Long-time followers will be delighted to hear that I just paid €6 for this ice cream in Rome

This is meant to be cheap nostalgia clickbait slop, but because I *wrote this sketch* it’s basically trolling by telling me I won’t be getting any more work in this industry. THANKS, GUYS.

You have an entire department whose job it is to run numbers like this and assess long term plans. What on earth are the department of housing doing as well? They seem to do absolutely no impact assesment around policy anymore (see also beds in sheds)

Graphic design is my passion.

someone left a pipe bomb in the driveway of a developer with IPAS contracts last week. feels like that hasn't generated as much chatter as it should have

Jesus Christ we can't even protest a fucking conference now without it being framed as a threat to FDI

this government weed is too damn strong

Disappointed, but not surprised, Sega is requiring consent to AI model training in the terms of services to join on the hunt. Always read the terms you agree to friends.

I was part of the process in Unite to help with this win today. It is days like this, that makes political organising worth it. I am so proud of everyone, the allies in Unite and my fellow sex workers, who helped us get this win today.

I wasn't a delegate at the Irish conference, but am so proud to be a Unite member in Ireland and be part of a union, who listens to their sex worker members. I can't understate what a huge win this is for sex workers here in Ireland.

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

the Prairieland defendants (who did a noise demo outside of an ICE facility) are getting fifty year sentences right now. absolutely unreal. far longer than any January 6 convictions

If a robot cop tried to arrest me I think I’d just walk away very fast somewhere with an uneven terrain

myself & elaine have discussed how social media bans do nothing to tackle the litany of issues on social media (episode below) but i suspect we will have a whole new set of problems when kids are booted off social media & standards deteriorate

- our data privacy is stronger bc it’s often handled to the same standards of the data of under 18s - private profiles were introduced to protect kids online - eating disorder, weight loss content & gambling ads are restricted to protect u18s this & more is discussed in this week’s column

myself and @elaineburke.bsky.social spoke about this topic extensively on @fortechssakepod.bsky.social last week buuuut…. after recording, a scary realisation struck me: nearly every existing safeguard on the web exists solely because kids are online jrnl.ie/7077815

And on that note I've just received word that Unite the Union in Ireland has passed a motion supporting sex worker decriminalisation ✊ #speirghorm

🚨 TAKE ACTION: Demand Services are included in the OTB! The Occupied Territories Bill is moving through the Oireachtas right now – and the government is still trying to leave services out. These are crucial days, email now. #OccupiedTerritoriesBill www.ipsc.ie/action-item/...

I'm so Irish coded that I still brought a cardigan with me Just In Case today

Throwing every gender critical person's insulin out because I don't support them being on "a lifetime on medication."

my body is a machine that transports authentication codes from my screen to my phone and some other supporting auxiliary functions

Can't help but laugh when I see a big serious face saying "Trump is lying again", the lie in this case being "someone stabbed the pool"

For no reason at all today, I am thinking about how horrendously Laura Lee was treated by members of the DUP for trying to keep sex workers safe

They’re calling it the least comprehensible achievement of all time.

I’ve had straight men essentially say I’m overreacting for talking about rising internet censorship under the guise of protecting children, which is how I know it’s probably going to be an even bigger problem than I thought

Nothing good ever came out of Newtownforbes

This is what they're doing on Threads. Whatever you want to say about bluesky, understand that Threads will always be on a different level of crazy

I have been doing a lot of critical reevaluation of Roman and medieval historians recently because I am living through the kind of end to an autocratic regime that very sober, serious modern historians have footnoted with phrases like "an unreliable account from a hostile chronicler."

🗣️ “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.

It's courageous for any victim of sexual abuse to go to trial, but when your abuser is a man as powerful as Jeffrey Donaldson, it is on another level. Solidarity to those women today

With alt text!

this is the worst outcome for a URL that should, by all rights, simply be hosting pornography of some manner

Slow hand clap for Big Jim. I guess as well as not being sensitive, keeping our courts functioning isn't part of his job either.

Hope everyone in Belfast is safe tonight from the loyalist mobs out threatening to burn DUP members from their homes because of the actions of Jeffrey Donaldson.

a member of the Bar of Ireland sharing an article that claims all public statements released by the family of the youngest victim of the Parnell Street stabbing were written by MI6 and calling its author "the best investigative journalist in Ireland"

An intriguing poll result from the Journal on “Are you for or against drone deliveries in your area?” With a ‘For’ vote count far larger than the sort of numbers their polls usually generate. For some reason.

"I hear you're sending me a seventh prime minister"

In case you didn't think Polymarket was sketchy enough. It paid influencers to use a fake site (poiymarket) to make fake bets that would then look like they won, and then to post viral videos to social media pretending they had won money. www.wsj.com/business/med...

one thing i respect about the UK is they’ll choose a prime minister and then almost immediately turn around and be like “actually we fucked up, this guy sucks”

Brad Lander with his most ITYSL look yet youtube.com/shorts/cHRcP...

Check out this sword stuck in a stone!!

My mindset on almost everything, from forced AI adoption, to subsidising of private schools, to efforts to erode Irish neutrality, to letting the drones rip over Dublin is the same. I know I couldn’t win against someone who did debating in school, but I know the side of the dickheads when I see it

genuinely unbelievable that as individuals we just have no choice but to tolerate that there are sometimes just malfunctioning unguided missiles zooming around the streets at absurd rates of speed because a few people think it’s cool

article from japanese wikipedia (autotranslated)

This Father's Day, I'm thinking about how my dad immigrated to the US after escaping the bloody Vietnam War, only to see his bloodline die out because his son stumbled into a menswear forum, where he spent the bulk of his adult life arguing about pants with teens named Pablo Thriftscobar.

I don't have any patience for the "but we're poor" argument for bands using AI for posters and publicity. Try to think back to roughly 3 years ago when you somehow coped without it.