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The drunk uncle theory.

You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

We bought the black box #barrystea & I fear for our financial future because it is thar barr
Go hiontach ar fad

That cogadh na reann cover is fire!

Actually we are pulling our teens (15,17,19) into Star Trek academy at the moment
They usually 2screen but it's more about the cuddles & time together

Schitts creek

If you're reading the mainstream media headlines on the 'Keeping children safe in education' draft guidance and worrying about the kids being transed in kindergarten, please stop and take a peek at my blog, written with specific reference to Alice's experience at school.

Ah Lads, what a day! Dublin, art, drinks & dinner with friends

Extremely rich people should be getting increasingly nervous as more and more ordinary people feel rightly aggrieved by a system stacked against them and the gap grows ever wider. Unfortunately though, in response they will use their immense power to protect the status quo

We're in dangerous times

FFS that's been there at least 3 decades, never a bother, wtf?
I genuinely don't understand these ppl

Anyone spot a cyclist (me) knocked off her bike along the canal at drimnagh today by someone who drove away? If you got a reg I’d love the help to report them! @ibike.ie

Kid Rock is his nickname. His government name is Epstein Island

In '95 I walk into a section in the George & bang into a guy from my Kerry college, 1 side of my drunk brain said 'oh poor rural Kerry boy is lost' & the other went 'ahh yeah, I did know that'
a frantic coffee a day or so later & he told all about his closet at home & out life in Dublin - diff world

No surprise, qwhite to be expected.

the Irish government aren't going to say or do shit about ICE flights of Palestinians going through Shannon because the Irish government is still issuing deportation orders against Palestinians

Barnagh Greenway hub, gorgeous

Thankfully I went west for the weekend, it's glorious all day. Might have gotten a bit sunburnt at brunch. It's done me the world of good. Still cold mind

No, it's a weekend thing for us when we can all get together
But now I'm excited, big sisko fan

Yes, and?

#kevins the clacks have been .. ah clacked..
Can you help?

Mm gotta say I'm enjoying #startrekacademy, kinda need it now &, it's a biggie, finally got our teens to watch some #trek
So a family 'event' watch with popcorn, grá mhor

Concerned citizen: The flotillas have not broken Israel’s siege yet. Why keep trying? The first flotilla that reached Gaza in 2008 promised Palestinians that "we won’t stop sailing until Israel’s siege is broken". We have kept that promise. We won’t back down now because of Israel’s attempts to shut us down.

We acknowledge concerns around launching another flotilla, particularly given the costs and Israel’s confiscation of our vessels and goods onboard. Evaluation of the impact of our actions are both appropriate and necessary. Since 2010, we successfully fought to have boats returned, received compensation for others, and we will continue to fight for the rest. Regardless, we believe that the cost of a boat must be weighed against the cost of silence, complicity, and normalization of Israel’s crimes against Palestinians - costs measured in lives, not dollars.

Even if flotilla vessels are not returned, each mission: • Drives global media coverage of Israel’s crimes that no lobbying effort could buy. While Israel spends billions on propaganda to silence the truth, the flotilla forces media to cover Israel’s violence against Palestinians, as well as those who act in solidarity. • Creates a significant financial burden: Israel has spent millions attacking our boats; abducting and deporting volunteers; on police and prison costs; on litigation; on maintenance of stolen boats, and much more. • Forces international governments to address Israel’s law violations. • Sends a strong message to Palestinians that they're not alone, and helps build solidarity for a free Palestine.

Meanwhile, hundreds of millions of dollars worth of aid continues to rot at Gaza’s borders, waiting for permission from the same entity that deliberately starves and freezes Palestinians to death. We reject the notion that the occupier be allowed to determine what can get in and out of Gaza. Keeping up the pressure to break Israel’s siege must remain a priority. We cannot and will not back down because of Israel’s attempts to shut us down.

We've been sailing to break Israel’s illegal siege of Gaza for almost two decades. The first Free Gaza Movement flotilla that reached Gaza in 2008 promised Palestinians “we won’t stop sailing until Israel’s siege is broken". We've kept that promise. We won’t back down.
freedomflotilla.org/donate/

2008: Epstein is convicted of procuring a minor for prostitution

2018: Despite that conviction, [files indicate] he was invited by Rowling’s team - along with a guest of his choosing - to the Broadway opening of Harry Potter and the private after-party

Protecting women and children, is it?

yes, this is it.

Granny Weatherwax, who had walked nightly without fear in the bandit-haunted forests of the mountains all her life in the certain knowledge that the darkness held nothing more terrible than she was

A poster describing Kilcullen Sketchbook Club, starts 16th Feb 6pm in Woodbine Books Monthly meetups, open to all, come along and draw, chat, exchange ideas. The cost is a sketchbook available to buy on first night. Collaborative, encouraging,open to all creatively inclined. For more info send a DM Funded by Funded by Books at One Community Prize Fund

A new creative evening for 2026:
Kilcullen Sketchbook Club, starts 16th Feb 6pm in @WoodbineBooks
Monthly meetups, open to all, come along and draw, chat, exchange ideas.
The cost is a sketchbook available to buy on first night.
For more info send a DM
Funded by Books at One Community Prize Fund

Yeah, I've spoken to several well off, well educated English people who believe this, really shocking to me

Glorious

If you're a victim of repeated flooding, you need to start looking at land use upstream.

One of these sponges up vast amounts of water, releasing it slowly, the other does not. One reduces flooding, the other *increases* it.

Without addressing this core driver, it'll just keep on getting worse.

Nor the desire

Lol, be actually funny to see him try to explain to his handlers that actually no, I can't call in the national guard to make a faux insurrection because we a. Don't have any & b. I don't have any power