Graham Norton, asked about JK Rowling in a public interview, gives a thoughtful reply not even mentioning her, and simply says journalists should talk to experts and trans people about trans issues.
JKR responds by sneeringly trashing Graham on here cos that's who she is now
Three hundred bodies exhumed from a mass grave *in a fucking hospital* including the bodies of medics *still in scrubs and wearing handcuffs* and the loudmouths are sucking up all the energy arguing over whether students and other people are protesting the correct way
@BetteMidler
No. Don’t fall for the anti-trans panic fake nonsense. No one is erasing women. In a few small healthcare cases where appropriate they are using trans inclusive language. That’s all.
Throwing a brick with “faggots out” written on it through the window of Pantibar with customers inside should be a hate crime. Scrawling “pedobar” on its walls should be a hate crime. Attacking LGBTI+ people in the street screaming slurs should be a hate crime. Burning…
The fact that the President of Ireland sat down for an hour long deeply felt chat with a fella with a plastic shopping bag over his head and everyone here totally gets it, is one of those things you’d be delightfully hard pressed to explain to foreigners
I see this tweet is doing numbers, and because it also mentions trans people, I'll go out on a limb here and guess that the replies are filling up with people saying awful stuff about trans people or calling me a homophobe/misogynist/child abuser/paedophile
My best friend and closest companion for over fifteen years, Penny died unexpectedly in her sleep last night. She was a beautiful little weirdo and I’ll miss her more than I can say
I somehow stumbled into Scottish Twitter and it’s all landlords threatening to sell their houses if rents are frozen… and the rest of Scotland in the replies cheering
If you haven’t already read this, do and remember Caio the next time you hear some anti-immigrant rubbish.
But also remember that immigrants don’t have to be heroes to be welcome here. They can be as ordinary as the rest of us too.
Deliveroo dirver Caio Benicio was on his motorbike this afternoon when he saw a man with a knife attacking a young girl in Parnell Square.
The 43-year-old Brazilian dismounted his bike, took off his helmet, and hit the attacker with it.
Read more here:
So tired of people who’ve never FOR ONE SECOND in their lives had to worry about merely *existing* in the world, tell people for whom it’s a day-to-day threat, that they should let comfortable people debate the worth of their literal existence
So after a gorgeous Pride and a lovely welcome from Westport, some fascists turned up at the local bookstore to intimidate the drag queen story time. So we decided to go and support the shop and inclusion and say feck off to fascism
A brick thrown through Pantibar's window just now. No one hurt.
It says in Irish "FAIRIES (fags) OUT OF IRELAND"
But we are Ireland
Happy Pride everyone. It's going to be a great day tomorrow, full of Irish love and queer joy.
Be thankful for it, cos some people have neither
I was born in ‘68.
When I was a student I left my friend to a Mother & Baby home where she stayed till her baby was taken off her. Another friend found out at 18 that his “sister” was actually his mother. I was 25 before homosexuality was decriminalised. Dave can feck off
Heard a
@DubCityCouncil
guy on the radio saying the clean up teams all came to work early before their shift this morning and I don’t know why but it made me a little emotional
Gemma O'Doherty has been arrested you say? No comment.
But I would like to take this opportunity to apologise to 2020 for the terrible things I've said about it in the past.
I've never wanted a general election so badly because at this stage it feels like we're being governed by a colonial government who don't speak our language and don't understand or care what Irish people want. They're governing on behalf of someone else's interests not ours
Currently setting up a blockade on Capel St to make sure no one from Inch tries to come in. I’ve nothing against people from Inch but I just don’t think Capel St is suitable for them, and the people of Capel St haven’t been consulted
Kathleen Stock was married to a man before coming out as a lesbian. I look forward to her supporting a documentary blaming lesbians for the “distressing or even unbearable” stories of “lesbian widowers”
Alexa, show me The Right Stuff.
Dolly Parton didn't go to space. She gave *millions* of books to kids all over the world, she funded a Covid vaccine, and built a theme park in her impoverished home town.
(Jolene: "Suck it Alexa")
All these blokes screaming at me for "forcing" the staff to get vaccinated just can't grasp the fact that "forcing" doesn't come into it - the staff are all as smart as they are lovely, and they're eager to finally get the vaccine. We didn't hire any conspiracy theorists.
A few weeks ago I said I thought Gript editor John McGuirk should be shunned everywhere by decent people and he cried about it and centrist dads scolded me, and this morning I’d like to reiterate that Gript editor John McGuirk should be shunned everywhere by decent people
I live in an apartment building in “working class” Dublin 1. Everyone who lives in my building is “unvetted” including all the “single males” and the “foreign” ones. The protests in East Wall are racist.
This is a true story. Almost…
It was the night before the referendum and the problem was she couldn’t find her passport or any other ID! But she was determined to vote, and indeed down her local polling station her face was ID enough!
The sheer SIZE and JOY of today’s
#DublinPride
was a massive, colourful, delightful “F@€k YOU!” to the regressive and reactionary forces that have tried to get a foothold in Ireland over the last year 🖕🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️❤️
The government will eventually be forced by huge public outrage into stopping massive investment funds buying up all the houses, but why is huge public outrage seemingly the only way sensible things get done anymore? It's an exhausting way to run a country.
It's gas the way people who've never been to Pantibar and never intended to, think I give a rat's ass that they now *won't* come to Pantibar cos we decided not to serve indoors till our younger staff are also vaccinated.
Lol. Like... OK great! Knock yerself out I guess.
… Traveller accommodation should be a hate crime. Torching Direct Provision centres should be a hate crime.
There are leftist arguments against hate crime legislation but the TDs and parties now turning tail are not making those arguments. They’re being wagged by the far right
You can't doxx JK Rowling. Every second person in Edinburgh proudly points out to you where her massive house is. They print pics of her gates in the tabloids when she gets in trouble with the local council over her hedges. Like, her gaff is the Edinburgh version of Enya's castle
There are books of condolence for Aidan Moffitt and Michael Snee in Pantibar's downstairs lounge, which will be there every evening from 4 till 10pm over the long weekend till Monday, for anyone who'd like to leave their condolences
It’s mad to think that there are people who bring a packed lunch to work, go to Tesco, watch The Masked Singer, tuck their kids in at night, and are also fine with genocide
After what this school and its staff and students (and one student in particular of course) have been put through this year, this is lovely to see
👏👏👏❤️🇮🇪🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
One of the reasons Capel St is THE best street in the city (not for debate) is that apart from the Spar and the bank, it is all small independent local businesses. You want a rubber stamp, hammer, dildo, cake, sushi, falafel, suit, aprons, dart board? We got it.
And lots of cars
PANTIBAR & PENNYLANE will OPEN for outside and takeaway from 3pm this Monday. 🎉🎈🌈
No bookings, just come along.
It's been a looooong time and we are *so* looking forward to having you back!
Cackling at all the butt-hurt anti-vaxxers who've never set foot in Pantibar and couldn't find it on a map leaving outraged "reviews" on Facebook and Google. Lol. They think the gays look up Google reviews before going to a gay bar, 😂
People shouldn't have to "report" racists on those footballers Instagrams. Someone in Instagram should be scrolling through and simply deleting every account that's left vile comments? Why are they only ever reactive, instead of active, expecting ordinary users to do the work?
Graham Linehan on the streets of Dublin today literally standing side by side with the dimmest and foulest Irish fascists who have taken a break from harassing healthcare workers, libraries, and immigrants, to stand gurning beside him
Imagine having a choice between Neil Young and Joe Rogan and choosing Joe Rogan
Lol
Now for extra laughs, imagine it again but this time you’re a company primarily involved in music
This bar (originally as The Front Lounge, latterly as Street 66) has been operating at this location in the heart of the city centre in an entertainment area for *30 YEARS* and this couple moved in above it in 2021 (!) and are challenging its licence over the music 🙄
A neighbour of one of Dublin's best-known gay bars has told a court his night's sleep was 'decimated' by the venue playing 'thumping' club music and blasting Whitney Houston or Celine Dion's hits
I’m pretty sure if a bunch of repugnant assholes stood outside a hotel in Mullingar screaming “pedophiles!” at German tourists or blocking buses full of French golfers, they’d be dealt with swiftly byGardai. Why is it different when they do it to people who are seeking asylum?
Listening to Caio the brave Deliveroo driver on Liveline now and he described the attacker as looking like he was in the grip of a “mental health” crisis like “he didn’t know what he was doing”. He’s also stunned to hear about the GoFundMe: “I didn’t ask for anything!” Nice guy.
Walking through Arnotts and see I’m passing a big Havianas flip-flop stand and I pause to look at the price and the woman tidying up the stand looks at me and laughs and says, “Yeah, everyone!”
The hardest part about being sued by Gemma O'Doherty is the "exasperated teacher to naughty child" look your lawyer gives you every time you snigger when he reads out "rancid asshole" in his lawyer voice
Lol. 37 racists have signed the "petition" demanding
@hazechu
resign. You could literally get more people to sign a petition to make one of my old wigs Lord Mayor of Dublin.
So my childhood hero Martina Navratilova went from “concerns about women’s sport”, to falling down the rabbit hole of anti-trans hate, to standing with “aryans” and Enoch Powell in spectacular speed. A few short years. And considering where she came from, it’s particularly sad.
Just had to aggressively throw a prick (who was being an aggressive racist to the staff) out of Pantibar and in a weird way, it made me feel good. And of course his pathetic parting shot was homophobic cos these things go together. Fuck these pricks from now till forever.
@OFalafel
Before he died he and his wife used to spend every Christmas at a very famous hotel in my hometown in the west of Ireland, and in the mornings he would bring a “shy rabbit” puppet with him to breakfast to entertain the kids. It was utterly lovely.
You're outraged at a two week quarantine in a hotel for an airborne virus?
Wait till I tell you about the 35 countries with restrictions on people living with HIV! And that the USA had a travel *ban* until 2010.
Transphobia absolutely rots the brain. Cos what everyone else sees is Daniel Radcliffe and his (currently pregnant) girlfriend Erin, but because he’s vocally supportive of trans people this transphobe has decided she’s not feminine enough and must be secretly trans
My own unasked for two cents:
No they shouldn't have sung it, it's unhelpful, and disrespectful/hurtful to victims and their families.
But neither is it supporting the IRA - young people with no memories of the Troubles unthinkingly treat the chant as an ironic post colonial jibe
I cried earlier today. I've never been a crier, but I've cried more in the past few months than I did in the previous thirty years. It's been one year this week since the pandemic forced us to close the doors of Pantibar and Pennylane and it absolutely sucks.
Have just watched six videos of the British rail workers union guy absolutely obliterate a succession of Tories and TV presenters and the fact that he’s called Mick Lynch makes me proud to be Irish. Also, I’d say he’s good crack in the pub.
A lot of people seem to be seeing this for the first time, so to be clear… It was last year. She was shot in the head by an IDF sniper. They denied it and blamed Palestinians until they eventually had to quietly admit it. She was a famous Palestinian-American Catholic journalist
Bonkers stuff. They close Stephens Green and Iveagh Gardens, push large numbers of people out onto the streets, and then close off all the streets heading into town dressed and acting in a way that frames it as a fight. This is the best idea they came up with.
The Garda Public Order unit form a barrier to seal off the top of Dawson street. The top of Grafton street has also been sealed off by uniformed officers
@rtenews
Sitting here on the sofa with my husband, ugly-crying big wet tears at the end of
#ItsASin
.
Crying for how lucky I am.
Lucky to still be here.
And lucky to have known the friends who weren't.
💔
#hivpositive
#luckybugger
I'm just leaving this here and have no comment to make about it at all. Well, except to note that *both* these people have sued me at different times for defamation. Neither successfully.
Hey Dublin Queers. Against this backdrop of a regressive pushback against all we’ve achieved, who’s up for a little disobedience this Pride and we just take back our traditional march route. They can’t stop us. Cross the bridge! No left turn! Take back College Green!
@DineshDSouza
Are you clinically insane? If a Muslim guy killed 40 people in a church in English speaking, Western, mostly white New Zealand, Fox News et al would be gorging on it for months on end
"For 14 years Pantibar has been a valued part of the LGBTI+ community and of Capel St, and in all that time has been a considerate neighbour." -
@PantiBliss
The people suggesting Russell Brand has been set up because shadowy elites are afraid of him and his YouTube channel truth bombs, have really REALLY *REALLY* overestimated how many people give a shit what Russell Brand says