Notices by Joan of Contention 😷 (clickhere@mastodon.ie)

Two B52 nuclear-capable strategic bombers took off about an hour apart (3:10pm and 4:15pm IST) from Shreveport, and are now flying in formation north-ish of New Orleans, making a bee-line due east-ish towards Florida.

I'm sure it's noting to be worried about.

Paging Dublin foodies! A table for two has opened up in Borgo in Phibsboro this Saturday, 14 February. 😍

We've had to cancel our booking at 2:30pm this Galentine's Day, so get on it!

https://www.borgodublin.ie/

❤️👩🏻🍳

#Borgo #TableFairy #Phibsboro #Dublin #MastoDaoine #restaurants #food

"Women and children last!" This is worse than those Dartmouth Square scroungers.

The insufferable boomers of the Dublin Civic Trust and An Taisce have succeed in stopping a critical care wing for people and infants in need of specialist medical treatment because of the 18th century "Georgian character" of the area.

"New €100m Rotunda Hospital critical care unit for women and infants denied planning permission"

https://www.thejournal.ie/rotunda-hospital-6955591-Feb2026/

#Dublin #MastoDaoine #Rotunda #Healthcare

@aral I saw a poster ad for USIT on the bus on Sunday, extolling the joys of student summer visas (J1, etc.) in the USA.

Couldn't fucking believe it.

#MastoDaoine #FuckICE

The @dublininquirer crew are looking for help:

"Will you help us with a reporting project? We want to test whether an self-checkout service at a Dublin shop is consistently flagging people with darker skin for extra checks.

"We're looking for people with all different shades of skin to go in and buy a small item, on us, and let us know if you were flagged for extra checks."

To get involved, email lois@dublininquirer.com

#Dublin #MastoDaoine #AntiRacism

Anyone know where someone could find a reliable cloud-cover forecast for Ireland online..?

Asking for a Dub.

#Aurora #AuroraBorealis #MastoDaoine #Weather #WX

Me, marvelling at everyone's Aurora photos, while Dublin's left with peach-tinged clouds.. 😔

#Aurora #AuroraBorealis #MastoDaoine #Weather #WX

Got the tail end of a bitta Borealis, after the clouds finally backed away a bit..

#Aurora #AuroraBorealis #MastoDaoine #Weather #WX #Dublin

@inthehands I'm guessing ICE will deploy signal jammers or similar during specific operations.

@ApostateEnglishman @hellomiakoda @rbreich Well, his bio says he's the "co-founder of inequality media," so..?

The absolutely right decision by RTÉ, along with Spain, the Netherlands, Slovenia, and Belgium. Thank you to the National Union of Journalists for all their efforts. #JoinAUnion

https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2025/1204/1547300-rte-to-boycott-eurovision-song-contest-over-israel/

#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Eurovision #EBU #Ireland #Spain #Netherlands #Slovenia #Belgium #MastoDaoine #España #Nederland

@skinnylatte Holy moly, those booze prices are eye-watering. And that makes sense about Aussie products and shorter distances, all right.

I guess the price is similar here in Ireland now - around €5.50 these days; but a couple of years ago was maybe €2-€3. (Prices are bonkers here, like everywhere it seems.)

@skinnylatte No way, the US-ians thinks it's gourmet!? Ha! Oh, those butter-pushers and their slick marketing. (lol, gougers)

Yeah, it's fairly common here in Ireland. Pricey here too, these days, but just your everyday good quality butter.. 🤷🏻♀️

@skinnylatte Oh wow, that's cool. Flippin heck, those butter-pushers get around! Is it all that popular, do you know?

@skinnylatte Have you encountered Kerrygold butter..?

Good morning, everyone. Oh, look: Today, the @EUCommission launches their plans to gravely undermine our fundamental rights because tech lobbyists asked them to.

https://www.rte.ie/news/2025/1119/1544678-simplification-digital-rules/

#MastoDaoine #EU #DigitalLaw #InfoSphere #Rights #AI #GDPR #DSA #DMA #DataAct

@dzwiedziu Yes, it is.

@aral @Linza @EUCommission

@dansup Oh - if we're an existing user, do we have to wait until then to log in?

@zeank

Hold on, hang on, wait. How am I only now discovering #Monsterdon?? 😦

Oh. Oh I see. That explains it: it's because #Monsterdon is a Yank thing, so it only gets started at 1am. Pfft, as if!

Well.

I CALL UPON OUR GALLANT ALLIES IN EUROPE:

Let us have CET and hygge!!

Let us have metric units of measurement!!

Let us have the REAL Hallowe'en.

Let us have reasonably-timed watch parties!! 💪🏼

Who's with me??

#MastoDaoine #WatchParty