It frustrates me no end this double speak shite. It's an adult surveillance act.

Gavan Reilly@gavreilly.com · 3h ago

🚨 EU to propose new “Kids Act” on social media use tomorrow: • No use for under 13s • Supervised “mini accounts” only between 13-15, limited to one hour a day • Mandatory “safe design” for users aged 15-17, with burden of proof on platforms to prove safety of features @virginmedianews.bsky.social

This is, allegedly, one of Ireland's great legal minds? Look, one system demands 'integration' and hoops for certain people who actually live here and the other assumes that integration has already occured, or is unnecessary, because of the magic blood of a lone grandparent.

The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 5h ago

Michael McDowell: Citizenship by descent is not racist, and language tests make perfect sense

Zero tolerance, not quiet acceptance

The Disney renaissance movies used to look different. They were planned to be printed on 35 mm film -- that's how they were first released. Modern editions skip that last step in the process. It was a highly developed, overlooked craft, as we explore: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/disneys-fi...

Who called them marine biologists and not aquademics

Young woman with lad at the bus stop: How tall are you? Lad: 5,10. Young woman: *gets up on her tip toes* 5,10! AND YOU'RE ONLY THIS SIZE!!!! When I say I almost choked....

'We asked the magic 8 ball if it is plotting to murder us all. Here's what it said!!!'

Richard Chambers@newschambers.bsky.social · 2d ago

Please stop doing this.

Fashy Tech Bros: Back in Roman times, men were men. Just conquering the world with the boys, no time for woke feminist soi boi bullshit. Actual Roman who fought Hannibal: I'd like to share my recipe for poppyseed cheeseballs with you (Cato Agr. 79)

Then sell the properties or rent them to actual people. This class of suburbanised peasants need a reality check.

Irish Independent@independent.ie · 3d ago

'This is going to destroy a lot of people in the industry': Owners of short-term rental accommodation are still taking bookings for next year — but many fear that they may yet have to cancel these reservations, due a lack of clear guidance on a new mandatory system for short-term lets

My apologies, I must have been too stupid to understand the subtle imagery of the receiver being inherintly emasculated by the 'active' male partner. Thank you for clarifying that for me.

AnimalMagic@animatedpigeon.bsky.social · 4d ago

Is it "haha gay sex" though? I read it as "being bent over and shafted by a more powerful man". I am certain there will be better, less bigoted ways of expressing this though, that doesn't hurt innocent people. Just think that seeing it as "laughing at gay sex" misses the point.

Just saw the clip from a protest here of the Putin and Elon ballon figures banging into the Trump ones from behind.... Hey guys, maybe don't do homophobia. He's a pig ignorant, aurhoritarian, oligarch. Their personalities and aims align. No need for homophobic sniggering of 'heehhe gay bum sex'.

'Donald Trump says...' Do we have to pretend that he isn't just in late-stage dementia ramblings?

If an Irish newspaper doesn’t run a “Senior Orangeman Calls For A United Ireland” headline, then the newspapers are dead.

'To make the government look like the good guy, Harris has to make it seem like there’s some malevolent cohort of lazy, gadabout ne’er-do-wells out there, and the budget will finally rescue us from them. The only problem is that no such cohort exists in any meaningful way." Surrealing:

We can never get up early enough to truly satisfy them

This week’s targets include poor children, imaginary lazy people and, of course, immigrants.

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In Irish society it's customary for guests to present their hosts with plastic bottles and metal cans to bring good fortune to the household at their next shop.

Look at other providers!

Hank Scorpio: My Goodness, What An Idea!

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The Journal@thejournal.ie · 6d ago

The energy minister has encouraged the public to retrofit their home or switch providers if they want to save money on gas and electricity. jrnl.ie/7158801

I literally wrote a book about how people got ARRESTED for trying to speak Irish to police in Ireland, don’t given me this feigned respect and reverence for Irish.

Dr Gearóidín McEvoy@garodean.bsky.social · last wk.

Did you know that we deny Deaf people in Ireland the opportunity to learn Irish in school? Because it’s deemed that they wouldn’t be able. Without any assessment. Without any comprehension that many Deaf people are learning ISL and English at the same time? And are therefore bilingual?

Is it performative? Maybe, this is who he actually is: cruel, miserable, and nasty.

Fergal@fergalc.bsky.social · last wk.

All this performative unpleasantness is entirely unnecessary for Jim O'Callaghan, who's already naturally widely disliked

"Sé mhí tar éis don Dr Qiu na foirmeacha cuí a líonadh i nGaeilge agus a sheoladh ar aghaidh, fuair sé scéal ón Roinn Dlí agus Cirt ag iarraidh air an t-iarratas a dhéanamh ar líne i mBéarla."

Tuairisc@tuairisc.bsky.social · last wk.

Rogha le tabhairt d’iarratasóirí ar shaoránacht na hÉireann scrúdú nua teanga a dhéanamh i nGaeilge

They did the thing.

Starship Troopers: Kill Them All Quote

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derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · last wk.

this is the kind of design costume designers make to tell you who are the bad guys in a space movie

This. 100% this. I really think the public don't fully know how addicted politicans, spads, and pol corrs are to social media, particularly Twitter and Facebook.

Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera@pantibliss.bsky.social · last wk.

Who the fuck are the government listening to that they think there's a huge outcry against new citizens or the process to citizenship? This reeks of Twitter poisoned fools

Government: *introduces harder citizenship restrictions * People: *freak on the Gaeilge bit * Government: *will remove it and pass the other 99%* Why do people love taking such obvious bait? They'll remove it or make it meaningless in reality.

Sorry to repost my own post. But, logically, isn't the government saying that anyone who got citizenship under the old system less integrated than under this 8 year model?

@anliathanach.bsky.social · last wk.

1)People who demand language tests would fail them themselves. 2)Is someone anymore 'integrated' after 8 years than 5? 3)End the the grandparent rule for citizenship. I'm sick of Chuck O'McMurphy III being more entitled to citizenship than people who are born here and live here.

'I swear allegiance to the data centres within the Irish Free State and I swear solemn fealty to its low, low corporate tax rates for our Yankee overlords.'

The Journal@thejournal.ie · last wk.

Planned changes to Irish citizenship requirements will ensure that new citizens have an “understanding” of the country and its values, the Taoiseach has said. jrnl.ie/7154915

1)People who demand language tests would fail them themselves. 2)Is someone anymore 'integrated' after 8 years than 5? 3)End the the grandparent rule for citizenship. I'm sick of Chuck O'McMurphy III being more entitled to citizenship than people who are born here and live here.

Aisling Walsh@aislingwalsh.bsky.social · last wk.

I hate this government and everyone who voted for them! There is no demand for this except from a minority right full of hatred, this will affect thousands of families around the country including mine... heartbroken #speirgorm #howirelandworks www.rte.ie/news/2026/09...

Took a picture of my friends dog at the train station and may have created the best horror movie poster ever

The grandson of Oswald Mosley (founder of the British Union of Fascists) and Diane Mitford (friends with Adolf Hitler who married Oswald Mosley at the home of Joseph Goebbels) is Louis Mosley (CEO of Palantir UK).

Katelyn Burns@katelynburns.com · 2w ago

Tell me a fun fact.

A reminder for small businesses or independent artists who sell to the EU, please leave feedback on their new packaging legislation which is nigh impossible to adhere to for those who don't make huge profit margins & don't have access to representatives in the EU. ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet...

“Legitimate Concerns”

This Finnish guy has been teaching himself Sumerian, and sent a cuneiform tablet to the British Museum to check his progress. They just emailed him that they've sent him something in the post. I'm now thrilled and excited for a total stranger! Clay tablet mail! www.reddit.com/r/Cuneiform/...