A youth-led uprising in India stirs hopes of greater solidarity among Indian Dubliners. Late last month, a small group gathered on O'Connell Street to support the "cockroaches" movement that had taken to the streets in their country of birth. www.dublininquirer.com/a-youth-led-...

A youth-led uprising in India stirs hopes of greater solidarity among Indian Dubliners

Late last month, a small group gathered on O'Connell Street to support the "cockroaches" movement that had taken to the streets in their country of birth.

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A youth-led uprising in India stirs hopes of greater solidarity among Indian Dubliners. Late last month, a small group gathered on O'Connell Street to support the "cockroaches" movement that had taken to the streets in their country of birth. www.dublininquirer.com/a-youth-led-...

A youth-led uprising in India stirs hopes of greater solidarity among Indian Dubliners

Late last month, a small group gathered on O'Connell Street to support the "cockroaches" movement that had taken to the streets in their country of birth.

dublininquirer.com

Counterpoint: what better way to honour his legacy than by chatting up good-looking young wans?

Of course they did 😑

Re: pervert glasses. Should it occur to anyone that they might use them to film court or tribunal proceedings, don’t do that. It’s a criminal offence.

The Times, one of the leading voices when it comes to 'protecting women and girls' calling a man who assaulted his young pregnant girlfriend, said he would rape the kids if he was a teacher and called for child sex abuse porn to be legal, 'brilliant'

A candid shot of @shamimmalekmian.eurosky.social during a recent interview she was conducting.

Ken O'Flynn TD happily sharing a photo with a white nationalist who makes money by inciting abuse and harrassment against others. a man who advocates ethnic cleansing of immigrants, who complains of "controlled opposition by the jews" just racist buds hanging out at the Gript summer school

"Her case echoes a similar one a week earlier in Buffalo, New York, where a 56-year-old Rohingya refugee with significant vision impairment and limited English was found dead after the US border patrol dropped him off alone at a closed Tim Hortons coffee shop." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Family to sue after woman released from ICE custody froze to death

Exclusive: Daphy Michel, from Haiti, was dropped off in Pittsburgh in 20F temperatures wearing summer clothes

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The cool thing about hills is you're not actually obliged to die on them

Median UK voter in 2026, as predicted by Hugh Laurie some decades ago:

You'd have to read to the thirteenth paragraph to discover the pull quote for the title was from Marcus Siding, a 23-year-old Swedish man living in Sweden that wanted to become a cop, but his ADHD diagnosis at the age of 12 barred him by law from becoming a Swedish cop Seems relevant

Next time someone asks you the bad faith question “Have any women come forward?”, here you are.

socmot@socmot.bsky.social · 3d ago

I despise Substack and have previously said I will never read it (and I don't). But I will break my rule just for this eally disturbing piece of writing by Neko Case, who was / is in a band, The New Pornographers, who were supported by The Frames in 2002. nekocase.substack.com/p/in-what-fu...

panel he's on is called "Opening the media, delivering the message" I wonder what the message is? also, obviously, very funny that a guy who has threatened a journalist (me) into not writing about him is on a panel about "opening the media"

Cats Aid Dublin raffle! All proceeds go to the cats in their care, like our foster girl Pepper www.catsaid.ie/2026/08/inte...

Stop Calling Me Frank@stopcallingmefrank.bsky.social · 5d ago

You have a month to write a 33 1/3 book about the album of your choice. Which record are you going to write about? (No previously covered albums allowed; new shit must come to light: see below.) (For all books in the series: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33_1/3) (H/t @monostich.bsky.social

This is why you dont try to compromise or concede anything to these horrors

JK Rowling centre says Amnesty apology does not solve ‘reputational damage’ — The Independent

Beira’s Place was among organisations labelled ‘anti-rights’ in a briefing document.

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Talking to a very non-activist non-online Dub in the pub tonight and the “trans issue” comes up and he just lets out a RANT about who is this ENGLISH woman JKR trying to dictate who can take part in an Irish festival They just don’t understand Ireland at all and that will be their downfall here

Just one more bro

Shipwreck@shipwreck75.bsky.social · 5d ago

US Central Command (CENTCOM) has prepared a large-scale operation in the form of a decisive two-week bombing campaign should Trump choose escalation to break the deadlock in the Middle East, two sources confirmed.-NYP

Cute poster on the Luas liked that it wasn't AI-generated

Many in the migrants' rights sector have been warning about exactly this. AI is absolutely not suitable for being used in asylum cases. Not only because of the risk of "hallucination", but also because it is unable to deal with the nuance and complexity. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Home Office used ‘AI hallucinated’ information to refuse asylum claim, judge suggests

Upper tribunal unable to find document cited in case and claims it is ‘analogous to relying on bogus evidence’

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Me since @bryanwithnoi.eurosky.social gifted me an astronaut pen for my birthday

I wonder if part of this is that these protests were labelled as farmers protests because that's a magic labelling in ireland, but were full of people who weren't farmers at all. Like there were some there of course but I dont think it was the majority

Jen Keane@zenbuffy.bsky.social · last wk.

Wow, it's almost like all those protests weren't really about fuel... www.independent.ie/county/wexfo...

Glad to see so much uptake of this story which was first reported by Shamim, but please be aware this is entirely typical and unsurprising behaviour by the DOJ. It’s particularly cruel when the students are from Gaza but it’s also part of a pattern of unjustified visa refusals

Shamim Malekmian@shamimmalekmian.eurosky.social · last wk.

Dozens of people from Gaza seeking visas to study in Ireland are denied entry. It was Haneen Eshraim's only “realistic opportunity at this stage to leave Gaza safely and continue my education”, she said. More here www.dublininquirer.com/dozens-of-pe...

Apropos to nothing, dead men can't sue you for coming forward about the sexual harassment you experienced from them. #speirghorm

Important for public understanding of the importance of judicial review in Ireland by @cathalmalone.bsky.social. Worth noting this has been UK Govts' playbook for years, and that arguably courts have adjusted behaviour (inc on standing) to head off criticisms: www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Me when I see way too many X screenshots on the TL

Pickled Eggs@charlie-pickles.bsky.social · last wk.

I feel like this has some mileage in it

male loneliness epidemic is here to stay

Just asked Claude something cause Google is so shit, and it spat out stuff from an article I'd written myself, going "so based on this reporting...."