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Food, parkrun, football, books, and my dog Ollie. If that's not your thing, you know what to do! Pronouns...she/her/hers. #Speirgorm
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As a *very* pregnant woman, I just want to reiterate that the inclusive term 'pregnant people' takes absolutely nothing away from me and the fact that other people who aren't women can also be pregnant doesn't mean I'm not a woman. Also, are women not people?

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Maersk will cut ties with companies linked to illegal Israeli settlements on the occupied West Bank, the Danish shipping giant has said. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/...

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When public figures with huge public platforms call for trans women and girls to be photographed and exposed in public, they put lives at risk Parliamentarians must make it absolutely clear: Trans+ people have the same right to safety, privacy, and dignity as anyone else Silence is complicity 1/

If Moldemort is encouraging people to take photos of vaguely gnc women in loos now, does that mean she doesn't mind people setting up step ladders on the footpath and taking photos of her in her garden, or photos of themselves outside her front gate, or is that different somehow? 🤔

In the early 1990s, Ireland was getting more than 40% of its electricity from coal. Last week it closed its last coal plant: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

He just dropped $280,000,000 worth of artillery in a war that’s not ours, but our grandparents have to live on Ramen noodles because America can’t afford Meals on Wheels anymore. Make it make sense.

No one is buying the gaslighting of “you’re an anti-Semite if you’re anti-genocide” anymore, certainly not the Irish.

Hello friends. It's my birthday today, and the best present you can give an independent artist like me, is to share my work around so that more people can find what I do, so that maybe I can keep doing my thing, It is tough out there rn. Either that or a winning Euromillions ticket. Thanks 💛

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Beef Iron and Wine "This preparation is made from a fine quality of Sherry Wine, Citrate of Iron, and extract of Fresh Lean Beef" 🤔🤯

I have a friend in legal community who confirmed this is real, please share.

God bless Canada!

San Diego Catholics in action.

Californians: I did not know about this resource until my state assemblymember sent an email about it just now, here are resources in case you spot ICE in your community. Bookmark this page!

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on. slate.com/technology/2...

Unexpected hidden gem, Keels, on Bonavista peninsula NL. Stunnnng ! Apparently the setting for some movies and tv shows.

Your periodic reminder that I keep a growing list of Dublin beer gardens and Pavement Pints options. www.weirdodublinpubs.com/weirdo-guide... #SpeirGorm

If you’re experiencing extreme heat, ideally: get air conditioning… but if you can’t, follow the advice in this thread!!!

Dublin - we will see you at Fairview anocht 🔥 Here's a wee mural in the city unveiled by Aches yesterday - fair play a chara 👏

Last mention - if you took tickets for Writehawks 4 tonight and can't come bacause, well, y'know, you'd rather be drinking outdoors, we won't hold that against you but do contact @booksupstairs.bsky.social and let them know because we have a long waiting list... See you at 6.30!

They didn't mince words in 17th century advice columns. From the Athenian Mercury for the 10th February 1694.

Kneecap has assembled a formidable legal team made up of the best human rights lawyers and barristers in the UK, including Garreth Pierce, in order to put the political British justice system in the dock today. Wishing them well in exposing it's hypocrisy

GRMA London - sound heads gathering since 8am we will see you soon. FREE MO CHARA

Well done to An Taisce for helping draw attention to this. We need to significantly increase motor tax for SUVs, triple (at least) the parking charges, and ban advertising. The solutions are very simple.

"I'm happy to report I'm just fine. I lost a button. But I'm gonna sleep in my bed tonight, safe, with my family... At that elevator, I was separated from someone named Edgardo... Edgardo is in ICE detention and he's not going to sleep in his bed tonight."

For background on this situation: www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2024...

I'm getting desperate messages from a family of Syrian refugees in Lebanon who say they were due to be resettled to Ireland in the next two days, but flight was cancelled & they've been left w/o shelter & no idea what will happen next. Asked Irish gov for response, nothing yet.

booksellers: if you have david walliams's kids books on your shelf, you can add him to your next return! free up that shelf space for somebody better. www.thetimes.com/uk/media/art...

This assassination makes the Minnesota house even. I'm waiting for the first Republican Minnesota state legislator to commit to sit out votes until Rep. Hortman is replaced - otherwise Republicans are hugely benefiting from and complicit in this sort of political violence.

Use Signal. We promise, no AI clutter, and no surveillance ads, whatever the rest of the industry does. <3

He’s moving us toward what’s called a “police state.” Random abductions and detentions. Disappeared people. Federal troops on our streets. We won’t stand for it.

Nina Kuscsik, the first woman to enter the New York City Marathon and the first official female winner of the Boston Marathon, has died at 86.

#icebergs #IcebergAlley #Twillingate What a way to spend a day! This was from dry land. So close to shore.

This is disgraceful and cruel. An entire society has bent to the lunatic whims of a hateful billionaire and come up with hateful rules like this. The people in UK govt and pressure groups who pushed this through should be utterly ashamed of themselves.

All marchers must be released. 2 international coordinators were illegally detained at the weekend, and processed for deportation this morning. We stand with Gaza, call for the opening of a humanitarian corridor, and demand an end to the genocide against the Palestinian people. #GlobalMarchToGaza

So after terrorizing communities and ripping families apart with ICE raids at farms and restaurants, DHS is suddenly “pausing” because of labor gaps? Wild how the war on undocumented immigrants stops the second your rosé doesn’t pour itself and your salad’s missing veggies.

Was shown this photo in 2019 by a supplier. It shows kids crossing a river on a tree trunk to get to school at ASOPEP Co-op in Planadas, Colombia. My twins were a similar age at time. We funded a bridge at this crossing and have done another three since. Circumstances/privilege are a fluke of birth.

Did you wash your hair this morning? Then you've Dean Mahomed, the "Shampooing Surgeon" to thank. Born in India in the 18th century, he fought in the British army under an Irish man, Captain Baker, who encouraged him to move to Cork, where he fell in love with an Irish woman, Jane...

This is super cool from the NWSL team Angel City FC, which is based in LA. They distributed these tshirts at last night’s game.

Hello! I have a happy favour to ask. Last year, I had a US intern working with us and she now is looking for help that you- good reader of this account- could give. (She needs academic survey participants) Check out her flyer below, click the link, and please RT docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...