Ann O’Dea

Is it not weird how little we are hearing about what’s going on in Albania. Worth a few headlines, no?

I don't know who needs to hear this, but yes, you do deserve to treat yourself to a day of exploring bookstores, greenhouses, libraries, museums, cafés, and bakeries.

Respect. Courage of his convictions.

Visits to public libraries around Ireland have increased by two million in the last two years. New figures show that almost 16 million visits were made to Ireland's libraries in 2025, compared with nearly 14 million in 2023

LMFAO -- Trump is holding an event at the White House right now but there's no audio because the press pool isn't there. The Newsmax host notes that this is an example of Trump's attacks on the press "backfiring just a little bit"

Best news story this week has to be UEFA making their feelings crystal clear about FIFA’s complicity and cowardice. Delighted for this man!

It is seriously alarming how many of the world’s wealthiest and most powerful people are just screamingly mentally unwell in deeply toxic, dangerous ways.

Something lovely for the weekend! 🤩❤️ Ancient Egyptian gold headband decorated with heads of gazelles and a stag between stars or flowers. Second Intermediate (Hyksos) period, Dynasty 15, c. 1648–1540 BC. 📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti... #Archaeology

Irish street artist Joe Caslin unveils new 50ft mural ahead of Pride weekend in Dublin jrnl.ie/7081575

Let me be explicit. The massive heat waves we're seeing around the world more extreme and frequent due to human-caused #climatechange. And these heat waves are going to continue to worsen because of our failure to reduce carbon pollution. Just one of the many costs of #climate change.

The auto industry is worse off Care homes and the NHS are worse off British travellers are worse off Fisherman are worse off What's not to like? Brexit - So much winning...

A bill to enforce the EU’s AI Act in Ireland has been approved. Once enacted, the Regulation of Artificial Intelligence Bill 2026 will establish the AI Office of Ireland – an independent statutory body which will act as Ireland’s central coordinating authority to implement the landmark EU law on AI.

Your reminder that fairy tales are full of stepmothers because women once routinely died in childbirth, from postpartum sepsis, or from other infectious diseases and left behind housefuls of motherless children. Stable nuclear families are made possible by vaccines, antibiotics, and safe abortions.

Repair Cafes are part of a new brand of anticonsumerism.

#coygig G’wan Barrett 🇮🇪

I just go a newsletter link with the headline ‘Pete Hegseth’s softer side’. Yeah not opening that, but still hoping it’s ironic 🙄

100 times this!

This is the greatest description of humanity I have ever read.

Sign the petition to protect the laws that protect us - our health, nature, and water. Give nature a voice! #HandsOffNature birdwatchireland.ie/our-work/adv...

🧵 🧵🧵 The constant bitching about Bluesky community and the obsession around it in certain parts - is not really any different than the dynamic around blogosphere/netroots circa 2003-08 (until those spaces became coopted). (1/6)

Exactly this

True. That's how Iran is beating him. They aren't physically obstructing the strait. They're creating a situation where insurance companies refuse to provide coverage to ships trying to pass through the Strait of Hormuz.

Sums it up, really.

From the Grauniad's 'Explainer' article:

happy 9th anniversary to the day we watched Zendaya fall madly in love with Tom Holland in real-time

It’s all falling apart.

On this day in 2003, Apple launched the iTunes Music Store.

New: Manosphere influencer Clavicular is everywhere, and that’s not an accident. A paid marketing campaign is spreading video clips of his controversial antics across social media. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Yup: how low can you go? Try him

Normally I would assume this was a joke

After Anthropic refused to allow the DoD to use its AI for domestic mass surveillance and autonomous weapons, Google has signed a new contract with the department.

Link to a story on this subject: www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...

Good lord…this picture.

What the actual…?!

U.S. importers can begin filing refund claims on Monday, April 20, for $166 billion in tariffs collected illegally over the past year. on.wsj.com/4crMtgl

I say this a lot but today’s pod is worth your time. It’s with Josh Owens who worked for Alex Jones/Infowars for 4 years in the 2010s. It’s a conversation about how the conspiracy machine works from inside, about radicalization and, crucially, about the hard, unscalable work of deradicalization

So sad that a normal, human heartbreaking reality needs to be ‘announced’ but that’s the world we live in 😔

"Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence software, Grok, continues to generate sexualized images of people without their consent, despite his company’s pledge months ago to halt abusive deepfakes after a public backlash and government investigations." @davidingram.bsky.social keeping tabs:

Personally don't recommend these. As the article notes, these properties are typically achieved through PFAS, which can shed carcinogens in your home (which you then inhale) or come out in the wash (polluting waterways for decades). Will try to do a thread on how to treat stains in the wash.

Ah lads, how exciting is this collab!!!! 13 hours. Counting the minutes 🤯

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God knows we were all due some good news!

Really hope this is as good a sign as it appears 🤞

Our mainstream media failed utterly this week to investigate this side of the ‘protests’. This is an excellent analysis, which also points to the good work done by @thejournal.ie

Excellent explainer by @thejournal.ie - which really captures why so many of us who would be pro peaceful protest were alienated from these protests.