@mikemcgb.bsky.social
A scribbling, squabbling, strácáiling eejit, that got blown along the N20 and out to Cork City, Ireland. Bestselling co-author. Foghlaimeoir, bleeding-heart, AuDHDer. Opinions my own. Check https://www.linktr.ee/mike_mcgb for latest scut-acting.
Jeremy Corbyn has to be up there, surely
WTF, this is ridiculous
Further evidence of a government manufactured housing crisis
#DerelictIreland #speirgorm
They have spelt the name wrong, which is an obstacle to anybody trying to find out more. The real name is Buvidal.
🫱🏼🫲🏼 The excellent documentary 'Éire agus Na Chéad Náisiúin' explores the special bond between the people of Ireland and the First Nations of North America. Stream it now on @tg4.bsky.social 👇🏼 #SnaG2026 #SV20 #SeachtainNaGaeilge
Handy tip for cis folk, we aren't an idea, like freedom or liberty, we are actual flesh and blood people. So if you're going to write a thread about us, make sure you get a trans friend to read it first, and if you don't have a trans friend, ask yourself why the fuck not and stop writing about us
I remember a few industry lights on the design end of the tech industry advocating for unionisation maybe 10 years ago? They were mostly organising in the U.S. but it seems like a no brainer conversation topic for Ireland too given how many of us work in this space. www.thejournal.ie/ireland-tech...
He wore the RA's Gerry Beret - the kind you find in a second hand store?
In case ye missed it last week: I co-wrote a book on ADHD in Ireland!
'Have I Got Your Attention?: A Guide to Adult ADHD in Ireland' releases Thursday March 26 via @merrionpress.bsky.social, available in all bookshops.
Thread follows... 🧵
#spéirghorm #ireland #adhd #actuallyadhd #neurodivergence
Oh, uh! Hello! This is CONTINUE.
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Look, the thread is good info. But the key point is that these are people in charge of the most powerful army in history, who *do not know what armies are for*.
They genuinely think the purpose of armies is killing, not policy advancement.
Being Action Man sounds great, but his head is hollow.
Russian gas and Gulf Oil are both, by now, very largely replaceable by solar (and wind).
We have to do this anyway to stop the planet from killing us.
It is the most obvious solution to a problem.
That's where we're at.
Ah. Making people feel weird about words in the hope they'll click through to see what exactly the craic is
I don't know, I don't know. These things don't make sense, nobody at these sites knows what they're up to in the long term, it's all a race to the bottom
To get people talking and engaging. Same as one wrestling website that "accidentally" republishes old stuff to get "WTF?" clicks from people.
Digital begging, so 'tis.
Because the laws of clickbait mean you can't fucking mention what you're even talking about in headline or standfirst, for fear of people knowing anything at all and scrolling past
A belated #IWD share for this spectular image of Saffiyah Khan
Photographer: Joe Giddens, PA
BIG NEWS: my pal Ails and I co-wrote a book about ADHD in Ireland!
Have I Got Your Attention? has loads of info, big chats, tips 'n' tricks - plus real-life experience, through nine incredible interviewees!
#adhd #ireland #spéirghorm #booksky
Preorders: www.irishacademicpress.ie/product/have...
🎶🎶 Yips are legal for a day, here in, Ballyyokes 🎶🎶
*awooooo-ooo
Not to be jaded on main, but my understanding is that's the whole model of the grift - the puppetmasters get a new darling whose life is left in the lurch after the money and attention has been extracted
Even in Cork! Just remembered the auld bus driver with the dirty muttonchops and shoe-polish pompadour
Seen a few auld greasers on the news doing the Elvis thing as a kid alright
Would the music nostalgia fillums of late play to tha kidz? They all seem faaaar more into musicals, superhero junk, sports tie-ins, etc.
In the depths of my obsession with Nirvana, I understood it for what it was - exploring the ruins of something finite, concluded, done; even despite the band's name and logo having a commercial undeath via merchandising, etc.
How would tha kidz be expected to get something from before their time?
Yesterday the NHS banned all under 18 prescriptions of HRT for trans young people.
This ban was justified by 10 new studies that largely stated NO EVIDENCE for under 18s HRT exists.
The study underpinning this played one particular trick.
Let's briefly look at how the NHS rigged the game 1/5
Same with Nirvana.
I was six when Kurt Cobain died. I was sixteen when the self-titled compilation came out and sparked my relatively belated obsession in the band.
My then-eleven-year-old sister was creeped out by the 'posters of dead people' in the next neighbours' bedrooms: Kurt, Tupac, etc.
I said this about Oasis to someone and got blocked, lol
Elvis was dead with ten, eleven years before I was born; and I'm 38 this month.
Elvis is to these kids what someone like Count John McCormack or Mario Lanza would have been to my generation of kids: before our parents' time, even.
What's your sign?