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unfollowing everyone on linkedin except this guy

submitted 18 hours ago • 622 comments

Cis women in Ireland need to talk to other cis women in our lives and pour water on the kind of thinly veiled, soft-sounding bigotry that's creeping into people's social media and minds before we fully go the way of the UK. TERFs are claiming to speak FOR us - we need to speak for ourselves. Loudly.

submitted 16 hours ago • 16 comments

"In Ireland, Hermes would lie thwarted at the gates of power, deflected by unacknowledged emails that describe concerns, letters without reply, requests for repeat risk assessments..." writes Dr Suzanne Crowe www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

When you're not paying for something, there's always someone who is. Don't be the product, don't be a tool.

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

It's a big ask to move to #EuropeanAlternatives but there's lots of help out there. www.goeuropean.org european-alternatives.eu On reddit there's: r/BuyFromEU & r/degoogle Let's no longer be the product to corporate greed and fascist billionaires. #degoogle #BuyFromEU #BuyFromEurope #ShopEuropean

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

It's a bad pic as it was stopped at traffic lights but it says "I bought this before Elon went crazy". 242, no you didn't, asshole.

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

Listening to @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social talk with @seanronayne.bsky.social and while the content is amazing, I now no longer know which county I come from or which accent I speak. #Melodic #SpéirGhorm

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

Testosterone is a life saving medication that is perfectly safe. Indeed, there is no strong evidence to support the suggestion that testosterone causes aggression or violence. When someone is being an asshole please find another cause to blame it on.

submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

#Unforgotten production having zero clue how Irish reg plates work. 😂 #SpéirGhorm

submitted 52 days ago • 2 comments

#BUYEUROPEAN

submitted 55 days ago • 5 comments

Germans release video to show what hospitals and restaurants would look like without immigrants

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

If anything, Janey Godley was too nice on him.

submitted 54 days ago • 8 comments

I've emailed the Taoiseach now straight off that Zelenskyy video and told him how strongly I feel that he should not go to the White House. So at least I said something.

submitted 54 days ago • 5 comments

Micheál Martin has repeatedly misrepresented the status of legislation that would ban trade with Israeli settlements deemed illegal by the International Court of Justice (ICJ). (Via @wereontheditch.bsky.social ) #IrishPolitics #Speirgorm www.ontheditch.com/comment-the-...

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

Why does 25% AfD among young men spark a thousand "what is going on with young men?" posts yet Die Linke 34% among young women generates...nothing at all? Yes, young men voting for the radical right is an important phenomenon. But so is young women going rad left at even higher rates.

submitted 58 days ago • 430 comments

fucking preach, mother Jane Fonda. “empathy isn’t weak or woke and by the woke just means you give a damn.”

submitted 58 days ago • 2 comments

I'm seriously disliking the jokes and the making fun of #45 and the #Muskrat. Jokes, funny toilet paper, memes, etc all make light of the evil and harm being caused. We didn't have the internet in 1939. Is this how we make it OK to ignore? By making light of it?

submitted 59 days ago • 1 comment

I find this very moving: a 10-year-old Ukrainian boy who moved to the West of Ireland 2 years ago as a refugee, speaking in Irish of his love of playing Irish music

submitted 61 days ago • 39 comments

Repost with the first album you bought with your own money. Yes, I'm that old!

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

Just finished #MaryShelly, won't set the world alight but it's decent. #Films

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

I'm very proud to share my short paper, published today on publicpolicy.ie - Reporting on Ireland's Gender Pay Gap. This is based on what I've learned from my work on paygap.ie #genderPayGap #speirgorm publicpolicy.ie/papers/repor...

submitted 71 days ago • 1 comment

You know what lives in my head rent-free? The Panama Papers. We found out about all that money that rich people have been hiding overseas, and it just got memory holed.

submitted 63 days ago • 8 comments

This is happening, right now. The great "arribada" (arrival) of mother Olive Ridley sea turtles on the Odisha coast, where they dig sand-nests & lay their eggs, driven by ancient instinct. Heart-lifting, magnificent, moving: part of a geography of hope. 🎞️ by Bivash Pandav via my friend Yuvan Aves.

submitted 63 days ago • 53 comments

The median gender pay gap at Tesco is 4.46%. The median bonus gap is 14.85%. paygap.ie/company/tesco #genderPayGap

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

Oh RTE I will never pay a license for this kind of shite. We're long past McQuaids Ireland now. Go peddle this nonsense elsewhere.

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments