So, of course, I cut my hand on my scythe for the first time while taking photos of it to sell it (we’ve just bought a little shoebox in Bray and – fingers crossed – we’re moving next week… So! Much! To! Do!)
Anyway, so if anyone wants a scythe (a very lovely scythe, I might add, which I’m loathe to part with but we barely have a garden in the new place and I don’t want to scare the neighbours.)
Behold! The guy deciding how Ireland's bullshit media is to be censored. Jeremy Godfrey heads up "Commisiún na Meáin" (the media commission) but I seriously doubt he can speak Irish so he probably didn't come up with the name. Who knows, maybe one of these days @matty will start getting snotty emails from him about illegal memes.
His second name is saxon but shows up an awful lot in jewish genealogies...
👀👀 Elon #Musk's #X has fueled far-right disinfo in #Ireland & played key role in riots last month in the country's capital Dublin. The violent clashes erupted on Nov. 23 betw about 200 civilians & riot police in central Dublin as demonstrators vented rage after stabbing incident that left multiple people wounded earlier in the day, incl a 5-year-old girl who was hospitalized with serious injuries.
“To have one’s moral compass questioned by a country currently displacing a million and a half of its neighbours and demolishing their homes while continuing to build illegal settlements on their territory smacks of parody.”
Gift link (the Irish Times doesn’t do gift links but I’m a subscriber and I do):
Are they taking the piss? It’s only being offered to those 50 and above and you can’t even pay for it if you wanted to. How exactly do you suggest I get it?
“[W]hat I’m seeing unfolding at the moment isn’t just self-defence. It looks, it resembles something more approaching revenge. I don’t think that’s how Israel will guarantee its future freedom and its future security.”
A teacher does a play session with them mimicing washing a baby. The kids are focused on the task but the teacher keeps trying to get them talking about the doll's genitalia. Absolutely abhorrent.
This is from a school that's part of "educate together." It was a set of schools established in the late 80s to provide multireligious education instead of requiring parents to choose a catholic or protestant school. Since then they've gone down the slippery slope so far they must be wondering if there's a bottom.
Wix fires employee for Gaza support, tells staff to “join a company initiative to create videos and creative campaigns”, to “support Israel’s narrative” … “show Westernity” in posts, as “unlike the Gazans, we look and live like Europeans and Americans”. It’s “very important to emphasise this in texts and images so that they feel close to us”
Internal Wix chat encouraged staff to support Israel’s ‘narrative’ in Hamas conflict
Looking for an old Irish friend called Kieron O'Connor who lived around the Elephant and Castle from the eighties until nearly two decades ago (specifically Rockingham and Borough). He moved back to Ireland (Cork?) and I'd love to get back in touch. Probably about 65 now.
“The loud noises, bright flashes, and pungent scent of gunpowder that accompany fireworks can be a trigger for people who have served in the military, are refugees of war, participated in protests, or survived a natural disaster … For some, these aerial explosions can trigger a full-body response, ranging from heightened anxiety to complete dissociation and hallucinations.”
“Léan Kennedy, Adovcacy and Policy Officer with Irish Guide Dogs for the Blind, says she has to change her whole daily schedule to avoid fireworks at this time of year, after previously experiencing their negative impact on her guide dog.”