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We need just 569 more Irish people to sign this official EU citizen initiative to pass our threshold.

If you truly support #JusticeForPalestine and you haven't signed, why not? 🇵🇸🙏

#SpeirGorm #SpeirGhorm #IrishSky #Ireland

I'm...just having a lot of feelings about this week's #StarfleetAcademy 🥹🥹

This show has been so good so far anyway, and I really do want Star Trek to move away from leaning so hard on nostalgia, but this was really very good.
Also, protect Sam at all costs. 🥹

remember when everything was possibly cake and we were driven mad by the possibility that everything was cake? don't you wish everything was possibly cake now instead of probably ai? we were such fools to squander a cake-based reality.

lol

European Citizens' Initiative Give your support !

C'mon folks, only 721 people to go and we've passed the Irish threshold. If you haven't signed this already, why not?

It's an important EU citizen led initiative that needs 7 countries to pass their threshold, and then the EU government machine is forced to talk about it.

#Speirgorm #IrishSky

Come on Ireland, sign! For these ECIs to work and be considered by the European Commission, 7 EU member states must meet their threshold, for Ireland that's 10,080. We are now at 8,951, 88 8%. No more EU-Israel Agreement for the apartheid state.
#SanctionsNow
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Today, Israeli airstrikes killed 27 Palestinians in Gaza.

The genocide never ended — and we will never stop campaigning until there is a free and independent Palestine.

If you are somehow, beyond all reason, still on Twitter, you are financially supporting violating women and also financially supporting child pornography.

How are you financially supporting it? Your posts are sitting next advertising. That’s it! Don’t even need to subscribe!

I have one little complaint only and it's about the wall of names - LIEUTENANT Nog?? Lieutenant??
Nog would have made Captain, that better be a different Nog. 🥲
#StarTrek #StarfleetAcademy

So #StarfleetAcademy came out swinging, the first two eps are great! 💜 Already enjoying a lot of the characters, and the post-Burn rebuilding feels real and... relevant. 🥲
Looking forward to next week 🖖
#StarTrek

Seolann ESA agus Playmobil raon mhisean Mars Tá  Gníomhaireacht Spáis na hEorpa (ESA) agus Playmobil ag cur lena gcomhpháirtíocht rathúil le raon úrnua de bhréagáin ar théama an spáis, a thugann sainfís Eorpach d'fhiosrúchán Marsa i lámha t...

I'm subscribed to @esa.int email updates, agus uaireanta, bíonn siad as Gaeilge.
I just think it's neat. 🥹☘️🖖 #SpéirGorm

Update on this from the Complex CEO/Artistic Director, Vanessa Fielding.

Many people think immigration happening on larger scale than is really the case The report by the ESRI found that many people overestimated the proportion of people in Ireland who were born in another country.

A misperception about the number of people immigrating to Ireland and their reasons for doing so is linked to negative attitudes towards immigration, according to a new report published today jrnl.ie/6926698

NCT website cloned in online scam targeting motorists Victims report losing hundreds of euros to fake NCT website appearing on search engines

NCT website cloned in online scam targeting motorists

The Journal Investigates: Where are all the data centres and why should you care?

As of June 2025, there are 89 data centres in Ireland, all of which have been mapped by The Journal Investigates here: investigates.thejournal.ie/data-centres

Israeli quadcopter kills three in Gaza's Khan Younis; police chief slain Despite a ceasefire that began on October 10, the Israeli army continues daily attacks on the enclave.

Despite a ceasefire that began on October 10, the Israeli army continues daily attacks on the enclave.

The Gist: The Abuse Factory X, the child abuse imagery app, revealed our state has no red lines. This is the Gist.

In Dublin, on Fenian Street, there's a factory that makes child sex abuse material.

You can pay it money, as a subscription, and that's one of the services it offers. This doesn't happen by mistake or because you've tricked or hacked the system.

It’s a feature.

www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the...

"But my people/fandom/special interest group are on X"

If your people are hanging out among the Nazis and the CSAM then fuck your people

I will reiterate that I've never had cause to regret abandoning the former Twitter more than two years ago now, and have suffered neither personally nor professionally for doing so. Since I left it's become more toxic and, yes, evil. The people who are still there should really consider moving on.

Folks, @womensaidireland.bsky.social have closed their X account on principle. Follow them here, give them some real engagement to acknowledge both the rightness of that decision, but also of letting go of high follower numbers (even if the algorithm meant that no longer signified actual reach).

Is he saying we just give up and don't try and regulate technology that is literally designed to create nudes of children? In what other sphere of life does the Minister think there's no point trying to prevent criminal acts??

It is ABSOLUTELY the app making the images. But even if it wasn't, the fact that it's actively facilitating their distribution is also horrific and illegal. Wtf is Patrick O'Donovan playing at here?? How is someone with this little understanding of technology in this position? #SpéirGorm

If you have time to doom scroll, you have time to read books!

www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/...

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Red Carpet | Hosted by Celia Rose Gooding YouTube video by Star Trek

This is DELIGHTFUL 💜💜🖖
(...it is a blue carpet though 😆)
#StarTrek #StarfleetAcademy

YouTube video by Star Trek Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | Carry the Legacy and Create the Future

The more I see of this show, the more I'm looking forward to it. And this is a very sweet trailer given the year that's in it 💜🖖 #StarTrek #StarfleetAcademy
youtu.be/RqbkBY0TRdU

TO RUN BRITAIN Robert Peston • @Peston • 16m After the Venezuela strikes and extra judicial kidnapping of Maduro, why would Putin or China (or any of the Global South) think the West has any moral authority? Why would China think the US has any right to lecture it about its ambitions to seize Taiwan, for example? And as for the international rule of law, it is being shredded. Trump claims Maduro directly runs a narco terrorist organisation rather than simply being an autocrat in charge of a corrupt state - of which there are far too many in the world. Let's see if our intelligence services can furnish any hard evidence to the British prime minister supporting the charge of Maduro's personal leadership of the cocaine and fentanyl cartel. If not Starmer is in a very difficult position. Robert Peston • @Peston • 39ml How will the British Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary respond to this? 09:278 "TRUTH. < Truth Details 255 replies ... Donald J. Trump 0© @realDonaldTrump The United States of America has successfully carried out a large scale strike against Venezuela and its leader, President Nico' Maduro, who has been, along with his w + captured and flown out of the Country. This operation was done in conjunction with U.S. lau, Cafaraamant Dotaila ta fallay Thara milli

Fun as it is to see Peston stating outright what the situation is, here’s what’s going to happen: government and press will brazen this out with drivel until it drops out of the headlines, then everyone will get right back on their previous bullshit. This is what they always do, without fail.

Star Trek The Original Series scene. We're in a corridor on the Enterprise. Two non series regular crew members are standing behind Spock in a bodyguard stance. (Tough guy bodyguard vibe, not Kevin Coster/Whitney Houston bodyguard vibe). Spock is wearing a dress uniform with extra flair, medals, and pins, a golden sash, and has a goatee. He's looking at Kirk, who seems a bit cocky and is wearing a glittery fancy gold sleeveless uniform. Closed caption reads, "Terror must be maintained or the empire is doomed."

Flu season may have peaked but HSE warns people to remain vigilant over New Year period There are 677 people currently hospitalised with respiratory illness.

Flu season may have peaked, but people should still remain vigilant about the risk of infection, according to the HSE’s latest report on it and other illnesses like Covid-19 and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV).
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