Highly recommend spraying yourself with your teenage perfume in the airport and sticking on a UK garage playlist so you can ride a wave of nostalgia all the way to your gate.
Louise McSharry
@louisemcsharry.bsky.social
Irish podcaster (Catch Up with Louise McSharry), writer, absolutely exhausted woman. Contact: hello@matchstick.ie
There's a real air of petulance from that Ed Sheeran statement.
Not to be some wild-eyed innocent, but I think it should be slightly bigger news that The Lancet have crunched the numbers and found that Musk's USAID cuts will kill 14 million people. And that's just by 2030. That's 9,600 people a day, every day, until the next world cup rolls around.
Jørgen Heszlein@heszlein.bsky.social · 2mo agoNew estimate of Elon Musk’s death toll just dropped www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
i am sure most people here are going to Trans Pride this weekend, but for those who haven't even considered it yet, i would urge you to go. i was assaulted while putting posters up for the event over the weekend, by two far right losers who had been covertly recording myself, my partner & my friend
Can you imagine the smells he’s producing?
Mike Boylan-Kolchin@mbkplus.bsky.social · 4mo agoThe party of performative masculinity truly contains multitudes
Forgot my headphones which means I’m cursed to sit on public transportation listening to the viewing choices of people who also don’t have headphones but simply don’t give a shit about anyone else.
Every bit of human contact in hospital is invaluable, you spend so much time feeling isolated. I hate this.
Deirdre O'Shaughnessy@deshocks.bsky.social · 7mo agoAnyone who’s ever been in hospital will tell you the people who bring you food are always the nicest - this is stupid for so many different reasons
Bring Centres being closed on Sundays, when people actually have time to go to them, is madness.
The government's banning of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation was UNLAWFUL, rules the High Court. This is a massive vindication for those who fought Israel's genocide of the Palestinian people - which is facilitated by our government.
Just had a legitimate opportunity to use the 🤪 emoji and boy has it given me a boost.
As the Olympics commence I’d like to share the fact that my friend Sarah records them in full and then consumes them in totality over the following two years. She has really been cramming them in over the last few weeks to make room for Milano Cortina.
"We are now seeing eviction rates that have not been seen in Ireland since the 1850s." A damning reality laid bare in this piece of well-researched analysis.
'We're seeing eviction rates not seen in Ireland since the 1850s'
The issuing of 5,000 eviction notices in three months last year is quite revealing when viewed against Ireland's historical record
rte.ie
I used to love computer it was my friend. Now I have hate in my heart
‘The show delivers fulsomely, and it probably delivers even more if you’re not watching through the same lens as me (completely freaking out that if they mess this up, then I can kiss The Muppet Show goodbye for another 45 years).’ They let me review the new Muppets Show special-slash-pilot.
I asked if I could write a review of The Muppet Show 50th Anniversary Special and they said yes
It’s not easy being greenlit.
jrnl.ie
the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex
I've written about this phenomenon in my column quite a lot and spoken about it regularly on the @louisemcsharry.bsky.social podcast and if I'm being totally honest at this point I think it's being done specifically to bait me.
Aidan Fitzmaurice@fancyvegaspro.bsky.social · 8mo agoToday, Paul Murphy said that the Government are afraid to stand up to big tech, and Micheál Martin replied "How dare you? Who the hell do you think you are? That is a reprehensible assertion."
crazy that basically every person complaining about "woke overreach" over the last 12 years is also in the epstein emails being like "thanks for the pussy, jeff ;)"
The weather is obviously horrendous but... grand stretch? It's nearly five and it's not dark!
Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.
If you saw me having a verbal altercation with a literal shopping trolley just there in Cabra Tesco, no you didn’t.
‘Normalcy’ is the one that really kills me. IT’S NORMALITY FFS.
the karyn in the woods 🎃@karynmoy.bsky.social · 9mo agoI'm all for the evolution of language etc but americans saying something is addicting instead of addictive has simply got to go
I'm all for the evolution of language etc but americans saying something is addicting instead of addictive has simply got to go
'What is that supposed to mean? That the law is obsolete in the face of a white supremacist sexual exploitation material-generating machine?' It's the first column of the new year and it's grimmer than ever before, my friends.
Surrealing in the Years: We're entering a new era of lawlessness. Don't expect much help from our leaders
Am I going completely insane?
thejournal.ie
Went to see Hamnet, thought I'd finished crying in my seat before I left the screen but then had to stand bent over in a corner sobbing for five more minutes outside. (Complimentary.)