:28 — 👍 148 🔁 52 💬 6 📌 4
In 2023 the UK government legislated that veterans who, like US ICE officers, shot their fellow citizens dead, on camera - for protesting, would never answer in any court - Civil, Criminal or even Coroners. With no pushback from the left or electorate.
In case you think it couldn’t happen here
An overhead view of protesters gathering at the scene of the shooting.
Live coverage: www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
📽️ Aaron Lavinsky/The Minnesota Star Tribune
Israel bombed 5 towns in Lebanon today. Another day of an Israeli ceasefire: you cease, we fire
21.01.2026 17:29 — 👍 222 🔁 112 💬 1 📌 1Excited to launch this call for pitches. There is a wide scope in terms of working with freelance and newsroom journalists, multi-media projects, etc. Any questions get in touch!
20.01.2026 11:20 — 👍 8 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0Irish women are going to hunt him for sport.
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20 years old. 20th January 2006 Agroculture PT1 - Live From The Farmshed was launched.
Produced,engineered,and mixed by Mick Jones
except:
tracks 4 and 8 - produced by Danz
tracks 5 and 11 - produced by J Hickey
Captain Moonlight - lyrics and vocals
captainmoonlight.bandcamp.com/album/agrocu...
Amazing moment on French TV. A French judge explains how Trump sent people from the US Embassy basically trying to intimidate her during Le Pen's trial for embezzlement - something they've done to other judges around the world.
20.01.2026 15:01 — 👍 1544 🔁 897 💬 29 📌 116
Paschal Donohoe the very man who prioritised Data Centres over homes. Who also provided subsidies for these DCs meaning we pay more for our energy.
#SpéirGorm
A Snapchat notification for a "New Customer Offer" from Paddy Power
I don't think messaging apps should send users unsolicited messages inducing them to gamble on behalf of betting companies, personally
20.01.2026 21:19 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
