I’ve been thinking a lot about the shifting baseline concept as applied to everyday life. People in their 20’s now have no memory of highly functional systems, products (from blenders to sweaters) that were so well made you could hand them down across generations, or even helpful customer service.

Graham Platner: ‘I Didn’t Know Extramarital Sexting Was A Symbol For Cheating’

Greg Bovino former field commander leading ICE deportation, working with and collaborating with Martin Sellner, and other figures from the European/Irish far right is a further alarm bell about how much international organising is happening among the far right right now

anti migrant/racist parties in the UK success shouldn’t be measured by the number of seats they’ve won, but in how effectively they’ve managed to drag the Tories and Labour to the right. We’ve seen similar smaller moves and shifts by our government in regards to deportation flights for example

My god, Octavia Butler, just miss ONCE

"the minister said that "data centre activity is a strategic opportunity for the Irish economy to bring forward the green transition"." Join me in looking at the KPMG report that the gov is using to prop up their pig in a poke... 1/17 www.rte.ie/news/ireland... #IrishPol #Speirgorm

Pg.9 & I've given up. Peter Burke & the gov are betting the Climate fines on wind ramping up in 2030, when they FFG will hopefully be gone, & pushing for data centres that "will continue to give rise to carbon emissions" because we won't have 80% renewables. IT'S 👏 A👏 COD👏 17/17 #IrishPol

"As a result, further data centre expansion will continue to give rise to carbon emissions." There's the pull quote (pg.9) for every journalist speaking to Peter Burke or any other gov rep on this topic. 13/ #IrishPol #Speirgorm

"There are challenges to further developing the data centre landscape in Ireland, particularly around energy availability, grid constraints, and carbon impacts." No shit Sherlock 10/

The UK approaches Palestine from a colonial counterinsurgency lens, where the label of 'extremism' can be deployed as a way of controlling minorities and stamping down dissent. bsky.app/profile/mari...

They did a good job on the first paragraph

HELL YEAH

"Children of those on care worker visas, who came legally before rule change, told to leave even if parents can stay" abolish the home office

Thanks @codohertynews.bsky.social for article & including my contribution Donna Cooney, a @greenparty.ie councillor in Dublin City & long-time sea swimmer, agreed the system needed improving... “Some councils are reluctant to even have a bathing area officially designated because if they bring ...

Turn off those morning alarms! #speirgorm

In other news, fuck Israel

One of the most damning pieces of evidence against the idea that two states (one Israel and one sub-sovereign Palestine) would result in a comprehensive peace is the fact that Lebanon is a fully sovereign state which does not receive any protection or any recourse against Israeli aggression.

DMing for 30 years over ten compromised platforms??

Oh my fucking god

I'm not a fan of nsfw content for *my* own feeds but the broad brush being used here to damage the content producers is not fucking cool and just not where society needs to be in 2026, bsky is removing *choice* here without ever asking, and on moral grounds. We can curate our own feeds ffs.

CMAT at St Anne's was amazing ah-maz-ing If you get to see her live, just do it

"Fuck Bertie, Free Palestine " CMAT class tonight

All boycott's may have "no impact", the risk is the fucking message.

The 'impact' is not the point - the point is standing up for what's right.

Yep, absolute death grip.

I don't think anything has ever demonstrated just how bad c-suiters are at their jobs as quickly and thoroughly as AI. Practically everyone in an upper management position saw ChatGPT write an email and immediately decided this was the future of every industry instead of a way to write meh emails.

As it doesn’t understand anything, the rejiggling is prone to nonsense, and the code lacks the contexts that lead a programmer to new or better software by applying their experience. But those are its high water marks.

There’s a guy in my gym working out in a full Lidl branded kit. A king.

You come after CMAT, you come after me.

I genuinely feel sick. A company reached out to me on IG, linking me to an AI version of myself. You can even ask "me" questions. They are also advertising it using an AI photo of me. They told me if I like it, they will give me free access... to my own fucking content that they stole. /1

Her post nearly made me cry. Like, she's talented and funny and *gorgeous* and can do a level of dancing around on stage that would probably cause irreparable damage to my knees and she's still getting abuse for the temerity of Being A Woman In Public Who Is Taking Up Too Much Space.

Me, a 42-year-old white guy driving a Honda Jazz with the windows down: Yes, I should listen to Killing In The Name.

Very long thread and a great read

They love "effective altruism" because it counsels them to make as much as possible, without regard to how many people they cheat, hurt, or kill...provided they pledge to use these ill-gotten gains to improve lives for 10^53 imaginary artificial people who come into existence in 10,000 years. 48/

They think AI could be the remedy for the ancient, nameless dread that bosses experience every time they contemplate the fact that if they don't show up for work, everything hums along fine; whereas if the *workers* don't show up, the whole enterprise collapses. 25/

No surprise that billionaires were easy marks for AI hustlers, who promised the possibility of a world without people, where an army of "agents" could do the jobs that presently demand the contributions of unreasonable human beings who refuse to acknowledge that your priorities trump theirs. 17/

The way he is just fucking this up. Truly you spoil us John

At some point the State decided it was going to stop building public housing. Nobody ever put that in a manifesto. The Ministers under whom the policy was implemented explicitly denied it was their policy. But it happened. And it has hobbled our society ever since.

Is this the first time Gript have ever acknowledged that a white Irish man might be guilty of inappropriate behaviour toward women

[the sickos meme] [GIFF of someone warming their hands on a roaring fire] [that GIFF of a dumpster on fire floating by in a flood] [eating popcorn meme] [a different eating popcorn meme] [rolling on the floor laughing emojis] [let 'em cook meme] [selfie of me on holiday enjoying life]

Oh my God I know there are #repealers out there who will enjoy this sooooooooooo much. Hook that shit to your veins people, it's Nurse Noel levels of entertainment #speirghorm

a time-honored tradition for key affiliates of disintegrating Nazi regimes

Solidarity is where it’s at. ✊🏽🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Like, if you're a mother of three small kids in Doolin, with dad on the front lines in the Donbass, and you can't afford childcare so you can't work, you're supposed to go back to Mariupol? This Mariupol? Obviously you'll claim protection.

I don't understand logically (but I do emotionally) why so many want the AI bubble to pop, we are all going down with that ship cos you can be sure it'll affect our public money as well as pensions not to mention our jobs. They'll have all spent so much that they'll have to fire and/or fold...

It is absolutely disgraceful that with our history of illegally occupied territory, we idolise money & power, the very things that drove our occupation, instead of acting in solidarity with the oppressed in the West Bank. Think of that everytime MM says FF are republican. #MondayGR #IrishPol

Just for the record, the pope is still sitting on a pile of cash owed to the Irish victims his church's clergy raped and covered up, so he can be as right as he wants about AI and whatever else he wants, but he can fuck off until he has paid what his cult owes, and then some. Gowl.