Melissa

Every time I see a perfume add I want to scream JUST TELL US WHAT IT SMELLS LIKE YOU FREAKS

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

Good because that's literally the goal www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

Things that would actually help is reducing the cost of living and helping small local businesses instead of allowing giant corporations from having monopolies and causing them to go out of business. There are some medical stuff I fully can't get in the EU because the shops don't exist anymore

gotta say hats off to all the writers pretending to do profiles of Silicon Valley CEOs just so they can add that one same paragraph, every single time, that demonstrates they're all insane freaks who do not know or like their own kids.

'75% of the far-right narrative volume mentioning Ireland comes from outside the state.'

These protests and today's election wins prove my point that the idea that young people have no attention span, are lazy, and have no media literacy is absolute bullshit. They understand more than us and they're out there changing the world while everyone one else sits on their asses

I need to stare into the distance for five minutes after reading this

Never forget FF and FG allowed & paid for the abuses which happened in the Mother and Baby homes, magdalene laundries, industrial schools, & the Christian Brothers schools. It was considered 'state' and welfare and education. They let the RCC move abusers. #spéirgorm #FFGFailures

Funny how no one's mentioning that the violence is coming from the police. The protesters targeted infrastructure, the police targeted human beings. Now there'll be 70,000 more adults enacting violence on young people and teens

Very proud to announce I am featured in and co-edited the upcoming Rising Stars Anthology along with some wonderful writers and friends! I have a wee Gaeilge poem in it. (It is not perfect Gaeilge but I think it's more important to write and speak in bad Gaeilge than to not write or speak it at all)

“Everything was so quiet. As if nature had realised that a tremendous mistake had been made and nature was speechless.” — Cyril Jackson, teacher at Aberfan senior school, on the landslide of 21 October 1966

I am begging the members of this government to get off X and do their jobs instead of caving to culture war bullshit time and again

From Beth Dobbin’s letter: “To get the welfare bill down, I believe you need to fund research into this spiralling illness [ME/CFS] and help us all get our lives back." Frustrating to think how little has changed since I made this point in a letter to The Times 20 years ago:

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!

Sixty years, tomorrow. They gave the man in charge a knighthood. They made the local community pay for the remembrance garden. No-one held to account. I always think of the dinner lady, Nansi, who shielded five kids with her body and died in the process but they all lived. #Aberfan

Let me get this straight. The Irish government are going to stop Russia from subverting the will of the Irish people by... *checks notes*... subverting the will of the Irish people #spéirgorm

Please sign this petition to end the EU-Israel Association Agreement now. Stand with Palestine. #SanctionsNow www.aodhan.ie/act/

It also makes me deeply uncomfortable that he uses twitter, a csam generator. Both point to the same giant red flag

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/

An estimated 1,500 people are dying prematurely in Ireland each year because of exposure to air pollution, despite the country meeting all existing European Union air-quality standards.

The pigeons that reside at Heuston Station break my heart. Their poor little feet riddled with bumblefoot and stringfoot, kids running after them to frighten them, and grown adults literally kicking them to move them. They don't have it easy at all and it's genuinely upsetting 😩 #speirgorm

I think it's great to portray consent as it is - a complex conversation that appears in a million forms between a million combinations of people. Practicing boundaries between family members who love and respect you is exactly the training kids need to bring that lesson out into the wider world.

“That’s the thing about prejudice towards disabled people. It is not always violent or cruel. Much of the time, it is an almost well-meaning belief that disabled people are not quite like other people. Not as complex. More infantile. Of less value.” - @francesryan.bsky.social 😐😐😐 She’s not wrong.

One of the reasons our gov are so out of touch is because they're still on twitter and don't seem to realise it's 90% bots and not the actual opinions of the Irish people. Or maybe that's giving them too much credit and they're just assholes...

I truly can't recall an issue where the government have so openly worked against the will of the Irish people. Time and again, polls have shown this is a fringe position in Ireland and yet FFG are fighting tooth and nail for it. This represents a fundamental change to how we identify as a country.

Peader Tóibín is so much for child protection that he wants to remove children's right to say "no" to unwanted touching by adults. What a champion for children.

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

What TV show intro songs are no skip for you? Mine are Yellowjackets, OITNB and the OC

Students from Palestine are more likely to be refused a visa than students from any other country. In 2025, Ireland refused 22 out of 164 Palestinian applications for long-stay study visas, a refusal rate of 13%. This year, 114 out of 138 applications have been refused, a refusal rate of 83%.

Powerful speech by Basma Alnamrouty, newly arrived in Ireland from Gaza, at our National March for Palestine on Saturday. "I want Palestinian children to dream of their futures, not survival." #FreePalestine www.instagram.com/reel/DecRtYj...

This was a great discussion on disability representation in the film TV and media industry 🙌

What a weird world we live in - Ukraine hits a data centre deep in Russia - Irish twitter users see racist posts about IPAS centres in Offaly fall off a cliff

“The children who are randomly selected not to receive the birth dose of the vaccine, those who “lost the lottery”, face in their earliest days the risk of contracting hepatitis B, which can cause irreversible lifelong damage.” No words. I am speechless. This violates all ethical boundaries.

Just read an article about an area in Scotland where deer are set to be culled as a response to a rise in road traffic accidents involving them and honestly humans are the worst, stupidest fucking species

A powerful show of solidarity with our Palestinian sisters and brothers at our National March today. The streets are with Palestine! #FreePalestine Video RTÉ

Confronting Complicity: Institutional Failure in the Face of Genocide, a national conference examining Irish institutional and corporate complicity in the genocide in Gaza. Chaired by Fintan Drury. Saturday 28 November 2026, 1-4pm, Derry Registration: www.eventbrite.ie/e/confrontin...

Hidden in this article is the statistic that for 54% of people who access mental health services, money worries is the leading factor

Call me crazy but I don't think executions should be happening privately either

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It's almost like treating the healthcare system like a business instead of a vital community service that helps people, doesn't work www.rte.ie/news/health/...