Alex

I'm so so sorry for your loss, and so glad for every day you had with her

Here's to the hellbeast

Hoping that momentum can grow to ensure this pathetic match doesn't go ahead.

Work needs to be done to ensure an enormous protest occurs if it does.

Tourette syndrome activist John Davidson says Bafta told him ‘any swearing would be edited out of the broadcast’ Davidson said he ‘can’t begin to explain how upset and distraught I have been’ over slurs he shouted during the award ceremony

So the BBC promised Davidson and StudioCanal (who made I Swear) that any swearing tics would be edited out from broadcast, and instead they left them in despite a two hour delay, and even put a fucking microphone right in front of him to ensure they picked it up - he was sat at the back of room.

Consider it enrichment maybe?

The question is not the lobbying. The question is how many of these lines- like the banning access to social media to under 16s but not making it the duty of Meta to enforce- appear in the mouths of our Ministers over the next few months.

Oh look, they realized they could get away with it for trans people and now they've moved onto ADHD. If this gets transposed to Ireland I'm fucked.

No ICE in Ireland.
I know our Taoiseach is allergic to doing anything about anything, but this needs to be a red line.
#speirgorm

This is it.
For anyone that doesn't get why fascist movements hate trans people in particular.
This is it.

"Sure, ICE is bad, but we need to deport illegal immigrants"

No you don't.

If immigration enforcement leads to concentration camps and roving death squads, maybe it's time to just get rid of the concept of illegal immigration entirely. You've tried it, it's a bad idea in practice, so bin it.

Micheál Martin: "There is no official boycott of Israel, just to make that point, from an Irish perspective"

YEAH DON'T WE KNOW IT MICHEÁL

Happy birthday to Charles Darwin,
patron saint of tired scientists, grumpy fieldworkers, and hating your own manuscript.

This is social murder

Palestine Action have WON their judicial review in the High Court!
A massive victory for free speech, freedom of association and the right to protest.
A massive defeat for the draconian attempts by Keir Starmer's government to curtail our fundamental rights.

"Moderna's CEO announced the company will no longer invest in new Phase 3 vaccine trials for infectious diseases: 'You cannot make a return on investment if you don't have access to the U.S. market. Vaccines for Epstein-Barr virus, herpes, and shingles have been shelved.” 9:12 AM Feb 12, 2026 604.8K Views

In terms of what cures are being lost:

- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

Screenshot from Tumblr User hatingongodot: “In 1404, King Taejong fell from his horse during a hunting expedition. Embarrassed, looking to his left and right, he commanded, “Do not let the historian find out about this.” To his disappointment, the historian accompanying the hunting party included these words in the annals, in addition to a description of the king’s fall.“ LMFAOOOOOO rip to that guy User Shitacademicswrite: i thought maybe this was fake, but there’s even a citation! Taejong Sillok Book 7. 5th year of King Taejong’s Reign (1404), February 8.

Never forget the anniversary of King Taejong falling off his horse!

I cannot sufficiently underline how despicable it is that the IOC has required Haitian Olympic athletes to remove an image representing the leader of the Haitian Revolution (against SLAVERY) from their uniforms.

A reminder: Measles causes immune amnesia. Catch it and your body forgets how to make antibodies for everything you were previously immune to, whether through prior infection or vaccination.

Elder millennials, GenX, and above, get your blood titers checked and get vaccinated if you're vulnerable.

A Small Needful Fact Ross Gay Is that Eric Garner worked for some time for the Parks and Rec. Horticultural Department, which means, perhaps, that with his very large hands, perhaps, in all likelihood, he put gently into the earth some plants which, most likely, some of them, in all likelihood, continue to grow, continue to do what such plants do, like house and feed small and necessary creatures, like being pleasant to touch and smell, like converting sunlight into food, like making it easier for us to breathe.

And I think about Eric Garner’s last words so often, I have this beautiful poem by Ross Gay memorised:

No way we let Sweden get over the line on this ahead of Ireland.

Tell your friends. This isn’t just any old petition, this mechanism has EU clout.

You should read this thread about finding human bones. It's actually lovely. Honest. Cross my heart and hope to die...

Taoiseach on RTE Radio again pedalling the myth that having a job makes disability and the cost of disability disappear - it doesn’t.

'Huge relief': Irish man Sean Binder found not guilty of people smuggling in Greece Binder faced a total of 23 charges, including money laundering and smuggling.

Irish man and humanitarian volunteer Sean Binder has been acquitted of all charges, including membership of a criminal organisation, fraud, money laundering, and smuggling, at a court in Greece this evening
jrnl.ie/6928251

The UK has declined a new Elbit Systems contract, leading Palestine Action prisoners to end the hunger strike that had three of them on the brink of death. The Tesco worker suspended for refusing to handle Israeli goods has been reinstated and will no longer have to handle them. We can and will win

Opinion: 2025 was a devastating year on Irish roads. We need a transport system that keeps us safe Safety of pedestrians and cyclists on Irish roads is going in exactly the wrong direction, writes Dr Catherine Conlon.

Catherine Conlon: 2025 was a devastating year on Irish roads. We need a transport system that keeps us safe.

“Car supremacy tells us that roads exist only for drivers; the harms of driving should be ignored; and that everyone else- pedestrians, children, cyclists,

jrnl.ie/6916567

The Gist: The Abuse Factory X, the child abuse imagery app, revealed our state has no red lines. This is the Gist.

"Consequence-free physical and sexual abuse of children was part of the deal the institutional Church offered the Irish state for to run schools, hospitals and other expensive-looking services.

This week the Taoiseach demonstrated the same mental habits."
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the...

I think it's rather representative of the current government that the Minister tried to chuck a youth charity under the bus in order to avoid receiving a mild-to-moderate amount of criticism

This is
1) flat wrong on the facts
2) flat wrong on the law
3) flat wrong on the impulse to shield a company from the consequences of its own actions in offering the creation of CSAM-as-a-service

This is the sort of morally bankrupt statement that should have its speaker be booed off every street

I'm sorry to keep posting about this but this should be a government-destroying scandal at this point. How the fuck are you not coming down like a ton of bricks on this? There could hardly be a less ambiguous situation, and yet...!!!

THE MACHINE - BY DESIGN - IS ALLOWING PEOPLE TO REMOVE WOMEN'S CLOTHING WITHOUT THEIR CONSENT AND TO MAKE CSAM.

How are we at 'good sides to it too, you know?'?