This is a scorching article on the absolute state of The New York Times, and much of the rest of the media. Not just the billionaire media, note, but also the billionaire-*compliant* media, which both-sides every issue with purchased junktank talking points. lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

They didn't just stop building public housing, they sold off the existing stock at significant discounts, didn't replace it and used the proceeds to fund other public spending. IIRC, John Bruton was a great advocate of this act of Hibernothatcherite vandalism. #speirgorm

He's not Sauron. He's Gríma

The housing crisis in Ireland dates back to the 1980’s when the Government stopped building public housing, and failed to reform the private rental sector. This was at a time of massive emigration. Blaming recent immigrants for housing problems is as logical as blaming moving statues. #SpéirGhorm

I feel sorry for the Whitehouse staff, trying for the 15th time to explain that Niger and Nigeria are different countries and that the N-Word is not the correct term for either countries citizens.

The streets are always busy. #StreetsOfNightCity #cyberpunk2077 #cyberpunk #nightcity #photomode #virtualphotography #vpsupport #vprepost

We at EFF hate it when a certain kind of contract—you know the ones, where you hit accept after scrolling for ages just so you can use the app—is used to constrain users’ rights. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

There’s something for everyone in here, from installing Signal to filing a privacy request from a data broker. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

The reports of what happened keep getting worse and worse. When the RSF took the town, the first thing they did was march into the hospital and murder all patients in the hospital wards.

The fact that the UAE propagandists have the gall to post propaganda blaming the others, while the side they support is committing massacres.

Please don't just say "happy indigenous people's day" & slap an image of an indigenous person up you Googled. Do a little work, say their name. What tribe they are a part of, the works they did. Actually Celebrate them. Don't insult their spirit by reducing them to a clip art image. Alt text it too

Storm Shadow is the most 40K Missile ever.

The “get out” clause for Israel’s far right government is the bodies of the dead hostages. They know the bodies are buried under tons of rubble caused by Israeli indiscriminate bombing. They will used this in the next couple of weeks to rescind the ceasefire deal and resume the ethnic cleansing.

👏 During one of the assaults in the Zaporizhzhia region, a soldier of the 1st battalion of the 210th OSHP, with the call sign "Technician", reacted quickly and shot at an FPV drone that was flying directly at him.

We need constantly to remind ourselves that there's nothing normal or inevitable about it. It would be a catastrophe from which we would not recover for many years, in which terrible things are done, to minorities, to vulnerable people, to the rest of the living planet. We cannot let it happen.

No sudden rupture is now required for the far right to take power in this country. For what we're seeing is a steady normalisation of extremists by the Conservative and Labour Parties, BBC, Telegraph, Mail and others. A shift once considered unthinkable beings to look acceptable, even inevitable.🧵

Those who do not study history, are forced to ask for the French cover of Beyond the Sea.

Keeping people in poverty is an expensive luxury. My column on the false economies of austerity, which costs us all a fortune. Despite the government's claims, austerity continues under Labour. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Despite many conspiracy theories, wild goose chases and countless searches, Amelia Earhart’s final radio message remains as cryptic as ever; .-. . .-.. . .- ... . / - .... . / . .--. ... - . .. -. / ..-. .. .-.. . ...

It would not surprise me if the cartridge use in the Charley Kirk shooting was underloaded. That would explain the lack of exit wound, due to the lower bullet velocity. This might have been due to the shooter having the mistaken belief that this would foul up forensic and ballistic analysis.

It would be cruel, during a service, to leave piles of clothes outside a rapture believing church. Especially if, after the service ended, you told them “Wow! All those people just rose skyward”.

No surprises if the next Disney Star Wars series will be something showing the Empire in a more favourable light. "Birth of a Galactic Empire" perhaps?

Will the next Russian attack on Europe be the severing of undersea cables off the Irish Coast? Massive disruption to the EU and/or Nato members, but Ireland is not a NATO member, so no Article 4 or 5.

Before anyone in the UK comments on the Jimmy Kimmel story with “It wouldn't happen here”, 40 times as many people took to the streets in London to protest against Trump, and the BBC gave it a fraction of the coverage of Tommy Two Name's Neo-Nazi march. Same story on Sky News.

Charley Kirk became the poster boy for the phrase, "Hoist by his own petard"

Be careful, given how many Incels have joined ICE, shouting "Fuck ICE" might give them hope.

So Charley Kirks killing wasn't so much a prelude to a US Kristallnacht, but the start of a MAGA Nacht der langen Messer. Explains why Nick Fuentes and Laura Loomer went on a deletion and denial spree.

So the people wittering on about Charley Kirk and free speech are the same people banning books and drag shows?

If MAGA had been in charge of 1930's German, they would have burned down the Brown House in 1933.

Right now there is brutal and ugly Civil War in the US. Granted it's inhouse between the various far right grifters, all desperate to grab a share of Charley Kirks followers and sponsors.

FBI agents seen at occult store purchasing Ouija board and Tarot cards, in effort to find leads.

Try not to sink to their level. Not because it will be used as ammunition against you, they will just make stuff up regardless. It's because you need to hold on to your humanity.

Fascists will come for you, whether you act or don't act. You need organise, protest, and vote. Because if you don't stop them with non-violence then everyone loses.

Amid all the worry about the discovery of Asian Hornets in Cork, what I want to know is why the hornets all seem to be carrying 2 Euro coins?

RasPutin has said "Western Troops in Ukraine will be a target". This will be a first, given that previously Russia has only targeted hospitals, schools and homes.

Microsoft's plan to fix all the issues with Win11 (SSD failure, WiFi causing framerate drops e.t.c.) will probably be to force Advertising into Notepad and add support for Zune devices.

I bet Elon Musk saw this and thought, "India will buy my Swasticars!"

What the hell is it with Swedish Game Devs and support for colourblind accessiblity. Did the Eugenic programs wipe out all the colourblind people?

The Rudy Giuliani news is proof that the Trump Show has jumped the shark.

One of the strangest things when historians look back on these times will be that Donal Trump died long before Joe Biden.

Oligarch and Corporations best cards have always been distrust and division. They will play them at every opportunity. Triple check your sources and then remember that anyone can be bought.

The greatest threat to US democracy will happen when Trump dies, because JD Vance is the oligarchs man.

The US allows dangerous lunatics to legally own military grade firearms. This is not surprising, at it has also put a felonious rapist in charge of nuclear weapons.

Games companies need to stop lying. There is no such things as "Day One" DLC. There is the price for the actual game, and a price for a version with missing content. Vampire Bloodlines 2 is €90 for the game, which seems expensive.

Once again Britian fails to understand itself. www.rte.ie/news/analysi...

Don't think I will watch Alien: Earth. The idea of seeing a Xenomorph being beaten and dragged away by ICE is not appealing.

Gr0k usually produces the worst GenAI images. Somehow it worked for this one.

Microsoft need to understand cause and effect. To stop supporting something, you need to have actually supported it.

Following Trump & Co. beautiful plan, Poland in 1939 would need give up territory to Nazi German and Stalin's Russia to ensure peace? Don’t be surprised if the plan for “Peace” in Gaza involves the Palestinians giving up "some land", i.e. 100% of Gaza...

Trump wants the Nobel Peace prize, because there is a financial reward. He is annoyed that someone won it last year, so it's not a roll over.