Izzy Kamikaze

@izzykamikaze.bsky.social

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Just another refugee from That Other Place.

Cordyline tree surrounded by suburban semis.
Stella O'Malley QTing an Irish Independent story about trans Irish dancers being free to compete in the category matching their gender identity: "This is horribly unfair to girls. Boys have a different physiology which means they will beat the girls.
Panel discussion, "Language, Story, Space" with Brian Lacey, Tonie Walsh, Izzy Kamikaze, Jen McCarron & Edel Murphy. 3pm Sunday @ An tSean Bhearaic.
My Mam (who is 90) looking great - nice hairdo, blue butterfly earrings coordinating well with blue top, blue eyeshadow, sparkling blue eyes!
A picture of the lead banner & placards at the Fairview Park March in 1983, after the release of the murderers of Declan Flynn. The banner says "STOP VIOLENCE AGAINST GAYS & WOMEN." The placards say "THE POLICE ARN'T ON YOUR SIDE EITHER" & "GET YOUR FILTHY LAWS OFF MY BODY."
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The former Fianna Fáil leader signalled out people arriving from "the Congo" as well as "the next generation of Muslims" in a doorstep conversation while out canvassing with Fianna Fáil Dublin Central bye-election candidate John Stephens.
The native birds feast on grey squirrels – which carry a disease fatal to their more familiar red cousins.
"They're very good at surviving in parks and where red squirrels aren't so happy. And so, in Belfast and In Dublin in particular, we've got very, very dense grey squirrel populations, and that's a place that time marks just aren't going to get into. They're not going to get into urban areas. It's not a case of the grey squirrels just disappearing altogether. But in the countryside, across most of the middle of Ireland, we've seen a huge reversal of fortunes."
1. Book: Comics Journal 2022 on Community Organising & activism. 2. Book: The City - woodcuts by Frans Masereel 3. Flier: How to order Ruffian Meat, a new, Irish, horror comic. 4. Flier: Dublin Comic Arts Festival, Sunday 12th July at Bohs. 5. Bookmark advertising little deer comics.
Inside the envelope, the books are wrapped in clean white newsprint. It's a bit torn & grubby now, but when it arrived it was pristine.
The front of the envelope (which is made of brown card) bears my name & address in very elegant handwriting.
Irish Times op-ed by Breda O'Brien, "How will Catherine Connolly represent those beyond her own ideological orbit?"
Screenshot from MSOÉ.ie "Thank you for your generous donation."
Age is the enemy now. Exactly two years ago, he had a stroke, and he admits his balance is off kilter since. After being rushed to hospital by ambulance, he was disappointed the medic performing a neurological assessment did not ask the standard question: "Who is the president of Ireland?" The humour persists.
A list of birds identified (by their calls) in a 3 minute period by a popular bird ID app: European Robin, Common Chaffinch, Eurasian Siskin, Dunnock, Eurasian Blackbird, Common Wood-Pigeon, Eurasian Treecreeper, Goldcrest, Eurasian Blackcap, Eurasian Jackdaw.
ABC - The Lexicon of Love
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The council said the cost of retrofitting its current civic offices to meet its climate commitments could cost up to €400m and that it is in talks to relocate to the site of the former DIT Kevin Street. It is almost 50 years since major protests took place in the capital against plans by Dublin City Council to build new civic offices on a Viking settlement discovered on Wood Quay. The campaign of opposition was ultimately unsuccessful and the project was completed in 1994. Now, after just four decades using the site as its headquarters, Dublin City Council said it wants to leave Wood Quay because upgrading the offices to meet climate targets could cost up to €400m.
Strings of 3 large spheres composed of multicoloured LEDs, strung across Dublin Street in Carlow.
Workers clambering over piles of rubble, as a massive amount of water flows down the street towards Parnell Square.
2m x 2m hole cut in the road, with water spurting from multiple holes in pipes.
Large volume of water bursting out of a hydrant on Dorset St.
Margaretta D'Arcy, writer, actor, pirate broadcaster & life-long activist, outside the Dáil in June 2025. She is under a black umbrella, wearing a blue rain poncho & flashing a thumbs-up at the camera. She is carrying a homemade sign that says "STOP FUNDING GENOCIDE."
Mr Burke was initially suspended from the school in 2022 for refusing to call a transgender pupil by the surname 'they', and "the manner in which he conducted his objection to transgenderism," towards the principle, according to the judgement.
Me, in conversation with President Higgins at a reception in the Áras in 2013.
Screenshot from 15th March 2020, the day I discovered I was blocked by the welfare_ie account
Deputy Joanna Byrne in the Dáil: "The Government has paid millions of euro for asylum seeker accommodation to a company owned by a man who has been linked by the Criminal Assets Bureau to the Drogheda gang feud."
Via Irish Times: Former IT worker jailed for role in Thornton Hall pig stabbings. Man sentenced for animal cruelty linked to protests against asylum seeker housing. Former IT worker Darren Jackson has been jailed for animal cruelty.
Screenshot of CCTV for Drogheda shows a person in a balaclava pouring petrol on the stairs & setting them alight.
A pair of shoes elaborately decorated with shiny studs.
Me, on the train, wearing a mask.
Me, at a polling station, giving the thumbs up.
Tweet from @SexMattersOrg: "We have written to @CommonsWEC and @HumanRightsCtte about @MichaelCJT Dr Michael O'Flaherty's letter about the Supreme Court judgment and the Equality Act." There is an image of Maya Forstater & a quote attributed to her: "Working through tensions between the human rights of different groups depends on correctly defining the groups. The only coherent & workable interpretation of the Equality Act, to protect everyone's rights, is to read the terms related to sex as having their ordinary meaning."
A 7 year old girl (me) in a communion dress, grimacing at the camera.
john_mcguirk on Twitter: One reason @Ben_Scallan is coming across so well on #dinnerwiththeenemy on Virgin Media at the moment is that he really is an annoyingly nice chap. Poor Izzy K doesn't stand a chance.
Stella O’Malley: “Don’t forget, I’m working with children who are autogynephilic.” Lorelei: “When you say children-“ Stella O’Malley: “Yeah” Lorelei: “What sort of ages are you talking?” Stella O’Malley: “Anything from- from puberty onwards. It’s porn induced.” Lorelei: “Does that mean that- So in your-“ Stella O’Malley: “Teenage, teenage. 13, 14, 15. And it’s porn- it seems to be porn induced. Is it porn induced? I don’t know. What- would it have arrived anyway? I don’t know. Are the numbers shockingly high in the teenage boy population? It seemed to be to me. But is this actually just something that was always under the covers? I don’t know. But I don’t think you should have any empathy, and I haven’t asked anybody to have any empathy and I don’t think you should have empathy or sympathy.”
namawinelake on Twitter: Surprised to see our own Stella O'Malley recent legal proceedings catergorised as SLAPP by 'Coalition Against SLAPPs in Europe' Not sure 👇 applies to Stella... "if you have the money, and it’s easy to disguise a SLAPP as a genuine lawsuit if you have a team of fancy lawyers."
Cover of Irish Journal of Counselling & Psychotherapy. Contents listed include: Trans parent - a counsellor's journey; Boundless love - overcoming shame in polyamory; Considering gender diversity in Psychotherapy; Providing therapeutic space to transgender & non binary clients (this is Leonie O'Dowd's article); Gender without consent; Love is a human right - how the British Empire's legacy of homophobia & transphobia still harms too many LGBTQ+ people; The silent crisis - transgender health care & the urgent need for change; LGBTQ+ issues in counselling training - a lecturer's perspective; Exploring the intersection between eating disorder-related eating behaviours & sexual orientation among sexual minority women.
You may be captured by your ideology, I truly suggest you do some reading into this. Here it is condensed using AI. I agree with supporting young families from terrible situations where we can in Ireland. I also, like many want to know who's coming in. Excessive empathy is naive.
Patti Smith onstage in Dublin last night.
My mother, the first woman reporter on any Irish provincial paper, in the middle of a sea of men, at a work do in the 1950s.
My mother and sisters stand behind a table with a Happy Birthday banner on it. The centrepiece is a beautiful cake, iced with pink roses & the words "Happy 90th Birthday, Margaret." Two huge pink balloons shaped like 9 and 0 hang behind my mother. I'm peeping over her shoulder, between the balloons.
3 donkeys happily mooching.
Lough Owel, taken from the window of a passing train.
Tweet from Patrice Johnson IFP encouraging plastic patriots to spoil their ballots by wring in "Maria Steen."
Screenshot of young man talking with his eyes closed & plucking at the neck of his t-shirt. Caption reads "Josh Kemp, neighbour of Tyler Robinson."
More BS from BS on X: "Literally, I've had Dublin barbers & taxi drivers in my life come out with edgier statements."
Ben Scallan on Twitter: Your average construction worker holds views a decent bit to the right of Charlie Kirk.
An isolation valve.
Picture taken from a petrol station forecourt, just outside longford. Two ice cream ads stand at the entrance to the petrol station. A line of trees, a field boundary, can be seen behind the field across the road. Behind these trees, a rainbow lies very low in the sky - so low that it is partially obscured by the trees. They entire sky above the rainbow is a heavy, oppressive shade of purplish grey, like the water in a glass used to clean paintbrushes. Not really visible in the picture, but the fragment of visible sky "below" the rainbow was a very clear light blue.
Texting with 089 944 6082 Mam i'm using this new number now so save it and Whatsapp wa.me/353899446092 I advise you to change your number again. This one is getting reported to the police as a scam. Love, Mam xx
"What day are the schools back? Asking for a friend" under a picture of Enoch Burke outside the gates of Wilson's Hospital School.
Tweet: Racist meeting in Castlebar Co Mayo. Under the guise of an Irish festival. It was a meeting in the ivy tower hotel (Shame on you) & they couldn't even get their own flag merch right. Ivory Coast flag which ironically is in Africa! These made a tax free fortune!
Tweet: Went to Mise Éire festival today. Great fun. Kneecap is a bunch of plastic paddies. The accompanying picture is of a receipt from ...a French supermarket - the Mise Éire festival was held in Castlebar in the West of Ireland.
Tweet: Down at the Mise Éire festival with my lovely wife (heart emoji, Irish flag emoji.) It's so busy here, you should see downstairs (shocked face emoji.)
John Waters & his audience at Mise Éire
Tweet: Brilliant festival. Mise Éire. Video of a sparsely-populated hotel bar.
Tweet: Next year towns will be seeking out Mise Eire , it will be like landing the fleadh for a weekend.