Eimear Ertz

she/her

normalise pronouns plz

all opinions are my own. all hot takes are from far more clever people.

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

Cervical cancer deaths fall to zero in young women given vaccine https://t.co/JM73OorKHT

[7/11 Truther @DaveMcNamee3000]

He’s sort of serving Little Edie here

[tori @doritenholm]

A Family can be One Woman and a Drunk Cigarette

[Eimear Ertz @buzzybooby]

Why are some of ye weirdos posting insta stories from inside a sauna? Relax willou

[meredith @noyeahobviously]

Allegations incoming

[No. 1 red wing blackbird fan🌾 @prairiesmoke414]

Under my dictatorship, everyone will know the difference between invasive plants and their regionally native plant species

[Maryam @hell_line0]

Well, when a child is conceived, the DNA split is 50/50 from both parents. Except for one small detail: mitochondrial DNA. It’s passed down only through the mother and never through sperm.
Which means something interesting: all living humans can trace their mitochondrial line back to one woman, not one man.
And every daughter born continues passing that same line forward.
Happy Women’s Day 💐

[mr. joshua @pants]

Working on a new book

[sarah @slothanova]

do something @FBI @NATO @TheTweetOfGod

[Shar A 🫡 @Shar_A_]

Prince Andrew uses his one phone call to call Babestation.

[oatmeal influencer @acechhh]

Tom Brady you are not slick with those photos of your kids. We know why Gisele left you

[ripe tomato @littlecharhar]

how it feels to never use chatgpt

[shiv🔻 @trinisadian]

“i asked chatgpt to create a caricature of me and my job”

[ᴾᴬᵁᴸᴰᴼᶜᴷ ˣ @PaulDock93]

Sorry but making AI cartoons of yourself makes me think you’re a simpleton, you eat custard for dinner with a big wooden spoon, you put the bumpers on when you go bowling, your dream holiday is Dubai x

[@ratlimit @ratlimit]

One bizarre subtext in Harry Potter is how the Dursley’s are implied to be Dominican

[julia @eathedocument]

trying to eat healthy without activating eating disorder sleeper cells

[Ron Iver @ronnui_]

My god, I just realized I'm now closer to 30 than I am to 20 (I'm 36)

[BUCHANAN: Dublin Time Machine @RobLooseCannon]

On this day in 1984 a terrified, freezing 15- year-old schoolgirl called Ann Lovett was crouched in the fetal position, in agony, at the grotto of the Virgin Mary in Granard, Co. Longford.

But whilst this child is certainly innocent and worthy of help, and this is a place where pious people come to seek assistance from Our Lady, her desperate prayers will not be answered that lonely night.

Amid the darkness and cold, Ann will give birth to a stillborn baby. Compounding that unimaginable tragedy which occurred in this dreary garden of Gethsemane, just hours later the teenage mother will also perish in Mullingar hospital.

Although barbaric scenes like this have played out countless times in "modern" Ireland, this instance captured the country's imagination. The 80s were a more media-savvy age than ever and with the added symbolic poignancy of the grotto was impossible to ignore.

The town of Granard, then only a rural village of 1,285 souls reacted in a variety of ways to these horrific events. Ireland, let alone rural Ireland, in 1984 was practically a religious theocracy. The Catholic Church and conservative outlooks born of generations of poverty strangled the lives of people in general but women and girls in particular.

Some locals were aware of Ann's pregnancy. Gardaí have never revealed how a visibly pregnant schoolgirl could leave a classroom on a freezing rainy winter's day. Everyone had failed this girl and baby boy, from the nuclear family unit all the way up to Leinster House.

Four months before that fateful night, two-thirds of the country had voted in an abortion referendum to enshrine the "right to life" of the unborn in the constitution, without adequately clarifying what happened when this clashed with the constitutional "right to life" of the mother. Ann's deceased infant boy was posthumously baptised Pat. The two innocents, the child, and her child, were buried together in the same coffin.

It was obvious this very homegrown horror story would become a religious and political football for parties on both sides who didn't give a damn about women or babies. But when the handful of female TDs and activists attempted to speak out for victims, they were roundly ignored in favour of a soundbite from a bishop, or a geriatric male politician.

Despite Minister of State for Women's Affairs and Family Law Nuala Fennell making a passionate plea in the Dáil for an inquiry, none materialised. However, amid the sanctimonious accusations and assignations of blame real social progress took root.

The closest Irish society came to openly dissecting the issue was on The Gay Byrne Hour radio show.
Hundreds of people, mostly women, wrote in to talk about their experiences and their hopes for change.