An Athenian Christmas morning with a thought for our times.

Can't even write the name of her former commissioner, most weaksauce statement ever, politically inaudible message, etc. Yep, that's the "geopolitical Commission" alright. Washington is quaking in its shoes for sure. Trump really was right when he said our leaders are weak.

The Chief Executive of DAA, the operator of Dublin and Cork airports, is to “take some time out of the business”. It had previously been reported that the battle between the DAA board and Kenny Jacobs could see him receive an exit package of up to €1.2 million. jrnl.ie/6912227

The bend the knee strategy has not worked. Zero belief that the EU will punch back.

Neither were the Nazis that’s why they had lost the elections leading up to the take over and the only way Hitler took power was manufacturing violence and unpredictability Nazis don’t need to be competent when the institutions hand over the power they need willingly all they need is time

Who knew transphobia led to easily to homophobia? All of us. We all did.

🚨BREAKING: GRETA THUNBERG ARRESTED UNDER TERRORISM ACT FOR SUPPORTING 'PALESTINE ACTION PRISONERS'

They misspelt Deficient. Never trust AI.

Tell me again why we can’t call this entire government - all of its components - far right??

Such a grim indictment of our times that the police have to state explicitly that the husband charged in this horrific crime is "white British" so the racists don't exploit it

the government should not be forcing state agencies to have "an AI component" to anything, generative AI is an unreliable and unproven new technology, there's literally no justification whatosever for a whole-of-government embrace of its use

Brussels better be flexing those policy papers with extra spice 😅

Just listened to this piece on RTE Radio 1. The sting in the tail, as ever, is she's a Tr*mp supporter who didn't expect that dealing with the immigrants would mean her: "unreal that someone can be treated like vermin for a petty crime that was committed ten years ago". www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

We’ve all known it for a while, but absorbing anything from US media or academia these days is akin to giving credence to the burblings of this young madam in Pyongyang.

It’s so interesting how threatened they are by the EU. So interesting how stupid they are since their little mice brains can’t grasp the concept of shared sovereignty while maintaining the nation state.

This was their justification "Ms Hughes-Brown's court record showed she had signed two cheques - totalling less than $80 - while overdrawn on her account, during a period of personal difficulty in 2015"

A dear wonderful late aunt had this happen to her. In Lourdes.

A brave survivor speaks on the record. Sami al-Saei, 46, used to be a freelance journalist in the occupied West Bank. He was arrested after working with reporters to arrange interviews with armed groups and was detained without being charged for 16 months. bbc.com/news/article...

Dead Internet theory takes on a new front

Germany signs multi billion euro arms deal with Israel.

So this?

“All the brains in the world and you can’t navigate a fucking pronoun” #pluribus Carol - a hero for our times

To everyone on Bluesky finding out about Walliams and despairing at the fact that "I read those books to my kids" I just want to reassure them that it's OK. He didn't write them.

Every time there's a breaking story about a celeb's treatment of women, everyone in the book world asks, "Is it finally Walliams?" Well, it finally is.

I haven't done a deep dive for Irish connections in the newest Epstein materials, but this is from an email the late golf course developer Jerry Barton – developer of Doonbeg – sent to Epstein with subject line "My Extraordinarily Talented, Outrageous Friend"

Clearly Spohr needs to go. Poor investor returns, overly complicated structure with endless AOCs, brandnew planes with premium seats blocked, confusing and already outdated premium seating, but hey new LHG branding 🤦‍♂️

Exhibit number one billion that Israelis consider all Palestinians to be militants and celebrate when their children are killed

Ireland’s far right is entering a dangerous new phase. A new GPAHE report identifies 13 active extremist groups—many centered on anti-immigrant and anti-LGBTQ+ ideology—and shows how online disinformation is fueling real-world violence, while embedding Irish actors in global far-right networks.

Reading about US politics online is like trying to follow a drama where the writers are crap at continuity: Wasn’t he in prison? She was suing him and now she’s marrying him? He had a different job yesterday! Which blonde is this? Last week God told him to do it and now it’s a sin? Didn’t she die?

“any “felonies” or “misdemeanors” as well as searches for any civil litigation, “lawsuits, bankruptcies… [or] domestic/family court issues, like custody battles or divorce records”, could result in “public attacks”. (The Journal has inquired if AI was used….)” So the Party of Dev uses AI 😵

Ireland is to buy a military radar system from France

Oh wow, just heard that clip on the radio of Micheál Martin getting super narky with Louise Burne from the Examiner… yikes. She was asking questions, simply doing her literal job as a decent journo. Trying to insinuate she has no manners? Ick. What a deeply unpleasant man.

Oh this one doesn’t have MAGA face. Yet. She’ll be fed into the Acme Inc. MAGA machine shortly.

In the aftermath of the Election of Catherine Connolly They really did just look themselves in the mirror, take a deep breath and tell themselves 'we gotta get more racist’

To hell in handcart, and it’s our fellow humans who are tipping us over the edge.

www.anglocelt.ie/2025/12/15/f... FG this time. Anyone else loosing track of all the former FF & FG party members who were elected to office to then break the law or ask fir dodgy favours? #spéirgorm #Irishpolitics

“You guys wanna see a dead body?”

If you had an annoying issue trying to access the World Wide Web and its associated "web sites" whom would you ask for help? A) the closest eye-rolling 16yr-old B) Patrick O'Donovan the Minister for Culture, Communications, and Sport

Guess who got the Brexiteer's playbook for Christmas? #speirGorm

“Choosing your friends is an echo chamber,” the troll screamed miserably from outside the restaurant window at your birthday party-

And darkness turns to light once again!🙌🤩

This says it all. He thought Republicans bombed Dublin. www.thejournal.ie/patrick-odon...

See also the Minister of Health. Who wanted to save €40m so HSE can now go into obscene overspend due to agency nurses being required for a+e & respiratory treatment AND due to the amount of missed appointments. This government is giving FF 2007 before da Bert resigned.

So there is already an ai-generated whitewashing campaign to bury the name of the Muslim man, Ahmed al Ahmed, who disarmed one of the Bondi Beach shooters, and replace his identity with a white guy name and that’s why even a thimble of our potable water powering this tech is too fucking much.

In 2008, The Federation of Poles in Great Britain filed a complaint to the Press Complaints Commission accusing the Daily Mail of encouraging discrimination against Polish immigrants. In its letter to the PCC the FPGB also complained about 50 Daily Mail headlines it claimed were anti-Polish.