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Loud, queer, disabled and proud. They/them

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
#SpeirGorm
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House House @househouse.com · 15/10/2026
An explanation on why Big Walk isn't available on Xbox. bigwalk.game/xbox
Regarding Xbox

In June 2026 we announced that the release of Big Walk would be limited to computers, Switch 2 and PS5. Since then, we have received many messages and comments, asking about a future Xbox release. We would like to address those questions here:

We have made the decision not to release Big Walk on Xbox, in accordance with the Palestinian-led BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) movement’s call to boycott Microsoft, and their designation of Microsoft Games (and Xbox) as a priority boycott target. If you need help understanding our motives, we would recommend reading about why Microsoft is a BDS priority target, the successes this kind of pressure has already had on Microsoft, and especially, watching this great introductory piece by People Make Games.

It has always been our intention for Big Walk to be played by groups of friends, and we know that keeping the game off Xbox runs counter to those intentions. This decision means that some people will miss out on playing Big Walk with their friends, and we understand the disappointment we’re causing. We are disappointed too.

We would love for people to be able to play the game on Xbox, but not until Microsoft and/or Xbox have been removed as BDS boycott targets.

We’ve made this decision with the belief that meaningful change can be made in the world, that coordinated collective action can confront even the most powerful interests, and that one day, Palestine will be free.

Thank you for your understanding.

Sincerely,
House House

(see bigwalk.game/xbox for links)
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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
#uptheworkers
We are all in this together
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Jack Kennedy @jackkennedy.ie · 14/10/2026
I'd remind everyone that the Irish govt has run a large budget surplus for four consecutive years now and is planning tax cuts, while numerous public services - social housing, healthcare, education at all three levels, among others - have huge problems, many caused by underinvestment. Cool!
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Michael Carley @drmcarley.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
No messing around. 300k workers out. That is more than 10% of *all* people in employment in the Republic of Ireland. www.rte.ie/news/2026/10...
rte.ie
Widespread disruption as public sector strike begins
More than 300,000 public sector workers, including nurses, doctors, teachers and civil servants, are taking strike action over delays in agreeing a new public sector pay deal.
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Daryl 𝘊𝘰𝘨𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘢𝘯 𝘗𝘩𝘶𝘪𝘮𝘤í𝘯 🎃 Feehely @darylfeehely.com · 13/10/2026
Up the workers ✊ #Speirgorm
He was more than a hero.
He was a union man.
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SIPTU @siptu.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
SIPTU has a clear message for public servants scheduled to work from home on Wednesday. Don't do it. Don't open your laptop. Don't check your emails. Don't teach online. Don't answer your phone. A strike only works when the work stops. Remote work is work. #UnionStrike
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Alex @transaurusrx.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Good at peace negotiations, overshadowed by just the worst financial management you could imagine is a hell of a description of his work life
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The Foggy Jew @hmcevansoneya.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I just think it's kind of tiresome how, in a country with incredibly weak unions and industrial relations legislation, the government are trying to act wounded and outraged that unions are doing literally the only thing they can do to exercise leverage
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Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
There will be NO loyalists marching down the Garvaghy Road. As it should be of course. Well done to all the good people for standing firm ✊🇮🇪✊
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Tony - Pod Guy - Groves @tonygroves.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
You’re not angry enough.
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Liz Carolan @lizcarolan.com · 09/10/2026
Irish Gov is hosting its "International AI Summit" next week Even I was surprised by how industry heavy is it 83% of speakers are corporates, 0 independent experts, 1 union rep I'm not explicit about this in the piece -but- surely this is, at best, tone deaf? www.techpolicy.press/at-irelands-...
techpolicy.press
At Ireland’s AI Summit, Tech Industry Dominates as Civil Society Sits Out
The invitation-only summit comes as Ireland leads Digital Omnibus negotiations, raising questions about whose interests are represented, writes Liz Carolan.
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Alex @transaurusrx.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It's actually just so insulting I was also foolishly hoping it would do something for disabled people who don't qualify for other support
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Alex @transaurusrx.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
If this is the extent of the 'cost if disability ' payment they've been alluding to for years, it's genuinely pathetic Just insulting
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James Kelleher @jameskelleher.pilcrow.ie · 06/10/2026
[All national infrastructure slides further into a sinkhole; A&E waiting times move closer to 13 hours; it costs eleventy trillion euro to buy a house] yay I have €750
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David Allsopp @doublehelix.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Chuck Jones' Rule 8. "Whenever possible, make gravity the Coyote’s greatest enemy."
The trolley problem. The road runner is on one of the trolley tracks, and Wile E. Coyote is in charge of the switch.

When he throws the switch, the trolley falls vertically through the tracks. A trick of the perspective means he is actually underneath, not beside the track, so he is flattened by the trolley.
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Cllr Barry McKee @barryndgreen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Thankful to have had the opportunity to sign this open letter.
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Jack - Oi, Shiny! @oishinythings.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
New bird to go with the new cat!
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Rob @robosullivan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
There's a certain poetry in our last line of defence being a goalkeeper. Watching so many people squander the opportunity to do the right thing and reaffirm our humanity was hard. Bazunu saved something more important than a goal. #Spéirgorm
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Ashley Schofield is looking for work! 🐉 @ashlikeadragon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
rip bozo etc but god i can only think of beth upton. forced to leave the country because every fucking day there were several stories dedicated to demonising her and giving this vile piece of shit airtime just for being a rich transphobe. it doesn't matter if peggie loses. she got what she wanted.
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Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Myself, Seán Fearon and Pat Brodie have published a report today examining the exaggerated benefits and significant costs of data centres to Ireland. Below is a short thread on some of the key takeaways. Read the full report here: mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/21... 1/6
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Alex @transaurusrx.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I emailed my gov tds earlier - time to see how many of them have me on straight to spam!
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Alex @transaurusrx.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Christ on a bike that sounds like hell Good luck with it, I'm hoping they get remembered enough to work!
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Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I knew this would be annoying, but I didn't expect McDowell to be such a lowdown dirty coward he doesn't even acknowledge he was the one who spearheaded abolition of birthright citizenship and doesn't try to defend the changes wrought by it. he also pretends the Golden Visa program never happened
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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
New study finds the social cost of driving a car 1 km—including pollution, crashes, infrastructure, and noise—is more than *triple* the private cost paid by the car owner. doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...
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Karl Stanley @karlstanley.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The deficit was created by government choosing not to close the gap between revenue and costs using the ample central funding they have available. No other reason.
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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Absolutely fuck this from a great height. It was only a few months ago they had all the money in the world to throw at motorists and farmers
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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The moment anyone tells you you shouldn’t join a union, urgently look around for a union to join.
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Kendra, spooky version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Tim Curry and Dolly Parton have taught us not only that you should be bigger, weirder, gayer, and freakier, but also that those qualities are what people will love about you. The things that make you strange and amazing are the things that will resonate with other strange and amazing people
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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Oh no, not Tim Curry as well. :( I don't have the words
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Hello, it is me, Kira. :) @kirabira.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
She also really debunks the common justifications about religion, region, and age. Your grandparents and parents have shitty values because they have shitty values, not because of anything else. They could do better. Anyone can use their eyes to see the world and have the correct read.
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Paul O'Donovan @paulodonovan.eurosky.social · 20/08/2026
The original gay rights and pride rainbow flag from 1978 has left San Francisco for the very first time and is in the sister city of Cork. Designed by Gilbert Baker. Very moving to see it.
Multi coloured LGTBQ+ flag
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Aidan Comerford @aidancomerford.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
If you're incensed by @channel4.bsky.social's "The Great ADHD myth," they also made "Trans Kids: Time To Talk" in 2018, and the host of that shitshow subsequently founded Genspect, an org that recommends removing your kid from their friends, school and even moving house if they are trans. 1/
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ADHD Jesse @adhdjesse.com · 15/08/2026
Kinda chic to ignore every important task in my life so I can hyperfocus on the only (horribly unimportant) task that happens to sound interesting in this very moment.
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A Mere Solicitor @ameresolicitor.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Jason Arday didn’t deserve this. The lie that this is about truth or academic standards is bullshit. The Cass report is based on the transphobic “research” which has since been found to be unethical and based in academic misconduct. That has barely been reported. It’s racism. He was targeted.
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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Whatever Jason Arday did or didn’t do, the unrelenting bullying by the media, by the race baiters, by the far right, hounded him to death. Will they learn any lesson … will they what! They and their hate filled little souls will move on, without a thought or any regret, to the next target.
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Alex @transaurusrx.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I was proud of my restraint earlier in not bringing up Irish butter in a French butter incited conversation Nice to have you do it for us
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Alex @transaurusrx.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I absolutely understand it! There is also figuring out how to support disabled people, and communicating to them that the support is there for them
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Alex @transaurusrx.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The sheer number of times I have been the first person to ask about/for something is frankly depressing
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Alex @transaurusrx.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I'm glad that has been your experience It's not the experience of many, many disabled people. It is extra work for both the student and instructor and I like many other people have experienced the drop in care and quality that can happen in those cases Ableism is very common pretty much everywhere
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Alex @transaurusrx.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
It's really frustrating! It's not fair on academics who have extra work to accommodate students, or on students who have to manage different work and advocate for themselves AI has sucked so much for both groups
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Alex @transaurusrx.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I have very bad news for you about how little access is cared about when it is even marginally more complex than not yelling at someone This would involve alternate assessment, different materials, different syllabus requirements, and one to one communication to coordinate it all
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Alex @transaurusrx.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Ty! I really appreciate that you did think of it and plan ahead of time
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Alex @transaurusrx.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
As a disabled student (who doesn't touch AI) this is a nightmare. I understand the reasoning, but this would instantly require so much extra work to take the class. I really hope you have a plan for disabled students specifically in the syllabus to reduce their extra workload
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Inspirational Skeletor @skeletorinspires.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I will be okay. Not because everything is fine, but because I am surprisingly difficult to destroy. Says Skeletor who notices being hard to destroy sure doesn’t mean a bunch of asshoes don’t keep trying.
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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Until the First World War we had those terrifying open borders you hear so much about and passports were pretty much nonexistent till 1920. Before that you could mostly just... go wherever you liked
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Gwen @ionceposted.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
HSE survey on Gender care. Theyre asking how trans people would like to receive healthcare from the HSE. Only takes 10 mins. survey.euro.confirmit.com/wix/p6507912...
survey.euro.confirmit.com
Survey
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Alex @transaurusrx.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Waiting Mode tm is so much fun isn't it! Hope they called at least
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Lilith Ferreyra-Carroll @trasinscneach.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
The HSE are doing a survey for trans people accessing trans healthcare and general healthcare in Ireland. If you're trans it's worth filling out. gcn.ie/hse-survey-s...
gcn.ie
HSE survey calls for community experiences to help shape trans healthcare in Ireland
A new survey has just been released by RedC Research on behalf of the HSE to assess experiences of transgender healthcare in Ireland.
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Alex @transaurusrx.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I would be tempted to say human error I have very finicky veins, and you mentioned it hurting 'inside' the arm on another reply - I've had that kind of sensation during a regular blood draw that was awkward Can't be sure obviously Regardless, blood donation shouldn't hurt
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