Elaine Crory
@elainecrory.bsky.social
Feminism, cardigans, complaining
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WRDA & Menstruation Matters Survey on Access to Toilet Facilities in Schools
Access to bathroom facilities is a human right, but too often we hear reports of bathroom access being restricted in schools across Northern Ireland. This can lead to students missing class time or…
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February 13, 2026 at 12:24 PM
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Palestine Action have WON their judicial review in the High Court!
A massive victory for free speech, freedom of association and the right to protest.
A massive defeat for the draconian attempts by Keir Starmer's government to curtail our fundamental rights.
A massive victory for free speech, freedom of association and the right to protest.
A massive defeat for the draconian attempts by Keir Starmer's government to curtail our fundamental rights.
February 13, 2026 at 10:13 AM
Palestine Action have WON their judicial review in the High Court!
A massive victory for free speech, freedom of association and the right to protest.
A massive defeat for the draconian attempts by Keir Starmer's government to curtail our fundamental rights.
A massive victory for free speech, freedom of association and the right to protest.
A massive defeat for the draconian attempts by Keir Starmer's government to curtail our fundamental rights.
Catherina McKiernan, former long-distance runner and, to be honest, not even that famous.
Who's the most famous alum of your high school?
I'll go first: David Draiman of Disturbed
I'll go first: David Draiman of Disturbed
guys i just found out i went to the same high school as howard lutnick. please respect my privacy at this time.
February 12, 2026 at 12:13 PM
Catherina McKiernan, former long-distance runner and, to be honest, not even that famous.
Every time someone puts a Mc in my surname (or tries and fails to find me on social media because they hallucinate a Mc.
a blonde woman singing into a microphone with the words that 's not my name written below her
Alt: a blonde woman singing into a microphone with the words that 's not my name" written below her
media.tenor.com
February 12, 2026 at 12:36 AM
Every time someone puts a Mc in my surname (or tries and fails to find me on social media because they hallucinate a Mc.
I wasn't a Dawson's Creek teenager but this is so tragic and sad.
Not to mention the dystopian scenario of having been a successful actor from a young age and then having to sell your things to afford healthcare.
Not to mention the dystopian scenario of having been a successful actor from a young age and then having to sell your things to afford healthcare.
February 11, 2026 at 10:44 PM
I wasn't a Dawson's Creek teenager but this is so tragic and sad.
Not to mention the dystopian scenario of having been a successful actor from a young age and then having to sell your things to afford healthcare.
Not to mention the dystopian scenario of having been a successful actor from a young age and then having to sell your things to afford healthcare.
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Surely the last thing Northern Ireland needs is more fundamentalists knocking about.. 🥲
February 11, 2026 at 9:04 PM
Surely the last thing Northern Ireland needs is more fundamentalists knocking about.. 🥲
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That Norwegian guy clearly loves the attention, but in his heart he knows he'll never be as spectacularly busted as the Chilean miner whose wife and mistress were both waiting for him when he was being rescued from that Chilean mine.
February 11, 2026 at 9:04 PM
That Norwegian guy clearly loves the attention, but in his heart he knows he'll never be as spectacularly busted as the Chilean miner whose wife and mistress were both waiting for him when he was being rescued from that Chilean mine.
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Can we bring back the era when saying this shit would get you ostracized for life. For all the cancelling supposedly about, rich auld fellas still feel pretty free and easy about dropping their invective...
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'UK has been colonised by immigrants', says INEOS boss and Man Utd co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe
In an interview with Sky News's Ed Conway, Sir Jim says Britain faces profound political, social and economic challenges, among them an unprecedented rise in immigration in recent years.
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February 11, 2026 at 8:06 PM
Can we bring back the era when saying this shit would get you ostracized for life. For all the cancelling supposedly about, rich auld fellas still feel pretty free and easy about dropping their invective...
share.google/HPDFEvyxD5v4...
share.google/HPDFEvyxD5v4...
Politely suggesting your club would be worth about £1.57 without immigrants, you coat tail rider.
UK being ‘colonised by immigrants’, says Man Utd co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe
UK being ‘colonised by immigrants’, says Man Utd co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe
Britain’s seventh-richest man, who vocally backed Brexit then moved to tax-free Monaco, also hits out at people on benefits
The billionaire Sir Jim Ratcliffe, who moved to tax-free Monaco in 2020, has claimed that the UK is being “colonised” by immigrants.
Speaking in an interview with Sky News, Britain’s seventh-richest man and the part-owner of Manchester United FC took aim at people receiving state support and immigrants. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
February 11, 2026 at 7:24 PM
Politely suggesting your club would be worth about £1.57 without immigrants, you coat tail rider.
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The absolute shame of a Cork person describing the UK as "our great country." Fascinating, too, to so blithely erase your own immigrant positionality while spearheading anti-immigrant rhetoric and policy.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘The only honourable course’: Morgan McSweeney’s resignation statement in full
Keir Starmer’s chief of staff leaves job over role in Peter Mandelson’s appointment as US ambassador
www.theguardian.com
February 8, 2026 at 6:53 PM
The absolute shame of a Cork person describing the UK as "our great country." Fascinating, too, to so blithely erase your own immigrant positionality while spearheading anti-immigrant rhetoric and policy.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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We Didn’t Start the Fire (But it’s all the ways the EU has ruined environmental protection in the last three years) with @greenpeace.eu #ad
February 10, 2026 at 3:05 PM
We Didn’t Start the Fire (But it’s all the ways the EU has ruined environmental protection in the last three years) with @greenpeace.eu #ad
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You come across two doors guarded by two guards. One guard always lies and is a paedophile. The other guard also always lies, is a paedophile, and is also president.
Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyer says his client will only speak if Trump grants her clemency
February 10, 2026 at 2:03 PM
You come across two doors guarded by two guards. One guard always lies and is a paedophile. The other guard also always lies, is a paedophile, and is also president.
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‘The hysteria that has developed about abuse of women’ (Chomsky in an email to Epstein).To all the Chomsky defenders, esp those on the left-this sentence, alone, dripping with misogyny & a sexist dismissal of sexual violence against women condemns him.There is no acceptable apology for this #epstein
February 10, 2026 at 10:33 AM
‘The hysteria that has developed about abuse of women’ (Chomsky in an email to Epstein).To all the Chomsky defenders, esp those on the left-this sentence, alone, dripping with misogyny & a sexist dismissal of sexual violence against women condemns him.There is no acceptable apology for this #epstein
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How extraordinarily fortunate for Wes Streeting that the only text messages he sent Peter Mandelson just happened to be exactly the sort of things other Labour MPs want to hear from a potential leadership candidate
February 9, 2026 at 6:40 PM
How extraordinarily fortunate for Wes Streeting that the only text messages he sent Peter Mandelson just happened to be exactly the sort of things other Labour MPs want to hear from a potential leadership candidate
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"AI is inevitable"
seen anything good in the metaverse recently? how are NFT markets these days? i heard chatgpt can nearly do basic counting now? fuck off.
seen anything good in the metaverse recently? how are NFT markets these days? i heard chatgpt can nearly do basic counting now? fuck off.
February 8, 2026 at 10:07 PM
"AI is inevitable"
seen anything good in the metaverse recently? how are NFT markets these days? i heard chatgpt can nearly do basic counting now? fuck off.
seen anything good in the metaverse recently? how are NFT markets these days? i heard chatgpt can nearly do basic counting now? fuck off.
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Tomorrow's Headlines
The Telegraph: Starmer Next!
The Guardian: Morgan McSweeney's Gone, Thank God!
The Irish Times: Irishman forced out of UK Labour Role
The Irish (Cork) Examiner: Having Completed Michael Collins' Work, and brought low the British Government, Macroom Calls it's Son Home
The Telegraph: Starmer Next!
The Guardian: Morgan McSweeney's Gone, Thank God!
The Irish Times: Irishman forced out of UK Labour Role
The Irish (Cork) Examiner: Having Completed Michael Collins' Work, and brought low the British Government, Macroom Calls it's Son Home
February 8, 2026 at 6:28 PM
Tomorrow's Headlines
The Telegraph: Starmer Next!
The Guardian: Morgan McSweeney's Gone, Thank God!
The Irish Times: Irishman forced out of UK Labour Role
The Irish (Cork) Examiner: Having Completed Michael Collins' Work, and brought low the British Government, Macroom Calls it's Son Home
The Telegraph: Starmer Next!
The Guardian: Morgan McSweeney's Gone, Thank God!
The Irish Times: Irishman forced out of UK Labour Role
The Irish (Cork) Examiner: Having Completed Michael Collins' Work, and brought low the British Government, Macroom Calls it's Son Home
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Absolutely blows my mind that Starmer couldn't even get it together to fire McSweeny. He's the political equivalent of a tattered plastic bag caught on a fence.
BREAKING: Morgan McSweeney quits as Keir Starmer's chief of staff amid fall-out from the Mandelson scandal
February 8, 2026 at 2:48 PM
Absolutely blows my mind that Starmer couldn't even get it together to fire McSweeny. He's the political equivalent of a tattered plastic bag caught on a fence.
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They're right: two years on it is a disgrace that compensation has not been delivered for so much pain and suffering.
The Cumberlege report demanded justice, so has the Patient Safety Commissioner
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
The Cumberlege report demanded justice, so has the Patient Safety Commissioner
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
Failure to compensate pelvic mesh implant victims ‘morally unacceptable’, say campaigners
Thousands of women with life-changing complications still in limbo two years after call for financial redress
www.theguardian.com
February 8, 2026 at 9:51 AM
They're right: two years on it is a disgrace that compensation has not been delivered for so much pain and suffering.
The Cumberlege report demanded justice, so has the Patient Safety Commissioner
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
The Cumberlege report demanded justice, so has the Patient Safety Commissioner
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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I am glad that Russian forces' ability to kill Ukrainians has been somewhat hobbled by being shut out of Starlink, but it's terrifying that one staggeringly rich, capricious, internet boiled, untrustworthy, white suprematist sociopath has the power to alter the course of whole wars
Starlink ‘catastrophe’ for Russia as Musk shuts down access across front line in Ukraine
"The enemy at the front doesn't have a problem, the enemy has a catastrophe," Serhiy "Flash" Beskrestnov said.
kyivindependent.com
February 8, 2026 at 11:00 AM
I am glad that Russian forces' ability to kill Ukrainians has been somewhat hobbled by being shut out of Starlink, but it's terrifying that one staggeringly rich, capricious, internet boiled, untrustworthy, white suprematist sociopath has the power to alter the course of whole wars
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COLUMBO: My wife, she loves your games. The sunken ghost ship level. It’s her favourite
MARIO: Thank-a you!
C: Just one more thing. Now you say your girlfriend, the Princess, was kidnapped by Bowser, your enemy. And yet you were go-karting with him this morning?
M: What’s-a your point, Detective?
MARIO: Thank-a you!
C: Just one more thing. Now you say your girlfriend, the Princess, was kidnapped by Bowser, your enemy. And yet you were go-karting with him this morning?
M: What’s-a your point, Detective?
February 7, 2026 at 8:10 PM
COLUMBO: My wife, she loves your games. The sunken ghost ship level. It’s her favourite
MARIO: Thank-a you!
C: Just one more thing. Now you say your girlfriend, the Princess, was kidnapped by Bowser, your enemy. And yet you were go-karting with him this morning?
M: What’s-a your point, Detective?
MARIO: Thank-a you!
C: Just one more thing. Now you say your girlfriend, the Princess, was kidnapped by Bowser, your enemy. And yet you were go-karting with him this morning?
M: What’s-a your point, Detective?
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this in a country where the government is deprioritising climate action
February 7, 2026 at 11:23 AM
this in a country where the government is deprioritising climate action
Alongside CAJ and Migrant Centre NI, I was part of this painstaking work over 3 years for WRDA. Really all of this was kicked off by Luke's reporting and would not have happened at all without it. Proud and delighted to see it come to fruition on Monday.
NEW: Police in Northern Ireland will curb sharing data on migrant victims of crime with UK immigration enforcement, after admitting that routine sharing “could be perceived as constituting institutional racism”.
PSNI curbs migrant victims’ data sharing with Home Office after ‘institutional racism’ concerns
www.thedetail.tv
February 5, 2026 at 4:20 PM
Alongside CAJ and Migrant Centre NI, I was part of this painstaking work over 3 years for WRDA. Really all of this was kicked off by Luke's reporting and would not have happened at all without it. Proud and delighted to see it come to fruition on Monday.
Went out to get coffee at lunch today and in that short time I saw:
1. A tree branch on a car bonnet
2. A cup of coffee whipped off a table by the wind, tossed onto the pavement and spilling coffee as it went
3. A woman wearing shorts and flip flops.
1. A tree branch on a car bonnet
2. A cup of coffee whipped off a table by the wind, tossed onto the pavement and spilling coffee as it went
3. A woman wearing shorts and flip flops.
February 5, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Went out to get coffee at lunch today and in that short time I saw:
1. A tree branch on a car bonnet
2. A cup of coffee whipped off a table by the wind, tossed onto the pavement and spilling coffee as it went
3. A woman wearing shorts and flip flops.
1. A tree branch on a car bonnet
2. A cup of coffee whipped off a table by the wind, tossed onto the pavement and spilling coffee as it went
3. A woman wearing shorts and flip flops.
I wish one of our illustrious political journalists or commentators - many of whom are excellent - would once in a while take a look at the absolute clown show that takes place in some our committees week on week, and maybe write a few words on it.
February 5, 2026 at 3:06 PM
I wish one of our illustrious political journalists or commentators - many of whom are excellent - would once in a while take a look at the absolute clown show that takes place in some our committees week on week, and maybe write a few words on it.
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Really nuts how many men were like "Me Too went too far, and I need to email Jeffrey Epstein about it."
February 5, 2026 at 12:26 AM
Really nuts how many men were like "Me Too went too far, and I need to email Jeffrey Epstein about it."