On International Women's Day we stand with our Palestinian sisters. We condemn the apartheid, incarceration and genocide that Israel subjects them to and respect their courage, resilience, dignity and resistance. Palestinian women deserve, and will have, freedom, justice and equality. #FreePalestine
![[We see a close up of a young white male, tanned, white teeth, coiffed hair clearly an influencer on social media. It is an image such as you see when social media posts are shown on the news. In the corner of the screen is named a location: DUBAI. He is staring slightly off-camera for several silent panels of the comic strip. His eyes move slightly. He is having a thought.]
From off-screen a newsreader’s commentary comes:
NEWSREADER:
Extraordinary images here
of an expat in Dubai
[The influencer’s eybrows raise slightly]
…Having their first ever geopolitical thought.
[CUT TO a BBC news scene. The BBC newsreader CLIVE MYRIE is talking to an interviewee next to the screen showing the social media influencer’s face. The interviewee’s name is David Jones].
CLIVE MYRIE:
To explain the significance of this moment we’re joined by David Jones, our Expat Thoughts correspondent
DAVID JONES:
Clive, this is momentous
It was caught on film at the end of an Instagram post titled: ‘Dubai Is Brilliant’.
[Pointing at the screen, the influencer’s expression still the same]
You can clearly see in the eyebrows here, the dawning realisation that there *might* be something in the world beyond his dickhead self.
It marks a *huge* departure from all the Dubai Expat’s previous thoughts.
CLIVE MYRIE:
Which are…?
DAVID JONES:
You've Got To Get Yourself Out Here Mate, Everything Is So Clean, I Don't Have To Pay Taxes,
I Am Incurious As To Why I Do Not Have To Pay Taxes, and Spa.
CLIVE MYRIE:
And might we see an expansion of these new Thoughts in coming days?
DAVID JONES:
I think we can expect to see:
“I Deserve To Be Airlifted By A Country I Pay No Tax To”
CLIVE MYRIE:
Mmm.
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[We see a close up of a young white male, tanned, white teeth, coiffed hair clearly an influencer on social media. It is an image such as you see when social media posts are shown on the news. In the corner of the screen is named a location: DUBAI. He is staring slightly off-camera for several silent panels of the comic strip. His eyes move slightly. He is having a thought.] From off-screen a newsreader’s commentary comes: NEWSREADER: Extraordinary images here of an expat in Dubai [The influencer’s eybrows raise slightly] …Having their first ever geopolitical thought. [CUT TO a BBC news scene. The BBC newsreader CLIVE MYRIE is talking to an interviewee next to the screen showing the social media influencer’s face. The interviewee’s name is David Jones]. CLIVE MYRIE: To explain the significance of this moment we’re joined by David Jones, our Expat Thoughts correspondent DAVID JONES: Clive, this is momentous It was caught on film at the end of an Instagram post titled: ‘Dubai Is Brilliant’. [Pointing at the screen, the influencer’s expression still the same] You can clearly see in the eyebrows here, the dawning realisation that there *might* be something in the world beyond his dickhead self. It marks a *huge* departure from all the Dubai Expat’s previous thoughts. CLIVE MYRIE: Which are…? DAVID JONES: You've Got To Get Yourself Out Here Mate, Everything Is So Clean, I Don't Have To Pay Taxes, I Am Incurious As To Why I Do Not Have To Pay Taxes, and Spa. CLIVE MYRIE: And might we see an expansion of these new Thoughts in coming days? DAVID JONES: I think we can expect to see: “I Deserve To Be Airlifted By A Country I Pay No Tax To” CLIVE MYRIE: Mmm. [Ends]
Sums it up.
"Everything is politics...You don't get to make art in a fascist state"
CMAT delivering, mar is gnách. 👏
(Same goes for sport btw)
#Speirgorm
No football for war criminals.
Ireland says no to Israeli football whitewashing in Dublin.
No ICE in Ireland.
I know our Taoiseach is allergic to doing anything about anything, but this needs to be a red line.
#speirgorm
There are so many ways that Elon musk is a piece of shit but having destroyed the night sky by filling it with fucking junk is a crime that will go down in myths and legends.
He should be locked under the ocean for all time for celestial vandalism
Love that an English hotel chain sets up in Dublin and five minutes later is going to the courts to try and shut down a long-running staple of our nightlife.
Hoxton? More like Poxton, amirite?
''Acadian Seaplants, a massive Canadian corporation and owner of Arramara Teoranta, has put in an application to harvest tens of thousands of tons of wrack from huge swathes of the west coast.''
Sign the petition and lets stop this from happening ✊️
#SpeirGorm
my.uplift.ie/petitions/st...
In case this goes over some heads, the 'black and tans' were Britain's paramilitary police in Ireland during the War of Independence.
After years of burning out whole towns and murdering innocent people, many went straight to Palestine to do the very same, preparing the way for Israeli takeover.
One of the best to ever do it. RIP Catherine
The Irish government aiding this is fucking unconscionable. Unforgiveable. History will remember this as Nazi collaboration, because that's what it is
This needs to be played over & over until we finally stop accepting the way things are
#speirgorm
Embarrassing and disgraceful that our government is endorsing and welcoming Trump's colonial 'plan' for Gaza. No mention of Israel not to mind its genocidal crimes. Also completely absent is justice, accountability, self-determination. We support the Palestinian struggle for freedom #FreePalestine
"The world's most prolific child sexual abuse material and sexual harassment factory is now on Fenian Street in Dublin. We don't need a dawn raid, or an Interpol investigation to reveal that address. We can just look it up in the Irish Companies Registration Office."
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the...
Israel is murdering Palestinian children again, as they do every single day.
There is no ceasefire, just brutal apartheid and genocide.
Take Action.
Free Palestine.
Hardly needs saying but with the undressing genAI grimness, would advise anyone (particularly women) to be very slow to post photos of themselves online, and parents not to post any photos at all of their children (shouldn't anyway as kids can't consent to them being posted, but all the more reason)
Free Palestine. Gwan Greta you legend 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
Enact the Occupied Territories Bill Now
Fós ag fanacht / Still waiting.
#IrishPol
Fine Gael, of course, arduous defenders of Irish sovereignty - such as when they unquestioningly implemented Troika austerity, and ratified Ireland's joining of CETA at 1am, allowing private corporations to sue us for protecting our climate, jobs, etc.
#spéirghorm #ireland
Keelan and Dylan breaking me heart here #Latelatetoyshow
Already sick of the 6-7 jokes and it hasn't even started. #latelatetoyshow #toyshow
My friends! Please sign this petition to get proper trans healthcare in Ireland. Although it’s from the Irish Labour Party, it’s important to show that trans healthcare has popular support in Ireland!
Never ever believe in this nonsense zi0 victimhood.....
They have always been the instigator....
#Z1onismIsACancer
Katherine Butler - a nun who was one of the first women in Ireland with a pilot's license
Gráinne Cronin - First woman to fly for Aer Lingus
Madeleine O'Rourke - Dedicated her life to flying, first women to fly a microlight in Ireland and recognised by the FAI for contribution to Irish aviation.
