Oh, so they're like done done with Reform...

As well as everything else, this is an attack on working class expression and opportunity. The public school crowd will still get training and careers in the arts. This is a Labour government telling working class creatives to know their place and not get any funny ideas.

jaw-droppingly ghoulish to be doing this now when the memory of Virginia Giuffre is so fresh. they have already forgotten she existed. they have already forgotten we JUST saw an example of the absolute worst way this story plays out

Kasie Hunt asked Scott Jennings on live TV if McConnell would be willing to call in to CNN. The discomfort on Jennings’ face while he tried to bullshit his way around that answer was really something. Methinks we still aren’t getting the whole story.

If we let the “rape is fine actually” guys into the big tent, none of us are safe under here

this is like the literal opposite of true. the most fruitful eras of the modern democratic party coincided with periods where the walls separating political radicals from the mainstream were way less solid

Sad story but worth reading about how racism quietly manifests in the Netherlands. Swimming pool attendants asked non white kids for ID and didn’t let them in without it, but didn’t ask white children. The father then received hate messages for speaking out www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Do not, under any circumstances, *ever*, feed someone else's work into an LLM without their explicit permission, if you use the things at all, which you shouldn't. It all becomes training data for the LLM, which means you're helping those things steal their work.

Men’s country: Boy I love my truck, my boys, my dog, and I suppose, my little darlin Women’s country: I’ve killed him. I’ve killed another worthless man.

there are men on the left who will see right wing men as their allies above left wing women because in their eyes the former confirms masculinity and the latter conveys weakness

With the current political conversation of our Anglosphere neighbours being Trump on our left and Count Binface on our right, there's never been a more urgent need for the Irish population of social media to relearn an Gaeilge and unlearn English entirely, for our collective sanity

Trying to pick apart a woman's text messages to prove she's lying about being raped is gutter behavior. Consent can be revoked at any time and reading insinuations into text messages that the sender denies were there is ACTUAL journalistic malpractice. I would not trust a man who does this!

This is not the inevitable result of Agriculture. There are other ways of ensuring farm incomes. But it is the result of refusing to *do* anything different about agriculture as we have it now. Again, the government (and Sinn Féin) have chosen the status quo over necessary change.

Agriculture, as a sector, is responsible for 38% of all our greenhouse gas emissions. It contributes 0.75% of the national tax take. It is the source of water degradation, per the EPA “impacting over 1,000 waterbodies or approximately 60% of all waterbodies that are ‘At Risk’".

Like, the answer is not “character is nothing,” the answer is simply a broader conception of character. Politeness is only one part of it.

The foundational lie of Trumpism (and I’m using that word precisely to refer to the ideology of intellectual types who defend him), from day one, has been the claim that good character is a “luxury belief” and nothing more than cover for the wealthy to punish the poor. This belief is evil.

Mamdani won 65% of the vote of young men between the ages of 18 and 29. (circle.tufts.edu/latest-resea...) It's grimly fascinating (and revealing, and unsurprising) how his own party doesn't use him as more of an example of how to reach young male voters.

Thanks to The Clare Champion for giving me the space to rant again this time about tech bros and their necks. clarechampion.ie/opinion-with...

On yesterday's Belfast to Dublin Aircoach immigration operation, even greater levels of Gardaí overreach were on display. Gardai were not satisfied with trying to compel British and Irish passengers to produce ID that they were under no obligation to produce, they took this a step further .. [1/n]

Many govt ministers, advisers and half the parliamentary party have just not yet clocked that Mahmood's could see 750k people (about three-quarters of those on the 15 year route) lose their legal status by 2029. Mostly black/Asian Commonwealth migrants (eligible to vote!) bsky.app/profile/jame...

It’s so fucking awkward to have to inject “places I cannot go because I’m illegal there” into normal ass conversations about “what did you get up to on your holiday?” “Omg I went to Turkey! You should go!” “Oh you should go to Egypt and see the pyramids!” Yeah, I’d love to. I’m illegal there.

this is imo an example of how data center hatred isn't just reflexive nimbyism

It is *not* "special treatment" to apply to legal migrants the rules that were in force when they came What is "special" [ie vindictive & politically/economically counterproductive] is to retrospectively change the rules for those migrants to fulfil a deportation agenda inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Again, I beg MPs and the government to actually look at the policy they may or may not be implementing and think through both the human consequences and their willingness to have 1/6 of all care staff be deported.

Pervert glasses that record sometimes are the incremental step to pervert glasses that record all the time.

"Kings College London, which ran the site, said in a statement that the closure reflects its 'refocusing of institutional resources towards its education, research and innovation priorities'” unis are an industry in artificial financial crisis and will eventually cut everything that doesn't make £££

This is wild. 93% of the renewable electricity generation added to the Irish grid over that last decade now powers data centers, rather than reducing fossil fuel use. Data centers have pretty much annihilated the health and climate benefits those renewables could have provided.

Adam Tickell, Vice Chancellor at the University of Birmingham (previously Sussex VC) supports concentrating research in 20-30 universities, the argument too of Policy Exchange's Tarnished Towers report. An unevidenced, unmodelled ideological argument that's perniciously pervasive. Contest it. 2/2

I don’t think it’s fully appreciated across the World Of Work how *completely* pointless so-called “AI checkers” are, and me saying this here isn’t going to change that, but if someone tells you that they’ve used one do PLEASE inform them that they’re effectively just random percentage generators

An excellent article from @nionwomen.bsky.social… notinourname.org.uk/why-cant-tra...

Especially galling take from a British rocker, diversity is the reason your primary influence isn’t bawdy music hall songs

Not lost on me that the high profile "they were right, and i fucked up" apologies have come from women (goldberg, klein) and not from the podbros who are arguably more responsible for this bugfuck mess than anyone else other than the candidate himself.

agree. to add: it would be cool in general for online culture to self consciously cultivate a couple middle gears between totally writing off the value of a person and nihilist total impunity

This is a lot of topics to cover in 20 minutes lmao unless you’re the only person talking

look, I'm not a "reputable economic commentator", but I am 100% sure they have arrived at this figure by counting all the gambling revenue generated from hare coursing events, as if that is a meaningful contribution to the Irish economy and not a wealth transfer from addicts to global corporations

Tapping the sign

unreposted this just so I can repost again - outrageous whether it was sloppy or disingenuous, it has now been amplified by the shittiest bastards on the internet

If you put your inflammatory hate campaign in the Sun or the Mail it will have limited impact, because everybody understands those papers are the Beano and the Dandy for cunts. But the country’s most Sensible Moderates take everything in the Times very seriously, even the most apeshit crank material

A clear and repetitive pattern of exactly this behaviour by this paper over the 17 years or so I’ve been paying particular attention. If you want to demonise a minority, promote a crackpot racist conspiracy theory or blacken the name of a human rights NGO, accept no substitutes.

If Farage goes out over two Times articles held in reserve for years while other media covered the beat for 8+ years, makes you wonder what was making him teflon in the first place (Hint: it was the big papers and BBC, that's who was protecting him, it's always the media protecting the politician)

Click bait racist bullshit from the Times/Chris Philp. 12 Cameroonians did not sponsor 15 dependants each. 12 new work visas were issued to Cameroonians. 180 visas were issued to dependants of the (many thousands of) Cameroonians *already here*. Etc. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Heartbreaking hearing that the woman who Platner raped was hesitant to come forward because she agreed with his politics and didn’t want to damage the movement. If you didn’t already realize, this sort of thing happens a lot you just don’t usually hear about it

Will anything happen? The Committee says the government has a "moral obligation" to reverse the threshold freeze. That's where we're most likely to see change. As for the rest, my guess is this just rumbles on. Graduates don't get much sympathy from governments www.newstatesman.com/politics/edu...

* They were also explicitly told loans would not affect their ability to get a mortgage. Which is just untrue - student loan repayments absolutely affect mortgage affordability criteria, as they are finding out now www.newstatesman.com/politics/edu...

*Technically* it's not a mis-selling scandal because the government doesn't face the same regulations as a commercial lender. So for the Treasury Committee report to clearly state "This amounted to mis-selling" tells you how bad the situation is www.newstatesman.com/politics/edu...

really striking to compare this to the language used in the 1970s, when mass deportations were a Monday Club/National Front preoccupation, and many respectable broadsheets professed themselves horrified by the idea

Remember, IT'S ALL THE GOVERNMENT'S FAULT. Universities never asked for students to be charged a penny. Politicians did it all.

this new ‘everywhere is now Ukraine, Putin will be raping your wives and killing your children any moment’ as a the core of mainstream political thought is pretty wild like

ANOTHER frustrating take. TERFDOM in the UK didn't succeed cos 'they' were more successful than 'us' at 'reaching the people who matter'. They were more successful by BEING the people who matter. Bigotry positioned with entrenched power vs trans people holding no power.