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your dead AI mother loves you so much ❤️

Something being missed a bit in the coverage of Ryanair's shift to "100% digital" boarding (which it's not) is that they are actually limiting other digital formats and favouring only their app for access to passes, which isn't a neutral utility but a data collecting e-commerce machine.

Inaugural Speech of President Catherine Connolly | President of Ireland A Thaoisigh, A Phríomhbhreithimh, Airí, Baill Chomhairle an Stáit, Baill an Oireachtais, Ambasadóirí, Ceannairí Eaglaise, agus dhaoine...

President Catherine Connolly’s inaugural speech.

“As I speak, I am acutely conscious of the 165 million people currently forcibly displaced from their homes and countries due to war, famine and climate change. We cannot turn back the clock nor close our eyes to these realities.”

congrats to everyone for thinking this through before signing very big contracts to put it on every student’s device at the school or university you run

Every tech company eventually either reinvents the bus or reinvents phrenology

One of the maybe three things Rte actually does well and on rare enough occasions. And they’re closing it down.

This is a disastrous move. RTE's documentary-makers in both radio and TV are held in very high esteem all over the globe, and to shutter the in-house TV unit is as stupid as it is short-sighted.

It shouldn't need to be explained to anyone, so soon after the Soldier F verdict, why Irish people might not want to be socially obliged to donate to a charity committed to uncritically commemorating all British wars, including Iraq and Northern Ireland, and financially supporting their veterans.

So much of the centrist approach to politics has devolved into "How do we trick people into supporting us like the right has done?" where talking sincerely about policies that might help ordinary people's lives is for naïve schmucks who don't understand the glorious theatre of it all

Spare a thought for those who don’t talk the (Irish) talk new The Kneecap factor is making Irish trendy but there is a danger of creating a ‘them and us’ situation between those who understand it and those who do not

It’s impossible not to look at this in the context of how nationalism in various forms seems to be sweeping the globe. It is expressed varyingly. We see it with the weaponising of the tricolour in neighbourhoods as an anti-immigrant symbol. Clearly wanting to see more Irish spoken is of an entirely different order. Yet, given the times we live in, there were high levels of zealotry in the recent campaign. Whether people like to admit it or not, the shaming of Humphreys on the language front fed the sectarian abuse that was fomented by some during the campaign. Those who wish to speak or relearn Irish should feel entirely free to do so. Some are doing it in ways that attempt to be inclusive. It would, I think, be a matter of regret to almost every Irish person if the language disappeared. But there is a danger of it being talibanised. There are so many of us out there who simply don’t understand it, no matter how beautiful the Irish being spoken. Some might even consider it rude to continue at length in a language in which statistically over half of those present in the room will not understand what is being said.

Being a professional full-time "opinion columnist" is akin to a career as a Victorian hat maker.

It doesn't matter how stable, thoughtful, and intelligent you are at the outset; the working conditions will inevitably turn you into a dribbling, incoherent lunatic.

April: If we don’t get Housing right in seven months, we’re screwed.

November: Housing crisis here until 2040.

You try to get off social media then one of the world's most evil men dies, a socialist Muslim gets elected NYC Mayor, and a cop is grilled about his assault by sandwich, all in one day.

Ex-Astronomy Ireland manager wins employment claim at WRC Space commentator David Moore has been held personally liable for multiple employment rights breaches against a former manager at Astronomy Ireland who said she was forced to quit due to a "toxic" wor...

This Astronomy Ireland stuff is absolutely cracked

www.rte.ie/news/busines...

The ceasefire continues according to virtually every media outlet. Israel is demolishing entire neighbourhoods in Gaza to make sure Palestinians never go back.

The genocide is ongoing

Overshoot: Exploring the implications of meeting 1.5C climate goal ‘from above’ - Carbon Brief The first-ever international conference on the contentious topic of “overshoot” was held last week in...

"Opening the conference, @iiasa.ac.at director general Prof Hans Joachim Schellnhuber shared his personal view that '1.5C is dead, 2C is in agony and 3C is looming'."

www.carbonbrief.org/overshoot-ex...

Waistcoat made from the fleece of local sheep. All the processing from raw fleece to finished garment done by hand.

#ShowMeYourKnits
#cabled
#IrishWool
#Knitsky
#Knitting
#AranSweater
#SustainableFashion
#handspun
#FiberArt

An IPAS centre burnt out with fireworks thrown into it - women and children lucky to get out alive - when are we going to start taking the far right violence in Ireland seriously?

It's been like watching the world's slowest train crash. For 5 years.

given his involvement with a seditious cult of conspiracists, I'd love for journalists covering this by-election to ask Cllr. Thomas some simple questions like "do you believe laws passed by Dáil Éireann are real" and "do you think it's okay for people to set up their own courts"

Elon Musk takes aim at Wikipedia Musk has denounced Wikipedia as "Wokepedia" on X and urged people not to donate to the platform.

I’ve never donated to Wikipedia before but I set up a small monthly donation as a fuck you to the world’s richest psychopath.

Proud to have yet another Irish president who is an ally for queers, the Palestinian people, women and the downtrodden and an advocate for peace, and looking forward to the day when we finally have a government to match.
Well done Ireland - you voted for better.
#Aras2025 #SpeirGorm #UachtaránNua

'The office is for you': Catherine Connolly says she is symbol of a new movement Tallies suggest the Independent candidate is on course to become the next President of Ireland.

Catherine Connolly has vowed to "put hope into people again" as she looks on course to win the presidential election.

"I am only a symbol of the new movement. I am incredibly hopeful that this movement will continue," she told reporters this morning. jrnl.ie/6855478

Miriam saying that Irish has been 'weaponised' in the North is big yikes

#rtept #Aras25 #Primetime

If I hear rural pursuits again I will LOSE MY MIND.

“Rural pursuits” - what a noxious phrase and an insult to the majority of people who live in rural areas.

What other rural pursuits does she support? Destroying hedgerows, polluting rivers, poisoning raptors…?

#Aras25 #SpeirGorm

You said you left politics because you ran out of ideas, says Colette.

That's still the case, says HH 😂

.. and then waffled about experience in gov, or "stepping up to the plate & making the tough decisions", or some other shite, I've stopped listening.

#Áras25

YouTube video by Al Jazeera English Israeli settlers burn trees, assault Palestinians in occupied West Bank olive harvest attacks

Evil and vindictive

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I would laugh if this wasn't so true 😭

Ironically, Catherine Connolly's role as a barrister demonstrates her ability to be objective and represent all sorts of clients — so actually an example of why she is capable of being a good president (along with all the other reasons of course)

#Aras25 #SpeirGorm

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