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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.bsky.social · 11h

Last week at a Brussels thinktank conference I heard the US openly referred to as "our former ally".

This week we learn that the US climate delegation is going around threatening to put European climate negotiators on the US sanctions list if they don't agree to wreck our climate.

Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 12h

🚨🚨Things are just getting worse. 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/us-a...

US accused of threatening EU diplomats during bid to kill green shipping rules

Negotiators at shipping talks in London were told both they and their countries could be punished unless they voted with the U.S.

www.politico.eu

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 1d

Funny* isn't that the Media complain about the 15% payrise for Train Drivers over 3 years, or the 22% payrise for Doctors over 3 years.

But they ignore the 76% payrise for CEO's over the last 5 years, or the 38% payrise for Bankers in 1 year.

*Disgusting

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 12h

The anti-trans crusade is exapanding to target same sex marriage, something that no one could ever have foreseen, except everybody.

Our top stories for the week ahead, in Leading Off.

www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Gay Marriage In Cross Hairs as Right-Wing Attacks Expand — Assigned

Leading Off: Marriage equality faces a direct challenge in the U.S. Supreme Court, while a Texas judge opens the door to marriage discrimination. The administration pursues new attacks on trans care a...

www.assignedmedia.org

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Quite Interesting @qi.com · 13h

According to a medieval Irish legal text on cats called Catslechtae (Cat-Sections), if a cat is able to purr and to catch mice, it’s worth three cows and if it’s only able to purr, it’s worth one cow and a half.

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Felicity @fififinx.bsky.social · 12h

I don't know whether this is funny or depressing. I do know that Nolan shouldn't be anywhere near the bench. Git

WWN @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social · 13h

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 14h

Just paid the aul' income tax for the year and consequently have about two beans left to rub together, so if you've been looking for a bit of Irish art now's a very good time to buy. It's this or train the crows to rob billionaires and I'm running out of cheese bribes

Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · Feb 18

A cost-of-living crisis isn't the easiest time to sell art, but: www.ciaraioch.com is where you can support my work, with each archival-quality print on textured heavy paper being produced here in Ireland, shipping internationally in eco-friendly packaging, with free mini-treats in every order 🎁

Collage of different prints from my online store

Close up of the Irish Aquatic Life print

Linocut print of Men Of The Blaskets, with small flowers beside it

Imbolc print next to purple flowers

#speirgorm #speirghorm #art #traditionalart #artist

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 14h

A day for sitting beside the range with a cup of something warming 🌧️

Prints available here: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...

Watercolour painting in a semi-cartoon style. A sheepdog lies contentedly in front of an old Stanley range with pots and a teapot on it, surrounded by rural kitchen paraphernalia like a bucket of turf, wellies, teatowels, jams and syrup, Lotto tickets etc. A clock hangs overhead and a mouse peaks out near it.

#Art #Ireland #SpéirGorm #SpéirGorm #TraditionalArt #artsky

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borderless @borderless.bsky.social · 15h

Starvation is always a policy choice. Just like homelessness.

Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 16h

The USDA is the fail safe for SNAP.

They have a contingency fund to ensure it’s covered in the event of a shutdown.

They’re refusing.

Grocery stores stepped up to try and help by offering discounts to any SNAP recipients and the USDA told them they had to stop.

Starvation as a policy choice.

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 15h

For additional context
1) Over €100m of overpayments *was* recovered
2) 75% of the unrecoverable payments were to people who are now dead
3) the vast, vast majority of such payments are down to errors by the Dept, not fraud by the dead.

Katherine Nolan @dochara.com · 1d

€15 million in unrecovered welfare payments. Wow, that really sounds like a LOT!

But. Take the total spent on social welfare to be roughly €25 billion annually - it's a bit higher.

That's 0.06% unrecovered. Or about 6c in every €1000. Or to put it another way, negligible.

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Felicity @fififinx.bsky.social · 16h

Ooh, every time Elon touches Grok it goes Goebbels. Shocker.

A proposal: anyone who invests in Tesla, or any of Musk's other ventures should be assumed to be a Nazi, because Musk's a Nazi. He's not even smart enough to be subtle. A gonif, a creep, & a Nazi. You support him? You're pure dreck too

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 17h

In Grok we don’t trust: academics assess Elon Musk’s AI-powered encyclopedia

From publishing falsehoods to pushing far-right ideology, Grokipedia gives chatroom comments equal status to research

www.theguardian.com

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Felicity @fififinx.bsky.social · 18h

Oh, do fuck off, Mehole. House building is hampered by FF's determined instinct for corruption, & FG's dogmatic insistence on punishing the poor. A toxic combo that has nothing to do with the evil EU insisting that homes be liveable & the environment protected

Irish Examiner @irishexaminer.bsky.social · 18h

Micheál Martin says house building in Ireland is hampered by 'gold-plating' of EU rules

Taoiseach says 'going beyond what is required' is slowing down delivery of housing and other big projects in Ireland

dlvr.it

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Felicity @fififinx.bsky.social · 18h

Oh, there's nothing funny about it. Sinister. Evil. In some ways it is lucky Musk is so astonishingly inept. In more ways it is unlucky that so many are too stupid to realise...

a man is standing in a doorway and says he 's not the messiah !

Alt: a man is standing in a doorway and says he 's not the messiah !

media.tenor.com

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 4d

He’s not being funny.

He wants to actually rewrite history

Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 6d

Follow the money. www.thetimes.com/world/europe...

Elon Musk says AI research into ancient Rome will ‘rewrite history’

The world’s richest man is financing a new age of archaeological projects that seek to use artificial intelligence to fill in knowledge gaps

www.thetimes.com

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Andrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 2d

I've been getting back into the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series after many years, and the most relatable part is how everyday objects like doors and elevators have been imbued with artificial intelligence and it just makes them obnoxious and frustrating to use and everyone hates it.

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Felicity @fififinx.bsky.social · 1d

I'm looking to buy myself some nice, preferably Irish made, fridge magnets. Cats coffee &/or eat the rich would be the themes of preference

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Felicity @fififinx.bsky.social · 1d

He's certainly never found wanting for something to say when it's *his* home & family threatened. He expects to be treated as a human being. Turn about is fair play & Ireland is supposed to be all about fair play. And yet...

Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 1d

Ged Nash also called on the Tánaiste Simon Harris to issue a statement on the arson attack, saying he is someone who is “never found wanting to comment on anything that might occur in our society” and has yet to comment on what’s happened in the town.

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Bernie Linnane @berlinnaeus.bsky.social · 1d

Sunday Independent...

Dear Editor,

I cannot begin to tell you how surprised I was to discover that young men of a racist and discriminatory disposition might be attracted to a party set up by people who believe that women have too many rights.

Bernie Linnane
Dromahair, Co. Leitrim.

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Felicity @fififinx.bsky.social · 1d

Which really begs the question: WHO constitutes the real danger here?

Felicity @fififinx.bsky.social · 1d

Any politico using the phrase "Legitimate concerns" has questions to answer about this crime (SERIOUS side-eye, SF). Because there AREN'T any LEGITIMATE concerns. All there is is propaganda bandied about by groups that disproportionately include domestic abusers www.thejournal.ie/drogheda-ipa...

Green Party accuses Government of 'ignoring far-right violence' following Drogheda Ipas fire

Gardaí now believe that petrol was used to start the fire at the building.

www.thejournal.ie

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Felicity @fififinx.bsky.social · 1d

Wages are not the problem causing inflation. The antics of a rentier class hell-bent on squeezing unearned gains out of everything are the problem. That & a bunch of politicians wilfully complicit in that rapacious extraction www.thejournal.ie/minimum-wage...

Ireland’s minimum wage will rise above €14 per hour - will this cause inflation?

A rise in the minimum wage could ruffle prices, but the effect is likely smaller than you think.

www.thejournal.ie

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Felicity @fififinx.bsky.social · 1d

There are many horrible things about getting old, however having considered all the available evidence I have decided the worst (or at least the most embarrassing) is crippling your back by... cutting your toenails

a woman sitting on a couch with a betsmove logo in the corner

Alt: a woman sitting on a couch with a betsmove logo in the corner. She covers her face with embarrassment

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Feljin Jose @feljin.ie · 2d

Every far-right riot and protest that was tolerated, every racist dog whistle from public reps, every bit of hate and misinformation allowed to spread by social media companies, all led to this moment in Drogheda last night where someone felt emboldened enough to try to burn children alive.

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 15d

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Institute for Strategic Dialogue @isdglobal.org · 3d

Ahead of Ireland’s presidential elections, ISD & H&CC found 172 false/misleading posts, as well as 43 AI-gen ones including a deepfake claiming Catherine Connolly’s withdrawal & the election’s cancellation. The brief urges tackling both harmful content & the algorithms that amplify it. More below.

Irish presidential election 2025: Renewed attacks on election integrity and repeated platform failures

Analysis identified many false, misleading and delegitimising narratives about both the electoral process and candidates.

www.isdglobal.org

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Felicity @fififinx.bsky.social · 2d

The absolute shitehawks who did this didn't do it to "protect wimmin" nor because they're concerned for the Oirish. They did it 'cos they're scum who get off on terrorising those who can't fight back. Alabama is too good for them

RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 2d

Minister for Justice says there will be serious consequences for those involved after fireworks were thrown into a building housing International Protection applicants in Drogheda last night

Children rescued after fireworks thrown into IPAS centre

Four children, including a baby, were among five people rescued from the top floor of an IPAS centre in Drogheda, after fireworks were thrown into the building causing a fire.

www.rte.ie