Laura Ní S
@ismiselaura.bsky.social
Lefty intersectional feminist with a habit of tripping over her own feet.
Cis Sí/Í She/Her
Books, Sims, history, feminism, tourguiding, storytelling, coffee.
Cúpla Focal, Táim ag foghlaim Gaeilge.
Saoirse don Phalaistín 🍉
📍Monaghan, Ireland.
Cis Sí/Í She/Her
Books, Sims, history, feminism, tourguiding, storytelling, coffee.
Cúpla Focal, Táim ag foghlaim Gaeilge.
Saoirse don Phalaistín 🍉
📍Monaghan, Ireland.
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Presumably the government parties, Sf & Aontú will vote again in 3 days, just in case they change their minds?
What no? That’s not how it works?
#speirgorm
What no? That’s not how it works?
#speirgorm
May 13, 2026 at 10:43 PM
Presumably the government parties, Sf & Aontú will vote again in 3 days, just in case they change their minds?
What no? That’s not how it works?
#speirgorm
What no? That’s not how it works?
#speirgorm
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I said earlier that this is another nail in the coffin of SF. This is unacceptable behaviour from them, after the fox hunting debacle, then the fuel protests lunacy. I'd say they've put long time voters out of their reach yet they still think that they will reap the far right. #SpeirGorm
I've said before that SF have nothing real to offer now other than being anti-gov (because a united Ireland is a while off imo)
It appears they've decided to ape the gov, betray the women of Ireland, ignore the the referendum & now offer that to the electorate.
Baffling & deplorable
#IrishPol
It appears they've decided to ape the gov, betray the women of Ireland, ignore the the referendum & now offer that to the electorate.
Baffling & deplorable
#IrishPol
The bill has been defeated, by 85 votes to 30. Only three government TDs voted in favour, despite having a free vote, with Sinn Féin abstaining.
May 13, 2026 at 8:40 PM
I said earlier that this is another nail in the coffin of SF. This is unacceptable behaviour from them, after the fox hunting debacle, then the fuel protests lunacy. I'd say they've put long time voters out of their reach yet they still think that they will reap the far right. #SpeirGorm
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“Censorship is a hammer looking for a nail and it is never fully satisfied”
Thank you so much to Sam Helmick (ALA President) for sharing their insights with us at Monaghan Peace Campus.
What a fantastic start to the sessions at #LAICILIP2026!
Thank you so much to Sam Helmick (ALA President) for sharing their insights with us at Monaghan Peace Campus.
What a fantastic start to the sessions at #LAICILIP2026!
April 29, 2026 at 10:04 AM
“Censorship is a hammer looking for a nail and it is never fully satisfied”
Thank you so much to Sam Helmick (ALA President) for sharing their insights with us at Monaghan Peace Campus.
What a fantastic start to the sessions at #LAICILIP2026!
Thank you so much to Sam Helmick (ALA President) for sharing their insights with us at Monaghan Peace Campus.
What a fantastic start to the sessions at #LAICILIP2026!
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Happy Irish Census of 1926 Release Day to all who celebrate.
Search the Census | The National Archives of Ireland
Search through historical census records with The National Archives of Ireland, offering access to essential data for genealogy and historical research.
nationalarchives.ie
April 18, 2026 at 3:35 PM
Happy Irish Census of 1926 Release Day to all who celebrate.
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Let's see why clean energy technologies are so much more energy secure than oil.
A single solar panel (450W) costs about €100, same as a tank of petrol.
How many EV kilometres can the solar panel power compared to the tank of diesel?
Take a guess while I work it out on the back of an envelope.
A single solar panel (450W) costs about €100, same as a tank of petrol.
How many EV kilometres can the solar panel power compared to the tank of diesel?
Take a guess while I work it out on the back of an envelope.
In my @irishtimes.com op-ed today I argue that our climate law is the best framework we have for making energy secure and affordable, because it tackles the root cause of our vulnerability to energy shocks - our dependence on fossil fuels.
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...
Hannah Daly: Irish people are again paying a high price for our reliance on fossil fuels
But renewable energy relies on resources that will never run out and cannot be cut off as act of aggression
www.irishtimes.com
March 11, 2026 at 10:40 AM
Let's see why clean energy technologies are so much more energy secure than oil.
A single solar panel (450W) costs about €100, same as a tank of petrol.
How many EV kilometres can the solar panel power compared to the tank of diesel?
Take a guess while I work it out on the back of an envelope.
A single solar panel (450W) costs about €100, same as a tank of petrol.
How many EV kilometres can the solar panel power compared to the tank of diesel?
Take a guess while I work it out on the back of an envelope.
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That’s what Orban gets for banning Kneecap.
April 12, 2026 at 8:06 PM
That’s what Orban gets for banning Kneecap.
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Half a billion euro for 10c off each litre of petrol and diesel for drivers and all the rest on private business. No grants to make evs or hybrid cars affordable for people, no increase in grants for home insulation to save on heating oil, no reduction in the price of home heating oil.
April 12, 2026 at 5:36 PM
Half a billion euro for 10c off each litre of petrol and diesel for drivers and all the rest on private business. No grants to make evs or hybrid cars affordable for people, no increase in grants for home insulation to save on heating oil, no reduction in the price of home heating oil.
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I mean for me it comes down to this:
I trust the govt and the Gardaí to be self interested, including to know who their enemies are. If this was a working class mass movement with potential to significantly change the country for the better, it would have been baton-charged on day 1
I trust the govt and the Gardaí to be self interested, including to know who their enemies are. If this was a working class mass movement with potential to significantly change the country for the better, it would have been baton-charged on day 1
April 12, 2026 at 10:49 AM
I mean for me it comes down to this:
I trust the govt and the Gardaí to be self interested, including to know who their enemies are. If this was a working class mass movement with potential to significantly change the country for the better, it would have been baton-charged on day 1
I trust the govt and the Gardaí to be self interested, including to know who their enemies are. If this was a working class mass movement with potential to significantly change the country for the better, it would have been baton-charged on day 1
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i don’t want my appliances to be smart or connect to the internet. i want them to do one mechanical task for 100 years
April 12, 2026 at 12:34 AM
i don’t want my appliances to be smart or connect to the internet. i want them to do one mechanical task for 100 years
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Two johnnies out with the most protestors are normal people who don’t want to see disruption and the government have millions for ‘other things’ there is of course a flood of support for them saying this. I’d say we are underestimating the support for the fash in Ireland tbh. Growing like cancer
April 12, 2026 at 2:39 PM
Two johnnies out with the most protestors are normal people who don’t want to see disruption and the government have millions for ‘other things’ there is of course a flood of support for them saying this. I’d say we are underestimating the support for the fash in Ireland tbh. Growing like cancer
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"Fuel protesters in Dublin ‘ambushed’ in late-night Garda operation, spokesman says" The spokesperson they interviewed is Christopher Duffy, rape apologist and racist among other unsavory things. Well done to the media giving that yoke airtime! #Ireland #SpéirGhorm
Fuel protesters in Dublin ‘ambushed’ in late-night Garda operation, spokesman says | BreakingNews
Around 20 large vehicles and tractors remained on O’Connell Street and the nearby quays in Dublin at 8am on Sunday, with dozens of protest participants and supporters.
www.breakingnews.ie
April 12, 2026 at 11:42 AM
"Fuel protesters in Dublin ‘ambushed’ in late-night Garda operation, spokesman says" The spokesperson they interviewed is Christopher Duffy, rape apologist and racist among other unsavory things. Well done to the media giving that yoke airtime! #Ireland #SpéirGhorm
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Politically, the word that will come to define these fuel protests is "opportunism".
Look at everything, from all sides, through the prism of that word, and it all makes a lot more sense.
It also highlights the glaring absence of any real, lasting, positive change emerging from this.
#speirgorm
Look at everything, from all sides, through the prism of that word, and it all makes a lot more sense.
It also highlights the glaring absence of any real, lasting, positive change emerging from this.
#speirgorm
April 12, 2026 at 12:02 PM
Politically, the word that will come to define these fuel protests is "opportunism".
Look at everything, from all sides, through the prism of that word, and it all makes a lot more sense.
It also highlights the glaring absence of any real, lasting, positive change emerging from this.
#speirgorm
Look at everything, from all sides, through the prism of that word, and it all makes a lot more sense.
It also highlights the glaring absence of any real, lasting, positive change emerging from this.
#speirgorm
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I’ve managed to string together my thoughts through the rage this week, please read & share 💭✍🏼
#Spéirghorm #IrishPolitics #Fascism
🔗 tinyurl.com/wak45j7d
#Spéirghorm #IrishPolitics #Fascism
🔗 tinyurl.com/wak45j7d
April 11, 2026 at 8:46 PM
I’ve managed to string together my thoughts through the rage this week, please read & share 💭✍🏼
#Spéirghorm #IrishPolitics #Fascism
🔗 tinyurl.com/wak45j7d
#Spéirghorm #IrishPolitics #Fascism
🔗 tinyurl.com/wak45j7d
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Seeing a lot of outrage about the pepper spraying in Cork and yeah, I think it's awful too. But did you miss the pepper spraying of Palestine supporters? The Mothers Against Genocide being reefed by the hair into Garda vans? The Debenhams workers ditto? Did you miss all that? Why is it only bad now?
April 11, 2026 at 9:21 PM
Seeing a lot of outrage about the pepper spraying in Cork and yeah, I think it's awful too. But did you miss the pepper spraying of Palestine supporters? The Mothers Against Genocide being reefed by the hair into Garda vans? The Debenhams workers ditto? Did you miss all that? Why is it only bad now?
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Utterly insane that the fate of millions, even billions of living people is forever handcuffed to the whims of a handful of belligerent idiots with a God complex playing Jenga with humanity for personal gain during the blink of an eye that they're on this planet. The sheer pointlessness of it all.
June 22, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Utterly insane that the fate of millions, even billions of living people is forever handcuffed to the whims of a handful of belligerent idiots with a God complex playing Jenga with humanity for personal gain during the blink of an eye that they're on this planet. The sheer pointlessness of it all.
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once again I must tap my own sign
June 5, 2025 at 9:13 PM
once again I must tap my own sign
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Lots of people who haven't had word one to say about constant public displays of proscribed flags used to intimidate whole communities, even primary schools, for years on end are suddenly going to be frothing about one flag at a gig.
May 21, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Lots of people who haven't had word one to say about constant public displays of proscribed flags used to intimidate whole communities, even primary schools, for years on end are suddenly going to be frothing about one flag at a gig.
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That being said, a massive thank you to anyone able to support artists by buying their work or hiring them - ye are literally keeping us going. The benefit of working as small artists is that we get to see and appreciate everyone who buys a print or supports the work. It's a lovely little community.
The amount of fairly established artists over the past few months revealing they're having to step back from creative work and look for work in non-art fields instead is disheartening. A career path in skilled work where it was possible to at least make ends meet now feels less and less possible.
May 11, 2025 at 9:53 PM
That being said, a massive thank you to anyone able to support artists by buying their work or hiring them - ye are literally keeping us going. The benefit of working as small artists is that we get to see and appreciate everyone who buys a print or supports the work. It's a lovely little community.
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This is disturbing… a single ChatGPT query uses 10x more energy than using a search engine. One 100-word email drafted by ChatGPT-4 uses about a water bottle’s worth of H2O, and enough electricity to power 14 LED lightbulbs for an hour.
yes, ChatGPT is in schools; there are K-12 school districts and DOEs entering into AI contracts, too. so rather than panicking over the death of academia as a foregone conclusion—particularly when LLMs are frequently wrong—why don't we talk about the climate costs of AI?
my latest @teenvogue.com
my latest @teenvogue.com
ChatGPT Is Everywhere — Why Aren't We Talking About Its Environmental Costs?
One estimate found that a single ChatGPT search uses 10 times the energy of a normal Google search.
www.teenvogue.com
May 10, 2025 at 3:06 PM
This is disturbing… a single ChatGPT query uses 10x more energy than using a search engine. One 100-word email drafted by ChatGPT-4 uses about a water bottle’s worth of H2O, and enough electricity to power 14 LED lightbulbs for an hour.
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sort of maybe want to write about it at some point but also ohhhhh my god as a woman and a feminist I actually just really don't want to be so defined by my gender, it's so BORING and reductive, there's so much more to being alive than your gender identity, who cares, WHO CARES
"Adult human female" always cracks me up. Yes, of course that's the definition of a woman. It's just that trans women also meet it.
April 30, 2025 at 10:23 AM
sort of maybe want to write about it at some point but also ohhhhh my god as a woman and a feminist I actually just really don't want to be so defined by my gender, it's so BORING and reductive, there's so much more to being alive than your gender identity, who cares, WHO CARES
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My husband has taught human reproduction and development to the Cambridge medics for over three decades. When people start banging on about "only two biological sexes" he starts with "which sex: genetic, hormonal, or gonadal"?
Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...
Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...
Sex Redefined: The Idea of 2 Sexes Is Overly Simplistic
Biologists now think there is a larger spectrum than just binary female and male
www.scientificamerican.com
April 16, 2025 at 12:03 PM
My husband has taught human reproduction and development to the Cambridge medics for over three decades. When people start banging on about "only two biological sexes" he starts with "which sex: genetic, hormonal, or gonadal"?
Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...
Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...
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What Ireland needs is a housing tyrant, a ruthless builder of housing, prepared to sacrifice any number of ministers to build houses
April 4, 2025 at 10:27 AM
What Ireland needs is a housing tyrant, a ruthless builder of housing, prepared to sacrifice any number of ministers to build houses
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Aiming to be more like these tariffs (fought over by wealthy, powerful men while inspiring widespread panic)
April 2, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Aiming to be more like these tariffs (fought over by wealthy, powerful men while inspiring widespread panic)
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Happy April Fool's Day to all my fellow fools, óinseachs, amadáns, and eejits, we are the confused daughters of the witches that wouldn't learn 🩷
April 1, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Happy April Fool's Day to all my fellow fools, óinseachs, amadáns, and eejits, we are the confused daughters of the witches that wouldn't learn 🩷
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In advance of #stpatricksday, here's a thread of essential articles about Irish stuff which you can present to international friends who wish to understand us better.
First up: a tale of two Taytos, by Róisín Lanigan.
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/4005...
First up: a tale of two Taytos, by Róisín Lanigan.
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/4005...
A tale of two Taytos: How an anthropomorphic crisp became a symbol for Irish identity
How a half-man half-crisp in a suit became a symbol of the Irish diaspora—and an important part of the Brexit deliberations
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
March 16, 2025 at 10:37 AM
In advance of #stpatricksday, here's a thread of essential articles about Irish stuff which you can present to international friends who wish to understand us better.
First up: a tale of two Taytos, by Róisín Lanigan.
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/4005...
First up: a tale of two Taytos, by Róisín Lanigan.
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/4005...