First, you tell me to get a hobby; now it's an “appropriate hobby”.

The race to the bottom is hotting up Beds in sheds progresses rapidly to beds in work depots This government is truly delivering #HousingCrisis #DerelictIreland "Rental crisis forces bus firm to put beds for staff in Dublin depot" www.independent.ie/irish-news/r...

Rental crisis forces bus firm to put beds for staff in Dublin depot

Swords Express operator’s planning agent said “severe shortage” of suitable sites for employees

independent.ie

Worth remembering how mind-bogglingly recent the Magdalene Laundries were. The last one closed down on 25th September 1996, which means the Magdalene system outlived Tupac by two weeks.

Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin@miseryvulture.bsky.social · 10h ago

The last Magdalene laundry closed in my lifetime. Homosexuality was decriminalised in Ireland in my lifetime. Access to condoms without a prescription in Ireland only came in 1985. We repealed the 8th. There's a lot of ways in which Ireland is still bad, but it is an entirely different country.

I am amazed at how quickly people seem to have forgotten how to function without a technology that didn’t exist a couple of years ago

the fact that the official heated rivalry instagram has to tell fans to not be weird and be respectful of the cast is so disheartening, anyone who caused this post to be made better be fucking embarrassed for themselves

The last Magdalene laundry closed in my lifetime. Homosexuality was decriminalised in Ireland in my lifetime. Access to condoms without a prescription in Ireland only came in 1985. We repealed the 8th. There's a lot of ways in which Ireland is still bad, but it is an entirely different country.

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 16h ago

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

hey apparently there's a video of perez hilton self harming floating around beware clicking on videos

The Torygraph, defending the honour of a paedophile defender really highlights that conservatism as a political philosophy as a whole is completely immoral and irrational.

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 9h ago

They linked to me in that Telegraph article about Rod Liddle ffs. I didn't even warrant a name, just 'transgender activist'. At least they called me 'he'. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/08...

Now, I *am* a nobody but @seamas.bsky.social is a bestseller so surely Joanna is just showing herself up here.

🪷 August 5th is #NationalUnderwearDay #Ganymede attends #Zeus eagle wearing a jockstrap thanks to #Elmgreen and #Dragset. Sculpture by #Thorvaldsen at the Minneapolis Institute of Art. #UnderwearDay @elmgreenanddragset.bsky.social 🪷

Being a Derry Girl is a state of mind ✨ Probably my favorite sticker set I've made this year (and I didn't expect it to be this popular lol!) #DerryGirls | #Art

EHRC Code of Practice comes into effect today so remember to be an absolute pain in the arse to any service provider who is trying to actively enforce it.

Its maddening that so many people cannot join the dots to see the swastika forming over the UK. Rises in hate crime are across the board because hate is being weaponised to exploit us. Trans segregation is inextricable from this. Its all the same fascism. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

NHS radiographers report rise in overt racist abuse by patients

Survey reveals medics were called ‘monkeys’ and ‘dirty foreigners’, and patients refused to be seen by black or Asian staff

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We too easily skipped over the part of the Ceuta story where thousands of young people were manipulated into risking or losing their lives for a lie; to orchestrate images that then led the news agenda for the weekend, and kneejerk reactions from EU Govs And the Irish failures that let this happen

Deirdre O'Shaughnessy@deshocks.bsky.social · 9h ago

If you were confused about what happened in Ceuta last week read this piece by @lizcarolan.com who's looking at how it blew up online and who's behind it... www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

RAIN? You're happy about RAIN?? Have you even THOUGHT about the gays who can't post thirst traps in their jocks about how hot it is? NO, I bet you haven't.

Heated Rivalry fans be normal challenge: failed

‘Heated Rivalry’ Creator Asks Fans to Not Crash Season 2 Filming: ‘Please Give Our Cast and Crew the Space They Need’

'Heated Rivalry' creator Jacob Tierney is asking fans to not crash Season 2 filming and visit the shooting locations.

variety.com

Seriously. It’s like Black Mirror made an episode about Ceefax being taken over by Nazis who can’t shut up.

Dave Vetter@davidrvetter.bsky.social · last wk.

It's increasingly clear that spending any amount of time on X in 2026 is tantamount to incurring a head injury.

Rod Liddle showed up to a university to make jokes about sex workers and essentially say Afro-Caribbean people are thick (the university of the West Indies proves otherwise) and the principal shouted the protesting students down. What wit, what a raconteur. etc

Atrios@eschatonblog.com · yesterday

this rob liddle incident encapsulated british "free speech" pretty well www.theguardian.com/education/20...

J'avoue que je préfère la version de @mcsweeneys.net

I Am a Disappointed Zohran Mamdani Voter Who Was Told New York Would Descend into Chaos

“As an anarcho-communist-accelerationist-antifascist-nihilist-transplant-gentrifier-crisis actor living in a rent-controlled penthouse bodega paid for by som...

mcsweeneys.net

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

Training in martial arts is great so it's a pity that, if you do it for long enough, it's like they spin a big wheel and you get assigned "Aggressive shithead", "anime nerd" or "Aggressive shithead anime nerd".

Dan of the Year@downwithdan.bsky.social · 2d ago

He will never understand that being "the fat guy from Superbad" is infinitely better than being "the martial arts chud nobody likes"

I think we're generally much too chill about how mainstream and normal this weird, obsessive anti-Irish stuff is in the UK. #speirgorm

Listen, if we had anything nice to say we’d have said it.

Grumpyrocker@grumpyrocker.bsky.social · 2d ago

This is the sort of privilege you see when you're not part of a group likely to be attacked by such a monster as Liddle. It's all japes and hijinks in Fleet Street.

This is the sort of privilege you see when you're not part of a group likely to be attacked by such a monster as Liddle. It's all japes and hijinks in Fleet Street.

Watched that He-Man film. Meh but it passed an afternoon boxd.it/fCOusB

A ★½ review of Masters of the Universe (2026)

One star for Nicholas Galitzine's biceps and abs, another star for the many fisting jokes. Minus half a star for casting Jared Leto. Let's stop having to see or hear him in films ever again. Otherwise...

boxd.it

Haters focusing on Liddle's violence toward his pregnant partner, his galloping racism, or his repeated defences of paedophilia, should remember to mention he was also one of the worst writers to ever do it. A calorie-free hack of the first water. Just absolute dogshit, back to front.

Rod Liddle was very much like Marmite, in that you wouldn’t want him on your television screen, radio, or newspaper.

When you're thinking who on earth would eulogise that piece of shit, the answer is of course Rosie fucking Duffield