Catherine MacBride

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...

Save The Complex in Dublin I'm getting behind the The Complex Cultural & Arts space. Stop the eviction! Please sign & share

The tenants of "The Complex" the brilliant arts space just off Capel St Stop are being evicted in January and the city can't afford to lose yet *another* cultural space.

Please sign & share the petition to save The Complex

Conversely printers have already achieved sentience, gained souls, collectively sold them,and now revel in the joy of tormenting mortals.

My technology hot take is that AI/LLMs will never achieve true sentience but washing machines are capable of deception and so therefore may possess a soul.

Israeli soldiers shoot at UN peacekeepers in Lebanon No injuries were reported in the incident.

Israeli forces fired on UN peacekeepers in southern Lebanon today, forcing them to take cover.

Heavy machine-gun rounds from a tank landed roughly five metres from the personnel, who were on foot patrol near an Israeli position inside Lebanese territory.
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EU lawmakers vote to water down sustainable business rules The EU parliament’s biggest centre-right bloc joined forces with the hard right to back amending the legislation on corporate sustainability.

European lawmakers have voted to back the weakening of landmark EU environmental and human rights rules, as part of a business-friendly drive to slash red tape pushed through with far-right support. jrnl.ie/6874165

Every far-right riot and protest that was tolerated, every racist dog whistle from public reps, every bit of hate and misinformation allowed to spread by social media companies, all led to this moment in Drogheda last night where someone felt emboldened enough to try to burn children alive.

Wed: “Our migration numbers are too high”-Simon Harris

Thurs: “Taoiseach and Donohoe back Tánaiste’s remarks that numbers migrating to Ireland are ‘too high’”

Fri: ”migration numbers too high outside of international protection…as well”-Simon Harris

*Arson attack on infants in IPAS centre.*

I’ve got an exhibition opening next week in Dundalk featuring all my experimental photo chemistry work with low toxic developers and work like this chlorophyll print on a leaf #speirgorm

An Post Irish Book Awards Public Vote 2025 Vote in the 2025 An Post Irish Book Awards Public Vote

Go vote against him. It's the last award, but you can use the arrows to skip through other categories if you don't want to vote in them.

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Irish activists aboard flotilla boats boarded by Israel as vessels taken to Israeli port At least eight Irish activists are among the roughly 200 participants aboard boats seized by Israeli forces.

At least eight Irish activists, including Sinn Féin senator Chris Andrews, were aboard a number of Gaza-bound flotilla vessels seized by Israeli forces last night
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A Sumud Flotilla spokesperson says Louise Heaney, Tadgh Hickey, Sarah Clancy and Senator Chris Andrews have been detained by Israeli forces.

No, we definitely did understand that the Care ref was going to enshrine in the constitution the expectation that disabled people would be cared for by relatives and that the government would have no binding responsibilities of their own towards us

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Heather Humphreys is running for president.

As Minister for Social Protection she made the case for putting almost everyone who was in reciept of the disability allowance through intreo.

As if the problem with cerebal palsy was that you weren't looking for enough work.

#SpéirGorm #SpeirGorm

Today, hundreds of media outlets in over 50 countries are mobilising in solidarity with Palestinian journalists in the Gaza Strip, alongside RSF and Avaaz.

Find out more: bit.ly/3UXUSOS

#ProtectJournalistsInGaza
#LetReportersIntoGaza

Berlin police have referred a case to their watchdog after an Irish activist was punched by an officer during a pro-Palestine protest
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A R C H I P E L A G O at the RHA a collaboration between Island Photographers and the Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts.

Very excited about this:

A R C H I P E L A G O
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@rha-arts.bsky.social

Screenshot of the first two questions in the survey - there's only six to answer. #SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm #Ireland #Art

There's a REALLY quick and easy survey for the public consultation on the Basic Income for the Arts scheme - it only takes a few seconds, anyone can fill it in, and it could make a huge difference to arts workers in Ireland. Take a few ticks to places a few ticks here: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...

The Secret of Colour and Light | ArtNetdlr Members’ Group Exhibition at Walters Bar

ArtNetdlr delighted to present the exhibition ‘the Secret of Colour and Light’ opening on Tuesday 8 July 2025.
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US contractors say their colleagues are firing live ammo as Palestinians seek food in Gaza American contractors guarding aid distribution sites in Gaza are using live ammunition and stun grenades as hungry Palestinians scramble for food, according to accounts and videos obtained by The Associated Press.

US contractors say their colleagues are firing live ammo as Palestinians seek food in Gaza.

and the world just watches...

NCAD Works 2025 The NCAD digital catalogue documenting the work of our 2025 Graduating Students

That's a wrap! I've finally finished up in college (for the moment?) now to see what's next on the cards! see my latest college work here :) #NCAD #CEAD #art #animation 2025.ncad.works/graduates/ca...

And we're still authorising the bonds that fund this.

Rua Red, in partnership with the NCAD, proudly presents NCAD Works 2025, MFA Graduate Show. Opening 7 June, the
exhibition showcases the work of 7 graduating artists from NCAD’s Master of Fine Art programme. Get the full details ---> ncad.works/courses/mfa-...

Pride and Passion - Farm Portraits | Mary Burke at Custom House Studios + Gallery

Custom House Studios + Gallery cordially invites you to the official opening reception for Pride and Passion - Farm Portraits a sole exhibition of paintings by artist Mary Burke.
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Chuffed to see my work “Disco Vegetables - Pink Oyster Mushrooms” on the RHA Gallery’s Upcoming Events page - it’s in their 195th Annual Exhibition, which opens on Monday #atelierhorgan

As people voted for the Israeli entry in the Eurovision, this is what the Israeli state was doing #boycotteurovision #endthegenocide #gazagenocide

This is incredibly powerful from the WHO’s Emergencies Director, Dr Mike Ryan, on the world doing nothing as the children of Gaza die.

“This is an abomination.”

(🎥 Middle East Eye)

Séamas O'Reilly: Trans people have spent a decade being attacked in a moral panic The poor provision of unisex children’s facilities— which reinforces gender stereotypes and inconveniences women and men both — was, incidentally, an issue I remember being quite talked-about a decade...

The UK's political and media class has spent years heaping sadism on trans people, and they want to do the same in Ireland next. Calls for civility and calm won't cut it. We need to fight them tooth and nail.

www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

TERF Island: the embarassing truth about Britain's Trans Panic. Condemning an entire category of people on the basis that one of them might commit a crime is the very essence of prejudice. And that prejudice plays straight into the hands of the far right.

‘There is something particularly British about the unspoken agreement to pretend this isn’t happening. To settle for a kind of reality that’s neat and tidy as a window box. To trim the unruly hedges of humanity.’

My essay on the anti-trans moral panic:

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