emma q burns
@betaburns.bsky.social
Mother of mongrels. Researcher: PhD political participation & disability; advocacy; DPOs; repro justice. Autistic community organiser. Lover of bogs, stray dogs and odd sods. Found at CDLP Galway or in #Tipperary. #SpéirGorm She/they/yer wan ♾️🇮🇪🇵🇸🏳️⚧️🇺🇦
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why has the term Big Irish Head become so ubiquitous when 'Gael Skull' was right there all along
November 4, 2025 at 7:09 PM
why has the term Big Irish Head become so ubiquitous when 'Gael Skull' was right there all along
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Interviewer: How do you explain this 4-year gap on your resume?
Guy: That’s when I went to Yale...
Interviewer: That’s impressive. You are hired.
Guy: Thanks. I really needed this Yob.
Guy: That’s when I went to Yale...
Interviewer: That’s impressive. You are hired.
Guy: Thanks. I really needed this Yob.
November 24, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Interviewer: How do you explain this 4-year gap on your resume?
Guy: That’s when I went to Yale...
Interviewer: That’s impressive. You are hired.
Guy: Thanks. I really needed this Yob.
Guy: That’s when I went to Yale...
Interviewer: That’s impressive. You are hired.
Guy: Thanks. I really needed this Yob.
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I will be the first to admit I couldn’t understand why anyone would oppose Assisted Dying… and then I became disabled and had it “offered” to me.
It’s not compassionate when there’s coercion.
It’s not dignified when it’s offered in lieu of care.
Listen to disabled people.
It’s not compassionate when there’s coercion.
It’s not dignified when it’s offered in lieu of care.
Listen to disabled people.
November 24, 2025 at 9:45 PM
I will be the first to admit I couldn’t understand why anyone would oppose Assisted Dying… and then I became disabled and had it “offered” to me.
It’s not compassionate when there’s coercion.
It’s not dignified when it’s offered in lieu of care.
Listen to disabled people.
It’s not compassionate when there’s coercion.
It’s not dignified when it’s offered in lieu of care.
Listen to disabled people.
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@teni.bsky.social don't seem to use their bsky account so I'm posting this over here from their facebook because people should see it: one of the first things our new President Connolly did last week was write the community a letter for TDOR 🏳️⚧️
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November 24, 2025 at 6:51 PM
@teni.bsky.social don't seem to use their bsky account so I'm posting this over here from their facebook because people should see it: one of the first things our new President Connolly did last week was write the community a letter for TDOR 🏳️⚧️
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#Spéirgorm -specific ask: can anyone point me towards a trauma-informed conflict resolution practitioner who could support an advocacy group struggling to deal with a very complex issue (involves historical SA)? They have a little bit of a budget, actual experienced professional needed.
November 24, 2025 at 5:56 PM
#Spéirgorm -specific ask: can anyone point me towards a trauma-informed conflict resolution practitioner who could support an advocacy group struggling to deal with a very complex issue (involves historical SA)? They have a little bit of a budget, actual experienced professional needed.
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The article is worse than the headline suggests. I am trying to avoid American politics online but as the brother of someone like this, this story really upset me. The idea of him being separated from his mother for 54 days, seeing her only 3 times, facing emergency surgery alone, is heartbreaking
Emmanuel, a 15-year-old with intellectual disabilities, wandered away from his mom’s fruit stand in October.
She reported him missing to Houston police. But instead of reuniting them, the city turned him over to ICE.
“They’re failing all of us,” his mom said.
thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/24/d...
She reported him missing to Houston police. But instead of reuniting them, the city turned him over to ICE.
“They’re failing all of us,” his mom said.
thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/24/d...
A Disabled Child’s Mom Reported Him Missing. He Was Locked Away by Federal Immigration Authorities for 48 Days.
Emmanuel, a 15-year-old who has an intellectual disability, walked away from his mom’s fruit stand in October. Houston Police called ICE.
thebarbedwire.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:56 PM
The article is worse than the headline suggests. I am trying to avoid American politics online but as the brother of someone like this, this story really upset me. The idea of him being separated from his mother for 54 days, seeing her only 3 times, facing emergency surgery alone, is heartbreaking
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I quite literally will never understand this take. I know that we always need *some* rental property available but the vast majority of people in Ireland want to own and we can't because of *drumroll please* landlords buying multiple properties to rent. Them leaving the market is what we want.
Landlords 'stampede' out of rental market ahead of new changes coming next year
Landlords 'stampede' out of rental market ahead of new changes coming next year
The new rules and regulations will not affect tenants that have been in place before March 1 and after that date, they will see a six-year tenancy agreement put in place
Renters could be facing an even more uncertain market in the months ahead of new tenancy rules that are coming into effect
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www.limerickleader.ie
November 24, 2025 at 12:19 PM
I quite literally will never understand this take. I know that we always need *some* rental property available but the vast majority of people in Ireland want to own and we can't because of *drumroll please* landlords buying multiple properties to rent. Them leaving the market is what we want.
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#OnThisDay 24th of November 1982, Nan Joyce became the first Traveller to stand in an Irish election.
Joyce was co-chairperson of the Committee for the Rights of Travellers, which had been formed earlier that year.
www.leftarchive.ie/article/5703/
#IrishTravellers #IrishElections
Joyce was co-chairperson of the Committee for the Rights of Travellers, which had been formed earlier that year.
www.leftarchive.ie/article/5703/
#IrishTravellers #IrishElections
Traveller Activism in the 1980s: The Committee for the Rights of Travellers and Mincéir Misli
From Aonrud. The Committee for the Rights of Travellers was formed in 1982 in response to anti-Traveller protests in Dublin with the aim of exposing mistreatment of Travellers by the state and anti-Tr...
www.leftarchive.ie
November 24, 2025 at 1:01 PM
#OnThisDay 24th of November 1982, Nan Joyce became the first Traveller to stand in an Irish election.
Joyce was co-chairperson of the Committee for the Rights of Travellers, which had been formed earlier that year.
www.leftarchive.ie/article/5703/
#IrishTravellers #IrishElections
Joyce was co-chairperson of the Committee for the Rights of Travellers, which had been formed earlier that year.
www.leftarchive.ie/article/5703/
#IrishTravellers #IrishElections
Warrior, role model, legend.
Tributes to ‘mad, bad and dangerous’ peace activist and artist Margaretta D’Arcy who has died aged 91
www.independent.ie/irish-news/t...
www.independent.ie/irish-news/t...
Tributes to ‘mad, bad and dangerous’ peace activist and artist Margaretta D’Arcy who has died aged 91
Tributes have been paid in Galway to artist, Aosdána member and peace activist Margaretta D’Arcy, who died on Sunday at the age of 91.
www.independent.ie
November 23, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Warrior, role model, legend.
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I don't have a TikTok but my friends always come through with the most relevant ones
November 22, 2025 at 6:27 PM
I don't have a TikTok but my friends always come through with the most relevant ones
Evening swim and sauna down at the lake in subzero temperatures - not sure if it was heavenly or if I actually died from the cold and am in actual heaven
November 21, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Evening swim and sauna down at the lake in subzero temperatures - not sure if it was heavenly or if I actually died from the cold and am in actual heaven
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some people would think I’m like a dracula, you know capital. dead labour is all it is, surplus labour I like to call it dead labour, but yes I have fed off the blood of the working class. more than most probably.
Trump in a room with a very charismatic person results in like half a day of Trump agreeing with everything that person said, so this has the potential to be very, very funny.
Trump says he’s meeting with “communist” Mamdani at the White House on Friday
November 21, 2025 at 10:24 PM
some people would think I’m like a dracula, you know capital. dead labour is all it is, surplus labour I like to call it dead labour, but yes I have fed off the blood of the working class. more than most probably.
ICC judge Nicolas Guillou is being treated like a terrorist by the US for doing his job of indicting war criminals. Our European institutions need to develop a backbone.
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Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand
In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe.
Le Monde has a long article describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza.
Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce, since he can't know if the packaging is American; use any major credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex are all American); access normal banking services, even with non-American banks, as banks worldwide close sanctioned accounts; conduct virtually any financial transaction.
He describes it as being "economically banned across most of the planet," including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands.
That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are:
- punishing a European citizen
- for doing his job in Europe
- applying laws Europe officially supports
- at an institution based in Europe
- that Europe helped create and fund
and Europe is not only doing essentially nothing to protect him, they're actively enforcing America's sanctions against their own citizen - European banks closing his accounts, European companies refusing him service, European institutions standing by while Washington destroys a European judge's life on European soil.
Again, in a normal world, European leaders and citizens should be absolutely outraged about this. But we've so normalized the hollowing out of European sovereignty that the sight of a European citizen being economically executed on European soil for upholding European law is treated, at best, as an unfortunate technical complication in transatlantic
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November 21, 2025 at 3:32 PM
ICC judge Nicolas Guillou is being treated like a terrorist by the US for doing his job of indicting war criminals. Our European institutions need to develop a backbone.
I keep seeing theses references to a certain billionaire's "80-100 hour week", his "grind" and then a list of his jobs and interests - is that not normal for anyone who works, trains, studies, volunteers, has kids?
November 21, 2025 at 8:58 AM
I keep seeing theses references to a certain billionaire's "80-100 hour week", his "grind" and then a list of his jobs and interests - is that not normal for anyone who works, trains, studies, volunteers, has kids?
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O FFS will they not just look after the workers!
Talks at the Workplace Relations Commission aimed at resolving a pensions dispute involving school secretaries and caretakers have broken down
Talks at WRC over school secretary pensions break down
Talks at the Workplace Relations Commission aimed at resolving a pensions dispute involving school secretaries and caretakers have broken down. The negotiations ended this evening without agreement, a...
www.rte.ie
November 20, 2025 at 10:50 PM
O FFS will they not just look after the workers!
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Once again, we are way too relaxed about the fact that "shooting Irish people is good actually" is a mainstream political position on the neighbouring island.
November 20, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Once again, we are way too relaxed about the fact that "shooting Irish people is good actually" is a mainstream political position on the neighbouring island.
Glasgow Labour Councillor Fiona Higgins admirably standing against school cuts & restrictions on speech in the first half and then baring her terf arse for all to see in the second.
www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...
www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...
Glasgow councillor Fiona Higgins hits out over free speech
Glasgow city councillor Fiona Higgins has argued that her right to freedom of speech is under threat after being reported to the Ethical Standards…
www.heraldscotland.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Glasgow Labour Councillor Fiona Higgins admirably standing against school cuts & restrictions on speech in the first half and then baring her terf arse for all to see in the second.
www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...
www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...
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Grok is just Elon musk hiding inside a box with blinking LEDs all over it
November 20, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Grok is just Elon musk hiding inside a box with blinking LEDs all over it
I had an excellent customer service experience with Adobe this morning and I'm still shook. Unexpectedly decent resolution. 10/10
November 19, 2025 at 2:41 PM
I had an excellent customer service experience with Adobe this morning and I'm still shook. Unexpectedly decent resolution. 10/10
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A cycling influencer nominated for a list of top 100 women cyclists said she has declined the honour due to the decision not to include trans women.
Claire Sharpe, a cycling coach from Bristol, said: "If they don't want to ride with all women, then it's not the kind of ride I want to be part of" 👏🏻
Claire Sharpe, a cycling coach from Bristol, said: "If they don't want to ride with all women, then it's not the kind of ride I want to be part of" 👏🏻
Woman refuses Cycling UK award over trans women being left out - BBC News
Claire Sharpe says she disagrees with Cycling UK only naming biological women in their top 100 list.
www.bbc.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:43 PM
A cycling influencer nominated for a list of top 100 women cyclists said she has declined the honour due to the decision not to include trans women.
Claire Sharpe, a cycling coach from Bristol, said: "If they don't want to ride with all women, then it's not the kind of ride I want to be part of" 👏🏻
Claire Sharpe, a cycling coach from Bristol, said: "If they don't want to ride with all women, then it's not the kind of ride I want to be part of" 👏🏻
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🦇🦇TONIGHT! 🦇🦇
I forgot aneaters exist
I forgot anteaters exist is a series of info-dump sessions allowing us to learn about the world through the special interests of others. Each session invites someone new to come and share their knowledge on a topic of their choosing.
I forgot anteaters exist is a series of info-dump sessions allowing us to learn about the world through the special interests of others. Each session invites someone new to come and share their knowledge on a topic of their choosing.
November 19, 2025 at 2:29 PM
🦇🦇TONIGHT! 🦇🦇
Not sure it's been done already, but I am enforcing a RuthieFizz rule on #Spéirghorm. Say the name, post the primate.
November 18, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Not sure it's been done already, but I am enforcing a RuthieFizz rule on #Spéirghorm. Say the name, post the primate.
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I remember the sinking feeling I got around 2013 when I realised I’d be hearing about what John McGuirk thinks about everything for the rest of my life
Nobody who should fuck off actually fucks off anymore. We're stuck with all these fucking people.
November 18, 2025 at 12:50 PM
I remember the sinking feeling I got around 2013 when I realised I’d be hearing about what John McGuirk thinks about everything for the rest of my life