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Meet our Solar System's newest dwarf planet candidate: 2026 ED138! Orbiting past Pluto, scientists found it in NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory data from earlier this year. Early analysis suggests it's ~600–1500 km across, one of the largest found past Neptune!🔭🧪 🔗: rubinobservatory.org/news/rubin-f...

Interesting to see media platforms that did not report the MDH speech in Cork at all or did so only fleetingly, now report the denials at length. So here is what he said. www.irishexaminer.com/news/politic...

Solidarity vigil for the Palestinian students from Gaza at the Four Courts this morning. The Irish government must give them visas. #LetThemStudy

Seriously @rtenews! Racist Gavin Pepper was the only ‘local representative’ you could find for comment on the tragic murder in Finglas?

“We will not be in a position to do that [support Lebanese armed forces] in the way that we want to if the triple lock is not reformed.” This is a clear departure from UN-mandated peacekeeping and the Irish public deserve to know exactly what this means. www.irishexaminer.com/news/politic...

Far right protesters can walk into libraries to threaten people with a police escort and block roads asking brown skinned people for ID while the Gardai look on. The same Gardai will happily put a dozen leftie students in A+E for a week during an eviction protest. I hope this helps your analysis

Someone call CMAT, we once again need her assistance.

Someone want to tell Bobby where algebra comes from?

Today is Intersex Awareness Day. I am intersex – and did not find out until I was 26! Intersex people are also impacted by the decision in FWS, but this is much less talked about. Intersex people continue to be subjected to non-consensual medical interventions. Intersex rights are human rights.

The Justice Minister /apologising/ over a social media video about consent the day after he accused striking solicitors of deliberately sabotaging rape cases is quite something

Here is my two cents as a neurodivergent person: it is necessary to teach your children that their boundaries matter, a hug might seem a small thing but is teaching them that their physical discomfort doesn't matter and this has long term consequences. Look at how undiagnosed autistic women are

As a parent I find Peadar Tóibín's comment in the context of a discussion around consent to intimate contact extremely disturbing Will the TD explain why Irish children should be training themselves to be resilient towards forced acceptance of unwanted intimate contact by adults?

Hysterical and predictable reaction to an advert on Liveline and earlier in the Dáil from the usual suspects. Text DRCC to 50300 to donate to DRCC. They really do fantastic work!

I am a grandparent (step-grandparent, if you're all about the blood) in a fairly complicated family, who only gets to see kiddo fairly infrequently. Sometimes they want to hug & sometimes they don't & that's 100% up to them. Hugs are absolutely the right place to start consent education!

Somalian. He's Somalian. www.goodmorningamerica.com/news/story/2...

Ms Abdualu’s mother and her two sisters and brother were killed in an Israeli missile strike in March 2024. Her grandparents, her aunt, and other relations were also killed in the attack. Ms Abdualu was buried under rubble beside the body of one of her sisters for hours before being rescued.

One of the most odious, repugnant and socially immoral individuals to assume public office since Michael McDowell.

Nepal m, Indonesia today nothing has changed but the scale

apropos of nothing: if Barbie Kardashian were cis and white, many of the same people who demonise her and exploit her for spectacle would hold her up as an example of how the Irish state fails vulnerable children in care but she's trans and brown, so she is treated as a grotesque monster

‘Minister O’Brien is “yielding to pressure from the US to enter into agreements with them on importing their fracked gas, thereby supporting their “America First”, “drill baby drill” policy, and undermining democracy worldwide”’ clarechampion.ie/we-call-on-y...

BusConnects is not only responsible for the expansion of public transport services, there’s also a significant portion of future cycle routes tied up in them The congestion you sit in every day is a political choice by this Government Remind them of it www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

It's worth reading the article, and the fact that a civil servant swore on affidavit that something didn't happen when in fact it did happen

**Update on the Fan Mussel discovery** A huge congratulations to the team at Sea Synergy for discovering this extremely rare animal lining along the Kerry coast. #FairSeas

Maybe Arnotts shouldn't employee security guards to beat shoplifters to death? Totally lowers the tone of the area tbh.

Climate To Identify As Bank In Hopes People Will Save It https://loom.ly/kW5VOTY

Meta ordered to pay $25 billion penalty in New Mexico Cambridge Analytica case. nmcourts.gov/wp-content/u...

This should be a resigning matter let's be real

Ireland: There is no place in secure State care for a teenage girl who gardaí believe is being subjected to “horrifying” sexual exploitation by multiple men. Judge wants three Ministers told. Comment: They already know. They just do not see this as important enough to their careers.

Remembering Aberfan when 61 years ago this morning a coal tip collapsed onto the village killing 144 people including 116 school children 💔

We have acquired a number of digital resources to assist with research, providing access to: • 100s of Irish newspaper titles + serials • Full text access to many standard reference works • Records of government + official publication • Digitised books, manuscripts + maps https://ow.ly/Y1Cv50ZUVuR

If you can’t handle me when I’m depressed, you don’t deserve me when I’m vaguely sad

Name them. The granting of anonymity to "sources" who wish to attack a man with a disability who is currently ill is journalistically and morally reprehensible, and it is frankly disgusting that the Irish Examiner - a paper I otherwise hold in very high esteem - would allow it.

This is really, really cool. The URL *is* the document. So you can effectively do word processing in your browser... without it leaving your computer. Or... you can send it to others *in the URL*. This is really fantastic.

Some advertisers in Dublin can try to censor our poster, but they can’t silence us. The EU-Israel Association Agreement is funding genocide, occupation, settler violence and apartheid. It must be SCRAPPED. 🔃Please repost this video & go to aodhan.ie/act to sign our petition. #FreePalestine #Gaza

I'm attending the governments International AI Summit in Dublin. The line up of speakers is overwhelmingly industry folks. Even when the few government officials speak, they simply repeat industry rhetoric

Are public sector workers not also the public? You know what’s really unfair? People struggling and the huge stress levels on “the public” across the board and these guys are wringing their hands like it’s not in their remit to do anything? Unless your Meta, Google, Amazon or run a greyhound track 🤬

It has just turned midnight on Kiritimati Island in the middle of the Pacific and Ada Lovelace Day has begun! The day of 13 October continues around the globe for a whole 50 hours, so you have plenty of time to mark the day! Which women in STEM are you going to celebrate?

Mexico, Zacatecas: Día de Ada Lovelace en la UAZ-2026, A set of short conferences in different classrooms, speaking about the achievements of women in STEM. 13 Oct, 7:30 am - 5:00 pm, free #ALD26 https://findingada.com/event/dia-de-ada-lovelace-en-la-uaz-2026/