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Jen Keane @zenbuffy.bsky.social · 2h

I cannot stress enough that the government didn't announce this unprompted or make updates to their press release. I broke this story by hassling them until they admitted this to me, and then told the Irish Times.

This would have passed by completely unnoticed if I didn't care so much.

Jen Keane @zenbuffy.bsky.social · 4h

On the one hand, it's quite nice to be proved right. On the other hand, that's 6000 companies due to report who now I have to catalogue or else the data is lost forever because the govt., once again, have failed to deliver on a promise...

paygap.ie/blog/news/no...

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 9h

Government gender pay gap portal to fall short of promises made on International Women’s Day

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Jen Keane @zenbuffy.bsky.social · 4h

It is genuinely unbelievable to me that, for all the fanfare that was made in March, the govt. have been absolutely radio silent on this significant change, and probably were hoping it would go completely under the radar, and it's only for me constantly emailing them that anyone even knows about it.

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Jen Keane @zenbuffy.bsky.social · 4h

It is genuinely unbelievable to me that, for all the fanfare that was made in March, the govt. have been absolutely radio silent on this significant change, and probably were hoping it would go completely under the radar, and it's only for me constantly emailing them that anyone even knows about it.

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Jen Keane @zenbuffy.bsky.social · 4h

On the one hand, it's quite nice to be proved right. On the other hand, that's 6000 companies due to report who now I have to catalogue or else the data is lost forever because the govt., once again, have failed to deliver on a promise...

paygap.ie/blog/news/no...

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 9h

Government gender pay gap portal to fall short of promises made on International Women’s Day

The portal will roll out to less than a sixth of the expected 6,000 companies as part of a ‘pilot scheme’

www.irishtimes.com

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Jen Keane @zenbuffy.bsky.social · 5h

That's how we practice! 😆 We'll be sitting watching tv or something and I'll just randomly call out his phone number, and he'll respond with mine.

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Jen Keane @zenbuffy.bsky.social · 7h

Before then I only had my mum's mobile, her land line, and maybe my two Nana's numbers off, and my mum didn't know I had gone to the hospital because I didn't want to worry her in the middle of the night. The idea of having to ring her forced my husband's number in there 😂 I still practice it though

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 20h

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Jen Keane @zenbuffy.bsky.social · 7h

I didn't learn my husband's phone number off til I was trapped in a&e during lockdown adjacent times, he wasn't allowed in with me, and my phone battery was going to die. I needed to be able to call him to pick me up!

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Jen Keane @zenbuffy.bsky.social · 7h

More on this from me, later today.

(This is the news I found out last week. I was right. No portal this year. Again.)

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 9h

Government gender pay gap portal to fall short of promises made on International Women’s Day

The portal will roll out to less than a sixth of the expected 6,000 companies as part of a ‘pilot scheme’

www.irishtimes.com

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Matthew Parkinson-Bennett @matthewpb.bsky.social · 20h

I really think “We’ve made up a rapist. He doesn’t exist. Why won’t you condemn him?!?” is some of the most bizarre Brass Eye stuff we’ve ever seen

The Foggy Jew @hmcevansoneya.bsky.social · 21h

Like, Catherine Connolly isn't perfect and there are valid criticism of her, but instead we have been subjected to some of the most incredible nonsense over the last few weeks instead. Even things with a real basis have been pushed to nonsensical extremes. A mess.

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Bethan M Jenkins @gwenynen.bsky.social · 2d

This pair of tweets live rent-free in my head :

Tweet thread

Alexander J.A Cortes
@AJA_Cortes
Unnatural hair colors in woman are a warning signal to stay away,
Its an example Aposematism-the phenomenon of poisonous animals in nature advertising their toxicity and lethality
JulieG @stringy
Replying to @javafour and @Ennaaseret7
Aposematism is there to warn off predators, not sexual partners. If you're repelled bv it. it's working.

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Jen Keane @zenbuffy.bsky.social · 2d

Truly baffling stuff.

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Jen Keane @zenbuffy.bsky.social · 2d

Look I can't be certain that a man is responsible for this but, well, I am certain.

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Jen Keane @zenbuffy.bsky.social · 2d

Jesus Christ Vit Hit.

A photo of a label on a bottle of vit hit. Below a qr code is the sentence "now that I've been in your mouth, I think it's time we had a chat"

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Jen Keane @zenbuffy.bsky.social · 2d

Lads standing up in their seat at half time, blocking my view of the minis, have the same energy as those dads who went to do the shopping during COVID just to get out of the house. You're just in the way! Get out of the way!

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 3d

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 3d

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Jen Keane @zenbuffy.bsky.social · 3d

Catherine Connolly told me her party piece is "listening".

Wait sorry, I'm getting reports that my notes are wrong on this one...

#SmearTheBejaysis #SpeirGorm

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 3d

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 3d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Daryl FÉTH FÍADA Feehely 🎃 @darylfeehely.com · 3d

Catherine Connolly makes unnecessary journeys.

Loki @lokideburca.bsky.social · 3d

I saw Catherine Connolly watch an ambulance pass by and she didn't bless herself.

Izzy Fox, PhD 🍉 @izzyfox.bsky.social · 3d

Catherine Connolly seen buying 11 items in the 10 items or less aisle!

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Jen Keane @zenbuffy.bsky.social · 3d

I saw Catherine Connolly buy a packet of crisps in the pub and she didn't tear it open and put it in the middle of the table.

Izzy Fox, PhD 🍉 @izzyfox.bsky.social · 3d

Catherine Connolly seen buying 11 items in the 10 items or less aisle!

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Fi @fifyfofum.bsky.social · 3d

Catherine Connolly saw a dog stretching and did not say "oh big stretch". #speirgorm

Sharrow 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇮🇪🦄💙📚🎃 @sharrow.bsky.social · 3d

I saw Catherine Connolly buy a bottle of coke a cola water, drink it and not recycle the bottle!

Steph @stephanenny.bsky.social · 3d

Driver pulled over to give way for Catherine Connolly on rural road and Connolly did *not* give awkward little wave of acknowledgement

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Jen Keane @zenbuffy.bsky.social · 4d

Committee: "I'm worried that we're running out of ways to ignore women for the Nobel prize"

Wang: "Wait! Have we thought about the machines? What if we give *them* prizes?!"

Committee: "Wang you genius, you've done it. Go home and have your wife make you a sandwich, you deserve it"

Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 4d

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

Headline from an article in Nature this week that states "Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery. The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality."

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 4d

There are hundreds of years of history of women’s scientific accomplishments not being recognised or being minimised (“not notable”). It *still* happens. Many female scientists are only acknowledged on Wikipedia thanks to the efforts of, yes, other female scientists, notably physicist Dr Jess Wade.

Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 4d

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

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Jen Keane @zenbuffy.bsky.social · 4d

Oh friends, I have just received a very interesting email about the government pay gap portal and when I tell you I'm going to read them for filth, I worry that you are underestimating me...

#genderPayGap #payGap

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