Reposted by nodYESYESDB Maggi @dbmaggi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The best argument I've ever heard for universal basic income (UBI). "The reason we don't call that work is because it doesn't make rich people money." 🎤Craig Fay 4821417
Reposted by nodYESYESLee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 03/10/2026I implore all cis people to read this. 17985418
Reposted by nodYESYESM Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Naomi Klein Is Spot On....... 15787653403
Reposted by nodYESYESCllr Honore Kamegni, Deputy Lord Mayor of Cork @cllrhonorekamegni.bsky.social · 01/10/2026'Stop the Fare Hikes' campaign continued today in my constituency in Douglas Court and Village Shopping Centres and at some of our bus stops. Great support and encouragement received from many people who support this campaign. 0124
Reposted by nodYESYESEoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Can you just imagine, for a moment, if this had been done to Tel Aviv, New York, London or Berlin? The repercussions would be immediate and devastating. But since it's only Palestinians who refuse to leave their homeland of Palestine... not even sanctions. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...theguardian.comNew Google Maps images reveal massive scale of devastation in GazaSatellite imagery shows further destruction of homes, businesses and places of worship since fragile ceasefire 613041
Reposted by nodYESYESCllr Honore Kamegni, Deputy Lord Mayor of Cork @cllrhonorekamegni.bsky.social · 30/09/2026After the 'Stop the Fare Hikes' leafleting I was delighted to visit the Mahon Men Shed. It was established in October 2025 & it is now a member of the Irish Men Sheds Association. The group has undertaken a wide range of works. This is a valuable community which is accessible and affordable. 052
Reposted by nodYESYESSocial Democrats @social-democrats.bsky.social · 30/09/2026We stand with the day of action for LGBTQI+ rights in Türkiye outside Europe House today at 6pm. What we are witnessing in Türkiye right now comes at a time of deepening concerning backsliding on LGBTQi+ rights globally, including in the United States under President Trump. 092
nodYESYES @nodyesyes.com · 30/09/2026For me a good starting point would be an emergency response group of tradespeople for crises that crop up (flood repairs, storm repairs, mica issues, etc.) Older tradespeople who may want the guarantee of a salaried, pensioned state job, training younger tradespeople - the next generation. 000
nodYESYES @nodyesyes.com · 30/09/2026I think he makes a fair point that willingness to engage and welcome OO and Unionist people from the North is something a United Ireland has to reckon with. People are calling for votes based on the inkling of a majority, and pushing the matter, and not even letting All-Island efforts play out. 101
Reposted by nodYESYESOrla Egan she/her @orlaegan1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Fuck! Opportunity to take a stance against Israeli genocide in Gaza lost. #SpéirGhorm FREE PALESTINE 063
nodYESYES @nodyesyes.com · 23/09/2026I miss Aertel, and I miss Ceefax. Aertel was better, though. I've found myself especially missing it recently, sitting on the couch thinking I'd like a quick read of the news without venturing online. You can't doomscroll teletext!! 020
nodYESYES @nodyesyes.com · 23/09/2026Radio today about back problems from desks. Recommends breaks to stretch and move. Stretching is great. I'd put out a break from a desk is needed for mental health, as well. 10 minutes fresh air, in peace. To clear your thoughts. There's already plenty with Executive Disfunction from info overload. 010
nodYESYES @nodyesyes.com · 21/09/2026ADHD and other neurodivergences are a pain and people need and deserve help, something I've campaigned for and been published about. Broadly, I hold back full trust with private medicine especially as it's a profit making endeavour. 000
Reposted by nodYESYESFiftySomething Gardener 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇺🇩🇰🇬🇱 @50ishgardener.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The RNLI has always been above politics. A little known (over here, at least) example - after the Irish War of Independence , the new Dáil Éireann asked the RNLI to stay on and continue its life saving work, which it does to this day Even Sinn Fein are cool with the RNLI rnli.org/about-us/our...rnli.orgRNLI timeline 1922: The Irish Free State is foundedWhen the Irish Free State was established in 1922, RNLI volunteers at lifeboat stations all around the island continued to save lives at sea. 192
nodYESYES @nodyesyes.com · 21/09/2026Chana masala is great for chickpeas Lentils can rock a soup or a veggie bolognese 110
nodYESYES @nodyesyes.com · 20/09/2026It would be nice, too, if as well as letting teens spend money on consuming the arts they ensured they could make art. Pencil and paper isn't expensive Libraries can loan instruments It takes encouragement and support 020
Reposted by nodYESYESRTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 20/09/2026The Government is planning to give a free €100 voucher to all 16-year-olds to spend on arts, cultural and music venues next yearrte.ieTeenagers set to receive €100 culture voucher in BudgetThe Government is planning to give a free €100 voucher to all 16-year-olds to spend on arts, cultural and music venues next year. 5298
nodYESYES @nodyesyes.com · 20/09/2026It might be worth looking at LGBTQ+ organisations that made submissions to The Cost of Disability consultation earlier this year. 000
nodYESYES @nodyesyes.com · 20/09/2026An article on Cork's old revenue building - Bam plans for student apartments + what I had in the paper. I made reference to acknowledging history, especially in light of the Douglas Street renovations. An Taisce agrees-ish. I add, now, also, what about green space for city residents? #SpeirGorm 000
nodYESYES @nodyesyes.com · 20/09/2026 - Everything is political meets - Look after yourself, switch off when you need to The two contradictory positions handed out by the same people. Failing to understand that someone may be extremely political in one sphere, making a genuine difference. And without shouting it everywhere they go. 001
Reposted by nodYESYESCouncillor Donna Cooney Dublin City @donnacooney1.bsky.social · 19/09/2026In Temple Bar where #Culturenight began before it became nationwide! Asking people passing on our favourite night about importance of arts and culture and why we need to invest in access. @greenparty.ie 041
nodYESYES @nodyesyes.com · 09/09/2026"Having done something one then returns to the list, adds it and crosses it out." Age old wisdom. Passed down by tea drinkers in dressing gowns for centuries. 010
Reposted by nodYESYESBen Wood @cosmichope.bsky.social · 08/02/2026'[Those] who man the lifeboat do not ask credentials from the crew of a sinking ship; they launch their boats, risk their lives in the raging waves, & sometimes perish, all to save men whom they do not even know. And what need to know them? 'They are human beings...that is enough' (Peter Kropotkin) 04423
nodYESYES @nodyesyes.com · 08/09/2026hildegarde naughton on the radio - up to 1 in 5 children will need additional support over the course of their school years That's up to 1 in 5 people who, as things are now, won't have their needs addressed in the workplace or in self-employment as adults, if history is anything to go by. 000
nodYESYES @nodyesyes.com · 08/09/2026Things to note from Leonard Cohen's first book 1. If you take his word, being a Jew, in the West, was a profoundly different experience to current climes—a lot of comparison to Christianity. 2. His sense of pride and confidence is palpable. 3. He liked women... Nothing new there. Thanks, Library! 000
nodYESYES @nodyesyes.com · 07/09/2026Reduce the comparison even further, especially with invisible disabilities, where they think everyone is faking it. It's all made up and in your head. And people are choosing to live a more difficult life because somehow it's easier... 110
Reposted by nodYESYESDean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 07/09/2026the myth of Simon Harris as some champion for disabled people was always nonsense, but it should be well and truly dead now. he gets his hands on the purse strings and it's not long-promised cost of disability payments he prioritises, or scrapping means tests, it's tax cuts and investment incentives 54417
nodYESYES @nodyesyes.com · 07/09/2026Same choir! - Even the sense of self in being able to say you contribute to society is important. Some make out ideas of 'scroungers' and people getting money for nothing. Ask an invisibly disabled person how it feels to be viewed as a net draw on Ireland, when most want to contribute as we can. 010
nodYESYES @nodyesyes.com · 07/09/2026There's issues with invisible disability as well—especially with neurodivergence. Prejudice against people who appear a certain way—'Shur they're fine!' People who might take short term contracts. Or engage in independent part time self employment. I've campaigned for recognition of this within DA. 110
nodYESYES @nodyesyes.com · 07/09/2026There was coverage on the disability employment gap earlier this year-far behind where a successful European nation should be. A failure to recognise that disability has a cost, including fitting into a 9-5, Mon-Fri work pattern. Politics needs to recognise 'irregular' work patterns are on the way. 140
nodYESYES @nodyesyes.com · 05/09/2026This could become a 'Phoenix tree' From the fallen trunk branches grow skywards, becoming trunks in their own right, eventually. While the fallen alder trunk seeks out nutrients beneath with new roots. 110
nodYESYES @nodyesyes.com · 05/09/2026A poem by what I assume is an #LGBTQ poet printed in Poetry Ireland Review. (of course the poet could be writing from someone else's perspective, so it's difficult to be sure.) Writing on going slow. Beautiful words to live by. #PoetSky #Poem #Queer #Poet 110
nodYESYES @nodyesyes.com · 05/09/2026I searched for it, and I don't if it's just a timing thing, needing extra development, but the @rteradio1.bsky.social @rte.ie new RTÉ Listen app isn't on the Amazon store for various devices. 000
Reposted by nodYESYESCiarán Cuffe @ciarancuffe.bsky.social · 04/09/2026In Government the Greens cut average fares by 20% and slashed prices by 50% for young adults. Don't hike prices in a cost of living crisis Minister Darragh O'Brien. 14817
Reposted by nodYESYESCork Greens @corkgreens.bsky.social · 04/09/2026In 2022, the Green Party cut public transport fares by 20% This was the first reduction in public transport fares in 75 years. Now fares are going up by an average of 15% under FF/FG. For Cork, where congestion is getting worse and BusConnects is badly needed, this is just wrong. 1249
nodYESYES @nodyesyes.com · 04/09/2026The last line of a #poem I wrote: "Fed on digital streams of piss" Furious millennial writing, writing being the correct home for fury, imho. This especially in light of politicians somehow thinking the internet is new. Invented in the past five years. 000
nodYESYES @nodyesyes.com · 03/09/2026An issue with rising bus fares is elements of Bus Connects—bringing new routes and facilities to places around the country—is moving incredibly slowly. Increasing fares on a route is one problem. But no route means no worry about fares. Funding Bus Connects' new/improved routes is important. 010
Reposted by nodYESYESGay Community News @gcnmag.bsky.social · 03/09/2026This year, the Azures had their best performance yet, securing second place and bringing home a trophy 🎉 👉 buff.ly/YHxq8Zo #GCNnews 022
Reposted by nodYESYESEoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 03/09/2026'Setting the Land Free - Visions of a Rewilded Ireland' comes out this day next week!! (Thursday the 10th.) The main launch will be on the 9th in Cork @waterstones.bsky.social at 6.30pm, with Seán Ronayne @seanronayne.bsky.social speaking. If you're around, do drop in! 17122
Reposted by nodYESYESLouise @selkies.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Yeah also surprise surprise the kid with special needs might have more frustration to deal with than the other kids 021
nodYESYES @nodyesyes.com · 03/09/2026Punish the child! Wooden spoons galore! Heaven forbid some acting out is because no-one is taking their disability seriously. A refusal to recognise difference in people then punishing the results of not engaging with someone's (many someone's) needs. 110
Reposted by nodYESYESFeljin Jose @feljin.ie · 03/09/2026Darragh O'Brien and the government letting the NTA take the blame while they ignore press requests. I don't remember seeing Revenue staff wheeled out to announce fuel tax cuts while the ministers took a backseat. 15320
nodYESYES @nodyesyes.com · 03/09/2026You can draw curtains to night-time light, a smell will drift away, constant noise is impossible to block out. 021
nodYESYES @nodyesyes.com · 03/09/2026I wrote a #poem for disaffected millennials who grew up on a nascent internet, games, online culture. It being the wild west. Especially when we only now see politics trying to deal with social media like the 'web' is new. Many of us have been online for 30+ years. No idea where to submit it, tho.? 000
Reposted by nodYESYESHannah O'Sullivan @sullydaysleeper.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Hospital tea & toast really is one of the best things (well I had coffee) 😊. Feel such huge gratitude to all hospital workers and all health care profs, they deserve the very best of everything. #SpéirGorm 3241
Reposted by nodYESYESOíche Downer @voidmoder.bsky.social · 02/09/2026staring into the depths of my porridge hearing these words ring like a funeral bell 33613
nodYESYES @nodyesyes.com · 30/08/2026Writing is a low monetary cost hobby until you get into ancillary parts. If you consider publishing ancillary. Getting eyes on your writing as an indie is tough. Illustrators, tho, damn! Prints/Printers are 'spensive. Doing my bit, tho. A small print, affordable art from a local artist. 000
Reposted by nodYESYESAndy Jackson @azjackson.bsky.social · 29/08/2026The Scottish Poetry Library kindly selected a poem from my new collection Disco Biscuits to feature in today’s Scotsman newspaper as poem of the week! Thanks to them and to Rob Mackenzie at Blue Diode and Stephen Watt at Nutmeg magazine, where it first appeared. @ByLeavesWeLive 1187
