Imagine if the Executive parties treated the Lough Neagh scandal with even half the effort which they expended on Drumcree: Crisis meetings, emergency court cases, constant pressure - even breaking the law to achieve a goal. Instead, there's simply no urgency as the lough dies.

Sam McBride@sjamcbride.bsky.social · 3d ago

Factory farming is killing Lough Neagh – and despite Andrew Muir’s opposition to this, he’s incentivising it. Muir is a radically different minister - yet his ‘kill them young’ scheme is squeezing out traditional farming and encouraging US-style megafarms.

Love that he announced this yesterday on International Day of Older Persons. They just love reminding older ppl that they don't matter. Fwiw, from my policy experience in the age sector I am convinced that the pension triple lock is a highly successful policy that should be emulated not scrapped.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w ago

Burnham to pass law scrapping pension triple lock before next election

A gut-punch of a statistic, reflective of what's happening throughout the entire natural world. But using the word "stocks" to describe a wild population of one of Earth's most breathtaking, magical species indicates precisely why we've reached such a predicament. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

Ireland’s wild Atlantic salmon stocks down 80% since 1970s

Public consultation launched amid fears ‘iconic species’ could be lost entirely from Irish rivers

irishtimes.com

Please stop calling me on my phone that's not what it's for

I cannot ever forget how the marching bands refused to be silent, as requested, going past the house where the mother of those three murdered boys took refuge in the weeks after her unthinkable loss. A small detail that exposes everything this march is for.

It’s important to remember that Unionism is making Dumcree an issue again to try to distract people from the fact that they systematically tried to hide the fact that Jeffrey Donaldson was a rapist pedophile for decades.

Micheál Martin applauded at the UN, condemning what’s happening in Gaza/West Bank “Nobody will be able to say that we did not know. Let it not be said that we did not act.’ Meanwhile his Gov has refused visas to fully funded students from Gaza. Talking out of both sides of his mouth

Danny Thomas' subscription model is between £4.99 to £17.99 a month to watch livestreamed hate and terror. Smash the hate economy. No to the monetisation of hate, violence & terror. Inaction is complicity.

Zero tolerance, not quiet acceptance

Hopefully for Ed's sake he had already decided he never wants to tour in Ireland again 😬

kate bush’s husband@airbagged.bsky.social · 4w ago

He cooked Ed Sheeran on IG

A big thanks to the people protesting THAT PIG in Doonbeg. As always Sarah Clancy able to get to the heart of the matter. Reminding us of the terrible attrocities prepatrated by the united states of terror on ordinary citizens. Both directly or indirectly.

The spirit of our dear departed Janey Godley is in Doonbeg, Co Clare, Ireland today.

You know who thought of this before, Fox News? Congress! In 1965. When they made offering and taking money for voting ILLEGAL. 52 U.S.C. §10307(c).

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · last mo.

“This shows just how creative and rule-breaking and out of the box President Trump is,” she said. “I’m surprised no one has thought of this before.”

Finally an incel policy we can get behind.

Microplastics Sommelier@leastactionhero.bsky.social · last mo.

sorry for screenshotting some twitter rando but you guys need to see this

As gangs of masked men block Dover port, I will just leave this here www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Five Just Stop Oil activists receive record sentences for planning to block M25

Campaigners receive longest ever sentences for non-violent protest after being convicted of conspiracy to cause public nuisance

theguardian.com

He’s running. www.camdennewjournal.co.uk/article/excl...

Exclusive: Green Party leader Zack Polanski tells CNJ he WILL go for Holborn and St Pancras

Green leader lays out hopes for by-election

camdennewjournal.co.uk

The Irish govt would really rather line the pockets of gangsters and crooks than just let people seeking asylum live normal lives in the community. 🤦‍♀️😬😡

Irish Independent@independent.ie · last mo.

A firm owned by a suspected fuel smuggler and former target of the Criminal Assets Bureau (Cab) has been paid €8.7 million by the Government to house asylum seekers

Brenda Fricker on playing Megan in Casualty: I couldn't do her job ever. Just go down to the hospital and watch what they do for an eighth of the salary I earned pretending to be a nurse. It makes you blush. You break your heart with people being kicked in the teeth by life. I couldn't handle it.

Come and join in the unity chats

Claire Mitchell@clairemitchell.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Claire JC’s ‘Ulster Says Maybe’ group is live. A progressive space for ordinary people of all backgrounds to talk to each other about Irish unity… there’ll be interviews, a book club, discussion topics and zero tolerance for sectarianism… Join here - www.patreon.com/ulstersaysmaybe

Mike Nesbitt's scathing resignation letter in full

Mike Nesbitt's scathing resignation letter in full

"Now, the more difficult part"

belfastlive.co.uk

Michael here is telling us that access to health for trans people was decided by an unelected guy who wandered into Stormont 5 minutes before and told him to undo his previous, agreed approach. Isn't democracy grand.

James McCarthy@jamesmccarthy97.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Mike Nesbitt's scathing resignation letter in full

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Wishing the people of Clacton the courage to choose a bin over a fascist at the polls today. 🤞

Count Binface@countbinface.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Bin Day cometh.

My new response when anyone asks me to do anything

An interesting piece by Walter, and good to include Belfast's grassroots women's activists. But I resist the idea that women just need to put our differences aside and work together. When some women are choosing fascism, our differences matter. I think the piece hints at that complexity though.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2mo ago

‘Feminists need to push back’: how did the women’s movement become so divided – and how can it reunite?

Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface

There now follows a party election broadcast by the Count Binface Party, And if I do say so myself, it's a banger. #VoteBinface #Clacton

If the EHRC had any integrity as an NHRI they would admit that the UKSC judgement cannot be interpreted in a way that excludes trans ppl without breaching rights contained in the GRA and other privacy protections. The only path to actual clarity is for govt to prevent regression through legislation.

Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕@mimmymum.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The “clarified” EHRC Code according to EHRC Chair, Mary-Ann Stephenson 😳🤯🙃 It’s Monty Python’s Flying Transphobes - highlighting the absurdity, nonsense, and hilarious ineptitude of ‘gender critical’ bigotry! 😆

If you have so much work to do that you feel you need AI in order to get it all done: you don't. You need a union.

Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.