Reposted by Thomas CreamerClaire Mitchell @clairemitchell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026🚨 Open letter from people of Protestant backgrounds concerning the Garvaghy Road 🚨 We feel compelled to speak publicly about what is happening in Portadown 🚨Over the past few hours we have collected over 140 signatures 13291125
Reposted by Thomas CreamerMaria Ní Fhlatharta @nifhla.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Peelers response to the Garvaghy road residents would be shameful regardless but it is rage inducing given failures around the Belfast pograms & a complete police failure to respond to far right violence across Ireland and Britain. But this "low risk" parade seems to have all the police resources. 03814
Thomas Creamer @thomascreamer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026...why is "Winner" in air quotes? This really doesn't fill me with confidence, in all honesty. 021
Reposted by Thomas CreamerRichard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Worst recent example of this was journalists asking Grok about the deepfake CSAM scandal asking the fucking machine for its response. 41539
Thomas Creamer @thomascreamer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Granted, these proposals give potential (or rather, soon-to-be) citizens an understanding of this government's values, such as a willingness to throw hard-working people in our communities under the bus to appease their colleagues in the EU, as well as outright racists who won't vote for them anyway 052
Reposted by Thomas CreamerCount Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Can't get a moment's peace on this bloody planet. 1426891889
Reposted by Thomas CreamerAidan Fitzmaurice @fancyvegaspro.bsky.social · 19/08/2026"We are duty bound to expose frauds!" says press that continues to platform "Britain's Strictest Headmistress" 25017
Thomas Creamer @thomascreamer.bsky.social · 20/08/2026And that can be achieved without calling them thugs or expressing disgust at anyone eulogising for them - which would include their families, who have that right. I do not recall Crowe saying anything similar on the death of Michael Fingleton, despite him contributing harm towards many more people. 000
Reposted by Thomas CreamerDean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 15/08/2026I'd like to compare how Irish commentators wrote about Jason Arday with how they wrote about Brian Lucey, the Irish academic who had several papers retracted earlier this year because he had been corruptly peer reviewing his own work, but literally no Irish commentators wrote about it 4319112
Reposted by Thomas CreamerKev @kevvikevs.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Re how much coverage this got - I saw someone pointing out that the Vice Chancellor of University of Manchester was fired for misappropriating millions of pounds, and it scarcely made the news compared to this. But of course that's clearly not an important story regarding ethics in academia 0144
Reposted by Thomas CreamerThe Journal @thejournal.ie · 06/08/2026A draft version of the government’s recent data centre report included several key aspects which questioned continued investment in the sector but were later cut from the final version released to the public. jrnl.ie/7122123jrnl.ieConcerns over supporting data centres ahead of transport or housing scrubbed from government reportSeveral aspects which questioned continued investment in the sector were later cut from the final version released to the public. 54841
Reposted by Thomas CreamerAidan Fitzmaurice @fancyvegaspro.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Micheál Martin's response to the data centre questions has been to act as suspiciously as possible 1235
Thomas Creamer @thomascreamer.bsky.social · 07/08/2026I guess that their next step would be "these scroungers clearly can't pay their own way, deport them all". "Yeah, but they are only homeless because *you* evicted them!" "...shut up!" 0140
Reposted by Thomas CreamerShamim Malekmian @shamimmalekmian.eurosky.social · 22/07/2026Mention of “best interests of the child” quietly dropped from Department of Justice’s new family reunification policy A spokesperson for Ombudsman for Children said it is “very concerned” that the best-interests principle was not referenced in the new policy. www.dublininquirer.com/mention-of-b...dublininquirer.comMention of “best interests of the child” quietly dropped from Department of Justice’s new family reunification policyA spokesperson for Ireland’s Ombudsman for Children said it is “very concerned” that the best-interests principle was not referenced in the new policy. 05741
Reposted by Thomas CreamerCount Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 07/07/2026On my way, Clacton. 579152783460
Thomas Creamer @thomascreamer.bsky.social · 07/07/2026...are they really making a live-action remake of Moana? Already? Is this seriously a thing? Why? 000
Reposted by Thomas Creamerelia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 06/07/2026A world-famous doctor could die in prison and there are no consequences to the genocidal regime doing this 1420235
Reposted by Thomas CreamerDean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 01/07/2026so many people were confidently declaring this had no Islamophobic motive once it was announced the suspect was an Iranian national, but there are plenty of Islamophobes among the Iranian diaspora, as you might expect given they are the diaspora of a brutal, repressive Islamic theocracy 2228
Reposted by Thomas CreamerLee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 23/06/2026When an immigrant stabbed a man in Belfast a few weeks ago, the image of that attack was on the front page of most of the UK papers. Jeffrey Donaldson is not on the front page of the Times, Telegraph, Express, Mirror, Star, Metro, Morning Star, i paper, Guardian, Herald, Journal, or National 8336129
Reposted by Thomas CreamerOla Løkken Nordrum @olaln.bsky.social · 20/06/2026“Buying whatever vehicle we like, and driving it wherever and whenever we please without having to think about the consequences for other people, has become normalised and ingrained across our society over decades." All encouraged by policies and market forces. This is 100% applicable to Ireland.theguardian.comSUV buyers undeterred by warnings of risk to pedestrians, UK study findsExclusive: Research suggests financial penalties necessary if number of large vehicles on roads is to be reduced 0144
Reposted by Thomas Creamersamuel mehr @mehr.nz · 14/12/2023it's wild that R, the ubiquitous statistical computing language, was co-created by a Māori prof (Ross Ihaka) — and yet the vast majority of scientists who use R don't know this is like inventing the toaster. possibly the largest impact of a single member of an indigenous community on modern science 441593628
Reposted by Thomas CreamerMisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Thomas House of Dublin exhibiting the pro-human solidarity that all of us should demonstrate. 491543222
Thomas Creamer @thomascreamer.bsky.social · 19/06/2026It's a bit easy being a hurler on a ditch and offering nothing constructive. I think being a bit more solution focused is probably a more helpful attitude for the times we are in. 000
Thomas Creamer @thomascreamer.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Right, because the Democrats ran a competent campaign that succesfully incorporated all components of their coalition, and there were no economic wedge issues that were exploitable? It was more on-trend for incumbent governments to lose elections than win them in 2024. Ireland was an outlier there. 100
Thomas Creamer @thomascreamer.bsky.social · 19/06/2026So, unless we regulate tech giants properly - which I don't see any EU govt seriously doing, sadly - either you offer better material answers for people who are disaffected. Or, you try placating those sentiments with diet versions of the far-right's platform re: migrants and minorities, like FFG. 000
Thomas Creamer @thomascreamer.bsky.social · 19/06/2026For a start, reactionary populism is not a specifically anglosphere phenomenon - it's very much a global one. I would love to see proper regulation on social media - not that FFG will do anything about it. But I don't see the point in pretending that material conditions don't factor in as well. 230
Thomas Creamer @thomascreamer.bsky.social · 19/06/2026The Nazis didn't automatically rise to power either right in the years immediately following the end of WWII, despite the hyperinflation and all the madness surrounding it. I don't think anyone would then claim that as evidence that their rise after 1929 had nothing to do with the Great Depression. 110
Reposted by Thomas CreamerRowenna. 2 ‘n’s. Ro-WEN-na. @missiggeek.bsky.social · 18/06/2026They know the tech is unfit for purpose. But as long as it benefits them to pretend otherwise, that’s what they’ll do. Exactly the same mindset as the Post Office/Fujitsu Horizon scandal - making human sacrifices to flawed tech for the preservation of corporate deniability 21910
Reposted by Thomas Creamere.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 17/06/2026this may well be the defining joke of our era theonion.com/guy-who-suck...theonion.comGuy Who Sucks At Being A Person Sees Huge Potential In AISAN MATEO, CA—After spending the past three decades of his life being totally unable and unwilling to engage in any meaningful way with the world around him, James Parker, a local guy who sucks at bei... 3087242384
Reposted by Thomas CreamerDean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 11/06/2026there have already been occasions on which Naoise Ó Cearúil missed a lot of the AI committee because it was scheduled against the Gaeilge committee, now he's been made chair of both 131
Reposted by Thomas CreamerThe Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Per most recent figures, net migration to NI *over the past 22 years* has been ~62,000 people. Only 3% of Northern Ireland’s population currently belong to an ethnic minority. Pogroms in Belfast (as with Ballymena last year) are just gutter-level "One Is One Too Many" racism, and nothing else. 181735623
Reposted by Thomas CreamerCiara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 09/06/2026X is entirely as expected about Belfast, massive amount of incitement to violence and thousands of likes on posts of pure hatred, don't understand why anyone even vaguely normal is still posting there 834352
Reposted by Thomas CreamerGerard Cunningham @faduda.eurosky.social · 05/06/2026If you come here, you’ll find no mass grave, no evidence that children were ever so buried, and a local police force casting their eyes to heaven and saying 'Yeah, a few bones were found – but this was an area where Famine victims were buried. So?' — Terry Prone 44033
Thomas Creamer @thomascreamer.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Any independent analysis of party manifestos prior to the GE would very much debunk that particular argument re: the Soc Dems, Greens or Labour. Like, of all policy areas he could have picked, he picked the one where SF are objectively the worst on compared to every other party of the left. 2153
Thomas Creamer @thomascreamer.bsky.social · 04/06/2026I mean, they were barely a few years old before they were writing about how the Great Famine was something the Irish "brought on by their own wickedness and folly". www.rte.ie/history/fami...rte.ie"Their own wickedness": how the British press reported the FamineIn 1846 The Economist magazine declared that Irish distress was "brought on by their own wickedness and folly". Such attitudes were not uncommon in the British media during and after the Famine, as Ni... 121
Thomas Creamer @thomascreamer.bsky.social · 04/06/2026They might as well just get someone to attach a "kick me" sign to their backs and save us a few dozen million euro. 010
Thomas Creamer @thomascreamer.bsky.social · 04/06/2026I mean, it wouldn't be the first time for an Independent Ireland politician if that were the case. 020
Reposted by Thomas CreamerÚna-Minh's ✨ Open to Work ✨ @unaminh.bsky.social · 01/06/2026there's actually something wrong with Dublin. i rarely feel safe in the city centre, especially at night. "The victim, who is originally from Nigeria but had been residing in Ireland for some time, was a nightclub promoter." www.independent.ie/irish-news/d...independent.ieDublin stab victim (21) was chased through the streets from nightclub before killingA young man stabbed to death in Dublin City centre overnight was chased through the streets from a nightclub before being knifed several times including once in the chest. 3409
Thomas Creamer @thomascreamer.bsky.social · 02/06/2026To be honest, I have seen the odd stat floating around about younger priests being more conservative, and I suspect that there might be something to it - because being devoutly religious in more recent generation is already pretty niche, let alone going from that to priesthood... 110
Reposted by Thomas CreamerColin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 31/05/2026God The Telegraph is ghoulish. 26 innocent and unarmed civilians being shot by the UK Armed Forces gets parsed as "something went badly wrong", then gives Bob Stewart free rein to give out about military reputations being undermined. 2020463
Reposted by Thomas CreamerDean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 31/05/2026the government saw the number of road deaths last year and said pffft those are rookie numbers we can get those up 0132
Reposted by Thomas CreamerLoki @lokideburca.bsky.social · 29/05/2026You're literally cherrypicking sanctions. 13213
Reposted by Thomas CreamerGavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 29/05/202617,548 people in emergency accommodation at the end of April 2026 - another overall record, including 5604 children. The number is up 31 in that month and 1968 in a year. @virginmedianews.bsky.social 43625
Thomas Creamer @thomascreamer.bsky.social · 28/05/2026A discussion on the source of the problem - the recommender algorithms itself - would actually get closer to the root of things, but we're not having that discussion because it's easier to slap a ban (it at least attempt to) and call it a day. Because that's exactly what will happen with FFG. 010
Thomas Creamer @thomascreamer.bsky.social · 28/05/2026One of the big problems is precisely because is basically the only solution the likes of FG are talking about implementing. See Patrick O'Donovan being very bullish on a child ban one week, and next week tying himself in knots about how Twitter can't be responsible over the CSAMs on their platform 210