My (dance-obsessed) daughter is watching an old episode of Strictly and there’s a guy in the credits called Lincoln Abraham. That’s the name of a fellow who’d go to a gun show and get hit with a theatre.

I lose it a bit when I try figure out what the Gardaí are telling us with their Bank Holiday operation stats. Yes, we know people are driving recklessly, instead of patting yourselves on the back for a few days enforcement, you've just broadcast how little is being done the rest of the time

Mike McKillen@mikemckillen.bsky.social · 16h ago

Does this level of law breaking by drivers not suggest that we need Garda operations such as this one on a 24/7 basis & not just at bank holidays? "Between the period of Thursday 30 July – Tuesday 4 August 2026, a total of 169 people were arrested for driving under the influence of an intoxicant,

First, you tell me to get a hobby; now it's an “appropriate hobby”.

I think the "I am just a smoll bean" joke is overdone, but the Senate of the United States can't do anything to rein in the President is that joke.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

Cornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"

I told you we[s]t Ireland people we should hold the rain hostage until the UK paid a ransom. Now they're getting it For Free!

Kate Bevan@katebevan.com · 2d ago

omg it's RAINING

Slow as I am to engage in a tit for tat with the noisy neighbours (though I could provide many examples), you don’t get to call any other country ridiculous as long as you insist on parading a magic jewel hat to parliament & giving it a blinged-up carriage of its own. m.youtube.com/shorts/3G2yT...

The Imperial State Crown travels in its own carriage during the State Opening of Parliament

YouTube video by Miss D

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Des Fitzgerald@desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 3d ago

I think we're generally much too chill about how mainstream and normal this weird, obsessive anti-Irish stuff is in the UK. #speirgorm

I dunno if Rod Liddle’s going to get anyone at all protesting that nobody called him a dickhead while he was alive or that he was some modern-day awkward Jesus or that his body is barely cold. Hopefully not: man, he was a misogynistic racist homophobic piece of shit. Here’s Eamon Dunphy in 2005:

The Author, Séamas O'Reilly@seamas.bsky.social · 3d ago

Haters focusing on Liddle's violence toward his pregnant partner, his galloping racism, or his repeated defences of paedophilia, should remember to mention he was also one of the worst writers to ever do it. A calorie-free hack of the first water. Just absolute dogshit, back to front.

It's no surprise I disagreed with his opinions, but he was actually that bad at writing that it was painfully clear that anyone who liked his work simply agreed with those opinions - or hated the people they'd annoy - and thus found it perfectly delicious someone had finally typed them up.

Haters focusing on Liddle's violence toward his pregnant partner, his galloping racism, or his repeated defences of paedophilia, should remember to mention he was also one of the worst writers to ever do it. A calorie-free hack of the first water. Just absolute dogshit, back to front.

As a disabled person i was amazed at the amount of accessible options that suddenly became available. I really felt like it had changed the world for the better. Then it all just got taken away and the world moved on and left us behind. Alone. I actually felt genuine grief.

Dave Andress@davidandress.bsky.social · 4d ago

Covid lockdowns demonstrated, in a deeply imperfect way, the possibility of large-scale social solidarity for a higher cause. That is a prime reason why so many powerful people want us to run screaming away from them into the comforting arms of selfish individualist competition.

The name of this playlist is hilarious 😂😂😂 the songs are 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Coincidentally, posted today by @tomgauld.bsky.social ..😊.

I know a middle-aged nurse who caught COVID four times. Yet the predominant voice we hear now from that era is a middle-aged guy who went far-right because he couldn't have a pint.

researchdoom@bananaintherama.bsky.social · 4d ago

I remember my SIL nurse crying in rage on the phone when this was announced. Yes, she got COVID in her ward. She lost a baby. Fuck these people.

I mean, they can’t invade you if they don’t know where you are.🧐 On the other hand, they already have troops in some of those places (officially at least Nigeria*), so…😬 *it has oil

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 7d ago

A U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a state department presentation at a ⁠global conference www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Eternally funny to me that previously everyone just sort of agreed to behave themselves and not take the piss, but Ken O'Flynn is constitutionally incapable of acting like an adult, so, here we are

Gavan Reilly@gavreilly.com · last wk.

A couple of months on, an update: the current system allows TDs to lodge PQs simply by sending the text to an designated email address. After the recess they’ll have to use a gated online system to supply questions instead, making it more cumbersome to lodge multiple interrelated questions at once.

“Terrifying” AND “frightening”? A tiny number of temporary Limerick street closures during one month so city dwellers & visitors can have some expanded urban recreational space & events. These lads would rather reign in hell than us have something nice. www.limerickleader.ie/news/busines...

Mayor faces fury at 'terrifying' and 'frightening' street closures in Limerick

Cou ncillors bid to use emergency powers to end measures planned for Limerick

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Hey lads, we already asked the Taoiseach if the water use of data centres could be measured and he rightly threw a fit in the Dail about people not being able to use facebook and twitter if we did that. Just turn off the hoses and stop looking at data centres, they're fine, stop asking about it.

The Journal@thejournal.ie · last wk.

Data down the drain: As householders live under a hosepipe ban, data centres have a transparency problem no one wants to solve... jrnl.ie/7114784

A Government investigation into Aughinish Alumina was unable to get hold of "confidential" documents from Sweden relating to the plant's alleged ownership by sanctioned oligarch Oleg Deripaska It turns out the documents are available publicly for a €25 admin fee www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

Aughinish investigators did not obtain Swedish document available for €25 fee

Authorities said they were unable to obtain specific information – but judgment is publicly accessible

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"A judicial review is any case taken against any public body that may have broken the law — it's the separation of powers working as intended". Thanks to @cathalmalone.bsky.social for writing this for us www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Judicial reviews are a fundamental part of democracy — not a dig at the Government by greedy lawyers

A judicial review is any case taken against any public body that may have broken the law — it's the separation of powers working as intended, writes Cathal Malone

irishexaminer.com

This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

‘Sending inconclusive findings to the European Commission is an evasion dressed up as due process. The State should instead weigh the probabilities, as governments must, and act’’ irishtimes.com editorial cuts through convenient dodging of reasonable conclusions.’

The Irish Times view on Aughinish Alumina report: evasion dressed up as due process

Worrying gap between Minister’s statement and what is actually in report

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Remember that documentary about people who were sexually attracted to man-made structures? Why the HELL didn’t they call it If You Build It They Will Cum

take a minute to check this out. you'll be glad you did

ACME Sales Rep.@acmesalesrep.bsky.social · last wk.

Oh, this is good.

What, like Cats, but eventually followed by something that isn’t just another bloody cat introducing themselves?

pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky”@pixelatedboat.bsky.social · last wk.

To get casual fans caught up, the new Avengers movie should start with all the characters doing a rap where they say who they are and what their deal is

If you were wondering whether Biden or Carney was going to celebrate the Mayo win on social media first, it was Biden.

This is just to say I used trickery in battle with Polyphemus the cyclops I was victorious and nearly got away anonymous, unseen Forgive me But it was hilarious And I could not resist taking all the credit

This is just to say I have turned into pigs the men that were on my island and which you were probably saving to row you to Ithaca Forgive me they were disgusting so male and so disrespectful.

Jessica Ritchey@jmritchey.bsky.social · 2w ago

This is just to say I have eaten the sun god's cattle on the island which you were probably saving for Apollo Forgive me they were delicious and so charred and so warm

@waterfordwhispers.bsky.social in there already!