Ireland

Trying to humbly follow Christ as best I can.

[Sean Dineen @dineen20dineen]

If your old enough you'll remember your weekly wages in the envelope

[Robert Burke @robertburke84]

“In Germany, the first €12,348 of income is exempt from tax. After that, the rate begins at 14% & rises progressively rather than jumping suddenly, eventually reaching 42% for high earners. Only those earning more than €277,826 face the top rate of 45%.” https://t.co/pZE1cCOGf3

[Dan O'Brien @danobrien20]

Good piece here on why Ireland is ranked worst-in-Europe on personal taxes. The top German rate is 45%, but applies to income well over a quarter of a million euro.

In Ireland, the government takes 48% on anything above €44,000, which was the average earnings in 2024 (latest CSO figures available). It moves to 52% at anything above $70,000, as the higher USC kicks in.

For around 4 in 10 people, the government takes more of their overtime, extra work, bonuses and pay increases than they do.

[dominic dyer @domdyer70]

Scotland has just done something quietly brilliant for its birds 🐦

New buildings across the country will now have to include "swift bricks", hollow bricks built straight into the walls that give birds a safe place to nest.

It sounds like a small thing but it isn't. Swift numbers in the UK have fallen by around 60% since the mid-1990s, and one of the biggest reasons is heartbreakingly simple: modern buildings have nowhere for them to go. Swifts have always nested in the nooks and gaps of our houses, and as those disappeared, so did they.

The birds themselves make it worse by being loyal to a fault. Swifts return to the exact same nest site year after year, having flown thousands of miles from Africa to get there.

When they arrive to find it sealed up, some will keep flying at the spot again and again, sometimes injuring themselves in the process.

The bricks cost about £30 each. They need no maintenance, they don't affect insulation, and once they're in the wall, you'd never know they were there. Sparrows, starlings and house martins use them too, all species in trouble for the same reason.

One RSPB conservationist put it starkly. In his part of Glasgow, not a single swift bred in 2025, the first time in his 30 years there. He called it "nothing short of heartbreaking."

Scotland is the first country in the UK to write this into law. Campaigners are now hoping the rest follows.

[Ireland @Ireland197719]

@the_beeguy The same in Waterford, I've planned a lavender flower patch this year, a Wisteria, and hopefully a Goat Willow and some Ivy by the end of the year, the plan is food all year round.

[The Bee Guy @the_beeguy]

#theBeeAt3

Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.

11.

Keeping honey bees does NOT help our declining native wild bee populations.
In fact keeping honey bees means more bees competing for ever more precious forage.

‘Bees are for life not just for honey.’

- The Bee Guy

#bees

[Hillbilly @JamesHu27192912]

Jesus died at 33. The human spine has 33 vertebrae. The same structure that holds us up is the same number of years He held this Earth.

We have 12 ribs on each side. 12 disciples. 12 tribes of Israel. God built His design into our bones. He wrote Heaven into our anatomy.

The vagus nerve runs from your brain to your heart and gut. It calms storms inside the body. It looks just like a cross. That’s the power source running through us. Every time your body heals, every time your heart slows in prayer, every time peace shows up when it shouldn’t…that’s Him.

Jesus rose on the third day. Science tells us that when you fast for 3 days, your body starts regenerating. Old cells die. New ones are born. Healing begins. Your body literally resurrects itself. That’s not coincidence. That’s design.

And it keeps going.

Your heart has an electrical rhythm. Your brain lights up when you pray. Tears contain different chemicals depending on if you're crying from joy or grief. The blood speaks. The bones store memory. The body worships whether you realize it or not.

We are fearfully and wonderfully made. We are walking prophecy. Walking tabernacles. Dust and divinity in one.

God didn’t just create you. He carved Himself into you.

You don’t need to look far to find Him. You just need to look inward. He’s been in the design since the beginning.

[Nature Unedited @NatureUnedited]

Today I learned rabbits can swim. Even better: their ears fold back into swim mode. I feel this information deserved to be shared

[Sarah Salviander @sarahsalviander]

Just your periodic reminder that God combined mathematics and art to make the universe stunning.

[Khan Fatima @Khan_Fatimaa1]

Genghis Khan has less than 10 manuscripts proving his existence.
Alexander the great has around 12.
Julius Caesar has 250.
Jesus Christ has over 25,000 manuscripts proving his existence, fulfilled 300+ prophecies, 500 accurate accounts stating the man they saw hung on the cross WAS WALKING AROUND 3 DAYS LATER! stop treating the bible like it’s some fairytale.

[The Bee Guy @the_beeguy]

#theBeeAt3

Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.

9.

Bees are a #vegan evolution of wasps - feeding on #nectar and #pollen collected from #flowers rather than on prey.

‘Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it.’
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

#bees
#nature
#wild

[The Bee Guy @the_beeguy]

#theBeeAt3
Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.

8.

Only about 10% of bee species are social. The other 90% are solitary #bees. They live in individual nests, don’t have a queen and don’t make honey.

‘The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude’

- Voltaire

[Ireland @Ireland197719]

@JamesMelville Binmen

[Ireland @Ireland197719]

@IGN No way, shocker!!

[80sThen80sNow @80sThen80sNow]

McDonald’s Had Some of THE Greatest Glasses and Cups Ever.

#mcdonalds #fastfood #kitchen #glassware #cups

[Ireland @Ireland197719]

@80s_Kidz Predator by a mile, but all good movies

[GameVerse @TheGameVerse]

Gaming as an adult:
> Have a 20+ game backlog
> Launch the same game every night
> Stare at the main menu
> Close the game
> Go to bed

[Ireland @Ireland197719]

@Ben_Scallan To be fair Ben it's a trap, if you have rent allowance and a medical card you couldn't give that up for a minimum wage job, one solution I think should happen is everyone gets the dole, people working too, work on top of that would be rewarding.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

How old were you when you learned this?