Morag Friel
@moragfriel.bsky.social
She/her Fucking love swearing! 21 months w Long Covid sucks massively Hate fash of any kind Pro LGBTQI+, 🇵🇸 & pro anything that’s against people fucking up the planet #spéirgorm #spéirghorm
He’s 100% correct. (Almost amusing that this is under “life and style” when it’s actually “life or death” for the planet and its people…) www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
‘If we don’t fight back, we don’t have a future’: the journalist taking on the ‘tech fascists’ of Silicon Valley
As Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and their peers have grown richer and more influential, Gil Durán argues they have all but abandoned democracy – and found the perfect government to enable them
theguardian.com
A powerful piece written by a friend on the pointlessness of, and damage caused by, short term prison sentences…. #spéirgorm #spéirghorm www.irishpenalabolitionnetwork.com/blog/short-s...
Short Sentence Addiction — Irish Penal Abolition Network
A few months back I attended a district court hearing in a Midlands courthouse. I was there in my role as an advocacy worker. Séan, a man in his thirties, who I have been working with for a couple of ...
irishpenalabolitionnetwork.com
An Irish artist has helped establish a children's centre in Gaza that provides food, education and psychosocial support to children displaced by the war. Adam Doyle, better known as Spicebag, tells us why he helped create Ionad Hind Rajab. jrnl.ie/7117887
'They're just kids': The Irish-backed centre giving Gazan children a place to play
Irish artist Adam Doyle, aka Spicebag, says Ionad Hind Rajab is about giving displaced children “a break from the horror around them”.
jrnl.ie
Tony - Pod Guy - Groves@tonygroves.bsky.social · 2d agoThinking about @izzykamikaze.bsky.social way back in Ep4 of the Echo Chamber pod saying “okay, not all men. But if it’s 2 in 10 men, and they each harass 4 women, then it is almost all women” a lot the last few days. She was right then. She’s right now.
In case anyone comes across either the ADHD is over diagnosed or Autism is over diagnosed BS. Here are two pieces I wrote that demolish both of those arguments On ADHD (which also touches on Trans & Autism) I wrote www.thegist.ie/guest-gist-e... On Autism dermotcasey.net/the-challeng...
Also, international common sense says the more hi-viz you see the less effective it is.
road.cc@roadcc.bsky.social · 6d ago“International evidence shows such mandates reduce uptake of active and shared transport, pushing trips back into cars and directly undermining Vision Zero, public health, and climate goals”
Constantly left astonished at Western reporting on people seeking asylum. 54 HUMAN BEINGS dead in an unbelievable tragedy at Ceuta and the media insist on leading with 'MIGRANT INVASION'. You inhumane bastards. What if they were your loved ones? When empathy gives way to hate, we're all doomed.
NEW: Sir Jonathon Porritt, arrested under Terrorism law outside Westminster Magistrates Court. As police escorted him away he said "I am a supporter of Palestine Action, trying to save lives is not terrorism, exposing this Governments complicity in genocide is not terrorism." www.wedonotcomply.org
Please email Irish Ministers to express disapproval of this draconian application of immigration laws on people who have lost absolutely everything but are expected to provide original documentation. If Irish unis are willing to take them the govt shd be! Sample email: tinyurl.com/GazanStudent...
Concern over study visa refusal rate for Gazan students
Concern is growing in Irish universities over a high rate of refusal of study visas to students in Gaza who are due to take up college scholarships in Ireland this September.
rte.ie
🤬 … raised broader concerns about influence of porn on young men + use of “rough sex” as a defence in murder trials Recent stats from Oz found 63pc of yng women + 35pc of yng men having been choked during sex. 59pc of yng men said had choked their partners www.independent.ie/irish-news/k...
Killer Lorcan Murphy’s journey from Dublin private-school pupil to a Hungarian jail
Sexual predator who murdered US nurse Mackenzie Michalski would use covert camera to film women
independent.ie
"What Féile an Phobail row has shown is that women’s rights are at risk — just not from a tiny trans minority" great piece from Allison Morris in the Belfast Telegraph. Please support Allison as she will no doubt be targeted now. Archive link below. archive.ph/oQ2Cs
She’s bang on; yes, e-scooters are problematic but they can be nothing to the scale of road deaths and injuries from cars. But we mustn’t go up against the AA or motorists, no matter what… www.thejournal.ie/road-deaths-...
Sligo councillor says 'too much' focus on e-scooters and not enough on deaths caused by cars
The latest garda road policing figures show that 100 people have been killed in traffic collisions so far this year.
thejournal.ie
Idk. Maybe Gaia is herding all the rich people to some distant rocky island paradise with no drought, but a secret volcano in the making underneath so she can off them. As long as trillionaires have somewhere to run, this won’t change until we MAKE it change.
Eoghan Daltun 🌍@irishrainforest.bsky.social · 2w agoLandscapes once entirely non-flammable habitats like natural forest or bog, now highly combustible open grasses/gorse or Sitka, coupled with increasingly frequent extended droughts due to climate breakdown. What could *possibly* go wrong? www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
“I urge you to watch this interview with Doctors Against Genocide. Watch, share, call your elected representative to act.”
Charlie Angus@charlieangus104.bsky.social · 2w agoDr. Abu Safiya, a respected pediatrician has been kidnapped and tortured by Israel for over 500 days. He is facing death in an Israeli prison. I urge you to watch this interview with Doctors Against Genocide. Watch, share, call your elected representative to act. www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3OO...
More of this of religion and less of the other kind please! (Not religious myself but am always disgusted by those who use it to exceed/dehumanise others.)
Anupama Ranawana@msamrc.bsky.social · 3w agoIncredible statement from the Church in Wales on the ignominious Code of Practice: "The Church in Wales will not use equality law exemptions to exclude trans people from our worship, our sacraments, our pastoral care, or our common life." www.churchinwales.org.uk/en/news-and-...
David McWilliams being schooled by our former Taoiseach (Prime Minister) who’s not exactly a lefty. Shows how badly McWilliams sucks. #spéirgorm #spéirghorm
Darach Ó Séaghdha@darach.bsky.social · 3w agoDavid McWilliams lending his personal credibility to rw grifter Nick "make crime illegal" Delahanty... only to be slapped down by unlikely hero Dr V.
Our inglorious leader; was he always this horrible and unaccountable for his government’s in/actions or am I just noticing it more? #spéirgorm #spéirghorm
Saoirse McHugh@saoirsemc.bsky.social · 3w agoHe is the most petulant man
What a pos JK Rowling is. Supporting legal attacks on Amnesty International is some special level of hideousness.
Veronica du Lac (She/Her)@krustyallslopp.bsky.social · 3w agoJK Rowling acting EXACTLY like the State of Israel
Absolutely disgusting that Ireland is profiting from companies that enable Israeli genocide. Guess it explains further why the govt has been stalling on the Occupied Territories Bill for all these years… www.thejournal.ie/isif-ireland...
Irish sovereign wealth fund still investing in companies linked to Israeli settlements and genocide
The fund’s shareholdings in five companies listed on UN databse rose by almost €1.5 million last year.
thejournal.ie
Today is the 11th anniversary of the Gender Recognition Act here in Ireland. I will always celebrate this day as the State finally recognized my gender. Decades of campaigning led to the Act. I owe a debt to those who went before me We were the 4th country in the world to bring in such legislation
I recently read or heard someone say something like "if AI was so good, they wouldn't be shoving it down our throats at every turn to justify the effort going into it." Credit goes to the source I have now forgotten.
Annette Gordon-Reed@agordonreed.bsky.social · 3w agoDon’t know who to credit for this. But it is how I feel.
You really have to take a moment and think about how insane this is. That’s a quarter of the entire output of the country’s public infrastructure going to support about one hundred sites.
StephDickenson.bsky.social@stephdickenson.bsky.social · 4w ago“Data centres accounted for almost one quarter of the electricity consumed in Ireland last year, up from 5% in 2015, the CSO said today. A total of 7,663 gigawatt-hours of electricity was used by data centres in 2025, up 10% from 6,973GWh in 2024.” www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
I have been expressing desire for an app that alerts me to the presence of pervert glasses in my vicinity. It exists and it's called Nearby Glasses! Immediate download.
A new app alerts you if someone nearby is wearing smart glasses | TechCrunch
A hobbyist developer's new app, which can detect nearby smart glasses, comes amid resistance to always-on recording and listening devices that invade people's privacy.
techcrunch.com
....and @hannahdaly.ie crunched the numbers on climate action policies to see where the most obvious emissions cuts can be made www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
Maths is on the side of action when it comes to climate crisis
At this pivotal time, new modelling identifies where the biggest emissions and cost savings lie
irishtimes.com
While anti-genocide campaigners were prosecuted in their 1000s in Britain, this is on the streets of Belfast right now. When Benn & Starmer refused to call a COBRA meeting following the paramilitary-backed ethnic cleansing of the Belfast pogroms in June - it was a green light to loyalist terror.
The Ambassador’s letter worked in scaring Ireland’s govt into gutting the legislation that was promised in the election campaign.
One reason people don't trust AI is that it's being pushed on us by obviously evil people doing obviously evil things at their obviously evil companies
Futurism@futurism.com · 4w ago"This isn't something we normally test for."
