I still have an inactive twitter account for when I need to look some specific things up (unfortunate, but). Made an effort to curate the feed so when I open it, its not politics/society content Opened it today and was greeted by grown adults hurling abuse at eachother about Pokémon and Fire Emblem

Obviously the doctor himself is the main victim of the hostile system here but this is also a reminder that increasing the burden on migrants also increases the burden on the state, employers, other residents and ultimately, society as a whole

Dublin Inquirer@dublininquirer.com · 2d ago

Facing delays renewing his residence permit, a hospital doctor is stuck unable to work. "His inability to work will have a direct impact on the provision of the medical services and our ability to maintain adequate staffing and patient care,” a letter from the Rotunda says.

Facing delays renewing his residence permit, a hospital doctor is stuck unable to work. "His inability to work will have a direct impact on the provision of the medical services and our ability to maintain adequate staffing and patient care,” a letter from the Rotunda says.

Facing delays renewing his residence permit, a hospital doctor is stuck unable to work

"His inability to work will have a direct impact on the provision of the medical services and our ability to maintain adequate staffing and patient care,” reads a letter from the Rotunda to the Department of Justice.

dublininquirer.com

On a serious note, I remember I was working with a lot of Brazilians in 2018 when the elder Bolsonaro was elected. I remember vividly how crushed and sad they were afterwards, and fearful for their friends, family and community I'm delighted and relieved for them at Lula winning again

We were fools to think the ambulance could be for anyone but a Bolsonaro

eva@glorianas.bsky.social · 2d ago

lula

You ever come across a headline that is such a particular brand of stupid that you can guess the author without even opening it (and thus know it would be a complete waste of time to do so)

The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 3d ago

Opinion: Ireland’s left has failed to penalise government for decades of inaction but the right has

@businesspost.bsky.social Latest RED C poll for the @businessposthq sees the government parties hit a new low of just 30% joint support between Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael as voters respond poorly to the budget.

Honestly nearly everything! Which is why it's so depressing and enraging to see people try (and sometimes succeed) to drag us backwards

Michael Druker 🇨🇦@mdruker.app · 4d ago

Social media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?

Telling that people whose sum contribution to the Palestinian cause is sitting on their computer sending snarky tweets are giving out about Brad Lander Even in a small contribution, hes done more to help Palestinians than them, they know it, and they are big mad. These are not serious activists

Absolutely bleak. Something deeply broken at the heart of our politics

Ray Minehane@rayminehane.bsky.social · 4d ago

Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, Independents , Sinn Fein, Aontu , independent Ireland are all attacking the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre about consent. Just dwell on that.

I mean I'd put up a smokescreen too if the alternative was watching Shels

I really on a fundamental level don't understand genAI in the arts. I can't draw, I am a mediocre writer, I have negative aptitude for music, photography, design etc, but I have never been even tempted to use these. It would defeat the entire point. I genuinely can't understand

Jon Bois' 17776

I understand the culture war/online brain cooked aspect but I genuinely think the primary motivating logic here is "teenagers don't vote for Fianna Fáil, but their facebook-addicted grandparents who don't respect their personal boundaries do" Horribly cynical

I'll be honest, I'm fairly convinced that this won't change that much in and of itself (like what are we going to do, solo run peacekeeping missions? come on) but this all seems part of the government's inexplicable obsession with creating a permission structure for themselves to join NATO

RTÉ News@news.rte.ie · 6d ago

#Breaking Legislation to scrap the Triple Lock has passed its first vote in the Dáil tonight after 79 TDs backed the change and 71 opposed it

look we all hate the ai companies but guys can we please make some attempt to understand accounting at least. or even just read the news articles. it's explained in the news articles

"France never had riots before them immigrants came over there" I say sagely before dropping dead from being too stupid to figure out how to talk and breathe at the same time

Seeing Americans on here claiming the riots in Albania are due to Trump and I was like oh my god they're making everything about themselves again but then I did some reading and they are basically right???

You would think there ought be some depths the Minister for Justice won't sink to in service of his own ego. But, ah, no

Gavan Reilly@gavreilly.com · last wk.

Jim O’Callaghan will tell the Oireachtas Justice Committee that cases of alleged rape are being “deliberately” targeted by the solicitors’ dispute over legal aid. Such cases, before yesterday, could have resulted in a defendant representing themselves and then cross-examining their own complainant.

Fire Emblem: Three Houses Sometimes a game is a 10/10 because it's an incredible, genre defining game, like Tears of the Kingdom, sometimes it's because it's a true work of art, like Expedition 33. And sometimes it's because for all its flaws, you just fall in love with it. Like this one. 10/10

The Foggy Jew@hmcevansoneya.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Persona 5 Royal A stylish, confident game that knows exactly what it wants to be and executes it with purpose. Extremely polished and enjoyable gameplay and storytelling (with a significant caveat on the writing). One of the most theologically interesting games I've ever played. 9/10

Since its apparently this week's discourse: The thing that made Ali G "work" was never the character itself, but the nominally serious interviewees who would get disarmed and confused into displaying their own prejudice and foolishness I think Sacha Baron Cohen forgot this somewhere along the line

Generally I try to avoid the minutae of US politics as much as I can these days but curiosity got the better of me and I watched some clips and I have to note that Jon Ossoff and Abdul El-Sayed are stunningly good communicators Feels very alien from watching Irish politics

Very close to finishing a game that I've put nearly 500 hours into and I have slowed right down at the finish cos I don't want it to end :/

We are in a situation where I, someone who thinks Patrick O'Donovan is a thoroughly useless minister, feel obliged to defend him from his own party colleagues because they hate him for being disabled

what do you mean this has escalated to people unironically comparing chat bots to slaves. what the fuck

The Foggy Jew@hmcevansoneya.bsky.social · 2mo ago

> log on > "clanker" discourse > log off

it has been truly dispiriting to see people suggesting O'Donovan isn't fit for office due to his disability this week. some were gleeful he was hospitalised right after getting publicly upset about his own party colleagues briefing against him in the press because he's epileptic

Gavan Reilly@gavreilly.com · 2w ago

The communications minister Patrick O’Donovan remains in intensive care in hospital after taking ill earlier this week. The minister was removed by ambulance from a gathering of EU telecoms ministers on Tuesday and has been receiving treatment at UHL since then. @virginmedianews.bsky.social

Whatever else about any other aspect, Rooney has given *just* enough information to lay out her position while letting people - both her allies and enemies - fill in the gaps themselves, ensuring this is going to be talked about as much as possible as people argue out their theories and headcanons

Tech: "Our robots will commit all kinds of crime! Maybe even genocide!" Govt: "So... will you stop making the crime robots?" Tech: "Oh heavens no. Will you tell us to stop?" Govt: "Wouldn't dream of it" There's something a bit off about all this, isnt there

Something very on the nose about this btw: the same day sector workers go on strike because the government wouldn't take their request for fair pay seriously, said government is at an "AI summit" jerking off tech executives, even as they cut jobs in this country left right and center

Hup the workers