“In October, one of Discord’s former third-party vendors suffered a data breach that exposed users’ age verification data, including images of government IDs.”

If it was called Electoral DiscoFunkation I'd give it a listen.

“hollywood and new york” why whatever could he mean

I came out of retirement to write this story, because what the actual what ‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

This cartoon of his lives rent free in my brain.

I need a browser extension which replaces this lad's name with "the flim-flam man". "Space X focusing on human settlement in the Moon instead of Mars, the flim-flam man says"

Just looking at these side by side.

This is the ur-grift: it’s not the get-rich-quick scheme that makes you rich, it’s teaching other people how to sell it to someone else.

no disrespect to the great province of Munster but this photo choice is wild. like this is a "last public sighting of suspected serial killer and fugitive from justice" photo

If he follows the trajectory of his mentor Mandy then we can look forward to another twenty five years or more of occasional McSweeney resignations.

You used to be able to lazily but accurately characterise conservative politicans as being concerned with the past and preserving the status quo. Not so Darragh O'Brien, who has blazed his way from department to department, actively and energetically trying to harm both the present and the future.

Any time I look to see what the Labour government is up to in the UK it turns out to be things like making posters that Alfonso Cuarón put in the background of the long tracking shot that opens “Children of Men”.

I was immediately reminded of the time the BBC removed the audience laughing at Boris Johnson, which was all in the name of a greater good: preventing a left not linked to Epstein elites from winning an election. www.theguardian.com/media/2019/n...

There's a burgeoning industry in the UK of policy motivated evidence creation that is continuing to create a wide range of opportunities for Andrew Wakefield type characters to make a quick buck out of misleading the public with the aid of the media estate.

The government’s own economic advisers are giving it perfect political cover to reject Jim O’Callaghan’s increasingly brutal immigration policies but it won’t because our government ministers are amoral spoofers who don’t care about anything beyond the next poll www.thetimes.com/world/irelan...

The accountability and responsibility diffusion and dilution mechanisms in the Irish state apparatus are extremely effective.

i saw a tiktok about how posting in childhood is a sign of Eurorack addiction and i can't stop thinking about it

The latter would be easier if the OGCIO hadn't seemingly designed gov.ie - a very large publishing platform - without RSS feeds ¯\(ツ)/¯

My old-fashioned thoughts on this are: If Simon Harris wants to do blog posts as the leader of Fine Gael he can put them on the Fine Gael website. If he wants to do blog posts as the minister for finance he can put them on gov.ie.

This is how the pro-Trump fake news from Macedonia started back in 2016. Taking advantage of gullible Americans for clicks and cash.

Banning middle-aged politicians from social media would be far more beneficial for society than banning under-16s.

This sounds familiar.

There are some really excellent quotes from the Australian teens. I remain far more worried by middle aged online right-wing radicalisation than problems for teenagers.

"We all knew circumventing the ban was going to be possible, but it was so much easier than we could have expected. No verification, no ID, nothing. It was comedic how many times I saw a new account pop up of one of my friends." HT @rosamundevb.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

This'd be the same Substack Simon Harris, Tánaiste and leader of Fine Gael, is using to make announcements and share his little thoughts. Including one about protecting children online. Posted just this morning.

Once more the pesky poll participants refuse to do what their betters, pol corrs, have been insisting they do for several years.

I really hope people advocating to ban kids from SM read this. Some kids are isolated by disabilities or circumstances. Furthermore, some kids grow up in abusive households. “Ideally, a child’s exposure to online worlds should be moderated by their parents” isn’t a reassuring sentiment for everyone

Micheál Martin is going to go to Washington to hand a bowl of shamrock to a man who posts racist videos on the Internet late at night.

Guy posting about how the head shape of Estonians make them unfit for public service before liking someone else saying that women should have compulsory pregnancies: thank goodness I’m not in some weird political bubble

Deeply cynical and dishonest Fianna Fáilness here. But it's Fianna Fáil so you'd expect nothing less. The dog-brained implication is that flood defences would have been delivered if the government had come up with its scheme to restrict regular people's access to the justice system sooner.

Nice of the IOC to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Jeb Bush saying "Please clap" like this.

Ah Claire, I'd say "never change" but you are incapable of change or growth

This happens with*everything* now. No matter how grave the crime or one-dimensional the injustice, after four days the hivemind of American punditry decides that the Real Story is how the people upset about it are the real villains.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

'Charities, you say?'

This is not a drill, we need to be ready to counter and we're not.

i set up openclaw on my work machine to have it get my apes back from gas town but instead they are partying with said stolen apes on moltbook, this is the last time i'll ever listen to jimmy fallon

Let's be straight about what's happening here. A weak government is under pressure following a tragedy last week. It should have regulated for the 2023 Act, but hadn't. It should have resourced enforcement of same, but hadn't. So now they have to *do something*. And the something is daft populism.

Killing the CIA World Factbook might seem like small potatoes, but it was a touchstone of curated facts in a sea of disinformation.

Micheál Martin has posted photos of schoolchildren on X twice since this controversy began

I mean, it’s not even that “landmark”, it’s in-line with all previous research. Same as before: Sports’ governing bodies should set policies based on good science and a spirit of inclusion, not the opinions of lunatics who only care about sport as a wedge issue to bully trans people out of society

“Gambling company operates free grocery store for the poor” is literally some Al Capone type shit x.com/polymarket/s...

My grandfather, a journalist, made the same number of dollars for a piece in 1955 that a freelancer might make for a piece today — as if there were no inflation. $300 in 1955 should be $3600+ today, but in 2026 you still make $300.

worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead

I presume the lavish overseas funding for the pro-life cause in Ireland dried up after the referendum loss in 2018 and that's why the second of these gentlemen is now on the freeze peach train.

Fascinating to see both sides of the 2018 Repeal referendum campaign represented at this farce.

If you're not familiar with software development, seeing "lines of code produced" as a metric of quality is like paying a cook by the amount of salt they use.

Periodic reminder that what's marketed as 'youth social media bans' actually amounts to requiring people to provide personally identifying information in order to access whatever content a given government disfavours.

The loyalty of UK Labour to a Young Fine Gael activist from Macroom is astonishing.