Cian Ginty

You’re gonna want to see what the BlueSky guys have decided is too intolerant for you to read.

I've looked at a lot of Facebook comments about the consent advert. A few observations: -- Far more people support the advert than I'd expect. -- Far less negative engagement (laughing faces, etc) than is usual with a backlash. -- A lot of people not liking the advert but then agreeing with it...

Ok, with all the talk of The Cheesecake Factory, I had to finally look it up to get an idea of what they look like. Now I just want cake. (In fairness, me wanting cake is likely the least worst thing that has come from US politics in a while)

The video here may seem shocking, but the polling -- from three diffrent group, including the first from the aChord Center at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem -- shows it's not a fringe view in Israel:

A bus. And yet it takes decades to talk about. Endless reports and consultations. A bus.

A North American visually impaired woman experiences the details of guidance tactile paving at bus stops in the Netherlands -- including joint points that redirect their cane rather than having to stop and find out which way the turn is: www.facebook.com/share/v/1CZC...

I assume everyone who wrote about the hospital bike shed in their columns and talked about the hospital bike shed on their radio shows and tweeted about the hospital bike shed on their Nazi owned micro blogging app are very excited to discuss this

Before and after: 6 years ago, Utrecht restored the Catharijnesingel. Once filled in during the 1970s to make way for traffic, the historic canal now flows again around the old city, lined with pedestrian paths, bike lanes, and a park-like landscape.

Where are the bin scavengers now?

Should Irish politicians lead by example and wear high-vis clothing everywhere? -- Pedestrians should wear high-vis in urban areas, even on the edge of Dublin City Centre, according to the Assistant Garda Commissioner for roads policing and community…...

My piece in @thejournal.ie today about the incredibly frustrating experience of trying to combat invasive plant species in Ireland. In particular, the lack of urgency or even halfhearted support from the state or councils when communities are willing to do most of the hard work locally.

Rudeness eh? That’s what Brenda Power thinks the ad was. Know your betters and be seen and not heard.

This, from the hugely experienced Irish courts reporter, Isabel Hayes, on the Minister for Justice’s performative outrage over an ad about children and consent, is worth reading.

Place the gruntles of the disgruntled against the right of children to *decide if they want to be touched just now* and this isn’t even a debate. The children’s right to bodily autonomy tower over the transient wants of the disgruntled would be hugger. It’s not even a fine balance.

I feel more and more that we're in the dystopian future of powerful companies authorities are afraid to tackle... the kind of ones sci-fi warned us about...

The real world Vs chasing culture war clicks:

One clear reason that the world should not have billionaires or these kinds of large donations anywhere near politics:

Ireland: Minister for Justice appears to have trouble accepting that an adult should not force a hug on a child not wanting to be hugged.

Things like attacking rape crisis centres is what you get when you go down the culture war rabbit hole...

Why is SDCC rezoning other areas, but not a site just south of a train and bus interchange, which will be a future Dart station?

Just checking in on the Bad Place again today... as they are really not ok... look at the state of the replies here...

The position taken by the Minister for Justice and by the Minister for Health expressed to the Dáil and in this statement is that children's bodies are subject to rights of other family members to access to them. If your granddaughter doesn't want a hug, you should not insist on your right to hug.

Turns out a lot of grandparents are snowflakes* *sample size is this afternoons Liveline may not be representative of the whole population.

This is Dublin Rape Crisis Centre's donations page. Now would be a really good time to show your support for all their work - including education on consent. www.drcc.ie/donate/

This non-story is a perfect example of why you should judge people who still use Twitter. I have no doubt this is all manufactured culture war bollocks by socially conservative populists and is the biggest story of the day over there, yet this is the first I'm hearing of it here, in the real world.

If you still use twitter, you are competing for oxygen with Aontú/Independent Ireland. The system is rigged in their brand of screeching anti-woke shite. Why would you bother sharing the pitch with them? This also confirms a government minister still thinks that twitter reflects real life. Worrying.

Ah yeah of course A generation who came of age when the Magdalene Laundries and Industrial Schools were in vogue... They definitely have loads of 'emotional intelligence' around consent to intimate contact...

What kind of statement is it to make that actually the views of the government are that kids CAN be touched without their consent?