#Healy-Rae

[just-ray]

US elections: if we do not vote for the right candidate freedom and justice could collapse entirely in a way that would take years, if not decades to fully repair, and the country itself may never be the same.

Irish elections:

[dullahandyke]

Why is there not a bus within walking distance of my house. Fucking homophobic. Healy-raes all talk about rural roads n shit but when are they going to give me my own train

[famousdeaths]

John Patrick Healy, known as Jackie Healy-Rae, was an Irish Independent politician who served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Kerry South constituency from 1997...

Link: Jackie Healy-Rae

[alanshemper]

“There is this myth that the party ran like some kind of well-oiled machine, but it was never that well organized internally... The FBI did a much better job of keeping track of our members than we did unfortunately.”

—Dorothy Rae Healy, former CP member, quoted in San Francisco Reds: Communists in the Bay Area, 1919-1958 by Robert W. Cherny (2024), p.114

[zot3-flopped]

Excerpts

The Tortured Poets Department delivers some of her most cringe-inducing lines yet. The title track alone boasts the worst on the record, even if it’s a stab at sarcasm. “You smoked then ate seven bars of chocolate / We declared Charlie Puth should be a bigger artist,” precedes the clunky “I scratch your head, you fall asleep like a tattooed Golden Retriever.” 

Elsewhere, on ‘Down Bad’ she’s unceremoniously “crying at the gym”, and ‘Florida!!!’, an otherwise cathartic, Southern gothic-imbued collaboration with Florence Welch is marred by the line: “My friends all smell like weed or little babies”.

I Can Do It With A Broken Heart’ highlights her unrelenting work ethic that doesn’t falter amid personal tragedy. But, it seems poised for internet virality than anything more substantial, given its restrained verses that plod along before catapulting into a euphoric, Carly Rae Jepsen-indebted pop chorus. Lyrics like “I’m so depressed I act like it’s my birthday everyday” are almost too glaringly obviously written to be lip-synced into an iPhone 13 front camera.

Musically, it’s an album mostly devoid of any noticeable stylistic shift or evolution. It descends into a monochromatic palette, existing in the same Jack Antonoff-branded synth pop as ‘Midnights’, yet struggling to capture any of its brightness.

Most bizarre, though, is ‘But Daddy I Love Him’, which seemingly exists as her response to the backlash against her brief relationship with The 1975 frontman Matty Healy. Their fleeting romance, which seems to be the muse for much of the record, triggered an explosive reaction from her fanbase who were distraught at Swift’s public association to the singer, given his slew of controversial comments (a few of which centred around her soon-to-be collaborator Ice Spice).

Swift seems to be in tireless pursuit for superstardom, yet the negative public opinion it can come with irks her, and it’s a tired theme now plaguing her discography and leaving little room for the poignant lyrical observations she excels at. It’s why the pitfalls that mire her 11th studio album are all the more disappointing — she’s proven time and time again she can do better. To a Melbourne audience of her Eras Tour, Swift said that ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ came from a “need” to write. It’s just that maybe we didn’t need to hear it.

[q-soc-official]

Irish Politicians React To Someone Else Hitting on You

Simon Harris

"d-dont say that to her...."

Leo Varadkar

"okay I'll find someone else too!"

Micheál Martin

"don't be doing that now, aw stop"

Micheal Healy-Rae

"You're a disgrace!"

Danny Healy-Rae

"But who's gonna drive me home from the pub now that drink-driving has been made illegal"

Jedward

"one of us is straight and one of us is gay! We don't know who..."

[taylortruther]

Lmao shouldn’t fauxmoi hate Charlie because she associates (and has defended multiple times) the human scumbag that is Matty Healy? I mean that was Taylor’s huge crime to them, no? (I guess this is more directed at the other anon then you rae sorry I just think the blatant hypocrisy is so funny)

bitch eating crackers syndrome, i'm telling y'all

[loveoldmen24world]

Jackie Healy-Rae

[ardri-na-bpiteog]

Just saw a video of one of the Healy-Raes doing the Apple dance, it's officially dead

[vitaminwatersupreme]

Micheal Healy-Rae, an (independent TD representing Kerry) posting a TikTok implying that he was born out of a bog and would be buried in a bog. It is thought that historically, people buried in bogs in Ireland were regional leaders/kings who would be sacrificed following a poor harvest year. This implies that Mr Healy-Rae believes his death may be at the hands of his constituents following a bad harvest.

Non Aussie followers: This is a free thread to share the most batshit politics moments from your own countries

[ohthatvibe]

This is my springtime Playlist

It’s mainly run on ~vibes~ that feeling of winter turning away, the sun finally shining, searching for the warmth that’s coming, little green sprouts pushing out of the ground. I tried to pick songs that even hit the topics in their lyrics on top of having that vibe of renewal and growth. Nothing too aggressive or fast, or so slow that it is wholly melancholy, slower to medium vibes for that sense of wonder and curiosity.

Nina Simone – Turn, Turn, Turn (to everything there is a reason)

Jesse Woods – Gold in the Air

Glass Animals – Gooey

Afterlife – Sunrise

Wilson Pickett – Hello Sunshine

Anni B Sweet – Take on Me

Corinne Bailey Rae – Put Your Records On

Caroline Pennell – Follow the Sun (Acoustic)

Alina Baraz & Galimatias – Fantasy

Hozier – From Eden

A Fine Frenzy – Now is the Start

Christine and the Queens – Saint Claude

The Well Pennies – Nothing to Do

Louane, Jean-Philippe Massicot, & Tristan Salvati – Avenir (Radio Edit)

Cassandra Wilson – Shelter from the Storm

James Bay – Hold Back the River

Emiliana Torrini – Sunny Road

Josh Ritter – Snow is Gone

Fleet Foxes – Ragged Wood

Linda Perhacs – Parallelograms

BOY – Little Numbers (Acoustic Version)

Simon & Garfunkel – The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin’ Groovy)

Henry Jamison – Sunlit Juice

Waxahatchee – Lilacs

Dirty Projectors – Search for Life

Love You Later – Growing Season

Miley Cyrus – Wildflowers (Spotify Session)

Beach House – Take Care

Melody Gardot – Morning Sun

Healy & Becky and the Birds – Back on the Fence

John Hiatt & Jerry Douglas – All the Lilacs in Ohio

Blossom Dearie – They Say it’s Spring

Caroline Polachek – Spring is Coming with a Strawberry in the Mouth

[just-ray]

Guys this is a bit of a vent i guess but i also think it's actually important to hear.

I think I may be the only half jew in ireland who is a jew from my father's side and not my mothers, so I feel incredibly alone when I say this, and additionally in orthodoxy, I would be to say I am a, quotation marks, "jew", however I am still jewish, by ethnicity. My mother is an Irish Catholic. Both my mother and father were born here. I was born here.

The point I am making is that, not so long ago, I was at the museum next to Leinster House, and I put on an Irish flat cap and made a healy rae joke of some sort, and the person I was at the museum with suddenly turned dead serious and turned to me and looked at me and said:

"That hat makes you look like an American person trying to copy irish people. Whenever you do anything considered to be Irish you'll always look like a foreigner trying to be Irish."

And I just went "oh."

And I never said anything because what would I even call that? Racism? No. I'm white by race. Antisemitism? No, I'm not jewish by Halakha.

So in the end I just called it correct.

So I am here to say that, this goes for anyone that has any other ethnicity but is the nationality of the country they live in and associate with, but especially for Irish people. Irish Jews. Jews that Jews consider catholic, but catholics consider Jews. People like me, if there even are any in this tiny country, but also anyone who relates to it or needs to hear it.

You are Irish. Like. You ARE Irish. Not "you're irish enough" or "you're irish, I guess". You ARE irish. You have a place in this country and you always will. You have a place in this culture and you always will, and when the riots come, the ground will still love you, and that ground will be irish ground. When you don't look Irish the air will still love you and that will be Irish air and you will still walk on irish soil and it will get stuck in the crevices of your shoes.

And you will ALWAYS have a place in this country because you are Irish, and nobody can take that away from you, and you will forever be more irish than anyone who claims you're not because the Irish way will always be to bring people together rather than to push them apart.

[tayfabe75]

The resemblance to acts like Scritti Politti, INXS, the Police, and Hall and Oates also makes [I Like It When You Sleep] feel like the X-rated cousin of Taylor Swift's 1989 and Carly Rae Jepsen's E•MO•TION—despite Healy's brash exterior, his primary mode is lovelorn and yearning.

February 25, 2016: Music writer Laura Snapes compares The 1975's 'I Like It When You Sleep' with Taylor's '1989'. (source)

[taylortruther]

You had a Matty Healy era Rae? 🤭

oh god, unfortunately. this was almost 10 years ago so it really feels like i was an entirely different person back then. i really didn't know any better because i was working through some deep insecurities at the time. i was a very angry feminist 'sjw' in college but i still strongly desired the approval of the types of guys that ignored me in high school (frat boys and sad bois basically)... so i flew straight into the arms of a couple of guys who were edgy and "subversive." they played devil's advocate all the time, said reverse racism against white guys was a serious problem, made lots of ~jokes~ about how sexism benefited women or racism benefited poc, that kind of shit.

soooo... yeah. very very glad i got over that phase of my life but kept and strengthened my values.