Aoife 🇵🇸

sí/í UCD dublin bus hate account

[Aoife 🇵🇸 @blathcliathach]

A customer was going mad waiting to be served and the foreign manager said to me can you pls serve this lovely lady and customer says are you being smart with me manager goes I’m always being smart and the customer hit the fucking roof I am still in tears

[Morgan @simplymorgn]

the worst part of an interview is the end when you have to invent a fake intellectual question about their company culture just so you look engaged

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

If you had told me 10 years ago that a billionaire would accuse humans of drinking too much water in 2026 because data centres need it to power the AI tech that is now threatening our entire way of life, I would have told you to write a better Bond villain, because wtf?

[s. @sunteioles]

a day out doesn't go by without me noticing this classic male behaviour

[Dr Rahmeh Aladwan @doctor_rahmeh]

Can't sharpen a pencil during Shabbat but can bomb Gaza and invade Lebanon.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Unless I’m working in an ER, working as a paramedic, or working as a firefighter, there’s no reason I should be expected to “thrive in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment.” Just fix the terrible management and stop running your office like a circus.

[Handre @Handre]

Two small island economies blew up in 2008. Iceland and Ireland. Their names differ by one letter, and their handling of the crisis differed by everything that matters.

Iceland's three big banks, Kaupthing, Landsbanki, and Glitnir, had grown assets to roughly ten times the country's GDP by 2008. Pure credit-fueled madness. When the music stopped, the Icelandic government did the unthinkable: it let them fail. Bondholders ate the losses. The state refused to socialize private bank debt onto 320,000 citizens who never signed up for it. Capital controls went up, the króna collapsed, and the politicians actually prosecuted bankers. Twenty-six of them went to prison. Sigurður Einarsson and Hreiðar Már Sigurðsson, the men who ran Kaupthing, served real sentences.

Ireland took the opposite road. In September 2008, the Irish government issued a blanket guarantee covering the liabilities of its major banks, including Anglo Irish Bank, a property-lending casino that should have been allowed to die in peace. The taxpayer absorbed the bill. By the time the rescue ended, Ireland had poured around 64 billion euros into its banks, roughly 40 percent of GDP. The state took on private gambling debts, then went to the Troika in 2010 hat in hand for an 85 billion euro bailout, and accepted years of austerity to pay for losses it had no business owning.

Both economies recovered. Both eventually grew again. The difference is who paid and who learned. Iceland made creditors and reckless bankers bear the consequences of their own decisions, which is the entire point of capitalism: profit and loss, not profit and bailout. Ireland protected the people who made the bad bets and handed the invoice to schoolteachers and shopkeepers.

You will hear economists call Ireland's GDP rebound a triumph (much of that "growth" is multinational accounting fiction, Leprechaun economics, but that's another lesson). What they skip is the moral architecture. When you guarantee bank liabilities, you abolish the discipline that makes markets work. You tell every banker in the country that downside is optional.

Iceland jailed its bankers. Ireland reimbursed theirs.

[Vittoria @vitt2tsnoc]

Young women vaccinated against HPV now have close to zero risk of dying from cervical cancer before 30.

Not fewer symptoms. Not better treatment.

Close to zero risk of death.

That is an incredible and extraordinary public health achievement.🥰

[Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @JPHilllllll]

Once again

[Definitely Nick @other_st_nick]

They should invent a coworker that knows stuff

[Aoife 🇵🇸 @blathcliathach]

We all did overtime and they’re none asking for weekend overtime but today we all got a lunch voucher for the fucking awful canteen 😍😍😍

[IATSE // #IASolidarity @IATSE]

Hey, they're doing the meme

[IATSE // #IASolidarity @IATSE]

Hey, they're doing the meme

[☔ @Whotfismick]

When you hear how much the company made this year but your paycheck is still the same

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

"AI is likely to produce neither a job apocalypse nor productivity utopia, but something harder to measure: a quiet degradation of the quality of the jobs that remain," per Bloomberg

[Seán de Búrca @Sean_De_Burca]

*tánaiste but whatever

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Karl Marx needs to rise up from the grave and remind many idiot workers that trillionaires wealth is just their unpaid wages.

[Aoife 🇵🇸 @blathcliathach]

Just found a perfect grey shade contour for €5 only to find out fucking shein own the makeup company 😐

[Claire #JusticeForNoah @ClaireMadMax]

Yeah we know you would have shot him in the back because he was Irish and the family might still be waiting for justice 50 years later

[🧁 @yunoswarmth]

food can shaped explosive. i’m sick

[justcats ᓚᘏᗢ @_justcats]

literally me..