Jen 🍉

Going into Dublin today from Dundalk. Will check back in to tell you all how annoyed I am. But also, I will be on a quest from a donut like it's 2013

Vermont judge orders release of a Palestinian man from detention Vermont judge orders release of a Palestinian man from detention who was arrested at his U.S. citizenship interview.

The judge also ruled that the feds can't remove him from the state or the country.

www.wcax.com/2025/04/30/v...

I have such good memories of getting those wee donuts. A beam of light in my recession era studentdom.

I woke up this morning with an intense craving for one of those warm donuts from that wee stall on O'Connell Street. I am not even in Dublin.

We're back in a golden era of amazing female punk rockers. It's like being in the early 90s but I'm bitter I had to be in my fat thirties by the time it came round again.

It's giving Victorian era anti Fenian propaganda with racist cartoons.

Telling an artist not to have political opinions is like telling a baker to stop using sugar.

Everything about this Kneecap outrage is making my blood boil. I don't know how many emaciated and decapitated children people need to see before they gain back their humanity. Get in the bin, Sharon.

I wanted to say the stuff with Rick and his da really fell flat for me for a show of this calibre. It was giving Kat Slater and Zoe.

We're gonna have those "coffins" like in Neuromancer if something is not done soon.

It's sad because I'm sure loads of us have idealised a person in our lives and made up a million excuses or tried to see the light in the cracks. I feel like Mike White really captured that with those two.

I loved her. She was so cute in the show but I also wanted to shake her so much. Girl, this man does not love you. Go be young and free. I also don't think she "knew" Rick or how dangerous he actually was.

Rick and Chelsea had a horrible relationship. She was one of those woo types that spouts all sorts about spirituality but she has never done any inner work on herself. #whitelotus

One thing that gets on my nerves about watching anything now is that fans expect TV writers to drive plots the way they want it. Write fan fic

Do these "get in the gym🤣" guys realise how much gyms cost like it's not free??

I'm practising my Italian again and struggling to keep it in my head.

Years later, I just never get sick of this song. It's a shame they never had more hits.

Comment on a Joe video of The Mary Wallopers boys saying they hate Dublin. "Culchies always hate Dublin". We don't. Dundalk is just a brilliant town.

I see Finn McRedmond has written in IT "there are too many books" article today with the caveat "especially ones written by young women". The level of audacity to say this as a *checks notes* Opinion columnist in 2025 is some laugh.

I watched Adolescence. What an absolute treasure Stephen Graham is. From demonstrating the dangers of far right extremism to young lads in This Is England to male violence in Adolescence. That's an actor with heart. Great series. Might never have kids now though

Supporting The Outcasts a few weeks ago was class. Up the punx and all that as the kids say.

Finally we will find out who is Grassy Noel?

Hamdan Ballal: Oscar-winning Palestinian director released from Israeli detention No Other Land director Hamdan Ballal released a day after he was attacked by settlers and detained by Israeli forces

Effectively as a punishment for winning an Oscar, this Palestinian director was beaten in front of his home. Instead of helping him, the Israeli army arrested him, blindfolded him and forced him to sleep under a freezing air conditioner www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

I don’t watch White Lotus bc of a murder mystery I watch White Lotus bc I like to watch rich people fuck up their lives in the most beautiful places imaginable

Anyway, back to more pressing issues, if Belinda is being honey trapped in White Lotus, I will riot.

A lot of ex school bullies who became anti bullying advocates over the past couple of days.

A poem that says: They’re not like us Never will be Oh, I don’t mean you You’re grand It’s the others The ones I don’t know They can’t be trusted Only here for the money Abusing the system But not you You’re grand You work here Like us But the others? Get everything for nothing And why do they come here Anyway? The streets aren’t safe Since they came Ah come on Don’t be like that I didn’t mean you You’re grand I’m just asking questions

Just asking questions.

Yuval Abraham יובל אברהם @yuval_abraham Follow A group of settlers just lynched Hamdan Ballal, co director of our film no other land. They beat him and he has injuries in his head and stomach, bleeding. Soldiers invaded the ambulance he called, and took him. No sign of him since. 2:15 PM 3/24/25 1.5M Views

The IDF has kidnapped the co-director of Oscar winning film No Other Land after being assaulted by a gang of Israeli settlers.

Anyway, as a culchie I'm fucking mortified.