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Palliative care 🏥 #andacyclist 🚲 Labhair Gaeilge liom 🇮🇪 🏳️‍🌈
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Storm Bram high tide hitting Clontarf seafront this afternoon. #stormbram #dublin #ireland
December 9, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Girl Guiding and the Women’s Institute have announced that they will now exclude trans women and girls after legal threats – but organisations can and should remain inclusive:
https://goodlaw.social/cpfx
Excluding trans people won’t stop you getting sued | Good Law Project
Girl Guiding and the Women’s Institute have announced that they will now exclude trans women and girls after legal threats – but organisations can and should remain inclusive.
goodlaw.social
December 3, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard
December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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This poem is dedicated to anyone making a start on their advent calendar today.
December 1, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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A story Stoppard told several times, in several places:
November 29, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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I have been doing entirely too much earnest posting about deep things recently, I need to do a proper thread about hippo testicles or something just to keep myself sane.

Oh by the way hippos have migratory testicles.
a statue of a hippopotamus with its mouth open and teeth showing .
Alt: A hippo being tossed a watermelon, which it crushes in its massive jaws.
media.tenor.com
March 12, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS
November 14, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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important reference material
nobody does more brutal fashion reviews than the irish
November 12, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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The survey also found a huge gulf between levels of fear of Dublin city centre, and levels of crime respondents had experiened here. And at what, then, drives that perception that town is not safe. 5/
There’s a huge gulf between levels of fear of Dublin city centre, and levels of crime, new survey shows
The City Centre Crime Victim Survey was commissioned by Dublin Inquirer and carried out by Amarách Research.
www.dublininquirer.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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There's been a great deal of debate about how safe Dublin city centre is, but when we @dublininquirer.com looked for data to resolve this, we couldn't find much useful – so we commissioned a survey to try to add some facts/data to the debate. Today we've published five articles about the results. 1/
November 5, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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Every far-right riot and protest that was tolerated, every racist dog whistle from public reps, every bit of hate and misinformation allowed to spread by social media companies, all led to this moment in Drogheda last night where someone felt emboldened enough to try to burn children alive.
November 1, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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Wed: “Our migration numbers are too high”-Simon Harris

Thurs: “Taoiseach and Donohoe back Tánaiste’s remarks that numbers migrating to Ireland are ‘too high’”

Fri: ”migration numbers too high outside of international protection…as well”-Simon Harris

*Arson attack on infants in IPAS centre.*
November 1, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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you’d think that’d be worth like… at least a seventh arrest
Some of the projectiles thrown at Gardaí last night.

Rioters threw bricks, ripped from walls at a local estate, as well as fireworks, glass bottles and more at Gardaí.
October 22, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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Some good news.

London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces.

The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.
September 30, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Hope this helps.
September 26, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
September 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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To oppose trans people's rights and freedoms you break so many social contracts. We keep saying that trans rights are human rights, but conversely, human rights are trans rights, because the second you decide some people don't deserve the same rights and freedoms as others? You start to lose it all.
September 20, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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David Letterman is right: you can't appease a tyrant.
September 18, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Racism is something that you do. No one can know the contents of your heart, but we can see your actions, and marching in a racist rally is a racist action.
September 15, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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Royal Canal Greenway opens fully in central Dublin linking 40km of off-road cycle routes

The central section of the Royal Canal Greenway in Dublin City is now fully opened after two and a half years of construction to make the route accessible for pedestrians and people cycling. The project…
Royal Canal Greenway opens fully in central Dublin linking 40km of off-road cycle routes
The central section of the Royal Canal Greenway in Dublin City is now fully opened after two and a half years of construction to make the route accessible for pedestrians and people cycling. The project included installing new, more gentle ramps, which are more accessible, and new shared crossings at the canal at the Phibsborough Road, Dorset Street/Drumcondra Road, Russell Street/Jones' Road, Summerhill Parade/Ballybough Road, and then finishing at the existing crossing on North Strand Road.
irishcycle.com
September 5, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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There really is no discernable difference between a racist and someone pretending to be a racist, regardless of the reason. Actions speak louder than personal beliefs.
September 1, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Chatting to Pat about EU inaction on Israel and the killing of journalists at Nasser hospital
August 27, 2025 at 4:11 PM