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100 years ago the free state wouldn't take South Armagh and so I'm down here to remind them of that
"1925 Boundary Commission proposal Use the handle on the vertical line to view changes" An interactive map of the current Irish border along county lines with border towns marked out "1925 Boundary Commission proposal Use the handle on the vertical line to view changes" An interactive map of the Proposed Irish border making an even more obviously gerrymandered statelet by meandering into North Monaghan and bits of Donegal and out of Tyrone and Fermanagh and South Armagh
December 3, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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And as I hung up the phone, it occurred to me
He'd grown up just like me
My boy was just like me
A big hairy dog sat in a shed doorway looking out at the rain exactly where I like to stand and look out at the rain
November 29, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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This might be the most blues thing ever to happen
J.B. started to become disenchanted with performing, due to the lack of success he had hoped for. The last straw happened one night while playing in a club. A couple began to fight in the audience, and the woman involved grabbed J.B’s guitar, breaking it over her husband's head. That was enough for Hutto. He walked away from music for the next 11 years, supplementing his income by working as a janitor in a funeral home.
November 6, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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me if I ever live to see the day
The most delightful little old lady ever, Cathy Rutherford holding a brolly and wishing a stake through Thatcher's already dead heart just to be sure
November 4, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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LRB 16 October 2025 ‘You’re here now’ Naoise Dolan The steel handcuffs the Israeli guard locked on me were ‘Tri-Max Made in England’. Clanking mine to the beat, I sang the Irish resistance ballad ‘Óró sé do bheatha bhaile’, then translated the lyrics for the other (French, Spanish, Canadian) occupants of my cell. We’d just been transferred by bus to our second prison, Givon, between West Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.
October 16, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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land bird
a messy overgrown border of green shrubs with untrained passion flower vines makes a great canopy for my unruly grey and white dog to build a nest under from collapsed orange crocosmias he's dug up, he is rolled in a ball snoozing and smiling
August 30, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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ACAB includes the shit police
"During the early 70’s the Nigerian government and their cronies in the police department consistently raided Fela’s communal family compound “The Kalakuta Republic”, viewing it as both a social and political threat. In 1974, the police once again invaded Fela’s compound, this time planting a joint on the artist, who promptly swallowed it, destroying any evidence of illegal activity. Fela was arrested, and was held in jail until he could produce a “sample” in order for the evidence to be recovered. Due to some miraculous help from other prisoners, Fela’s “sample” came back completely clean, and he was released without charges. The experience is recounted in the title track, “Expensive Shit”, in which Fela discusses the lengths the police went to in order to literally examine his shit."
August 30, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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ugh, and also ugh
Mackichan is not an appeaser. She writes about the rudeness of fellow cast members and creepy male directors. She writes about how when the all-female comedy sketch show Smack the Pony – which she made with Sally Phillips and Fiona Allen – was a hit, Ricky Gervais, whose offers to come and write for the show had been politely declined, still turned up uninvited at rehearsals and took over. “It was astonishing,” she laughs. “It’s the entitlement of anyone who’s in the business who’s male and it hasn’t been as hard for them, to go: ‘Learn from me, I’m going to upgrade you from women’s comedy to comedy.’” "The second year, (they were nominated for an Emmy) they were on a table with Sacha Baron Cohen, whose character Ali G was also up for an award, and Mackichan says he walked off, furious, when they won. If they had been recognised in the US, it wasn’t quite the same with the comedy establishment in Britain."
August 29, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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@dril: the good things i like about 90s is there were no hipsters, no rap, and your odds of getting an infection at a hospital were slightly higher
August 22, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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yet again, Sally Rooney represent
But while Irish citizens – including potentially here on the island of Ireland – are accused of terrorism for protesting an acknowledged genocide, the Irish Government has so far remained silent. When our citizens are arrested under authoritarian regimes elsewhere, the State and its consular services tend to spring into action, or at least purport to, in order to defend the human rights of Irish passport holders. Now that the jurisdiction in question is located next door – and indeed closer still – our leaders seem curiously unwilling to act. If the Government in Dublin truly believes that Israel is committing genocide, how can it look elsewhere while its nearest neighbour funds and supports that genocide and its own citizens are arrested simply for speaking out?
August 16, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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just saw this detail from the Irish Times article (referenced here) where the guards are comparing instances of racial hatred to 'a few months ago', when everything was cool and good
The Irish Times "There were 676 hate crimes and hate-related incidents in the State in 2024. According to Garda sources, that number is on track to increase this year. However, there is little statistical evidence to show Indian nationals are being singled out, gardaí say. Sources stressed they are not downplaying the attacks which have occurred. Neither are they saying racism is not a motive in at least some of them. What they are saying is that Indians living in Ireland have no more reason to feel afraid than they did a few months ago.
August 16, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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www.marxists.org/archive/conn...
he warned us, so he did
"As he came down from the Trades Hall platform in Dublin I spoke to him, saying: “Well, Glasier, I am sorry you have turned Fabian.” “But I’m not a Fabian,” he answered. “Then what are you,” I asked, a little bewildered, “aren’t you speaking on the Fabian platform and advocating Fabianism?” “Oh, yes,” he answered, “but you see I’m paid by the Fabians and must do what I am paid for.” And so I left him. How I envied his self-restraint and sense of responsibility."
August 9, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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Woody Allen on a huge green plain with mountains in the background being menaced by a huge boob reimagined as Hadley Freeman being menaced by porn
August 4, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Dublin tomorrow
www.ipsc.ie
Poster text: "End Racist Attacks! Protest the brutal assault of an Indian National in Tallaght 1pm Saturday 26th July Gather at City Hall, Dame St, march to the Dáil Organised by members of the migrant community in Ireland Supported by United Against Racism, Migrant Rights Centre Ireland, Migrant Nurses Ireland, Unite the Union"
July 25, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Tallaght this evening
peaceful crowd gathered for an anti racist vigil facing a stage with a speaker at Rua Red in Tallaght, a sign held up in the crowd reads "today, here, this is who we are, No to Racism"
July 25, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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not arsed
Photo of a sleepy dog lying behind some bedding plants, he's wedged against the shed wall sort of on his back with his legs crossed in a bare clearing of his making another photo of a sleepy dog lying behind some bedding plants, he's wedged against the shed wall sort of on his back with his legs crossed in a bare clearing of his making
July 19, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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just remembered this gem lmao
Speaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, Ms Abbott continually refused to confirm that she regretted calling for the IRA to "defeat the British State". Mr Marr also asked Ms Abbott: "You yourself said a defeat for the British State would be a great liberation, a great move forward, at that period of time. Do you regret your support for the IRA back in the Eighties?" Ms Abbott replied: "That particular quote you're referring to comes from a now defunct Left newspaper. "It was 34 years ago. I had a rather splendid afro at the time. I don't have the same hairstyle and I don't have the same views. "It is 34 years on. The hairstyle has gone, and some of the views have gone." Mr Corbyn was later asked on ITV's Peston On Sunday if Ms Abbott's hairstyle comments trivialised the IRA. "Diane's hairstyle is a matter for Diane," he replied.
July 18, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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David St. Hubbins getting irate about how shit stonehenge is in This Is Spinal Tap, he's wearing a teal shirt and a rust uphosltry-looking blazer seated on a couch looking while his girlfriend perches beside him in a gold lamé jacket and hot peach leggings
July 14, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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flower power (1967)
Framed black and white photograph entitled "Bernie Boston (1933-2008), Flower Power october 22, 1967" the photograph depicts handsome blonde anti Vietnam war protester George Harris in a lovely geansaí facing a row of armed soldiers, he's putting carnations in the barrel of their guns.
July 6, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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Benjamin Zephaniah on Tel Aviv- from Rasta Time in Palestine (1990)
"KNOW YOUR CITY Modern city, hot and sticky You really want keep it, De sunshine feeds it, Unnaturally you bleed it, A scientist conceived it, Solar power lights it, Native people fight it, America rights it, And now your project it, Your religion must enjoy it, Your city is a cesspit Your dancing in de disco, You modelled it on Frisco Progression on a go slow, And you must fight a war now, De world a large don’t know, How you expand and you grow, Get rid of some do so, It’s in your manifesto. Modern city, hot and sticky A European idea But you just don’t belong there."
June 29, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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tweet from McDonalds UK 14/09/22: "All of our UK restaurants will be closed on Monday until 5pm, to allow everyone at McDonald’s to pay their respects to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Operating hours and services may vary after 5pm, so please check our app before travelling." 1.2 K likes Dril reply: "I wont a ham burger mate!!! Oi! This is wank!" 17.3K likes
June 26, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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this is the future liberals want
ACDC 1996 Ballbreaker Australian Tour EP art depicting a comic style hot blonde n full dominatrix gear, whips and chains, she looks a bit like a swiss army knife
June 25, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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Went down an ancient Irish megalith rabbithole and found some glory holes- we used to be a country
text: "Holed Stones: Still in prehistoric times free-standing holed stones (again not satisfactorily explained or explained away) mostly have their perforations at groin height, and of a diameter suitable for the ritual insertion of a living penis" Image: a standing stone with it's enticing penis hole backlit, silhloutted against the horizon titled : "The Hole Stone, Doagh, County Antrim" Image: close up of the smooth circular hole in a stone framing the view of landscape in the distance titled: "Detail of the Hole Stone. Such are the hole stone at Doagh Antrim which relates to the Craw stone at Crows (Crouse) in Wigtownshire, across the strait in Scotland,"
June 21, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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dril tweet "my permanently wet forehead is perhaps my most powerful weapon" dril tweet "my permanently wet forehead is perhaps my most powerful weapon" dril tweet "my permanently wet forehead is perhaps my most powerful weapon" dril tweet "my permanently wet forehead is perhaps my most powerful weapon"
June 16, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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throwing these into my own mouth and clapping like a performing seal, I will never make jam, jam requires restraint
a bowl of tayberries picked from a green bush of canes in the background
June 15, 2025 at 12:18 PM