Ruth Ní E @rowfas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Sorry now, who let Miriam Lord retire? Can we not.. sue somebody to stop this 001
Reposted by Ruth Ní EAnnie loves Mpls @anniekp.bsky.social · 27/09/2026An important thing we’ve been practicing for YEARS already with our 3 year old twin boys. “Can I give you a kiss?” And if they say “no” we don’t give them a damn kiss. They now ask us, too, and we practice that it’s okay to be disappointed and also FINE if we ever say no. This is about Cornell. 662082
Reposted by Ruth Ní EGavin Cooney @gcooney93.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Big read here on an abject, rancorous, extraordinary day. The potential scale of fallout to come is the stuff of Saipan 2.0 Ireland v Israel: Day of infamy exposes serious lack of leadership in FAI www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer...irishtimes.comIreland v Israel: Day of infamy exposes serious lack of leadership in FAIGavin Bazunu has been left brutally isolated as any semblance of squad unity has been utterly sundered 56832
Reposted by Ruth Ní EDean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026we really don't talk enough about the utter contempt certain quarters of the southern political and media establishment have for northern nationalists. not in a subtle way, not in an "if you think about it" way, just open disgust and disdain for people they would rather didn't exist 34920
Ruth Ní E @rowfas.bsky.social · 26/09/2026It’s not a conflict, it’s a genocide. Stick that on your armbands. 023
Ruth Ní E @rowfas.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Massive credit to Bazunu and the exact proportionate absolute shade that the FAI deserve for this shambles. What a way to treat your own players. 073
Ruth Ní E @rowfas.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Fully gave Ed Sheeran credit for knowing exactly who Macklemore is and what he was going to say and do. So that’ll be me eating my words and shaking my damn head at the state of him. 020
Reposted by Ruth Ní EObstrepero @bockdr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026If you're neutral on genocide, you're pro-genocide. 121
Reposted by Ruth Ní ECiara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 27/08/2026The amount of working artists I've spoken to who are losing or have lost the ability to make a viable career out of it due largely to people's use of genAI instead of hiring artists is genuinely so upsetting. We won't know what we've lost until it's gone. 402397680
Ruth Ní E @rowfas.bsky.social · 21/08/2026If you’re celebrating the death of a child in any context you are the problem. I know comment sections exist only to expose the evils of the world but the way some people are openly spewing hate about children these week - no matter the context - would really make you wonder. 031
Reposted by Ruth Ní ESiobhán McElduff @siobhanmcelduff.bsky.social · 21/08/2026If a technology comes with devastating and ongoing environmental and social costs that we can't afford as a species, I don't think you should use it. This should not evem be a debate no matter how handy that technology is. Learn the skill or pay someone. 1722257
Ruth Ní E @rowfas.bsky.social · 18/08/2026I know advice columns are nonsense but it’s actively harmful to have the paper of record publish advice that a misogynist with rage issues should be approach with acceptance and understanding. Sorry now. Straight into the sea with him. 031
Reposted by Ruth Ní ERobin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 18/08/2026So often what are called “culture wars” are one set of people saying “please can we live without perpetual persecution” and another saying “no, f*** you” but the press considering the latter group have “legitimate concerns” and must be perpetually platformed 402855859
Reposted by Ruth Ní ESimon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 15/08/2026This is a complete distraction. Ireland cannot build a nuclear power plant fast enough to matter. Making a decision to do so would excuse punting on all the wind and solar things it can and must do. This is a lobby project of the tech industry to have something to say when building data centres. 22270120
Reposted by Ruth Ní ESuzy Byrne @suzybie.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Mediocre white men with gaps in their CVs, investigations and findings proven of DV, SA, harassment and bullying survive in their academic ivory towers. 073
Reposted by Ruth Ní EDeirdre O'Shaughnessy @deshocks.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Today an English woman who just moved to Ireland told me she couldn’t get a GP because the government is “letting too many people in”. 4325870
Reposted by Ruth Ní EThe Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Not to be some wild-eyed innocent, but I think it should be slightly bigger news that The Lancet have crunched the numbers and found that Musk's USAID cuts will kill 14 million people. And that's just by 2030. That's 9,600 people a day, every day, until the next world cup rolls around. 7350462753
Reposted by Ruth Ní EJen Keane @zenbuffy.bsky.social · 11/08/2026The combination vaccines all started out as individual vaccines and were combined over time as the *science* showed that it was safe and effective to do so, that the immune load was fine, that it resulted in children being protected earlier and more consistently, etc. 213921
Ruth Ní E @rowfas.bsky.social · 08/08/2026I cannot believe we as a species are still letting single use cups be a thing. We copped on re plastic bags decades ago and then designed new ways to trash the place. 040
Reposted by Ruth Ní EBopeep-Burton 💙🐓🏝🐈🏡🏖 🦋🇺🇦🇨🇦🏳️🌈🇫🇷🇵🇸🏳️⚧️🌎 @bopeep-burton.bsky.social · 05/08/2026 331110343559
Reposted by Ruth Ní EDean Van Nguyen @deanvannguyen.bsky.social · 06/08/2026The great Jess Kav on the soul-searching (or lack thereof) in the Irish music scene over the last week or soopen.substack.comAngel At The TableThe thicket of un-grooming and the Irish music industry 39945
Ruth Ní E @rowfas.bsky.social · 06/08/2026I was a very mature human and checked to confirm that I have already ordered the new Dónal Ryan from @kennysbookshop.bsky.social before accidentally ordering a second copy as I have done more than once in the past. Call it personal growth. 140
Reposted by Ruth Ní ELiz Carolan @lizcarolan.com · 05/08/2026We too easily skipped over the part of the Ceuta story where thousands of young people were manipulated into risking or losing their lives for a lie; to orchestrate images that then led the news agenda for the weekend, and kneejerk reactions from EU Govs And the Irish failures that let this happen 25131
Reposted by Ruth Ní EAisling Walsh @aislingwalsh.bsky.social · 03/08/2026This is what an actual *hero* of Irish music looks like: 1737318739
Reposted by Ruth Ní ECiara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 03/08/2026That "men should be allowed, without judgement or consequence, to do an amount of harm to women and girls that I personally deem acceptable" seems to be a genuine opinion still held by too many people in the year two thousand and twenty six is incredibly grim 2860186
Reposted by Ruth Ní ECasey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 15/07/2026It's not enough to be against AI, you need to be pro art. You need to be a champion of the art you love, you need to share that passion and joy, and do what you can to support the artists who make it, because it's not enough to hate AI, to hate what it's doing to art and media; you gotta love. 5586664000
Ruth Ní E @rowfas.bsky.social · 30/07/2026What did I just read. Heartbroken for this girl. Would love some/any evidence that official Ireland genuinely abhors sexual violence. More than “basic” sex ed and proper information around consent being mandatory from senior primary school classes would be a good start.irishtimes.comTeen ‘misinterpreted’ girl’s request for help and had sex with her, court heardBoy is to serve a year’s detention for defilement of 16-year-old girl 100
Reposted by Ruth Ní EEoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Just 6 or 7 years ago, this was a clear-felled Sitka plantation. NONE of these native trees were planted, they all self-seeded. And, in contrast to Sitka, this is a natural ecosystem that WON'T burn, and WILL be fantastic habitat for 1,000s of native species. Nature knows what to do, if we let it. 18873151
Reposted by Ruth Ní EMateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments. 3558911659
Reposted by Ruth Ní ECiara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Between the Leto story and everything else it's as abundantly clear as ever that way too many people still don't care about or acknowledge the harm many men in the public eye do to women and girls, even when it's an open secret. 036172
Reposted by Ruth Ní Emattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 29/07/2026what the fuck do you mean "everyone is using AI and nobody admits it." what the fuck do you mean. who are you talking to. you have allowed a demon to devour your soul. begone 91768400
Reposted by Ruth Ní ESharrow 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇮🇪🦄💙📚🎃 @sharrow.eurosky.social · 29/07/2026If you don't want to be spoken ill of when you are dead, don't be a caution, don't be a person other's have to warn about. #Spéirgorm 1192
Ruth Ní E @rowfas.bsky.social · 18/07/2026How is “Samantha Morton is the best thing in this film” a headline anywhere let alone everywhere. Google exists, she is spectacular, this cannot be considered news. 110
Reposted by Ruth Ní ERevy but spoopy @catgirlfingies.quest · 23/06/2026Just sharing this again at a time of what's happening in Australia. In Event Horizon Sam Neill requested that the Australian flag on his character's uniform remove the Union Flag from the corner & for it to be replaced with the Aboriginal flag, the way he thought it should look in 2047 12384521222
Ruth Ní E @rowfas.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Finally watched Bugonia this morning to balance out a long and glorious day of sports watching.. and let me tell you, I have questions. Many, many questions. 000
Ruth Ní E @rowfas.bsky.social · 06/07/2026You love to see… Ronaldo’s World Cup dream ending in failure 110
Ruth Ní E @rowfas.bsky.social · 06/07/2026I know it’s silly season but getting yet another round out of “when will Ireland finally support the English soccer team” is nonsense. And they know it. 010
Ruth Ní E @rowfas.bsky.social · 04/07/2026People of #spéirghorm - is there a Pico Lopes CV shirt we can buy with proceeds going to Palestinian orgs. If not: can someone make this happen ASAP so we can channel the high/low of the last 12 hours into positive good.. 010
