That Ireland (an allegedly neutral country) is still allowing US and Israeli planes full of munitions thru its airspace and troop transports refuel at Shannon while Italy, Spain and France (NATO Members) refuse is certainly something worth thinking about

This should receive considerable publicity given that IBEC and every right adjacent commentator have now been proven to be either stupid or dishonest. They all claimed it would lead to that as though it was an article of faith.

It's always good to have a target market

I know this sounds like a bit, but I vaguely knew someone in college who was genuinely baffled at the concept of "empathy" to the point of asking others to explain it, and years later saw they were the spokesperson for a business lobby group.

"Spain has closed its airspace to U.S. planes involved ​in attacks on Iran, a step beyond its ‌previous denial of use of jointly-operated military bases, Defence Minister Margarita Robles said on Monday."

The internet is not, in any meaningful way, a lawless ‘wild west’.

History is much more about the present than it is about the past.

In all seriousness though, elder millennial jokes aside, I think it’s important to resist the media framing of any mainstream resistance to the status quo as just the shrill nonsense of middle-aged women with nothing better to do. This isn’t the first time they’ve run out this playbook.

One has to wonder what an investment scheme designed by a Blueshirt finance minister in cahoots with a Blueshirt lobbyist for the banking industry is going to look like. 'It'll be just like the Swedish one *except* we'll put all the money into privately-held property funds, be grand.'

I don't think enough attention is given to the fact that FFG's housing plan: 1: Suggests rents must go UP for landlords to consider it a viable investment. 2: Envisions that those same landlords will keep building houses until their own investments will lose value through competition. #spéirgorm

A message from the same class of people keen to deprioritise the importance of studying history and other boring humanities subjects.

Taylorism for the whole family.

It cannot be stressed enough how much legacy media hates activists. The whole basis of the "objectivity" artifice is that human dignity is up for debate, so anyone who thinks it isn't makes them uncomfortable and is inherently the enemy.

This is an interesting snippet from a draft table of observations prepared by Dept Housing to be sent to DPER on the Accelerating Infrastructure report - whoever prepared the first draft said the quiet part out loud

You can tell the Do Nothing Government is taking something seriously when two excuses for inaction from the Big Ol' Drawer Of Excuses are deployed in the same story: 'It's too hard' and 'Super secret advice from the AG which we can't share.'

We don’t call it “the international fascist movement” for no reason

It's one hell of a time to choose to run for election *in Ireland* using a blatantly Trumpy slogan.

Just found two sticks of 16GB DDR-4 I'd forgotten about in a box. If I understand how things have been going recently I'll be able to use these as collateral for a large bank loan.

The European Data Protection Board has published a case digest (by myself) on decisions made under the one-stop-shop system which consider legitimate interest as a legal basis. www.edpb.europa.eu/system/files...

McDowell stoked a moral panic over "anchor babies" and "citizenship tourism"which claimed that expectant mothers were flying into Dublin and heading straight for the maternity clinic The DoJ had the fool leaning full-body into racism and then he didn't even keep his seat www.rte.ie/news/2004/04...

drive carefully we have podcast in the back

With Proof of Personhood we'll finally programmatically settle the question of who counts and how much

The capitalist ghouls who refer to what was once art as "IP" and "content" want nothing more than for you to convert from Producer to Consumer. Producers are competition. Consumers are profit.

I wonder what President Deals And Tariffs makes of the deals and tariffs happening here. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/...

How many children could possibly affect? Just wanton meanness to appease a group of adults roleplaying that they're being oppressed by a small minority of people

Anyone who’s ever been in hospital will tell you the people who bring you food are always the nicest - this is stupid for so many different reasons

Mmm, reassuring. "Let me reassure you that there is enough fuel in Slovenia, the warehouses are full and there will be no fuel shortages," said Prime Minister Robert Golob at the weekend. www.bbc.com/news/article...

if only we'd previously had a period of global energy crisis caused by, in this order, a war between Israel and its neighbours, followed a few years later by a destabilising conflict in Iran

The long term strategic harm done to the country’s reputation as a credible jurisdiction by the failure to staff or resource a sufficiently active DPC is incalculable. We started out with a potential of becoming a 21st C Lloyd’s of London, a global hub, and threw it away for tactical short termism.

All these outside actors arriving in Hungary to support a PM whose bread and butter for a decade has been railing against outside actors interfering in Hungary's national sovereignty.

A year later, I'll say: we will never know— we will never have the faintest idea— how much money is getting made in insider trading windfalls from people in Trump's circles who have an hour of notice about the chaotic swings in stuff Trump just *says* about the war with Iran.

For an article, @lokapila.bsky.social is looking at the rise of "landlord tech" in Dublin, from apps for building access and "digital butlers" to systems for rental payments and maintenance requests. Have there been recent changes in your building? She'd love to hear from you [email protected]

A microcosm of the dangers of selling our soul to american corporations. Someone in Ireland is extremely publicly losing their position due having a basic pro Palestine, anti-genocide stance shared widely by the Irish public. Thats a very serious thing.

Someone SET FIRE to AMBULANCES. That should be enough for anyone to condemn if you're not also a terrible bigot.

A bit like Irish government ministers constantly messaging their favourite political correspondents during cabinet meetings I suppose.

You can now watch it on the RTE Player: www.rte.ie/player/movie...

this is a really grim world the techno extraction class is building where they not only hijack all your inbound ad traffic with AI, they sanitize and sloppify your headlines

So... the actual story reported here is that the administration set up a dedicated task force to document EU censorship and THEY COULD NOT FIND ANY. Not that you'd know that from the headline. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

This is a smashing movie. Watch it.

If anyone was wondering whether Westminster has learned anything from a) the Palestine Action debacle and b) indulging the DUP's pettiest tendencies, and the risk of a whole load of unintended consequences coming along for the ride, the answer is clearly "No".

As Tim Turner, a former member of the ICO's staff, and now Data Protection trainer, said:

if there's one conclusion that the study of both labor history and imperialism converge on, it is that the richest people in the world are happy to burn money on control, power, impunity. and the "everything is about profit" version of anti-capitalism does not survive serious contact with either

Remember we were told that lifting the evictions ban would payoff in the medium to long term? Is this it paying off? I think that was a real line in the sand moment. A line that runs from "evictions are ok in a housing crisis" straight to "a retirement village is being evicted"

Missed opportunity to call this 'Shit KITT'.

The Irish government has a Chief Information Officer. Before the incumbent sails off into the sunset next month I'd very much like him to explain to an Oireachtas committee what the contingency plans are in the event of something like this happening. www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

Ahead of their leaders: "Eighty-six percent of people think a sudden U.S. move to restrict Europe’s access to digital services is "plausible" and "should not be ruled out," and 59 percent called it “already a real and concrete risk”." www.politico.eu/article/euro...

oh my god i am fucking begging everyone to stop doing this