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The Basic Income for the Arts Scheme is €325 a week, similar to what they gave out during the pandemic. This is how much they've deemed one needs in order to live in Ireland. So why is disability benefit only €244? Why are disabled and sick people expected to live so far below the poverty line?

I mentioned that some of them simply weren’t true, and @eilymay.bsky.social had the best response: “why would you let something like the truth stand in the way of being a hater?”

Breaking: Jim Gavin withdraws from Presidential Election.

I’m still thinking about Gavins response to the question on the #womenofhonour -he saw nothing, he knew nothing-and he wants to be President? Can you imagine him responding as our previous presidents have done to issues as national trauma! He’s the see nothing,do nothing candidate #speirgorm #aras25

Not about America - there is a small island across the Atlantic, you may have heard of it - Ireland - there is a presidential election on at the moment (yes we have elections too) and one of the candidates is a man named Jim Gavin - this post is about that #speirgorm indicates Irish related content

Lol. OP was talking about a man from Dublin running to be the president of IRELAND.

So no, Jim Gavin does not run the fourth largest economy in the world.

The issue being misogyny and sexual assault in the Defence Forces of a country that is not the United States.

I must have missed Gavin Newsom receiving the first-name status of Cher or Prince. Henceforth must every Gavin be a reference to him?

Nice colonialism on show. There are languages other than English. The hashtags are in Irish.

Scarlet for ya.

Worth reading in its entirety.

I was feeling rather anxious yesterday as our first storm since Éowyn approached. #StormAmy appears to be upon us, and I'm hoping it's not as destructive.

Thermos has been filled with boiling water, and battery packs are charged if we lose power. Just got to ride it out now!

Iconic scene. Like, the show is ludicrous, and that is why I kinda love it.

I enjoy journaling with some quotes from authors I admire. Today's quote is from Virginia Woolf and feels apt for this moment:

"Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind."

- Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

"When we fight for the right of autistic trans people to access transition care on the same terms as neurotypical trans people, we fight for disability rights. When we fight against cuts to disability benefits that our community disproportionately needs, we fight for trans rights."

Right, @frankiegolucky.bsky.social and I have just decided that the village is Cong. Even if "the topography is completely wrong."

#HouseOfGuinness

Right, I've got a bee in my bonnet over this.

Cloonboo doesn't have a church or a graveyard.

@frankiegolucky.bsky.social assures me that Cong has both.

Why did they choose Cloonboo over Cong as the impoverished Irish village for #HouseOfGuinness?

The famine also happened in Mayo, and Adelaide could have walked to Cong.

www.mayo.ie/getmedia/f7b...

Update on #HouseOfGuinness: we are now up in arms over the idea that Adelaide somehow walked the 24km from Ashford to Cloonboo.

It takes at least half an hour by car, and you're telling me that woman walked it. Nah.

The absolute lack of spine from our Taoiseach.

Dozens of people, including a few Irish people, are peacefully approaching Gaza.

They should not be threatened by the Israeli military and our government should be providing aid to protect our citizens on a humanitarian mission.

Banning the Rainbow – How Hungarian authorities banned the upcoming PécsPride and what the EU should do about it – European Institutions Office The annual LGBTQI Pride March in Pécs (Hungary) is scheduled to be held on 4 October 2025. It had been banned by the police on 5 September. The ban on Pécs Pride is exposing the organizer to the threa...

On 4 October, #PécsPride🏳️‍🌈 is due to take place in #Hungary. Hungarian authorities have banned the march, exposing the organizer to prison & participants to fines & surveillance.

The EU must act now to protect human rights including the right to assembly.

ICC staff print files and prepare for blackout as US sanctions loom International Criminal Court fears work under threat because of dependence on American IT systems

When I first started studying international criminal law, little did I think that ten years later this is the situation we would be looking at.

www.ft.com/content/d4fc...

I hope it's clear to everyone now that Trump really is going for it - he's trying to become a dictator. I don't know if he'll succeed, but he's working to install himself as an autocrat unaccountable to voters. And he's weaponizing the military against Americans who oppose him as part of that effort

Coming Home by Rosamunde Pilcher is the one that comes immediately to mind, handed to me by an aunt. I absolutely devoured it.

All I want to do is get a job, teach law and write my little papers!!!

This resisting fascism thing seemed very romantic when reading WWII era romances as a 16 year old. The reality is grim.

Feeling this, but replace writing little papers with trying to finish PhD.

Took me a very long time to understand this.

Well, @frankiegolucky.bsky.social and I got a great kick out of Cloonboo featuring in House of Guinness and the idea that our neighbours' ancestors terrorised the fine lady from Dublin.

Although the landscape was totally off, Cloonboo is more bog than mountain.

#HouseOfGuinness

Currently writing so many postdoctoral applications, my brain is addled.

Still have to finish PhD, but there are so many deadlines right now, I seem to be filling out a different form every week!

Mostly submitting variations on neurodiversity and law, so fingers crossed one of them works out!

I really enjoyed Sunrise on the Reaping. It's been a long time since I picked up a Suzanne Collins book, and this one was fantastic. Her world-building, characters and plot development are top class.

Can I say, though, poor Haymitch. He really had a tough time.

Great book though!

#BookSky

I found myself reading far past my bedtime last night. Suzanne Collins' world building and storytelling is incredible. I can't remember the last book I struggled to put down. It's gripping and horrifying and you should definitely give it a read!