Reposted by DXKEmmaaargh 🧟 @betaburns.bsky.social · 10/10/2026I'm hoping that the impact will be better conditions for the people who teach my kids, provide our healthcare and provide our services. #HonTheWorkers 0186
Reposted by DXKNiamh NicGhabhann Coleman @niamhroisin.bsky.social · 11/10/2026I have not seen much evidence of attempts to avert it… (beyond what sound like attempts to discredit union positions). Are tractors on the roads blocking refineries the only way to get talks to begin these days? Strike action is serious and important. 2314
Reposted by DXKRichy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 19hMy online girlfriend was so shocked by the Ukraine drone strike on the Russian data centre that she's been too upset to message me all day. 323345641
Reposted by DXKOrla Hegarty @orla-hegarty.bsky.social · 11/10/2026‘Ireland has had steady deterioration of standards. Space is one of key declines in latest planning guidelines Allowing a 32sq m studio is equivalent of “two parking spaces with a bathroom & a wardrobe.. so small you need air conditioning to ventilate it” www.irishtimes.com/abroad/2026/...irishtimes.comIreland vs Europe apartment living: ‘When family come over... this is not what they envisioned’Irish people happily living in apartments on the Continent highlight a chasm in building standards, attitudes to communal living and sense of stability 23318
Reposted by DXKderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 20hfor as long as i've been alive, republicans have ran the same playbook: a few weeks before voting begins, they roll out completely fabricated smear campaigns. these things are always coordinated, so the talking points take over the news. the party is never electorally punished for their dishonesty. 10974431498
Reposted by DXKMic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Suella Braverman selling 106 copies of her book after all that publicity is so delicious. 1211469307
Reposted by DXKMrs Ashley Heather Quills 🎙 Voice Acting Vampire @voice-quills.com · 11/10/2026Voice Actors for Palestine is back again this year, and I'm taking part again! If you can, please donate and get a VA to say what you want! ♥️ 2252112
Reposted by DXKNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 20hUh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center? 608240715192
Reposted by DXK☔️⚡️Emily Cross 💜🌛 @emilycross.bsky.social · 11/10/2026#speirgorm #speirghorm Lads, we are not angry enough over this BS Including Harris 10 special advisors all on big money 1165
Reposted by DXKJooooohhhh No! @josefoshea.bsky.social · 11/10/2026What a weird world we live in - Ukraine hits a data centre deep in Russia - Irish twitter users see racist posts about IPAS centres in Offaly fall off a cliff 6567982177
Reposted by DXKfionnulamac.bsky.social @fionnulamac.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Today’s Business Post front page. What on earth are our politicians doing? 8265124
Reposted by DXKTony - Pod Guy - Groves @tonygroves.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Simon Harris has 10 Special Advisers, each being paid a minimum of €100k, and up to a maximum of €182k. His Govt has just announced that they are scrapping the living wage their own low pay commission recommended. You’re not angry enough. 613566
Reposted by DXKCarl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 10/10/2026"Putting your hope in the finance minister and his budget to change the material circumstances of your life is sort of like reciting your Christmas wishlist to a teenage shopping centre Santa with a ponytail and an earring. You know that this guy isn't going to do anything for you." Surrealing:thejournal.ieWe have moved past the need for Budget DayThe budget is basically a shopping centre Santa for grown-ups. 0314
Reposted by DXKLilith Ferreyra-Carroll @trasinscneach.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Yes please reach out, we'll get you 8 sessions of CBT in 12-24mths 45712
Reposted by DXKDan Vincent @ Userlandia @kefkafloyd.bsky.social · 10/10/2026You know what really bends my pins? Websites that break auto-fill for password managers. Why do you hate your users? Things like multi-step login processes, bad field names, javascript screwing with entering credentials… if your website or program interferes with autofill you’re a terrible developer 710310
Reposted by DXKIrish Independent @independent.ie · 10/10/2026Gavan Reilly: ‘We need to keep ourselves going for as long as possible to care for our daughter because the public system has given us virtually nothing’independent.ieGavan Reilly: ‘We need to keep ourselves going for as long as possible to care for our daughter because the public system has given us virtually nothing’The broadcaster on caring for his autistic child, covering the pandemic lockdowns and being insecure about his chin 02712
Reposted by DXKYou Call Yourself a Film Critic @filmcriticmaybe.bsky.social · 10/10/2026For non-Irish folk to get an idea of how bleak this number is we have a population of roughly 5.3 million people This is nearly ONE FIFTH of the fucking population! 3294114
Reposted by DXKSimon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 10/10/2026This Gist got much less love than usual in terms of links, but I think it is one of those that stands for longer than the more topical ones around it. (It got less love, because I sent it on a Thursday and The Gist readership is made of very busy people) www.thegist.ie/the-gist-on-...thegist.ieThe Gist: On (and On) BullshitI have been thinking about Bullshit, in its official categorisation. In his short and easy essay “On Bullshit”, the euphoniously-named American philosopher Harry J. Frankfurt posited that a person co... 2164
Reposted by DXKDr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Me … I’m going on strike ✊🏼 12794
Reposted by DXKTony - Pod Guy - Groves @tonygroves.bsky.social · 09/10/2026You’re not angry enough. 45723
Reposted by DXKDean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026the senior civil servant who worked on the report for McGuinness was on the mailing list of Agenda Europe, the secretive network of ultraconservative Christians he is currently the head of the European Parliament Liaison Office in Dublin 0136
Reposted by DXKAlex Winter @alexwinter.com · 09/10/2026A message from my dear friend: "Alex, the bombing across Gaza right now is so intense that it feels like a massive earthquake. The explosions are shaking everything around us, and the situation is absolutely terrifying. 💔🙏🏻" Please give. They rely on our donations. 💗 chuffed.org/project/1981... 06437
Reposted by DXKJoe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026IT: Susan Doyle of SMD Solicitors and Phoenix Law’s Sineád Marmion, solicitors for the three students, confirmed on Friday that the visas had been granted. 121
Reposted by DXKSimon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 09/10/2026This is an inexplicable vote by Regina Doherty, Nina Carberry, Seán Kelly Barry Andrews, Barry Cowen, Billy Kelleher Ciaran Mullooly 1411354
Reposted by DXKJack Kennedy @jackkennedy.ie · 08/10/2026Would like to see a journalist ask the 7 of Ireland's 14 MEPs (3 FG, 3 FF, 1 II) who just voted to: -endorse burqa bans -call "hatred of Israel" a sign of "Islamist influence" -identify European Muslim communities as potential tools of "malign foreign actors" to justify themselves 8160106
Reposted by DXKIGN @ign.com · 07/10/2026The Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering teams at Wizards of the Coast have just announced they're unionizing. In a letter of demands, the union has urged Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast leaders to stop pushing generative AI. bit.ly/4hMhPzG 6774182277
Reposted by DXKDr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 07/10/2026"Ya wouldn't get it above in the Gresham!" 2725
Reposted by DXKPádraig Rice TD @padraigrice.bsky.social · 07/10/2026With 70 votes for and 92 against - the SocDems Right to Housing Bill was defeated in the Dáil tonight. Another depressing Dáil vote. And another reminder why we need a different kind of government that puts people first. Well done to @roryhearne.bsky.social for his work on this important bill. 0188
Reposted by DXKMark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 07/10/2026You should go and see Rachel. She's very good, but also, the balls it takes to do a post like this - in a climate where comedians are encouraged to post nothing but wins, forever - merits your attendance on its own. 1136387
Reposted by DXK🍺Donald Clarke 🎥 @donaldclarke.bsky.social · 07/10/2026As you may have heard, Andrew Scott is next level in ELSINORE. But the film itself hasn’t got enough credit. Convincingly wintery depiction of London in the dying days of Thatcherism. (Also Peter Mullan extraordinary in a tiny role). www.irishtimes.com/culture/film...irishtimes.comFirst Look review: In Elsinore, Andrew Scott shows why he’s one of the great actors of our ageSimon Stone’s bruising film features the Irish star as Ian Charleson, who was dying of Aids while playing Hamlet in 1989 1284
Reposted by DXKCiara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I, and I cannot stress this enough, loves me county (AND this is more effective advertising than ten thousand AI generated flyers) 45557126
Reposted by DXKDónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026An excellent piece from colleagues across the Irish university sector on the moral, legal and educational imperatives to accord visas to Palestinian students who have scholarships to study in Ireland. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...irishexaminer.comGazan students’ visas must be granted before it is too lateA group of leading Irish academics write that the mass refusal of visas to Palestinian students makes a mockery of the Taoiseach’s speech to the UN General Assembly 02211
Reposted by DXKDarach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 06/10/2026We’ve had to listen to some very unimpressive TDs talk shit about public sector workers needing to prove their worth and up their game. Meanwhile the sight of an almost-empty greyhound track and the yelping of mistreated animals gets them humming the national anthem as a tear rolls down their cheek 318453
Reposted by DXKTaraNicRóibín @tararoonies.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I don't want tax cuts. I want services that work for all of us. What good is extra money in my pocket if I'm terrified to go out to my local hospital in an emegency. Or if a large proportion of people in my city are living in poverty or homelessness or with addiction. 07028
Reposted by DXKPaul Price @swimsure.bsky.social · 05/10/2026"On a per capita basis, Ireland is subsidising fossil fuels at a rate up to 5 times the EU average." "The total fossil fuel subsidy figure for 2026 may well now be more than €6 billion." Compare: the new Children’s Hospital cost €2.24 billion & the total Education Budget for 2026 is €13.5 billion. 35032
Reposted by DXKGerard Cunningham @faduda.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026Elon's European headquarters is less than 15 minutes walk from Dáil Éireann. Government ministers and departments declined to shut down their accounts when he turned the company into a manufacturer of child sexual abuse images earlier this year 01012
Reposted by DXKSocial Democrats @social-democrats.bsky.social · 02/10/2026200,000 children living below the poverty line. That should be unfathomable in a country with so much surpluses and wealth. A windfall tax could at least make energy somewhat more affordable and stop gouging from the energy providers who are making super profits. 1123
Reposted by DXKAoḋán Ó Conġaile @tinydonkey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Always funny when people get pissy about, of all things, *work to rule*. They are still doing their jobs, to the letter of the law in fact. That is causing problems is a serious indictment of how much extra people are expected to do in their job. 311650
Reposted by DXKAn Taisce @antaisce.bsky.social · 02/10/2026"What is needed now are not alternatives to more fossil fuel subsidies but political leadership to implement transformational change – and protect our shared future" Terri Morrissey, Chair, An Taisce www.antaisce.org/news/yet-mor...antaisce.orgYet More Fossil Fuel Subsidies in Ireland?An Taisce calls stop on this climate madness. Ireland is subsiding fossil fuels up to five times the EU average. It is likely to account for 6 billion euro this year. There are alternatives that can m... 13714
Reposted by DXKSocial Democrats @social-democrats.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Today we launched our Alternative Budget 2027. Year after year, record budget surpluses have been squandered by FF/FG. Next week’s budget must be about making life more affordable for people who need support right now, as well as providing solutions for the future.socialdemocrats.ieSocial Democrats launch Alternative Budget 2027 - Social DemocratsThe country requires a budget with immediate targeted measures while investing to permanently reduce costs for struggling households, according to Social Democrats finance spokesperson and deputy lead... 053
Reposted by DXKJoe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 07/01/2026Amnesty EU: “Cruel and unlawful betrayal.” www.amnesty.eu/news/eu-isra... 35127
Reposted by DXKWendy Lyon @wendylyon.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026Once again it needs to be stressed that this is something happening across the board in Irish immigration- changes in practice leading to refusals that would not have occurred in previous years. We are in a very dark time for the rights of people migrating to Ireland and their families. 412767
Reposted by DXKThe National @scotnational.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The UK Government are facing renewed calls to end the proscription of Palestine Action, following Ed Miliband's admission that people opposing genocide in Palestine 'were right' 🗣️ 'That acknowledgement will ring hollow as long as Labour maintains the ban'thenational.scot'You were right': Ed Miliband comments fuel calls to end Palestine Action ban 56942
Reposted by DXKSheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 30/09/2026Someone sent me a letter saying that "being empathetic" is "how Jews lost the plot" and ended up in gas chambers. That was not, in fact, the lesson of the Shoah. And frankly I'd rather die with empathy than live without it. Hell, I'd rather die with empathy even for my enemy than live without it. 1339160
Reposted by DXKLouth For Ever 🦋 @louthforever.bsky.social · 30/09/2026That’s Niamh Dunne from BEOGA on the fiddle and the Artists for Palestine jumper on her, and the other two BEOGA lads across from her on guitar and squeeze box 24912
Reposted by DXKAidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Why do fascists hate art? Art asks you to step into another's shoes, to consider what the artist was trying to express and to understand who they are. Art is, above all, an act of humanity, a shared moment of vulnerability, a request for empathy, sympathy and compassion. That's why they love AI 28334
Reposted by DXKAn Taisce @antaisce.bsky.social · 29/09/2026New report uses publicly available data to explore data centre development & 'disproportionate drain on public resources' — 'Data centres may have consumed as much water in Ireland last year as about 340,600 homes, some 18.5% of total number of occupied dwellings' www.irishtimes.com/business/202...irishtimes.comData centres ‘may have used as much water’ last year in Ireland as more than 340,000 homesNew research highlights poverty of information about energy-intensive sector’s footprint 02713
Reposted by DXKkevin @beirne.bsky.social · 28/09/202620,000 secondary school teachers are starting industrial action next week because the government refuse to pay them properly but sure let’s spend €300m on training people to use the fraud machine that turns your brain to porridge 25738
