The face of a man who knows he’s FUCKED

I recently discovered that when you're an adult, you can eat pancakes any time you like.

How to make pancakes the british way: Step 1: remember it's pancake day Step 2: work all day because you are a cog in the capitalism nightmare machine Step 3: Too tired to make pancakes Step 4: no pancakes for you

When puss comes to shrove...

So funny for him to travel down to Enniscorthy just to be like 'now of course as you know, I can't do anything about this'

Catherine O’Hara didn’t steal scenes she just showed up and ownership automatically defaulted to her

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

Series 1 involved voting off a woman because she only had one hand and a Scottish guy making several people cry by yelling at them. What are you talking about. #TheTraitors #TraitorsUK

Stephen won them the final, but Rachel won them the game. Masterclass, really deserved victory #TheTraitors #TraitorsUK #traitors

two players made Traitors in the first episode winning the game together is honestly incredible game play #TheTraitors #TraitorsUK #Traitors

I LOVE YOU, YOU LABRADOR THAT GOT CURSED WITH THE WEIGHT OF HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS. #TheTraitors #TraitorsUK #Traitors

Transphobia exists to break the powerful queer & women alliance. But when we stick together and have each other’s backs, we win #TraitorsUK #TheTraitors

Yeeeeees! This is why gays and girls are the greatest alliance ever #TraitorsUK #TheTraitors

WOW! WHAT AN INCREDIBLE BOARD OF PEACE!

Some thoughts: 1. The deadline for nominating a person or group for the Nobel Peace Prize is Feb. 1. 2. History professors are qualified nominators. 3. The people of Minnesota have been awe-inspiringly peaceful in the face of state violence. 4. He would be so mad.

Those secret relationships added nothing to the game at all. But a good future twist on secret relationships would be to get a couple who are genuinely friends and in love and make them both traitors #TraitorsUK #TheTraitors

Faraaz doing 2 turns on the carousel and coming out the other end a mastermind <3 #TheTraitors #TraitorsUK #Traitors

FFS they cut Roxy finding out how wrong she was in order to make time for people I’ve already forgotten opening an envelope to react to utterly irrelevant family connections #TraitorsUK #TheTraitors #Uncloaked

Now it's as good a time as any to start working out how to transfer your digital services away from Google or Azure towards something based in Europe. If you run a business do you want to risk your office infrastructure being severed by a trade war?

This is the thing isn't it? Can you imagine any other Taoiseach in our history saying "I accept these people are publishing CSAM but I will continue to avail of their services" out loud for everybody to hear

telling the secret police they have immunity to harm & kill citizens really lays bare the hollowness of decades of right-wing GOP screeching about encroaching Big Government - it was never a problem they had with government per se, just that it wasn't being used to harm the people they wanted to

🚨 Breaking Gardaí say investigations are underway following Grok scandal. "We have received reports and referrals of content on that platform that is under investigation... the process takes some time... it has to be assessed to make sure it's criminal... the people responsible have to be ID'd"

NEW: "Given Ireland's very significant history of deference to institutions... We don't want to allow a similar level of deference to large corporations to lead us into the same failure." @conorom.bsky.social on X and Grok and Ireland's response on @virginmedianews.bsky.social at 12.30

There is no reason the Irish Gov departments can't do simular. Run it's own server here in the country. ec.social-network.europa.eu/about

Excellent Gist. I had forgotten about the Garda visit to Today FM about the Brian Cowen painting. #IrishPol

This is the 'engagement' that the Irish government has been using to justify remaining on X. These are the top replies to a randomly chosen recent post.

I know we are all the frogs being boiled but, when it really hits you, the question of 'should the world's largest producer of CSAM be banned' and the governments response is to just flop around. This situation is absolutely crazy.

All schools should immediately shut down their X accounts if they haven't already - Grok can use pictures they've uploaded of childten they have a duty to protect.

Again, the people who seem to be most damaged by social media aren't the kids - who are quite good at navigating it - but the middle-aged, who get caught up in extremism, fooled by misinformation, trapped by scammers, and addicted to porn. Stop focussing on the kids. Start with the rest of us.

New Gist: What you can do about the Abuse Factory As a follow-up to yesterday’s Gist, I’ve done a list of four things you can do about X without even having to put down your iPhone. www.thegist.ie/the-gist-wha...

In Dublin, on Fenian Street, there's a factory that makes child sex abuse material. You can pay it money, as a subscription, and that's one of the services it offers. This doesn't happen by mistake or because you've tricked or hacked the system. It’s a feature. www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the...

The Centrist’s Arc of Denial 1) Govt isn’t doing anything! 2) Why aren’t we all doing something! 3) I personally will not be doing anything.

We could just join in on this. We should join in on this.

I was one of the first 10 people to sign up for Twitter in Ireland. I left over a year ago. It was bad enough then - it’s black and white unacceptable now. There’s no good reason to be on it and, now, no good reason why it’s not being prosecuted.

I've signed this petition calling for the government to shut down X for producing sexual abuse images. Will you do the same? my.uplift.ie/petitions/sh... @uplift.ie

*posting on twitter* oh ho, I’ve made a wry observation. Better make sure a bunch of pedophiles see it

Fairest amongst the Faithfuls despite barely any airtime, only to instead emerge as an evil mastermind at the halfway point of the series Matthew may well have played a blinder here (Watch Rachel & Stephen do the opposite of what he asked, murder him & try to seduce Jessie instead 😂) #TheTraitors

Promises promises... 😘 #TheTraitors

This is 1) flat wrong on the facts 2) flat wrong on the law 3) flat wrong on the impulse to shield a company from the consequences of its own actions in offering the creation of CSAM-as-a-service This is the sort of morally bankrupt statement that should have its speaker be booed off every street

@newschambers.bsky.social is doing unreal work on this and forcing the attention on it that it deserves

My word. (Again.) Media Minister Patrick O'Donovan: "At the end of the day, it's the choice of a person to make these images... technology is moving so fast... even if the law is changed there's no doubt about... the advances are far faster than law is able to respond..."

Fiona perhaps not quite the mastermind the producers initially thought she was #TheTraitors

What is Fiona playing at? Stephen will be banished anyway, but now neither Rachel nor Fiona can win. If a traitor wins, it’ll be a recruitment - c’mon Jessie! #TheTraitors

i’m glad that AI is automating the mundane, laborious parts of our lives, like playing video games

As Elon Musk's X continues to sink to new depths, there are serious questions to be asked as to why legitimate media outlets, government departments, state agencies, etc. etc. remain on the platform. I wrote this last November.