It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them. They should feel bad.

I wish Northern Ireland and the Republic had their own independent military alliance because we could call it NAYTO.

Ireland picking a President: ‘Someone thoughtful and wise, please, a noble spirit who reflects our better selves.’ Ireland picking a Taoiseach: ‘What can you show me in a Shameless Chancer?’

EMPLOYER: You have to start using AI. WORKER: Why? EMPLOYER: I really don't know. But start right away.

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy: www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Social media apps all share a fatal flaw. They're by definition subject to the sort of people who get to the top of technology companies.

New Gist: Jim Bows Out “For anyone who has ever had to deal with a landlord who took their cash this is the stuff of legend. You would let the monkey paw get you for it. “Who needs a soul?“, Faust would have said as he traded for this outcome.” www.thegist.ie/the-gist-jim...

Christ. He's going to win, isn't he.

Ordered too much Chinese food for one person so had to do the whole charade of pretending there were other people in the house too, but oversold it and accidentally crafted a one act play about strained friendships and growing apart that is being heavily tipped for awards.

Microsoft shoved their AI Copilot into everything in Windows 11. Which lead to an increase in Windows 10 use. So they announced they'd stop support for Windows 10, but its usage was still strong. So they started to put Copilot into Windows 10. Windows 7 use is surging 5x now. AI is product poison.

Bin? They could get in the bin? I think a good option is bin.

It's not often you see a promising sentence burst into flames quite this badly.

is anybody else's amulet glowing

Wow, Dublin's MetroLink finally has planning permission. None of us will live to see it actually built, of course, but let's try to be happy for our great-great-grandchildren.

Given time, I bet she could have taught him some simple signs.

Peaceful activists are dragged off boats at gunpoint for trying to feed Gaza. But the war criminals committing the genocide get applause in parliaments, billions in funding, and handshakes from presidents. We are watching pure evil live streamed.

I'm running a Beatles pun contest, and I'm getting Paul McCartney to heyjudicate.

Shorter Bill Burr: 'Well, they didn't decapitate anyone for being gay in front of ME.'

Watching Suspiria on the BFI Player it asks, "Are you over 18?" No, I'm a ten-year-old with a subscription to the BFI Player.

Trump looks like shit. I know Trump always looks like shit but Trump looks LIKE SHIT.

Genuinely baffled by the wailing and pearl clutching about Maria Steen not being on the ballot. Why are people acting like she was basically owed the nomination, or we are obliged to have her on the ballot? She started her campaign like 5 minutes before the deadline and failed, she is owed nothing.

Awful bang of Mrs Doyle about her here, appropriately enough.

Watching Ricky Gervais go dead silent about the right of a comedian to offend anyone they want now that it means more than pissing off college students is gonna be the first funny thing he’s done since The Office ended.

Yeah, me too.

Well, that’s going to be unpleasant.

Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should

When you can’t finish your terrible president so you wrap it up and put it in the fridge for later.

I have no mathematical talent at all and yet I got this calculator to tell me the square root of 6724. Where's my article?

Because everything is shit I would like to report that I just chatted with Nile Rodgers while boarding a flight and he was extremely nice. So let us not lose hope. Also his trousers were amazing.

Giuliani being in the news has reminded me of this tiny sliver of pure joy. Yes, I know you've seen it before. See it again. www.youtube.com/shorts/UPOrB...

JD Vance would not be ‘worse’. People love Trump. It doesn’t matter that they’re stupid or evil or both. The point is, they love him. No one even likes JD Vance. JD Vance’s WIFE doesn’t like JD Vance.

Imagine if you kept counting and one day you got to umpteen. Whoa.

My dad caught me shooting at a wolf when I was little, and to teach me a lesson he made me smoke the whole pack.

The mental health benefits of not knowing any history right now must be massive. Moving through your day with total equanimity. What happens next? Who knows? Maybe something good

Wow, Joker’s really phoning it in these days.

Life makes better sense and is much more fun if every time you hear the term 'agentic AI', you replace it in your head with 'magic'.

[Second day as a Kamikaze pilot] Boss: Can I see you in my office for a second, Bryn?

This is what the Special Relationship is these days. A competition to see who can out-fash the other. May they all die roarin'.

Every time some AI dingus with a headset mic breathlessly tells us what’s coming next, I think of those Victorian images of the year 2000, where a mutton-chopped guy in top hat and tails is getting about on a bicycle attached to a hot air balloon.

Epstein and Maxwell in a few months

[half listening] omg that's crazy, your honor

You really aren't going to get a better example of how the British media works than the contrasting coverage of two Irish authors this week. The brave and sensitive transphobe John Boyne vs the vile and hateful opponent of genocide Sally Rooney.

A superb summation of the weird dream we're all having. Genuinely made me feel better. Or at least, that I'm not going mad.

Why do they all look like this? Like they just finished sniffing a seat.

Perhaps, one day, schoolkids will study this squalid little chapter in British terror-panic history. When they do, I hope these two headlines from today are printed side by side, with clear annotation of which individual faced more outrage and condemnation.

* buys Sally Rooney’s books again *