I have a novel idea, hear me out. We could ban all trade with these illegal settlements. Both goods and services. We could call it an Occupied Territories Bill or something like that.
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you can rest assured there would never been any need for yanks to instruct microsoft to release any information about irish civil servants nltimes.nl/2026/05/22/m...
Microsoft accused of leaking Dutch civil servants' names to U.S. government
Microsoft has reportedly shared the names of Dutch civil servants working for two regulatory agencies with the U.S. House of Representatives. The agencies involved include the Authority for Consumers ...
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I thought Ted Talks had gone out but it appears they are still in
Ellen Coyne: “I don’t want to make this into a culture war thing”… **ellen coyne proceeds to make it into a culture thing and gets to blame feminists too** a credit to the paper of record
another one: same type of 'scrote' post, replies about them getting away with wanton violence because they play GAA. in my experience anyway most of the really anti social youths never went near a GAA dressing room after the age of about 12. in fact, I think doing so mightve helped a lot!
XL Bully Enjoyer@rarechandeliers.bsky.social · last wk.most hated r/ireland refrain: post about 'scrotes', somebody says something about 'little angles', another poster (knowingly or not?) says something about them being acute or similar. same riff on every single one of these posts! get a new joke!
I'd like to compare how Irish commentators wrote about Jason Arday with how they wrote about Brian Lucey, the Irish academic who had several papers retracted earlier this year because he had been corruptly peer reviewing his own work, but literally no Irish commentators wrote about it
I have to say while I would have supported it those demands didn’t seem to resonant anywhere i’m aware of harpers.org/archive/2026...
went to see the odyssey today and really enjoyed. decided to listen to the tooze pod on the odyssey only to learn he hadn't actually seen the film. do know why i expect different. what a legend
There was a great In Our Time episode about solar eclipses. Me personally idgaf
Looking for a definition of minor bsky.app/profile/tupp...
Simon McGarr@tupped.bsky.social · 2w agoSee, I'm not that pleased about this. The GP said stupid wrong and harmful things. But, on the other hand, can the system survive one GP being stupid, harmful and wrong on Twitter? I think it did, so the consequences should be proportionately minor. www.rte.ie/news/2026/08...
Some lads I know used to share a flat and one of them would habitually slam his laptop shut when the other would walk in the room. This went on for ages until curiosity got the better of the other lad. When he got the chance he flipped the screen up to see a YouTube video of a JCB in action
Wrote a bit on Seamus Deane's history of Irish literature open.substack.com/pub/aonchial...
Seamus Deane's short history of Irish literature
When I say that Seamus Deane and his contemporaries — Nell McCafferty, Seamus Heaney, Bernadette Devlin, Eamon McCann, Martin McGuinness — were the nation’s conscience I’m not making either a ethno-na...
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Yes son I was at the frontline against fascists in 2026 posting into the void on bluesky dot com
I thought I might live to see the US wage hybrid warfare on another western country but I didn't think it would be a capitalist one, and not by such visibly grotesque means. All bets aren't off yet, but it's a matter of time
Listened to this a lot today. Billy Woods man. Could listen to him for ever bsky.app/profile/capt...
@captiveportal.bsky.social · 3w agoCLASS youtu.be/uP23-YE-T30?...
reminding everyone that Galway have a real chance of losing 3 out 4 of the senior all Irelands this year which would be way more historic than anything mayo have ever done
Wow "traitor to the west," strong words, Elon, who are we talking about here... ah the editor-in-chief of The Economist
can't remember who originally posted it over on the other place but sharing it again here because ‘Mickey Mouse with an Offaly accent’ never fails to make me laugh
as a huge maggie gyllenhaal respecter i really should have watched The Deuce before now
