Niamh McCormack

Northern Gaza, March 14th 2025.
Much of the media and our world leaders may have moved on. But your humanity must not.

Etiquette Time-tested ways to snub your foe • The cut direct is to start across the street, at the approach of the obnoxious person, in order to avoid him. • The cut indirect is to look another way, and pass without appearing to observe him. • The cut sublime is to admire the top of King's College Chapel, or the beauty of the passing clouds, till he is out of sight. • The cut infernal is to analyze the arrangement of your shoe-strings, for the same purpose. SOURCE: GROSE'S CLASSICAL DICTIONARY OF THE VULGAR TONGUE, ED. FRANCIS GROSE, 1823

The English are amateurs at hostile grudge-holding.

Look at this list of “ways to snub your foe”

Ireland, a nation of people who constantly must encounter each other, knows the pro move is the “cut reverso”, where you actively approach your foe and greet them with pleasure and gusto.

Assured rage

Excellent letter in the Irish Times reminding us that Irish builders did not build the White House as indicated by the Taoiseach this week. It was build by slaves including those owned by the Irish architect James Hoban.

It’s starting to feel like France want this more #IREvFRA

That's a weird way to spell "suspected rapist and human trafficker".

The She Made Him Do It Theory of Everything The rhetoric and logic of the abuse of power operates similarly at all scales, which is why I've found feminism such useful equipment for understanding authoritarians in public and political life. Bec...

These stories amount to "the left was so annoying about pronouns or liberals made people feel so guilty about plastic straws they had no choice but to get on board with the second coming of the Third Reich and the destruction of the planet."

These things are constantly flying around my area and not only are they cringe they sound like helicopters and fly so low to houses

These things are constantly flying around my area and not only are they cringe they sound like helicopters and fly so low to houses

Remember when everyone was saying Lana is an industry plant and then it turned out she didn’t even know you have to submit your own music to the grammys

Those apartheid roots really showing here

Sign the Petition Demand Dublin City Council to Reverse Its Order and Apologise for Mural Removal

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This is actually real. Fucking Hell.

I’ve gone from not liking AI to having absolute contempt for it, people using it/ noticing someone has used it makes me cringe and immediately stop reading

What part of I AM NO MAN didn’t land with them smh

This is the best thing I've read about the Pelicot trial -- worth your time

*extreme David Attenborough voice*

I actually felt unsafe as an Irish person when the British soldier made me kneel down, put a rifle to the back of my head and told me to say my prayers

Ok I think I’m getting it, thank you!

As a die-hard crocheter I have started knitting and find it insanely frustrating. How are people holding their yarn? I’ve looked at YouTube tutorials and none of them have helped with my form for holding the yarn 😭

Sorted thank you!

Ah I’ll figure it out, thanks again!

Thank you! For some reason when I go to click on the lists it doesn’t bring me anywhere, should I be accessing from a laptop?

Just bit the bullet and deleted my blue-bird-turned-serif-x account. There were a few interesting people who were keeping me there but my feed was flooded with tradwife and coquette content that I couldn’t bare anymore. Aside from clever thoughts, any swifties here? Pop culture? Beir bua!

⚖️🌐 3rd day of historic #ClimateJustice hearings @ 🧑‍⚖️🇺🇳International Court of Justice - we expect a legal roller coaster today in terms of legal arguments

🧵live thread with summary from yesterday's interventions and today's arguments ⬇️

#AOLetsGo #ClimateJusticeAtTheICJ

Photograph of a display of prints, surrounded by Christmas decorations and fairy lights, against a white fluffy background

Photograph of mini-prints, bookmarks, stickers and business cards surrounded by Christmas decorations

Cartoon of myself against a white background gesturing towards text that reads Last Christmas Order Dates - USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand: 3rd December, Europe: 15th December, Great Britain: 16th December, Island Of Ireland: 18th December

📌 Lil' note: ciaraioch.com is now taking Christmas orders for prints, gift cards and value bundles - each archival-quality print on textured heavy paper is made in Ireland, shipped in eco-friendly packaging with discount tracked postage available, and comes with free mini-treats for every customer 🎁

Why would you continue to share the articles of a newspaper that is publishing those stories?

Guardian and Observer journalists have asked people not to share Guardian stories for 48 hours from midnight tonight (Tues), to respect their strike and the virtual picket line

Image of the Rebel TV tweet which is a photo of archbishop john Charles mcquaid

From Rebel TV - if the Aontú manifesto was a person! As well as being fundamentally anti choice they propose a children’s allowance from 4 months gestation which introduces personhood law!

See the only thing about Bluesky is it feels like stepping into a party and not knowing the vibe - are memes a thing here? Not seeing any divilment around

Please spread the word that we're here - we'd love to reconnect with people who followed us on Twitter and have now moved here. #Dublin #CriticalMass #cycling #CriticalMassDub #IBikeBop #ActiveTravel