Not a big gamer so willing to be corrected – but didn’t this basically happen years ago? If you need to log into the PlayStation Network in order to fully install a game then the worries you’re expressing have already come to pass, no?

The World Cup really does highlight how football is a team sport and not an individual one. At the beginning of every tournament we all look through the squad lists, spot a few players we recognise, and think “ooh they’ll be good”. And then Morocco & Mexico boss things w/o as many stars.

Amad > Haaland

The fascinating thing is that the very same employer power that has allowed firms to drag people back to the office was in part built on WFH. It is next to impossible to organise workers and build labour power in a WFH environment.

The World Cup. Unfortunately good

If one of these fellas ran into my shins it would take all the willpower I have not to yeet it into oncoming traffic

Brazil v Japan and the Netherlands v Morocco. Great match ups, happened way too early in the tournament

Germany and Paraguay didn’t have the decency to finish this game before my bedtime

Casemiro just becoming the best attacking headerer in the world in his 30s is hilarious. What other new skills can he unlock

Jokey Catholic / Protestant discourse. A scourge on Irish comedy unfortunately

What’s the logic here? That independence wasn’t actually ACHIEVED until later? I actually think it’s good to use the date of the declaration of independence as it grants sovereignty to the people. In a 32 county Irish republic I’d like to think we’d use 1916, for example.

Laughing so much at the idea that the WORLD CUP struggles to sufficiently attract “casuals”. My Mam can’t stand sport and even she has fallen for Pico-mania and wondering when Cape Verde are playing next.

Just like Starmer stood up for human rights then lmao

Lots of Germans in Dublin recently. A troublesome development

Fascinating that “the famine was a genocide“ has reached the mind of at least one government minister

Wrong

Trying to think of the perfect contrarian take about the Norwegian footballers’ quirky little rowing thing. Oh so you think it’s funny that your ancestors raped my ancestors. Something like that

AI is a stain on humanity and we should burn the data centres down as soon as we get the chance, but sorry you will never get me to care about “copyright theft“ or whatever

🗣️ “61 months to plug a gap that you already identified is not evidence of a government taking this seriously.” Housing Minister James Browne joined #MondayGR to discuss his short-term letting bill and why it took the Government over five years to address the issue.

Will Stancil welcome to Marxism

Don’t love the new trend of pretending Róisín Murphy is irrelevant or crap or a nobody. Just plainly ahistorical! She‘s one of the most influential artists of the 21st century.

May Jeffrey Donaldson rot in hell, which for him would be a prison in a united Ireland

Worst form of British banter

A curious observation from my genius mind: the nastiest, most aggressive people are usually into the most timid, harmless music.

What is “malice” and who qualifies as acting with it? Isn’t it possible that cowardice is one of many causes of malice – not its opposite.

The Dublin skies are eerily quite, not the friendly hum of a drone to heard anywhere.

Getting a perverse thrill from reading the most insanely stupid takes on Starmer on here

It’s a shame you and your media buddies destroyed the one genuine hope that British politics had, then, isn’t it?

Starmer was so obviously an appointment of the capitalist class that I figured they’d find a way to keep him around. The fact that even they couldn’t rescue him from complete and abject failure is testament to his unparalleled unpopularity

Ah Taylor

Starmer was a successful Labour leader, in that he was put in to purge the socialists from the party and neutralise the Corbynite threat. Job done

Happy Solstice, Father’s Day, and Offaly in the All Ireland Quarter Final Day

Tech bros are complaining that laws are stopping them getting richer but don't appreciate that laws are also stopping us vivisecting them in the Town Square to see if we can locate a heart.

I think as FF outsiders we miss the (genuinely) proud tradition within that party of neutrality. Frank Aiken is like Mr. Neutrality, and one of FF’s all time biggest icons.

In the course of about 12 months we‘ve also let this happen to the Irish tricolour. Need an extreme pushback before we become ENGLAND

Going to two Offaly matches twice in 24 hours, in two different provinces … imagine being from anywhere else

I despise this smug, anti-intellectual dismissal that’s taken hold as the dominant form of communication on here. The article is interesting because it used to be women who wanted children more, and now it’s flipped to be men! Something’s changed, and surely it’s interesting to wonder why?

Given the state of the current pop landscape, it’s really cool that someone as adventurous and as crazy talented as Rosalia gets to be one of the biggest stars in the world

Why and how do so many Americans maintain such reverence for their oppressors?

Mexico v South Korea shouldn’t have been in the middle of the night. I should be able to watch that now while skiving off work

Just because you have an adolescent understanding of political economy doesn’t mean that your political opponents do too

Fairly mad stuff and at the same time not surprising at all www.irishnews.com/news/norther...

I’m not enough of a gamer to ever be caught up with things, but am currently playing Baldur’s Gate 3 and … wishing I was a teenager with an endless wet summer to stay inside and play this all day every day

BREAKING: French man discusses the “limits of language“

The whole 3-day waiting period story in the Dáil has revealed something about all the amateur pol-corrs on here: none of them have any clue how the internal structure of Sinn Féin works.

Excellent reporting @samtranum.bsky.social Ireland has stopped exporting electronic integrated circuits (as a dual use technology) to Russia. Meanwhile, exports to Israel of the same technology increased from $520 million in 2021 to $1 billion in 2025. www.dublininquirer.com/barred-by-eu...

My go-to “I want a cry” watch. The Royle Family was so good at that – 20 minutes of comedic banality and then BAM, you’re caught completely off-guard with a moment of intense sweetness and tenderness. I can hear the “Oh Mam…” so clearly in my mind.

A selection of the world’s wealthiest and most powerful elites, and … Joseph Gordon Levitt

Crumwin

Quite a few bad words about Kavanagh in Cronin’s Dead As Doornails as well