Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

At the emergency vets and a woman has brought her cat in what appears to be a hat box. The receptionist can’t stop laughing.

There was some butter left over on a knife so I wiped it on a crisp and now I’m just scraping crisps across soft butter it’s like a deconstructed crisp sandwich I will not be taking questions at this time

Imagine my surprise when finding promised social homes on Daft.ie 🙃 140 apartments which should have been public homes now being advertised for €2400-4500 per month

Deal for 140 Dublin social homes falls through as €4,500 rental ads appear online

A total of 140 social homes slated for Dublin 9 are instead appearing online for rent privately for up to €4,500 a month.

independent.ie

Megan Rapinoe is a legend.

Rowling looming over a progressive Irish cultural festival with her menacing insinuations & a phalanx of expensive lawyers dashing off legal letters. And all because the organisers don’t want transphobes peddling hate at their event. A nauseating spectacle of spite.

Chilled pup cup break on a warm day

Chlorophyll, beta carotene & anthocyanins are as bonny as any oil paint I reckon & creating botanical rainbows with them in my photos genuinely medicinal for & really quietens my very noisy anxious auDHD meat computer 🧠🌈✔️👍🏼

Public. Fucking. Water.

Úna-Minh's ✨ Open to Work ✨@unaminh.bsky.social · 2w ago

We need to be out there protesting!!!

Hello! I am ceo of computers. I am sorry to sayit is your duty to buy computer or the future won't happen. :(

BBC burying the lede here until paragraph 3 - JKR bankrolled this and LOST. I repeat - JKR bankrolled this lawfare against the Belfast Film Festival and... LOST. It can be done! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Tribunal rules woman not unlawfully discriminated against over beliefs

Sara Morrison claimed she was forced out of her job at Belfast Film Festival for her views on sex and gender.

bbc.co.uk

You sometimes see Government TDs pointing out that Ireland isn’t unique in the world in having a housing crisis. But this graph in today’s Financial Times shows just how extreme ours is compared to the places elsewhere, which also describe themselves as a in a housing crisis.

We'd like to extend our congratulations to one of our own: WGI team member (Admin and Communications) Beatrix Herriott O'Gorman who, alongside her partner, Jack Warren, was awarded the Audience Design Award for their Marketplace project, 'Violent Delights', at the 2026 Galway Film Fleadh.

Codladh sámh, Brenda, you absolute legend.

President of Ireland@president.ie · 3w ago

Real. This is y’all? 👀

Fuck AI. #Drawing #DigitalArt #Art

Two Minnesota solar farms seeded native wildflowers under their panels, and 5 years of counting revealed native bees had multiplied twentyfold, then crossed the fence to pollinate the neighbour's soybeans

Two Minnesota solar farms seeded native wildflowers under their panels, and 5 years of counting revealed native bees had multiplied twentyfold, then crossed the fence to pollinate the neighbour's soyb...

Two Minnesota solar farms planted 66 native species under their panels. Five years of counting revealed a staggering result that nobody had written into the engineering plan.

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The great thing about Britain is you're free to think whatever you want to think and say whatever J. K. Rowling's lawyers permit you to say.

Look plebs don't water your few meagre flowers the data centres need that water...

RTÉ News@news.rte.ie · 3w ago

Uisce Éireann has issued a six-week hosepipe ban for six areas around the country to protect water supplies.

Well, feck it anyway. RIP Sam Neil, you were a real one.

correct you if you’re wrong?? bitch this is the internet i’ll correct you even if youre right

Getting as close as he can to be sure we’ve heard him shouting (Our crime? Sitting down to dinner without feeding him first. Even though he wasn’t even at home at the time)

RIP Bonnie. One of my favourite interviewees. I’d hope one day to go on this piss with you in real life rather than you encouraging me to get drunk while on our phone chat. What a woman.

Took a sneaky half day to head out for a swim. Glorious.

Le Guin on the idea that there is a secret to getting good at writing.

Walking through town one balmy evening recently a man, very off his head, bumped into me and my friend. After he apologised he shouted, with deep feeling, I’M ONLY TRYING TO UNFUCK MY LIFE. Been thinking about him since then. I hope the unfucking is going well.

Ireland facing €13 billion bill for ambition to fail on climate targets - quite a headline for day one of Ireland's EU Presidency - hard for Minister to dismiss fiscal watchdog as "environmental fundamentalists" #spéirghorm www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

Ireland faces €13bn annual bill by 2050 for missing climate targets

Congestion charges and distance-based road charges recommended by State’s fiscal watchdog

irishtimes.com

What *actually* works — right here, right now — to address climate change? Here you go. This is the result of thousands of hours of painstaking research and analysis from the Project Drawdown team.

The best Mammies are @mams4transrights.bsky.social