Ayrton O'Brien 🇵🇸
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Now WHY did the body of the salmon not drop behind her to be a dress train, that is baffling to me
November 23, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Now WHY did the body of the salmon not drop behind her to be a dress train, that is baffling to me
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Brendan now silencing the only person om the panel willing to speak up for trans people, but of course, it is transphobes who are being silenced.
We as journalists have to be better.
We as journalists have to be better.
November 23, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Brendan now silencing the only person om the panel willing to speak up for trans people, but of course, it is transphobes who are being silenced.
We as journalists have to be better.
We as journalists have to be better.
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Just Brenda Power making the case for conversion therapy for trans people on Brendan O'Connor's radio show this morning.
November 23, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Just Brenda Power making the case for conversion therapy for trans people on Brendan O'Connor's radio show this morning.
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Also, none of this is going to make a blind bit of difference to the number of refugees who come here, it’ll just make their lives harder and remember these are people who have already been recognised as needing Ireland to protect them due to persecution in their country of origin. Shameful.
November 23, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Also, none of this is going to make a blind bit of difference to the number of refugees who come here, it’ll just make their lives harder and remember these are people who have already been recognised as needing Ireland to protect them due to persecution in their country of origin. Shameful.
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1. Family reunification is ALREADY limited to "close family"
2. Forcing people to avoid claiming benefits they are entitled to and need under threat of being refused citizenship is horrifically cruel. That was the policy under Michael McDowell and it caused great hardship to the most vulnerable.
2. Forcing people to avoid claiming benefits they are entitled to and need under threat of being refused citizenship is horrifically cruel. That was the policy under Michael McDowell and it caused great hardship to the most vulnerable.
New: major overhaul of immigration laws to see citizenship denied to those who got welfare, or are in debt. Family reunification only for close family, tighter rules around self sufficiency. Changes to revoke residency for those who commit serious crimes
www.thetimes.com/world/irelan...
www.thetimes.com/world/irelan...
No Irish citizenship for refugees on welfare benefits
Ministers to crack down on migration after UK review of asylum-seeking rules
www.thetimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:15 AM
1. Family reunification is ALREADY limited to "close family"
2. Forcing people to avoid claiming benefits they are entitled to and need under threat of being refused citizenship is horrifically cruel. That was the policy under Michael McDowell and it caused great hardship to the most vulnerable.
2. Forcing people to avoid claiming benefits they are entitled to and need under threat of being refused citizenship is horrifically cruel. That was the policy under Michael McDowell and it caused great hardship to the most vulnerable.
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Breakneck by Dan Wang is worth a read. McWilliams takes the wrong lessons from it & passes it off as his own homework. In short China is run by engineers, that see all problems including humans as engineering problems, the book warns against this, not for it. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
David McWilliams: To get things done, Ireland needs more engineers and fewer lawyers
A country run by engineers will build and accelerate into the future, while one run by lawyers will litigate and decelerate
www.irishtimes.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Breakneck by Dan Wang is worth a read. McWilliams takes the wrong lessons from it & passes it off as his own homework. In short China is run by engineers, that see all problems including humans as engineering problems, the book warns against this, not for it. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
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Just determined to kill trans children. This is conversion therapy by another name.
medium.com/@mimmymum/tr...
medium.com/@mimmymum/tr...
Trans Young People Face 50+ Tests and Hours of Intrusive Assessments in the PATHWAYS Puberty…
The publication of the PATHWAYS puberty blocker trial protocols reveals how trans young people are required to complete more than fifty…
medium.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Just determined to kill trans children. This is conversion therapy by another name.
medium.com/@mimmymum/tr...
medium.com/@mimmymum/tr...
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“Bringing business along with us”, a story in 2 acts:
November 21, 2025 at 4:35 PM
“Bringing business along with us”, a story in 2 acts:
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forgive me father for i have synth
He said "Amen" straight into the drop
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
November 21, 2025 at 7:48 PM
forgive me father for i have synth
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The myth is circulating again that it was more radical otg activists and assimilationist gays ("boots and suits") teaming up that was responsible for queer communities' gains late '60s on.
The history doesn't back this up. What actually happened is more revealing. 🧵
Let's start with Stonewall...
The history doesn't back this up. What actually happened is more revealing. 🧵
Let's start with Stonewall...
November 21, 2025 at 3:50 PM
The myth is circulating again that it was more radical otg activists and assimilationist gays ("boots and suits") teaming up that was responsible for queer communities' gains late '60s on.
The history doesn't back this up. What actually happened is more revealing. 🧵
Let's start with Stonewall...
The history doesn't back this up. What actually happened is more revealing. 🧵
Let's start with Stonewall...
Me forgetting the date in work earlier: "OMG, it's Björk's 60th birthday today, I should have a day off work today."
Later: "OMG, it's Goldie Hawn's 80th birthday today, I REALLY should have a day off work today!"
Later: "OMG, it's Goldie Hawn's 80th birthday today, I REALLY should have a day off work today!"
November 21, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Me forgetting the date in work earlier: "OMG, it's Björk's 60th birthday today, I should have a day off work today."
Later: "OMG, it's Goldie Hawn's 80th birthday today, I REALLY should have a day off work today!"
Later: "OMG, it's Goldie Hawn's 80th birthday today, I REALLY should have a day off work today!"
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This is climate change.
This will keep happening closer and closer to you, until it's you moving.
This will keep happening closer and closer to you, until it's you moving.
'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'
#Iran 🇮🇷
#Iran 🇮🇷
Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens
Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...
www.iranintl.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:34 PM
This is climate change.
This will keep happening closer and closer to you, until it's you moving.
This will keep happening closer and closer to you, until it's you moving.
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Trans people have exhaustively detailed the links between the anti-trans and anti-abortion movements, we warned that transphobia was a wedge issue for the religious right to roll back women's rights, only for us to be ignored, and of course UK TERFs are setting their sights on abortion.
Kathleen Stock has written an article against "abortion permissiveness". She claims abortion requires "justification" saying the state should limit "unacceptable decision-making" by women about their own bodies.
This is who anti-trans activists proclaim as the feminist thought leaders of our time.
This is who anti-trans activists proclaim as the feminist thought leaders of our time.
November 21, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Trans people have exhaustively detailed the links between the anti-trans and anti-abortion movements, we warned that transphobia was a wedge issue for the religious right to roll back women's rights, only for us to be ignored, and of course UK TERFs are setting their sights on abortion.
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dystopian
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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 2:18 PM
dystopian
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Well it had to be said. Toxic Hollywood
November 21, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Well it had to be said. Toxic Hollywood
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Wait until they hear about the drug cascade that untreated ADHD tends to lead to.
November 21, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Wait until they hear about the drug cascade that untreated ADHD tends to lead to.
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Choose your fighter.
November 21, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Choose your fighter.
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happening across media
"According to the report, [...]during the 2024-25 television season, queer characters increased across platforms by 4%, bringing the total to 489. However, the Thursday report found that 41% of those characters will not return." www.thewrap.com/glaad-where-...
Nearly Half of All LGBTQ+ Characters Will Disappear From TV Next Season, GLAAD Study Finds
The 2024-25 TV season recorded 489 queer characters across broadcast, cable and screenings, but cancellations and plot find a deep decline to come
www.thewrap.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:34 AM
happening across media
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Stop buying this crap.
TEMU and SHEIN recall hundreds of products across Ireland amid serious fears for children's health
TEMU and SHEIN recall hundreds of products across Ireland amid serious fears for children's health
Customers have been warned to 'stop using the products immediately'
Online platform's Temu and SHEIN have recalled different products across Ireland amid a serious risk and harm to children's health. The Competition and Consumer Protection Commission has alerted the public to the following re
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www.limerickleader.ie
November 20, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Stop buying this crap.
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3 gay guys in their late 30s listening to Rosalia after learning about her from their gen-z friend Elmo
November 20, 2025 at 8:43 PM
3 gay guys in their late 30s listening to Rosalia after learning about her from their gen-z friend Elmo
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Excellent thread. I think it's very notable that, in the aftermath of the Tubridy controversy, the first things to be cut were mostly aimed at younger audiences
So, it's been officially announced: after 19 years on the online airwaves, RTÉ is to close four of its five digital radio stations, including 2XM, on New Year's Eve.
Thread follows...
#spéirghorm #ireland
Thread follows...
#spéirghorm #ireland
November 20, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Excellent thread. I think it's very notable that, in the aftermath of the Tubridy controversy, the first things to be cut were mostly aimed at younger audiences
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What are Palestinians even supposed to do in these conditions? The suffering that this genocidal destruction has created is going to last generations. It's so cruel.
We were flooded by the heavy rain. The shelter is just nylon. Oh God, I'm so tired.
My bed and tent are flooded. What do I do now? Death would be more merciful than this suffering. 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
I'm fed up with everything😞
Donate now 🫂 🫂 🫂
chuffed.org/project/1388...
My bed and tent are flooded. What do I do now? Death would be more merciful than this suffering. 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
I'm fed up with everything😞
Donate now 🫂 🫂 🫂
chuffed.org/project/1388...
November 20, 2025 at 7:02 AM
What are Palestinians even supposed to do in these conditions? The suffering that this genocidal destruction has created is going to last generations. It's so cruel.
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