Say less #StarTrek #StarTrekLowerDecks

Just in case it's still unclear, f*ck generative A.I.!

Landlords are a blight on Ireland. #speirgorm

When media owning billionaires claim the far-left want to tax everyone, a reminder that the far-left actually want Bolshevik revolutionary gunmen to drag billionaires from their mansions and shoot them. Taxation is the compromise of the CENTRE left.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Apple & Google removed ICE tracking apps in their app stores. TikTok reportedly suppressed videos criticizing ICE & the shooting of Alex Pretti. Meta blocked Facebook groups tracking ICE & links to a database of agents that the government wants to keep secret. Big Tech is enabling Trump's regime.

When we talk about authoritarianism, it’s not just Donald Trump. Musk owns X Bezos owns Twitch Zuckerberg owns Instagram and Facebook Larry Ellison controls TikTok Billionaires increasingly control what we see, hear and read.

I'd like to see the companies who financially backed Trump, whose CEOs keep brown-nosing him and who have US government / military contracts to have a really uncomfortable time in Europe going forward. Frequent audits and requests for information to show they no longer have our trust. (1/?)

Just started doing new data analysis and I know I keep saying this, but: I really, really don't think people appreciate how much this moral panic was a deliberate and extremely expensive invention.

While independent bookstores are giving out free whistles, hosting protest sign making events, and donating proceeds to mutual aid, Amazon is *checks notes* providing technology that assists ICE in their terrorizing of communities. Independent bookstores deserve your support. Amazon does not.

78.12% 😥 #Speirgorm

Timely reminder to all content creators -- if you only make money on one platform, you are not self-employed. You are an at-will employee of that platform. They can and will erase you, at will. With the new ownership of tiktok, some creators are seeing their accounts silenced. DIVERSIFY.

Your reminder that Amazon... -Provides cloud services that help fuel ICE's deportation machine -Donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund -Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump -Shelled out $40M for a documentary about Melania Trump

Not expecting anything to come of this email to Met Éireann, any more than a similar one I sent to Irish Rail over a year ago. But we live in hope. A reply from a human would be a start

Ooh there is a chance that #LucyDarling aka @carisahendrix.bsky.social will come preform in Dublin! www.carisahendrix.com/acrossthepond #spéirgorm

Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem. Thank you. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Signal is more secure than most digital platforms for communication but also you should not plot crimes in Signal because Signal is only as secure as the weakest person in your groupchat when under interrogation by police and also planning crimes in writing makes your lawyer cry.

you can you the 5calls app or (as I do), just go to www.5calls.org

Abolish ICE is not enough. Stern words for Greg Bovino or Kristi Noem is not enough. We need prosecutions and trials. Anything short of this position fails to address the gravity of this moment.

A reminder: Measles causes immune amnesia. Catch it and your body forgets how to make antibodies for everything you were previously immune to, whether through prior infection or vaccination. Elder millennials, GenX, and above, get your blood titers checked and get vaccinated if you're vulnerable.

1. This short thread is about the issue that dominates almost every aspect of politics, and causes or exacerbates most of our problems: the extreme wealth of a small number of people. Here’s the amazing thing: almost the entire political class aligns with the ultra-rich against the rest. 🧵1/10

"Online, a lot of us have been unhappy with our social media platforms for a long time, but we hang in there, year after year, scandal after scandal, because as much as we hate the platform, we love the people who use the platform." doctorow.medium.com/how-to-leave...

Another favor to ask on a research project. We're wrapping up a large project on AI music. We need folks to participate in a short 10 min quiz to test your ability to distinguish between AI music & human music. Especially looking for help from musicians! uchicago.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Always listen to Shaxs (unless he wants to detonate the warp core)

I can finally see again!

I hope Sinners wins every fucking Oscar it's up for. What a fucking phenomenal movie. Also, if "Golden" doesn't win best song we riot

#Ireland #SpéirGhorm #Grok #NoExcuses

Lil' comic about hope and longing 💗

@megaconlive.bsky.social haul part 2 featuring more of @eethok.bsky.social's lovely medieval style art.

@megaconlive.bsky.social haul part 1 featuring @minteafox.bsky.social and @eethok.bsky.social, and a surprise D&D present from a friend I haven't seen in yonks.

This extremely accurate description of the Tangerine Terror was wordsmithed by @kornetzke.bsky.social There's a screenshot on his Bluesky but I wanted a version with post date and alt text so here we are. Give him a follow! #fucktrump

The post office is a public service, and making it pay for itself is an abdication of responsibility by the government. Fund the bloody thing so it doesn’t overprice itself into a death spiral. #speirghorm

When you're out and about and end up with a few classics with pretty covers. #booksky #booklovers

Yes all Internet suppliers should block X the same as they block pirate bay and other black listed site which host CSAM. #spéirgorm

we’re in the vet’s office waiting room and they just called for Agamemnon. we all looked at the Great Dane but it turns out Agamemnon is an orange kitten in a backpack that makes him look like an astronaut cheese puff

New Gist: What you can do about the Abuse Factory As a follow-up to yesterday’s Gist, I’ve done a list of four things you can do about X without even having to put down your iPhone. www.thegist.ie/the-gist-wha...

🚨 #Microsoft 365 price shock: From July 2026, prices rise by up to 16.7%. Now is the best time to break free from vendor lock-in. What are your favorite #MS365 alternatives? 🔓🇪🇺 ➡️ tuta.com/blog/microso... #DigitalSovereignty #deMicrosoft #OneClickAway

Still too much denial in Europe, with too many clinging to the notion that nonconfrontation, persuasion, and appeal to shared national interest will get the U.S. government to change course, but more Europeans are recognizing the unsubtle pattern.

US vetoes most Ethiopian athletes for the World Crosscountry Championships in Florida by denying their visas. Ethiopia will be unable to record a team result in either the U20 men’s or U20 women’s races, ending its 44-year medal streak. I’m sure the Olympics and World Cup are going to be fine. 😡

Did you know you can actually write to an Irish government minister and ask them why their department is still using X/Twitter for official communications?

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

The soles of my everyday shoes were on life support. Found a replacement in the Dunnes kids section for a tenner. 2026 is gonna be ✨extra✨

Why not email your TDs and ask them to quit x and open an account here or on mastodon.ie #spéirgorm

It’s time to become digitally independent from USA. Ask not what European #DigitalSovereignty can do for you, ask what YOU can do for 🇪🇺 #DigitalSovereignty. An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. Don’t be a digital appeaser. www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

Stop promoting X as if it were still a relevant or credible platform. Featuring X on your website, newsletters or messages, is an active contribution to X’s efforts to undermine European sovereignty and democracy.

Good — Search for good. Private, impactful, ad-free. Experience ad-free, private web searching with independent results. Support social and environmental projects with your queries, free from Big Tech bias and tracking.

SendGB — Send files up to 5GB free, no registration required Free file transfer service supporting files up to 5GB with no registration. Features secure transfers, password protection, and resumable uploads.

Zelenskyy at the UN in September: "What can people in Sudan, Somalia, Palestine expect from the UN or global system? For decades - just statements and statements" #3E

Ah, the capitalist hellscape - Crucial getting shuttered so Micron can sell more of their chips to AI companies, and Netflix buying Warner Bros.