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Sorry but who allowed an entire cruise ship of tourists to land in on top of the ladies day crowd?

Galway has suffered enough.

#SpeirGorm

The deadline for applying for the CIP fellowship is tomorrow the 31st of July at 5pm Eastern Time - make sure you get your completed applications in! #Research #InclusivePolicy #DisabilityRights inclusive-policy.org/fellowship/

My grandad consistently told me that he was seeing the gynecologist for his skin condition

I just want to have an option that isn't religious, is a little bit more thoughtful than just a card and I would like that money to go towards supporting survivors of religious institutions, rather than money going to protecting abusive institutions

I think a couple of Irish charities should look into developing secular mass cards: send good intentions, give a little money to good causes and some nice tasteful cards that could stretch from "comhbrón ó chroí" to "sorry you are screwed for the leaving cert"

#SpeirGorm

Delighted Catherine Connolly will run for President - in these times she is the person we need in the Aras to tell the story of inclusion, of equality, of a shared and inclusive Ireland. She has my vote and my support #teamcatherine #speirgorm

"Staff announcement, can you reset the breaks if you get a chance" followed by "thanks for that"

#SpeirGorm

I was ticking European on all of my NZ forms for months before I found out as a migrant I'm supposed to be other.

When I first moved to Welly 3 years ago my GP told me not to get pregnant here. There is no room for these cuts.

Ireland definitely had fewer Ukulele Orchestras when I left.

FCC blocks ban on prison phone price gouging, benefiting top Trump donors The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will no longer enforce a rule capping the price of prison phone calls, according to an announcement made Monday by FCC Chairman Brendan Carr.

1. The FCC has suspended a rule, schedule to go in effect this year, that would have banned prisons from price gouging on phone calls.

Right now, at some jails, a 15-minute phone call can cost over $11.

The decision benefits some of Trump's top donors.

I'm going to a music "festival" this weekend because in April I thought I would be an entirely different person in July.

There are an awful lot of NGOs in Ireland who claim to support people in the sex industry but have never given the real support UM has given over the years.

Now is the time for them to step up and use their massive funding (which UM has never had) to do something actually helpful for sex workers.

I told my wife they were turning the GPO into a shopping centre and she assumed I meant the nightclub on Eglington Street -

Cause would be a much more normal thing to do.

#SpeirGorm

It particularly annoys me when Irish transphobes object to “pregnant people” because so much of Irish abortion history was shaped by pregnant people who were not women.

- Miss X was not a woman
- Miss C was not a woman
- Miss D was not a woman

I hate the Iranian regime, the reason I don’t live in Iran. My family was hurt by it. Our whole life was confiscated by the Revolutionaries in 1979. My grandfather died far away from his home as he was lablled a “Capitalist Corrupter”. I’ve spent all my life opposing this regime.

But I also hate…

Exciting opportunity for an early-mid career person with a disability to join the CIP-Verse!

I do kind of feel like I'm having a stroke watching NZ media coverage of the current exchange of missiles in Middle East. Horrible civilian injury and death on one side being reported sympathetically while no mention is made of that side inflicting exactly the same on the other *and struck first*.

Failing the "Have I eaten anything today that couldn't be described as a sandwich?" test again.

"I prefer Nazis to mildly irritating people" is a real microcosm for the state of the broader world right now huh

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When I am well I will absolutely pontificate about how vicks is really an illusion and lempsip is just expensive paracetamol soup but as soon as I get even a sniffle I am at max recommended dose of both.

"Yes what a time, I remember going into my office after two years & finding all the dead plants and manky coffee cups"

"Oh same, did you get a lot of calls from friends having panic attacks because dozens of their patients were going to die, & they were alone cause their entire team was now sick?"

Maybe I need to be like "I know wasn't covid awful, do you remember when they were just digging lots of graves in your local cemetery cause they were going to need them, but didn't know if there would still be people who could dig the graves?"

I have lost all patience for Kiwis complaining about the Covid response.

It is so disconnected from the reality faced by the rest of the world.

A country that lived more normally and faced less death and destruction than the rest of the world, but you would never know it.

No, I have a while to go yet

I am at the point in my cold where I have no qualms about sending herself to pick me up three kinds of fried potato from the chippy.