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Solicitor, consultant, artist, writes TheGist.ie newsletter. Visiting Lecturer. External Examiner in Data Protection law.

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The heart wants what the heart wants. And I want to be gratuitously rude about the US Government.

06.03.2026 23:09 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Your job is to pick the worst actor to play James Bond.

06.03.2026 22:02 πŸ‘ 25 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 3

Every single person since the invention of agriculture has been obsessed with one important question: how do I get the fuck out of agriculture? The email job is fucking great! These idiots are incomprehensible (gender)

06.03.2026 19:36 πŸ‘ 262 πŸ” 17 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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a close up of a motorcycle wheel with the words too reel written in yellow ALT: a close up of a motorcycle wheel with the words too reel written in yellow
06.03.2026 21:40 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Paragraph 37 explains the logical consequences of this simple application of existing principles. If accurately recording gender (as lived) for the purposes of identity is either not addressed or specifically legislated against by a national law, that law is incompatible with EU law on Fundamental Rights (and therefore is to be set aside).
Thus, national legislation which prevents a transgender person, in the absence of recognition of their gender identity, from fulfilling a requirement which must be met in order to be entitled to a right protected by EU law such as, in the present case, the right enshrined in Article 8(2) of the Charter and given specific expression in Article 16 of the GDPR, must be regarded as being, in principle, incompatible with EU law (see, by analogy, judgment of
4 October 2024, Mirin, C-4/23, EU:C:2024:845, paragraphs 53 and 60 and the case-law cited).

Paragraph 37 explains the logical consequences of this simple application of existing principles. If accurately recording gender (as lived) for the purposes of identity is either not addressed or specifically legislated against by a national law, that law is incompatible with EU law on Fundamental Rights (and therefore is to be set aside). Thus, national legislation which prevents a transgender person, in the absence of recognition of their gender identity, from fulfilling a requirement which must be met in order to be entitled to a right protected by EU law such as, in the present case, the right enshrined in Article 8(2) of the Charter and given specific expression in Article 16 of the GDPR, must be regarded as being, in principle, incompatible with EU law (see, by analogy, judgment of 4 October 2024, Mirin, C-4/23, EU:C:2024:845, paragraphs 53 and 60 and the case-law cited).

This is also the position of the CJEU, the EU’s top court.

www.thegist.ie/the-gist-tra...

06.03.2026 21:26 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh so *now* it's the Defense Department

06.03.2026 21:22 πŸ‘ 265 πŸ” 49 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0

This is all going swimmingly

06.03.2026 21:22 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

E Nesbit’s The Enchanted Castle.

06.03.2026 20:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
This war's main mudflap is Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth, a man who achieves the rare feat of being both eager to show off his hard muscles and yet somehow also personifying erectile dysfunction.

This war's main mudflap is Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth, a man who achieves the rare feat of being both eager to show off his hard muscles and yet somehow also personifying erectile dysfunction.

Getting an early start on tomorrow’s Gist.

Sign up here: theGist.ie

06.03.2026 20:32 πŸ‘ 45 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2

β€œConsidering how force can be used against children”.

Hey, UK?

Vote Green.

06.03.2026 13:39 πŸ‘ 50 πŸ” 28 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2

abolish the home office. salt the earth

06.03.2026 13:08 πŸ‘ 112 πŸ” 40 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1
LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER - Eins, Zwei, Drei | United Kingdom πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ | Official Music Video | #Eurovision2026
LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER - Eins, Zwei, Drei | United Kingdom πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ | Official Music Video | #Eurovision2026 YouTube video by Eurovision Song Contest

Ok this is brilliant

youtu.be/niMKvJ-Itq8?...

06.03.2026 08:48 πŸ‘ 142 πŸ” 36 πŸ’¬ 35 πŸ“Œ 59
An aerial view of a hundred freshly dug graves for the school girls while families gather around

An aerial view of a hundred freshly dug graves for the school girls while families gather around

Six days on, a New York Times investigation concludes that the US bombed the school.

175 are dead, 150+ of whom are schoolgirls aged 7-12.

The My Lai massacre for our generation.

The Hague - and Hell - awaits.

06.03.2026 09:23 πŸ‘ 362 πŸ” 191 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 7
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Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...

Reuters Exclusive

"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."

"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East."

06.03.2026 02:50 πŸ‘ 9833 πŸ” 5179 πŸ’¬ 616 πŸ“Œ 623

Add to the file β€œthe Greens leadership may be actually good at politics”

06.03.2026 07:05 πŸ‘ 42 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Meanwhile on Mastodon.

06.03.2026 03:09 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

New Trump Guy just dropped.

05.03.2026 21:39 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Honestly insulting at this point that the government continue to insist this and similar events have nothing to do with their new legislation

05.03.2026 14:09 πŸ‘ 101 πŸ” 31 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

Well, well, well…

05.03.2026 21:16 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

But the Minister for Housing said that insinuating evictions were a reaction to the new rental rules was just misinformation. So all of these people (and the video evidence released today of a landlord's agents saying exactly that) must be wrong.

05.03.2026 16:52 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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X refused stay in CoimisiΓΊn na MeΓ‘n challenge Judge Cian Ferriter said that in his view, lawyers for X overstated the extent to which the platform would be prejudiced in the event that a stay was not granted

X refused stay in CoimisiΓΊn na MeΓ‘n challenge by Irish High Court. Judge Cian Ferriter said that in his view, lawyers for X overstated the extent to which the platform would be prejudiced in the event that a stay was not granted.

www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

05.03.2026 16:09 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Dozens of our readers say they were evicted shortly before the new rental rules came in β€œI received an eviction notice on Friday – just one week before the change. I’ve barely slept since,” one reader said.

This law to increase rents has had the completely foreseen side effect of also increasing evictions (so the landlords can put up rents).

www.thejournal.ie/your-stories...

05.03.2026 16:10 πŸ‘ 77 πŸ” 32 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1
Experts find holes in planned changes to EU landmark online privacy law A major digital rights NGO found serious differences between the EU Commission’s proposed changes to the bloc's landmark General Data Protection Regulation β€” and what data professionals in the field really want altering.

A major digital rights NGO found serious differences between the EU Commission’s proposed changes to the bloc's landmark General Data Protection Regulation β€” and what data professionals in the field really want altering.

05.03.2026 16:02 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Listen, you don’t need to play this lad and hear his very stupid answer. Suffice for you to know it involves the sentence β€œI am too smart to read books.”

05.03.2026 16:02 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

I used to have a job which involved visiting Kevin Spacey’s bicycle once a day, to check it was OK. It was locked in a shed on a mostly abandoned army barracks.

05.03.2026 08:35 πŸ‘ 24 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is another Europe-wide policy that no-one ever talks about.
It's not enough to deport people - they have to be traumatised, devalued and humiliated in the process, and everyone who plays any part in that process is a piece of shit that should be ostracised by decent people everywhere.

04.03.2026 21:45 πŸ‘ 36 πŸ” 20 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Someone isn’t Irish.

04.03.2026 21:23 πŸ‘ 41 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks for all the shares #SpΓ©irGorm #SpΓ©irGhorm

Just trying to get a kiddo into comic con when circumstances got in the way of them getting tickets until they were sold out

04.03.2026 13:09 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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a man in a suit and tie is holding a pen and says unlimited rice pudding ALT: a man in a suit and tie is holding a pen and says unlimited rice pudding

The Doctor knew the Daleks' secret ambition. He tricked them into blowing up their entire home planet to avoid that terrible fate.

04.03.2026 12:53 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Hard to imagine a more inherently fascist food than rice pudding.

04.03.2026 11:55 πŸ‘ 32 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1