that's 400 National Gallery printers, in case Patrick O'Donovan is wondering #speirgorm

Look I just can't believe that a group of people murdered someone in broad daylight, with witnesses and with impunity, and anyone at all wants to argue that that was ok because he maybe shoplifted. Yves Sakila was murdered. How are we ok with someone being murdered?! Jesus what is wrong with ye.

Other people have noticed this phenomenon too but danah boyd put the best slogan to it: social media is now parasocial media. Social media hasn't been social for a long while—how long depending on the platform, depending on the milieu. It's not folks sharing equally, but broadcasting and receiving.

the (ever so slightly) stronger statements from the Irish government regarding the IDF kidnapping Irish citizens this time is purely because Ben-Gvir posted that video. if they were simply told this had happened later by the detainees, you can be sure the government wouldn't take them at face value

'There's already 3 Sherpas dead' - casual remark in report on climbers on Everest.

'The victim was known to Gardaí'

JD Vance talking about his favourite Pope is just like that episode where Joey bought one volume of an encyclopedia

"No one ought to be grieved at death, since in living there is labour and danger, while in dying there is peace and the assurance of resurrection. Pray for the soul of Rory MacMahon who made me" - translation of the Latin inscription on this remarkable 1575 gravestone in Kimore, Co. Meath

which is odd, given that French beer is akin to Irish wine, stale piss the lot of it

Ireland's entry to the US vs European food debate

one of the best annual festivals on bluesky - Americans talking about food - seems to have begun

extremely jealous of students booing AI at university ceremonies. all we got was Dave Fanning telling us not to bother going to tutoriala

I really hope my kids never end up in that hospital, obviously, but if they do they will kill those things with hammers (because that's how I've raised them)

my favorite genre of international dialogue

the same analysis could apply to Fianna Fáil - absolutely nothing to stop any of the disgruntled backbenchers writing a policy proposal of what they'd do differently, other than their own lack of ability #speirgorm

Irish literature: did you hear who died?

AI evangelist from EY on @mcculld.bsky.social on @rteradio1.bsky.social right now is the most stilted, inarticulate lifeless corporate goon I have ever heard on live radio.

imagine Labour get the worst possible outcome - limping on with Starmer because Streeting is even less popular

Congrats to RTE on finding a way to screen Father Ted & piss off Graham Linehan at the same time! 10/10, no notes.

folx, I’ve been working on AI "ethics" for almost a decade now & hate to tell you there’s no such thing as "ethical AI" the only "ethical principle" that works is regulating the shit out of the industry & to take back control of our autonomy, fundamental rights, freedoms & right to exist w/out AI

"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."

You have to wonder what the Westminster system would do to Micheal Martin with the equivalent of 17k homeless, Children's Hospital overrun, Jim Gavin, etc. #speirgorm

A British political system ruthless enough to topple failing leaders when they have run out of road still looks a lot healthier than an American political system that can't bring itself to topple a failing leader that has tumbled into complete insanity

When FF entered government in 2020, there were aprox 10,000 homeless people in Ireland. That number is now over 17,000. #speirgorm

Wes Streeting is already facing growing calls to stand down as PM

the writing was on the wall for Starmer a long time ago

People complaining about the 127k for a bike parking facility obviously have not tried to buy a window or get any work done recently. This seems like it's just anti public services sentiment with a particular anti cycling flavour to it.

a missing factor from the supposed male loneliness epidemic is that a significant number of guys are assholes. if you can put up with that, you'll have plenty of friends; if not, well...

The future of Britain is No Overall Control

so in Wales the Senedd election count doesn't start til the morning after the election, and the same in Scotland for Holyrood - just like in Ireland for the Dáil. Is there something wring with Celtic nations that we can't count ballots overnight?? #speirgorm

"A similar drama could have been made about Ireland – but such a project is unlikely to ever see the light of day, at least not on Netflix, which is more interested in caricaturing Ireland as a land of 24-hour potato people (House of Guinness, Bodkin, etc)." www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-r...

Modern technology could learn from older stuff that does what it's supposed to and doesn't bother you. My toilet just works and never sends me emails like "Good news! Flush® is now Floosh®"

sure you can say 'dad' instead of father, and party instead of feast, but what do you say for 'suitors'? It's a completely alien concept to modern times, that's what jarred for me most in the trailer

it doesn't really matter which modern English accent The Odyssey is performed in, they are all going to come up with the problem of rendering ancient concepts

see, they can do it when they want to

Reminds me of when they re-opened the Navan trains station for the All-Ireland football final in 1991 - and it's been closed ever since because all Meath TDs are workshy knuckle-dragging morons

In a perfect world, cinematic depictions of the Ancient Mediterranean would have everyone speaking actual Greek, Latin, etc to reinforce some of the strangeness of that time and place to us moderns. Unfortunately, only one man in Hollywood agrees with me on this, and, worse, it's Mel Gibson.

Of the five sitting Kerry TDs, four had fathers who were also politicians, and three have children who are now also politicians, and maybe that's not the best way to do democracy

Also, don’t make us wait 3+ years between seasons. Even if every season is a masterpiece, you can’t really enjoy a show with so many big gaps. And usually the show suffers—you lose writers or other talent, the actors age too much, etc. Make at least one season a year until you are done!

Conor Maguire and Hugh Mac Mahon, escaped from the Tower of London on 18 August 1644 - but weren't recaptured until 19 September in Covent Garden. What do you do for a month on the run in London in the 1600's? #earlymodern #speirgorm

I was in London a few weeks ago, trying to solve a 382-year-old mystery #speirgorm vm.tiktok.com/ZNRpFFFQ9/

I find it incredibly telling when men like Dawkins are convinced that the LLMs are ‘intelligent’ because it ‘agrees’ with them or tells them how insightful or clever they are

A government whose leadership is unserious will never be equipped to tackle populist adversaries

Fine Gael

someone posted on reddit asking what brand coffee they should get for their percolator and I said green velvet and no one got it