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Loki @lokideburca.bsky.social · 45m
Oh, I'm not condoning the actions of his anonymous colleagues, there's no room for ableism, tis just interesting when I see people in positions of power use health(physical or mental) as some shield and simultaneously make things worse for people in the same boat, with less money than them.
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Bony Frightower @tonyhightower.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I wanna live in a world where this is the story everyone is talking about
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Jeanne Spillane @starrock2.bsky.social · 1h
"From where should the #housing, #transport, #healthcare, schools and #energy infrastructure have come, if not from our government?" Quite the piece on Ireland's broken political system from @sineados.bsky.social #Spéirgorm www.butthistime.com/p/gaslighter...
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Gaslighter | Denier
How Ireland’s political class manufactures its own reality
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Jennifer O'Meara @jenniferomeara5.bsky.social · 1h
this kind of attitude towards people with disabilities from this government? Cast your mind back to the Green Paper on Disability Reform. Look at the budget. If his colleagues don't have confidence in him, this wasn't the way to go about it. They've just managed to show us who they are. #Speirgorm
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Jennifer O'Meara @jenniferomeara5.bsky.social · 1h
with his diagnosis. Whoever the anonymous TD is, they are a coward, quite obviously ableist and are using his diagnosis to throw him under the bus. All they have really managed to do is show their disdain for all the people with disabilities they represent. At this stage, should we be surprised by
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Jennifer O'Meara @jenniferomeara5.bsky.social · 1h
I have a couple of thoughts on the Patrick O'Donovan story. I should say from the start that I haven't been able to read the article in question, but I think I've gotten enough of the gist of it. He's highly incompetent, we all know that, but that's not a new development and it's got nothing to do
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Eils_G 📎 @eils1.bsky.social · 1h
#Ireland #SpéirGhorm
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Eoin @eoinbskyhandle.bsky.social · 22h
Your colleagues will know if you've been scabbing from home and we'll remember it #spéirghorm #unionstrike
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Niall Walsh @thenpw.bsky.social · 21h
Not enough people are talking about the fact it was 19 degrees today in the middle of f-🤬🤬🤬-ing October... #speirgorm #climate
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P. O'Leary @p-oleary.bsky.social · 10h
'Under Irish law, a legal “e-bike” is a pedal-assisted electric bicycle - max continuous rated power output of 250 watts, and a max speed of 25km/h before the motor stops helping. Anything else is a moped or even a motorcycle depending on speed and power.' #SpéirGorm irishcycle.com/2026/10/12/w...
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With pedals or not: Gardaí deliver warning on bicycle-shaped objects counted as mopeds
A takeaway not delivered, or at least delayed, might have been the hook, but Gardaí in Kilkenny used their Facebook page to deliver a more serious message which applies nationwide: Using souped-up …
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Judy @judetheconfused.bsky.social · 6h
#speirgorm
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Emma Rogan 🇵🇸 @emmadragon.bsky.social · 3h
I’m absolutely not surprised that the ableist tendencies of #FFFG politicians would have them turn on ‘their own’. The absence of disabled politicians, no expectation nor support for politically ambitious disabled people shows we’re 50+years behind. Systemic ableism R’ Us 🤦🏾‍♀️ #spéirghorm #IrishPol
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Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 2h
And long may it last 💚 www.thejournal.ie/hungary-vote...
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Hungary has finally ditched an anti-LGBTQ+ law that's caused controversy for years
Former prime minister Viktor Orbán had sought to chip away at LGBTQ+ rights in Hungary.
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Jooooohhhh No! @josefoshea.bsky.social · 2h
If this lad doesn't think the public is already 'inconvenienced' - hospital waiting lists over 1m for first time ever for starters - then he's living on a different planet
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Shade 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇮🇪🦄💙📚🎃 @sharrow.eurosky.social · 3h
oh I doubt that
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Shade 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇮🇪🦄💙📚🎃 @sharrow.eurosky.social · 3h
my gp has suggested I leave a gap between getting the first shingles and these two, so hopefully in the new year.
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Shade 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇮🇪🦄💙📚🎃 @sharrow.eurosky.social · 3h
It is but it would be the start of the steps in the right direction.
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Shade 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇮🇪🦄💙📚🎃 @sharrow.eurosky.social · 4h
It's a start and can lock him out of passing legislation.
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Shade 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇮🇪🦄💙📚🎃 @sharrow.eurosky.social · 4h
Get yer vax on. #spéirgorm #vax #Covid
Picture of two vaccination cards for winter vaccine program. Winter vaccination program 2026
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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 16h
Hot take: the term "Bro" first became popular because young straight men in the Anglophone world wanted a way to express closeness in male friendships without fear of looking gay (men are allowed to love brothers) but its incredible success as a word means it's now lost much of that original essence
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 18h
www.lawsociety.ie/gazette/issu... at page 20
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Elizabeth Boyle @thecelticist.bsky.social · 18h
Getting ready for Wednesday. Stand together, strong together. ✊️ Strike set to go ahead on Wednesday as unions reject minister's latest bid for WRC talks jrnl.ie/7190805
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Strike set to go ahead on Wednesday as unions reject minister's latest bid for WRC talks
Wednesday’s strike will be the biggest public sector strike since the height of the financial crisis in 2009.
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Shade 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇮🇪🦄💙📚🎃 @sharrow.eurosky.social · 20h
why the fuck were they even connected to the internet ffs
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Eilís 'pidge' Ní Fhlannagáin @dirtycitybird.trann.ie · 21h
Not to say I was prescient, but I LITERALLY DID A KEYNOTE ON THIS IN 2014 AT OSCON!!!!
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Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · 21h
I'm baffled by lads who won't read female authors - feels like a dumb, self-harming "girls are icky" thing. I don't remember it being a thing when I was younger. Not reading at all? I recall lots of that, but someone who liked reading wilfully disregarding half of the writing population. Madness.
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Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies @dias.ie · 21h
DIAS #SamhainAgusScience 2026 is starting to take shape! 2 events live and more to follow. Check out our Eventbrite collection for the festival, now in it's 9th year! www.eventbrite.com/cc/samhain-a...
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Samhain agus Science 2026 by Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies | Eventbrite
Check out our wonderful events as part of Samhain agus Science 2026
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Louth For Ever 🦋 @louthforever.bsky.social · 21h
Portadown District won again in court today. Won what, exactly? The march they were vindicated over is still banned, same as it's been for three weeks. They're calling it hugely significant regardless. Here's why:
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Joe Molloy 🇨🇺 🏳️‍⚧️ @freelancewebdev.bsky.social · 21h
Like partnering with a vampire to run a blood bank.
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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 21h
I'm still furious about the walkback on speed limits. there are so many car cranks on councils. a Tipperary councillor claimed modern cars can't go slow enough to obey a 30 km/h limit
Speed limits 
Then there are speed limits. The 2023 Speed Limit Review, involving the Department of Transport, RSA, An Garda Síochána, TII, the NTA, and local government, recommended a default 30km/h limit on urban roads, with sensible exceptions where higher limits were appropriate.
The previous government accepted that direction and legislated accordingly. The current Government also chose to abandon that approach.
Instead, local authorities have now been directed to review their own roads and introduce lower limits on a piecemeal basis through local bylaws.
Why? If the evidence supported a national default in 2023, what has changed? Why replace something clear, consistent, and national with a county-by-county process requiring the support of local councillors?
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 21h
This makes me think of Northern Ireland.
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Causeway Pride @causewaypride.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
@mams4transni.bsky.social @nestparentsgroup.bsky.social
The BBC needs to explain why a “PROTECT THE DOLLS” T-shirt, worn during rehearsals for Strictly Come Dancing, apparently needed censoring. 

It is a message of love. Of solidarity. Of reminding trans people that they are worthy of protection, dignity and respect.
And somehow, that is what the BBC feels needs to be hidden? 

Trans people are watching their rights debated, their existence politicised and their identities turned into punchlines. They are watching institutions that claim to serve everyone decide, time and time again, whether standing beside them is worth the risk of upsetting someone.
Apparently, for the BBC, even three words on a T-shirt are too much. 

You cannot claim to represent the public while censoring solidarity with people who are being relentlessly targeted. 

To every trans person watching: you deserve to be seen. You deserve to be celebrated. You deserve to be safe. You deserve better than having messages of support scrubbed from view because somebody, somewhere, might complain. 

Protect the dolls. Protect trans lives.
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Dr Seán DOOLAN 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 @sdinpraxis.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
So many relationships hitting the buffers without warning!
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Kate Bielinski @katebielinski.eurosky.social · 11/10/2026
Winter is coming. #speirgorm
Box of vitamin D tablets being held up in front of a window overlooking a suburban garden.
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P. O'Leary @p-oleary.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
'I found myself struggling to articulate.. ..the continuous failure of the Coalition parties to “tackle the housing crisis” ..and the electorate’s apparently unshakeable insistence on voting them back in regardless.' We've all been there.. #SpéirGorm www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...
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Mark O'Connell: There is nothing more Irish than a former housing minister lobbying on behalf of a developer
The Irish Glass Bottle site was once a symbol of the Celtic Tiger era. Now it’s a symbol of our intractably absurd housing situation
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Simon Boyne @simonb84.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Absolute deck chairs on the Titanic stuff #IrishPolitics #SpéirGorm www.independent.ie/irish-news/m...
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Minister wanted to change name of Road Safety Authority... but only very slightly
Seán Canney suggested rebranding after ‘unfair criticism’
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Keith Connolly @limerick4inarow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Lads… #speirgorm #speirghorm
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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 10/10/2026
Meanwhile, doing some lighting tests on concept art for PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND STARSHIPS. Here: Lib Bennet gazes at 1813 Aquilae V, a planet called Pemberley...
From the viewing deck of an orbiting starship, Lib Bennet gazes at 1813 Aquilae V / Pemberley
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Shade 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇮🇪🦄💙📚🎃 @sharrow.eurosky.social · 11/10/2026
Not one bit surprised, Russia has been working to destabilise the EU via bot farms. Bot farms which were trained on the Content fron Live Journal to begin with.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Holy shit
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Hi! This sucks. I have to hope these authors will come out and say their names are being used here without permission but looking at the page, I’m assuming they’re in.
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Jooooohhhh No! @josefoshea.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
What 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
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Press academiaforpalestine.org/support-for-...
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Support for Gazan student visas
As part of our support for students from Palestine seeking to continue their education in Ireland, Academia for Palestine is asking supporters to email Minister for Foreign Affairs Helen McEntee an…
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Scott Edelman @scottedelman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
After clicking through to see what this site was about, I recoiled so quickly I'll need a neck brace for my whiplash. "Authors First uses innovative generative Al tools to bring stories to life that might not get greenlit otherwise." Better not to get greenlit than surrender to AI. Count me out.
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Col. Boozy Badger @boozybadger.lawyersandliquor.com · 11/10/2026
Okay so when I posted this I was actually entirely unaware of the fact that dipshit tried to use a Lego order as the example of why it’s a good idea to give his AI your credit card info.
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Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Imagine having ten special advisors, and still being this shit at politics.
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carpenter22.bsky.social @carpenter22.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Whenever I read articles about people trying to reclaim the former honesty and intellectual growth provided by the internet, I am reminded of "The Internet's Own Boy." I refer, of course, to Aaron Swartz. Read up on him and how he was HOUNDED to suicide. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Int...
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The Internet's Own Boy - Wikipedia
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Thomas Neville @goobermunch.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
My former boss had to be escorted to and from the courthouse parking lot by US marshals to avoid white supremacists in a bull semen trial.
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#FFGFailures #spéirgorm
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