Seána
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Interested in law, human rights, healthcare policy, shiny things, millinery and the occasional crown. Happiest when surrounded by the Mournes and books
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You can hear from a person who lived through the Economic War in the 1930s in our new episode, now available over on Patreon www.patreon.com/posts/early-...
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November 25, 2025 at 5:49 PM
You can hear from a person who lived through the Economic War in the 1930s in our new episode, now available over on Patreon www.patreon.com/posts/early-...
When you eat a meal with toddler cutlery, it becomes very clear that loads of things have been needlessly designed out of accessibility for no good reason. It’s *so easy* to eat with
November 25, 2025 at 2:12 PM
When you eat a meal with toddler cutlery, it becomes very clear that loads of things have been needlessly designed out of accessibility for no good reason. It’s *so easy* to eat with
Revolting day at the border
November 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Revolting day at the border
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Gaza after the ceasefire is defined by the ‘yellow line’ — drawn by Israel, and dividing the strip in two.
Our evidence suggests that Israel seeks to make the line permanent, as ‘reconstruction’ plans normalise this new stage of Israel’s occupation: frames.forensic-architecture.org/gaza/ceasefire
Our evidence suggests that Israel seeks to make the line permanent, as ‘reconstruction’ plans normalise this new stage of Israel’s occupation: frames.forensic-architecture.org/gaza/ceasefire
November 25, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Gaza after the ceasefire is defined by the ‘yellow line’ — drawn by Israel, and dividing the strip in two.
Our evidence suggests that Israel seeks to make the line permanent, as ‘reconstruction’ plans normalise this new stage of Israel’s occupation: frames.forensic-architecture.org/gaza/ceasefire
Our evidence suggests that Israel seeks to make the line permanent, as ‘reconstruction’ plans normalise this new stage of Israel’s occupation: frames.forensic-architecture.org/gaza/ceasefire
Some of the most irritating people on the internet are the ones that post “what a substitute for x, y & z?” under recipes - and I say this as someone with a server nut allergy
November 25, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Some of the most irritating people on the internet are the ones that post “what a substitute for x, y & z?” under recipes - and I say this as someone with a server nut allergy
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Indo editor wearing a hot dog costume while printing this story
Genuinely mental story. The obvious intersection of trans panic and deranged sports parents: adults gleefully bullying the shit out of a kid
Looking for answers to ‘case closed’ following troubling events at a girls’ football match in Cavan
On a Friday in August, a WhatsApp message describing troubling events at a girls’ football match began to spread in Cavan GAA circles. It read:
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November 24, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Indo editor wearing a hot dog costume while printing this story
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this dumb shit is what i mean when i say this is a purely aesthetic “politics.” yeah man, why can’t we have a fusion of cosmopolitan social democracy and revanchist hierarchies of wealth and privilege? tough question.
Matt Stoller: “..Trump & Mamdani defeated establishment in their own way, representing hunger of voters on the right & left who want something different. If those sides cd come together.. that would be a sea change in how we organize our political economy”.
www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-r...
www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-r...
Monopoly Round-Up: Why the Establishment Freaked Out Over a Mamdani-Trump Press Conference
Meta wins its antitrust case, there are now two fire truck antitrust claims, the stock market got wobbly, and Larry Summers was exiled from the establishment, at least for now.
www.thebignewsletter.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:04 PM
this dumb shit is what i mean when i say this is a purely aesthetic “politics.” yeah man, why can’t we have a fusion of cosmopolitan social democracy and revanchist hierarchies of wealth and privilege? tough question.
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Breakneck by Dan Wang is worth a read. McWilliams takes the wrong lessons from it & passes it off as his own homework. In short China is run by engineers, that see all problems including humans as engineering problems, the book warns against this, not for it. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
David McWilliams: To get things done, Ireland needs more engineers and fewer lawyers
A country run by engineers will build and accelerate into the future, while one run by lawyers will litigate and decelerate
www.irishtimes.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Breakneck by Dan Wang is worth a read. McWilliams takes the wrong lessons from it & passes it off as his own homework. In short China is run by engineers, that see all problems including humans as engineering problems, the book warns against this, not for it. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
Took our 10 year old consol up to uni and fired it up. Couldn’t save progress on this so it has to be constantly left on. It’s so difficult.Got to the final boss only to find you had to be using a fairly useless weapon if discarded many levels back. Nearly put me demented
November 22, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Took our 10 year old consol up to uni and fired it up. Couldn’t save progress on this so it has to be constantly left on. It’s so difficult.Got to the final boss only to find you had to be using a fairly useless weapon if discarded many levels back. Nearly put me demented
Ten pm of a Saturday night in, the inescapable scream of some sort of 20,000 calorie snack is calling to me like a foghorn
November 22, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Ten pm of a Saturday night in, the inescapable scream of some sort of 20,000 calorie snack is calling to me like a foghorn
Feels like Julia wrote this to skit the nordie accent
November 22, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Feels like Julia wrote this to skit the nordie accent
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"Reform would be worse" is both entirely correct and entirely irrelevant until polling day 2029. What matters right now is that Labour's approach is morally repugnant on its own terms, *and is empowering Reform*. As things stand today, its not Labour or Reform. Its Labour *then* Reform.
While it feels like I'm repeatedly slamming my head against a brick wall repeating this massively simple concept. Saying "Reform would be worse" doesn't make what Labour is doing better. Labour is now the most anti-immigration, anti-any marginalised group, government we have seen in decades. 1/
Very long thread: As with many of Labour's anti-immigration policies, this isn't new. British police have been stationed in other countries for this purpose for a long time
It does however show how Labour is pushing more on anti-immigration than previous governments. 1/
www.lbc.co.uk/article/shab...
It does however show how Labour is pushing more on anti-immigration than previous governments. 1/
www.lbc.co.uk/article/shab...
November 22, 2025 at 10:03 AM
"Reform would be worse" is both entirely correct and entirely irrelevant until polling day 2029. What matters right now is that Labour's approach is morally repugnant on its own terms, *and is empowering Reform*. As things stand today, its not Labour or Reform. Its Labour *then* Reform.
Couldn’t be happier for all involved. Darraghs firm is exemplary to work with
November 22, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Couldn’t be happier for all involved. Darraghs firm is exemplary to work with
We had three videos in our house for when we rented a video player. This, 101 Dalmatians and some weird CareBear/Alice in Wonderland hybrid cartoon. What a mix
Goldie Hawn stars alongside Meryl Streep, Bruce Willis and Isabella Rossellini in the 🇺🇸 American satirical black comedy fantasy film “DEATH BECOMES HER” (1992) dir. Robert Zemeckis
🎬 Universal Pictures
🎬 Universal Pictures
November 22, 2025 at 12:06 AM
We had three videos in our house for when we rented a video player. This, 101 Dalmatians and some weird CareBear/Alice in Wonderland hybrid cartoon. What a mix
Barrel jeans are a skit surely?
November 21, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Barrel jeans are a skit surely?
From what i can see from my niece & nephews, even though they’re used to watching videos for everything, they have problems extracting information and forming plans based on the content of those videos. It’s incredibly worrying. Seem to struggle with information extracting and planning from text too
November 21, 2025 at 12:06 PM
From what i can see from my niece & nephews, even though they’re used to watching videos for everything, they have problems extracting information and forming plans based on the content of those videos. It’s incredibly worrying. Seem to struggle with information extracting and planning from text too
The simpsons really broke my brain - so many cultural references and things are rooted through that show for me. I see this and instantly i think of Apu after he worked consecutive day and night shifts. A tiny joke but somehow a brain worm that won’t leave
Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.
This is who it was:
This is who it was:
November 21, 2025 at 9:41 AM
The simpsons really broke my brain - so many cultural references and things are rooted through that show for me. I see this and instantly i think of Apu after he worked consecutive day and night shifts. A tiny joke but somehow a brain worm that won’t leave
This episode is so funny. Highly recommended- the podcast, NOT Sapiens
Episode 46: Sapiens
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
Sapiens
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 11/20/2025 · 1h 38m
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November 21, 2025 at 8:51 AM
This episode is so funny. Highly recommended- the podcast, NOT Sapiens
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So, it's been officially announced: after 19 years on the online airwaves, RTÉ is to close four of its five digital radio stations, including 2XM, on New Year's Eve.
Thread follows...
#spéirghorm #ireland
Thread follows...
#spéirghorm #ireland
November 20, 2025 at 12:56 PM
So, it's been officially announced: after 19 years on the online airwaves, RTÉ is to close four of its five digital radio stations, including 2XM, on New Year's Eve.
Thread follows...
#spéirghorm #ireland
Thread follows...
#spéirghorm #ireland
Hard to believe I’ve gone from nights spent standing perched atop giant hidden platform heels, in a body con dress and flimsy blazer, happily waiting on a taxi in minus 3 degrees weather, to roaring “close the door, we’re not heating the streets” at my own toddler and feeling cold to my bones
November 20, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Hard to believe I’ve gone from nights spent standing perched atop giant hidden platform heels, in a body con dress and flimsy blazer, happily waiting on a taxi in minus 3 degrees weather, to roaring “close the door, we’re not heating the streets” at my own toddler and feeling cold to my bones
Who’d have thought people with a brain permanently wired a certain way, take medication that helps help them navigate this world for life and don’t choose to suffer as adults
November 20, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Who’d have thought people with a brain permanently wired a certain way, take medication that helps help them navigate this world for life and don’t choose to suffer as adults
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Why is it always "step back form teaching/politics/running a company because of the Epstein revelations" and not "step into these handcuffs while we investigate you for rape, paedophilia and human trafficking"?
#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
November 20, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Why is it always "step back form teaching/politics/running a company because of the Epstein revelations" and not "step into these handcuffs while we investigate you for rape, paedophilia and human trafficking"?
#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
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The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
![Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less."
She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards.
They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it.
This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil.
The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option.
"We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents.
"We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreiber7g4o5pujmzmjjzsp5dkz7blfexburuwjispfpv6dki7akjb7a@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
Seriously don’t understand what people think the release of any files will do in terms of reducing support for the man who was recorded talking about grabbing women by the pussy before he was elected. His voters love it, all of it, all of the cruelty and hatred
November 19, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Seriously don’t understand what people think the release of any files will do in terms of reducing support for the man who was recorded talking about grabbing women by the pussy before he was elected. His voters love it, all of it, all of the cruelty and hatred
Every time I see the “Irish mammies like to feed you” trope I think of working in Australia & eating microwave packet rice. My co workers told their families that night - Jun’s mum was Chinese. sent me dinners (with rice) every week, & Swati’s mum (2nd gen Indian heritage) sent a rice for my freezer
November 18, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Every time I see the “Irish mammies like to feed you” trope I think of working in Australia & eating microwave packet rice. My co workers told their families that night - Jun’s mum was Chinese. sent me dinners (with rice) every week, & Swati’s mum (2nd gen Indian heritage) sent a rice for my freezer