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Podcast: The best music of February with Mia Tobin Power | Nialler9 In the recommendations corner this month are albums from Mitski, Cardinals, Charli XCX, Archive, Jill Scott, Vegas Water Taxi, Puma Blue, Nashpaints and David

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"Security of tenure!" 🤡

Imagine working in the videogame business and being constantly told these massive service-games are the basis of your prospects, while The Next Big Service-Game shits itself every few months.

I want good games to play offline, made by people who were paid well and given good conditions.

I sleep in a big bed with your wife

What's wild about all the TRANS CONTAGION pieces is that, outside of Op Eds, the editing process at these publications make it *almkat impossible* to make even basic factual statements without rigorous fact checking.

A rule that is just shredded, pulped, and thrown out the window for transphobia.

The government intends to oppose our bill tomorrow.

This is the most craven of actions by the most craven of Governments, and in the debate tomorrow we will call them out for this unforgivable failure to protect the public.

These algorithms are driving an epidemic of mental health problems.

Why wasn't the end of Direct Provision delivered, then? Or the return in earnest of local-authority housing and services?

I mean, they were literally part of the government that took the ruinous decision to issue a blanket bank guarantee; the 2020 government also did nothing on housing and broke its promises on ending Direct Provision.

Not after austerity; not after the Covid-era government that did nothing on housing and broke its promises on a humane asylum system.

This. The planet is burning, and the Greens are happiest handing the arsonists and their enablers the matches.

There are no incremental solutions to exponential problems.

Reject capitalism and neoliberalism; fight for the environment, and the creation of a socialist system that makes it worth living in for everyone.

I feel like things would be different if we still had George Michael with us.
I mean, we’d very likely have a more unreal bangers, but I’m more getting at his excellent way of cutting through political bullshit

And any other holiday!

RTÉ and TG4 largely do great-to-serviceable documentaries and news coverage; some great cultural programming; and the occasional drama/comedy banger.

The light-entertainment stuff, while a commercial necessity, is what doesn't really land for me personally.

#spéirghorm #ireland

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ABSOLUTELY LITTLE

Nile Rodgers for Dublin this summer. Huge if true

I'd like to strongly urge all parties to continue showing restraint at this time

Opinion: A garda sergeant spied on two adult men having sex. But he wasn’t prosecuted - they were Almost 1,000 men were convicted under anti-gay laws, and 1,700 were prosecuted. Their wait for justice is nearly over

Featuring research by @aearls.bsky.social, whose book - "Love in the Lav: A Social Biography of Same-Sex Desire in Ireland, 1922-1972" - was published last year

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Excellent, let's hang our entire subscription offering on stuff like this

Photograph of a suspiciously blue sky this morning. I'm sure the rain will be back any minute. #SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm #Ireland

Who IS she

'Kindred Spirits' Director Tomm Moore Shares the Supernatural Secrets of Cartoon Saloon's New Project | Animation Magazine Director Tomm Moore gives us a sneak peek of his new feature 'Kindred Spirits,' which will be showcased at Cartoon Movie in March.

THE SECRET OF KELLS STUDIO IS DOING A MOVIE ABOUT THE FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN AN IRISH FAMINE REFUGEE AND A CHOCTAW BOY???

Love that Danhausen, but WWE clearly doesn't have the first idea of what to do with the athlete; and it's already looking very much like they'll Flanderise the character.

Pity he couldn't have made it work with AEW/ROH; double-pity he's ended up in MAGA-land.

#wrestlesky

Every time I read a book from before the 20th Century, I am reminded that everyone who posts one of those anti-classics screeds on social media is a rube who has never actually read a book.

I am ashamed of my country's recent shameless pandering to the far right. As well as the increase in deportations, many decent, hardworking people who have been here for years have been left waiting for months for renewal of their existing permits to live & work here.

PayGap.ie - Irish Gender Pay Gap Portal A portal cataloguing gender pay gap reports from Irish companies.

Friends, I'm working on allowing people to access PayGap.ie in Irish. I'm close to finished on the code work needed to support translatable strings everywhere, and will do my best at a first pass of the translations too, but if there's any Irish speakers willing to give it a look, let me know!

I see Nigel "always cheated never defeated" Farage is now trying to stop non UK citizens from voting. This would mean my Irish wife would have no right to vote despite giving 20 years of hard work and taxes to the UK state.

And where does it stop - the unemployed/benefit claimants will be next

this is brilliant

The people who hate asylum seekers are cheering on an illegal war that will create millions of refugees…

BIG BAD BRODY KIIIIIING