Being dead is not some kind of state line where, if you can just cross the border, all your trespasses evaporate. The flowers still wither where you poured salt. The living continue to suffer the consequences of your actions. People are entitled to say, he made the garden worse, and now he is gone.
I don’t think-in fact-it's a bit of banter for a man to ask a woman he's working with unprompted to fuck a colleague and I don't really think this context changes if they're all musicians and I don't think it's down to Americans being 0 craic while I'm here what the fuck are we doing here
Thoughts on the dead singer. Yesterday, my middle aged straight hairy biker son went on one on social media about the dead singer and those eulogising him. He did not hold back. What was unusual was that he took to social media to vent knowing it would attract vile bile. I asked him why.
I loved the film & also agree with Emily's review. Because in real life, unlike in this film, nuance exists & can allow something to be enjoyable, spectacular, & badly written & reductive
EMILY WILSON@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · last wk.I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
1️⃣ "On this day, 19 July 1984, the Dunnes Stores anti-apartheid strike began in Dublin, Ireland. Shop worker Mary Manning refused to check out a customer's South African fruit, as members of her union, Idatu, had voted to not handle South African goods. Manning was then suspended, and she and 11 of
Sitting outside with a glass of wine & a book but I know exactly what the score is in the match - the wave of joy that just roll across the estate was hilarious 😂 #notcominghome
See I thought I had this parenting thing cracked, then one of my kids decided to go on holidays - abroad - without an adult supervisor- with a friend - at 17 Not a fan
My favorite Sam Neil fact will always be that he designed a future Australian flag that replaces the union jack with the aboriginal flag for Event Horizon and insisted the film use it.
So my 19yo sent me this on from another site, he knows it makes me laugh, & I needed one I share that laughter now 😂
The Author, Séamas O'Reilly@seamas.bsky.social · 2y agoFor those who don't know this story, which I first shared six years ago today.... This one time I got my days wrong at work and ended up alone in a room with my boss and the President of Ireland while I was on ketamine. 🧵
Giving a tour for Limerick Pride next Friday. Made the poster, it may be rubbish but no Ai was used in its production.
Hey #speirgorm any #newcastlewest or #westlimerick daoine anseo? I've a ceist?
In 1970 the UK and Norway were roughly equal, almost no debt, and owned all their Public Services. Now the UK owns nothing and has £3tn of debt. While Norway still owns everything and has the equivalent of £10tn. That's how privatisation 'works'.
And I say this with my whole chest: The anti-trans movement is not about trans people. It’s certainly not about protecting children It is about legislating conformity It is about restricting bodily autonomy It is about erasing all free expression they find disagreeable —It is about control—
I feel like portraying it as a fringe theological dispute between catholic sects over the 2nd vatican council and finger pointing over who's a heretic, rather than as a conflict with a fringe far right sect that says Jews are going to hell and Muslims are rapists hides the general interest aspect.
Lets have a wee off the top of my head look at some of the Highlights of 'The RCC is at it again'. 🧵 12th Century : Pope Adrian 'gives' Ireland to Henry II of England. Now, while the Papal Bull 'Laudabiliter' is considered a later forgery, the 'gift' did occur. Why? Doctrine? Kinda. Money? Oh yes.
TFW you picked up a sketchpad at 10:30 to do 'justva half HR before bed' but is 12:30 now & you've to be in the office tomorrow.... Oops
Things like this, rather than car park solar, is what Northern Europe can do. Bifacial "fence panels" suit our northern sun much better than roof solar. The continuous nature of this will also be better for grid connection than smaller installation car parks spread over urban areas. #speirgorm
@alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social · last mo.The Dutch infrastructure authority completed a systematic assessment in 2023 identifying 420 kilometres of barriers oriented within 45 degrees of south-facing, suitable for bifacial #solarpanel installation without structural modification or planning procedures beyond normal road authority approval
Tens of thousands of people gathered in soaring temperatures in Hungary's capital to celebrate the 31st annual Budapest Pride, the first such LGBTQ+ march since former prime minister Viktor Orbán, who had sought to ban the event, was ousted in an April election
Thousands attend Pride parade in post-Orbán Budapest
Tens of thousands of people gathered in soaring temperatures in Hungary's capital to celebrate the 31st annual Budapest Pride, the first such LGBTQ+ march since former prime minister Viktor Orbán, who...
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Fun one I trot out when I can is that Swan is the traditional Easter meal. Very easy to bring up and link it to the Easter rising if someone mentions that "the Queen owns every swan in England" factoid.
In town for Dublin LGBTQ+ Pride this Saturday, 27 June? Don’t forget, our doors are open from 12 noon if you need a spot near the parade route to charge your phone, use our all-gender bathrooms or just have a sit down and take a breather. Have a happy and safe Pride! 💖
In the 90s as a newly arrived country girl in Dublin #pride was new to me, when my friend Brian told me we were going the first time I had no idea what to expect, I still have the joyous photos I took that day of 'my boys', drag queens & happy faces, smiles so wide, wider than I'd seen B4, relaxed
TDs who voted against removing the three-day waiting period for those who seek an abortion:
The Journal@thejournal.ie · 2mo agoTDs have voted to remove the three-day waiting period for those who seek an abortion. Government TDs were given a free vote on the legislation as a matter of conscience, leading to significant divisions within both coalition parties. jrnl.ie/7073588
70 seats occupied by people who attempted to subvert the mandate given to the legislature on this issue. 70 people who do not trust women. 70 people who ignore experts. I'm literally fucking begging you, particularly if you're a woman. Join a party. Stand for election. Take their seats. #Spéirgorm
G@geraldineishere.bsky.social · 2mo agoTDs who voted against removing the three-day waiting period for those who seek an abortion:
Whoop whoop! The medically unnecessary, misogynistic and patronising 3 day wait period is going to be removed from the legislation!! #FreeSafeLegalLocal
Still pissed off that they wouldn’t pass this when the Soc Dems put forward their bill. But obviously, thrilled to see it happen. 8 years after winning a 35 year battle for abortion rights, pregnant people can finally get a timely abortion at home. www.thejournal.ie/tds-to-vote-...
Dáil votes to remove three-day wait for women seeking abortion
The Sinn Féin bill has united both government and opposition TDs on what has historically been a divisive topic.
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🚨✅ Dáil approves a Sinn Féin bill removing the mandatory three-day waiting period for GPs’ abortion services within 12 weeks. TDs voted 86 to 70, with government backbenchers not having a whip. Bill is now referred to Oireachtas Health Committee for scrutiny of possible amendments.