Good morning! Its a whole new week! What better way to start the week than by playing the game described as "I became genuinely worried how much I wanted to strangle the horse" and "is there even a horse in this?" i will strangle a horse A game. By me. brainmage.itch.io/i-will-stran...

i see a lot of liberal media is decrying the fascist mobilisation of military against a nation’s citizens in portland but they aren’t referring to it as ‘political violence’ bc they want to retain that term specifically for what they consider the far worse act of violence against political figures

Real headscratcher here. What persons or organisations with a grudge against Ireland, in the "middle east", with the intelligence ability to find out which private social media accounts are members of the Tánaiste's family, could have done this? #Spéirghorm

That's what it looks like when any human being gets shot, though. If it's okay with Republicans when the victims are 6-year-olds, not clear why that level of violence is haunting when it's a grown man. www.mediaite.com/media/i-cant...

There's a clip of Stan shortly before his death where he's clearly tired confused and frustrated having to be a happy to lucky spokesperson on the convention circuit Thankfully he can now do this forever from beyond the grave thanks to ghoulish fucks who can't let a dead man rest

"one officer smiled for a selfie with her as she cried."

Another nepo baby

'out of the three mass shootings today'

I don't understand why we have to pay the NFL for the privilege of hosting one of their games here. I assumed they'd be paying the GAA.

Just rawdogged the morning commute. Very challenging, but I didn’t check my phone, didn’t read a book, didn’t even catch a nap, I just focused on driving the car.

As a society, our financial system around information is insane. It is the kind of system you would create if you wanted everyone to go insane.

Reminder: Our Govt is obsessed with shutting off Court oversight of bad environmental decisions. www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...

Lol

"AfD is not just Germany’s problem, Vox is not just Spain’s, and MAGA is not just America’s. They are expressions of a single political current, localised for context but feeding into the same transnational authoritarian project." www.euractiv.com/opinion/the-...

Targeted attack on a dockside restaurant in North Carolina. Three dead. Suspect a former Marine sniper in Iraq and Haiti who tried to sue the US govt for “genocide against straight men by the LGBQT community.” Flags at half mast? Endless op-eds? Victims’ faces on coins? www.cnn.com/2025/09/28/u...

Another word about the media: because our presidential elections are basically vibes-based popularity contests, they are extremely exciting for the press, most of whom are militantly apolitical, especially the ones who cover politics. I'll be doing my best to avoid the coverage.

This from the Ta-Nehisi Coates applies well beyond the US. "I’m all for unifying, I’m all for bridging gaps, but not at the expense of my neighbour’s humanity. I just can’t." We dodged a bullet with the Iona candidate because our friends and neighbour's humanity would have been up for debate.

I keep using the term "non compos mentis" to describe Trump because that's how he's acting. It's beyond his longstanding history of total ignorance, habitual lying, and constant exaggeration. He's genuinely disconnected from reality and often incapable of expressing coherent thoughts.

One of the things people need to realise about the Right is that you should 100% never ever give them what they want because what they truly want is unachievable and it will never make them happy and they will make their inability to reflect on that your problem

sucks shit that we spent 22 years building up a federal force of masked goons to do disappearsnces and despite democrats holding the white house for 12 of those years never scaled them back

now that eric adams has ended his campaign for mayor it’s time to stroll down memory lane

This is just a longer way of saying 'on bluesky they are disagreeing with Ezra Klein'

perfect encapsulation of what the far right is doing, they want to push the overton window as far as possible. they want to enact fascism and it’s intentional

"I don't get to draw the line" — you are a wildly influential journalist with an audience of millions, you absolutely do get to draw the line!

They should invent a shoe that goes on either foot. They should also invent a traumatic surgery to totally reshape your feet to fit in this new shoe. Months of intensive rehabilitation is worth never having to tell left from right again. Unless I need to wear gloves... They should invent a gl

i love this part and i think it very much shows the difference in depth of thinking between someone like Klein, desperately fighting in the here-and-now and arguing to win a battle with compromise, versus Coates' position that he is a soldier in a long war.

This was revealing. Worth reading. The basic demand is that Coates spend less time thinking/writing his true feelings and more time playing political strategist. Klein asks him over and over him to do Dem strategy; he says no, over and over. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/o...

Luckily, Michael D. said this, and not Catherine Connolly, which of course would have been very unpresidential of her. #Áras25 #speirgorm

One of the most bizarre arguments against defunding the police is the idea that somehow cops are good at stopping people from being hurt. In the CSX 8888 incident, cops literally, I swear this is true, tried to stop s driverless runaway train BY SHOOTING AT IT. I'm serious.

They're finally doing the Gorilla Channel thing

So considering he reposted that AI medbed thing last night there's a nonzero chance his own advisors have been showing him AI Fox News clips in the oval office and he thinks they're real

I think they also know if they change it and make it say, "You are wrong" people won't use it. The people who like AI are people who don't want to be challenged and just want to be glazed, and AI corps want that $.

Amphetamine psychosis is probably a good comparison: a lot of people are susceptible, but most will never have a chance to find out. Except in our world suddenly meth is on shelves at 7-11, the media is flooded with hype for how productive it'll make you, and every new TV comes with a box.

I feel real bad for everyone who's been struggling to care for a delusional family member, watching whatever progress they've made get annihilated by ChatGPT in an afternoon.

i gotta ask... if lake Michigan (surrounded by United states) is a border shouldn't the whole Mississippi River system also be a border

There is a difference between righteous anger, directed at injustice, and hateful anger, directed at those who are different. Authoritarian regimes deliberately conflate the two to silence criticism and create false equivalence. It's important we don't let those in power succeed in this endeavor.

Justice Kavanaugh: “If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.”

Just to recap, the actual president found an AI-generated video of a fake news report depicting a fake announcement about an imaginary healthcare system based on a technology that doesn’t exist and posted it on his official social media account

Man Always Gets Little Rush Out Of Telling People John Lennon Beat Wife https://theonion.com/man-always-gets-little-rush-out-of-telling-people-john-1819578998/

It's Gareth Sheridan I feel sorry for. If Steen hadn't emerged late as the Irish Times candidate, all those articles about democracy denied could have been about him.

This is maybe my proudest ever "tweet that immediately earned a block"

I think we just need to admit that these guys all have their own weird religion, probably based on some alien scrolls they discovered while stumbling out of Burning Man

This is a demonstration of how powerful the right wing misinformation machine is. They take a phrase or a word some Democrat said, attach the worst possible interpretation to it, and repeat their view of it THOUSANDS of times until even liberals remember it the way conservatives want them to.

Dudes rock

Everything I know about Enoch Burke, Conor McGregor, Maria Steen (and countless others)... I know against my will. They are constantly driving the national narrative. So much of our media is dominated by a format of asking "Does this dipshit have a point?. We'll discuss for 3 weeks".

He paid for a round in Temple Bar