Grandmother in the lib chatting about recent cinema trip: "I LOVE the Marvels. We took the kids yesterday. It's long but we didn't feel like it was TOO long. And VERY well acted."

Glen Hansard’s band The Frames opened for The New Pornographers in 2002. Neko Case doesn’t mince words here. nekocase.substack.com/p/in-what-fu...

IN WHAT FUCKING UNIVERSE?

This last week I was just cookin’ along minding my business when I suddenly found myself quite depressed.

nekocase.substack.com

Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.

Amazing 4-seater at vicar st @cbbworld.bsky.social

"And now we move on to LIARS"

Trump like the whinging brat at the birthday party who demands the candles be relit for him

Yer man Yamal is brilliant isn't he

Paging my personal rugby consultant to see if this book can be withdrawn 🏉

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.

The heat's got to me finally. A man came in to the lib and I asked how can I help. "I'd like to fill out an application." Me: for what? "...a library card"

I'm an optimist so either way a team I don't like is going home 😊

Cork LGBT Archive is developing a PERMANENT LGBTQ EXHIBITION in the Cork Public Museum. Open to the public from 19th August. We are offering free guided tours as part of Heritage Week. Supported by @heritagecouncil.ie www.heritageweek.ie/event-listin... #SpéirGhorm @orlaegan1.bsky.social

Busy few weeks ahead for Cork LGBT Archive, leading up to the highlight of the opening of the PERMANENT LGBTQ EXHIBITION in Cork Public Museum in August. Our work is supported by @heritagecouncil.ie @orlaegan1.bsky.social #SpéirGhorm

What's the opposite of click bait? That Threads has it nailed. Can you imagine how the rest of this post goes, no thank U!

unspeakable horror

Uisce Eireann won't release up to date figures on how much mains water is going to data centres. Surely this is environmental information which should be accessible to the public? Who does this lack of transparency serve? www.dublininquirer.com/does-irish-w...

Does Irish Water even know how much water data centres are using?

Much of the debate around data centres has focused on electricity, but the gap in figures for their water use has started to draw more attention – and breed mistrust.

dublininquirer.com

Tescos is having a laugh

Teen girl: "do you have Fight Club here?" Me: "as in a club to join, or the book?" (The kids can't handle my library comedy)

The CSO has released data on metered electricity consumption for 2025. The extraordinary headline figures: - Electricity consumption from data centres grew by nearly 10% last year, and now accounts for 23% of Ireland's electricity demand.

My gosh. Yesterday, Egypt Coach Hossam Hassan asked FIFA to use its "soft power" to help Palestinians. Then today, just as the Egypt-Argentina match began, Israel killed Mohammed al-Wahidi of the Egyptian Relief Committee in Gaza — a group that also organized Gaza screenings of the FIFA matches.

New political litmus test: I was nodding away talking to a library user, she was complaining about the UN, I agree and call it "useless", but no, she was on about how they rule every aspect of our lives with their laws. And don't get her started on what they are teaching the kids in school!!!

futurism.com/future-socie... lol

A Tower Books publication from 1978 (originally pubd. 1908)

A woman who was born in a mother and baby home in Cork where hundreds of babies died said that survivors are prepared to chain themselves to diggers to prevent the building of apartments at the site jrnl.ie/7084344

Bessborough survivors willing to chain themselves to diggers to prevent building of apartments

Earlier this year developer Estuary View Enterprises was granted planning permission by Cork City Council to build 140 apartments at the site of the former mother and baby home.

jrnl.ie

I saw a woman walking her dog at high noon today and I wanted to tell her to take off her Birkenstocks and see how she liked it 😡

A Microsoft worker has quit and sent a mass email detailing Microsoft's complicity in surveillance tech Israel uses to hunt Palestinians

Microsoft worker emails thousands of colleagues about company's support for genocidal 'Israel'

A Microsoft worker has quit and sent a mass email detailing Microsoft's complicity in surveillance tech Israel uses to hunt Palestinians

thecanary.co

Fell for an iced latte today. It's a cod. Gone in 3 sips.

On Brexit day, I travelled to Ourense, Spain to visit friends I had made while on a paid teaching placement the year prior, c/o the EU. It's not a perfect union, but opportunities like that are such a benefit to self development and education.