I keep saying this but I think a key thing to understand about the current political moment is that there are no conservatives any more. Conservatism is dead. The right that is in the ascendancy now is radical, destructive, anti-conservative.

I turned the corner and saw this and the first thing out of my mouth was oh my gosh that’s fucking awesome. What’s foaming in Portuguese again?

The particular distrust required for constant AI detection deeply disturbs the trust that constitutes an effective student-teacher relationship. So as much as possible I take Lewis' approach. But students today see a choice between (hard) free work and no work. A far less staggering calculus is made

an underrated benefit of being consistently prolife is that eugenics is just simply shut down

This is a great thread and not just relevant to preaching:

The Irish Times asked me to put a bit of a response together to the Pope's so-called 'AI encyclical'

is it weird how these guys are so proud of the part they played in rebellion against the British crown?

I examined a phd thesis here this week. Walking around campus I was struck by the physical decline in the campus. Compared to even the most humble Irish university, it is clear that it is starved of the funds required to keep it alive. An ironically dumb grand act of self sabotage from the UK

An important step for *real* ebike makers to follow

After four years as director, I'm moving on from @chrleft.bsky.social this summer. If you've ever thought you'd like to apply for this mad, brilliant, unique job of mine, I'd be very happy to chat about it. Details here: www.w4mpjobs.org/JobDetails.a...

People keep telling me "Soc Dems are a left wing party" but this is literally stuff my FG councilors could be embarrassed to spout irishcycle.com/2026/05/29/c...

"Why are people so negative about the economy?" Consider this. There are two possibilities: 1) He's right and my livelihood is screwed. Maybe not 18 months but soon. 2) He's full of shit, it won't happen, and AI is a giant bubble that will crash the economy. Why would I feel good about either?

Emmeline Pankhurst was, though a feminist, a far-right loon: a passionate British imperialist, a deep-dyed eugenicist who argued for "eugenic race betterment" & that the disabled and "feeble minded" should be sterilised. She'd fit right in on today's Question Time.

Me and my boss, Niall, dared to offer some hot takes on the new Papal teaching about living well in an algorithmic age.

FOI is basically a waste of time in Ireland, because public bodies just brazenly give completely ridiculous responses, probably knowing the Office of the Information Commissioner is too overwhelmed to effectively discipline them for this. 3/

If you are having a tough day, it might help to remember that Gillian Welch exists and you can go listen to her music anytime you like

I do not regret to inform you that even we - a nimbyified car brained city - will win the war on cars

In the SpaceX IPO filing, one thing that jumps out is how vulnerable Musk is to changes in laws and regulations. Time and again, risk factors cite adverse legal rulings, licenses, fines, data protection laws, legislation—all deemed as potentially fatal to his profitability. Makes you think...

The last thing you see before opening ChatGPT

Once again, I have to tap the sign and remind you that when you state your political opinion, it is ideology, or mere activism, but when I state my political opinion, it is solid, calculated reason based on evidence and generous in its intent. Your attention to these matters is appreciated.

There is a glorious implicit environmental consciousness in the early Christian thinkers' animosity to wealth. Here's Basil: The rich should "imitate the earth; bring forth fruit as it does... The earth brings forth fruits not for its own pleasure but for your service."

I was struck in 2020 when Pope Francis - a guy who talked every week with people from all over the world - declared we were fighting a third world war in bits and pieces. Having slept on it, I am actually terrified by how clear Leo XIV is about the threat of escalating asymmetrical chaos war.

Fun fact: a conclave burns black smoke to announce that no Pope has been chosen, white smoke to announce that a Pope has been chosen, and red smoke to announce to the faithful that it is time for the Butlerian Jihad.

-- Jeremiah

A pristine display of "I assume I natively understand [major ethical tradition] so I don't need to read anything about it."

Hey @drmcarley.bsky.social: Do we fully understand the physics that act on a plane?

This makes this site sound so much cooler than it is

Sure sure sure, the Catholics have their densely argued yet plainly written account of what it might mean to pursue human flourishing in an age of AI, but never forget that us Protestants built a robot pastor we named BlessU-2

A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines

You hear that sound? Coming in in all directions. Not horses. Bad takes. The theological world will be filled with them for the next 36 hours and you better believe I'll throw a few into the mix.

11 years ago I sat in my garden on a sunny day and read Pope Francis' Laudato Si'. I couldn't have imagined I would end up doing the same thing for his successor, but as a moral theologian working for the Jesuits. I'm very grateful for the amazing hospitality I've received in the intervening years

Just so you know: Aside from Scripture, Magnifica Humanitas obviously cites earlier Papal documents, Vatican II texts, and Thomas and Augustine. But he also references: Viktor Frankl Romano Guardini Hannah Arendt Plato Giorgio la Pira Pierre de Bérulle and JRR Tolkein (!).

Pope Leo is introducing Magnifica Humanitas in English. Lads, talk about _new things_

A working class northern English female theologian is introducing the Pope's magisterial teaching on how Christians are to pursue human flourishing in an age of AI. It might not be as fast as we want it, but things are changing in very significant ways. www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

The point made by @nlsj.bsky.social here is so easily overlooked: the State concentrated services in Dublin's north-east inner-city because of pre-existing class politics and now the people in wealthier neighbouring areas have a new level of judgementalism to apply www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

gently teaching your child how to pray is really good, actually

The way that sign skips all the way over "bikes will not replace cars" straight to "bikes will not replace us."😂 We got full-on Car Owner Replacement Theory going on here.

"a device we don't recognize was just used" enough. you're my bank i dont have to tell you about all my devices. i got gadgets you never heard of. i got a palm pilot in a drawer somewhere. what you know about that one money boys

without exaggeration, my two year old has a better grasp of the implications of germ theory

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I'm no political expert but the insistence on here that Soc Dems are leftwing seems like a charming collective naivety on the part of voters who like to consider themselves very well informed. High chance they are FG-lite with better branding (which is a killer option among my peers, to be honest)

A+ grade find in the library. Gonna get the gossip on 18th century kirk sessions

“so what’s your take?” “the city of New York must pay me $1 million cash in the next hour and I will kill one person for every minute they are late” “100% disagree”

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Reading updates from missionary doctors on the frontline fighting ebola and I just want to declare again that the Western world's complacency around rampant inequality is among the most self-destructive things we are doing in the many-ringed circus of irrationalities we call civilization.

More from the bad place

this antagonism toward young people and their moral ideals is so repulsive

"Motorized vehicles create remoteness which they alone can shrink. They create distances for all, and shrink them for only a few." —Ivan Illich (happy 100th anniversary of his birth!) (photo: #Brasilia)

There's a common idea in Ireland that the prevalence of Catholic ethos primary schools here is down to some stubborn power of the Catholic Church. Researching this piece, it became clear that the simple story people tell doesn't map on to complex reality: www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...