Can’t remember the exact context of this, but I never saw anybody so badly bodied by someone ostensibly offering support

If the US invades Greenland, upending the world order and unequivocally ending the Transatlantic Alliance, by all accounts because Trump saw how big Greenland looks on a map and therefore wanted it, it's at least going to be vindication for us anti-Mercator Projection partisans

Outside US embassy to say: Hands off Venezuela Hands off Cuba Hands off neutrality The government has no interest in sovereignty. They just want to lick the boots of Trump. They want rid of the Triple Lock so Irish troops can be sent to fight for US power. We need to save it.

American exceptionalism is believing it's the only country in history where a revolution would be dangerous for the revolutionaries

This is so clueless I'm not surprised an American is saying it

Your country has active concentration camps, gestapo wannabes running around kidnapping people, and spreading incalculable misery across the world. We expect y'all to say least try to act in accordance with the sheer horror being unleashed.

The man with this has his online avatar is now retweeting conservatives calling for the abolishment of women's right to vote in the US.

police are gangs that we all collectively pretend answer to elected officials because the truth is scary i'm not even properly an anarchist but i thought we all knew this

Oh gosh yeah all the violence was out of sight and you were able to just have brunch x

In case you’re wondering whether the pro-ICE reactions to Renee Nicole Good’s murder are natural, here’s a comment that was just left on my video. My video about anti-transgender bias at the BBC. I haven’t made a video about Good yet. youtu.be/pWm3dK8tPto

The moment that anybody outside the DHS apparatus gets inside one of these facilities without cleaning up beforehand, we're going to see things that even the most hardened and cynical among us can barely comprehend.

i have written this a few times now but the reason JD Vance spends all day posting is that they barely tolerate his presence in the white house and have locked him out of every decision of consequence. he is basically unemployed

my man, you’re talking about the people who killed George Floyd

Marco Rubio hands Trump a note that was meant to be private and then Trump reads it aloud

all been said by now, but i watched all of the videos of that shooting together & the shooter deliberately walked in front of the car, the driver turned to avoid him (visible in the video he took from his phone) and he was clear of the car when he fired. he just wanted an excuse to kill

I can't believe J.D. Vance went on TV and said "Ich bin Evil! Ich bin Evil!!! Ich bin der Evil kleine Chocolate Boy!!" with chocolate smeared all over his mouth and lederhosen. But he did. And we all saw it

Probably going to bust this out every few months.

It's always a good family man. It's always a regular churchgoer. It's their protective colouration.

I keep thinking about how a young woman DoorDash driver was charged and hauled into court for recording and posting evidence of her customer sexually harassing her, while nothing is happening to the droves of men using Grok to sexually harass women and children. The institutions are pro-perpetrator.

still thinking about Trump saying “it is hard to believe he is alive” about that ICE agent

Holy Jesus I didn't look close enough, saw the green logo quickly and thought this was The Onion and started chuckling man what have we done lol

In America you drop your kid off at school, get your brains blown out on the ride home, then the Vice President drops everything for a week to call you a terrorist, to slander your family, to protect the circumstances that led to your death so they can do it again. It is government by Alex Jones.

Yeah, like for equality's sake we really need to up the numbers of men being killed by women. /snark

Said it before and I will say it again. Civility will kill us. Fuck civility. Fuck politeness. Stop trying to change the conversation.

r2d2 whistling aggressively as it spins around and shows off its enormous new breast implants

The democratic collapse of my country is making it hard to focus on the collapse of my profession

Renee Good committed gender insubordination: she didn't cower & grovel to male authority. Many women are killed for the very same reason all over the world. We just call it by the euphemism "domestic violence" instead of what it is: a campaign of political terrorism in which any man can participate.

The story this week is so important, in my view. It's about the morals of Big Tech and billionaires with riches and power beyond limit - but just far broader than that how far are government and authorities here and around the world willing to let them go. (1/2)

"look what you made me do!", but extended to 3000 words and hidden behind a paywall.

Crazy that this has basically been the ethos of every govt I've been alive under:

Like all public representatives in Ireland, my phone number and email address are public (see the Dublin City Council web site). I do not need to have a presence on X to fulfil my obligation to be available to my constituents. Any public representative who says otherwise is mistaken. #SpeirGorm

It's unbelievably hard, nigh on impossible, to influence a zealot in a few tweets. Engaging with the worst trolls in good faith doesn't produce results, it just amplifies them and fuels their hate. They don't want to be influenced by your alternative viewpoint.

Can’t Live Without You*

In all the (good,. righteous) hate for X let's not pretend that bluesky isn't run by libertarian crypto anti-palestinian weirdos. The front line is everywhere. Still not going to mastodon tho.

He should have used some flour and properly battered him

Very real possibility that our politicians have been vastly overestimating the number of fascist freaks in the country, which would actually explain a lot

There always comes a moment when The Sensibles pivot from complaining about protests and tone policing every sign to despairing that people aren't in the streets

It's too baked in to call this denial. USians are psychologically incapable of understanding what's happening to them. It's like trying to show an iPhone to a Westworld robot.

I have to be honest. this isn't meant to downplay the seriousness of what's happening now, and this isn't meant to be glib. But this is also how ALL cops act. The first time I got screamed at like this by a cop, I was 16, because of a traffic jam in the school parking lot. Every single one of them

Since Grok skyrocketed to the top of the charts in Ireland when the CSAM news broke I think the only solution is make everyone who downloaded it face the wall

This is an exceptionally good analysis of the role of X in global fascism, and illustrates why Ireland and the EU must act against it now. connectedplaces.online/reports/a-po...

To that end, in my personal view, you're not influencing or changing anyone's mind. You're being used as a leg-up. You're helping these accounts grow. Repeat investigations have shown that violent, extreme content and content favouring far-right viewpoints are amplified news.sky.com/story/how-sk...

Does twitter still prevent people from posting the word "cisgender"?

Expect to hear an uptick in yank propaganda about narco-terrorists in Mallow

@newschambers.bsky.social doing a great job, but a lot of other Irish journos are embedded in X. I asked a TD to leave X & her response was “journalists say that they follow our views not via Insta or FB but via Twitter”. (But she plans to leave X). Media have to leave X or they support harassment.

But we're going to have a beautiful police state and it'll be very brutal. And you'll be free, perhaps more free than ever before

I think there are lots of lessons we should heed from the trans community about the fallacy of meeting people where they are, when where they are is a cesspool engineered to drown you out and exhaust your energy and resources.

Elon Musk is one of the most dangerous people in the world. His actions are indirectly harming most people and in many cases directly harming them. He must be stopped.

"We have to post on X" say the people with thousands of followers and tens of views. #Speirgorm