RubyWombat

Forgive the Irish exit, but

[RubyWombat @RubesDaWombat]

I’m going out for a pack of smokes. Catch you between the double rainbow.

[Queer Lips of Truth II 🇸🇱🇬🇧 @QLoTII]

The man beside her

He was in black tie, which he wears like someone who would rather be in a flight suit, and he could not stop looking at her. That is not a line. Anyone who has watched him on these carpets for fifteen years knows the two versions of William: the public one, who does the hand-shaking and the polite enquiries, and the private one, who appears for a second when she laughs and then vanishes again behind the job. On Tuesday the private one kept appearing. He stood a half-step behind her on the carpet, where the light was hers, and let her have it.

[Nux @mherlihy0816]

Someone asked if I was ready for the fall and it took me a second to realize they meant autumn and not the total collapse of society.

[Bear Of The Day! @BearOTD_]

Today’s Bear of the Day is Happy!

Happy is a male Asiatic Black Bear who was rescued by @freethebears when he was only four months old! As a cub, he was severely malnourished, but now he’d be a serious Fat Bear Week Contender (if he was eligible, that is)! #beartwt

[Maggie and 🌈 Scribbles 🌈 @Andy18512371]

A little moment of quiet fuss.... I hope all my friends have this today. Sending love, hugs and my best purrs. #Hedgewatch #Tabby #CatsOfTwitter

[Catholic Arena @CatholicArena]

🚨🚨🚨IRELAND'S ANCIENT HERITAGE IS UNDER ATTACK

The attack against the 5,000 year old Loughcrew Cairns, a millennium older than Stonehenge and the Pyramids of Giza, has highlighted the past 5 years of DESTRUCTION against one of the world's most ancient lands

The Office of Public Works (OPW) has logged over 140 attacks against 80 sites since 2021

These attacks involve deliberate and sinister destruction of an ancient heritage stretching back thousands of years

Such attacks have been committed with graffiti by spray paint, damage from illicit campfires, masonry theft, lock cutting with angle grinders and unauthorised metal detection

Loughcrew has been targeted on numerous occasions, with the ancient tombs covered in graffiti and thousands of years old Neolithic carvings damaged and covered over with graffiti

In 2023, 5,300 year old Carrowkeel Passage Tombs were broken into and 'Zeus' and 'Odin' were written over the ancient carvings. They also knocked over the cairns outside the tomb.

The ​Lia Fáil (Stone of Destiny) at the Hill of Tara, the site of the High King of Ireland, has also been regularly targeted. In 2023, it was spray painted with the word 'fake', in 2021 it was targeted by being smeared in paint.

In 2023, a fire was lit inside the Deerstone in Glendalough, causing 'thermal shock' to the Medieval Pilgrimage site

In one of the most horrific attacks, the nearly 1,000 year old remains of a Crusader in Saint Michan's Church in Dublin were deliberately set on fire.

There have also been regular attacks on churches, graveyards and castles

If the trend continues, the Irish people, one of the oldest civilisations in the world, will have many traces of their irreplaceable and incomparable ancient heritage erased before the end of the century

[The Laymans Take @thelaymanstake]

This is a sick degradation of our culture and identity by a openly hostile force and I'm tired of pretending it's not.

[The AI Renaissance @AnAIRenaissance]

@Largent332 @BodycamCops2sx Show the ID, it gets logged you were investigated for whatever, then the AI systems use it to increase your crime score so you eventually get tagged as someone to surveil

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

My favorite UNGA moment ever:

Haiti's president demands "respect" for the country, then drinks water directly from an enormous pitcher

[J. Dixon Beck @johndixonbeck]

@atrupar

[andi (twocents.com) @Nexuist]

About two weeks ago a Florida pelican walked a quarter mile to a NOAA lab wrapped in fishing line and carrying a barbed hook in its wing, politely tapped on the door until it was discovered by scientists, patiently stood still while they operated on it, and then flew away.

[P (Lady P of Soggy Bottom) 📎🇮🇪 🐟🇺🇦🇪🇺💙😷 @PShootLFWW]

@XochitlHinojosa @TheJusticeDept Just saying ……

[Keep Looking Up @SandyEverett777]

This is why I could never work at an ice cream shop. I would do this👇🤣🤣🤣

[RubyWombat @RubesDaWombat]

@sunsun_dondon I’d say “yes”!

[Annie @AnnieForTruth]

🤔🤔???

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Bring back the Rose Garden again.

[TheJournal.ie @thejournal_ie]

The prehistoric cemetery at Loughcrew has been 'seriously damaged' by blunt force and graffiti.

The site is one of main passage tomb cemeteries in the country.
https://t.co/UVhZv3uwV0

[RubyWombat @RubesDaWombat]

@TadhgCalbhaigh Not to split hairs, but housing is not just unaffordable. It’s non-existent. But Fine Gael luvs ya! And they’re soooo hip.

[Tadhg Mac an Chalbhaigh 🇮🇪 @TadhgCalbhaigh]

Irish society is falling apart at the seams.

Housing is unaffordable.

Youth are forced to emigrate.

Communities changed beyond recognition by mass immigration.

What does your average Fine Gael TD do?

Make cringe TikToks.

[RubyWombat @RubesDaWombat]

@Bellagiotime

[RubyWombat @RubesDaWombat]

@nancytsidley He burdens very small children with stories of terminally ill kids so they won’t be grumpy? Tell me you know nothing about kids without telling me you have no clue how to raise a mentally healthy child.