Jenny Lyons

they pissed off the WeRateDogs guy enough from him to break character to directly tell them off, that's genuinely impressive levels of being an asshole

I think there are seasons when it’s ok and seasons when it is a mega drag. I’m enjoying the planning of it again but when my kids were little and it all fell to me it was gruelling.

Why has food become another joyless way to self-optimise? | Emma Beddington Women of my age are told we neglect protein at our peril – but you can’t cheat death with chia seeds alone. So, could we rein back on the self-optimisation – and ramp up the joy, writes Emma Beddingto...

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... I love this description ‘they experimentally tried living off that bro-goo Huel. “That’s so depressing!” I remember saying in horror, but they claimed it was fine; it was nice, even, “not having to think about food”’. Not for me because I LIKE thinking about food!

Young Anton Chekhov, the playwright, looking super hot in his 20s

Wait, THIS is young Anton Chekhov? This? Good lord. Let that gun go off, daddy

The idea of shackled Palestinians sitting on the tarmac at Shannon in a private jet, unbeknownst to Irish authorities, exposes a huge vacuum in our legislation. What now?

Like all radical centrists they see trans people as necessary victims to throw under the bus as a hedge against a Reform Party right wing victory in the face of moral panic about the loony left being too kind to anyone otherwise vulnerable to a kicking.

"The act of being involved in politics at all, the act of casting a vote, is an act of hope."

Holly Cairns closing the National Conference this evening with a vision for a fair and equitable Ireland.

hahahahaha i can haz fake suicide

On Polymarket, ‘privileged’ users made millions betting on war strikes and diplomatic strategy. What did they know beforehand? The prediction market’s disciples and CEO believe its an unbiased way of knowing the future. But experts warn users could reshape the world to win big

On Polymarket, ‘privileged’ users made millions betting on war strikes and diplomatic strategy. What did they know beforehand? www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...

Over a thousand seals drowned in fishing gear around the blaskets

in a better structured society we'd see a lot more of them at libraries rather than in suburban homes

There’s a fierce bang of Bannon & his ilk off this 🤢

Ireland already has its own home grown nasties & there’s a huge effort to MAGA-fy our politics.

Stay woke people. Resist this vile, racist agenda ✊🏽
#FFFG
I’m looking at you 👀

#spéirghorm #IrishPol

According to Reporters Without Borders, in 2025, Ireland was ranked 7th in the world for freedom of the press.

The United States was ranked 57th.

So we’ll be taking no complaints about censorship from US politicians, thanks.

#SpeirGorm

rsf.org/en

NTA spokesperson refuses to deal with the issue - deflection and waffle.

What is actually wrong with these people? Do none of them have a moral compass, a child, a woman in their lives? If they HAVE to post on the hellsite, can’t they post on other sites too? W T actual F. #Speirgorm

Nature-based measures yield positive flood results, Mayo meeting hears | Connaught Telegraph A nature-based approach to mitigate flooding can yield positive results, councillors in the Westport-Belmullet Municipal District have heard.

The brilliant Prof. Mary Bourke from Trinity College Dublin on #PrimeTime on the nature-based approach to flooding which is working in all countries across Europe.

Irish Govt. need her to get the movement going & plan.

www.con-telegraph.ie/2025/12/05/n...

#spéirghorm #Floods #IrishPol

Save Dublin's Iconic Landmark: Help Preserve St. Stephen's Green Shopping Centre from Redesign by Signing Now! 5,180 signatures are needed, let’s get there by the end of the day?

Here's the link to the petition to help preserve St Stephen's Green Shopping Centre from the proposed monstrosity. #SaveStStephensGreen #Dublin #SpeirGorm

c.org/BgQnkd8DCN

‘The most stressful TV experience on record’: Alex Honnold and the rise of potential death as live entertainment Witnessing the free climber’s ascent of the Taipei 101 without ropes on Skyscraper Live was an astonishing experience. But beneath panicked viewers’ sweaty palms, there was a queasy truth about the fu...

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio... this is a good review, however it doesn’t mention that the whole production felt like a series of giant ads for Netflix, Threads, X, Taipei tourism board, Google and Northface.
Mega-ick all round.

On what platform/app?

I think i could handle that! Thank you!

I want to go see it but afraid it will be too scary! Was it much scarier than the others?

Pew Research Institute (2023):

• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants

• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants

• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.

And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."

It's *not* about immigration.

YouTube video by jacomonte Bruce Cockburn - If I Had a Rocket Launcher - 1994

Add this to the list,

youtu.be/39LzWvMj4pM

AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i... ugh thank you and thanks for the crytocultists comment too

#speirghorm #gardening

Alt text posted too quickly should read three cherry tomato seedlings emerging in a pot with a homemade tetrapak label reading homesaved cherry tomato & dated

Maaaa Tomaaaaaaatoes! I don’t know what this is but I know it was worth saving cos I saved it 🥰

Pots of gold in Dunnes

#spéirghorm #nature #spring

Elon Musk just been labelled a 'creepy little slimeball' in the Dáil by Social Democrats TD Gary Gannon.