Online resource to help voters spot and report election interference in Ireland
Major election coming up in Ireland next week, and election interference is a real concern. I contributed to this online resource to help inform voters about how to spot and report illegal election interference - please use and share!
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Meta announces end to social issue advertising in the EU – what does it mean for charities?
What does Meta's announcement about the end of political / social issues ads in the EU mean for charities? digitalcharitylab.org/2025/07/meta...
I've just signed this petition calling on the Irish government to not raise university fees. Will you sign too? my.uplift.ie/petitions/ke... @uplift.ie
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I work as an elder and hospice caregiver, which I am oddly passionate about. I can love on them shamelessly and no one complains about my codependence. It's a win-win situation. Many of my caregiving colleagues complain about the repetitive questions and, sometimes reactions, of the elderly, especially when those patients happen to read the newspaper, especially with the current downward spiral of our country — as if these people haven't lived through enough horror... I love my dementia peeps, but sometimes wonder if there's a Guinness Book World Record for how many times an hour a dementia patient can repeat the same question — it's got to be in the hundreds. At least with small children, they ask different questions. Dementia patients will get stuck on one short question and ask it until you can interrupt their train(carousel) of thought and successfully redirect their attention. That carousel is pretty manic sometimes. A couple days ago, I picked up my mail from the post office and drove over to the nursing home to take (let's call her "Miss Daisy") Miss Daisy out for a drive. Before we took off on our road trip, to the end of The Road and back, in our landlocked little town (Juneau, Alaska), I set my copy of The Onion down in front of her. Over our two-hour excursion, tiny Miss Daisy read that front page at least a dozen times and each time she would snicker, giggle, and guffaw, then put it down on the dash board and, a minute later, discover it anew. I think it was the best afternoon of my life. We don't often hear them laugh and when they do, it's the sweetest thing you've ever heard. ... Thank you, thank you, thank you, for the really important work all of you do. You make the world a better place.
I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that.
The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one.
This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.
1/ 🚨 14,000 babies in Gaza are at immediate risk of dying.
This catastrophic threat to human life demands urgent global action.
#GazaUnderAttack
Ask direct fundraising summer school leaflet with theme ‘time to fall in love in fundraising’
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Great to see recognition of the wonderful social enterprise The Together Academy in The Irish Times today 🙌 www.irishtimes.com/health/your-...
Really disappointed to see that the main charity job sites in Ireland still aren't listing the salaries for all jobs. It should be a requirement in order to have the job published at all showthesalary.wordpress.com/about/
Extremely interesting research around perceptions of the popularity of climate action. If you're an environmental org, does your messaging address this? www.theguardian.com/environment/...
If you’re a campaigner or fundraiser, you won’t want to miss this. Join our webinar on the 24th April, where we’ll discuss the five big tech challenges holding charities back.
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Across the country, orgs will be forced to choose between being a sex-based women's service, having to exclude trans women, and abandoning women-only spaces to ensure inclusion. The latter option, which is the only one I'm prepared to stand by, places women at greater risk. Make it make sense.
Jesse did not ‘question an aspect of the progressive message.’ He dedicated his *entire career* to popularizing the idea that progressives are unhinged, anti-science freaks who are foisting permanent surgeries on kids without assessment.
A handy thing - if you put -ai after your Google search term, it removes the stupid ai result at the top
Thanks, appreciate these tips - I'm testing out Mailerlite for a new project and it's looking pretty good so far
Hi pals! We send out a newsletter every so often with digital resources. Latest one went out this morning, it features a free landing page guide, Cookie Monster & more. Read and subscribe here 😊 mailchi.mp/digitalchari...
Yeah it's completely enshittified, thinking I'll move away from it as soon as I have time to migrate. Which is your platform of choice these days?
Mailchimp really has dropped in quality so much, it's so frustrating. Scheduling an email isn't working today, and I've been waiting over 20 mins to connect to their support chat. All this after they *increased* their prices 😒
#jobfairy Communications Director role with @worldpressphoto.bsky.social in Amsterdam, deadline 13 March world-press-photo.homerun.co/communicatio...
Good piece about the haplessness of Trump’s political opposition in the US defector.com/this-is-uvalde
Tweet from GB News host @PatrickChristys: "It’s over for groups like Stop Funding Hate. People see through them. We’re in a new era. By all means ‘keep this going’ but from what I can tell most of the comments seem to be people saying they’re going to do more shopping at M&S!"
On Friday a GB News host announced that "it's over for groups like Stop Funding Hate"...
Since then over *8,000* people have backed the call for Marks &Spencer to pull their ads from GB News: ==> actionstorm.org/petitions/ma...
#StartSpreadingLove #StopFundingHate
What’s a technology that you think is overhyped? I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry. Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto. It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.
Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...
The job market has never been better for shills, stooges, and toadies of all stripes. Linkedin absolutely buzzing if you're a sycophant, a flunky, or even an unctuous little worm
Well, looks like Mailchimp's segmentation is completely broken. The enshittification of everything continues apace. www.ads-links.com/mailchimp-co...
Great campaign and good example of newsjacking for fundraising! Signed up 😍
