We discussed SF upthread if you scroll you’ll see the discussion there, I don’t think my views have changed much since then
― ydkb (gyac), Friday, 15 September 2023 09:58 (nine months ago) link
And I guess the abortion vote feels key in terms of young women Irish writers claiming a voice?
― ydkb (gyac), Friday, 15 September 2023 09:59 (nine months ago) link
I still think this conversation from here reflects most of my viewsThe Irish
― ydkb (gyac), Friday, 15 September 2023 10:04 (nine months ago) link
Thanks gyac, apologies for any clumsy conflation/shorthand
― Piedie Gimbel, Friday, 15 September 2023 11:04 (nine months ago) link
Catherine Corless & Mary Robinson both hugely important ito being very different people who are hugely influential on the present shape of the country. Michael D as well.Robinson was out there campaigning against the original 8th amendment and being shouted down on tv by cunts like this:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLWnoQjTNiwMichael D Higgins lost his Dáil seat because he opposed the 8th. Both sit well to the left of anyone we have ever elected Taoiseach.Catherine Corless deserves the highest honours this country has for her work uncovering the Tuam babies scandal, and for proving that official resistance through all the institutions is barely dimmed since the Mother and Baby days.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTqIhIf5KQE
― ydkb (gyac), Friday, 15 September 2023 11:18 (nine months ago) link
Thanks again. Interested in this ancien regime resistance - in the electoral system, would a prospective SF govt be allowed to carry out any reforms to housing, tax structures etc? Obvs as Corbyn voters we saw the full force of the <deep state> unleashed from the military, MI5, the media etc at the very idea of him becoming Labour leader, let alone getting anywhere near power. Would a prospective SF govt be similarly sabotaged?
― Piedie Gimbel, Friday, 15 September 2023 11:40 (nine months ago) link
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_Ireland
― ydkb (gyac), Friday, 15 September 2023 11:40 (nine months ago) link
Irish Times probably the most important media piece in resistance to progress outside of certain limits constrained by capitalism.
I’ve just read Nigel Biggar’s British Empire apologism in the Irish Times and tbh laughter is probably the most appropriate response for now. This section in particular stands out. 1. It is called the Irish Literary *Revival* for a reason 2. What “renaissance of Irish language”? pic.twitter.com/NivUNzcw8q— Liam Hogan (@Limerick1914) March 10, 2021
I mean this racist whitewash of a murderous ethno-nationalist movement is still live on the @IrishTimes website. pic.twitter.com/q7XniWAnW0— Liam Hogan (@Limerick1914) August 8, 2019
Here is @IrishTimes journalist @rmcgreevy1301 casually offering to pay for @MaryLouMcDonald to take a selfie without makeup and asking whether she’s “been at the fake tan”. The Irish Times has been at it for years. pic.twitter.com/JcA1W3VcKX— Paddy Cosgrave (@paddycosgrave) October 12, 2022
Jennifer O’Connell: Michael D Higgins’s blunt refusal of an invitation to an ecumenical service of reflection and hope marking a centenary of partition and the formation of Northern Ireland is no act of healing https://t.co/ARSS5Nlm5g— The Irish Times (@IrishTimes) September 18, 2021
More than two-thirds of respondents back President’s decision not to attend NI centenary https://t.co/YT7hDfVNt3— The Irish Times (@IrishTimes) October 8, 2021
― ydkb (gyac), Friday, 15 September 2023 11:51 (nine months ago) link
as part of the deep state I'll have no further comment other than the answer to "are ministers and their advisors allowed do what they like?" being "no and while we won't get any thanks for that ye should be on yr fucking knees giving it nonetheless" and that's under any govt formation i could mentions
the structures in place that are preventing the housing solutions advancing are baked deep into the citizenship, community, social, capital and political models of the state and the extent to which any govt could advance radical solutions is demonstrated by the fact that FF/FG together cant even achieve the little (FG) would want to happen even with the past masters of "get it done its popular and who'll stop us" (FF) on board
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Friday, 15 September 2023 12:15 (nine months ago) link
Otm
― ydkb (gyac), Friday, 15 September 2023 12:19 (nine months ago) link
obv thats a small point vs the entrenched resistance to all the laudable changes pushed through by the worthies gyac lists there
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Friday, 15 September 2023 12:25 (nine months ago) link
Church way less powerful than it was ofc but I never underestimate the infrastructure and influence that still exists
― ydkb (gyac), Friday, 15 September 2023 12:31 (nine months ago) link
the question as to how a sf majority govt would get on with the rank and file or leaders of its own justice dept, gardai or army is a very interesting one, and imo it flows in both directions
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Friday, 15 September 2023 12:52 (nine months ago) link
this should go down as a classic https://t.co/a9cCToVOyg pic.twitter.com/Ty8DdDc9ed— conn (@carryymeout) September 22, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 22 September 2023 22:31 (eight months ago) link
hello excuse me kind irlxors, i would like to bake an apple cake for one of your deoraí and was wondering -- fruit chunks in the cake or slices on the top? a touch of ginger & clove in the batter, or "mixed spice", or other? if i've no cow milk in, which should i substitute for the custard sauce: almond milk, coconut milk, mayonnaise?
― baths in the belfry (cat), Saturday, 7 October 2023 14:05 (eight months ago) link
im not aware that its a particularly irish delicacy but just my opinion:
chunks in batter and slices atop
couldnt go wrong with any combo of the spices listed imo
i would not substitute the cows milk soz
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Saturday, 7 October 2023 14:28 (eight months ago) link
the internet keeps assuring me that "irish apple cake" is a legitimate phenomenon (tho the particulars remain a matter of some controversy) and the general concept sounds like something the fella in question would enjoy, but idk. is there a more irisher dessert or dish that is likely to lighten the heart of an expat? i suppose i could ask him directly but i want it to be a surprise
― baths in the belfry (cat), Saturday, 7 October 2023 14:51 (eight months ago) link
fair question
i think youre safe enough with this one im sure the internet can suggest a custard substitute my personal experience no help alas
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Saturday, 7 October 2023 15:56 (eight months ago) link
If I think of that kind of thing, I think of apple tart or apple crumble, both big favourites in my house (not with me personally, not a fan, but 99% Irish people disagree). So something like this?https://www.rte.ie/lifestyle/recipes/2016/1110/830148-molly-makes-apple-crumble/
― I’m going to get fined for being right, again (gyac), Saturday, 7 October 2023 17:03 (eight months ago) link
Oh here you go, maybe this is the kind of thing you mean?https://www.rte.ie/lifestyle/recipes/2023/0315/1363477-catherine-fulvios-irish-apple-cake-today/Apple tart here: https://www.rte.ie/lifestyle/recipes/2016/0318/775323-traditional-irish-apple-tart/
― I’m going to get fined for being right, again (gyac), Saturday, 7 October 2023 17:05 (eight months ago) link
agree re apple tart being the thing
or a tea brack
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Saturday, 7 October 2023 18:38 (eight months ago) link
oh what a gorgeous lot of choices, thank you both!!
― baths in the belfry (cat), Saturday, 7 October 2023 21:59 (eight months ago) link
Exactly the kind of mentality I mean when I hate on the diaspora
“Ashamed to be irish”Look at the bioIt’s an American https://t.co/jKZ2BhpwLZ pic.twitter.com/Cr51AJ6DMq— $1000 crab (join CATU) (@punchedmonet_) October 15, 2023
― I’m going to get fined for being right, again (gyac), Monday, 16 October 2023 10:35 (eight months ago) link
She gets mercilessly roasted in the replies.
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Monday, 16 October 2023 11:30 (eight months ago) link
Oh I’ve seen
― I’m going to get fined for being right, again (gyac), Monday, 16 October 2023 11:47 (eight months ago) link
muchas gracias y'all <3
i split the difference between tart & crumble with apple crumb bars and almond custard cream on the side
we're swimming in wonderfully sour little apples right now (it's fall, bears hongry, people gotta strip their fruit trees) so that was no problem but of course the rest devolved into the usual fiasco of "what there's no flour" "but i thought we had oats!" "where's the butter, okay, guess i'll use that gallon jug of coconut oil we bought at the start of the pandemic" etc. and ended up with an almond flour/puffed millet (why do we even have puffed millet) aberration.
but he was delighted and loved it and has implored me to make it again sometime! so i'm gonna chalk that up as another win for ireland, why not 🎉🇮🇪🎉
― baths in the belfry (cat), Tuesday, 24 October 2023 17:39 (seven months ago) link
https://www.thephoenix.ie/article/israel-bloody-sunday-bono/
This story about the Israel propaganda machine totally misunderstanding how Bono is regarded at home is the closest to 'light relief' I've experienced in the escalating and unreal seeming (though unfortunately real) horrors unfolding on every tiny little screen that beeps and buzzes.
Bono looked emotional when dedicating U2 song ‘Pride’ to the victims of the massacre by Hamas at a music festival in Israel near the border with Gaza a fortnight ago. The IDF spin doctors must have assumed that getting a sympathetic Bono apparently on their side gave them an opening to a normally hostile audience in Ireland. Thus, the official IDF social media account shared a video of his comments before tweeting: “This is Israel’s Bloody Sunday.”
― plax (ico), Thursday, 26 October 2023 07:36 (seven months ago) link
I know, the Bono thing was really badly researched. Have they missed the whole Zombie discourse?!
― I’m going to get fined for being right, again (gyac), Thursday, 26 October 2023 08:00 (seven months ago) link
gauging the republic's national mood by reading Alec Baldwin tweets 🤡
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Thursday, 26 October 2023 08:26 (seven months ago) link
I missed the Zombie thing because I despise rugby, but presume it's bad because it's another band with no lived experience of The Troubles expressing similar unhelpful bulshit to what the grandstanding moron Bongo frequently did on stage.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Thursday, 26 October 2023 08:31 (seven months ago) link
zombie is just a spoooooky halloween song thats all
― plax (ico), Thursday, 26 October 2023 08:33 (seven months ago) link
'im going to eat your brains' (guitar solo)
― plax (ico), Thursday, 26 October 2023 08:34 (seven months ago) link
popular in blackrock
Iirc it was about the both sidesing of the Troubles when the lyrics literally reference the tanks of the British army, as though the two were equivalently resourced and supported institutionally…but plax might remember better
― I’m going to get fined for being right, again (gyac), Thursday, 26 October 2023 08:35 (seven months ago) link
xp I resent that as a former blackrock resident (for a year)
― I’m going to get fined for being right, again (gyac), Thursday, 26 October 2023 08:38 (seven months ago) link
i think it's about seals honking
― no gap tree for old men (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 26 October 2023 08:40 (seven months ago) link
But yeah I guess I’m referring to partitionist thinking. I’m not sure I ever saw the “glorious” 7th & its effects on Irish in the north portrayed in something mainstream until Derry Girls did it. Like hey, the Irish in the north literally flee the place to avoid the supremacism, you’d think that might be a conversation point at some stage?!
― I’m going to get fined for being right, again (gyac), Thursday, 26 October 2023 08:41 (seven months ago) link
Glorious 12th. I don’t know why I said 7th, except my cat bunted my phone as he wants to sit on my lap but I have coffee.
I don’t know how foreign viewers saw it but obviously if you know, you knowhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7meZZeYlloIt’s just the fellas that burn our flag and posters of politicians, nbd nbd nbd
― I’m going to get fined for being right, again (gyac), Thursday, 26 October 2023 08:44 (seven months ago) link
I've never had any idea what Zombie, mainly because I've never been able to listen to more than three seconds of it, so I didn't realize it mentioned 1916.
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Thursday, 26 October 2023 08:51 (seven months ago) link
funny how that clip ends with a snippet of the cranberries
― plax (ico), Thursday, 26 October 2023 09:04 (seven months ago) link
https://theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/13/ireland-embrace-zombie-song-rugby-world-cup-stirs-debate-lyrics ofc it was rugby heads to blame
― I’m going to get fined for being right, again (gyac), Thursday, 26 October 2023 09:05 (seven months ago) link
Whoever recorded this deserves a full reception at the Arás https://on.soundcloud.com/2j6upTruly one of our greatest heroes. See also: https://m.soundcloud.com/waalstepofficial/when-youre-in-irish-class-and-you-get-an-idea-ft-irish-aural-guy-full-version
― mojo dojo casas house (gyac), Monday, 30 October 2023 13:52 (seven months ago) link
well lads
― Number None, Thursday, 23 November 2023 20:27 (six months ago) link
well
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Thursday, 23 November 2023 20:28 (six months ago) link
Not great is it
― mojo dojo casas house (gyac), Thursday, 23 November 2023 20:29 (six months ago) link
not great
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Thursday, 23 November 2023 20:32 (six months ago) link
been simmering a while
my mates wife followed home by a prominent far right activist in recent months and gardai action v limited
look i know its not in site character to request a baton charge but
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Thursday, 23 November 2023 20:33 (six months ago) link
lol. Mutual of mine on Twitter doxxed by fascists the other day. It’s quite a thing to see stuff like this and think, hmm maybe I don’t really know how safe things will be moving home 🤙🏻 feels great
― mojo dojo casas house (gyac), Thursday, 23 November 2023 20:38 (six months ago) link
it is tbh a v limited set pf action ito of proximity and occurrence
i think we'll wait to see how justice apparatus reacts to this first
i think covid was a marked lapse in how the state reacted to this shittier gurrier et al element
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Thursday, 23 November 2023 20:42 (six months ago) link